50 foot wave, aisha kandisha's jarring effects, angelo badalamenti, bjork, bootsy collins, bill laswell, coil, concrete blonde, david bowie, dead can dance, decemberists, electric masada, genesis p-orridge, goldfrapp, john frusciante, john williams, john zorn, kate bush, king crimson, kristin hersh, ladytron, lou reed, love & rockets, mazzy star, ministry, nick cave, pigface, pixies, praxis, psychic tv, robert fripp, steely dan, the sugar cubes, they might be giants, throwing muses, tool, tori amos, tricky, violent femmes, ween
Movies
directors: akira kurosawa, david lynch, jan svankmajer, orson welles, wim wenders
films: 10 Things I Hate About You; Adaptation; A Beautiful Mind; Akira Kurosawa's Dreams; Almost Famous; Amadeus; Amelie; American Beauty; American Movie; The Big Lebowski; Billy Elliot; Blade Runner; Bliss; Blood Simple; Blue in the Face; Blue Velvet; Brazil; Broken Flowers; Brother Sun, Sister Moon; But I'm a Cheerleader; Cecil B. Demented; Citizen Kane; Clerks; Clueless; Confessions of a Dangerous Mind; Cradle Will Rock; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Dead Man; Death to Smoochy; Donnie Darko; Dr. Strangelove; Dune; Elizabeth; Empire Strikes Back; Eraserhead; Existenz; Eyes Wide Shut; Svankmajer's Faust; La Femme Nikita; Fight Club; A Fish Called Wanda; Frida; Ghost Dog; The Good Girl; The Graduate; Happiness; Happy Gilmore; Heathers; Hedwig and the Angry Inch; Holy Smoke; The Hudsucker Proxy; The Hunger; I Heart Huckabees; The Importance of Being Earnest; Incubus; Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back; Kinsey; The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou; Life is Beautiful; Like Water for Chocolate; Little Otik; Lord of the Rings Trilogy; Lost Highway; Lost in Translation; Man on the Moon; The Man Who Fell to Earth; The Manchurian Candidate (1962); MASH; The Matrix; A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy; Monty Python and the Holy Grail; Monty Python's Life of Brian; Moulin Rouge; Much Ado About Nothing; Mulholland Drive; My Dinner with Andre; My Neighbor Totoro; Network; No Such Thing; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; Pecker; Pee-Wee's Big Adventure; The People vs. Larry Flynt; Pi; The Piano; The Player; Pollock; Il Postino; The Princess and the Warrior; Pulp Fiction; Pump Up the Volume; Punch-Drunk Love; Quills; Raiders of the Lost Ark; The Razor's Edge; Real Genius; Reservoir Dogs; RKO 281; Romeo + Juliet; Rosemary's Baby; The Royal Tenenbaums; Run Lola Run; Rushmore; Secretary; Serenity; sex, lies, and videotape; Sleepy Hollow; Spirited Away; Star Wars 1-6; Starship Troopers; The Straight Story; Swimming to Cambodia; Tampopo; Team America: World Police; They Live; This Is Spinal Tap; Titus; Total Recall; Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me; The Unbelievable Truth; The Usual Suspects; Vanilla Sky; Videodrome; Waking Life; War Games; Wet Hot American Summer; Wild at Heart; Wings of Desire; Young Frankenstein; 12 Monkeys; 13 Conversations About One Thing... I could go on.
Television
I almost never watch actual TV. Instead I rent DVDs. Some of my faves include: babylon 5, carnivale, farscape, firefly, twin peaks
Books
aleister crowley, antoine faivre, buckminster fuller, carl jung, chicago manual of style, francois rabelais, friederich nietzsche, g. i. gurdjieff, giordano bruno, hakim bey, i ching, joseph campbell, ken wilber, laurence iannaccone, martin heidegger, philip k. dick, rumi, timothy leary, umberto eco, wilhelm reich, xul solar
Heroes
albert einstein, aleister crowley, buckminster fuller, david lynch, frida kahlo, friederich nietzsche, harry smith, giordano bruno, ida craddock, jacques de molay, robert fripp, timothy leary, william blake,
Hellgate High School
Missoula, MT
Graduated: 1991
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Other
Major: Life
Minor: Love and Death
Clubs: Thespians, S.A.V.E., DeMolay
Editorial experience on everything from zines to literary journals of 3500+ distribution. Currently Editor for Agapé, the Official Organ of Ordo Templi Orientis U.S.A.
Currently employed as CTO of a real estate group. I enjoy projects like these that are entrepreneurial and require varied skills and management responsibility.
Joseph Thiebes Es gibt nichts gutes ausser man tut es!
... only poetically and by seizing upon what is communicative and magnetic in the principles of all the arts can we, by shapes, sounds, music, and volumes, evoke ... states of an acuteness so intense and so absolute that we sense, beyond the tremors of all music and form, the underlying menace of a chaos as decisive as it is dangerous.
And this essential drama, we come to realize, exists, and in the image of something subtler than Creation itself, something which must be represented as the result of one Will alone—and without conflict.
—Antonin Artaud, The Theater and its Double, trans. Mary Caroline Richards (New York: Grove Press, 1958), 50-51. Italics in the original.
For a long time, I have approached my work as sculpture. Each piece will start as ten or thirty source images; some of my photography or drawings, some random clipart or photo from the internet, or a random object placed on my scanner. I see things I like, and I add them to the pile. Then layering them, and altering each one so that they fit together. This is actually forming the stone of the sculpture analogy - the layers of images are the stone, and once I piece them together by applying effects, highlighting, rotating, stretching, blurring, sharpening, distorting, pixelating... then I begin to carve by removing the things which interfere with the image. I think of it as carving stone of my own making.
Who I'd like to meet: I don't like meeting people very much. I like getting to know people and coming to deeply understand each other. Can't we just skip the introductions and go straight to the long intense conversations about love, death, will, life and wisdom? No, I guess it doesn't work that way. So, I would like to meet you if you have found yourself thinking the same thing at some time or other.
Of course, there are those things that are a core part of who I am, which, if we have in common, could launch us into a fast friendship. For example if we share the same creed, or if we have shared values or goals, or perhaps simply if we find each other attractive.
you should check out myspace. com/kgillespielynch page, i wrote something really cool there about symbols and would like yr perspective regarding those thoughts. ciao~
Ich hab vergessen zu sagen: Falls es zu irgendwelchen Problemen kommen sollte während eurer Reise, ruft mich einfach an. Ihr habt bei uns immer einen Platz zum schlafen....
