INTP, just like Isaac Newton.

Artist/painter with a music degree and a penchant for rotating among a cast of favorite vocations.

Painting, weaving, organizing records, alchemy. Managing my relationship with my inbred cat.

NY Times crossword puzzles, critical thinking, quantitative analysis. An apparently random, wildly fluctuating train of thought that veers and twists hither and yon before coming back home with a recapitulating and integrative sense-making, usually. A mix of right and left brain.

Music:

African Head Charge
Bernard Parmegiani
The Shelor Family
Lee Scratch Perry
Giancarlo Toniutti
Lurker of Chalice
Stefan Niculescu
Joan La Barbara
Olivier Messiaen
La Monte Young
Morton Feldman
Pierre Schaeffer
Gordon Mumma
David Behrman
Eliane Radigue
Iannis Xenakis
Francois Bayle
Laurie Spiegel
Giacinto Scelsi
Terence Dixon
Angus Maclise
Andrew Chalk
Robert Ashley
Max Mathews
Gerard Grisey
King Crimson
Gyorgy Ligeti
Amon Duul II
Tony Conrad
Silver Apples
Robert Hood
Pierre Henry
Circuit Rider
Bill Fontana
Brion Gysin
The Locust
Tim Hecker
Bad Brains
Luc Ferrari
John Cage
Terry Riley
Hawkwind
23 Skidoo
Sunn O)))
Ivo Malec
Arvo Part
Moondog
Rare Bird
Stooges
The Fall
Sun Ra
Swans
Factrix
Eleh
Can
Yes

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Non-fiction: Wilhelm Reich, Elaine Pagels, George Lakoff - generally science/religion/psychology/esoterica.

Fiction: the holy trinity of Bukowski, Fante, and Hamsun.

Philip K. Dick.

A few personal heroes: William S. Burroughs (who wrote me a letter once); Austin Osman Spare (no letters from him); my high school teacher (in the brief and sporadic periods I spent in this mostly wasted and corrupt American institution before going directly to college - even then I could only tolerate a small alternative school that taught a heavy dose of 80s-era feminism [unfortunate, mostly] and "real" history [fortunate]; yes this is still a parenthetical statement) who had a very long beard and graciously shared his acerbic sense of humor, healthy cynicism and skepticism, strong sense of self-love, and a nuanced and self-determined view of what it means to be a man; this old spiritualist woman I met as a teen and still think about regularly - she was, by far, the most genuinely spiritual person I have ever met; the aforementioned Wilhelm Reich and Elaine Pagels.

Pasolini, Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage.

You, of course, and the five cookies you're going to give me.

Breaking things into parts for analysis.

Hopefully at my studio, or at home.

I have an intimacy fetish.