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Alice Bang!

Living life as a series of inexplicable obsessions

About Me

I play with dolls. Sometimes I take pictures of them. You can see some of them over there in my pics section (because my site is apparently AWOL for the forseeable future).I also play with horses, real & imaginary.

My Interests

absinthe, absurdity, Alice in Wonderland, Altoids, antiques, anything that laces up or fastens with hook-and-eye closures, Arabian horses, ars moriendi, art nouveau, Asian ball joint dolls, asymmetry, automata, automatic writing, Azone Tall Fellows, ballet boots, ballet slippers, bats, beads, bearded dragons, Bedazzlers, Belgian beer, bellydance, Biltmore, bishounen, black lights, Black Madonna, black velvet paintings, Blythe dolls, bohemians, Bollywood, books, bubbles, bull riding, bunnies, Buried Skulls, caffeine, candles, Carnival, carousels, cats, cemetaries, Cernigliaro rabbits, the Champagne of Beers, checkerboards, chef pants, the Cheshire Cat, christo-paganism, chocolate, Christmas ornaments, Cinnabons, cinnamon, circuses, Cirque du Soleil, CLAMP, classical dressage, clockwork, Commedia dell' Arte, corsetry, Cottingley Fairies, Cottington Fairies, Crayola, CrazyGirlCraftTime, creepy old toys, crimped hair, crinolines, crop circles, croquet, cryptozoology, Customhouse Ai, Dadaism, dancing, David Bowie's Area, DIY, DDR, deconstruction, decoupage, dervishes, doll houses, dressing up, drinking around the world, duality, ectoplasm, Efteling, eggs, egg art, El Caminos, El Chupacabra, El Dia de los Muertos, Elizabethan ruffs, ephemera, existentialism, embellishment, Emerald the Enchanting Witch, Esoteric Mystery School, EVP's, Exquisite Corpses, Faberge, Faeries, fairy lights, fairy tales, fashion, fashion dolls, ferrets, fetish pointe shoes, fnord, folklore, Fortean Times, Frank the Bunny, frogs, frogs in people clothes, furries, gargoyles, GFP Bunny, ghost photography, glam, glitter, gloves, glow in the dark, Gnosticism, Golden Age children's book illustrations/ors, Gormenghast, granny boots, grave rubbings, Guild Wars, gypsies, Hallowe'en, hallucinations, Harry Potter, hats, Haunted Mansion, hauntings, herbalism, horses, Hoppy VanderHare, hurdy gurdies, iambic tetrameter, ice cream, incense, Indian Runner ducks, irony, japanese pop culture, japanese street fashion, Jem & the Holograms, Jesus, Judas, Kaiju, Kali Sara, kaninhopping, Karaoke Revolution, Keane art, Knabstruppers, labyrinths, legwarmers, lip balm, Lucha Libre, Mary Magdalene, Madame Leota, Mardi Gras, masks, masquerades, model horses, mothra, memento mori, Miller High Life, Miss Spider, moshing bunny on Livingston & Orange, mourning jewelry, My Little Ponies, neon green, New Orleans, New Wave fashion dolls of the '80's, nonsense, obscure horse breeds, occultism, ouija boards, Oz, paper dolls, paper lanterns, parachute pants, parasols, Patience Worth, Phantom Manor, Photoshop, pinball, pinto Trakehners, pinwheels, pirates, Pocky, poi, polkadots, Pre-Raphaelites, purple, Puss in Boots, pysanky, Queen Amidala, rabbits, rag dolls, rats, Red Bull, religious kitsch, rhinestones, ribbons, roller skates (quads, not inlines), rosaries, roses, Saint Germain, Salome, San-X, Sanrio, Santeria, scraps, seances, self-medication, Shabby Chic, Shagya Arabs, shiny objects, shoujo anime, Sky Dancers, slack, sleep, sloth, snoglobes, Sophia, sparklies, spiders, spiritualism, St. Augustine, steampunk, Steiffs, stickers, sticking things to other things, stripes, stripey tights, stuffed animals, Super Dollfie, surrealism, synchronicity, tactilly pleasing fabrics, taoism, tarot, tchotchkes, tea, the 80's, the Theotokos, thrifting, tiaras, Totoro, Treasure: In Search of the Golden Horse, tribal fusion, Twelfth Century Norman garb, Unico, unusual hair, vanilla, Victorian postmortem photography, Victoriana, virtual pets, visual kei, Vivian Alexander, voodoo, washi eggs, Winchester Mystery House, wings, witch hats, *Witez II, Wizard figural air-fresheners, Yin-Yangs, Z Cavariccis, Zoloft.

I'd like to meet:

Jesus.I'll settle, though, for anybody who's reasonably interesting & can accept the fact that I'm a giant flake. ;DHeads up: if your pre-fab plug-in background makes your profile impossible to read w/o highlighting the text, I'm not going to approve your friend request. I'm just that lazy.

