Magnum Opus, LOVE, Alchemical Romance,Revolution, Daydreaming, Evolution, The Art of Kissing, The Wisdom of IFA, Tantra, Seeking Truth and Beauty,The Meaning of Life, LowBrow Art, Pop Surrealism, Magical Realism, Chandeliers, Taxidermy, Tea Cups, Gypsies, Fortune Tellers, Witches, Tattoos, SteamPunk, Absinthe, Old Penny Arcade Machines, Apothecary and Medical Antiques, Fairy Tales, Irish Folktales, Strega, Victorian Spiritualism, Halloween, Dia De Los Muertos, Rootwork, Swamp Voodoo, Punch and Judy, Circus Sideshows, Bohemian Paris, Mod London, New Orleans, Religious Curios, Pirates, Mysticism, Sacred Hearts, Crowns, Peacocks, Poets, Prophets, Herbs, Alchemy, Vodou, Santeria, Palo, Obeah, Witchcraft, Gnosis, O.T.O., Thelema, Golden Dawn, Crowley, Theosophical Society, Fellowship of Isis. Indian, Middle Eastern, Tunisian, Moroccan Food and Culture. Art Nouveau, Medieval, Pre-Raphaelite, Dolls and Doll Making, Tarot Divination, Crystal Scrying, Art as Music, Music as Art. Belly Dance, Burlesque, Caberet, Cirque du Soleil, LucEnt dosSieR Vaudeville, The Red Moon Theater, Broken HeartsMended, Things Lost, then Found.
Camille Rose Garcia and photo by Karl Doyle
~Angelique Houtkamp~
I Love these Artists... Above: Robyn Swank~Below: Kerry Kate's October Effigies
~LIZ MCGRATH~
kitty by Jessica Joslin
Bone Apothecary by Ron Pippin
I'd like to meet:
I humbly extend my invitation to all Dark Artists and Musicians, Dandies and Chaps, SteamPunks, Glamazons, Queers, Queens, Wicked Pixies and Fairies, Doll Makers, Witches, Warlocks, Vamps and Vampires, Gothic Folk, Circus Folk, Pin-Up Girls and Fetish Models, Caberet and Burlesque Performers, Belly Dancers, Pirates, Gypsies, Rouges, Ghost Hunters, Spiritualists, Poets, Prophets, Writers, Dancers, Dead Victorians ect...
Send me a message. If you are Divine and darkly inclined, I will be happy to add you. Dearly Beloved will be open for public viewing as a sort of Gallery of the Dark Culture Elite.
~Jean-Paul Gaultier~ Designer/Costumer
D.L& Co.
~Douglas Little~Modern Alchemist/Perfumist
...Mr. Manson
~Vivienne Westwood~
Music:
"Gothic Folk" these days... Punk Caberet, Gothic, Deathrock, Batcave, Darkwave, Industrial, Apocalyptic Folk, Trash Rock/Garage, Psychedelic, Glam Rock, Psychobilly, Horror Punk, Ambient, New Wave, Trip Hop, etc.
Diamanda and Sioxsie~THE MOST BEAUTIFUL VAMPS OF OUR TIME~
Movies:
Pan's Labyrinth,The Cronicles of Narnia, A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Dark Crystal, NeverEnding Story, Legend, Labyrinth, Wizard of Oz, Return to Oz, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Merlin, The Mists of Avalon, Practical Magick, Bell Book and Candle, The Craft, Hocus Pocus, I Married a Witch, Chocolat, The Witches of Eastwick, Pink Floyd's: The Wall, Sun Ra: Space is the Place, The Beatle's: Yellow Submarine, Star Wars, Dune, Conan, Mad Max Beyond the Thunderdome, Baraka, City of Lost Children, 1984, Brazil, Ghost in the Shell, Suburbia, Natural Born Killers, Bonnie & Clyde, Sid & Nancy, The Hunger, The Island of Dr. Moreau, Decline of the Western Civilization (part 1), Basquiat, Purple Rain, Kids, (Directors: David Lynch, Both Coppolas, Tim Burton, Russ Meyers) Romeo and Juliet, What Dreams May Come, Amelie, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Santa Sangre, Blood of a Poet, The Brothers Quay Collection, Fando and Lis, Adult Fairy Tales: The Brothers Grimm, Alice, Snow White: A Tale of Terror, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast, The Princess Bride, Braum Stoker's Dracula, The Prophecy, The Seventh Sign, Constantine, Old Horror Films, The Silver Screen, Foriegn Films, Anime, Documentaries... Anything that fuels my already over-active Imagination
Television:
The Addams Family, The Munsters, Bewitched, Charmed, Medium, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Supernatural, Ghost Hunters, Nightstalker, GhostWhisperer, Most Haunted, Ghost Encounters, Madhouse
Books:
Anything about Religion, Ancient Cultures, Eastern Philosophy, Indigeneous Wisdom, Ethnobotany, the Victorian Era, the Occult, Healing Arts, Mysticism, Metaphysics, Conspiracy Theory, Myth, Folklore, Fairy Tales, Paranormal, Hauntings, Witchcraft, Lost Civilizations, Prophecies, Astrology, Philospophy, the Dead Poets
"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?" Alice in Wonderland
Heroes:
~Madame Blavatsky~ Occult Author/Founder of the Theophical Society
~Dion Fortune~Occult Author/Priestess/Member of the Golden Dawn
~Aleister Crowley~
~Dali~
~Theda Bara~
...Betty and Jayne...Meeow!
"Real Women Have Curves!"
