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Mr. Ratt

I am here for Friends

About Me

Musician, bassist, artist, Reiki Master/facilitator, personal energy consultant to Basia Lyjak, co-chairman and directive elder of the Dark Place http://www.the-dark-place.org , based in Toronto, Canada. Influences - The Lady Silver (my muse, my heartbeat, my soul), the Darklings, Pre-Raphaelite art, Salvador Dali, Aubrey Beardsley, Michael Thompson (my mentor & greatest influence), Edward Gorey, William S. Burroughs, Oscar Wilde, Lord George Byron, Jim Carroll, many forms of music, darkness, twilight hours, ratts, bats, cats, dragons, leather, lace, velvet, candlelight, old architecture, favourite colours - black, red, silver, white.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

I've found who I want to meet. I stole her away from the stars when they weren't looking. They call her The Lady Silver. As for this place, I'd like to meet some people that have more to say than "Hey, look at my tits then come to this website..." Enough is enough. I'm looking to actually meet some people here who might understand these words, on a deeper level... Avalon, Glastonbury, metaphysics, think before React....

My Blog

Dragging the Blues, kicking and screaming, to Aruba

Well, it's been one hell of a long time, so I'll make this as succinct as possible.Life has taken many turns, good, bad and ugly.Most of 'em good though.It looks like I may have hit the gold mine, mus...
Posted by on Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:47:00 GMT

tick, tick, tick

...time's up!
Posted by on Sun, 12 Aug 2007 15:14:00 GMT

Mistrust..... how do you get around it?

You know, there are people in our worlds who, no matter how hard they or you may try, they just have a knack for getting in one's way... Now, I'm learning and growing every single day, learning to be ...
Posted by on Sat, 09 Sep 2006 12:01:00 GMT

Ah, the adventure that I truly love

It's been a while since I 've been here, I know there are maybe two people who read this, so I'll let you two in on what's been up of late... let's see, been sick, been healthy, worked with/for a band...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Apr 2006 18:37:00 GMT

I can't fathom this....

Last week, a week ago this afternoon, a friend of mine made a life choice that messed up the lives of at least three other people. A week ago on my birthday, he made another life choice on his own beh...
Posted by on Mon, 19 Sep 2005 19:24:00 GMT

Getting screwed by "friends"

I posted this as a bulletin, but I have to put it here too. A quick note to anyone in the music trade that may read this. If you ever, and I do mean EVER decide to co-write a song, co-create anything...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Aug 2005 19:56:00 GMT

Burn-out = realizations

Well, it's been a bit since I've been here, so I thought I would drop in and see who is around.... hmmm, usual suspects, or should I say the real people in my world who give a ratt's ass about me and ...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Jun 2005 19:30:00 GMT

Azrael comes to my door

I don't know how to start this.... My familiar left this earth today. This is the toughest day I've had in a long, long time. I was brought to consciousness by the Lady Silver telling me that Cosmo...
Posted by on Sat, 11 Jun 2005 15:00:00 GMT

Tomorrow.....

Looking at the clock on the corner of the screen tells me it's getting on for midnite... May 4... just a year ago I was standing on the beach in Aruba, holding the hand of the most beautiful woman I h...
Posted by on Tue, 03 May 2005 20:12:00 GMT

Back to (ab)normal

Well, my 21 days is well over, and the weirdness continues, just not to the extent that it was. I'm finding I'm much more sensitive to things that I couldn't have given a ratt's ass about before, thin...
Posted by on Sun, 10 Apr 2005 17:53:00 GMT