Hi World, pleased to meet you...
Welcome to my personal webpage. I am a professional pianist, wedding/funeral organist, saxophonist, violinist, artist's muse, theologian, biblical scholar and author of the weblogs
http://theomegacourse.blogspot.com
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THE OMEGA COURSE
And
http://thegeekmuse.blogspot.com/
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 THE GEEK MUSE
I like:
B flat major, red nail polish, the art of Albrecht Durer, Hieronymus Bosch, Francisco Goya and Gil Elvgren, the Burlesque, ancient languages, Egyptian art, the Secret Gospel of Mark, desserts that come in ‘chocolate’ and ‘big f**k off size’, americana, the short stories of Edgar Allen Poe, the playwright Edward Albee, hypnotism and suggestion, Rockabilly art, Chartreuse and lemonade, steampunk, Gary Larson's 'Far Side', vampires, funfairs and penny arcades, playing Chopin nocturnes, vaudeville, skyscraper heels, abyssinian cats, guitar feedback, oddballs and curios, Danny Elfman, Apollonius of Tyana, Roquefort cheese, hammering a decent sized church organ and plugging in my amp
I intensely dislike:
Homophobes, Boxing Day, toast, D. H. Lawrence and academic arsiness
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I have old fashioned values, but modern morals
I see beauty (and comedy) in the most terrible things
I prefer the company of cats
I believe that the body is simply an instrument through which we experience the world. We should therefore be experimental with it and not seek to preserve it unnaturally
I believe that the Devil, not God, sees your every move
I have a silly and sometimes obscene sense of humour
I find conventionally good-looking people boring to look at
I feel most alive in the unfamiliar
I have spent the evening in a Masonic Temple on several occasions
I could quite happily survive on Kinder eggs and Haribo sweets :)
I love to play the piano alone in the dark but it creeps me out
I am prone to an excessive use of exclamation marks!
I love to make people laugh
I believe that you should either wear heels or go barefoot
I like to be intrigued, but not terrified
I never, ever, weigh myself
I don’t have any tattoos or piercing, apart from the infamous ‘vampire bite’ on my left side ;)
I am equally repulsed by superiority and inverse snobbery
I compromise fairly
I believe that religion can be marvellously liberating or horrifically debilitating
I do not believe in any of this ‘let go of the past and look to the future’ bullshit
I feel devastatingly guilty if I accidentally step on a bug, but I think that humans are essentially selfish, self-righteous, foul, pestilent sacks of bile and gasses and I would happily and without hesitation, press the big red button and blow us all to buggery...
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Thank you for crossing my threshold, stay as long as you like, say hi or sign the guestbook to let me know that you passed through.
Pleased to meet you,
This above all:
to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man
- Polonius, Hamlet, Act I Scene III
Me playing Metallica's 'Nothing Else Matters' on a church organ (see blog for more pieces....)