I HAVE BONDED WITH OTHERS OVER: maritime cannibalism and churchtanks, endocannibalism and exocannibalism--as well as my state "mascots", ersebet bathori, the son of the dragon, abnormal psychology, true crime, medieval torture devices and methods, past life regression, that other history of western religion, aghora, exorcism and other lighter paranormal experiences, forms of vampirism, jokes about fetuses, the ossuary church of all saints at kutna hora (yummy), hannibal lecter, fetish discussion, bdsm lessons, a man who was born as howard stanton levy, porphyria, the humour in tragedy and atrocity, conversations that have questions with answers like "well--first, you kill a dog--" or "the multipurpose uses of lime--" or "homemade chloroform", kabbalah, adoration of zombies, alternative fashion, conscious dreaming, the fascinating frightful fragility of the human body, the importance of balance between light and dark, and taxidermied mythological creatures made out of roadkill and deceased pets. i have been known to make antisemitic jokes about myself and blame it on the german half of my ancestry, much to the occasional chagrin of my acquaintances. i would rather laugh than find offense in everything around me. yes.
ironically, i am told i am actually quite sweet and nice and full of goodness in person. far too normal to have half the ideas drop from my head that do.
INTERESTS IN SHORT:
coffee. tea. wine. absinthe. rum.
music. singing. songwriting. teaching myself new instruments. dancing. going to concerts. silencing an audience at spoken word events.
slightly morbid sensual surrealistic oil painting. collages. photography. volunteering on behalf of the arts.
playwrighting. poetry. novel writing.
acting. directing. set design. teaching people how to read the classics, that yes, shakespeare is written in english, and is more accessible than they think.
horseback riding--showing, training, jumping, and doing daredevil stunts or racing the wind.
swordplay. practicing with a good leather bullwhip.
modeling: runway, fine artistic photography projects, or for artists.
unusual and exquisite conversation.
I'd like to meet:
reliable musicians. (not for dating. for collaborating. thanks.)
other weird ones. the ones balanced between bright and dark. people who think for themselves.
other musicians, artists, and writers. intriguing men and women with intellect, a dark sense of humor, artistic and creative, and utterly fascinating. give me your blood and bones.
in short: people who can hold a conversation for more than a half an hour minimum about something other than reality television shows and whose lives are not revolving around a sports team or a pop princess.
people who actually give a shit.
oh, yeah, and those fuckers crawling around in my head as i dream. come on, bitches, i got the coffee on for you already.
Music:
BANDS: Mindless Self Indulgence, Alkaline Trio, Oingo Boingo, the Daffodil Mafia, True Songs of Liberty (TSOL), Birthday Massacre, Atmosphere, the Paper Chase, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Snow Patrol, Against Me!, Social Distortion, We Are Scientists, Schrodinger's Cat, Hope for a Golden Summer, the White Stripes, Prodigy, Concrete Blonde, the Scorpions, DeVotchka, My Chemical Romance, Heavens, the Cars, Blondie, Rammstein, the Pixies, Musica della Mafia, Blonde Redhead, Le Tigre, Scarling, Your Enemies Friends, Run Run Run, Dresden Dolls, Mogwai, Dead Can Dance, Smashing Pumpkins, Juno Reactor, The Faint, the Offspring, Coldplay, Dead Kennedys, Maroon 5, Bush, radiohead, Rasputina, Bon Jovi (the old stuff), t.A.T.u, Transiberian Orchestra (Beethoven's Last Night), Collective Soul, Evanescence, Delerium, Danzig, the Misfits, the Bloodhound Gang, Silverchair, Nickelback, Jimmy Eat World, Strike Anything, The Killers, Sisters of Mercy, Type O Negative, Ministry, Union Underground, Skinny Puppy, The Cure, NIN, NoFX, Alice Cooper, RENT, Phantom of the Opera, Counting Crows, Crash Test Dummies, Violent Femmes, Depeche Mode, They Might Be Giants
SOLO ARTISTS: Regina Spekter, Eminem, Melissa Etheridge, Joan Jett, Queen Latifah, Sarah MacLachlan, Fiona Apple, Tracy Bonham, Saul Williams,Loreena McKennitt, Alanis Morrissette, Ani DiFranco, Carla Bruni, Clinton J. Miller, Dan Vaillancourt, Poe, Tori Amos, Sage Francis, Aeve Kindler aka Just Jane, and everything Danny Elfman ever wrote with lyrics or without
COMPOSERS: Klaus Bartelt, Elliot Goldenthal, Vivaldi, Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich, Wagner
Movies:
how about directors, since this keeps getting deleted...
