These would be: reading voraciously, publishing and editing an e-zine dedicated to matters of the Spirit called .. The Cone of Power , covering the whole gamut from metaphysics to quantum physics and the shamanic/magical lore of all cultural traditions, with a particular interest in Native American/Canadian spirituality. Metalworking, firewalking, photography, the haunting of hardware stores - I am forever inspired by industrial design, cucumber-training (as in gardening, not some arcane sexual practice), working as a volunteer in various wildlife centres and animal shelters for the past fourteen years, collecting of crystals, rocks and minerals of all kinds, environmentalism, Zero Population Growth, drawing, sewing, dance - modern and classical, theatre, healing arts - my training is mainly in Polarity Therapy, Shiatsu, Reiki and Crystal Healing. As a proponent of Slow Time - slow mobility, slow food, slow pace of life in general, I may not answer any messages as soon as they are received but do get to all of them eventually, so please be patient. "Precarity" as a lifestyle. I adhere to the Japanese concept of Wabi Sabi, which is all about finding beauty in imperfection. Most things Gothic and those pertaining to the occult. (Regarding the last: I feel the need to point out here that I am neither a Wiccan nor a Satanist nor a member of any other organized religion whatsoever. Our spiritual beliefs are informed by our experiences and as such, are very personal and cannot be truly shared.) My latest passion: relearning to play the piano, after many years of avoidance due to childhood trauma. Here are some of my efforts in the field of visual arts:
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I'd like to meet:
Generally speaking, I enjoy communing with evolved beings, nonlinear thinkers, courageous souls, intellectuals who do not take themselves seriously, true aristocrats who are not snobs, cultivated bohemians, rebels and iconoclasts, culture jammers, astral travellers and dreamers, artists and shamans. Beings who refuse to "grow up", and so, continue to grow. (As Tom Robbins likes to put it: "It's never too late to have a happy childhood".) Star People who are aware of their heritage. (You know who you are!)Those who are well-read and well-bred are always welcome in my realm. Ages, races, species, genders, sexual orientations, planets of origin, et al are irrelevant to me. Intelligence, emotional depth and a sense of humour do matter a great deal. And please, be articulate, cosmopolitan and refined! I have no interest in dating but I am always open to the notion of meeting kindred spirits. (Yes, correspondence is a possibility, but I have no time for idle chats.) *Individuals I do NOT seek out would include the following: superficial yuppies, arrogant males, politically correct pedants, religious fundamentalists of all stripes, flag-waving nationalists, greedy capitalists, polluters of both physical and psychic planes, right-wingers, members of the Great Brainwashed, puritans, mindless consumers, immature, vulgar, coarse people, fear-mongerers, imperialists, misogynists, xenophobes, those who neglect to read the above yet still want to add me.
Music:
Check out this band, please, they are wonderful, my very favourite Industrial/Folk band, with a fine sense of irony, intense sound, intelligent lyrics and dark humour:My most beloved artists include: The Sisters of Mercy, Letzte Instanz, Tanzwut/Corvus Corax, Lacrimosa, Rammstein, Megaherz, Eisbrecher, The Tea Party, Front Line Assembly, Front 242, Goethes Erben, Die Untoten, Kraftwerk, Das Ich, Die Aerzte, Die Toten Hosen, Schandmaul, Laibach, Finisterra, Sopor Aeternus, Nenia C'alladhan, Gitane Demone, Eros Necropsique, Elend, Les Porte Mentaux, Corpus Delicti, In Memoria, Die Form, Dark Sanctuary, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Lacrimas Profundere, Fields of the Nephilim, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Apocalyptica, Girls Under Glass, Rhea's Obsession, Bjork, Nina Hagen, David Bowie, Jeff Buckley, Queen, T.Rex, Leonard Cohen, Liona Boyd, Vanessa Mae, Ute Lemper, Marlene Dietrich, Barbara (the late great French chanteuse), Lynda Lemay, Noir Desir, Les Hurleurs, Les Rita Mitsouko, Vincent Delerm, Rasputina, Joy Division, Dead Can Dance, Dying Tears, Therion, Nightwish, Aquarium, Nautilus Pompilius, Epidemia, Sergei Kalugin (and his band Orgy of the Righteous), Fleur, Para Bellvm, Shmely, Alan Waters, Deform, Neutrale Erde,Concrete Blonde, Blackfire, Ataraxia, Kirlian Camera, Derniere Volonte, Nine Inch Nails, Vivaldi, Paganini, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Sibelius, Prokofiev, Ravel, Grieg. As you may have surmised by now, my favourite musical genres would be Industrial, Classical, Medieval, Gothic, Punk, Sophisticated Metal, some Techno, Chanson, Cabaret, or any combination thereof.
