Parapolitics & conspiracy theories, Dada stunts, jests, jibes & pranks, neuronautical exploration, firearms, Soto Flight (incl. but not limited to: myriad airships, blimps, zeppelins, gliders, etc), French Symbolist poetry, prestidigitation, grifting & flim-flammery, geurilla theatre, shoplifting, pyrotechnics, hermeneutics, noology, Attic Greek civiization, particle physics, Taoism, nihilism, late stage paranoid Wilhelm Reich, NonAristotlean Semantics (Korzybski), long walks in the rain & staying abed on Sundays with the NYT crossword...

"[...]the academic grappling with his computer, ceaselessly correcting, reworking, and complexifying, turning the exercise into a kind of interminable psychoanalysis, memorizing everything in an effort to escape the final outcome, to delay the day of reckoning of death, and that other -fatal- moment of reckoning that is writing, by forming an endless feedback loop with the machine."

~Jean Baudrillard
"America"(1986)



Which is about as pretentious way of introducing my digitally mediated persona as I could steal. I am an anarchist, but not of the aspirational variety: I believe chaos & chance reign supreme, and politics are weak theatre. Like Blake (& Crowley) I believe everything that is was imagined first, and vividness counts.

Velvet Underground, Beatles, Baden Powell, Os Mutantes, Jorge Ben, Mahler, Gram Parsons, Lefty Frizell, Prokofiev, Satie, Ornette Coleman,Albert Ayler, James Brown, Django Rheinhardt, Riley Puckett & Ted Hawkins, Miles Davis, Black Flag, Gang of Four, Jayhawks, Mogwai, Super Fuzzy Animals, Radiohead, the Creation, the Chocolate Watchband, Morton Feldman, John Cage, Thelonious Monk...

Lawrence Of Arabia, You Can't Take It With You, Sante Sangre, La Jetee, The Battle of Algiers, Out of the Blue, 2001: A Space Oddysey, God Likes You When You Pray- But He Loves You When You Dance, The Cranes Are Flying Again, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Lady From Shanghai, F is for Fake!, Buckets of Blood, The Decline of Western Civilization Pt 1, El Topo, Eraserhead

Gavrilo Princips, Coglosz, Emma Goldman, Emmet Grogan, Aleister Crowley, Tristan Tzara, Lou Reed, Ray Johnson, William S Burroughs, Terence McKenna, Robert Anton Wilson, Robert Johnson, Elmyr de Hory, John Cage, Genesis P-Orridge, Joseph Beuys, Man Ray, Minor White, Jack Black, Max Ernst, Pablo Picasso, Guy Debord, my pop, Miles Davis, the Yellow Kid, no one, really...