Erich Kuersten
- Gender: Male
- Astrological Sign: Pisces
- Industry: Education
- Occupation: Academic Advisor, freelance writer/editor/filmmaker
- Location: East Village, NYC : United States
About Me
is a voiceover artist, writer and gentlemen, he contributes to Bright Lights Film Journal, the Daily Om and has written for Scarlet Street, McSweeneys, Midnight Marquee, VHJ, Popmatters, The New Times, Modern Drunkard and the Decadent Handbook (Daedalus, 2006).
Interests
- the arcane knowledge
- Lacan
- Freud
- Jungian psychology
- hokum blues
- psychoanalysis
- Stockholm syndrome
- the dark
- cinema
- love
- love
- love
- monsters
- UFOs
- pre-code cinema
- ghosts and the supernatural
- 1970s culture
- hedonism
- Paris 68
- drug culture
- LSD
- Monsters of the Id
- Science fiction
- old radio shows
- helping others and living as far outside the box as nature permits
Favorite Movies
- The Big Sleep (1941)
- The Thing (1951)
- They Live By Night
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Heavenly Creatures
- Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
- Night of the Hunter
- Night of the Iguana
- Night of the... something. I don't know
- Pass
- next: Dracula (1931)
- Freaks
- Over the Edge
- Spider Baby
- Rio Bravo
- Mulholland Drive
- Freeway
- Persona
- Contempt
- Shanghai Express
- Psych-Out
- Pierrot Le Fou
- Margot at the Wedding
- There Will Be Blood
- Darling
- Long Day's Journey Into Night
- Last Tango in Paris
- I Heart Huckabees
- 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
- All that Jazz
- One-Way Ticket
- Jewel Robbery
- Dawn of the Dead (either version)
- Gimme Shelter
- Baby Face
- Macbeth (the Welles version)
- The Lady in Red
- Ghosts of Mars
- The Undead (1957)
- Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 37
Favorite Music
- Stars of the Lid
- Coco Rosie
- T. Rex
- Rolling Stones
- Charles Mingus
- Sonny Rollins
- Blind Blake
- Jimi Hendrix
- Bob Dylan
- Lou Reed
- Marlene Dietrich
- The Jealous Girlfriends
- Johnny Cash
- Stereolab
- Elk City
- Will Greene
- Charles Manson
- Johnny Cash
- Warren Zevon
- Lee Hazlewood
- Ennio Morricone
- Neil Diamond
Favorite Books
- Authors: Robin Wood
- Manny Farber
- Michael Atkinson
- 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
- Kim Morgan
