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ERIXWORX's Interests
General
Digitizing*. Reading. Music. the Mountains. Making people around me laugh. Goofy stuff. Eastern philosophies. the Woods. Geology. Aboriginal cultures. Space exploration/travel. Paganism. Live music. Northern Italian Rennaisance art/artists. Profound concepts. Military history. Lateral thinking. Weirdos. Discordianism. Breakbeats. Intellectual conversations. Ludicrous musings. Architecture. Photography. Blacksmithing. Jewelry making. Mysticism. Board/video/card Games. Laughing like a loon. Creative pursuits. Travel. Surreal moments. Body art. Cereal as a meal; any time of day. Stuff I like to do. Stuff I like to read. Stuff I like to watch. ...Did I mention sex?
*THAT'S digitizing; each feather sews individually, yet efficient needle pathing makes for minimal additional run time.
Music
Progressive or Nu-School or Dark or Funky or Chemical or Big Beat or Electro Breaks. Hard or Progressive or Tribal or Psychedelic Trance. Progressive or Funky or Acid or Deep or Hard House. Experimental, Trip-Hop, World Beat, Electrocore. Live PA's always the BEST!
ELECTRONIC MUSIC: Leftfield, Sasha & Digweed, Fluke, the Crystal Method, Rabbit in the Moon, Juno Reactor, Stone Lions, Adam Freeland, just about any Marine Parade breaks, Hardcore Beats DJs, Aut0b0ts, Duel Calibre, Crtl-Z & Screwface, General Midi, Junkie XL, Uberzone, Lostep, Boards of Canada, DJ Shadow, Infected Mushroom, Donald Glaude, Dust Bros., Chem. Bros., Gearwhore, Anti-Science, Malone, Depth Charge, Propellerheads, Twelvetrees, Fatboy Slim, Dastrix, Trickshot, Evil Nine, Jackyl & Hyde, PVD, Banco de Gaia, Breeder, U.N.K.L.E., James Lavelle, Massive Attack, Plump DJs, Bassnectar, Timo Maas, Omar Santana, DJ John Kelly, Bedrock, SpaceFish, Magnet Men, Primal Scream, MC Hawking, Thievery Corporation, Aaron Jae, etc.
DJ Lab'ratory, Josh Placid, Tweak, Bebop, Lost Monster, Electronic Performer, Mikey Parkay, Silas Maximus, Place & Kemp, and more
Classical- Prokofiev, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakoff, Dvorak, Franck, Holst, Stravinsky, Ravel, Beethoven's 6th, James Horner, and more
Classic Rock- 'Floyd, 'Stones, 'Zep, 'Dead, Blind Faith, Cream, Hendrix, Janis, Black Sabbath, the Who, AC/DC, etc.
Other-TOOL, Tabla Beat Science, Beck, Butthole Surfers, A Perfect Circle, some Widespread Panic, John Brown's Body (especially when seen live), Tom Waits, Killswitch Engage, Slayer, Rage against the machine, Bad Acid Tones, and more
SOUNDTRACKS- ...I don't go looking for soundtracks; I just have enough of them that they're demanding their own section Fight Club by Dust Brothers- track 16-'This is your life' co-written with the author of Fight Club & feat. Tyler Durden > London; first soundtrack produced by the Crystal Method; mostly TCM, but also other artists > Wipeout XL; yes, a video game soundtrack; SICK electronic lineup feat. Chem. Bros., Fluke, Leftfield, Underworld, Prodigy, etc. > Stark Raving Mad by John Digweed feat. Nick Muir, includes sound clips from film between tracks > Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; mostly period music by various artists, includes sound clips from film between tracks > Aliens by James Horner; instrumental > Last of the Mohicans by Randy Edelman & Trevor Jones; instrumental period music > Full Metal Jacket; period music by groups like the Dixie Cups and the Trashmen, instrumentals by Abigail Mead > Barry Lyndon; period instrumental music > Battle of Britain: period music, some instrumentals
Movies
I like comedies mostly, & odd stuff. 12 Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Where the Buffalo Roam, this is Spinal Tap, the Groove Tube, Waiting, 4 Rooms, Waking Life, Reservoir Dogs (beats Pulp Fiction any day of the week), Carpenter's remake of the Thing, Amazon Women on the Moon, Python's Life of Brian & Meaning of Life, a Scanner Darkly, Shaun of the Dead, Fight Club, Snatch/Lock Stock & 2 Smoking Barrels, This is Spinal Tap, Clerks/Mallrats, Strange Brew, UHF, Office Space, Saving Private Ryan, Orgazmo, Enemy at the Gates, Apocalypse Now, the Sting, Last of the Mohicans
Rotten movies, but great books: Starship Troopers, the Postman, too many more...
Television
KILL YOUR TELEVISION!!
...but I likes me some cartoons! Simpsons, Futurama, 'Guy, Adult Swim, the Tick(NOT the newer Disney version!), Venture Bros., Happy Tree Friends, Samurai Jack, etc. Ali G show, Scrubs, History Channel/Military Channel, some NOVA and Nat'l Geo.
Books
**See my blog titled 'the Book list' for what I'm reading, what I just finished, & how I liked 'em**
Military History and Sci-Fi short stories covers 90% of what I read. Favorite authors include the late, great Hunter S. Thompson, Wm. Gibson, David Brin, Vonnegut, Stanislaw Lem, Palahniuk, Bester, Br. Sterling, St. Ambrose, John Keegan, Mary Renault, Dave Barry, Tom Robbins. Poetry by Sassoon, Coleridge, Morrison. a partial list of some of my library
A short list of all-time favorites; the Player Piano, the Postman, Fight Club, Illuminatus! Trilogy, Principia Discordia, Stories from a Moron, Johnny Got His Gun, Catch-22, Bored of the Rings, Horrido!, Gates of Fire, Skinny Legs and all, Mother Night, Welcome to the Monkey House, Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, All Quiet on the Western Front, Our Dumb Century, Lord of the Flies, Iron Coffins, the Bat Bomb, 7 Roads to Hell: A Screaming Eagle at Bastogne, the Stars My Destination, Earth, the Tao of Physics, the Celestine Prophecy (crappy story, good 'insights'), Dragonbone Chair/Stone of Farewell/to Green Angel Tower, Night over day over night, King's Dark Tower series (though it got weaker and weaker in the last few books), the Stand, Imajica, Alas Babylon, Warday, the Tao of Pooh, Choke, the First and the Last, Stuka Pilot, the Forever War, Starship Troopers, Brave New World, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Hell's Angels, the Great Shark Hunt, Walden, Science Made Stupid, a Clockwork Orange (the full version), Farenheit 451, Bill the Galactic Hero series, JG-26 ...and this is the short version of the list!
Heroes
9-11-01 * F.D.N.Y. Kevin 'Radar' O. Reilly My favorite memory of Kevin shows just what kind of guy he was: While we were pledging the fraternity in which he was already a brother, he told our pledge class to come over one Sunday. Instead of treating us like pledges, he just wanted to sit around and get to know us as equals; we were treated like we were already brothers. I was shocked to learn of his passing, but the fact that he gave his life while saving others did not surprise me in the least.
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Anyone who has given their all in the cause of... Freedom, Creativity, Understanding, Education, Unity, Peace, Assisting those who are ill in body or mind, Relieving suffering, Feeding starving mouths, Helping those less fortunate, the list goes on...
Personal Heroes: The late, great...
George Carlin
Hunter S. Thompson
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Bill Hicks
Maynard J. Keenan, Sasha, Dave & Bunny of RITM, Donald Glaude, Ken & Scott of TCM, Perry Farrell, Tom Robbins,
GENERALS, LEADERS, SOLDIERS:
Rommel, Guderian, Boelcke, 'Star of Africa' Marseille, Hartmann, Galland, Tuskegee Airmen, Dick Bong, Alexander, Leonidas
OTHER: Da Vinci & Brunneleschi (more for their inventions than for their art), Aristotle, Copernicus, Gallileo, Brock Samson, Kilgore Trout, Dr. Paul Proteus, Sideshow Bob, Earthworm Jim, Greebo...
