Well not more than a second after I replied to Miguel I am here telling everyone here that I have agreed to be interviewed at the Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio Show. It's been a weird day. The nanny that also cleans our house didn't show up so now I have two job vacancies at casa mia. I couldn't go to work so I am stuck at home all today. This explains the eclectic mix of stories today.
The topic of my interview with be the theories I have been developing here on Secret Mark (and which will be the subject of my forthcoming book for March 2011). You know when I tell people about my last book I always say something like "yeah well you know I did make much on the book, just the advance." Then if the person I am talking to is another author on this esoteric subject matter they will inevitably say something like "well you don't write a book to make money ..."
It is at this point in the conversation that I never know what to say because I always think there should be money in everything. When I have sex with a woman, if she isn't handing me money after it's all over I feel somehow that I failed (strangely it's always me pulling out the money).
But seriously, I was really disappointed when I did get this check after a year of the book being on the market. This shows you how stupid I really I am. I heard the book was being reprinted, that it sold so many copies etc. And I am like Cuba Gooding Jr in Jerry Maguire waiting by the phone ... and then its this.
My wife has always noticed this strange dichotomy in my personality. I never let money guide my life but at the same time I judge everything by whether or not it actually generates money or an income. It's not like I do this voluntarily. It must be my father's voice echoing in my brain from when I was young. Whenever I told him about any thing I was interested - i.e. starting a band, taking philosophy at university - I could hear him mutter the words "Das ist eine brotlose Kunst ..." under his breath.
The saying means "this is a breadless art" or this endeavor is not going to feed you. Strange that I should spend so much time blogging don't you think ...
Stephan Huller has had a life long interest in religion and spirituality 
dating back to conversations with his grandfather, Gaston Frank. "He said we represent one of the last descendants of the Frankist Jewish faith in the world," he muses. "I grew up thinking that our family was something like the Last of the Mohicans."