Banging Bibliography

"Dead Tree Media," Review of The Oldest History of the World in Real Detroit Weekly, 28 Aug - 3 September, 2002. Page 29.

A Year at the Movies: One Man's Filmgoing Odyssey. Kevin Murphy (a/k/a Tom Servo of Mystery Science Theatre 3000), Harper-Collins, New York, 2002. Page 221.

"'People Just Want to See Something': Art, Death, and Document in Blair Witch, The Last Broadcast, and Paradise Lost." Sarah L. Highley in Nothing That Is: Milennial Cinema and the Blair Witch Controversies. ed. Sarah L. Highley and Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock. Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 2003. Page 97-98.

"Butch-Femme Interpreted: Angelina Jolie, Bisexuality and the New Butch Femme." Cristina Stasia in Bisexuality and Transgenderism: InterSEXions of the Others, ed. Jonathan Alexander and Karen Yescavage. Huntington Park Press, Birmingham, NY, 2003. Page 196.

'Gold Tried in the Fire': The Prophet TheaurauJohn Tany and the English Revolution, Ariel Hessayon. Ashgate Publishing Limited, Hampshire, England, 2007. Page 13.

"The Mormon Factor" in The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 7, 2007.

Oddly Selected Publications

"Satanists are not always what you expect," with Andrew Harrison. Washington Square News, March 3rd 1998.

Dumbass and the Fag. Independent website, 2000-2002. Defunct. With various accomplices.

A "radical" and apparently influential approach to film criticism: bad language and catholicity of taste.

The Oldest History of the World as Discovered by Occult Science in Detroit, Michigan. Benny Evangelist. Edited with an introduction by Jarett Kobek. Resurrectionary Press: 2001.

A reprint of the original 1926 edition. [Find in a local library] [Available as PDF here.]

TheaurauJohn Speaks! The Collected Work of Thomas Tany 1649-1655, editor. Resurrectionary Press, Providence, RI: 2003.

Being a definitive sourcebook of materials diverse & sundry on Tany, an English Interregnum religious radical and self-proclaimed High Priest to the Jews.

"Cracked X-Mas with the Trevor Project," Hollywood Covered, December 2006, cover story. Los Angeles, CA.

"May My End a Warning Be: Catherine Eddowes and Gallows Literature in the Black Country." Casebook.org original dissertation, 2007.

Cultural archeology; possible discovery of gallows literature linked to canonical victim of the criminal commonly identified as Jack the Ripper. [link]

Sundries

Collaborative Research Grant, "African-American Esotericism," American Academy of Religion, 2002-03. With Stephen Prothero.

Babylon/Baghdad: Five Fire Shards of Saddam. Semina series proposal for Book Works of London. Shortlisted. 2008.

Seriously Mixed Media

AMBERGRIST, 2004. 2:30. Animation/CG.

American History as witnessed by the character Heiho from Nintendo's Super Mario Bros 2. (It was 2004.)

Tangle Eyed Blues, 2006. 52 seconds.

Finalist, Hall Farm Center, 52 Second Film Festival. [Viewable here.]

I Proclaim [1968], 2006-7. 6mins. 16mm/digital.

Score by Kaia Wong. Shot with a hand-wound WWII newsreel camera on Tortola and Virgin Gorda.
 

The Johnny Khalud Cycle, 2007. Four shorts. Digital.

Exploration of Theme and Variation via Youtube. Shot on pocket sized camera; scored with stolen music. Starring Arafat Kazi, the one-time best drummer in Bangladesh.
 
 
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