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Joshua

Love is the Law

About Me

I enjoy quiet evenings, studying philosophy, esoterica, history, theatre, film, etc. I aslo enjoy acting, working with my digital camera, painting, writing poetry and theory, etc. I also enjoy dancing, fine dining vegan-style, going to films, going to the beach, museums, and walking. I love walking. I also love ritual and the effect it has on your daily life.

My Interests

Human consciousness and evolution, beautiful people, Magick, Gnosticism, Secret Societies, Situationism, Surrealism, Sexuality, Erotica, Comparative Religion, Yoga, Runes, The Bhagavad Gita, The Vedas, Taoism, I-Ching, Chaos, Abraxas, Acting, Theatre, Native American Mysticism, Carlos Casteneda, Quetzecotl, Nietszche, Butoh, Shinto, Film, painting, poetry, dancing, self-sustained living, veganism, candlelight, good wine, green things, philosophy, theory, awareness, Internet news, leading a balanced lifestyle, not consuming, the sun, Tantra, Karezza, Qabala, Zos Kia, sigils, The Obeah and the Wanga, The Book of the Law, Lilith, Eris, Kali, Nuit, Isis, Maat, Babalon- all those beautiful girls...Mary Magdalene, Balthus, Francis Bacon, the exquisite photography of Francesca Woodman, Jean Cocteau, Kenneth Grant, Christian Rosenkreutz, Aleister Crowley, Austin Osman Spare, Jack Parsons, Marjorie Cameron, Edred Thorrson, Dion Fortune, Peter Carroll, Yukio Mishima, Robert Anton Wilson, Israel Regardie, Julius Evola, etc.

I'd like to meet:

People who aren't crazy.

Music:

Scott Walker, Gorecki, Lee Hazelwood, Penderecki, Tuvan Throat Singing, Cambodian Hohmrong, Kenyan Witchcraft Music, Kabuki music, Nick Cave, Klezmer, Prince, Nico, Diamanda Galas, Kate Bush, Shirley Collins, Jacques Brel, Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Bluegrass, Gesualdo, Iannis Xanakis, Leadbelly, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Klaus Schutze, DNA, Ikue Mori, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Suicide, Arvo Part, Serge Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin, NON, Boyd Rice, Kurt Weill, Love, The Yardbirds, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Mutabaruka, Mozart, Mahler, Bessie Smith, Nina Simone, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Leonard Cohen, Alice Coltrane, Jimmy Scott, The Doors, The Stooges, David Bowie, the Rolling Stones, Tom Waits, Popul Vuh, Faust, Neu!, This Heat, The Sex Pistols, The Birthday Party, Public Image Ltd, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joy Division, Gil-Scott Heron, the Last Poets, Magazine, Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, Thee Majesty, Chris and Cosey, Cocteau Twins, Bauhaus, Dead Can Dance, My Bloody Valentine, Lush, Slowdive, Spacemen 3, Current 93, X-mal Deutschland, Malaria!, Einsturzende Neubauten, Lydia Lunch, the Virgin Prunes, CINdYTALK, The Pogues, Glenn Branca, This Mortal Coil, Death in June, Coil, Nature and Organisation, Nurse with Wound, Merzbow, Pan Sonic, Autechre, Aphex Twin, Plastikman, Boards of Canada, Sigur Ros, PJ Harvey, Keiji Haino, Neko Case, Anita Lane, Dirty Three, Bee and Flower, Lustmord, Sunn O))), Peter Gabriel, Tactile, Gridlock, Black Dice, Charlemagne Palestine, The Gun Club, The Parlor Trick, Scanner, SUN-RA, The Pop Group, Tindersticks, 23 Skidoo, Sol Invictus, The Wolfgang Press, Lisa Gerrard, Patti Smith, David Coulter, Test Dept., Zoviet France, Dead Voices on Air, 16 Horsepower, Woven Hand, The Shangri-Las, Nancy Sinatra, The The, Barry Adamson, etc. There's really too many to mention. I love electronica, drone, NOISE, techno, house, good dub, and anyone who can push the boundaries of songwriting/composing.

Movies:

Filmmakers I enjoy are Claire Denis, Andrei Tarkovsky, Pier Palo Pasolini, John Cassavetes, Satyajit Ray, Luchino Visconti, Stanley Kubrick, Andrzej Zulawski, Krystof Kieslowski, Billy Wilder, Andrzej Wadja, Jean Cocteau, Peter Brook (his theatre too) Bela Tarr, Nicholas Ray, Mike Leigh, David Lynch, Elia Kazan, Maya Deren, John Shlesinger, Orson Welles, Michelangelo Antonioni, Catherine Brellait, Gaspar Noe, Bruno Dumont, Atom Egoyan, Robert Altman, Roman Polanski, Ingmar Bergman, Nicolas Roeg, Donald Cammel, Leos Carax, Kenneth Anger, Derek Jarman, Chantal Ackerman, Peter Greenaway, Agnes Varda, Jean Eustache, Jean-Luc Goddard, Liliana Cavani, Eric Rohmer, Jean Renoir, Alejandro Jodorowski, Lena Wertmuller, Ferdinando Arrabal, Michael Haneke, Leni Riefenstahl, Maurice Pialat, Luis Bunuel, Vincent Gallo, Werner Herzog, Lars Von Trier, Matthew Barney, Sam Peckinpah, Fassbinder, Akira Kurosawa, Wong Kar Wai, etc. My favorite films are as follows "Bad Timing" by Nicolas Roeg, "The Intruder" by Claire Denis, "In the Mood for Love" by Wong Kar Wai, "Rabbit Moon" by Kenneth Anger, "The Angelic Conversation" by Derek Jarman, "The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant" and "Querelle" by Fassbinder, "Fat Girl" by Catherine Breillat, "Repulsion" by Roman Polanski, "Rashomon" by Akira Kurosawa, "Pola X" by Leos Carax, "Betty Blue" by Jean-Jacques Beineix, "The Piano Teacher" by Michael Haneke, "Husbands" and "A Woman Under the Influence" by John Cassavetes, "Naked" by Mike Leigh, "3 Women" by Robert Altman, "The Night Porter" by Liliana Cavani, "The Passenger" by Michelangelo Antonioni, "The Mother and the Whore" by Jean Eustache, "Inland Empire" by David Lynch, "Salo" and "Teorema" by Pier Paolo Pasolini and many, many more.

Television:

NO. Well, maybe Twin Peaks, disinformation TV, etc.

Books:

Jean Genet, Comte de Lautreamont, Michel Foucault, Aleister Crowley, Colette, Susan Sontag, Camille Paglia, Samuel Beckett, Sarah Kane, Henry Miller, Lao Tzu, Amiri Baraka, Kirsty Gunn, Oscar Wilde, Hubert Selby Jr. Harold Pinter, Anais Nin, Gore Vidal, Francois Lyotard, Franz Kafka, Theodor Adorno, Basho, Kenneth Grant, Israel Regardie, Dion Fortune, the Gnostic Texts, Edred Thorrson,The Tibetan Book of the Dead, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, "The Mystical Qabala," by Dion Fortune the Marquis de Sade, Goethe, Jerzy Kosinski, Graham Greene, Racine, Christopher Marlowe, John Ford, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Hakim Bey, Albert Camus, Gregory Corso, Soren Kierkegaard, Michel Houllebecq, Jean-Paul Sartre, Bret Easton Ellis, Elfriede Jalinek, Martin Heidegger when I want to make myself angry, Kathy Acker, Louis Ferdinand Celine, Knut Hamsun, August Strindberg, Andre Breton, Arthur Rimbaud, William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Howard Barker, Marcel Proust, Brendan Behan, Berthold Brecht, Tennessee Williams, Joyce Carol Oates, Edward Albee, Margaret Atwood, Isabelle Eberhardt, Peter Weiss, Fyodor Dostoyevski, Plato, Aristotle, Euripedes, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Nikolai Gogol, James Joyce, Immanuel Kant, Michel de Ghelderode, Sam Shepard, Antonin Artaud, Julius Evola, Jorge Luis Borges, Paul Bowles, Dennis Cooper, Federico Garcia Lorca, Charles Baudelaire, Pierre Klossowski, H.P. Blavatsky, Oswald Spengler, Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, Peter Carroll, Robert Anton Wilson, Wilhelm Reich, Yukio Mishima, Guy Debord, Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze, etc. The Koran, "Our Lady of the Flowers" by Jean Genet, "Lolita" by Nabokov, "Nadja" by Andre Breton, "The Book of Pleasure" by Austin Osman Spare, "LIBER ABA" by Aleister Crowley, "The Magical Revival" by Kenneth Grant, "Sun and Steel" by Yukio Mishima, "The Sexual Life of Catherine M," by Catherine Millet, "The Empty Space" by Peter Brook, "Blood and Guts in High School" by Kathy Acker

