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Erich Kuersten

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About me

Gender	MALE
Industry	Education
Occupation	critic / advisor / "wise" man
Location	Brooklyn, New York, United States
Links	Audio Clip
Introduction	Gonzo-theorist, film and music critic, crypto-Jungian, editor of The Acidemic Journal of Film and Media, with work appearing in: Bright Lights Film Journal, Popmatters, Slashfood, McSweeney's, Slant, and the Daily Om. Also (in print): The Decadent Handbook, Scarlet Street, and Midnight Marquee. Films include the awards-skipping Queen of Disks, The Lacan Hour, Drunkards of Borneo, and the "Shortcuts to Enlightenment" series - Come on and write to him! Erichk9@aol.com and/or ekuerste@pratt.edu
Interests	Jungian archetypal psychology, alcohol, recovery, counterculture cinema, psychedelics, classic movies, pre-code Hollywood, Lacan, Freud, eastern spirituality, ancient aliens, 1970s pop culture, sexual revolution, film history, alcoholism, astral travel, drug addiction, 80s punk rock, film criticism, World War Two, art house cinema, feminism, Studlar's masochistic spectator theory
Favourite Films	Over the Edge, The Big Sleep (1941), Scarface (1932), The Thing (1951), The Lady Eve, His Girl Friday, Shanghai Express, International House (1933), Night of the Iguana, Dracula (1931), Rio Bravo, El Dorado, Red River, Old Dark House (1932), Pierrot Le Fou, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Dr. Strangelove, Gimme Shelter, Only Angels Have Wings, Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!, Spider Baby, Macbeth (1948), Ghosts of Mars, The Undead (Corman, 1957), Touch of Evil, Kiss Me Deadly, Sweet Smell of Success, Never give a Sucker an Even Break, It Follows, Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), Kill Baby Kill! (1965), Mandy (2018), Climax (2019)
Favourite Music	Velvet Underground, EMA, Fats Waller, Stars of the Lid, Rolling Stones, Mingus, Marlene Dietrich, Elk City, Ennio Morricone, Washington Phillips, Neil Diamond, Kurt Vile, Klaus Schulz, Valium Effort, Mexican Mud Band, The Jezebels, Sinoia Caves, Bardo Pond, Leadbelly, Pretenders, Duke Garwood, Lana Del Rey
Favourite Books	Authors: Robin Wood, Manny Farber, Michael Atkinson, Gary Giddins, Kim Newman, Camille Paglia, Joseph Campbell, Molly Haskell, Pauline Kael, James Agee, Slavoj Zizek, Carl Jung, Terence McKenna, Daniel Pinchbeck, Kim Morgan, David Thomson, Clifford Pickover, LA Ruocco, HP Lovecraft