[UA] My own list of sources

[Jared Sorensen]

> Your local news and newspapers: Especially if you live in a middling big
> city, there's plenty of tales of man's inhumanity to man available daily. 

"man arrested for having sex with a chain link fence"  amen, brother.

my tastes run a little different than most of y'all...i tend to avoid
mysticism and magick in favor of body-horror and cyberpunk
aesthetic...anyway:

cronenberg:  telepaths, clairvoyants, car crash fetishists, drug addicts,
manic-depressive twin gynacologists, vampiric auxillary phalluses...what
more can i say?  scanners is his most accessible film (a secret war
amongst a group of telepaths) while videodrome is the movie that fits in
well in the UnAverse.  look for: disease as transfiguration, clinically
detached film-making and really disturbing conceptual fx.  his new movie,
existenz, is about game designers...whoa!

cronos:  an alchemist creates a clockwork device with a sinister purpose.
interesting in how it juxtaposes magickal happenings with the normal lives
of a kindly old man and his granddaughter. highly recommended! in spanish

tetsuo: iron man and tetsuo: body hammer:  both films are bizarre as hell,
featuring a thoroughly mundane sarariman's descent into a nightmare of
violent mutation and bloody metal.  very strange, noisy eye candy.  you
know...for kids! japanese

the films of takeshi "beat" kitano:  a japanese super-star who has made
some of the grittiest, strangest crime movies i've ever seen.  his acting
is spare to the extreme (his face is almost totally paralyzed from a
motorcycle accident) and despite the fact that he writes and directs his
films, he hardly has any lines.  useful to ua players in how it portrays
violence and those with hardened checks.  fireworks and sonatine are
beautiful, sparse and violent films that i highly recommend.  i also
recommend gonin for his role as a gay hitman (the movie itself is really
bizarre...just see it and you'll KNOW what i'm talking about). japanese

spawn (hbo animated series):  furious action and magickal stuff to boot.
plug in any ua terminology you'd like...it's dark, gritty and fun to
watch.

BTW, if anyone can point me to sites with info. re: the hunger series that
aired on showtime, PLEASE LET ME KNOW!  i'm working on a new school of
magick and am interested in the episode that features a chinese-american
chef and his obsessive quest for the ultimate dish.

oh yeah, buffy rocks.

Jared A. Sorensen
http://www.memento-mori.com

"I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just
some stupid things that people shouldn't do. " - David Cronenberg