INTERVIEWS

Written

• Reality Sandwich (2007) Discussion about the mythological themes in several of James' works, focusing on building myths from your own life story.
• Re-Gen Magazine (2006) Conversation about the history and influences of his album, subQtaneous: Some Still Despair In A Prozac Nation.
• Scenery Magazine (2005) Overly-caffeinated discussion with fellow musician Zac Shaw about subQtaneous: Some Still Despair In A Prozac Nation, and the connections between the music and his various writing projects.

Audio

• Audio: Generation Hex Launch party at Alex Grey's Chapel of Sacred Mirrors. 72 minutes of the panel discussion about culture, magick, art, and the apocalypse, featuring background music from a variety of related independent acts, including Babalon and Elektroworx and audience interaction. (Post-production by James Curcio.)
• Audio: Smallworld podcast (2007) Peter Emerson Williams (Choronzon, Veil of Thorns) and James Curcio talk about the production process behind subQtaneous: Some Still Despair In A Prozac Nation with bazooka Joe on the long-running podcast Smallworld.
• Audio: Frequency 23 (2005) Long talk about everything from shamanism and religious art to the occult.
• Audio: G-pod (2004) James talked with Joseph Matheny (Galt's Ark, Ong's Hat) about Join My Cult!, and the binaural technology and hypnosis techniques embedded in its chaotic contents.

Writing

Novels

FALLEN NATION: Babylon Burning

In a world where guilt by association is enough to convict for terrorism, two rebellious young Americans are locked in a mental asylum for a crime they didn't commit. Though not terrorists, these two are outsiders in nearly every sense of the word: a transsexual street shaman (Jesus) and a transgressive philosopher (Agent 139) capable of driving even psychiatrists insane. It seems their stories will end here, but they are both destined to play a role in a revolution that will forever change the world.

Part Salman Rushdie's Ground Beneath Her Feet, part Hunter S. Thompson's Fear And Loathing, Fallen Nation: Babylon Burning questions many of our basic cultural assumptions, makes us re-examine them, and hints at where they might lead.

• Order on Amazon.com
• Electronic Presskit
• Free eBook version
• Audiobook episodes

JOIN MY CULT!

Religions. Philosophies. Advertising campaigns. Gurus. Prozac. All of these drugs are sold as answers to our deepest questions: Why are we here? What truly has meaning? For a group of adolescents desperately searching for meaning in the bleak McMansion sprawls of Suburban America, these questions are of the essence. When none of the accepted avenues of thought or behavior make sense any longer, they wander into an unknown territory of magick, drug use, and shamanic exploration.

Through both satire and drama, Join My Cult takes you on an inward initiatory journey and a deeply hypnotic experience. Published in 2004 by the original New Falcon press, publisher of Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, Aleister Crowley, and many other counter-culture figures.

• Order on Amazon
• Wikipedia entry
• Free eBook version
• Audiobook episode

Essays & Articles:

Immanence of Myth

There is a noticable lack in many of our lives. The capitalist myth sells it as a void that can only be satisfied through consumption, but this search for meaning goes far beyond the boundaries of one culture or ideology. In the places hardest hit by this absence, many even try to join violent gangs, or religious cults to find it.

Through articles ranging from the academic to experiential, the Immanence of Myth proposes that this missing element is access to fiction and mythology as living things. Myth is an immanent, rather than transcendent, ongoing dialogue; an assemblage that interconnects us all.

We must invent our myths - or re-invent them - ourselves. This anthology includes conversations, art and articles with those in the process of doing it right now. If you haven't already, take this as a wakeup call to join in and become a myth-maker in the 21st century.

The Immanence of Myth will be an anthology, open for submissions until March 1 2010.

"This process of questioning and building answers atop those frames is what I refer to as myth-making. It is a myth because we are reaching into the dark... we pose scenarios, hypothesis, we may even devise ways to test them a million times over and yet they remain myths: the intermediary between man and the void, the dark unknowable."

Hillbilly Tantra

Essay published in Immanion Press' Magic On The Edge anthology about the basic sexual premises of tantra, framed in a modern way, stripped of religious ideology. (2004)

Read the PDF.

Alterati Selections

The following articles are some of the several hundred articles James ran during his stint as senior editor for Alterati.com, covering an incredibly broad range of subjects loosely considered under the counter-culture milieu. (Ignoring, of course, that the first article run on Alterati by James was entitled "Wake Up Neo: There Is No Counterculture, You Twit.")

• Wake Up Neo: There Is No Counterculture, You Twit
• First Fridays: Phoenix Gonzo journalism in Pheonix.
• First Fridays: The Ghosts of the Ellen Powell Tiberino Museum Gonzo journalism in West Philly
• A Crime Against Self Analysis of a disturbing trend in sex related cases against teens, and what it may say about our culture.
• Excuse Me, Who Are You? Perfect Blue Review Review of this anime classic, and related topics.
• Deep Puddle Dynamics: Alex Grey's CoSM Gonzo journalism at Alex Grey's Chapel of Sacred Mirrors.
• Redefining The Real Looking at how psuedonyms and Internet culture can effect our perception of reality.
• Hacking At The Roots, Gaian Mind Gonzo journalism at Gaian Mind's Summer Festival.
• The Dark Side Of A Culture The sexual underpinnings of violence.
• Post-Genre Blues: Back To The Folk Black metal and the folk tradition it comes from.
• Post-Genre Blues: The Death Of A Scene A look at Goth "culture" as the death of it's own ideals. How gawth.
• Post-Genre Blues: The Fragile Army
• Post-Genre Blues: Fusion A look at several bands that fuse the best elements of unexpected styles into a new form.
• Interviews: Collide Interview with kaRIN and statiK of Collide about their new album, and working with Danny Carey of Tool.
• Interviews: Drawing Outside The Lines: Interview With David Mack, illustrator and writer of the deeply cool Kabuki series.
• Interviews: Keys To Success: Interview with Amanda Palmer of Dresden Dolls about coming up as an indie band, and how to keep at it.
• Interviews: Alchemical Wedding: Interview with David Aronson about the alchemical influences in his haunting visual work.
• Interviews: Broken Saint: Interview with Brooke Burgess of Broken Saints about creating a 24hour+ animated epic.
• Interviews: Sex & Fashion: Interview with Jeff Cohn about the cross-overs between sex, fashion, and music culture. (JIVE Magazine)