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Sylvia

In my mind's eye, my thoughts light fires in your cities - Charles Manson

About Me

I'm a displaced Yankee, a writer, a metalhead, and a work in progress.Feel free to visit my website at Morgansylvia.com for an idea of my work.

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My Interests

Metal, writing, black metal, wolves, winter, poetry, druidry, horror, scriptwriting, screenplays, death, doom metal, death metal, pilates, yoga, fashion, Vikings, cemetary photography, reading, haunted asylums, UE, the ancient world, ancient history, ancient warfare, siege warfare, the dark ages, dead queens, quasars, the fae, goth fashion, Beowulf, art, paranormal stuff, paganism, renaissance fairs, bards, history, books, novels, film noir, dance, absinthe, autumn, Ogham, ballet, nightmares, hauntings, editing, danvers, sff, winter, horror authors, druids, wicca, mythology, the occult, nature, dead worlds, the apocalypse, shadow people, Erzebet Bathory, medieval warfare, the medieval world, medieval literature, medieval music, samurai, the classical age, the renaissance, castles, the Tudors, the Medicis, ancient Rome, the Viking world, Celtic mythology, magick, ghosts, art, dark poetry, haunted places, forests, prose, small press, Vikings, ancient Japan, dressage, the Victorian era, hedgehogs, publishing, sound engineering, hr geiger, necronomicon, writing, writing, writing, writing, writing. Also, writing.

I'd like to meet:

People who don't suck.

Music:

Emperor, My Dying Bride, Dimmu Borgir, Slayer, Dead Can Dance, Mayhem, Kataklysm, Suicidal Tendencies, Amon Amarth, Fear Factory, Beherit, Bathory, At the Gates, Sinister, Arsis, Black Sabbath, Dying Fetus, Death, Moon and the Nightspirit, Satyricon, Anathema, Tori Amos, Slechtvalk, Cradle of Filth, 1349, Danzig, Trouble, Disincarnate, Keep of Kalessin, Swallow the Sun, Corvus Corax, Hypocrisy, The Soil Bleeds Black, Dead Elizabeth, Carpathian Forest, Acid Bath, Deadboy & the Elephantmen, Agents of Oblivion, Thyrfing, Goatwhore, Dismember, Cannibal Corpse, COC, Type O, Kyuss, Alice in Chains, Corvus Corax, Samael, Agathodaimon, Dying Fetus, Blue Oyster Cult, Thryfing, Skyforger, Soundgarden, Medieval Baebes, Megadeth, Marduk, WASP, Asguard, Obituary, Fintroll, Tony Iommi, The Wounded, Malevolent Creation, Fear of God, Testament, Satyricon, Vince Conavay, Zeppelin, The Doors, Pink Floyd, The Cult, 13 Winters, lots of 80's, Unleashed, Dark Funeral, Duran Duran, King Diamond, Tea Party, Loreena McKennit, Rasputina, Iron Maiden, Tiamat, The Beautiful, Stevie Nicks, LA Guns, At the Gates, Pantera, Dokken, Queensryche, Tristania, Pat Benatar, Faith and the Muse, Faun, Bill Miller, Agalloch, Celtic Frost, Pollyn, Soledad, Anthrax ... this list could get really long so I'll just stop there.

Movies:

Queen Margot, 300, Braveheart, Session 9, The Seventh Seal (the Ingmar Bergman one), Ice Age, Pan's Labyrinth, Zoolander, old black and white horror movies, The Lost Boys, Elizabeth, LOTR, Hellraiser, The Legend of Hell House, Dragonhead, Shaun of the Dead, High Tension, Frankenstein, Rob Roy, Dracula, Eric the Viking, Nosferatu, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Lemony Snicket, Les Miserables, Trick or Treat, Ginger Snaps, Evil Dead, Suspiria, Prince of Darkness, The Wall, The Goonies, The Doors, Once were Warriors, Tristan & Isolde, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Last Unicorn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Incubus, all the old Romero zombie movies, The House by the Cemetary, Carrie, The Shining, Dagon, Firestarter, Princess Monoake, Donnie Darko, Save the Last Dance, Center Stage, anything with dancing, anything apocalyptic, anything without a bunch of glaring plot holes or stupid cliches, Blair Witch, Exorcist .... just to name some.

Television:

I'm a documentary whore.

Books:

Tanith Lee, Clive Barker, Brian Lumley, Robert McCammon, King, CJ Cherryh, George RR Martin, Jane Gaskell, HP Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe, JV Jones, CS Friedman, Dan Simmons, David Morrell, Juliet Marillon, Kealan Patrick Burke, Anais Nin, William Gibson, Robert E Howard, Frank Herbert, Gene Wolfe, Anne Rice, David Eddings, MZB, Cordwainer Smith, Morgan Llewelyn, a huge chunk of the 70's Daw line (I like those yellow spines!), Jean Plaidy, Evangeline Walton, Joan Vinge, some Tolstoy, Charles de Lint, L Sprague de Camp, sci-fi, horror, fantasy, the occasional chick lit or gothic novel, anything medieval, historical, paranormal, or occult-related, anything related to the ancient or medeival worlds, the Celts, the Romans, the Greeks ...Actually, I'll read pretty much anything.

Heroes:

GRRM and whoever invented cappucino.

My Blog

Kings and Queens

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2XYj4IDlNU I've always loved this song .... kinda cool to see it with some visuals...
Posted by Sylvia on Tue, 27 May 2008 07:40:00 PST

Windsurfing Antarctica

Antartica is intriguing ... so alien, so pristine, so beautiful. This must have been an amazing experience. Brr! Check out this video: Windsurfing Antarctica Add to My Profile | More Vide...
Posted by Sylvia on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:11:00 PST

Yeah, yeah, whatever.

I got shot (cough) excuse me, tagged for an 11-weird-things-about-me meme. I don't normally do memes or surveys (see reason 8) but this time I will oblige. (Damn you, Kincaid! I shall have my rev...
Posted by Sylvia on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 08:52:00 PST

Help! I've been robbed!!!

As if being stuck in Florida for my favorite holiday wasn't bad enough, I just realized that the haunted house our IT department usually puts together at work is nowhere to be found this year.  ...
Posted by Sylvia on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 08:40:00 PST

Wisdom from the catacombs

A friend of mine posted a link in her blog that led me to this photo. This is a sign that hangs in the restricted areas of the catacomb labyrinths below Paris. I found the verse&n...
Posted by Sylvia on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 08:09:00 PST

Silly things that make me laugh

This is cracking me up. When Star Trek meets the Flintstones
Posted by Sylvia on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:41:00 PST

Random quotes and musings from a disaffected universe

The strongest oak tree of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence a...
Posted by Sylvia on Tue, 20 Jun 2006 01:40:00 PST

Homesick Yankee stuck in the South

Seeing all this snow on the news really makes me miss Maine.  I'm so at the wrong end of the country. 
Posted by Sylvia on Mon, 13 Feb 2006 05:56:00 PST

2006???

Bring it ...  
Posted by Sylvia on Fri, 30 Dec 2005 05:37:00 PST

My favorite holiday

If I had a place to have a bonfire Samhain party, I'd invite all you guys.  
Posted by Sylvia on Mon, 31 Oct 2005 11:17:00 PST