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About Me

I collect antique keys, cameos, albums by bands I like regardless of their worth, comic books, monster toys, religious iconography, and anything having to do with Jabba the Hutt. I'm sort of a geek see, but a gorgeous geek, and that's a fantastic thing. I think life can be and often is extremely beautiful; I think humanity can be and often is worthy of a mass extinction. Then the few of us that were left could form a tribe and caravan to Coney Island and live all Beyond Thunderdome and it would be awesome. Post Apocolipstick.I love art lots, I think it' the only characteristic seperating humanity from animals. As such one might assume I think it's okay to hunt and eat humans and to that person I say this: "Yes. Yes I kind of do." Maybe people with life sentences could compete on a reality TV version of "The Most Dangerous Game", or we could finally implement some of things "A Modest Proposal" was trying to teach us. Anyway, art is beautiful because it is always an artificial representation of something, and I *heart* artifice. Imagination is just another name for dreaming up lies. Beautiful, beautiful lies.I think religion is the source of many of the world's problems, which sucks. There's a lot of pretty, absolutely stunningly beautiful artwork and ritual associated with religion. Had they stayed small pockets of local belief systems they would be more palatable to me spiritually, but then there would be no cathedrals or grand marble statues and that would sooo turn me off aesthetically. I like the art of religion, I don't like how each and every one has turned into some dumbed down version of itself desperately trying to be relevant in a technological, post-spiritual society and clinging to its last suprisingly strong leashes connected to the masses. Basically, it's fun mythology that occasionally teaches a good point but more often than not promotoes centuries old prejudices and irrational superstitious fear of the unknown. Science is a religion.I'll add just about anyone on this thing because I think people are interesting. All kinds of people. And I like having my tentacles in as many different circles, scenes, cliques, and cultures as I can without being noticed too much. Inspiration.

My Interests

Good Art (as partially defined below), Sex, Platforms, Friends, Nightclubs, Good Music (as partially defined below), Social Dadaism, Spraypaint, DIY Fashion, Staying Up Really Late, Obsessing Over Things I Can't Control, Good Movies (as partially defined below), Being Somewhat Narcissistic, Gay Porn, Halloween, Old Religious Iconography, My Ennui, Good Movies (as partially defined below), FeeJee Mermaids, Bad Art-school movies, Vanity, Hedonism, Absurdist Improv Comedy, Makeup, Optimistic Nihilism

I'd like to meet:

Creative-types, artfags, androgynous people, trashionistas, etc. James St. James, Jake Shears (again...and again and again), Amanda Lepore (and her again too!!!!), David Bowie, Richie Rich, Siouxsie Sioux, Jonny Slut, Robert Smith (but now just so I can slap him and tell him how cool he was in '83 and how not cool he is now that he's performing on national TV with...erm...Korn...and Evanescence Lady...Yekk!), Amy Poehler, Sophia Coppola, Will Arnett. I do not want to meet racists, homophobes, heterophobes, or religious zealots of ANY belief system (organized or not).

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Music:

SCISSOR SISTERS
BAUHAUS
SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES
JOY DIVISION
NEW ORDER
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT
MY LIFE WITH THE THRILL KILL KULT
MAGNETIC FIELDS
ERASURE
THE CURE
FISCHERSPOONER
THE MISFITS
MORRISSEY
THE SMITHS
GOLDFRAPP
CHRISTIAN DEATH (ROZZ ONLY)
45 GRAVE
PENIS FLYTRAP
DEPECHE MODE
KMFDM
DURAN DURAN
SKINNY PUPPY
EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN
PET SHOP BOYS
THE CREATURES
DAVID BOWIE
ROXY MUSIC
TONES ON TAIL
T REX
CRASS
MISS KITTIN
LADYTRON
ALIEN SEX FIEND
VIRGIN PRUNES
SPECIMEN
SEX PISTOLS
THE EPOXIES
CYNDI LAUPER
MISSING PERSONS
BILLY IDOL
MAZZY STAR
SHINY TOY GUNS
THE CRANBERRIES
LE TIGRE
COCTEAU TWINS
DEPECHE MODE
SCREECHING WEASEL
PANSY DIVISION
BUTT TRUMPET
THE MOLDY PEACHES
PATSY CLINE
MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE
JOHNNY CASH
VNV NATION
PEACHES
CHICKS ON SPEED
PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED
GWEN STEFANI
SOFT CELL
MARC ALMOND
AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!

