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Meg Powers

It came from the bottom of the supermarket deli counter...OCTOPUS SALAD!

About Me



I edited my profile with a little help from this dude.

I am not a goth.

My Interests

Providence, Rhode Island, Olneyville, Broadway (providence broadway), doll making,Load records, Corleone Records, noise, punk,70s glam rock,neo glam, spiders, costume design, puppets,puppetry, big nazo,comics, ukulele/accordian/banjo playin' fiends in silly glasses,meatcake, daniel clowes, paper rodeo, manbeard, atlantic mills, the munchhouse,the pink rabbit, no wave, new wave, deathrock,welding, rockabilly, psychobilly, okie street,robots, vermont, sewing, collage,writing, writing plays, conceptual art, the macabre, mail art, electronica, multi-media art, death, trees, mushrooms, faeries, art, goth, zines, reel to reel, vinyl, expiremental music, knitting, fiber arts, recycled art, gardening, paganism, stencilling, urban art, philosophy, fort thunder, wonder showzen, shades plus, vintage clothes, the '20s, the '50s,the '60s, the'70s, the '80s, Cadillac El Dorados, World War II, plagues,New England, celtic folk lore, greek mythology, western civilization, 18th century France and England, New England folklore, WEREWOLVES!!!!, the living room, providence again,as220, psychadelia, I hate the Grateful Dead, outsider art, little kid drawings, fantasy, socialism, drawing, painting, ANDY WARHOL , lichtenstein, caravaggio, nightcrawler,X-Men, Swamp Thing, Barbarella, mystery science theater 3000, the young ones, england, scotland,greece, germany, industrial music, halloween, b-movies, divine, hedwig, tim burton, christopher lee, vincent price, sesame street, books, reading, big hair, okie street, armageddon records,Charlton Heston, go go dancing,burlesque, ballet, cabaret, accordians, vegetarianism, communism, horror, rocky horror, jim henson, pop art, mod, malcolm mcdowell, distopian fiction, androgony, ducktails, warehouses, mills, thrift stores, shadow boxes,forests, skeletons, medical illustration, printmaking, silk screening, screen printing, stencilling, vigilantes, insects, mowhawks, my friends, eyeballs, monsters, goblins, anne rice sucks, lo-fi,twee, ancient greece, epic poetry, grey, buildings, anti-civilization, student radio, drumming, drums, TRIXXON drums, keyboards, toy instruments, costumed bands, conceptual art, da da, doom metal, creativity, tattoo art, plastic yard decorations, christmas, the Virgin Mary, dead flowers, divine, drag queens, lupo's, pipe organs, silent film,churches, cathedrals, anarchy, anglo-catholiscism, tide pools, the ocean, dryads, druids, druidry, pompadours, period fashion, wigs, cosmetology, naturalism, cooking, mermaids, nymphs, clothes-altering, diy, people watching, record shopping, vintage cars, pin up girls, sandra bernhard, cheesy horror movies, my best friend, beards, septum piercings, harbors, marinas, sailors, cowboys, armpits, glitter, body hair, dressing up, natural contradictions, sharks, dinosaurs, kids books, antique stores

I'd like to meet:


JOHN KRICFALUSI!!!

Peter Lorre

Green Eye-specifically Green Eye.

Peter Sellers

Blixa Bargeld. And Nick Cave, of course!

Frank Lentini!

Mr. Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Scott Thompson!

Roddy McDowall!!!

The divine Harris Glen Milstead

Danny Kaye

David Rappaport, Minister of State of Frestonia

AND SO MANY MORE... not to mention morbidly inclined people who aren't slaves to Projekt, Cleopatra, or Lip Service; nerdy, funny people who wear fun glasses,self deprecating Jewish comedians who are actually rather ego-centric, fellow lycanthropes and friendly cephalapods, and the fabulously disgusting.

