Edward - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Intelligent, humorous, serious, silly.I love science fiction, and the occult. I also love punk rock and country (bluegrass and old-time) music. I don't do music writing anymore; now I write books. Three are published, two of those translated into Italian (don't ask). My novel (only in English) combines most of the above loves.I had the honor to write for Flipside fanzine (L.A. FlipSide) for a few years. I still miss it.I have training as a therapist, and as a ceremonial magician. (Is that too weird? Too bad.) I am okay at the first, and surprisingly adept at the second.I like Mexican beer, Kentucky bourbon, lowbrow fine art, music, and literature, not necessarily in that order...

My Interests

Punk rock, Ifa, Hermetic magick, Bluegrass, roots music, and Americana music in general. I like to write, both fiction and non.

I'd like to meet:

Smart women - they are sexy.I'd like to have lunch with Aleister Crowley, Noam Chomsky, Lysander Spooner, and Camille Paglia. ...wouldn't that be fun????

Music:

Old school punk... Americana.... Iggy. Buck Owens. The Crowd. Tongue. Gun Club. Mau Maus (Hollywood). Tex and the Horseheads. Bad Brains. Bill Monroe. Black Flag. Earl Brothers. Mission of Burma. Blood on the Saddle. Eck Robertson. Louisiana Honeydrippers. Naked Raygun. Hank Williams. Louvin Brothers. Descendents/ALL. Buzzcocks. FiFi. RF7. The Damned. Homebillies. FEAR. Snuffy Jenkins. Leatherface. Maddox Brothers and Rose. Dead Lazlo's Place. Badtown Boys. Whiskey Chimp. Bad Samaritans. Doc Watson. Dock Boggs. Livingstons (punk). Adolescents. Tarbox Ramblers. TSOL. J.M.K.E.. Ill Repute. Dr Know. Circle One (hey Mike!). Music zines: L.A. FLIPSIDE fanzine. Censor This zine.

Movies:

Breaker Morant. Walkabout. Wizards. The Dreamers. Fritz the Cat. Zardoz. Braveheart. Time Bandits. Zulu. Big Trouble In Little China. Metropolis (1927). 50 First dates. Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Amelie. Black Moon. Pretty much anything with Steve Buscemi in it..."Why do I have to be Mr. Pink?"

Television:

Dr Who (with Billie Piper). Eureka.

Books:

Yes. Too many to name. My house is lined with them. I've even written a few.

Heroes:

Robert Heinlein, William Walker Atkinson, Aleister Crowley, Geoffrey Filbert.

My Blog

a world class idiot

Eventually Vice president Albert Gore will be revealed to the world as a fool. He will become a joke. He had better pray that the downturn in the global weather cycle doesn't happen in his lifetime. I...
Posted by Edward on Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:41:00 PST

Trouble, with a capital T

Ladies and Germs fans, we are headed back to the cold war. I kid you not.Condi Rice makes an agreement with Poland to place anti-missiles in Poland.Syria just signed a mutual defense agreement with Ru...
Posted by Edward on Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:20:00 PST

LEATHERFACE / Paint It Black / Dead To Me / Nothington

Last night I saw Leatherface at the Knitting Factory in Hollywood. Frankie Stubbs was animated, playful and even funny. And of course, the songs, the songs! He is probably the greatest songwriter in r...
Posted by Edward on Tue, 20 May 2008 08:11:00 PST

disarmed and disdangerous

This morning I realized it had been about 10 years since I had gone armed to a show. I really had to think about it -- how long HAD it been since I had taken a weapon to a punk show? A hell of a long ...
Posted by Edward on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:44:00 PST

Global Warming in the Interglacial

California is suing the Federal government so that California can better and more quickly fight global warming. And our governor is aligned with it. Anyone who thinks Herr Schwarzenegger is a Republic...
Posted by Edward on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 12:05:00 PST

The Uncoordination of Multiple Attendancing

Last weekend did the day of the dead festival at Hollywood Forever, a cemetary. Lots of semi-catholic / semi-santeria displays/altars lining the roads in the cemetary. Tried to attend as a group of fi...
Posted by Edward on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:49:00 PST

"That Hideous Strength" - redheads & blonds in Europe and elsewhere

Just read this article and am disgusted:http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/07102 5143311.htmYes, so redheads and blonds occur by random mutations in a population, and low sunlight totals allo...
Posted by Edward on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:20:00 PST

Proletarian Art Threat / Blood on the Saddle

Today is Proletarian Art Threat / Blood on the Saddle day.Now there is a pair to draw to! Picture those two bands in the same sentence. Maybe 20 people in the whole country would have heard of both ba...
Posted by Edward on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 06:42:00 PST

I saw the SPENT IDOLS, and you didn’t... losers! ;-P

OFFICIAL FIRST MUSIC BLOG-RANT (traditional punk artform)Last night at the Knitting Factory was the reunion, first show, first full practice, IN TEN YEARS by one of the great 77 punk bands of yesterye...
Posted by Edward on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 02:10:00 PST