Movies:
Wings of Desire (Himmel ueber Berlin), Far Away So Close, Until the End of the World, Mad Max, Run Lola Run (Lola Rennt), Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Cabaret, Twin Falls Idaho, Northfork, Wild at Heart, The Million Dollar Hotel, Delicatessen, Amelie, A Very Long Engagement, The Hunger, The Piano, Quills, La Reine Margot, Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet, The Lion in Winter, Tampopo, Orson Welles' The Trial, Mephisto, Julie Taymor's Titus, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Young Frankenstein, Dr.Strangelove, Citizen Kane, Alien, Kill Bill (volumes 1 and 2), My Life As A Dog, Diva, Fanny and Alexander, Dangerous Liaisons, The Crying Game, Wifemistress, Ed Wood, Don Juan de Marco, Threads, Hedwig and The Angry Inch, The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Queen Christina, A Clockwork Orange, Eraserhead, Barbarella (vintage camp!), Eating Raoul, Liquid Sky, Highway 61, Smoke Signals, Dance me Outside, Little Big Man, Trainspotting, Shallow Grave, Big Fish, Akira Kurosawas Dersu Uzala, The House of Fools, Belle de Jour, Fellini's Roma, My Brilliant Career, Heavenly Creatures, The Ruling Class, Metropolis, Brazil, Juliet of the Spirits, Life is Beautiful (..La Vita è Bella), 1984, Vivement Dimanche, Huit Femmes, Dead Man, Farewell My Concubine, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The Emperor and the Assassin, Fahrenheit 9/11, Good Night and Good Luck and any film by Hal Hartley, Tom Tykwer, Peter Greenaway, Lina Wertmuller, Sally Potter, Doris Doerrie or Andrei Tarkovsky.
Television:
I don't watch much television, unless it is The Lexx - perverse, outrageous, funny, supremely silly, surreally corny at times, dark, erotic and oh-so-subversive! Not to mention that the character of Kai may just be The Ultimate Goth :)
here is a veritable ode to the Dead Man, created by Aenea: Posted By:Aenea
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And the occasional episode of "The Simpsons"
Books:
Favourite authors include, in no particular order: Tanith Lee, China Mieville, John Kessel, Allan Stratton, Tom Robbins, Anais Nin, Hermann Hesse, Guenter Grass, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Clive Barker, Charles Baudelaire, Mikhail Bulgakov, Evgeny Zamiatin, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, George Orwell, Plutarch, Annie Dillard, Barbara Gowdy, Marilyn Bowering, Pauline Gedge, Elizabeth Smart, Ursula K.Le Guin, Aldous Huxley, Franz Kafka, Ernst Juenger, Helena Blavatsky, Sybil Leek, Starhawk, Sunbear and Wabun Wind, Wolf Moondance, Brooke Medicine Eagle, Sherman Alexie, Anne Cameron, Isabel Allende, Frank Herbert, Diana Luppi, Shirley Jackson, William Gibson, Ruth Ozeki, Han Suyin, Octavia Butler, Albert Camus, Henry David Thoreau, Oscar Wilde, Comte de Sade, Giovanni Boccaccio, Stefano Benni, Margaret Atwood, H.C.Turk, James Reese, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Jacqueline Carey, Daphne du Maurier, Susanna Clarke, John Brunner, Jonathan Carroll, Jeanette Winterson, Carl Jung, Peter de Vries, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., D.H. Lawrence, Michael Swanwick, Alice Walker, Doris Lessing, Bruce Chatwin, Marcel Pagnol, Honore de Balzac, Romain Gary, Maurice G.Dantec, Colette, Madeleine L'Engle, C.J.Cherryh, Francoise Sagan, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Blake, Guy de Maupassant, Terry Pratchett, Farley Mowat, Simone de Beauvoir, Margaret Mead, Charles Dickens, William S. Burroughs, M.T.Anderson, Robert Sheckley, Haruki Murakami, David Icke, Don Miguel Ruiz, Fritjof Capra, Heinz Pagels, Brian Greene, Fred Alan Wolf - and anything else on the subject of quantum mechanics, Rudolf Steiner, Arundhati Roy, Krishnamurti, Anne Rice (her early works), Gore Vidal, Tad Williams, Michael Moorcock, Neil Gaiman, Richard Adams, Douglas Adams, Walter Moers, Charles de Lint, Friedrich Nietzsche, Wilhelm Reich, C.S. Lewis and Lewis Carroll. (Please accept my apologies regarding the missing umlauts, cedillas, accents et al. in the names of authors, MySpace does not seem to be set for accommodating those symbols.)
Just finished reading:
If you are also one of those creatures who wonder how you have wound up on this planet and are in need of guidance, here is the most vitally important book you will ever read, full of gentle humour and practical advice: The Cosmic Instruction Manual
Heroes:
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My hero is my Arctic Wolf friend Yuki (whose name means "snow" in Japanese), a wise, gentle yet fierce alpha female.
