Sebastien, Napoleon and Snorlax, cigarettes, books, love, the blue hours, coffee, tears, Mother Night, dressing up fancy, narghila, sleep, dreams, ghosts, bunnies, lipstick on the mirror, petrol fumes, compassion, war, flowers, swearing, romance, my european heritage, laying in the cool grass at the park in the morning sun, mystery, dark forests, cities at night, high heels, stolichnaya, hell, buddhism, blood, big heavy sheets of fine creamy white paper, alchemy, mists and fogs, hagiography, all the furry little animals, lanterns, big noses, sin/penitence/redemption, champagne in the bathtub at 3am, whistling, tragedy, cats, qaballah, big hair, early christian heretical sects, humility, vengeance, albinos, the celestial sphere, traditional sufism, fancy restaurants, donkeys, the Eastern Flower, kameradschaft, SECRETS, melancholia, Her Blessed Majesty La Luna, lambsbread/skanga, the occult, hedgehogs, pharmaceuticals, ripped stockings and runny eyeliner, the Sacred Monarchy That Is Yet to Come, the smell of nail polish, history, and most of all, ART: albrecht durer, suehiro maruo, rosetti, gustave moreau, nik blinko, the marques de pubol, g.b.piranesi, early 20th c. euro propaganda, otto dix, wictor sadowski, jessica and jared joslin, etienne-louis boullée, ingres, colette calascione, galliano, de limpicka, goya, tiepolo, wieslaw walkuski, punk and post-punk album cover art 76-83, surrealism, pierre et gilles, henry darger, vivienne westwood, arnold bocklin, lori field, masami teraoka, ancient roman and pompeian art, gustave dore, francisszek starowieyski, xiaoqing ding, pre-20c natural history illustration, yoshitaka amano, paul delvaux, erte, lucas cranach (elder), military and historical costumery, william blake, a.g. rizzoli, moki, euro religious art until mid 20th c., middle eastern art and calligraphy, odilon redon, leszek zebrowski, many childrens book illustrators, de chirico, virgil finlay, typography and calligraphy, all the great japanese print artists (kuniyoshi, hiroshige, yoshitoshi, hokusai, etc,), john martin, frank frazetta, giuseppe arcimboldo, beatrix potter, art nouveau (mucha!) and jugendstijl, deco, gothic architecture, the baroque period, patrick nagel, the rococo period, fidus, wieslaw rosocha, renee magritte, walton ford, aubrey beardsley, pre-50s advertising art, peter sis, the list goes on and on,...
I'd like to meet:
the entire world, in all of its dark and splendid glory...and Theda Bara, of course...as well as the russian cat-lady...anyone else who can see beyond the pale illusion of life that we all have to endure daily, and into the TRUTH of genuine imagination and inspiration...
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Music:
music is food for the soul, and mine is always so very, very hungry...
o paradis, spiritual front, smiths/moz, death in june, novy svet, stiff kittens, ianva, ain soph, divine comedy, boys next door/birthday party/nick cave, current 93, pulp, comando suzie, the holy kiss, kurt weill, wagner, mushroom's patience, suede, mercy design, sandy shaw, michael nyman, john cooper clarke, pet shop boys, der blutharsch, abba, nature and organization, nina hagen, din [a] tod, specimen, kate bush, the conet project, susi doree, arvo part, t rex, bauhaus, peter murphy, beborn beton, jacques brel, derniere volonte, roxy music/bryan ferry, plastique noir, chantal goya, muslimgauze, graumahd, the cranes, camouflage, traditional folk music from europe, japan, india, mexico, and the middle east, king tubby, guniw tools, alternative TV, das ich, france gall, link wray, primal scream, orchestre noir, sol invictus, DAF, lee hazelwood, wendy carlos, can, ennio morricone, fin de siecle, roy orbison, naevus, the shangri-las, marc almond/soft cell, ute lemper, johnny cash, visage, hank williams sr., libertines, love, klezmer, gun club, southern/death/cult. rudimentary peni, momus, supergrass, cockney rebel, haysi fantayzee, X, scott walker, specimen, bigod 20, spoon, cachao, nico, lech jankowski, siouxsie and the banshees, nino rota, scientist, segovia, danielle dax, fun boy three, stranglers, ian dury, the saints, blackstrobe, cure, shilfee and tulip corobockles, goblin, depeche mode, PIL, the fall, bowie, clan of xymox, leadbelly, allerseelen, godspeed you black emperor, stravinsky, stereolab, gypsy laments, xmal deutschland, leonard