stoner rock, heavy metal mysteries, interacting with the Muses, Sabbath Assembly, Process Church of the Final Judgment, occultism in metal, the Divine Feminine, Satanism. Magic Circle, Flying Medusa, punk, postpunk, hardcore punk, Neurosis, Killing Joke, Black Flag, Saint Vitus, Melvins, Black Sabbath, Pentagram, the Obsessed, Scott "Wino" Weinrich, nu-metal, Korn, Korn horror stories, Virginia doom metal scene, Palm Desert scene, generator parties, Kyuss, Yawning Man, LSD, Fu Manchu, Brant Bjork, Hawkwind, Sleep, Al Cisneros, Om, Sweden, Clutch, Monster Magnet, "magic typewriter"