Music:

The Cramps,Of Montreal,Belle and Sebastian, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds,The Chinese Stars, The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths, the sixths, Gothic Archies, Stephin Merrit, Marc Bolan, Iggy Pop, Mahi Mahi, shudder to think,Arab on Radar, Scott Walker, The Cocteau Twins,Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, Man or Astro Man?, Burt Bacharach and Hal David,The Sonics, Lightning Bolt, David Bowie,Death By Doll, Ziggy Stardust, Lou Reed, Danny Elfman,The Locust, Nick Cave, The Birthday Party, Einstuerzende Neubauten,Tom Jones, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Kate Bush, Roxy Music, Brian Eno, Sisters of Mercy, Suede, My Bloody Valentine, The Body, Neutral Milk Hotel, Beat Happening, Liam Lynch, Dusty Springfield, T. Rex, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Donovan, The Ministry The Kinks, The Buzzcocks, The Smiths, Morrisey, Fugazi, Wire, The Cramps, Reverend Horton Heat, Patti Smith, The Gun Club, Tom Waits, Ute Lemper, Jacques Brell, The Dead Kennedys, Velvet Underground, The Beatles, Dan Deacon, Nuclear Power Pants, The Glove, The Cure, Steve Severin,Robert Smith, Dead Can Dance, Swans, The Residents, The Olivia Tremor Control, Daniel Johnston, Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd,Lightning Bolt,gravytrain!!!,New Order, the Joy Division, Sparks, New York Dolls, Queen, Birdland, Nico, Blixa Bargeld,Bauhaus, The Rentals, Weezer, Stereolab,REM, Devo, B-52s, Soundgarden, Gary Numan, The Stooges, Kurt Weill,Los Straitjackets, Manbeard, Danielson Famile, Half Japanese, Friends Forever, Can, V.Majestic, Alice Cooper,Rufus Wainwright, Gwar, Momus, Motorhead, Electric Six,Ima Robot, Bis, Jonathan Richman, Blur, XTC, The Avalanches, Orbital, Branvan 3000, The Vaselines, The Anal Force, Isildur's Bane, CP/DP, Peter Murphy, Polaris,Anal Destruction, Vincent's Price, Placebo, Dukes of Stratosphere, The Shins, Luna,Alien Sex Fiend, SO MUCH MORE... tralalala,into infinity...

Movies:

Spinal Tap, Another Country, My Beautiful Laundrette, Withnail and I, Waiting For Guffman,What's New, Pussycat?, If..., A Clockwork Orange,Breakfast on Pluto, The Witches,The Company of Wolves,A Life Less Ordinary, Return to Oz, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Royal Tennenbaums, Rushmore,The Legend of Hell House,The Haunting (60s version),My Own Private Idaho, Signs, Ma Vie En Rose, Home Alone,Wayne's World, Party Monster,Nightmare Before Christmas, Neverending Story,The Princess Bride, The Dark Crystal,Legend (director's cut), The Lord of the Rings trilogy,Beauty and the Beast,Orlando,Akira, The Little Mermaid,Death Becomes Her,Desperately Seeking Susan, My Neighbor Totoro, Pink Flamingos, Raising Arizona,Evil Dead 2, Flight of the Navigator,The Navigator,Europa Europa,Female Trouble,Pee Wee's Big Adventure,Strangers on a Train, Rope,The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Der Himmel Uber Berlin,Wings of Desire,Barbarella,Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead,Carnival of Souls,The Adventures of Priscilla:Queen of the Desert,Velvet Goldmine (oh the injustice!), Dead Alive, Edward Scissorhands,Sleepy Hollow, Alice, Cabaret, The Hobbit,Charlton Heston apocolypse movies, and so much more.
MOVIES WITH MINK STOLE!

Television:

Pete and Pete,M*A*S*H,The Young Ones, MST3K, Kids in the Hall, Mr. Show, Stella,The Upright Citizens Brigade, Wonder Showzen, Rocko's Modern Life,Black Adder,Ren and Stimpy, Clarissa Explains it All, the Twilight Zone, Brini Maxwell,Ricky Gervais's The Office,The Mighty Boosh, The Twilight Zone, Semi-Homemade (OH THE HORROR!)