Movies:

The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
The Monster Squad
Edward Scissorhands
The Fifth Element
Velvet Goldmine
Amelie
Cecil B. Demented
Pink Flamingos
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Party Monster
Party Monster: The Shockumentary
My Beautiful Laundrette
Hellraiser series
Dracula (1931 and 1992)
Nosferatu (1922)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Return of the Living Dead
Night of the Living Dead
Dawn of the Dead (both the original and the re-interpretation)
Dead Alive
The Hunger
I (Heart) Huckabees
The Rules of Attraction
American Psycho
Hostel
Dogma
Priscilla: Queen of the Desert
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome
Legend
Labyrinth
Sebastiane
Equlibrium
Boogie Nights
Trainspotting
Spun
Nightmare Before Christmas
Beetlejuice
Sleepy Hollow
Ed Wood
Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Batman (1989)
Gummo
Donnie Darko
But I'm a Cheerleader
Polyester
Female Trouble
Cemetery Man
Pi
Ghost World
Requiem for a Dream
Dark City
Zombie
16 Candles
The Breakfast Club
Desperate Living
Serial Mom
Clash of the Titans
An American Werewolf in London
Bladerunner
Motel Hell

Television:

Venture Brothers
Upright Citizens Brigade
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Weeds
Ghost Hunters
Monster Quest
Tim and Eric: Awesome Show Great Job!
Cheaters
Actually, almost all late-night UPN programming
The Munsters
Arrested Development
South Park
America's Next Top Model
Degrassi
Kids in the Hall
Heroes

Books:

American Gods (Neil Gaiman)
The Book of Disquiet (Fernando Pessoa)
-The Rules of Attraction (Bret Easton Ellis)
-Weetzie Bat (in fact, all the Dangerous Angels books by Francesca Lia Block)
-Exquisite Corpse (Poppy Z. Brite)
-Drawing Blood (Poppy Z. Brite)
-A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare)
-The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde)
-The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
-The Inferno (Dante Alighieri)
-Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
-Dracula (Bram Stoker)
-Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)
-Clubland (Frank Owen)
-The Stranger (Albert Camus)
-The Crucible (Arthur Miller)
-A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
-Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
-The Informers (Bret Easton Ellis)
-The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (William Blake)
-Good Omens (Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett)
-Neverwhere (Neil Gaiman)
-The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis)
-Every short story I've ever read by H.P. Lovecraft
Artists Pierre et Gilles
Joel-Peter Witkin
Heironymus Bosch
Francisco de Goya
Alphonse Mucha
Jackson Pollock
Mark Ryden
Andy Warhol
Tom of Finland
Todd Schorr
William Blake
Camille Rose Garcia
Pretty much I like art with monsters, death, mythological themes, kitsch, lowbrow, and art nouveau. In addition to that, I also like A LOT of other types of art/artists...the ones named above are just the first few to come to mind. UNF!

Heroes:

Tank Girl. My mom. My high school art teacher, Ms. Loeffelholz. Ummm, Oscar Wilde. Leigh Bowery. Richie Rich. Jayne Mansfield. Anyone who's ever helped change my mind for the better about something. Anyone who can put up with me for extended periods of time.

My Blog

Icecapades: Capades on the rocks...and wtf is a capade?

This weekend was nice. Peaceful. And I was off Saturday and Sunday, and that never happens. At best I usually get faux weekends midweek, and that's just not quite the same. Friday af...
Posted by Austintatious on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:25:00 PST

TAGged by more than one person, but Jaime did it first...

TAG!!!Here's how you play:Once you have been tagged, you have to write a blog with 10 weird, random things, facts, habits, or goals about yourself. At the end choose 10 people to be tagged, listing th...
Posted by Austintatious on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 03:22:00 PST

Who Taught You to Torture?

Life is hectic and utterly confusing. None of the multitude of things I have to get done or want to get done or need to get done are easily reconciled with one another, and as a result my life t...
Posted by Austintatious on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:03:00 PST

CLOSEtoME

i've waited hours for thisi've made myself so sicki wish i'd stayed asleep todayi never thought this day would endi never thought tonight could ever bethis close to mejust try to see in the darkjust t...
Posted by Austintatious on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:50:00 PST

Last Night...

I had to make a CD of aggro-industrial and metal and play it sorta loud to go to sleep. I've been pissy, pissed-off, and sort of content with feeling angry just 'cos I'm feeling something strong...
Posted by Austintatious on Thu, 31 May 2007 12:36:00 PST

Grace Kelly

So I've been having some ridiculous sinus pressure all day, which has given me horrible headaches in addition to making me feel like my eyes are gonna pop and send little trails of translucent ruddy-c...
Posted by Austintatious on Tue, 08 May 2007 02:54:00 PST

I forgot to mention...

...how much just about everyone in the world makes me want to crush my own head in a vice grip...though I'd need a helping hand past a certain point. It's hard to turn a handle with an ever-grow...
Posted by Austintatious on Tue, 08 May 2007 02:38:00 PST

I have the back of a 90-year-old-lady today, but this blog's not about that whatsoever.

It's four o' clock in the morning, do you know where your Austin is? Sitting in pitbull, the morning "ag" report already going on the TV, and all I can think is "do people really still do that?"...
Posted by Austintatious on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:20:00 PST

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Sometimes I like a little pain. Sometimes I want to get married at an overnight chapel with a ring-bearer dressed up like Pan. Sometimes I like a guy so much I am too scared to tell him, b...
Posted by Austintatious on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 03:43:00 PST

a taste in my mouth as desperation takes hold

Sometimes I dream of slaughter...sometimes I dream of tiny jet black plastic babies in quarter-machine bubbles that have somehow been implanted in my skin, and when I dig it out, and open it, the only...
Posted by Austintatious on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 08:03:00 PST