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Sinning.

OLD MOVIES ; Mythology ( Celtic, Norse, and our Native American Cousins) ; Alternative Gardening: Carnivorous Plants, Poppies (Somniferum); The Abyss of Divine Enjoyment ; Satire ; Marlene Dietrich ; Louise Brooks ; Iggy & The Stooges; Cats ; Parapsychology ; Hauntings, Castles, Magic, )O( The Goddess; The Olde Religion, Fortitude, Peace, Understanding; Words (Both spoken and unspoken); Symbolism ; La Hojé de Coca. Also 70s Dub Reggae. And Opium. 'Opium leads the organism towards death in euphoric mood.The tortures arise from the process of returning to life against one's wish.'

20s Silents, Louise Brooks; 30s Love Goddesses, Dietrich, Garbo; 40s Bogart ( Big Sleep, Casablanca, Maltese Falcon ) and Film-Noir; Avant-Garde / Alternative, James Whale, Todd Browning : 'Narcotic', 'Freaks' 'Dracula' (Bela Lugosi) , 'Bride Of Frankenstein' 'The Blue Angel' 'Pandora's Box', 'The Night Porter' 'Performance' 'Velvet Goldmine' 'Carnival Of Souls' 'The Haunting' 'Novembermoon' 'Confessions Of An Opium Eater' 'The Wicker Man' 'The Company Of Wolves' 'Leon' 'Lenny' 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' 'Lady Sings The Blues' 'Cabaret' 'Pulp Fiction' 'The Man With The Golden Arm' 'Donnie Darko' 'Dead Again' 'Mulholland Drive' etc, Anger, Dali / Bunuel;Currently, just certain individual films...actually a lot of them... 'Jesus? This Is Iggy'; Lou Reed 'Berlin Live', 'Born To Lose', 'Blank Generation' 'What About Me?' SOUTH PARK 'Imagination Land' Ha Ha!!...part this channel, certain others... Tradgedy:Frances Farmer.Comedy: Lenny Bruce, Bill Hicks, Eddie Izzard.

(original)Velvets;STOOGES; Iggy Pop Solo 74-78...Dolls and the usual associated;Richard Hell and the usual associated ,Ramones, T.Rex '70-'73, Alice Cooper '70-'73, Stones '67-'71; Early Sex Pistols,Banshees,Slits;all the 'indefinable'P*nk era 76/77-Exciting times!Also Lee Perry,King Tubby and OnUsoundS( Store In Dangerous Dubs Cabinet ).( Did I mention Blues? That just about scratches the surface ).

Depends which mind I'm in.Obviously, Burroughs, Hunter S.Thompson and the usual associated,NOT Kerouac; E.A.Poe, Baudelaire...The Romantics: Wordsworth, Coleridge, De Quincey ('Confessions Of An English Opium Eater'); Burns, Yeats; Robert Graves 'The White Goddess'. Now:'I Need More' Iggy Pop (Yeah...again; I came across it once more...HaHa!), 'Mama Coca' Antonil, 'The Fairie Faith In Celtic Countries', W.Y.Evans-Wentz; 'The Borders' Alistair Moffat, ' Finding Merlin ' Adam Ardrey (''Merlin was a real historical figure, a champion of the old way of the Druids; a man who hailed NOT from England or Wales as traditional wisdom would have it, but from SCOTLAND '' ) 'From The Ilsles Of Dreams', John Matthews; 'Deirdre Of The Sorrows', 'Gawain And The Green Knight' 'Black Elk Speaks: The Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux' ,'Hollywood Babylon' Kenneth Anger (again..),'Louise Brooks-Portrait Of An Anti-Star'-ed by Roland Jaccard, Sylvia Plath, Angela Carter, Anais Nin, 'The End Of Mr.Y.' Scarlett Thomas (If you knew a book was cursed, would you read it? ), 'Myths And Legends Of The Celtic Race' T.W. Rolleston, 'The Fireside Book Of Death' Ray Wilkins,(fascinating); 'The Pocket Book Of Death' M.Reilly and J.Tempest (Hilarious, an irrevend look at the 'big one'...) 'The Directory Of Possibilities' Colin 'The Outsider' Wilson, John Grant et al, 'High Society:Mind Altering Drugs In History And Culture' Mike Jay, 'Opium For The Masses ' Jim Hogshire, 'Opium' Cocteau, 'Dope Girls' Marek Kohn, 'Alice In Wonderland' Lewis Carroll, 'Wonderland Avenue' Danny Sugerman, 'Artificial Paradises' ( not Baudelaire; the Anthology,ed. Mike Jay, Penguin books, ) 'How To Talk Dirty And Influence People' Lenny Bruce, 'Open Up And Bleed', Paul Trynka...IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS IGGY STOOGE...