Gardening, collage, writing, camping, hot springs, hot tubbing, DJing, hosting parties, reading, walking, culture-jamming, making art.

The Wicker Man, The Devils, Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly, Curse of the Demon, Fall of the House of Usher (silent), Matango, Montenegro, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Bad Timing, Fay Grimm, The Reflecting Skin, Rock & Roll High School, Fear No Evil, Pan's Labyrinth, Fitzcarraldo, Milk & Opium, The Game, The 7 Faces of Dr. Lao, Mars Needs Women, Sunset Boulevard, Riot on Sunset Strip, Ghetto Freaks, Isabelle Eberhart, The Silent Earth, 28 Days Later, The Omega Man, The Ballad of Cable Hogue, Bad Boy Bubby, Dazed and Confused, House of Games, Ichi the Killer, Berkeley in the '60s, Apocalypse Now, My Dinner With Andre, Memento, Waking Life, Harold and Maude, El Topo, Tokyo Decadence, Grass, The Kingdom, The Sweet Movie, The Coca-Cola Kid, Brazil, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Casino, Inherit the Wind, Green Snake, Zu: Warriors of the Magic Mountain, Lord of the Rings, The Haunting (original version), Citizen Kane, Performance, The Secretary, Punch-Drunk Love, The Killer, Hard-Boiled, Videodrome, Gummo, To Kill a Mockingbird, Bringing Up Baby, From Russia With Love, Dawn of the Dead, It's Alive 2, Caligula, Spider Baby, Possession, Audition, Hair, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Psych-Out, The Wild Bunch, Orgazmo, Cafe Flesh, Duck Soup, Kundun, Things Change, eXistenZ, Preaching to the Perverted, The Holy Mountain, Henry Fool, Island of Lost Souls, Man on the Moon, Go...and many, many more.

Mars, Jimmy Mitchell, Olivia Tremor Control, The Sunshine Fix, Circulatory System, Hanadensha, T.A.G.C., Lovage, Dictators, Germs, Fantomas, Lustmord, H.N.A.S., Randy Greif, Slayer, Motorhead, Bad Livers, Agony Column, Roky Erickson, The Didjits, T. Tex Edwards, Annette Funicello, The Seeds, Violent Onsengeisha, Cabaret Voltaire, Rhythm & Noise, The Residents, Chrome, Guru Guru, S.P.K., E.A.R., Antenna Farm, Francis Dhomont, Secret Chiefs 3, Renaldo & the Loaf, Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso UFO, Carl Stalling, The Apples in Stereo, Finntroll, Finnish folk & metal, The Gaza Strippers, The Clash, Magma, Sun Ra, The Sun City Girls, Of Montreal, Nurse With Wound, Richard Cheese, The Master Musicians of Jajouka, Massti Shadhu, Shalabi Effect, Enoch Light & His Light Brigade, Cab Calloway, Popol Vuh, Barnes & Barnes, Klaatu, Iggy Pop, Suicide, New York Dolls, Subway Sect, Undertones, Boomtown Rats, Mutantes, Dogbowl, Camper Van Beethoven, The Dickies, The Bonzo Dog Band, The Pixies, Tenpole Tudor, Moondog, Prudence & Patience, Les Baxter, Little Peggy March, Julie Cruise, The Beach Boys, T Rex, The Cramps, The Sonics, Electric Prunes, Charlie Feathers, Love, The Kinks, The Who, Edmundo Ros & the Sons of the Buddha, Taj Mahal Travelers, Christoph Heeman, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Dukes of the Stratosphere (XTC), The Chocolate Watchband, Boyd Rice, Do Make Say Think, Dooms UK, Dean Martin, Perry Como, The Buzzcocks, Magazine, Ultravox, The Ames Brothers, The Holy Modal Rounders, Jug Bands, Dean Elliott (did the Dr. Seuss cartoon music), Spiritualized, Love and Rockets, Mr. Bungle, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Mad Professor, U-Roy, Calamalka Shredders, Eek-A-Mouse, Scientist, Augustus Pablo, King Tubby, Niney the Observer, Sly & Robbie, This Mortal Coil, Diamanda Galas, Dead Can Dance, Coil, Amon Duul 2, The Young Fresh Fellows, The Minus 5, Harry Partsch, No Doubt, Fats Waller, Rolling Stones (w/ Brian Jones!), The Judy's, The Stooges, Gong, Cocteau Twins, Boss Hogg, Danielle Dax, Eagles of Death Metal, Hawkwind, Elf Power, Elephant 6 Bands, Neutral Milk Hotel, Lupine Howl, Chris & Cosey and so much more...

