writing, recording, & playing music(strings & keys, world percussion)...painting, pastels, writing poetry...

...works by Maya Deren, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Jean Cocteau, Fritz Lang, David Lynch, Stan Brakhage, Kenneth Anger, Federico Fellini, Scott Bartlett. etc.

I also am really into fantastic films like The Wizard Of Oz, Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, The Neverending Story, Alice In Wonderland, James & The Giant Peach, Peter Pan, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, Labrynth, The Dark Crystal, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Big Fish, Beetlejuice, Ghostbusters, Scrooged, Peewee's Big Adventure, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Corpse Bride, The Matrix, Lord Of The Rings, The Spiderwick Chronicles, The Chronicles Of Narnia, Pan's Labrynth, The Last Mimzy, The Fountain, Brazil, Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas, Jabberwoky, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spottless Mind, Vanilla Sky, Being John Malkovich, The Fall, etc.

King Crimson, Genesis(Gabriel/Hackett/Collins era), Yes(pre 80's era), Jethro Tull, Rush(pre Signals era), Mahavishnu Orchestra(McLaughlin era), Weather Report(pre Pastorius era), Gong(Allen era), Soft Machine(Wyatt/Ratledge era), Henry Cow, Samla Mammas Manna, Magma, Univers Zero, Can, Faust, Plastic People of the Universe, Os Mutantes, White Noise, Silver Apples, Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention, Residents, Pink Floyd(pre Final Cut era), Hawkwind, Velvet Underground(Reed/Cale era)...

Mr.Bungle, Secret Chiefs 3, Naked City, Material, Praxis, Ruins, Primus, Fishbone, Faith No More, Jane's Addiction, Porno For Pyros, I Mother Earth, Tool, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Melvins, Green River, Screaming Trees, Mudhoney, Meat Puppets, They Might Be Giants, Bad Brains, Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth, Pixies, Nine Inch Nails, Skinny Puppy, Coil, Psychic T.V., etc...

Miles, Trane, Bird, Monk, Cannonball, Dizzy, Mingus...Gershwin, Stravinsky, Scriabin, Debussy, Mozart, Liszt, Schoenberg, Tchaikovsky, Stockhausen, etc...

Tao Te Ching, Dhammapada, Bhagavad Gita, The Gospel of Thomas, Liber Legis...

...works by Ginsberg, Whitman, Kerouac, Emerson, Corso, Gysin, Burroughs, Baudelaire, Crowley...

Blavatsky's The Secret Doctrine, Jung's Mysterium Coniunctionis, Spinoza's Ethics...

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I am a student of psychology, philosophy, & the arts.

hermeneutics of symbolism, poetry, music, art, free verse, jazz, surrealism, flowers, butterflies, tropical birds & fish, herbs & spices, vegan ethnic food, drugs, dreams, coffees, teas, red wines, herbal liqueurs, Belgian white ales, sunsets, full moons, graven images, cultural taboos...

gas station coffee, cigarettes, meat, intolerance, racism & sexism, fundamentalist christians...