Unconditional love, Living in the Tao, Manhattan, decadent sobriety, integral nutrition, Lacan, Jung, Freud, mythology, surrealist art, old radio shows, media studies, Dracula, Absurdism, lucid dreaming, mysticism, meditation, cinema studies, transcendentalism, Buddhism, the power of intention, chaos theory, UFOs, lucid dreaming, intuitive thinking, jazz, beatniks, candles, mood swings, New York City, puppies!
I'd like to meet:
My twin sister, in any of her myriad guises.
Music:
Beethoven, PJ Harvey, Electrelane, Akron/Family, Movietone, Stars of the Lid, Sigur Ros, Velvet Underground, Minutemen, Fats Waller, CocRosie, Moonbabies, Pete Namlook, the Replacements, X, Rachel's, Francoise Hardy, Elk City, Melting Hopefuls, Jimi Hendrix, Bing Crosby, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Bob Dylan, Randy Newman, Milla, Mazzy Star, Cat Power, Stereolab, Keren Ann, Broken Social Scene, T. Rex, Fiery Furnaces, Sonny Rollins, aka SAXOPHONE COLOSSUS, Miles Davis, James Brown, Bob Dylan, Lightnin' Hopkins, Blind Blake, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Ma Rainey, Billie Holiday and the incredible Miss Morgana King! Paul Robeson, Leon Gieco, Juana Molina, Joanna Newsom, the Heartless Bastards, Lavender Diamond, Jose Gonzalez, El Perro del Mar, Explosions in the sky, Arcade Fire, The Clash, X, Yume Bitsu, Elliot Smith, Kittywinder, Air, Azure Ray, Pax Vox Biscuit, John Lee Hooker, Kimberly Linn
Movies:
Heavenly Creatures, Over the Edge, Night of the Iguana, Touch of Evil, Rushmore, Plan Nine from Outer Space, Love Me Tonight, Spider Baby, Alien, the Warriors, Dracula (1931), Psycho (1959), The Lady Eve, Me, You and Everyone We Know; Persona, The Thing (1951), The Thin Man, International House (1933), Shangai Express (and all Marlene and Jo Von Sternberg collaborations) Raging Bull (and all Marty and De Niro collaborations), Donnie Darko, Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Misfits, Contempt, All that Jazz, The Green Pastures, The Night of the Hunter,The Big Sleep, La Dolce Vita, Husbands & Wives, God of Cookery, Rio Bravo, Red River, His Girl Friday, Scarlet Diva, Psych-Out, Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural, To Have and Have Not, 8 1/2, I Walked with a Zombie, Isle of Lost Souls, the Black Cat (1933), Jackie Brown, Mulholland Drive, Ugetsu, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls!
Books:
Tibetan Book of the Dead, The Captain Lands in Paradise by Sarah Manguso, Living Sober, Sexual Persona, Lacan Seminar X, Jung, Freud, the poetry of Rumi, Walt Whitman, Shakespeare, the fiction of: Shelley Jackson, Samantha Hunt, Raymond Carver, La Ruocco, David Gates, Dashiell Hammett. The film writing of: Kim Newman, Stanley Cavell, Manny Farber, Robin Wood; 2012: The Return of Quetzlcoatl, the Taschen book of Alchemy and Mysticism, Aliestar Crowley's Guide to the Tarot, Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia, Sarah Manguso's The Captain Lands in Paradise, As You Like It by William Shakespeare. Currently I'm reading Raymond Chandler, JIHAD VS. MCWORLD.
Heroes:
The Dali Lama, Paul Robeson, Camille Paglia, Carl G. Jung, Joseph Campbell, Bill Wilson, Dan Clowes, Orson Welles, Bela Lugosi, Paul Newman, Ram Dass, Howard Hawks, J.L. Godard, Todd Schorr, Asia Argento, PJ Harvey, Terence McKenna, Daniel Pinchbeck, Louis Armstrong, W.C. Fields, Groucho Marx, Bruce Lee, Mr. Rogers, Jim Henson, Dali, Gandhi, Robert Altman, Michelle Yeoh, Dr. Clifford Pickover, Lucette Blodget!!
