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Bella Donna

I am here for Dating, Serious Relationships, Friends and Networking

About Me

************************* **************************************************** community health nurse-herbalist******************** past/current lives: painter of portraits, camera fiddler, philthy sqatter, experimental filmmaker, smut peddler, accordionist, sailor, drag queen, piano composer. ..

My Interests

playing pretty, dark songs on the piano, reclaiming! being crafty, raising mischief, super 8, exploring, subverting, dressing up femme and fancy, wildcrafting, cooking, advocating for queer/trans health, exploring lost and haunted histories. i love travelling, gardening, the woods, and exploring urban wastelands. a

I'd like to meet:

the people I'm supposed to meet, of course........................gender blenders, someone to show me about music effects and gear/gadgets, real people, meanderers. rabble rousers, accordionistas, flamencoistas, dance partners, artists, kinky sassy hedonists, n' heathens.

Music:

In Like a Lion Out Like a Lamb (that's my defunct string quartet)... Genres are dark classical, no wave, doom metal, hip hop, deathrock, flamenco, trip hop, electoclash, tango, black metal. The swans, esmerine, the gault, trial of the bow, ulver, the rachel's, sunn o))), the cranes, amber asylum, kronos quartet, weakling, asunder, evoken, beethoven, chopin, MIA, joy division, chrome, lydia lunch, ludicra, yann tiersen, cocteau twins, saros, gladys bentley, yanka dyagileva, headcoatees, blonde redhead, agalloch, al green, eric satie, Jean Grae, Lil Kim, The Roots, Chromatics, Glass Candy, the Knife, Des Ark, New Bloods, yo majesty, prince...

Movies:

Lars Von Trier, john waters, Maria Beatty, Martha Colburn, kenneth anger, orson welles, Hitchcock, the Hunger, Paris is Burning, the innocents, over the edge, Underground, No Skin off my Ass, movies that creep me out, Bunuel, Un Chant D'Amour, Barbara Hammer, Jack Smith, super 8 stanley, brigitte bardot, richard kern.

Television:

i like to watch tv while the bullet shatters the glass... I mean really, watching the moon is so much more interesting. CURRENT MOON about the moon

Books:

barbara kingsolver, bell hooks, Jean Genet, paul farmer, michelle tea, JG Ballard, Barbara Ehrenreich, chuck palanhiuk, Leslie Feinberg, mike davis, medical history books

Heroes:

my heroes live on in spirit and memory: Julia, Lucie, Yanka, Klaus Nomi, and David Wojnarowicz, Beresford Egan Atropa belladonna: This deadly poisonous herb is associated with Water, Saturn, and Mars (because of its connection with the war goddess Bellona, not because it is a typical Mars plant). Some say the name, "belladonna" [beautiful lady] came about because Italian women used a tincture of it to dilate their pupils and thus appear more attractive, but "Belladonna" also contains the name "Bellona" in it, so the name might just be a way of naming the goddess without naming her. Bellona was a favorite of Roman soldiers; her priests used belladonna in religious ritual. Bellona represented the frenzy of battle and was variously identified as the wife, sister, or daughter of Mars. Her festival was June 3. In West European magick, this crone herb was allegedly an ingredient in flying ointments; even now it is considered a witchcraft essential. It was once used medicinally in minute doses, but reaction to it was too variable for safety.