Music:

Adam Ant, Alice Cooper, All About Eve, Antony & the Johnsons, apocalyptic folk, Apocalyptica, asian underground, band organs, Barenaked Ladies, Bella Morte, Berlin, Birthday Massacre, Black 47, Boiled in Lead, cellos, celtic rock, calliopes, cock rock, Coil, Collide, Cyndi Lauper, Cruxshadows, Darkness, Dead Can Dance, Dead Kennedys, Death in June, death rock, Dollyrots, Dresden Dolls, Duran Duran (pre-Notorious), electroclash, Emilie Autumn, E Nomine, Faith & the Muse, Flogging Molly, Foetus, folk under påverkan, Gaate, Gackt, Garmarna, Gary Numan, goth/industrial, GWAR, Hedningarna, Helloween, hide, Human Drama, Hungry Lucy, Iced Earth, In Extremo, Iron Maiden, Jethro Tull, Kate Bush, Kingston Trio, klezmer, Kodo, Krishna Das, Leonard Cohen, Letzte Instanz, Lords of the New Church, Marilyn Manson, mechanical music, Medieaval Baebes, Metallica (pre-Load), Milla, Mission UK, New Model Army, new wave, Nick Cave, Nina Hagen, Nordman, October/November Projects, Peter Murphy, Peter Paul & Mary, Pogues, Porter music boxes, Project Pitchfork (when they're not trying to sound like Skinny Puppy), power metal, Psychotica, Qntal, Queen, Rasputina, Rob Zombie, Rosetta Stone, Seraphim Shock, Shakira, She Wants Revenge, Shonen Knife, Siouxsie, Sisters of Mercy, Sloppy Seconds, Snailkünt, Sopor Aeternus, Spot 1019, Sorten Muld, Styx, synthpop, Tear Garden, Tempest, Tenacious D, Tiger Lillies, Tindersticks, Tool, Tom Waits, Tori Amos, Toyah, (Transsylvania) Phoenix, 12 Girls Band, Type O, Vanessa Mae, violins, violas, Voltaire, Wolfsheim, Zdob si Zdub

Movies:

Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Alegria, Babe II, Baz Luhrman's Romeo & Juliet, Better Off Dead, Big Fish, Blood of Heroes, Boxing Helena, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Braveheart, City of Lost Children, Dangerous Liaisons, Dellamorte Dellamore, Disney's Beauty & the Beast, Disney's Hunchback, Dr. Caligari, Dogma, Donnie Darko, Dune, Edward Scissorhands, Far Away So Close, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Finding Neverland, 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, 4 Weddings & a Funeral, Gladiator, Grosse Point Blank, Halloween Tree, Heroic Trio, Hong Kong cinema, Hudsucker Proxy, In the Company of Wolves, Kiki's Delivery Service, LA Story, Labyrinth, Ladyhawke, Last of the Mohicans, Last Unicorn, Legend, Like Water for Chocolate, Lion in Winter, Matrix (just the first one), Little Shop of Horrors, Magnolia, Mel Gibson's Hamlet, Midwinter's Tale, Moll Flanders, Moulin Rouge, My Neighbor Totoro, Nightmare Before Xmas, Onmyoji, Orlando, Patriot, Peter Pan (2003), Pirates of the Caribean (all 3), Plunkett & Maclane, Princess Bride, Red Violin, Return to Oz, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, Shadow of the Vampire, Shaun of the Dead, Shrek, silent movies, Singles, 6th Sense, Sleepy Hollow, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Storm Riders, Sweeney Todd, Tokyo Pop, Toys, Twice Upon a Time, Twin Peaks: Fire, Walk With Me, Watership Down, Willy Wonka, Ying Xiong

Television:

12 oz. Mouse, American Gothic, Angel, Animal Planet Heroes, Buffy TVS, Carnivale, Dead Like Me, Deadwood, Faerie Tale Theatre, Firefly, House, Jim Henson's Storyteller, Intervention, Iron Chef, Metalocaplyse, The Muppet Show, Rabbit Ears, Pushing Daisies, Robin of Sherwood, Six Feet Under, Twin Peaks, Veronica Mars, Wonderfalls

Books:

Adult Fairy Tale series edited by Terri Windling & Ellen Datlow, Angela Carter, Barbara Hambly, Beatrix Potter, Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children, Benjamin Hoff, Berkely Breathed, Borderland (fantasy, not horror), Brian Andreas, Brian Froud, Brothers Grimm, comics, Catch 22, Charles de Lint, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's "Saint Germain" novels (formulaic historical romances w/ vampires, yes, but inexplicably addictive), Dr Seuss, Dave Louapre, EA Poe, Edward Gorey, Edward Lear, Ellen Kushner, Francesca Lia Block, Ian McDowell, Jane Yolen, Jhonen Vasquez, Jill Thompson, Kit Williams, Lang's Coloured Fairies, Lemony Snicket, Lewis Carroll, L Frank Baum, Little Big, Madame D'Aulnoy, Maggie Estep, Mark Leyner, Mary Stewart, Neil Gaiman, Nick Bantock, Peter Beagle, Phillip K Dick, Roald Dahl, Robert Anton Wilson, Ray Bradbury, Robin McKinley, Sheri S. Tepper, Serena Valentino, Serendipity books, Steven R Boyett, Struwwelpeter, Terry Pratchett, The Velveteen Rabbit, urban fantasy, William S. Burroughs

Heroes:

Anton Lavey, Arthur Rackham, Baz Lurhman, Betsey Johnson, Boy George, Brom, Carl Sagan, Charles Vess, Countess de Castiglione, Cyndi Lauper, Dame Darcy, Elsa Schiaparelli, Elvira Mistress of the Dark, Frank Zappa, Hans Belmer, hide, Hildegarde von Bingen, Hunter S. Thompson, JW Waterhouse, Joseph Campbell, Katan Amano, Carl Jung, my Mom, Oscar Wilde, PT Barnum, Richard Sharah, Tammy Fae Messner nee Bakker, Terry Gilliam, Tim Burton, Vivienne Westwood, Yoshitako Amano

My Blog

You knew it was only a matter of time, right?

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Posted by Alice Bang! on Mon, 05 Dec 2005 07:45:00 PST

You can tell it's art because it's in frames...

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Posted by Alice Bang! on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST