Ooh, let me count the ways. Cinematography, martial arts, swords, dance, good debates, Soho in the Spring, conspiracy theories, anything underground (was a worm in a former life-probably why they attack me now), science, Macs, Final Cut Pro, Import Models and AV Idols, Gothic Lolitas (guess those were pretty obvious), shooting at the range, reading and writing (no rithmatik), erotic artistic production, cleaning lenses (I really don't clean much else). These are a few of my favorite things.
I'd like to meet:
On here first as a curiosity but have found this site quite boggling. Mainly for networking purposes, promoting productions, finding actors and models for different projects, seeing how the music scene has evolved since I gave up in disgust and frustration (tho getting the bug to play again). Looking for new adventures as well as professional contacts I guess in a nutshell. __Maybe it's just some subliminal attempt to deconstruct this whole space and rearrange the layers into hypertextual relations guided by the DIY spirit in it's dayglow splattered shroud drifting over the keyboard to the persistent whine of the RAID drives and the howling of the soul. Or not.... ............................................................
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Oh and this video below by Romance Junkies outa
LA-great example of the early 80's DYI punk aesthetic
using the tools of the New Millenium. From what I can
tell they spent no money whatsoever (even the edit
program was a freebie trial) shooting with what was
probably a cell phone but manage to assemble something
quite addictive to watch (great wakeup in the
morning-or afternoon-song). The timing is quite good
(speaking as a drummer-shooter-editor) and the cheesy
look is hard to replicate. Just wish it went longer
(damn trial software)!
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Music:
Bach to Bjork, Eno (loved him from the Roxy days),Peter Gabriel, Gamelan, Taiko drumming, Gang of Four, Bow Wow Wow (Oh Annabella), John Cage, Danse Society, Cocteau Twins (and other 4AD stuff), DEVO (1.0 and 2.0), Siouxie and the Banshees, The The, The Cure, The Smiths, Young Gods, Skinny Puupy, John Coltrane, Elvin Jones, Motherhead Bug (played drums for 3 years with them), Rasputina (also filed in), Jim Thirlwell (and all his personas-yeah we also played a bit), Die Warzaw (ditto), Unsane, Coil,Bauhaus, Peter Murphy, Tones on Tails, NIN, Blondie, Residents,APB, Nick Cave, The Swans (and other Mike Gira projects-I'm from a lot of that NYC scene), the Marsellis clan (studied some under the patriarch Ellis at Loyola in Nawlins), Tom Waits, Genesis up til Steve Hacket leaving, Ligetti, Japan (Brilliant Trees and other Sylvian projects), Simple Minds (before they forgot about me), Einsturzende Neubauten (don't ever let them offer to drive), and many, many more!
Movies:
Directors- Karasawa, Jarmusch, Wenders, Ridly Scott,David Lynch, Eisenstein, Wong Kar Wai, much of Oliver Stone, Walter Herzog, Fritz Lang, Antonioni, Passolini and Fellini (sounds like a restaurant down on Mulberry street), Godard, David Fincher, Stanley Kubrick, Richard Kern,Otto Preminger, Steve Sonderberg Orson Wells and many more.
.........................Films-Bladerunner, I.K.U (it's softcore succesor-see www.i-k-u.com-pretty interesting) Irezumi, In the Realm of the Senses, Tokyo Decadance (are you seeing a trend?), Last Temptation of Christ, The Mission, Clockwork Orange, Mad Max I
Television:
24, Battlestar Gallactica, History Channel, Bill Maher, Lou Dobbs, old Twilight Zones, Beastmaster, Deadwood, Weeds, Public Access stuff, H.R. Puffenstuff (gotcha there), Ben 10 (OK my friend edits it and the X-Men cartoons), American Dad, Green Hornet, first 3 seasons of Xena, Car 54 Where Are You?, the original UFO series by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson.
Books:
Yeah, my books section got zapped by the worm (a book worm no doubt)! Have to be in a literary bent to remember so let’s see if I can reconstruct (good at deconstructing but...) So for extra credit anybody...
Roland Barthes (S/Z and others) , Herman Hesse (Der Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, Das Glasperlenspiel),Jacques Derrida (father of post structualist thought, Norman Miller (American Icon), , Alan Watts, Milan Kundera, Miyamoto Musashi (Book of the 5 Rings), Yamamoto Tsunemoto's Hagakure. Lao Tzu (Tao Te Ching) Sun Tzu (Art of War), Anton Checkov (list of works way too ling), Vladimir Nabakov (lot’s as well but who can forget Lolita), Bram Stoker ( hmmm, I sense the Gothic Lolita theme creeping back in), Anne Rice (nice romantic comedies), Samual Becket (if you can actually read him you get brownie points),, Anais Nin (all those great diary, Little Birds: Erotica, Spy in the House of Love), Henry Miller( what can I say,Tropics of Capricorn and cancer, Nexus, Plexus and Sexus, Black Spring-my main inspiration for moving to NYC!!), , Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Ralph Waldo Emerson (his Essays volume still holds up well), Samual Taylor Coleridge (Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan are great), and William Wordsworth of course, tho can’t forget Shelly, Pierce, Byron and the rest of the English Romantics (so that’s where Emo comes from), Joseph Campbell (who put the myth back into civilization), T.S. Elliot (if I were but a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the sands of silent seas), James Joyce (OK, start with the little books-Dubliners-his shorts is a good place),William Shakespeare (obscure English playwrite-check him out sometime), The Story of O by Anonymous (actually a good documentary about the real author recent-see Cine-Fest can be enlightening), oh I guess that’s a great segue into that period-Jonathan Swift (you know his little people but read An Indecent Proposal for the real stuff-birth of modern satire here no less!!!), John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau (thanks for a country but we need you back once more), oh, did we say radical political thought? Peter Kropotkin (Anarchism was supposed to be a GOOD thing-see related blog that spewed forth from this recollection), which brings us to the modern chaos movement so checkout Hakim Bey, Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson and William Burroughs (but I’m sure you’ve found him already), Aldous Huxley (Brave New World and Doors of Perception: Gates of Delirium-I did a paper in Hi-School on that one and Heaven and Hell ) EM Forster (Where Angels Fear to Tread, The Longest Journey, A Room With A View), and George Orwell (who wrote-oh just look around you-that’s it!),Well, this is just a small sample but-hey-you get the drift!
Heroes:
My father may he rest in peace. Sometimes you don't really realize things til too late.__Certain teachers come to mind. Dan Lester from Chaminade High School in FLA. Those throughout our life we witness self sacrificing for others should always be an inspiration.__Martial Arts by nature has strong inspirations in both spiritual and physical journeys. It's been an on and off cycle spiraling through my life-always building. A hero is one who shows you how to overcome yourself. Bruce Lee of course is on that list-had all his books by 18. Bill Wallace and Steven Hayes-I benefited greatly from the brief times spent in there company. My first Sensei Ron Fuller of Goshin-Do Kenpo really opened my eyes and set me on the path. Ray Lamb and Tyrone Thornton in New Orleans brought the fighter out in me. I have to thank Sensei's Robert Heale Mason, Mike Sawyer and Mike McKoy of Wado-Ryu (Mu-Gen Do) in FLA for honing me into a top competitor at the time. Years later after a long lapse Professor Vistacion and Shihan David James of Vee Arnis-Jitsu woke me back up and expanded my repertoire. And most recently Sabnumin David Herbert of Han-Sou Hapkido (World Martial Arts Center) for bringing the fighter once again out of a lapsed and lazy body...lets see where that leads.__I guess in a nutshell-anyone who always pushes to be the best at what they do while inspiring others on the way!
