I am interested in Writing, Painting, History, Art, Music, Tattoos, Cooking, Computers, Esoteric Theology, Yoga (Hatha and Laya), Paranormal Research and Investigations, Traveling, Old/Abandoned Buildings and Landmarks, Photography (mostly cemeteries, abandonments and landscapes), Parties, Shows . . . in no particular order.
I seek out new adventures whenever possible; every day I try to absorb at least one new thing into my sphere of experience, for the moment you stop learning is the moment you begin to die.
Art: Tamara De Lempicka Jerry Uelsmann Marc Chagall
Music
I really can't name one particular favorite band or song, because I really like so many. I love metal, progressive hardcore, anything with feeling and a little musical complexity: Tool, Deftones, Killswitch Engage, Shadows Fall, Lamb of God, All That Remains, Chimaira, Bullet For My Valentine, Pantera, Metallica (old stuff, of course), Machine Head, Slayer, Alice in Chains, Taproot, Cold, Disturbed, Korn, AFI, Cradle of Filth, Type-O-Negative (sarcastic bastards!) . . . I always support my local music scene: Q, Lourds, Tainted Hate, Splitshift, Aquanett and everybody else entertaining my a$$ on an average Friday night . . . I enjoy old art rock like The Velvet Underground, David Bowie and the New York Dolls, 80's stuff like The Cure and Duran Duran . . . I love heavier electronic stuff like The Prodigy, Skinny Puppy, KMFDM, Nine Inch Nails . . . I love hip hop, reggaeton and techno, because I love to dance.
I despise overly-commercialized bullsh*t (Beyonce, Fergie, Nickelback - I'm talking to you!), but I have to admit that I sneak All American Rejects into the CD player when nobody is looking (it's my dirty little secret)
Movies
I prefer independent movies, foreign movies, old stuff, film noir and anything with great dialog and/or plot twists that I didn't see coming. I love horror movies of all kinds, from Japanese arterial-spurt slashers to 1980's teen scream (who doesn't need a little camp in their life on occasion?) I love comedies - not romantic comedies (perish the thought!), but stuff like Mel Brooks and Monty Python.
I usually look for movies that are a little off beat: you wouldn't find me paying $9.50 to see some major-studio blockbuster piece of sh*t, unless it starred a nude Jake Gyllenhaal, tarred and feathered in chocolate sauce and hundred-dollar bills :)
Television
There are very few shows I never miss: Nip/Tuck, House, South Park, Headbangers Ball . . . honestly, I couldn't care less about the rest of it. (Actually, that's not entirely true: If they ever do another Flavor of Love, you can find my a$$ stapled to the couch, with a bag of microwave popcorn, awaiting the apocalypse.)
Books
I usually stick with the classics because if I find myself correcting grammar and syntax, I'm putting the book down! My bookshelves are stocked with Marcel Proust, Ayn Rand, Oscar Wilde, William Blake, John Keats, Walt Whitman, Douglas Adams, Hunter Thompson, Augusten Burroughs, Irvine Welsh, Chuck Palahniuk, Jonathan Safran-Foer, Bertrand Russel, Robert Anton Wilson, Friedrich Neitzche, Carl Jung, Aleister Crowley, Israel Regardie, Anton LaVey and H.P. Blavatsky.
Heroes
I'm not the maudlin type, so I'll make this short and sweet . . . I think we all have the capacity for heroics: "Every man and every woman is a star." AL, I:3
More Interesting Stuff:
Start with nothing, but remember that nothing, the consummate absence, is also the absence of definition. Nothing becomes limitless; to aid interpretation, this becomes limitless light. All this is evidently without form, until a point of this light appears in the darkness. This point recognizes itself, multiplies, and becomes many; though the duplicates do not burn so brightly as the original, they solidify progressively . . .
I am I, no more and no less . . . to label me is to limit me, so please don't!
A couple of projects I'm involved in:
Chris and I write a travel and photography blog all about the things we find interesting in New England...lots of photos of cemeteries and abandoned things, check it out :-)
I'm a founding member of a paranormal research group called the Northeast Spectral Science Society. We take cases all over New England and beyond...if you're plagued by paranormal problems, contact us :-)
Thoughts becoming words, stretching upon the vast blank page of years . . . before me stands the threshold, below the cliff the tides of linguistic consciousness churn and crash against the rocky shores of doubt . . .
Perfection reigns where freedom lies But perfectionism sets in when liberty dies.
...Trapped and tied down while the whole world swirls about me, I try to pull one hand free to grasp at straws and find I am bound tighter than I had thought.
Darkly detrimental, though it tastes so good
Acuminating my senses, like I knew it would
The arms of my favorite vice envelop me like a familiar lover, comforting me through the darkest hours of every season. I need it like I need nothing else on this earth. I need it because it is the only thing I have ever really wanted. I need it because to want, to need, is as close to humanity as I dare to get.
This aspiration, this most implacable intemperance, drives me ever onward toward the gentle embrace of my fixation. I find myself conquered again and again by my ignoble proclivities.
I am that which I desire; by becoming this, I cease to be all other things. This is the annihilation of self through the intensification of the ego. My unquenchable thirsts are as a mantra - built up only to be torn down.
I can no longer write because there is so much now to live . . . the words escape me, fleeing from this pen as my focus shatters to pieces around the latest delirious diversion and tumbles just out of reach. Ecstatically I go on, madly, passionately; I'm flying through this existence with only the undefiled motives of pleasure and indulgence. My words, formerly such a comfort, are now an insipid substitute for the enjoyment of these heady days and sensual nights.
Trust, the most illusory of conditions, is rained upon by the blows of a violation, left reeling, unglued, unscrewed and unable to rebound. It isn’t what was revealed (for I am not ashamed of either my words or my actions) but that it was revealed before its time . . . You must now live with this revelation. I must now live without my words.
"Bind nothing! Let there be no difference made among you between any one thing & any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt. But whoso availeth in this, let him be the chief of all!" -AL, 1:22-23
"Thou strivest ever; even in thy yielding thou strivest to yield - and lo! Thou yieldest not." -Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente vel LVX, I:44
"It seems that all great things first have to bestride the earth in monstrous and frightening masks in order to inscribe themselves in the hearts of humanity with eternal demands."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"To think is an act of choice . . . Reason does not work automatically; thinking is not a mechanical process; the connections of logic are not made by instinct. The function of your stomach, lungs or heart is automatic; the function of your mind is not. In any hour and issue of your life, you are free to think or to evade that effort. But you are not free to escape from your nature, from the fact that reason is your means of survival - so that for you, who are a human being, the question "to be or not to be" is the question "to think or not to think."
- Ayn Rand
"I've always wondered if there was a god. And now I know there is -- and it's me." - Homer Simpson
De Omnibus Dubitandum
Who I'd like to meet:
Anyone with something real to say . . . anyone who is living life on their own terms . . . anyone who has escaped unscathed the fatuous slavery which befalls the weak . . . the meretricious need not apply.
I am not sure what is going on at this point. Richie started a 2nd job this week and I don't know what his schedule will be..we will keep you posted. This sucks!
thanks for adding. I'm always looking to talk to new people, and you seemed to catch my eye. Hit me back sometime, who knows, maybe i'll even get to pick a debate. :)
Hey, the EP is finished - come take a listen! You can download all the mp3's FREE in high quality right from my site! Of course, I am hoping you will buy a CD after a while ;) Just click the image to go to the downloads page
