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Kevin

Live Faust, Die Jung ~The Gutter Glitterati~

About Me

My vision of the world is Part MGM Musical, part Weimar Nightclub, part Ken Russell Movie. I am a creature of imagination, an over the top, theatrical, eccentric cast-off--a child of goth, death rock,industrial, punk,new wave,70's glam rock, fetish,visual kei,Burlesque and the new romantics. I live my life like grand guignol--fueled by Dada, surrealism, cabaret, glamour trash, 19th century decadance,old hollywood and anti-culture. A hothouse flower in graveyard dirt. An art-deco dandy in a monotone world, indulging in ultra-living and retro-futurism. A disciple of Wilde and De Sade--One of the latch key children of the revolution--a failure in the eyes of polite society--but I don't believe in the world they sold to me. Materialism and consumerism do not interest me. I do not want the American Dream, or chase the brass ring, I want a life of beauty and aetshetics, a life of passion and mystery, where fantasy and reality are so intertwined they are indistinguishable. High Art low budget-High Concept Low Art.

My Interests

"old time" radio,19th century decadence,a rebours, anton la vey/diabolism, apocalypse,apocalypse culture, aubrey beardsly, bosch, bruegel, burlesque, cabaret, canibalism, captin harlock, catholicism, MK Ultra, Dresden Dolls,christopher lee, cthulhu, da da, dandyism, Marquis de sade, deathrock, demonic possesion, derek jarman, domiana, dr.who, elvira, erte, every gothic cliche, exorcism, faust, fetish, flash gordon, fred astaire, godzilla, goth/goth djing, gothabilly, gothic, gothic rock, hauntings, highwaymen, horror, hp lovecraft, inquisition, jean cocteau, jean rollin, joel peter witkin, judy garland, kenneth anger, lotte lenya, louise brooks, mad scientists, maldoror, marilyn manson, marlene dietrich, military pagentry, musical theatre, new romantics, new wave, nick twisp, nigel wingrove, noise, old hollywood, pierre et giles, pin-up art, piracy, pre-war berlin, religion, revelations, robots, rozz williams, science fiction, sid vicious, silent film, somnambulism, stage magic, star trek, subliminal messages, surrealism, televangelism, the damned, the deep eynde, the hellfire club, time travel, tom savini, twin peaks, vaudeville, vincent price, vincente minnelli, whips, zombies.

I'd like to meet:

I seek those who are larger than life, who will inspire and dazzle me, those who understand the meaning and power of glamour and create wonder wherever they go and who can feel wonder as well, those who find beauty in darkness and darkness in beauty, those who are obsessed with obsession, those who appreciate art as life and life as art, and live by their wits and imagination. Those who are driven to create, who indulge in ultra-living and ultra-style,Those who go beyond being merely "alternative" and utterly reject the mind numbing,soul-crushing homgenous "reality" the TV screams at us. Do such creatures even exist?

Music:

Gothic, Old School Punk, 70's Glam Rock, Gothabilly, Psychobilly, Industrial, Experimental Noise, Musique Concrete, Cabaret, Torch Songs, New wave, Apocalyptic Folk, Death Rock, Musicals, Military Music, Sound effects, Funeral Dirges, Carnival sounds,Visual Kei, New Romantic, Post-Punk,Synthpop

Movies:

The Raven, Hammer horror Films, Ilsa She-Wolf of the SS, Harold and Maude, Without a Clue, The Picture of Dorian Grey, They Live, Barbarella, The Fog, Meet me in St. Louis, Martin, Something Wicked this Way Comes, THX 1138, 1984, Farenheit 451, Brazil, Dr. Calligari, Legend of Hell House, Giant, Singin' in the Rain, Victor Victoria, Kitten With a Whip, The Naked Lunch, Arcadia of My Youth, Fearless Vampire Killers, Salome's Last Dance Lizt-O-Mania, The Producers, Sante Sangre, THe Devils, Big Trouble in Little China, Prince of Darkness, Escape From new York, In the Mouth of Madness, Gothic, Company of Wolves, Suspiria, Creepers, Terror at the Opera, The Re-Animator,Six String Samurai, From Beyond, Sore Losers, Gigi, Top Hat, Absolute Beginners, Exorcist 3, Cabaret, Fascination, Adventures of Buckarroo Banzai, Marat/De Sade, Masque of the Red Death, Hellraiser, Hellbound, Nightbreed, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, Edge of Sanity, Empire of the Sun, Boondock Saints, Last temptation of Christ, Mame, It Happened One Night, 7 Year Itch, The Girl Can't help It, Crybaby, Hairspray, Suburbia Angel In My Shoulder, Damn Yankees, Gone With the Wind, My favorite Year, The Convent, Hardware, Fire Walk With Me, Fat Man and Little Boy, Mark of the VAmpire, Dracula's Daughter, Velvet Goldmine, The Blue Angel, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, Tea House and the August Moon, Existenz, Terrorvision, 7 faces of Dr. Lao, The Night Porter, The Wicked Lady, The Great Race, Nosferatu, Night of the Living Dead Dawn of the Dead,Valentino, Day of the Dead,Pandora's Box,The Blue Angel, Diary of a Lost Girl, Metropolis,Freaks,The Bride,Stir of Echoes,Jubilee,Last of England, Jean Rollin-Kenneth Anger-Ken Russell-John Carpenter-Derek Jarman

Television:

Twin Peaks, Star Trek (all of them),The Prisoner, Dr. Who,Friday the 13th (the series), Battlestar Glalactica, Robotech, Max Headroom,Addams family, The Munsters,Star Blazers,Dark Shadows,Eerie Indiana,The Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin,Monty Python's Flying Circus,Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Books:

Bloody Chamber-Angela Carter, The Naked Civil Servant-Quentin Crisp,Cottonmouth Kisses-Clint Catalyst, Dogs in Lingerie-Danielle Willis, Justine-De Sade, Maldoror-Lautremont, Venus In Furs-Masoch, A Rebours-Huysmans,Geek Love-Katherine Dunn,1984-Orwell,Broom of the System-David Foster Wallace,Oscar Wilde, HP Lovecraft, EA Poe, Johnathan Carroll, Thomas Ligoitti,Robert Aickman,Anais Nin,JG Ballard,Clive Barker, F. Scott Fitzgerald,Jean Genet,Yukio Mishima,Lydia Lunch, Fairy tales/folk stories,

Heroes:

Oscar Wilde, Diamanda Galas,Harry Houdini,Ziggy Stardust, Rozz Williams,Dorothy Parker,