ButchDandy

General

I like to play chess, work on my website, work on my writing and music, and go on really long walks outside (I can easily walk 6-10 miles a day if I go for it). I'm also a big nerd and love using emacs.

Music

Some of my favorite Artists Include

• Alice Coltrane (Check out Om Supreme)
• Sun Ra (Check out the movie he's in Space is The Place, its a trip)
• Pansy Division
• Olivier Messiaen (I've actually played some of his works)
• Aphex Twin
• Kikuo (My favorite Vocaloid Producer)
• The Hirs Collective
• Pauline Oliveros (Check Out Madame Butterfly by her)
• Kaija Saariaho (Check Out Circle Map)
• Kate Soper (Check Out the Killing Jar it changed my brain chemistry forever
• Olly Wilson (Sometimes for Tenor and Tape is an incredible experience
• Pamela Z (Bone Music is really powerful)

Movies

Some of my fav movies include

• Crash 1996 dir. Cronenberg
• Cabinet of Dr Kaligari
• 8 1/2 dir Federico Fellini
• The Wailing dir. Na Hong-jin
• Eraserhead dir. David Lynch
• Space is the Place 1974
• Ikiru 1952 dir. Akira Kurosawa
• Throne Of Blood dir. Akira Kurosawa (Shakespeare Adaptation)
• Paprika

Television

Some of my fav tv series:

• Hannibal (I'm an enormous fan of this series)
• Revolutionary Girl Utena (My all time favorite anime)
• Dungeon Meshi (Its so good)

Books

Some of my fav books that have impacted me alot are:

• Narcissus and Goldmund by Herman Hesse
• Gay Spirit ed. Mark Thompson
• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
• Every essay by James Baldwin that he wrote (and the ones he didn't. If you haven't check out his speeches he was a powerful speaker)
• Attack with Mikhail Tal
• Writing Down the Bones Natalie Goldberg
• The Illuminatus Trilogy (The most wild ride of a book I ever read)
• F-slur and their friends between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell (Dunno if I can put the actual word here so I'll err on the side of caution. A really powerful book on gay rights and myth making and solidarity
• Liber Null and Psychonaut by Peter Carroll (Very Helpful book on magick)
• Against Equality: Queer Revolution not Mere Inclusion

Heroes

Some of my biggest heroes are

• Bayard Rustin
• Audre Lorde
• James Baldwin
• Thomas Sankara
• The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence

SoundCloud

@nova_ray

Website

butchdandy.neocities.org