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About Me

It's always about 'ME', isn't it?...
Well, for one thing and to get things straight, I really don't look anything like King Leonidas of 300 (-but then I guess, neither the true Leonidas did!).
Some people know me as a researcher/investigator of the 'mysterious' and 'Paranormal', mainly from my series of articles featured over the last 10 years in two Greek magazines, Strange & Mystiki Ellada (i.e. Secret Greece)(- http://www.agnosto.gr) and from my contributions to several compilation books of the genre (Underground Cities, War against the Matrix, Other Dimensions, Gaia: Our Secret Planet, Forbidden Books, Magic Creatures, Ghosts). On local major TV shows, I have been presented as a 'Ghosthunter', 'Shadow-chaser' (mainly from my latest research subject), or simply a 'journalist and researcher of the Supernatural'. In fact I have long ceased to draw a line between the 'natural' and the 'supernatural', everything seems just as normal to me.
Others may know me as a loyal fan of the Gothic culture, who over the last twenty years has done more or less his bit for promoting it locally. Perhaps a dozen of these people have even heard of Spirits of Yew, a fruit of my relation with Gothic music (-although rather targeting to a private satisfaction of expressing all musical creative needs, hence for the moment, deliberately kept off the highlights...).
Yet other people, especially ebay sellers, know me as a book collector. I must be having about 2500 books in my bookshelves, some of them actually quite rare, dating back a few centuries. Probably more than I'll ever be able to read in my lifetime, but I'm considering, after death, to donate them to some public library and then simply... haunt it! (...Well, at least I have an excuse to keep buying!)
Some people know me as a saint.
Some people know me as a fool.
...But the truth is that nothing of all these is really me. That's only what others may think of me...
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I am a dream. A chain of mystical sequences. They evolve at variable speed: they may last only an instant, or creep in oceans of eternity. I don't know 'who', or 'what' is dreaming. I am the link. I try to maintain control over their evolution, to be the developer of the world of me, a lucid dream. Sometimes I make it. Sometimes I even manage so well that I look more like a vision. A vision in a dramatic battle of turning chaos into order and itself into reality. (...As if reality is more than a dream!)
In the form of vision, I tend to (dominate other dreams) enter people's minds. Some call this power 'psi'.
...Yet there are other times. Times when things evolve rapidly to unpredictable directions over which it is hard for me to maintain any control. It's as if Hyde awakens and chaos rules. These times I'd rather not share. For your own sake. For such times, I'm simply a nightmare... ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------
* ALL THE PLACES I'VE SEEN... ALL THE FACES I'VE BEEN... * ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------
The photos above are from various trips during the last couple of years: Stonehenge and Glastonbury, Dartmoor and Exeter in Devonshire, Newgrange, the Hill of Tara and Dublin in Ireland, the Greek islands of Chios, Naxos and Euvoia and the ancient theater of Dodoni. Some of the pictures hold their own secrets, for example, the photo of the Exeter Cathedral seems to have caught a strangely familiar ghostly shape looking from one of the top arch-windows. (More on this and other Ghost stories at my Blog section).
For other gloomy, atmospheric photos you may also visit my alter-ego music Profile as "Spirits of Yew" (link at the Friends section)
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And speaking of music,'dj jonathan' recommends you to take sometime to enjoy the following Playlist, which includes some great classics, new or 'old' (for such songs never really age) from many of my honorable listed friends...
* (Note: "Track 05" by IKON is actually "Forever" and instead of the Sisters "Flood I" you'll listen to "We are the saints Suzanne", but that's how the songs had been uploaded in i-tunes).I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

My Interests

Bright-ening the world, of course...

I'd like to meet:

Murphy the law-bringer and torture him forever on (and on...) As a general rule, I do meet everyone I'd really like to meet (unfortunately, among others that I definitely wouldn't like), but this guy so far manages to keep one step ahead. I am always at his heels though, I sense his presence, I smell his odor, so sooner or later, I'll get to him...
Someday, I'd also like to meet St Peter in Paradise (in fact, I hope to find Vincent Price there, too) -well, since I've already met the devil on Earth, sounds fair enough, doesn't it?...
Speaking of the devil, and as this still seems too short for an answer, I've decided to simply add some of those I may think I'd like to meet. Starting with... ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------
The lady on the left of course, Monica indeed. The best succubic she-vamp Hollywood has ever produced. (...And to think that the lucky bastard was but another Jonathan!...) ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------
The model posing on the cover of The Damned 'Phantasmagoria' album and the single... 'The Shadow (!) of Love' (Bob Carlos Clarke's immortal 'Dream Keaper')

On second thought, I'd like to have met her... 20 years ago.
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Now, since due to the gothic style, I tend to look kind of the 'western' type, I guess I should learn how to ride. So I would need an expert teacher to guide me through my first steps. That's how Jennifer comes up. (Oh, and how perfectly she qualifies!...)

