I am a shop owner of The Blue Lotus (what use to be Area 51) in San Rafael. I am intensely passionate about this ancient craft of body modifications.... of all sorts. I have been a body piercer since 94 and a scarification/ modification artist. I dabble a bit in tattooing, i am trained in cosmetic tattooing, but that brought me to step forward into deeper and more artistic levels. I am a blessed woman. My job is so much more then a way of earnings... it fills me with joy and connects me to something that is of ancient spirit that stirs deep within my blood and soul. My life is full of love and passion and i appriciate every moment and all that may come. I love to spend my days with my sweet Saba, wheather it be trudging through the mountains, or sands, 4x4ing exploring new worlds or just lounging about by the fire. Every moment is a gift, I choose to live in love and experience the beauty of life. I am in a performance/fire troop with 8 other ladies and one brave man.... called Solstice Fire. I love to craft and introvert as well as go fourth and seek and destroy........ facial tattoos, belly dancing, fire dancing, crafting, cooking, dreads, bones and dead stuff, old cemetaries (especially in Scotland), old cathedrals, religious art, serial killers, old childrens books, antique dolls, single malt scotch, tribal art, indian food ..yum, freak shows and oddities, things in jars, old surgical tools, bad horror films, disney (cuz it's evil), spiders, my critters ( I have my own personal zoo), festivals, traveling, the ocean, the night, the moon, the three together...these are just a few of lifes beauties that I appriciate, the list continiously grows as i do.
Music:
Ears; Are an arogionious zone to fill my body with passion and emotion... beautiful... dark... seductive; swirling sounds that control, consoul and feeds my most inner soul!!! So much to list... but I'll try: The Cure, The Cranes, The Legendary Pink Dots, The Tear Garden, The Cramps, The Black Heart Procession, The Misfits, The Swans, The Sissior Sisters, Tom Waits, Death in June, Current 93, Ingowan Ring, Bauhaus, Depeche Mode, Sky Cries Mary, Jarboe, Joy Division, Virgin Prunes, Bright Eyes, Karl Saunders, Siouxsie, Queen Adreena, World of Skin, Faith and the Muse, Sigur Ros, Moguai, Red Sparowes, Portishead, Morcheba, Snake River Con.., Dead Can Dance, Coil, Skinny Puppy, Sparkle Horse, Tram, Low, Alien Sex Fiend, Christian Death, Iron Maiden, Slayer, Concrete Blonde, Radiohead, Mogwai, Red Sparowes, Isis, Godspeed, Spearhead, Ozomatti, Django, Natasha Atlas, PJ Harvey, Nick Cave, Mark Lanogan, Pigeonhead, Brad, Janes Addiction, Tool. I love for jazz, swing, blues, blue grass, middle eastern, reggie, death metal, and anything with an accordian.
Movies:
Of course the end all of end all movies, the greatist film ever made.....YOUNG FRAKENSTEIN. MOST Tim Burton films (not that one about the monkey people, or apes, whatever the hell, god that sucked so bad I didn't even see it) Fantasy films; Legend, Laberynth, Secret of Nimh, Wizards, The Hobbit. Beautiful/creepy indi films; The Brothers Quay, The City of Lost Children, Secret adv of Tom Thumb. All David Lynch films. Silly 80's flims... Xanadu...frickin classic!!! and every bad horror flick made the bloodier the better.
Television:
TV sucks. The only good shows that were on are canceled; Ab Fab, The Muppet Show, Twin Peaks, The Adams Family. Well A few exceptions; Carnival, Six feet under, South Park, and The Simpsons
Books:
Calven & Hobbes, Bukowski, Neil Gaiman, Charles de Lint, Brian Froud, Clive Barker Hunter S Thompson, Robert Fulghum, The Dalai Lama, true crime, Jhonen Vasquez, and old childrens fables.
Heroes:
joe and jesus ( I think they were lovers, or maybe brothers.)