THE SHORT VERSION: Was a digitizer for machine embroidery, and damn good at it; it's foolish to define yourself by what you do to pay the bills, but it's something I was passionate about. Now I'm a tattoo apprentice, years after the first time I was offered a spot as an apprentice. Doubt anyone's going to mind perfectionistic traits in their tat artist.
I'm weird and wouldn't have it any other way, there's no LEASH LAW for the IMAGINATION. Leave the mind free to wander, music moves me, I'm blunt, I can fold beautiful cranes into small squares of paper and twist animals into the shapes of balloons, I'mimaginative, earthy, eccentric, creative, thoughtful, I cherish the surreal... THE LONG VERSION: I'll fill this out later, after I've invented lots of cool stuff to say that I've done. Until then, I can be investigated more thoroughly through the following links- ABOUT ME MY ART MY (electronic) MUSIC MY BOOKS "THE MASS OF MEN LEAD LIVES OF QUIET DESPERATION" -Thoreau
"I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over.
Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center."
-Kurt Vonnegut
"THINK FOR YOURSELF; QUESTION AUTHORITY!" -Leary "HE'S WRONG; YOU'RE WRONG; THE WHOLE DAMN SYSTEM IS WRONG!!" -L.S. "WHEN THE GOING GETS WEIRD, THE WEIRD TURN PRO"-H.S.T. "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" -Ben Franklin "Hey, you know something people? I'm not black, but there's a whole lotta times I wish I could say I'm not white"-Zappa
"IMAGINATION IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN KNOWLEDGE"-Einstein
"When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." -Lewis
"MUST CRUSH CAPITALISM!" -zombie Lenin "STOP BITCHING AND START A REVOLUTION"-Zendik
"WOULD YOU SAY THAT YOUR GLASS IS HALF EMPTY OR HALF FULL?
Half empty. My journey isn't over yet. I still have so much to fill in my glass! :) " -Michiko
"I believe in birth, copulation and death, although copulation embodies the other two, and death is only a form of borning. Someday I shall die. Today, I think I'll copulate." -Amanda (Tom Robbins)
"I don't need a why, I'm an artist: I just need a what & a how!" -me "...Embrace this moment. Remember. we are eternal.
all this pain is an illusion." -TOOL
"What are YOU to ME?"-UNKLE
"We have given nothing as long as we have not given everything"- WWI French 'Ace of Aces' Guynemer
"I believe in nothing; everything is sacred. I believe in everything; nothing is sacred."
One more thing; if you are motivated by money, purchase things for their perceived status value, think wearing the latest fashions is important, spend a lot of time shopping in malls, just had to go out and get the latest _____ (unless it's an album or book), harbor secret little hopes that people think you're 'trendy', or are similarly mentally crippled, you have my pity. now GO AWAY!! before I smite thee with a blunt object, for you and the Apathetic Hordes are my sworn enemies...
all scrolling images above are samples of my work
Who I'd like to meet:
Maynard from TOOL, or Sasha. I've met Bunny a couple of times, so I'd like to meet Dave.
Stranger-than-usual strangers, anyone who can tap that creative energy and honestly express what their particular vibe is trying to say through them, and does so for expression's sake not for other rea$on$, those who see that consumerism is a loser's game, those who recognize that the status quo SUCKS, those for whom the stereotypical American dream is a nightmare, those willing to follow their heart or their dreams through whatever lies between themselves and fulfillment...
Yeah...I know life can be crazy, but you have to push through all the crap. Believe me...I am all of a sudden a step-mom of 2, 2 mortgage carryin', boyfriend with a root canal coming with no money or insurance havin', dog and cat owner with friends that I never see and probably hate me It is all worth it in the end...Keep your head up. Hope all gets better.
