Other Odds & Ends Left Scattered About My Den

A Bit About Meself


I've never claimed to be sober or sane, being the type
to try all things before making up me mind, & I've read
more books than any one else I've met & that was just 
during grade school.  I've been suicidal in the past &
I've got scars & poems to prove it but I'm pretty certain
that it was all a bluff.

I'm related by blood to no one I know, have never known
who me parents were/are/could have been, & things in me
life have led me at times to believe that who ever me
parents were, they were into some whacked out shit, just
because of images that appear in me brain when me soul
goes a'wandering.

I've taught meself memetics, neurolinguistic programming,
& rudimentary psychic conditioning, have had a smattering
of chaos theory cram sessions & even helped form a secret
society.

I'm planning to eventually take over the world & establish
a benevolent tyranny, abolish all forms of money, & crush
repressive social mores.  Or perhaps I'll just try & get by as
 a struggling writer...










back to the front...




food for your head 

Charles De Lint - fairy tales for today, simply awe-inspiring.

Robert Jordan - the Wheel of Time series...
 amazingly dense, incredibly long... if you plan to be
 bed ridden for about six or so months, pick up all
 the books in this series & expect to be elsewhere
 in yr head for a looooong while 
 
Clive Barker - he started out being a master at
 horror, but along the way he morphed into an
 incredible writer of modern fantasy... 

Philip K Dick - greatest insane science fiction author
 to ever walk the planet, & we are just now barely
 feeling the effects his work will eventually have on
 philosophy, magick, science, & religion... this man
 was a prophet & a visionary & grossly under
 appreciated during his lifetime 

Robert Anton Wilson - co-writer of one of the greatest
 conspiracy classics of all time, the Illuminatus
 Trilogy, also the author responsible for the
 Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy, which was the book that
 got me banned from the adult section of the public
 library when I was thirteen... heheheh... anywho,
 read Quantum Psychology by this man, it is the most
 useful book you'll ever read if'n you want to figure
 out what Reality & yr head have in common 

Michael Moorcock - you gotta read Elric. yeah, it may
 seem like another ordinary pulp fiction anti-hero,
 but when you start to grasp the underlying
 metaphors... my gods!!!!! & the dancers @ the end of
 time... & the whole overall concept of the Eternal
 Champion roaming about in time & alternate realities,
 & the Chaos/Order duad monad thing just sorta seeps
 into you as you read.  Very cool. 

Terry Brooks - easy reading, well plotted fantasy 

Stephen R. Donaldson - Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
 the Unbeliever just rewrote my view of reality when I
 was fourteen. I read all of them twice, & formulated
 my own personal view of multi-dimensional realities
 in part from themes pulled from his books... &
 invented what turned out later to be an RPG based on
 the world he had made (I didn't know what an rpg was
 until someone saw me & my friends playing the game I
 had made & calling it AD&D, which was a baaaaaaad
 thing in the christian school I was attending... so
 they took away my baaaaaaad thing I had made... I 
 told them I had made it myself, & they didn't believe
 me. bastards. anywho....) 

Piers Anthony - I can't keep up with this man... he
 writes too damn much. I've read nearly fifty of his
 books, including 20 some xanth novels, Tarot, Phase,
 Bio of a Space Tyrant, Adept, & the odd little
 inbetween one shot novels he apparently pulls from
 his ass while working on his taxes... this man must
 have a voice recognition adaption on his computer or
 something) 

Neal Stephenson - I've done worn out Snow Crash & the
 Diamond Age... not the greatest writer, but a superb
 storyteller, & the future he portrays is undeniably
 possible & utterly magical all at once 

Stephen King - speaking of storytellers, this man is a
 master... admittedly I enjoyed his earliest work the
 most, & at times I find myself loathing the fact that
 I am reading such a pop author. 

Neil Gaiman - I first discovered Neil when he was
 writing Sandman... I read compulsively, even as my
 parents were burning the issues they found lying
 around because it was 'demoniac.' nowdays he's got
 several normal books in print, including Neverwhere,
 which left me longing for a release into some
 supernatural world beneath the streets of the city
 myself 

Timothy Leary - not exactly a novelist, but his
 writings have greatly influenced my life, my view of
 society, & the way I interact with every person I
 ever meet 

Anne Rice - quite hit & miss w/ her, sometimes she
 grabs me, sometimes she don't 

Marion Zimmer Bradley - Hope I spelled that rite...
 quite a body of werkings here, if'n ya gets me
 meaning 

Nancy Collins - the Sonja Blue Collection defines
 where vampire tales should go from now on 

& while yr at it, heres a few books to keep an eye out fer- 

Media Virus - written by some guy, book long lost,
 great... read it. 

The Holographic Universe - this one defines my
 viewpoints except where my views differ... of course 

Drugs & Magic - published by illuminet press I
 believe, great for the bathroom... 
& as fer toilet books ya cannot ferget The Book of the Subgenius

The Ticket that Exploded... WSBurroughs... I loved it,
 my favorite of his cut-up books... 
 


musick to incant by
 

Tori Amos (lyrics bring me into a little grove of
 paper birch deep in the forests of my mind where a
 feast has been prepared & the sidhe are celebrating) 


Skinny Puppy - (the body of work produced by these
 musicians firmly established a form of music never
 before explored by mankind, dealing with issues
 ranging from heroin addiction to vivisection, toxic
 waste to self-illumination... & those who aren't
 supposed to hear the message are literally unable to
 decode it... falls into a spectrum of music as magic,
 much like Psychic TV, or Laibach, or the post-Puppy
 Download) 


Morphine - (very relaxing, mellow bluesy jazzy music,
 pure & heartfelt & soooooooo relaxing) 


Tool - (at times an almost religious experiance,
 probably cause of all that acid I did while listening
 to Tool over & over & over again) 


Sisters of Mercy - (since I first discovered the album
 floodland I have been required by my psyche to own
 it, & have purchased it more than ten times) 


Nine Inch Nails, & the Natural Born Killers soundtrack
 & the Lost Highway soundtrack... Trent ain't faking
 anything... a bit commercial, but fuckit, its still
 good music 


Offspring - (boy, these guys pretty much just lay into
 our culture & present it for what it is over & over) 


They Might Be Giants, King Missle, Mr. Bungle, & the Dead Milkmen (LAUGH DAMMIT) 


London After Midnight - (murky & deep, gothic &
 sensual... what more could you want?) 


Coal Chamber - (they just rock, all bent up & twisted
 & pissed... like what I thought Korn should be,
 instead of what Korn ended up being)