Books:

Alan Moore, Paul Zindel,Dame Darcy,Neil Gaiman,Lynda Barry,The Last Unicorn, Zel, The Magic Circle, Donna Jo Napoli in general, H.P. Lovecraft,Kissing the Witch, Skinny Legs and All, Geoffrey Euginedes,the Haunting of Hill House, most things by Shirley Jackson, Shel Silverstein, the Adrian Mole diaries, the Chronicles of Narnia, A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, the Nightrunner's trilogy, Breakfast of Champions, Middlesex, Hamlet, The Odyssey, Wonder Boys, East of Eden, Steinbeck just rocks period (EXCEPT FOR THE PEARL!),Catcher in the Rye, 9 Stories, My Blue Heaven, I hate Ernest Hemmingway, The Hobbit, anything Roald Dahl, Coraline, Little Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, Ozma of Oz, Clockwork Orange, Hans Christian Anderson, Brothers Grimm, Meatcake, Sandman, V for Vendetta, Dr. Seuss, Maurice Sendak, Edward Gorey,Weetzie Bat series, Ghost World ( the movie sucked ass), Daniel Clowes,millions more (literally millions. I shit you not.
....yes I do.)
Also, who wants to help me resurrect Marlowe and Shakespeare for the mere purpose of watching them battle to the un-death? I suppose Marlowe would be pretty pissed about that, considering his Dr. Faustus couldn't raise Alexander the Great from the dead, but I have a better hold on the art of necromancy than that crazy German did; I'm too smart to hang out with that Mephistopholes fellow. He's into some weird shit, necrophilia aside.

Heroes:

Andy Warhol, Lou Reed, Stephin Merrit, Iggy Pop,Divine, David Bowie,Marc Bolan,Nick Cave, Hedwig,Morrisey,Erminio,Nick Cave,Siouxsie Sioux,Dame Darcy,Duckie,Diego, Lynda Barry,Kate Bush, Tim Burton,Craig Wedren,Robbin, Alan Cumming,Sandra Bernhard, Maurice Sendak,John Kricfalusi,Amy Poehler, Jesus,my family, Lux Interior,Blixa Bargeld,Jim Henson,Pee Wee Herman,Lady Miss Kier, Edward Gorey

My Blog

Mambo!

I want to throw a 50s exotica-swinging 60s psychadelia/ultra lounge party, but I don't really know who would be interested, besides Michael.I bought really awesome records today-Devo-New Traditionalis...
Posted by Tentra Subversa taking a Soma holiday on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 01:42:00 PST

Do goofy horn-rimmed glasses make the man?

Most likely (an accordian doesn't hurt, either).Sadly,there are those men who are too self consciously "hip" to pull it off-the goofiness of the glasses has to fit the goofiness of the guy! I'm tellin...
Posted by Tentra Subversa taking a Soma holiday on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 01:58:00 PST

My brain has melted into the bottom of my jaw.

Sleepy sleepy sleep. I'm watching Star Trek, and a woman with fabulous hot pink eye makeup just came up on screen.SUPERFICIALITY: I just cut bangs for the first time in a long time, and I feel fabulou...
Posted by Tentra Subversa taking a Soma holiday on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:50:00 PST

If I could travel back and forth from career choice to career choice:

Stop motion animation love love love.Stop motion animation (and,to a large extent, cell animation) is an art form that has held a tight grip on my interest since as far back as I can remember. With t...
Posted by Tentra Subversa taking a Soma holiday on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:19:00 PST

I absolutely adore revolting things.

Let's be outrageous, let's run around with painted faces, patches of hair everywhere, torn prom dresses and muddy wing-tips. He's picking bone fragments out of his teeth with a Jack of Spades card as ...
Posted by Tentra Subversa taking a Soma holiday on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:19:00 PST

ugh

I had a really nice day (and night) but now I'm really sad and frustrated.My heart is a jar of strawberry jam.
Posted by Tentra Subversa taking a Soma holiday on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 08:08:00 PST

As promised, the cyborg makeup:

Only the background and my left eye has been altered in photoshop. The rest is makeup.This one wasn't photoshopped at all.Neither was this one,or this one,or these: .....
Posted by Tentra Subversa taking a Soma holiday on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 09:35:00 PST

Taking a Soma holiday.

I am reading both Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World at the same time. I'm almost done with the former, and I must say, I am disappointed. It's not like it's bad, but it...
Posted by Tentra Subversa taking a Soma holiday on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:56:00 PST

Movies I want to see:

word....
Posted by Tentra Subversa taking a Soma holiday on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 07:18:00 PST

Music I want- a reminder.

Yma Sumac-Mambo!The Residents-Meet the Residents and The Commercial AlbumDeath in June-Nada!Swans-Children of GodSwan Lake-Beast MoanDavid Bowie-LowGothic Archies-The New Despair and A Series of Unfor...
Posted by Tentra Subversa taking a Soma holiday on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 11:02:00 PST