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Lastly (and to withdraw once and for all the suspicion that there's some kind of a meme program producing a certain female form to obsess my brains), I confess... It did cross my mind to include in the list that blond talented actress starring in the acclaimed horror movie 'Evil Breed: The Legend of Samhain', but I gather she's a bit too much used for my taste. Still, one has to be honest, she does have such a beautiful hair, doesn't she?...
Normally, at this point, Jenna's blinking banner would appear, but lately the link is not working, so instead, you will now be getting images from Jenna's stunning new project:

I think it is more than obvious now how jealous Mrs Jameson must have been of... my title! (Hey, why don't I get to publish a bloody 'Shadow-Hunter' comic?...)-------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ --------
Now, it may look to you that I'm just about one single step from the pit. Thankfully though there's that old, almost ancient, illuminating line that comes to remind the source of the trouble, of how it all had started... "The Sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose." (-Genesis 6:2). So in a final effort to evade this succumbing fate, I turn my back to those mystical traditions that claim that the 'hidden eye' lies in the female womb and awakens during the time of catamenia, and resist that step by publicly stating that my interest in the beautiful daughters of men is 'purely artistic' (-Art being the medium to communicate 'God'). And thus, I hope, I may still get away with my dignity full and the soul intact. And may even get to meet Vincent Price one day...
SUBDUE YOUR ANIMAL INSTINCTS AND FREE YOURSELF FROM THE PRISON OF MATTER...
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Music:

Gothic Rock, electrogoth, a selective bit of postpunk + dark ebm, anything Celtic + much of film music (James Horner, Christopher Young, Jerry Goldsmith, Danny Elfman, Hans Zimmer, etc...). See across for a Gothic Playlist sample... You may also wish to peek through my selection of nice music videos (check My favorite videos) and a Gothic video playlist in my Blogs section, which will be updated from time to time... In the same section you will also find a (rather peculiar) photo-review of the memorable Fields of the Nephilim gig at Astoria (May 24th, 2007), where I had the luck to be present. This year it is the Nephs that are coming to Athens, two more great nights to enjoy...
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Movies:

Gothic oldies (like Hammer and American International Films), Gothic newbies (from atmospheric thrillers like 'The Others' to the neo-goth vampire vs werewolf style cult series, i.e. 'Underworld', 'Nightwatch', etc) and generally supernatural, mystery, horror -although not much of a splatters fan. I always thought that the ultimate expression of the fear and horror of death is not that of the flesh rotting or being torn apart and ripped to the bone (this even a plain nurse, sooner or later, learns to deal with), but a total strip down to nothingness, the true inexistence. This is why, but for a few exceptions, I'm not particularly interested in the Italian school chillers...
My top favorite film: Ingmar Bergman's 'The Seventh Seal'...
And for my second favorite rank Corman's 1964 adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Masque of the Red Death',and the screen adaptation of Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'.But my favorite scene arguably comes from Bram Stoker's 'Dracula', another much beloved movie. Here goes...

Television:

Only good as a screen -apart from the live discussion shows in which occasionally I'm invited, that is...(lol)
The interesting series, such as 'Supernatural', 'The Ghost Whisperer', etc, we don't really get to watch on the local network, so we have to wait for the dvd release.

Books:

Gothic literature, macabre, mythology, archeology, folklore, religion, occult, metaphysics and paranormal, psychology, science, books from any field that can help in my own research studies.(Yep, I'm a writer, too...)

Heroes:

Everyone who manages to be his own hero. SUBDUE YOUR FEARS AND FREE YOURSELF FROM THE PRISON OF REALITY...Diary of Dreams - AmoK

Fields of the Nephilim - Last Exit for the Lost

My Blog

Conspiracy theories

CONSPIRACY THEORIESZEITGEIST New, remastered version here... ..Zeitgeist II trailer .. See also. http://www.pentagonstrike.co.uk/pentagon_gr.htmMain...
Posted by Jonathan Bright on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 05:26:00 PST

Fields of the Nephilim, 24th Mayment

FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM - 24th Moment Disclaimer: There haven’t been any effects used in the process of uploading these photos, so the orbs, the evaporating shapes, the ectop...
Posted by Jonathan Bright on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 07:01:00 PST

Cerne Abbas Homer

ANCIENT HERITAGE’Pre-Inca’ temple found in PeruArchaeologists in Peru have discovered ancient temple ruins that could predate the Inca empire.The temple on the periphery of the Sacsayhuama...
Posted by Jonathan Bright on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 01:43:00 PST

MYTHICAL BEINGS

"MYTHICAL" BEINGS Island find stirs Hobbit debate The discovery on South Pacific islands of ancient bones thought to belong to a tribe of tiny humans has raised new anthropol...
Posted by Jonathan Bright on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:00:00 PST

Events coming up...

EVENTS COMING UP......
Posted by Jonathan Bright on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 03:33:00 PST

Jonathan Bright Interview @ www.metafysiko.gr

INTERVIEWSJONATHAN BRIGHT @ www.metafysiko.grOctober 2007 interview with Jonathan Bright at metafysiko.gr - "Of Shadows, night-mares and more..." (in Greek)JOSEPH VARGO (published in Stran...
Posted by Jonathan Bright on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:26:00 PST

Grave Desires...

STORIES FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE- Hathors and... Ferrycats -OSCAR THE CAT PREDICTS PATIENTS' DEATHS By RAY HENRY, Associated Press WriterWed Jul 25, 5:19 PM ET Oscar the cat seems to hav...
Posted by Jonathan Bright on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:27:00 PST

Gothic Video Playlist

GOTHIC MUSIC VIDEO PLAYLISTFields of the Nephilim - Shroud (on Silent Hill trailer) ...
Posted by Jonathan Bright on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 12:47:00 PST

CRYPTOZOOLOGY

CRYPTOZOOLOGYEl... Chupa-dog-ras(!)El perro de los Baskerville Add to My Profile | More VideosHound Dracula's vampire dog By VIRGINIA WHEELER September 05, 2007 A HORRIFYING breed of ...
Posted by Jonathan Bright on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 02:43:00 PST

Do you believe in GHOSTS?...

OF GHOSTS AND OTHER 'SPOOKS'...Ghostly... William(?)One of the pictures of St. Peter's Cathedral in Exeter, shot during my Devonshire exploration tour, last May& At first look everything loo...
Posted by Jonathan Bright on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 01:03:00 PST