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Comets Ov Cupid

CUPID- interstellar overdrive demon traps and laser guided angels.....*plus+ultra*

About Me

CUPIDmy old band know defunct.. called Skye Klad www.skyeklad.comhttp://www.virb.com/metalgazerand other projects include progressive folkrock of Satyrswitch www.satyrswitch.comAlso played and sang in a band called Blitzen.. Nowave psych pop groupalso have been guest musician with Gentle Tasaday, Fadladder, Sean Connaughty, Kabaalim and the Bigloo players!.

My Interests

music,Terra incognita, Space, Rockets, Gothic architecture, Wardenclyffe Tower, Lapis Niger, The Fallen Peacock, Neo Gothic artists(William Burges..Walpole)Pre-Raphaelite art, Stuckism, Runes, Guns, Getting even, Knives,Mountains,The Ocean,Plasma Ball Lamps, Magick, Ancestral Memory, Archeology, Math, Beauty, Time Travel, and Walt Disney, Comperative Mythology, Sacred Geometry, Gnosticism. Futurism, Robots, The Druids, Microscopic art, Ancient Civilization, Psychoacoustics, Wine, Absynthe, UFO technology, Thule, Fortean Science, Op art, Star Maps, Art Nouveau, Symbolists (Von Stuck), Wolves, Mithras, Penguins,Skyscrapers, Ghosts, Good Manners and wide angles. Peace and Love.

I'd like to meet:

People with good manners, , Philip Glass,The King,Howlin Wolf, Heraclitus, Buddha,Bo Diddley, Bing Crosby,Robert De Grimston,Abe no Seimei,Davie Allan, Dick Dale, Martin Denny,Debussy, Ricky Wagner,Oswald Sprengler,The Druids,Simon Magus, Ignatius Donnely, Bucky Fuller, Docotor Strange, Master Musicians of Jajouka,Stockhausen,Jack Parsons, Otto Rahn, Julius Evola, Leni Reifenstahl,Jean Cocteau, Machiavelli, Manly P Hall, Albert Pike, The Queen of Sheba, Hassan I Sabbah, Mozart, Goethe, Alexander the Great, George Washington,Umm Kulthuum, Sir Francis Bacon,Tesla, King Solomon,Jesus, Bela Lugosi,Krishna,Lon Cheney, Flash Gordon, Gabrielle Dannunzio,Myamoto Musashi, Story Musgrave,Cecile B Demille,and Queen Elizabeth

Music:

Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians ,Minimalism (Young, Cale, Riley) Maximalism (Branca,Rhys Chatham,My Bloody Valentine) Medieval/Renaissance Music, German Space music from the 70s. Jajouka. ur musick,futuristexoticasurfinstrumentals, Ashra, all the cats from the Mpls space music underground,Oblivion Ensemble, Nasa space recordings, shoegazer new and old, Blips and Bloops.

Movies:

I'll watch almost anything directed by Jean Cocteau, Kenneth Anger, Fellini, Herzog, Walt Disney, or George Lucas. Current favorite.. The Man Who Would Be King. The Ruling Class and Jean Epstein's Le Tempestaire.

Television:

The History Channel if I have to..

Books:

The Odyssey(Homer) The Aenid, The Eddas, Norse Sagas,The Book of Five Rings by Musashi, Howling at the Sky, The Lucifer Diaries, and the Sun at Night by Roger Williamson, Solomon's Treasure by Tracy Twyman, Anything by Edgar Allan Poe,Hermetic Tradition by Julius Evola, The Book of the Law,Freedom is a Two Edged Sword by Jack Parsons, The Bible, The Apocrypha, the Pali Canon, and many many more.

Heroes:

Dalai Lama

My Blog

music where to check out some of my stuff

I have done alot of music. Current projects Cupid and a wonderful collaboration with Sean Connaughty that should be released around March 08(I'll keep you posted) My current stuff online is here (unde...
Posted by Comets Ov Cupid on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 06:15:00 PST

Jan 18th show Matt Zaun memorial at the Ritz

I'll be playing with Adam, Sean, and myself under the alias Cupid. Mystical acoustic stuff!   As some of you may be aware, a large segment of our musical and artistic extended family was recently...
Posted by Comets Ov Cupid on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 07:21:00 PST

music of the Drudes..

Drood-lo. Drood-lo is the new deal, man! If you haven't heard Gnome Machine check them out. Drude-lo is the new hip hop. Lounge music for the Druidic. ...
Posted by Comets Ov Cupid on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:08:00 PST

Matt Zaun

My friend Matt Zaun recently passed away. He was my oldest and closest friend. We both moved to Mpls at the same time to be musicians and he was the only drummer I ever played with.He drummed with me ...
Posted by Comets Ov Cupid on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 07:16:00 PST

Performing Metalgazer live Oct 13th

Mutant Music presents:- REDUKT -Forward-Thinking Rock In A Theater Setting The confines of dive bars and rock clubs are familiar and comfortable to us all, but not terribly conducive to creating the k...
Posted by Comets Ov Cupid on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:30:00 PST

Cupid update

Some performances of Metalgazer coming soon. Also working on follow up recording recorded at various strange and exotic locations. New stuff opens up a bit into a futurist pastorale. Also Dark Ho...
Posted by Comets Ov Cupid on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 02:39:00 PST

New Cupid Track

go herehttp://www.virb.com/metalgazerperformance at the Ritz theatre in NE Mpls. Featuring Dave Onnen(Bouzouki) and Erik (echo bass) both from THunderbolt Pagoda(formerly of SkyeKlad and Salamander) a...
Posted by Comets Ov Cupid on Fri, 18 May 2007 11:05:00 PST

New music and show May 19th at the Ritz

Been recording with Sean Connaughty (Salamander and Vortex Navigation Co.)Dark Spacey High Plains Drifting musicFirst song has been posted on his myspace site. Cover of Hank Williams "Angel of Death" ...
Posted by Comets Ov Cupid on Sun, 13 May 2007 05:48:00 PST

Aural Innovations review of Metalgazer

Cupid  "Metalgazer" (Magusmusic 2006, #001, ltd. ed. CD-EP) From Aural Innovations #35 (January 2007) Cupid is the solo project of Jason Kesselring, the former guitarist/vocalist of Minneapolis p...
Posted by Comets Ov Cupid on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:16:00 PST

Cupid Shows

Zebulon Pike, Thunderbolt Pagoda, Mute Era and Cupid save   |  tag Star Tribune Jan19th Fri Price: $8 As Cupid, Jason Kesselring freely admits to nipping composer Terry Riley. W...
Posted by Comets Ov Cupid on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 10:46:00 PST