Jonathan

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Gender Male
Location Gresham, OR, United States
Introduction Adalbert is a forum for me, to post ephemera, photography, poetry, occasional travel notes, and various spontaneous motions. Cover photo: Parsonage where my great-grandfather spent his early years. Taken near Liegnitz, Silesia, ca. 1870. The "xothique" portion of the web address is a nod to Clark Ashton Smith's fictional continent of Zothique.
Interests World War II, World War I, travel, Buddhism, photography, H.P. Lovecraft, history, film, horror, science fiction, postcards, genealogy, pierogis, surrealism, Sherlock Holmes, literature, shamanism.
Favorite Movies Werner Herzog, Magick Lantern Cycle, Kenneth Anger, Sergio Leone, Wim Wenders, Bergman, Stanley Kubrick, Eyes Wide Shut, Full Metal Jacket, Dr. Strangelove, Paths of Glory, David Lynch, Blue Velvet, Eraserhead, Drugstore Cowboy, Gus Van Sant, Natural Born Killers, Vampyr, Tarkovsky, Taxi Driver, Apocalypse Now, George Melies, Maya Deren, The Wild Bunch, The Searchers, A Clockwork Orange, The Amazing Transparent Man, The Last Man on Earth, 3000 Miles to Graceland, High Noon, The Devil's Rain.
Favorite Music Bruckner, Wagner, Schubert, Beethoven, Velvet Underground, the Pogues, Scriabin, Jimi Hendrix, the Doors, J.S. Bach, Satie, Shostakovich, Gustav Mahler, Grieg, Sibelius, Kraftwerk, Schoenberg, Patti Smith, Conlon Nancarrow, John Cage, Popol Vuh, Faust, Can.
Favorite Books Wolf Solent, John Cowper Powys, H.P. Lovecraft, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Edgar Allan Poe, Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad, Trask, Don Berry, The Short- Timers, The Phantom Blooper, Gustav Hasford, William S. Burroughs, Lautreamont, Rimbaud, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, Georg Trakl, Colin Wilson, Clark Ashton Smith, Mishima Yukio, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, M.P. Shiel, William Hope Hodgson, Lord Dunsany, Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Herman Melville, Jorge Luis Borges, Lafcadio Hearn, Kafka, Ambrose Bierce, J.G. Ballard, Philip K. Dick, Graham Greene, George Sterling, Ursula K. Le Guin, Hermann Hesse, Jack Kerouac, Gerard de Nerval, August Strindberg, Baudelaire.