...most anything the mainstream doesn't notice;discards;glosses over;eschews as marginal;moralizes over too much; requires too much thought; comes from a foreign mind or cultural viewpoint...
Music
Psychedelia, psychedelia, and psychedelia......! Plasticland,( and their heirs-the Romulans!), Green Pajamas, Rain Parade, the Steppes, Sun Dial, Dukes of Stratosphear (and Nick Nicely for jumpstarting them), Floorian, Brian Jonestown Massacre, the Pillbugs, Dora Flood, New Planet Trampoline, Roky & Syd, Kennelmus, Neu!, the Poets, Misunderstood, The Soundtrack of Our Lives, the Photon Band, Electric Effect, the Pretty Things, the Maharajas, Hypnomen, Damien Youth, Walter Ghoul's Lavender Brigade, the Cosmic Cult of Adam Strange, Dog Age, Kelley Stoltz, the Strange Machine, Sabalon Glitz, Bipolaroid, Mazarin, Golden Ball, Cheese, the Zombies,Paul Revere and the Raiders, Blues Magoos, We All Together,the Tables, Aerovons, the Jupiter Affect, the Three O' Clock, Oranger, the Idle Race, the Syn, the Move, Suns of Arqa,the Warlocks, B.R.M.C., the Persian Rugs, Singapore Sling, Bevis Frond, the Regular Fries, Lupine Howl, Alphastone, the Lucky Bishops,the Brotheregg, Dipsomaniacs (Norway) & Oyvind, McFadden's Parachute, the Dreadful Yawns, Murmurs of Irma, Baby Lemonade, Ant-Bee, the Slow Poisoner, Sugarplastic, the Flower Machine, the Reegs, Lilys, Rockfour, GripWeeds, Outrageous Cherry, Silver Sunshine, Cloud Eleven, Magazine, Television, early Talking Heads, Shimmer Kids Underpop Assoc. (R.I.P.), Hypatia Lake, the December Sound, the Zerfas (!), tremolo & reverb, Sitars....lots of 'em
...power pop, Beach Boys of Pet Sounds and post-same, bands who take their cue from the Pet Sounds era: High Llamas, Squires of the Subterrain, Mark Eric, Rick Bain, Mark Bacino, etc....80s Creation label, Ride (forever!), the House of Love, Love & Rockets, Madchester,..the Elephant 6 collective....the Rainbow Quartz manifesto.......and, for Gods sake BOMP!..the Ptolemaic Terrascope ...
Movies
Blade Runner; Brazil; Pi; Henry Fool; City of Lost Children; Allegro Non Troppo; Help!; Head; El Topo; 12 Monkeys; the 13th Warrior; the Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover; (all of Peter Greenaway); Dead Man, Mystery Train, Down By Law, Night On Earth (and all of Jim Jarmusch!); A Clockwork Orange, Everything Is Illuminated, The Zero Effect.......for starters.....
Books
Robert Anton Wilson,Borges(!),Terence McKenna, Umberto Eco, Tom Robbins, Colin Wilson, Joseph Campbell, Philip K. Dick, Tim Powers, Baigent & Leigh, Velikovsky, Hakim Bey, Italo Calvino, Rabelais, Voltaire, John Kennedy Toole, Davis Grubb, Danilo Kis, S. Lem...
Heroes
Philip K. Dick, Sir Richard Burton, Dizzy Dean, John Lennon, and Robert Anton Wilson
valis's Details
Status:
Married
Religion:
Other
Zodiac Sign:
Sagittarius
Children:
Love kids, but not for me
Education:
College graduate
valis's Companies
Center For the Proliferation of Psychedelia St. Louis-Bohemia-Morocco-Roma, US Epopt
About me: Right, here's the plan. First, we go in there and get wrecked, then we eat a pork pie, then we drop some Surmontil-50's each. That way we'll miss out on Monday and come up smiling Tuesday morning. -Withnail
Also on Anthology: The Monks, Simply Saucer, R. Stevie Moore, The Red Crayola, Half Japanese, D.R. Hooker, Destroy All Monsters, Young Marble Giants, Merrell Fankhauser, The Factory, Faine Jade, and Ya Ho Wha 13.
Greetings My Space Friend. Hope all is well. Just posted a song from my new release Photon Shift on my player. Just in time for your psychedelic party !
This Weekend Max & the Tatraplan 2 x Live Friday 30 Oct 2009 Aarau Floesserplatz Saturday 31 Oct 2009 Zurich La Catrina / FREE ENTRY ! GRATIS :) cheers & bye bye Max & The Tatraplan
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