My favorite authors include: Philip K. Dick, Jonathan Carroll, Edward Whittemore, Thomas Pynchon, James Elroy, Robert Anton Wilson, Karel Capek, Frances Yates, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Henry Corbin, William Irwin Thompson, Jim Thompson, Charles Willeford, Franklin Rosemont, Alfred Jarry, Georges Bataille, Will Self, Thomas Ligotti, H.P. Lovecraft, Aleister Crowley, Jack Parsons, John Crowley, A.O. Spare, Haruki Murakami, Franz Kafka, Robert Bloch, Edgar Allen Poe, G.K. Chesterton, Umberto Ecco, Jerzy Kosinski, Italo Calvino, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Ishmael Reed, Lewis Carroll, Charles Willeford, Exra Pound, Dan Baum...

Also Finishing Touches by Thomas Tessier, A Bad Child's Book of Verse by Hilaire Belloc, House of Leaves; Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, Charlotte: Light & Dark, Time Enough for Love & Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein, American Tabloid by James Ellroy, Mr. Mike: The Life and Work of Michael O'Donoghue- the Man Who Made Comedy Dangerous by Dennis Perrin

FAVORITE GRAPHIC NOVELS

The Invisibles by Grant Morrison, Promethea by Alan Moore, The Incal by Alejandro Jodorowsky, The Minx by Peter Milligan, Doom Patrol by Grant Morrison, The Filth by Grant Morrison

FAVORITE JOURNAL

RE/Search series edited by V. Vale and Andrea Juno has been my favorite for a couple of decades now. The Industrial Culture Handbook expanded my ideas of what art could be and accomplish. Pranks! gave me a lot of ideas for fomenting mayhem. Incredibly Strange Films gave me a primer for the weirdest that cinema has ever offered.

OTHER FAVORITES

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, 1001 Arabian Nights, City by Clifford Simak, Hyperion by Dan Brown, A Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en, Tower of Myriad Mirrors by Tung Yueh, Dune novels by Frank Herbert, Principia Discordia, Amok Catalogue...

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Come, come, whoever you are.
Wanderer, idolater, worshipper of fire,
Come even though you have broken your vows a hundred times,
Come, and come yet again,
Ours is not a caravan of despair…

-Rumi


I am one of the founding members of two organizations: the first temple of the Moorish Orthodox Church of America in Texas (I hold the distinction of being "Arch Mullah of the Lone Star State" for this venerable religion), the Khalwat-i-Khidr; and the Hot Tub Mystery Religion. In 1997, I traveled to Amsterdam with associates to address the CESNUR conference on new religions on behalf of the Hot Tub Mystery Religion. I am radically ecumenical with interests in Sufism, Pagan folk festivals, Tantra, Hermetism, Taoism, psychedelic movements, mad science, pranks, DIY culture and ritual/ experimental music. My father's tales of the South Pacific gave me Utopian fever at an early age. I am a Master Mason. I wrote the concluding essay, on Dionysos, in the collection Three Myths of Gods, Devils & Beasts published by Pentaradial Press. My writing has appeared in Crash Collusion, The Moorish Science Monitor, Bust Down the Doors and Eat All the Chickens, etc. I edited two 'zines in the 1990s: The Eulessynian Hot Tub Mystery Religion and Macumba!

Soaking with friends, Experimentation, Entheogens, Radical Tolerance, Weird Music, Communal Camp-outs/ Burns, Rare Books, Eccentrics, Freak-outs, Sacred Monkeys. My favorite friends are those from whom I learn interesting, useful information and those who make me laugh uncontrollably.

Dogma, Extremism, Passive Living, Insularity, Dan Brown.