cohen, sparks, astor piazzola, ladytron, laibach, fin de siecle, toroidh, the dears, gang of four, coil, bessie smith, chameleons UK, black heart procession, christian death/rozz, shinjuku thief, velvet underground, howling wolf, echo and the bunnymen, the zombies, ? and the mysterians, broadcast, the names, stromkern, the sound, wagner, swell maps, OMD (early), the jam, sparks, germs, dr. pablo, love and rockets, crass, magazine, ulver, killing joke, billie holiday, gary numan, fado, red lorry yellow lorry, emperor, adam and the ants, covenant, subway sect, the wake, chris and cosey, my bloody valentine, spacemen 3, japan, syd barrett, ryuichi sakamoto, the damned, ultravox, queen, duranx2, almost everything on factory, kinks, blonde redhead, lush, sisters of mercy, camouflage, purcell, fad gadget, orange juice/edwyn collins, 3mile pilot, moi dix mois, fischerspooner, tones on tail, these animal men, erasure, the faces, wire, 4AD, goldfrapp, belle and sebastian, gene pitney, strawberry switchblade, tindersticks, joao and astrud gilberto, elliot smith, clash, the clientele, beethoven, cocteau twins, beautiful skin, cab calloway, march violets, lords of the new church, alice cooper, shostakovich, wolfsheim, book of love, richard hawley, only ones, johnny thunders, nikki sudden, sexgang children...
Movies:
"a zed and two noughts" is my favourite film of all time, i own it and have watched it more times than i could begin to count, but i also love all other peter greenaway films, as well as "tekkonkinkreet", "triumph of the will", andrei tarkovsky, abbas kiarostami, "valerie and her week of wonders", ladislaw starewicz, sergio leone, claire denis, "the cement garden", louis bunuel, herzog, krzysztof kieslowski, the brothers quay, david lynch, parajanov, stanley kubrick, francois ozon, jean cocteau, hammer films, pasolini, busby berkeley, polanski, "blood tea and red string", fassbinder, pedro almodovar, jeunette et caro, fritz lang, vera chytilova, francois truffaut, teshigahara, f.w.murnau, jean-pierre melville, takeshi kitano, akira kurosawa, claude chabrol, "bladerunner", val lewton, james whale, chan-wook park, "if...", michelangelo antonioni (only into the "blow up" era), "grave of the fireflies", federico fellini, guy maddin, miyazaki, "get carter", ingmar bergman, jan svankmajer, and anything with Polly Walker or Beatrice Dalle...
Television:
may i introduce Napoleon and Snorlax, AKA Franklin and Souvlaki, also known jointly as "Two Scoops" or "Kittershnickles"...together they're over 20 kilos of kat! my little buddies sleep all fucking day...i want to know what they dream about...if there was a channel like that, i'd buy a TV and i'd never turn it off...
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Books:
louis-ferdinand celine, paul celan, renee crevel, lawrence durrell, mikhail bulgakov, thomas pynchon, yukio mishima, anthony burgess, paul bowles, lewis carroll, albert camus, "ceasar's gallic wars", jean-paul sartre, g.garcia marquez, bruno schultz, voltaire, robert walser, e.a.poe, j.k. huysmans, rumi, georges bataille, isidore ducasse, ka-tzetnik 135633, william blake, jean genet, ian mcewan, rumi, laurence sterne, franz kafka, bukowski, rabelais...just to start with...
Heroes:
steven morrissey, marlene dietrich, david tibet, oscar wilde, feld-marshall erwin rommel, scott walker, freddy mercury, joan of arc, william blake, marc almond, peter cushing, quentin crisp, ogami itto and daigoro, joss ackland, amelia earhart, dr. jack kevorkian, douglas p., and so many, many more...those who don't let themselves be imprisoned by conventional morality and supposed "normalcy"...all of those who live life on their own terms and don't let what anyone else thinks hinder them in following their True Path...those who don't fall in line with the herd...people with great style, and the substance to back it up...
C.C. Askew's Details
Status: celibate
Here for: Friends and networking
Orientation: disoriented
Hometown: La Ciudad De La Reina De Los Angeles
Body Type: skinny
Ethnicity: english, irish, welsh, scottish, norwegian, and french
Religion: still working on it...
Sign: aries/scorpio rising
Smoke / Drink: marlboros and stolichnaya
Children: one lovely son
Education: many kicks to the head (both actual and metaphoric), a fucking TON of books, and a few fine mentors...
Occupation: drysniper
