Art, activism & anarchism. Editing the collectively run political comics zine World War 3 Illustrated, now in its 25th year. Helping the campaign to organize the IWW Starbucks Workers Union.
Music
Angels of Light (and anything Gira), Jarboe, Bonfire Madigan, David Bowie, Tom Waits, DethKlok(!), Danzig, Misfits, Motorhead, Cocteau Twins, Coil, Cat Power, Cramps, Dead Kennedys, X, Crass, Skinny Puppy, ohGr, Download, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Bauhaus, Sparklehorse, Radiohead, Will Oldham, Swans, Nick Cave, Einsturzende Neubauten, P. J. Harvey, old REM, Ernst Reijseger, Yo La Tengo, John Coltrane, Johnny Cash, 16 Horsepower, Gillian Welsh, Morphine, Iron & Wine, M. Ward, Pixies, Sarah Vaughn, Interpol etc .
Movies
In no particular order: Blade Runner (both versions), Dead Man, Innocence, Orson Welles' The Trial, Company of Wolves, Element of Crime, Princess Mononoke, Matewan, Bound for Glory, Naked Lunch, V for Vendetta, Battle of Algiers, Wages of Fear, Morvern Callar & Ratcatcher (Dir. Lynn Ramsay), Underground, Tale of Two Sisters (korean), Werckmeister Harmonies,The Third Man, The Tenant, the Excorcist, Ghost in the Shell, the ORIGINAL Wickerman (Christopher Lee in Drag!!!) all Brothers Quay, Fallen Angels, 8 1/2, Godard's Week End, Jan Svankmajer's Faust, Suicide Club, Throne of Blood, American Astronaut, The Man Who Fell to Earth and anything by the magnificent Werner Herzog.
Television
Drug of the nation...
Books
"The Dispossessed" & "The Left Hand of Darkness"- Ursula K. Le Guin
"Burning Your Boats" Short Stories by Angela Carter (particularly the "Bloody Chamber" series) "Rebel Voices" Joyce Kornbluth on the I.W.W.- world's greated Union!
And the following writers: Kakfa, Noam Chomsky, Arundhati Roy, Howard Zinn, Ian Banks, George Orwell, Philip K. Dick, Haruki Marakami, Amy Goodman, the Project Censored Reports, Umberto Eco, Neil Gaiman etc.
Heroes
Many of the writers above, Chomsky, Ursula, Angela Carter, Arundhati, Amy Goodman :)
AND all the Industrial Workers of the World - and anarcho-syndicalist union for all the workers (because we are ALL wage slaves).
The martyrs: Frank H. Little, Joe Hill, Weseley Everest, Judi Bari, Brad Will, MLK, Ken Saro Wiwa and all the ones whose names we do not know.
The fighters: Lucy Parsons, Emma Goldman, the radical artist Ralph Chaplin, the late Carlos Cortez, the very brave Daniel McGowan & Jeffrey Luers.
All my fellow artists and comrades at WW3 and in the activist community.
"Anarcho-Gothic" artist- if there IS such a thing- political cartoonist, illustrator, connoisseur of cats and bizarre inanimate objects- and not to mention one of the editors of the infamous World War 3 Illustrated and "Wobblies! A Graphic History". My Portfolio
"Abstract art is a progressive art. But I don't see where it leads. I see no future in it, because I think that showing nothing, saying nothing, pleasing only the eyes, produces at the end of the day an art which is very agreeable to a certain section of the RICH MIDDLE CLASS. It is an art that you can put anywhere: in the bathroom, in the kitchen, above your bed; it shocks nobody. There are simply more or less successful combinations of colors in a particular pattern, which are sometimes very interesting. But for me, art is more serious than that."- Frans Masereel
“Fear is the basis of the whole - fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand-in-hand.” - Bertrand Russell
Who I'd like to meet: Artists, writers, musicians, anarchists, wobblies, activists, and anyone who has a new world in their hearts.
I am VERY pleased with the art gallery we have going on down in my comments section. There are some amazing artists out there...
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salaam nicole! greetings from mr.mamadou! how u mean sista!?! just hope life treated u with respect at this time! much love&respect! stay blessed sista nicole! peeeaaaaace!!!
From one friend of Howard Zinn to another — thanks for adding me. ¶ People hear only what they want, so facts alone won't wake them; they need inspiration too. ¶ This world's evils have a common root: Bullies, liars, thieves, & murderers — whether in school, home, government, or elsewhere — believe we're all separate, motivated only by self-interest, by greed & fear. They want us to share that belief; they use it to justify themselves and to discourage us from uniting. They use it to shape the world's political & economic systems that perpetuate war & poverty. Their real power comes not so much from secret conspiracies as from propaganda that we all hear every day and that we hardly notice. ¶ But you & I have found something better inside ourselves & our friends. It's in everyone, if we can just wake them; we're all one flesh & blood. Let's spread that vision, for until we do our other advances will be minor & temporary. ¶ The outcome of the ideological struggle is not yet determined, so no one can afford to be just a spectator. Join the movement, if you haven't already: get involved in whatever way feels right for you. Question authority. Keep fighting, loving, hoping, singing. Hand in hand, we may still be able to heal this world. ¶ I'm impressed with ideas of Lakoff & Waldman about *how* to spread the vision, so I'm trying to promote their ideas via comments like this one and the essay on my MySpace page. It's free (I'm not selling anything). ¶ The real war is between classes, not nations; so I'll picnic on July 14, not July 4. CLOSE GUANTANAMO BY BASTILLE DAY; PASS IT ON. ¶ Peace, love, hope, and revolution — Eric
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