*** A NOTE TO THOSE WISHING TO ADD ME***I am not on MySpace for any sort of popularity contest or to reach some quota of imaginary friends that will shower me with useless comments. I use it to keep in touch with my far-flung friends, meet new like-minded souls from around the world and to stay connected with my favourite music. That being said, I do not add everyone that requests me.
If you are a living, breathing person, we have similar mindsets or tastes and I do not suspect that you will fill my page with gift-card spam or sparkly nonsense, I will most likely add you. If you are in a band and wish to add me, please SEND A MSG FIRST! I get scores of requests from bands that make it obvious that they didn't even bother to check out what I actually listen to. And if you only wish to add me to fill my page with huge advertisments, please take it elsewhere.
Also, anyone interested in exchanging art, postcards, proper paper-envelope-stamp correspondence or rounds of Exquisite Corpse is doubly urged to contact me.
And Burning Man does NOT interest me, so please don't bring it up.
Good Luck and Godspeed!***
OPRE ROMA! I'm a DJ,Reverend, Purveyour of Esoteria & the Arcane, Thelemite, Pagan, Priestess of Discord, Kinky Friedman's Dog Nanny, Member of the Night Game Cult, Sicilian. Member of the Lethal Fury Four Ladies Gun Society & the band Willem d'Faux. The fact that I live in Texas does not make me a Texan. I miss snow and watching the clouds rolling down the mountains. I bear a scar of the Stigmata on my left palm. I prefer "a feast of friends to the giant family." I'd rather be beneath the Carpathians. I like glass-eyes and telegraph machines. I enjoy conducting myself with class. I cannot stand feigned wackiness. I enjoy ancient books & the things people leave in them. An umbrella is a useful thing to have. I enjoy tales of the Wandering Jew. Ian Svenonius once told me he liked my T-shirt. I want to be Angelica Huston when I grow up. I think Blixa Bargeld has exceptional hair.I hope to one day be kidnapped by Eugene Hutz. I enjoy the music of Northern Africa. God is my favourite fictional character (cue lightning bolt). I quite like paintings of St. Sebastian. I also quite like Hindu and Sufi chants. I enjoy IOOF artwork and strange things falling from the sky. I collect ephemera and wünderkammer. I wish i had a pet capybara. I miss Jay's Upstairs every goddman day. I like dogs with three legs and one eye. I get special inspiration from Alphonse Mucha, Aubrey Beardsley, Gustave Moreau, Edmund Dulac, Edward Gorey and Chris Ware. I also enjoy these artists: Durer Bosch Dore Julie Speed JoeColeman AlexGross EricWhite YoshitomoNara EgonSchiele Magritte El Greco Gorey and Goya. In my next incarnation I'd like to be a Snow Monkey high in the mountains of Asia that sits in the hot springs all day. If you have any ideas on how to go about that let me know. And God Bless the Tiger Lillies. Amen. I also enjoy alter-egos & disguises, fine moustaches, spats waist-coats & pocket-watches, Vaudeville & the trapeze, steel guitars and a sad violin, Steampunk, the silence of a falling star lighting up the purple sky, abandoned buildings & train tracks, lithium-laden hot springs & backwoods dive-bars, moridity & the Macabre, spirit photographs and Victorian mourning photography, trompe l'oeil, Vaudvillian Magic & Esoteric Magick, Thelema Cabala & Mysticism, Existential Quandries, the Universal Myth, sacred geometry & the Golden Ratio, understanding the Russian soul, stabbing phonebooks with switchblades, Russian lacquer painting, print-making & drawing, monkey-wrenching & subversion, records & used books, bitching about the overwhelming lack of class & elegance in American culture, bars with jukeboxes pool tables and PBR, my sweetheart's Django guitar, independent & DIY culture, passion passion passion, medical oddities & freaks, the charisma those such as Rasputin possess, cults & sects, speaking ill of the Lord, weird cartoons, hitting you with my rhythm stick, interesting tattoos, Ashes & Snow (the most beautiful photographs in history)...
Unsavoury characters, roust-abouts, no-account drifters, ne'r-do-wells, vagabonds, bodhisattvas, Thelemites, Sufis, Gypsies, Maharajas, Beats, "the mad to live", Lion-tamers, Tragedians, Somnambulists, Sooth-Sayers, Fakirs, Grave-Robbers, Mesmerists, Conjurers, Vaudvillians, Dervishes, Revelators...
Nick Cave is my earth air fire and water.
Tom Waits is my own personal Lord & Saviour.
I Iive and breathe for Gypsy music.
My favourite song is Ravel's Bolero.
I love Tindersticks truly madly deeply.
4AD is one fine record label.
Pete Seeger should be canonnized.
I love big band music.
Max Romeo is some top-ranking reggae.
Morphine should only be listened to under cover of night.
I love the gloomy Denver scene... I'm talkin' 16 HSPWR, Slim & his faboulous Auto Club, Munly, Tarentella, the Denver Gentlemen.
