Brian Conniffe
My blogs
Interests | Magick, lucid dreaming, cats, hypnagogic and hypnopompic states, menstruation and womens health issues, kabbalah, nlp, hypnosis, tarot, psychoactive substances, tantra, sexuality, cults, synchronicity, detuned radios, absinthe, feminism, dancing, spiders, girls wearing glasses, the smell vanilla, red wine, seafood, Indian food, dim lighting, cds skipping in public places, garlic, snakes, tape hiss and warped cassettes, chocolate, the sound of rain, polyrhythms, objects that creak and things that squeak, fog, snow, any and all music that is peculiar and weird, the sea, drones. |
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Favorite movies | Ghost World (dir. Terry Zwigoff), Irreversible, Seul Contre Tous (dir. Gaspar Noe), Time Bandits (dir. Terry Gilliam), Jan Svankmajer: all (esp. Alice), Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party (dir. William Friedkin), Finding Nemo + The Incredibles, Life of Brian (Monty Python), Monty Python and The Holy Grail, Threads (dir. Mick Jackson), Derek Jarman: all (esp. TG Psychic Rally In Heaven + The Art of Mirrors), Mulholland Drive + Fire Walk With Me + Eraserhead (dir. David Lynch), A Clockwork Orange, The Tenant + Repulsion (dir. Roman Polanski), Whitnail and I (dir. Bruce Robinson), Un Chien Andalou, L'age D'or, The Exterminating Angel, Simon Of The Desert (dir. Luis Bunuel), La Grande Bouffe, After Cease To Exist (Coum Transmissions), First Transmission (TOPY), Lumb's Sister, Young Adam, Adaptation, Zeitgeist, The Piano Teacher. The Prisoner, Brass Eye, Jam, The Day Today, Family Guy, Twin Peaks, Father Ted, Fawlty Towers, Black Books (series 1), I'm Alan Partridge (series 1) + Knowing Me Knowing You, Strangers With Candy, GBH, Frasier, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The League Of Gentlemen, The Office (american and british versions), The Singing Detective, Louis Theroux, Derren Brown, Robot Chicken, Buffy The Vampire Slayer. |
Favorite music | Nurse With Wound, Coil, King Tubby, Throbbing Gristle, Cyclobe, Whitehouse, Beethoven, The Congos, Labradford, Can, Chris Carter, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Mirror, The Threshold Houseboys Choir, Ora, Andrew Chalk, Aube, Christoph Heemann, John Fahey, Duke Ellington, Nina Simone, Paul Robeson, Monos, Faust, Brainticket, Captain Beefheart, Aaliyah, Current 93, Missy Elliott, Patrick Cowley, Mulatu Astatke, Sugababes, DJ /Rupture, Djivan Gasparyan, Comus, Robert Ashley, Stina Nordenstam, Bernard Parmegiani, Holgar Czukay, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Alvin Lucier, Cromagnon, The Hafler Trio, Cannibal Ox, Irr. App. (Ext.), John Duncan, Taraf De Haidouks, Perez Prado, Sun Ra, Funkadelic, Master Musicians Of Jajouka, Frank Zappa, X Ray Spex, Elaine Radigue, Ligeti, Sand, Andrew Liles, Darren Tate, The Residents, KLF, Julee Cruise, voodoo ritual music, Langley Schools Music Project, armenian liturgical chants, Amm, RJD2, Amon Tobin, tibetan monastic music, Jonathan Coleclough, Mnortham, Chrystal Belle Scrodd, Fovea Hex, Organum, Luc Ferrari, Leonard Cohen, Tod Dockstader, Queen, Nettle, traditional japanese music, C-Schulz, sufi traditional music, balinese traditional music, John Dowland, Carlo Gesualdo, Lady Sovereign, african possession ritual music, Essential Logic, Angelo Badalamenti, Ennio Morricone, Carter Tutti, Oum Kalthoum, Maurizio Bianchi, Joi, Tweet, Consumer Electronics, Matmos, John Cage, Kronos Quartet, Moondog, Stockhausen, The Ceramic Hobs, Ramleh ('90s), Daniel Menche, Jean-Francois Laporte, Hans Reichel, The Broken Penis Orchestra, Russell Haswell, Come, Maja Ratkje, The Gerogerigegege, Andreas Martin, Supersister, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, J. S. Bach, Basil Kirchin. |
Favorite books | Flann O Brien: entire works (esp. The Third Policeman). Twiggs Jameson: Billy and Betty. William Blake: entire works (esp. Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Songs of Innocence and Experience). Aleister Crowley: entire works (esp. Magick: Liber ABA, Thoth, Book of Lies). Comte de Lautremont: Maldoror. Russell Hoban: Riddley Walker. William S. Burroughs: The Cat Inside, The Job, Cities Of The Red Night, The Place Of Dead Roads. B. Kliban: Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head. Jhonen Vasquez: Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Squee. Thomas Ligotti: Songs of a Dead Dreamer. Lewis Carroll: Alice in Wonderland. Bill Butler: The Definitive Tarot. Marquis de Sade: 120 Days of Sodom. Daniel Pinchbeck: Breaking Open The Head. Richard Bandler and John Grinder: Trance-formations, Frogs Into Princes, The Structure Of Magic, An Insider's Guide To Submodalities. Alexander and Ann Shulgin: PIHKAL and TIHKAL. Penelope Shuttle and Peter Redgrove: The Wise Wound - menstruation and everywoman. Unknown: Blowfly Girl. "Anna K": anorexic-rec diary. Durbeen Tarfloe: Emaciated, S.W.U.C. David Woodard: The Ketamine Necromance. e.e. cummings: collected poetry. Melissa Musser: PrettyGirlsContest. John Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy Of Dunces. Alan Moore: V For Vendetta, From Hell. John Grey: Straw Dogs. Andrea Dworkin: Pornography. Peter Sotos: Tick, Lazy, Selfish Little. Marya Hornbacher: Wasted (A Memoir Of Anorexia And Bulimia). August Strindberg: Inferno / From An Occult Diary. Louis Aragon: Irene's Cunt. Anais Nin: Little Birds. James Joyce: Finnegan's Wake. John Fowles: The Magus. Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness. J. G. Ballard: The Atrocity Exhibition. Francis King: Sexuality, Magic and Perversion. Henry Miller: Tropic Of Cancer. Norman Mailer: The Executioners Song. Hermann Hesse: Siddhartha. |