Esoteric Strand

Originally from Fresno, California. Inspirations come from a wide array of sources: nature, faith, fatherhood, the occult, mythology, pop culture and Italian horror movies.

GENERAL LIKES:
Black Humor/ B-movies/ Busty Babes (natural)/ CAPCOM/ Carnivals/ Cathari/ Christmas/ Dark Rides/ Demonic Possession/ Demonology/ Disneyland/ Divination/ Dystopia/ Esotericism/ Exorcisms/ Germanic Paganism/ Ghost Towns/ Gnosticism/ Go Nagai/ Halloween/ HORROR/ Indo-European Studies/ Kitsch/ Mithraic Mysteries/ Motel and Hotels with darks pasts/ Mysticism/ Mythology/ Odinism/ Poetic Eddas/ Poetry/ Politics/ Pop-Culture/ Pugilism/ Stand-up/ Supernatural/ The Beach/ The Bible/ The Desert/ The Occult/ Theosophy/ Trash Culture/ Trash TV/ Video Games/ Eric Stanton art/ Toshio Saeki art/Mizuno art/ Suda 51/

GENERAL MUSIC LIKES:
Post-Punk, New Wave, Industrial, Gothic, Punk, Heavy Metal, Black Metal, Progressive Metal, Electronic, Experimental, Noise, Brit-pop, Shoegaze, Dream Pop, Post-Rock, Garage, Neo-folk, Girl-Groups, Witch-House...SPECIFIC: Cocteau Twins/ Therion/ Nick Cave And the Bad Seeds/ Siouxsie And the Banshees/ The Cure/ Opeth/ Merzbow/ The Virgin Prunes/ Suede/ The Afghan Whigs/ Autechre/ The Sword/ Knife/ Fever Ray/ CAN/ Crystal Castles/ Chromeo/ Oh No Ono/ Grails/ Cabaret Voltaire/ The Doves/ The Emeralds/ Ennio Morricone/ Gonjasufi/ How To Dress Well/ John Zorn and John Zorn related projects/ Scott Walker/ Current 93/ Coil/ Death In June/ Sol Invictus/ Nurse With Wound/ Blonde Redhead/ Lykke Li/ Warpaint/ Black Breath

GENERAL MOVIE LIKES:
Alien, Apocalypse Now, Black Orpheus, Bladerunner, Bloodsport, Blue Velvet, Die Die My Darling!, Faster Pussycat Kill Kill, Fistfull Of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, I Eat Your Skin, Inferno, Lawrence Of Arabia, Lost Highway, No Country For Old Men, Orphan, Sexy Beast, Snatch, The Amityville Horror (orig.), The Believer, The Big Lebowski, The Changling, The Good, the Bad And the Ugly, The Hitcher, The House With the Laughing Windows, The Howling 2, The Ring, The Shining, The Strangers, The Swimming Pool, Funny Games, The Watchmen, Zoolander, Deep Red, Inferno, Suspiria, anything by Argento, Lynch, Miike, anything Film Noir, Exploitation, Sexploitation, Pam Grier, Mystery Thrillers, Horror, Lifetime Movies

GENERAL AUTHORS:
anything by Victor Davis Hanson, Haruki Murakami, Byron, Christina Rossetti, Baudelaire, Cummings, Grimms Fairytales, Oscar Wilde, Helena Blavatsky, John Milton, William Blake, Jonah Goldberg, Thomas Sowell, Niall Ferguson, Greg Gutfeld, James Ellroy

TV:
Red Eye, Damages, Chicago Code, TMZ, Fashion Police, Chelsea Lately, Boxing, Mixed Martial Arts, ID Channel, Glenn Beck, Jon Stewart