My favourite singers include Tom Jones, Scott Walker, Richard Thompson my friend Emil, my friend Lindsey, Emmylou Harris, Dahler Mehndi, Gillian Welch, Horace Andy, Ian McCulloch, Luciano Pavaratti, Ivan Rebroff, Roy Orbison, Neil Diamond & Beth Gibbons.
I really REALLY fucking dig The Cramps.
Berlin-era Bowie really does it for me.
Nina Hagen: Fuck yeah.
I wish I could have seen Jane's Addiction live, circa 1988.
I DESPISE The Decemberists.
Je t'aime je t'aime je t'aime Serge Gainsbourg & Jacques Brel. In fact, 60's French pop is the only pop music I can stomach, outside of Prince and some Indian & Angolese pop.
My favourite Iggy song is Sister Midnight.
Townes Van Zandt makes me cry.
The Violent Femmes went to my high school.
Klezmer music should be blasted from every window.
I adore Michael Gira. I don't know what I did before the Swans
Dead Can Dance was the best live performance I've ever seen.
Mazzy Star is the perfect music for sleeping or desert driving.
And such...... Parno Graszt, Crime & The City Solution, Tiger Lillies, Danzig, Dock Boggs, Roscoe Holcomb, Brian Jonestown Massacre, JSBX, Echo & the Bunnymen, DeVotchKa, Leonard Cohen, Phil Ochs, Os Mutantes, Nina Simone, Einsturzende Neubauten, Love & Rockets, Bulgarian and Armenian choral groups, Jamaican ska, roots, dub and sound system-style, Fairport Convention, Espers, Devendra, The Fall, Roxy Music, George Abdo, Anouar Brahem, Maharaja, Taraf de Haidouks, Fanfare Ciocarlia, Marianne Faithful, William Elliott Whitmore, Old Time Relijun, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Suicide, The Smiths, Christian Death, Godspeed! You Black Emperor, Thee Silver Mount Zion, Undoing of David Wright, Vas & Azam Ali, John Jacob Niles, Pointy Shoe Factory, The Birthday Party, Sex Gang Children, Beirut, Julee Cruise, Devendra, PJ Harvey...
*Everything Is Illuminated
*Down By Law
*Dead Man
*Natural Born Killers
*Nosferatu
*The Magic Christian
*There Will Be Blood
*Big Bad Love
*Sweet & Lowdown
*Paris Texas
*The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
*Kikohiro
*Leon, The Professional
*Modern Times
*True Stories
*Streets of Fire
*Leningrad Cowboys
*Un Chien Andalou
*Ghosts Before Breakfast
*D.O.A.
*Mondo Cane
*I Heart Huckabees
*Little Miss Sunshine
*V For Vendetta
*Short Cuts
*Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
*Tuvalu
*When the Road Bends ~ Gypsy Caravan
*Zardox
*Bram Stoker's Dracula
*The Lone Wolf & Cub films
*The films of Greta Garbo
*The films of Peter Sellers
*The films of Gene Wilder
*The films of Jean-Pierre Jeunet
*The films of the Coen Brothers
*The films of Wes Andersen
*The films of the Brothers Marx (esp. Duck Soup)
*The films of Emir Kusturica
*The films of Gary Oldman
*The films of Peter Lorre
*The films of Melies
*The films of Jodorowsky
*The films of Kenneth Anger
*The films of Fritz Lang
I enjoy British television and Yo! Gabba Gabba.
Among the Haida Indians of the Pacific Northwest, the verb for "making poetry" is the same as the verb "to breathe". I enjoy over-using the word "bourgeois." If Poe's perfect phrase was "Cellar Door," mine is "Moisture gleamed on the beak of the Raven." I like the words "sandwich," " leviathan," and "fisticuffs." I do not appreciate the commercialization of the word "revolution." It drives me mad when people misuse "your" and "you're."The word "party" is not a verb, while the word "cocktail" is. I enjoy the works of Neil Gaiman. I have a Hitchhikers Guide tattoo.
Houdini, Kinky Friedman, Dr Who, Eugene Hutz, Gilgamesh, John Uskglass, Aleister Crowley, Mata Hari, Brian Eno, Neal Cassady, Chico Marx, Rufus T. Firefly, Chomsky & Zinn, Emperor Norton, Simon Pegg, Tim Curry, Ed Chigliak, John Waters, Harold Lloyd & Buster Keaton, Jules Verne, Ian Svenonius, the German expressionist silent filmakers, Alan Lomax, Witkin, "the woman that destroyed Nick Cave", Michael Gira, Stuart Staples, Lemony Snicket, the Log Lady, abbie hoffman, Vincent Gallo Vincent Gallo & Vincent Gallo, Jim Jarmusch, Bonnie Parker and Mallory Knox, Subcomadante Marcos, Jeanette Rankin, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern, Lux Interior...