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valis

I am not for sale........

About Me

Right, here's the plan. First, we go in there and get wrecked, then we eat a pork pie, then we drop some Surmontil-50's each. That way we'll miss out on Monday and come up smiling Tuesday morning. -Withnail

Rain
By The Beatles
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My Interests

...most anything the mainstream doesn't notice;discards;glosses over;eschews as marginal;moralizes over too much; requires too much thought; comes from a foreign mind or cultural viewpoint...

I'd like to meet:

Those with a WIDE view.......
My brightest star's My inner light, let it guide me
Experience and innocence, bleed inside me
Hallucinogens can open me, or untie me
I drift in inner space, free of time
I find a higher state of grace, in my mind
I'm beautiful, I wasn't born to follow
I live just for today, don't care about tomorrow
What i've got in my head, you can't buy, steal or borrow
I believe in live and let live
I believe you get what you give
I've glimpsed, I have tasted, fantastical places
My soul's an oasis, higher than the sun
I'm higher than the sun

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I will no longer take requests for adding you as a friend without a message from you (too many bands running bot programs); if you don't have the time neither do I.

Music:

Psychedelia, psychedelia, and psychedelia......! Plasticland,( and their heirs-the Romulans!), Green Pajamas, Rain Parade, the Steppes, Sun Dial, Dukes of Stratosphear (and Nick Nicely for jumpstarting them), Floorian, Brian Jonestown Massacre, the Pillbugs, Dora Flood, New Planet Trampoline, Roky & Syd, Kennelmus, Neu!, the Poets, Misunderstood, The Soundtrack of Our Lives, the Photon Band, Electric Effect, the Pretty Things, the Maharajas, Hypnomen, Damien Youth, Walter Ghoul's Lavender Brigade, the Cosmic Cult of Adam Strange, Dog Age, Kelley Stoltz, the Strange Machine, Sabalon Glitz, Bipolaroid, Mazarin, Golden Ball, Cheese, the Zombies,Paul Revere and the Raiders, Blues Magoos, We All Together,the Tables, Aerovons, the Jupiter Affect, the Three O' Clock, Oranger, the Idle Race, the Syn, the Move, Suns of Arqa,the Warlocks, B.R.M.C., the Persian Rugs, Singapore Sling, Bevis Frond, the Regular Fries, Lupine Howl, Alphastone, the Lucky Bishops,the Brotheregg, Dipsomaniacs (Norway) & Oyvind, McFadden's Parachute, the Dreadful Yawns, Murmurs of Irma, Baby Lemonade, Ant-Bee, the Slow Poisoner, Sugarplastic, the Flower Machine, the Reegs, Lilys, Rockfour, GripWeeds, Outrageous Cherry, Silver Sunshine, Cloud Eleven, Magazine, Television, early Talking Heads, Shimmer Kids Underpop Assoc. (R.I.P.), Hypatia Lake, the December Sound, the Zerfas (!), tremolo & reverb, Sitars....lots of 'em

...power pop, Beach Boys of Pet Sounds and post-same, bands who take their cue from the Pet Sounds era: High Llamas, Squires of the Subterrain, Mark Eric, Rick Bain, Mark Bacino, etc....80s Creation label, Ride (forever!), the House of Love, Love & Rockets, Madchester,..the Elephant 6 collective....the Rainbow Quartz manifesto.......and, for Gods sake BOMP!..the Ptolemaic Terrascope ...

the Galactic Zoo Dossier!!!

Movies:

Blade Runner; Brazil; Pi; Henry Fool; City of Lost Children; Allegro Non Troppo; Help!; Head' El Topo; 12 Monkeys; the 13th Warrior; the Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover; (all of Peter Greenaway); Dead Man, Mystery Train, Down By Law, Night On Earth (and all of Jim Jarmusch!); A Clockwork Orange, Everything Is Illuminated, The Zero Effect.......for starters.....

Television:

Ernie Kovacs! ( a revolutionary, pure genius.) Monty Python, the Young Ones, Seinfeld, Jeopardy, M.A.S.H., the History Channel, the Daily Show...

Books:

Robert Anton Wilson, Borges (!), Terence McKenna, Umberto Eco, Tom Robbins, Colin Wilson, Joseph Campbell, Philip K. Dick, Tim Powers, Baigent & Leigh, Velikovsky, Hakim Bey, Italo Calvino, Rabelais, Voltaire, John Kennedy Toole, Davis Grubb, Danilo Kis, S. Lem...

Heroes:

Philip K. Dick, Sir Richard Burton, Dizzy Dean, John Lennon, and Robert Anton Wilson
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My Blog

A Message Too Important.....

..to let go of. Posted by musician Chris Rael on March 10th: ===================================================== (Perhaps it's because I've eschewed the "working life" the last four years to explore...
Posted by valis on Mon, 08 May 2006 02:34:00 PST

A Questionaire (with some impossibly stupid questions) answered

What are you listening to right now? About 100 different tracks I selected and am listening to on the computer's music player......the track playing now is "Alas Agnes" by Mystery Jets, next is Nick ...
Posted by valis on Sat, 29 Apr 2006 06:39:00 PST

A Bulletin To End All...

1. Friend Test?....You got to be kidding me. Who the fuck are you to test me? Go ahead and delete me, I have no desire or need to prove anything to any one who would "TEST" a friend. The people on you...
Posted by valis on Wed, 08 Feb 2006 04:01:00 PST

I believe.....

Desiderataby Max Ehrmann (1927) Go placidly amid the noise and the haste,And remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender,Be on good terms with all persons.Speak ...
Posted by valis on Mon, 10 Oct 2005 06:20:00 PST

Random Thoughts on a Fall-like Friday, morning-style

To see the World in a grain of SandAnd Heaven in a wild FlowerHold Infinity in the palm of your handAnd Eternity in an hour.William BlakeHe looked at his own Soul with a Telescope.What seemed all irre...
Posted by valis on Fri, 07 Oct 2005 06:48:00 PST

Eh moi dea doi phegenheggo...

Terence in Toungues   To listen to this man is boggling...., to read text of his speech is another kettle o' fish........
Posted by valis on Wed, 31 Aug 2005 01:48:00 PST

Theleme

The next well-known usage of the word was by François Rabelais, a Franciscan and later a Benedictine monk of the 16th century. Eventually he left the monastery to study medicine, and so moved to Lyons...
Posted by valis on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Like a beacon from Mars

Bless the Voyagers! http://www.newsreview.com/issues/reno/2003-02-06/cover.asp ...they are of my tribe.
Posted by valis on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Beautiful....enjoy!

http://www.yenz.com/menue/garden/intro.html
Posted by valis on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

The Groove

You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove. Timothy Leary (b.1920)
Posted by valis on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST