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.mephi.

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About Me

Crack out your black denim Daisy Dukes and menthol cloves, it's....
Myspace profiles are inherently wank.
And this will be no exception.
I've been a professional artist since the age of 8, had my fashion designs shown on an international runway, lived in Scotland for a couple years to see what they had to say, done stints as a club and radio dj, swam in the North Sea, come 2nd in a dance-off, read more books than is healthy for my eyes, drunk Irishmen under the table, barely sustained a poverty-inducing addiction to travel, been called a rockstar by first graders, TSA officers and hoteliers and I still get excited when the street-sweep machine chugs down my street.
When I grow up I want to live in a castle on the moon, ride around on a giant bee and eat a different ethnic food everyday. But for now I work in a small, independently owned bookstore, walk everywhere and eat too many avocados. I work to support my travel habit and so I can make art. My fashion and accessory designs are my passion and in a constant state of development.
Apparently sometimes my folks read this. Hi mom and dad! So...what're you cookin' for dinner?
What's currently making me happy?
-Shin Chan!
-reading books about bees
-fireflies on the late night drive home from work..until they hit the windscreen

My Interests

dark art, post-punk, high contrast aesthetics, catholic imagery and art, bones, feathers, substantial fabrics, innovative and subversive design, practical fashion and by contrast entirely impractical fashion, unusual musical instruments, Scotland and Scottish history, voracious reading, spontaneous travel, my Twin, funerary art, millinery, cathartic dancing, collecting Halloween cookie cutters, tea, people watching, being by the seaside, the history of punk, Scotlandophilia, weird and interesting hair, unpretentious discussions of music, art and literature

I'd like to meet:

dave vanian circa 1984, unpretentious folk who don't take themselves too seriously, my twin zanne more often

Music:

The Damned, Depeche Mode, Sex Pistols, Iggy and the Stooges, Tones on Tail, PIL, New Model Army, She Wants Revenge, Sexbeat, The Cult, The Church, Ausgang, Einsturzende Neubauten, The Birthday Party, Cock Sparrer, Joan Jett and the Black Hearts, Johnny Cash, Sergei Prokofiev, Love and Rockets, The Cure, Horrorpops, Tiger Army, Prince, Rasputina, The Exploited, Misfits, Rancid, Transplants, Bloodhound Gang, Richard Cheese, Sam Cooke, Wilson Pickett, James Brown, Parliament Funkadelic, Meat Beat Manifesto, Alien Sex Fiend, Specimen, Bauhaus, Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphys, Jimi Hendrix, Ramones, Christian Death, Billy Idol, Nekromantix, Blondie, Busta Rhymes, old AFI, Glen Miller, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Icehouse, Jake the Evil Redneck, Man Man, Tom Waits, Missy Elliot, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, The Brides, The Creatures, Joy Division, Captain Sensible, The Levellers

Movies:

The Filth and the Fury, Loser, Braveheart, Shaun of the Dead, Snatch, Princess Bride, any Marx Brothers film, Fifth Element, Amelie, POTC, Gypsy 83, The Wedding Singer, Tiptoes, Secretary, White Christmas, Batman Begins, Titus, cheesy oldschool horror flicks

Television:

M*A*S*H, Scrubs, Mythbusters, The Young Ones, Spaced, Black Books, The Mighty Boosh, The IT Crowd, I dream of a Simon Pegg, Dylan Moran, Noel Fielding dog pile.

Books:

David Sosnowski's 'Vamped' and 'Rapture', Christopher Moore's 'Lamb', the thrillers of Louise May Alcott, Shakespeare's 'Hamlet', 'Titus Andronicus', and sonnets, Edgar Allen Poe's poetry and short stories, Groucho Marx's 'Groucho and Me', Neal Stephenson's 'Snow Crash', John Lydon's 'Rotten: No Blacks No Irish No Dogs', Alan Spence's 'Way to Go', Terry Pratchett's 'Monstrous Regiment', Anthony Burgess' 'A Clockwork Orange', 'One Hand Clapping', 'The Wanting Seed', Rose Tremain's 'Sacred Country', Leon Whiteson's 'Killing Lana', the essays of E.B. White, soundbites of Arthur Schopenhauer's philosphy

Heroes:

Sub Girl, Batman, John Lydon

My Blog

Gig Listing

I've decided to copy my gig list from livejournal to crapspace.  It's an attempt to keep track of the gigs I've attended, no doubt I've left out some major ones and all the various shitey opening...
Posted by .mephi. on Fri, 26 May 2006 09:30:00 PST