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Victoria

About Me

What makes my life worth living - Extreme metal and spending all my money on gigs and festivals in any place that I can feasibly reach, travelling the world and going on adventures, Europe!, university and the wonderful world of literature, trying to help people and make the world a little bit of a happier place if possible, exploring nature, doing anything for an adrenaline rush, Italian food and cheap wine, making ridiculous impulse decisions, hunting down alien and surreal experiences, getting lost in a book and working on my own writing, connecting with people, the world in general...

I can be quite an introverted person but very passionate too. I am a realist clinging on to a romantic streak; philosophically at least. Permanently seeking the sublime and transcendental but in the absence of that I am more than happy with good friends, good drink and good music playing!

My Interests

Gigs, festivals, metal, literature, late nights and lie-ins, alcohol, history, my cat, sleeping outdoors, cinema, natural beauty, interesting conversation, photography, travel, imagination.

I'd like to meet:

Genuine people who are friendly and have something worthwhile to say.

Music:

I love metal, especially black, folk and doom. My absolute favourite bands are Moonsorrow, Windir, Catamenia and Dornenreich. Some other bands that I particularly enjoy are - Shape Of Despair, Falkenbach, Nokturnal Mortum, XIV Dark Centuries, Thy Serpent, Arkona, Thyrfing, Ashen Light, Fjoergyn, Reverend Bizarre, Vreid, Bathory, Primordial, Severnie Vrata, Kampfar, Taake, Seth, Mael Mordha, While Heaven Wept, Negura Bunget, Myrkgrav, Centurions Ghost, Alcest, Ruins Of Beverast, Cor Scorpii, Golden Dawn, Barathrum, Amon Amarth, Angantyr, Menhir, Burzum, Of The Wand And The Moon, Thiasos Dionysos, The Meads Of Asphodel, Drudkh, Immortal, Equilibrium, Summoning, Enslaved, Heidevolk, Isole, Eluveitie, Rapture, Sear Bliss, Ensiferum, Amorphis, Glorior Belli, Sabaton, Candlemass, Katatonia, Carpathian Forest, Amesoeurs, Emperor, Forefather, Manegarm, Black Messiah, Isengard - etc, etc, etc!

Movies:

I have terrible taste in films - my favourite is Gone With The Wind - seriously...

Television:

Prison Break, Peep Show, Family Guy, Simpsons, Futurama and all that good stuff, Planet Earth

Books:

Georges Bataille, Viktor Frankl, J.M. Coetzee, Novalis, Laurence Sterne, Oscar Wilde, Edmund Spenser, Du Maurier (particularly her short stories), Shelley, Kafka, Susan Hill, T.S Eliot, Paul Theroux, Goethe, and many more - Always looking for good recommendations :)

Heroes:

Ray Smuckles