Things to read at home to follow along with Et in Arcadia Ego:
Aldrich, Nika; Digital Audio Explained for the Audio Engineer
Alinsky, Saul; Rules for Radicals
Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln; The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail
Buckland, Raymond; The Complete Book of Witchcraft
Cahill, Thomas; How the Irish Saved Western Civilization
Campbell, Joseph; The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Crowley, Aleister; Book IV
Crowley, Aleister; The Book of the Law
Crowley, Aleister; Liber Aleph
Crowley, Aleister; The Book of Lies
Darwin, Charles; The Origin of Species
Diamond, Jared; Guns Germs and Steel
Dickson, Gordon R.; Dorsai!
Dickson, Gordon R.; Lost Dorsai
Dickson, Gordon R.; Necromancer
Dickson, Gordon R.; Spirit of Dorsai
Dickson, Gordon R.; Tactics of Mistake
Easton and Liszt; The Topping Book
Eco, Umberto; Foucault's Pendulum
Eco, Umberto; The Name of the Rose
Gaiman, Neil; Anansi Boys
Gaiman, Neil; The Sandman
Gibbon, Edward; The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Gibson, William; Neuromancer
Gibson, William; Burning Chrome
Gibson, William; Pattern Recognition
Goedel, Kurt; On Formally Undecidable Propositions in the Principia Mathematica
Gonick, Larry; The Cartoon History of the Universe
Gonick, Larry; The Cartoon History of the Modern World
Grousset, Rene; Empire of the Steppes
Herman and Chomsky; Manufacturing Consent
Herodotus; The Histories
Hoffler, Eric; The True Believer
Homer; Illiad
Jung, Carl; The Archtypes and the Collective Unconscious
Kaufman, Walter; Religion in Four Dimensions
Kerenyi, C.; Heroes of the Greeks
King, Chris William; Gnostics and Their Remains
Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcom X
Marx, Karl; Capital
Morrison, Grant; The Invisibles
Nietzsche, Frederich; Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Nietzsche, Frederich; Beyond Good and Evil
Nietzsche, Frederich, The Birth of Tragedy
O'Barr, James; The Crow
Plato; The Dialogues
Pratchett, Terry; Lords and Ladies
Pratchett, Terry; Hogfather
Pratchett, Terry; Small Gods
Price, Robert M. (ed.); The Nyarlathotep Cycle
Rein-Hagen, Mark; Vampire: the Masquerade
Schroeder, Manfred; Fractals, Chaos, Power Laws: Minutes from an Infinite Paradise
Sekida, Katsuki; Zen Training
Shirer, William; Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
de Troyes, Cheretin; The Grail Romances
Tymoczko and Henle; Sweet Reason
Tzu, Lao; Tao Te Ching
Tzu, Sun; The Art of War
Whitehead and Russel; Principia Mathematica
Wilson and Shea; Illuminatus!
Wilson, Robert Anton; Everything is Under Control
Zinn, Howard; A People's History of the United States
The Tain
The Torah
The Bible
The Koran
The Book of Enoch
The Gospel of Thomas
The Secret Gospels
and many others...
For further background reading, works on Western philosophy, psychology, linguistics, semiotics, information theory, game theory, religion, Eastern philosophy, classical history, European history, secret societies, magick and mysticsm would not go amiss. Happy reading!
Webcomics:
Dinosaur Comics
XKCD
Irregular webcomic
Girl Genius
Order of the Stick
Music:
3 Doors Down "Kryptonite"
Assemblege 23 "Naked", "Disappoint", "Document", "Regret", "Cocoon"
Beborn Beton "New Born King"
Bruedershcaft "Forever"
C-Tec "Foetal", "Epitaph", "Random", "Flowing", "Being Nothing"Covenant "Bullet", "Call the Ships to Port"
Einstuerzende Neubauten "Ende Neu", "Hause Der Luege", "Feurio", "NNNAAAMMM"
Front 242 "Circling Overland", "Crushed"
KMFDM "Waste", "Stray Bullet", "DIY", "Trust", "Glory", "Search and Destroy"
Joy Division "Decades", "She's Lost Control", "Dead Souls", "Day of the Lords"
Nine Inch Nails "Self-Destruction (Final)", "Piggy", "Burn"
Rotersand "War on Error"
Seabound "Avalost [vox]", "Transformer [Antiseptic]", "Breathe"
VNV Nation "Chosen", "Honour", "Joy", "Carbon", "Further", "Forsaken [vox]", "Procession", "Darkangel", "Serial Killer", "Savior [vox]", "Kingdom"
Waterboys "Fisherman's Blues", "Don't Bang the Drum", "The Whole of the Moon", "The Return of Pan"
Wolfsheim "Once on a Lifetime", "The Sparrows and the Nightengales", "For You I'm Bleeding"
