I am interested in Language, Art, Addiction, Angels(male/abstract), Anomalies, Afterlife, Extended Life, Prison Life, Psychosis, Telepathy, Telekenesis, Trees, Twilight, Technology, Theology, Mythology, Introspection, Counter Culture, Design (Futuristic/Modern), Dreams, Desire, Sex, Surrealism, Space, and spray-painting the whole world Black. I find enormous pleasure in Music, Reading, Writing, Cinema, Animation, Photography(black and white) I also really enjoy working on my Collages--all black and white as well--I have horded a million magazines for this pulp-heavy purpose. My forays into photography, painting, and whatnot are mainly for myself--just weird abstract stuff--I can't really paint or anything--they're mainly venting tools for me--a twisted type of therapy. Walking or sitting along Lake Michigan and staring out into it at dusk is a favorite activity of mine--the vastness of the water is soothing--from ashore. Though it's been awhile, I really enjoy bizarre/dark/fantasy/action/horror video games, unique platforming, and surreal and mysterious interactive puzzle worlds like Obsidian, Drowned God and Myst--and crossword puzzles. Architecture can be quite intriguing--I'm a bit of a skyscraper geek actually--visit SkyscraperCity or SkyscraperPage for an overtall overdose. Lastly, I collect Tarot decks which stems from a polite interest in Magic and various Otherness.
Besides a very open-minded model
for surreal photo shoots,
I don't really care to meet anyone.
MUSIC: Darkwave, neo-classical, neo-metal, neo-folk, neo-military/martial, industrial, electrical, ethereal, experimental, ebm/synthpop-- and almost 80's anything. Cocteau Twins, Ataraxia, Kirlian Camera, Trisomie 21, Die Form, Project Pitchfork, VNV Nation, Wolfsheim, Wumpscut, In the Nursery, Jack or Jive, Qntal, Stoa, Skinny Puppy, Sol Invictus, Sieben, Siddal, Stereolab, Sugarcubes, Saint Etienne, My Scarlet Life, The Art of Noise, Alpha, Aphex Twin, Apoptygma Berzerk, Attrition, Aurora, Autumn Tears, The Frozen Autumn, Amber Asylum, Arcanta, Arcana, Area, Bel Canto, Black Rose, black tape for a blue girl, Curve, Cranes, Chandeen, Collection D'Arnell Andrea, Clock DVA, Calva Y Nada, Current 93, Coil, This Mortal Coil, The Eternal Afflict, Hex, His Name is Alive, Hooverphonic, Lamb, Lush, Lycia, Laibach, L'Ame Immortelle, La Floa Maldita, Love Spirals Downwards, Love is Colder Than Death, Loveliescrushing, Book of Love, Diary of Dreams, Tangerine Dream, Thrill Kill Kult, Lords of Acid, Pixies, Medicine, Midnight Oil, Indigo Girls, Concrete Blonde, 10,000 Maniacs, 808 State, XPQ-21, U-ziq, The Third Eye Foundation, Moby, Underworld, Future Sound of London, Boards of Canada, Orbital, Omni Trio, Oneiroid Psychosis, Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio, Ophelia's Dream, Dark Sanctuary, This Ascencion, Android Lust, Aesma Daeva, Mila Mar, Helium Vola, Elend, Chaostar, Mephisto Walz, Nightwish, Puissance, Karjalan Sissit, Kate Bush, Sarah Brightman, Grace Jones, Nina Hagen, Diamanda Galas, Sinead O'Connor, Stevie Nicks, Siouxsie, Sade, Enya, Enigma, Ekova, Eleven Shadows, Eurythmics, Perfume Tree, Red House Painters, Judgement of Paris, Faith and Disease, Soul Whirling Somewhere, Dive, De/Vision, Delerium, Dead Can Dance, Dargaard, Ildfrost, The New York Room, Rise and Fall of a Decade, Pride and Fall, Feindflug, Grendel, Ghosts of Breslau, H.E.R.R., In Slaughter Natives, Kreuzweg Ost, Rukkanor, Storm of Capricorn, Stormfagel, Triarii, Alle Sagen Ja, Allerseelen, Seelenthron, Spiritual Front, Rome, Dawn and Dusk Entwined, Der Blutharsch, Von Thronstahl, Westwind, A Challenge of Honour, Camerata Mediolanense, The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath A Cloud, Craig Armstrong, Seal, Sting, Stars of the Lid, Single Gun Theory, Therion, Tristesse De La Lune, Les Secrets De Morphee, Les Jumeaux, Ontario Blue, Virgin Black, Beautiful Green Peaboat .