Tim Burton, Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, M. Night Shyamalan....
Zatoichi (japanese), The Last Minute, Shooter, Battle Royale (japanese), Trainspotting, Rush, What the (bleep) Do We Know, Waking Life, The Salton Sea, The Nightmare Before Christmas, American Beauty, American History X, American Psycho, Fight Club, Seven, Saw, Ghost Ship, House on Haunted Hill, Pitch Black, The Chronicles of Riddick, Aliens Quintet, The Crow, Spirited Away, Watership Down, Legend of the Overfiend, Peter Pan (the new live version), From Hell, Batman Begins, Batman, Batman Returns, Kundun, The Last Temptation of Christ, Boondock Saints, Peyton Place, Diabolique (original french version), The Brotherhood of the Wolf (french), Alphaville (french), Tetsuo: Iron Man (japanese), The Legend of the Overfiend (japanese), Perfect Blue (japanese), City of Lost Children (japanese), Day of the Beast (spanish), Pan's Labyrinth, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, the Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy, The Golden Compass, National Treasure, I Am Legend, Beowulf, Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, 300, Lola Lauftet (Run Lola Run/german), Fido, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Gabriel, Formula 51, Silver Bullet, Sweeney Todd, The Skeleton Key
i'll watch any horror flick at least once. even the bottom 300 B ones. that disaster started when i was about two years old, and i've been smitten ever since. be careful. i laugh alot.
Television:
television is the lowest common denominator. strive to be above that.
quite honestly, i don't have any time for it, and that is the real secret behind how i get so much done.
Books:
POETRY: edgar allan poe, emily dickinson, anne sexton, ted hughes, sylvia plath, nicole blackman, john milton, dante alighieri, paul roche, matthias weisensel, stephani ott, wasim solomon, william shakespeare, maya angelou, allen ginsberg
PLAYWRIGHTS: moliere, nicholas kazan, william shakespeare, christopher marlowe, bertolt brecht, clive barker, euripides, sophocles, aeschylus
DARK FANTASY/HORROR: clive barker, michael moorcock, bentley little, laurell k. hamilton, tanith lee, k.j. parker, stephen r. donaldson, karl edward wagner, mary shelley, edgar allen poe
FANTASY: neil gaiman, robert jordan, raymond e. feist, mercedes lackey, r. a. salvatore, david eddings, philip pullman, ursula k. leguin, jean m. auel
SCI-FI: robert a. heinlein, ursula k. leguin, aldous huxley, george orwell, frank herbert
CONTEMPORARY FICTION: anchee min, toni morrison, margaret atwood, joyce carol oates, vladimir nabokov, anthony burgess
PHILOSOPHY: martin buber, james redfield, howard stanton levey
PHOTOGRAPHY: richard avedon, tanya chakin, jinga, stephanie hammel, ali johnson
GRAPHICS: garth ennis, alan moore, james o'barr, craig thompson, joseph michael linsner, roman dirge, jhonen vasquez, brian pulido, neil gaiman, bob kane, brian defferding
ARTISTS: kris kuksi, jim balent, stephen hughes, michelangelo buonarotti, caravaggio, raphael, leonardo da vinci, degas, salvador dali, pablo picasso, jackson pollack, jean-michel basquiat (samo), andy warhol, niagara, coop, h.r. giger, mark ryden, j.m. linsner, heather gabel, matthias grunewald, luis royo, boris vallejo,
COMEDIANS: margaret cho, dennis leary, bill cosby, eddie murphy, dane cook, robin williams, chris rock, george carlin, my friends cracking leper jokes at the dinner table...
...uh. that's a good start. for now.
Heroes:
be careful who you admire. you never know what they keep in their closets.
my father. julio c. bryand. james depaul. blake. batman. lieutenant eleanor ripley. selina kyle. norma jean baker/marilyn monroe. bettie page. gypsy rose lee. eleanor of acquitaine. joan jett. jill tracy. amanda palmer.
