Feejee Mermaid - ProfilesArchive

About Me

In an attempt to alleviate repetitive gestures in routine life, I create. My medium of choice at the moment is junk-- I assemble discarded miscellany, anything from rusted nails to shiny buttons or human hair and animal remnants. I also enjoy low-tech photography, drawing, digital manipulation, and Victorian hairwork. I am nostalgic, have a major sweet tooth and I dream big.

My Interests

creating oddities, antique and thrift shopping, vintage clothes and cars, tattoos, taxidermy, cupcakes, sarcasm, decay, collecting peculiarities, contortion, eyeliner, roadkill, boots, veins, debris, sharp objects, twins, burlesque, bone fragments, ruffles, mourning jewelry, post-mortem photos, sideshow freaks, hair, immortality

I'd like to meet:

Creative misfits. Explosives wranglers. Conniving contortionists. Morbid mischief-makers.

Click here to visit my website. Aren't you curious?

Music:

Faun Fables, Fear of Dolls, Ministry, Bauhaus, Alien Sex Fiend, Hocico, Sopor Aeternus, DCD, Rasputina, Rammstein, Swans, Kiss, Cocteau Twins, Ozzy, Opal, Midnite Choir, Sex Gang Children, Manson, Fields of the Nephilim, Christian Death, Type O, Lycia, Switchblade Symphony, Tom Waits, Sisters of Mercy, New Order, Rob Zombie, Wumpscut, Covenant, Nitzer Ebb

Movies:

Dead Man, Delicatessen, City of Lost Children, all things Brothers Quay, 1000 Corpses, Sleepy Hollow, Happiness, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Interview with a Vampire, A Clockwork Orange, Red Rock West, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Shining, The Wall, Titus, Zardoz, Henry Fool, Strangers on a Train, Stranger Than Paradise, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Gates of Heaven, Hellraiser, Eraserhead, Se7en, Soylent Green, Edward Scissorhands, Rubin and Ed, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Blood Simple, Metropolis, Freaks, Repulsion

Television:

The remote doesn't work anymore, so why bother?

Books:

Monsters, Amphigorey, Alchemy, The Art of Hair Work, The Complete Guide to Home Wiring, Strange Ritual, Bodies of Subversion, Stop Stealing Sheep, Identical, Betty Page Confidential, 20,000 Words

Heroes:

My Blog

FREAK of the WEEK: The Dog Girl

This unusual young woman is identified as Lucy Elvira Jones, claimed to be born in 1881 and exhibited at the Texas State Fair in 1894. Both she and Ella Harper have elsewhere been identified as "M...
Posted by Feejee Mermaid on Wed, 08 Feb 2006 11:58:00 PST

FREAK of the WEEK: Sealo the Seal Boy

Stanley Berent, better known as Sealo the Seal Boy, was afflicted with a condition called phocomelia, in which his small hands grew directly from his shoulders. Literally "seal arms", phocomelia...
Posted by Feejee Mermaid on Wed, 01 Feb 2006 12:07:00 PST

FREAK(s) of the WEEK: Knaack Twins

Lotti and Rosemarie (or Gitta) Knaack were born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1951. Joined at the tops of their heads, the Knaack twins were exhibited by their parents at fairs and festivals throughou...
Posted by Feejee Mermaid on Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:34:00 PST

FREAK of the WEEK: The Texas Giant

Born in Denver as Jacob Ehrlich in 1906 he took the screen name of Jack Earle when in the silent film industry. Standing 8 feet 7 inches tall, he joined the Barnum Bailey Circus in the mid-20s and p...
Posted by Feejee Mermaid on Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:53:00 PST

FREAK of the WEEK: Living Skeleton

Isaac W. Sprague was the Original Thin Man. Born in Massachusetts in 1841 he was a normal child until around age twelve when he began to lose weight. Sprague joined the circus in 1865, eventually ...
Posted by Feejee Mermaid on Wed, 04 Jan 2006 09:09:00 PST

FREAK of the WEEK: Backwards-talking Midget

Michael J. Anderson, born on Halloween 1953 in Denver, Colorado, is an American actor best known for his role as the Man from another place in David Lynch's television series Twin Peaks. And...
Posted by Feejee Mermaid on Wed, 07 Dec 2005 11:25:00 PST

FREAK of the WEEK: Mermaid Baby

Milagros Cerron Sirenomelia or "Mermaid Syndrome" is characterized by fused legs and feet. The first case was documented in 1542. The infants resemble the mythical siren, the eyes are amphibian...
Posted by Feejee Mermaid on Tue, 22 Nov 2005 12:06:00 PST

FREAK(s) of the WEEK: Mary & Margaret

Margaret and Mary Gibb were pygopagus twins born in Holyoke, Massachussetts on May 20, 1912. They were born without a cesarean section, and their mother was one of the first women in the United ...
Posted by Feejee Mermaid on Wed, 16 Nov 2005 11:46:00 PST

FREAK of the WEEK: Nelson de la Rosa

Nelson De La Rosa was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on June, 1968. Height 2' 4¼" (0.72 m) In 1990, certified by the Guiness Record Book, he was the smallest man on the earth...
Posted by Feejee Mermaid on Wed, 09 Nov 2005 10:55:00 PST

FREAK of the WEEK: Betty Broadbent

Betty Broadbent was born in 1909, and worked as a mother's helper in Atlantic City, New Jersey, at the young age of fourteen. She spent her days on the beach and boardwalk, which was where she met J...
Posted by Feejee Mermaid on Wed, 02 Nov 2005 11:22:00 PST