I am usually anti-Hollywood and prefer good horror, sci-fi, martial arts, weird, surreal, foreign films or any combination thereof: Girl 6, Series 7, 8 Women, Super 8 1/2, 28 Days Later, 2046, Code 46, Code Unknown, Cube, The Loss of Sexual Innocence, Timecode, Hotel, A History of Violence, Nowhere in Africa, Apartment Zero, Alien trilogy, Amateur, Audition, Angel Dust, Aeon Flux, And the Ship Sails On, Calendar, Candiru, Captive, Celestial Clockwork, Chronically Unfeasible, Chuck and Buck, Celine and Julie Go Boating, With a Friend Like Harry, Venus Beauty Institute, Dans Ma Peau(In My Skin), Sitcom, Swimming Pool, Morven Callar, Madame Sata, Maria Full of Grace, Messiah, Ma Vie en Rose, Merci Pour La Chocolat, The Piano Teacher, God is Great, Godforsaken, Man on the Train, Everyone Who Loves Me Can Take the Train, La Femme Nikita, Killing Time, Killing Zoe, Kontrol, The Kingdom, The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover, The Last Dance, Layercake, Never Get Out of the Boat, Basquiat, Broken Flowers, Dirty Pretty Things, The Devil's Backbone, Tale of a Vampire, Vampire Hunter D, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Hero, House of Flying Daggers, Princess Blade, Baraka, Noir et Blanc, Aria, Loaded, In a Glass Cage, Intacto, House of Games, In The Mood for Love, Love Is The Devil, Love Is Colder Than Death, The Death King, Little Shop of Horrors, Happy Endings, The Happiness of the Katakuris, Open My Heart, Chaos, Crash, Carnage, Curdled, Commonwealth, Sixty-Nining, Skin of Man, The Princess and the Warrior, Irma Vep, The Heroic Trio, Don't Tempt Me, Maitresse, The Color Purple, Purple Rain, Red, Blue, White, Hustler White, Das Experiment, La Ceremonie, Ma Mere, Monsieur Hire, High Tension, Man Bites Dog, The Machinist, The Daytrippers, Training Day, Sunday, The Silence, Songs from the Second Floor, School Daze, I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, Fresh, Flirting, Flirt, O Fantasma, Head On, Diva, Black Orpheus, Orlando, Titus, Edward II, Eve's Bayou, DEBS, Bound, Belle Epoque, All About My Mother, Kika, French Twist, Reykjavik 101, Nine Queens, When the Cat's Away, Intimate Strangers, Secrets and Lies, Career Girls, Gosford Park, Ghost Dog, Following, Memento, Pi, Trick, Wonderland, Beautiful Thing, The Opposite of Sex, Sex is Comedy, Anatomy of Hell, Fat Girl, Irreversible, Time of the Wolf, La Jetee, Geneaologies of a Crime, The Element of Crime, Equilibrium, Blade Runner, Day Watch, Night Watch, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Last Night, Night On The Galactic Railroad, Ninja Scroll, Spirited Away, Lain:Serial Experiments, Perfect Blue, Bleach, Animatrix, Akira, Angel Cop, Cowboy Bebop, Ghost in the Shell, Wicked City, Dark City, Sin City, Suspiria, Terror At The Opera, The Saddest Music In the World, Underworld, The Matrix trilogy, X-Men trilogy, Pitch Black, Stargate, Demonlover, Dolls, Russian Ark, Bagdad Cafe, Eversmile New Jersey, Pan's Labyrinth, Cache, Children of Men, Half Nelson, Sunshine, The Golden Compass, The Orphanage, Pistol Opera, Black Snake Moan, Tell No One, Funny Games, A Girl Cut In Two, Calvaire, Volver, Immortal.
I do not watch much television anymore-- nor should you. However, if any of you are ever inclined, drift over to www.flickr.com/vadrian7/sets
I read all kinds of stuff (novel/graphic novel)but I am mainly a fan of the weird, surreal, horror, dark, vampire, sci-fi, magic stuff. I love Garth Nix particularly his Sabriel/Abhorsen series. I enjoy Neil Gaiman's work. Abarat. House of Leaves. Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch. Anti-Gay. The Caveman's Valentine. Broom of the System. Sula. Fast Food Nation. Who's Afraid of A Large Black Man? Black Girl In Paris. Black Shapes in a Darkened Room. 1984. Exquisite Corpse. I Am Legend. Vittorio the Vampire. Vampire Hunter D. Vampires Anonymous. The Historian. The Fallen Trilogy. The Nikopol Trilogy. The Bartimaeus Trilogy. Magic:The Mirrodin Cycle. Magic:The Onslaught Cycle. Gloom Cookie. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. A Series of Unfortunate Events--but I was a little disappointed in The End. All the 30 Days of Night tales. The Spiderwyck Chronicles. The Dampyr series. The Lucifer series. The Nightside series. The Griffin and Sabine series. The Courtney Crumrin series. The Harry Potter series. Eragon. Eldest. The His Dark Materials Trilogy. The Wraeathu Trilogy. The Dresden Files and Vampire: The Requiem series which are both set in Chicago. The Vampire Earth novels. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell. The Blood Books. Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? Authentically Black. The Black Tattoo. The Algebraist. The State of The Art. The Player of Games. Use of Weapons. I am currently reading The Risen Empire: Book One of Succession.
I have no heroes.