Erich Kuersten
- Gender: Male
- Astrological Sign: Pisces
- Industry: Religion
- Occupation: Academic Advisor, freelance writer/editor/filmmaker
- Location: NYC
About Me
is a self-reflexive audio-didact, psychonaut, filmmaker, writer and faux-sadist; he lives in NYC.
Interests
- the arcane
- insanity
- soothsaying
- sociology
- psycho-analysis
- Lacanian theory
- Jung
- the dark
- the light
- cinema
- love
- love
- love
Favorite Movies
- The Big Sleep (1941)
- The Thing (1951)
- Science of Sleep
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Heavenly Creatures
- Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
- Night of the Hunter
- Night of the Iguana
- Dracula (1931)
- Freaks
- Over the Edge
- Spider Baby
- Rio Bravo
- Mulholland Drive
- Persona
- Contempt
- Shanghai Express
- Psych-Out
- Smiles of a Summer Night
- Shoot the Piano Player
- Pierrot Le Fou
- Margot at the Wedding
- There Will Be Blood
- Planet Terror
- Darling
- Long Day's Journey Into Night
- Last Tango in Paris
- I Heart Huckabees
- They Live By Night
- Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
- Elvis: That's The Way It Is
- Klondike Annie
- Kiss Me Deadly
- Out of the Past
- Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
- Let's Scare Jessica to Death
- China Seas
- Hud
- Gladys
- the Groovy Mule!
Favorite Music
- Stars of the Lid
- P.J. Harvey
- Coco Rosie
- Neil Young
- Marc Bolan
- Rolling Stones
- Charles Mingus
- Moonbabies
- Sonny Rollins
- Blind Blake
- Jimi Hendrix
- Bob Dylan
- Lou Reed
- The Green Fields
- Cat Power
- Marlene Dietrich
Favorite Books
- Authors: Robin Wood
- Manny Farber
- Kim Newman
- Camille Paglia
- Joseph Campbell
- Molly Haskell
- Pauline Kael
- James Agee
- Slavoj Zizek
- Jung
- Terence McKenna
- Daniel Pinchbeck
- Shelly Jackson
- Samantha Hunt
- Sarah Manguso