Heroes:

My friends.

My Blog

The Declaration of Evolution

The Declaration of EvolutionWhen in the course of organic evolution it becomes obvious that a mutational process is inevitably dissolving the physical and neurological bonds which connect the members...
Posted by Joshua on Thu, 17 May 2007 09:07:00 PST

Our shit healthcare system

Published on Tuesday, May 15, 2007 by Agence France Presse US Health System Ranks Last Compared to Other Countries: Studies WASHINGTON - The US health care system ranks last among other major rich ...
Posted by Joshua on Tue, 15 May 2007 10:56:00 PST

A poem I wrote

CITY DREAMThis sun is the old face, unadornedShattered light, glowing sand-This is the brightest wound I've seenLove at the mouth of pearls,Strips of concrete laid bareA forgotten desert, bodies supin...
Posted by Joshua on Thu, 10 May 2007 07:33:00 PST

The new Great Depression

"Are we headed for another Great Depression". My talks with Elaine Meinel Supkis By Mike Whitney ..> "The blue collar class which is the backbone of any society, is so oppressed and crushed under d...
Posted by Joshua on Wed, 09 May 2007 02:27:00 PST

Christianity is garbage.

The Greatest Threat to Choice by Chris Hedges Jeniece Learned stood amid a crowd of earnest-looking men and women, many with small gold crosses in their lapels or around their necks, in a hotel lobby...
Posted by Joshua on Mon, 07 May 2007 09:40:00 PST

Boyd Rice interview in Dagobert's Revenge

"Boyd Rice: Lord & Conqueror"from Dagobert's Revenge DR: Were you an ambitious kid? Did you have aspirations, things you wanted to accomplish? Boyd: My aspirations were almost kind of negative a...
Posted by Joshua on Thu, 03 May 2007 05:04:00 PST

Capitalism

Anti-Capitalism in Five Minutes or Less by Robert Jensen We know that capitalism is not just the most sensible way to organize an economy but is now the only possible way to organize an economy. We k...
Posted by Joshua on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 01:10:00 PST

On a certain American Religion

This is an excerpt from Christopher Hitchen's book:  "God is not Great" a tract against organized religion: If the followers of the prophet Muhammad hoped to put an end to any future "revelations...
Posted by Joshua on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:57:00 PST

Hip Hop Apologists

"When Did It Become Par for the Corporate Course that 'Black Man as Thug' and 'Black Woman as Slut' be Business as Usual?" Are You a Hip Hop Apologist? By PARIS Since the Imus controversy erupted ther...
Posted by Joshua on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:08:00 PST

The Occult origins of America's money.

The Alchemical Dollar: The Magic and Mystery of America's Money By Tracy R. Twyman The following is derived largely from Tracy R. Twyman's book Solomon's Treasure: The Magic and Mystery of America's...
Posted by Joshua on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:09:00 PST