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Unless I have met you in person, or you happen to be someone whose talents or work I respect and admire (unlikely as most of those people are dead), then you'd better have a damn good reason for adding me if you expect me to accept your request.
Don't get me wrong - I'm the most incredibly positive, most warm-hearted, most sympathetic being you could ever have the good fortune to meet. Everyone should get the chance to bask in my sunshiny, radiant glory. Really. It's just that I hate being bothered by requests from spammers whose idea of conversation is "Oooh my name is Barbie - come look at my pix! I take VISA!"
A silly quiz:
Which literature classic are you?
Oscar Wilde: The Portrait of Dorian Gray. You are a horror novel from the world of dandies, rich pretty boys, art and aesthetics, and intellectual debates between ethical people and decadent pleasure-seekers. You value beauty and pleasure but realize their dangers, as well.
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Ataraxia, Autopsia, Bjork, Carla Bruni, Cocteau Twins, Death In June, Diamanda Galas, E Muzeki, Fields of the Nephilim, Flogging Molly, Godspeed You Black Emperor, His Name Is Alive, Legendary Pink Dots, Lords of the New Church, Lycia, Mazzy Star, The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath A Cloud, Nature And Organization, Natacha Atlas, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Ordo Equitum Solis, PJ Harvey, The Pogues, Portishead, Rozz Williams, Rudimentary Peni, Sarah Brightman, Sex Gang Children, Sixth Comm, Sneaker Pimps, Sol Invictus, This Mortal Coil, Tom Waits, Vidna Obmana, Virgin Prunes... all in alphabetical order. How lovely.
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Le Pacte des Loups, 12 Monkeys, Fight Club, Night of the Hunter, Donnie Darko, Sin City, The Thing (1982), The Big Empty, Serpent and the Rainbow, The Mummy (1932), The Call of Cthulhu, Snatch and/or Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Memento, eXistenZ, Cemetary Man, Fallen, The Matrix, Equilibrium, Blade Runner, ST2: The Wrath of Khaaaaan!, Dogs In Space, Lord of the Rings, The Descent, Carlito's Way, Unbreakable, Evil Dead 2, The Replacement Killers...and anything by Lynch or Hitchcock.
Bah. I avoid television as much as possible. There are a few shows (mostly britcoms) that I find entertaining, but generally speaking TV rots the brain, it does. Turn the damned thing off and go read a book.
Anything by H.P. Lovecraft, Neil Gaiman or Douglas Adams. "The King in Yellow" by Robert W Chambers. "Candide" by Voltaire. The Dune series by Frank Herbert. "The Age of Reason" by Thomas Paine. "The Picture of Dorian Gray" & "De Profundis" by Oscar Wilde. "Time and the Gods" by Lord Dunsany. "The Devil's Dictionary" & "Can Such Things Be?" by Ambrose Bierce. "The Great God Pan" (and nearly everything else) by Arthur Machen.