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D'Arcy Alys

La vie est la farce à mener par tous.

About Me


Alone
From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I loved, I loved alone.
Then - in my childhood, in the dawn
Of a most stormy life - was drawn
From every depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still:
From the torrent, or the fountain,
From the red cliff of the mountain,
From the sun that round me rolled
In its autumn tint of gold,
From the lightning in the sky
As it passed me flying by,
From the thunder and the storm,
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
You will drink too much gin. Not the worst way to
die, but you won't remember much of your life.
What horrible Edward Gorey Death will you die?

My Interests



Bibliophilia

My three kitties.

Charles Baudelaire

Silent films in a vintage theater.

"After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were.

After the second, you see things as they are not.

Finally you see things as they really are, which is the most horrible thing in the world."

~ Oscar Wilde

Taphophilia

Vain attempts at dancing and decoupage (not at the same time).

Paris

Veganism

Miscellanea

I'd like to meet:



Living or Dead???

- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Charles Baudelaire
- Arthur Rimbaud
- Georges Bataille
- Ann Rand
- Albert Camus
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Immanuel Kant
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Jonathan Swift
- Henry Miller
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Ambrose Bierce
- Henry Louis Mencken
- Robert Smith
- Stephen Hawking
- Isabella Rosselini
- Bill Clinton
- Barrack Obama
- Sarah Brightman
- David Bowie
- Pierce Brosnan
- Simon Le Bon
- Johnny Depp
- Sting
- Annie Lennox
- Nicole Kidman
- David Gahan
- Catherine Zeta-Jones
- Tom Waits
- Freddie Mercury
- Phil Hartman

Music:

Greatest Band…EVER


Favorite Artist…EVER

- David Bowie

And the rest...

- AC/DC
- Adam (and the) Ant(s)
- a-ha
- Alien Sex Fiend
- Apoptygma Berzerk
- Assemblage 23
- Bauhaus
- Berlin
- Blancmange
- Blondie
- Blue Oyster Cult
- Andrea Bocelli
- Sarah Brightman
- Kate Bush
- Cars, The
- Johnny Cash
- Christian Death
- Cocteau Twins
- Alice Cooper
- Elvis Costello
- Covenant
- Creatures, The
- Cult, The
- Damned, The
- Danse Society
- Dead Can Dance
- Dead or Alive
- Dementia Simplex
- Depeche Mode
- Dessau
- Deus Ex Machina
- Devo
- Neil Diamond
- Die Krupps
- Die Warzau
- Dresden Dolls, The
- Duran Duran
- Echo and the Bunnymen
- Electric Hellfire Club
- Electric Light Orchestra
- Erasure
- Eurythmics
- Exquisite Corpse
- Faint, The
- Faith and the Muse
- Fatal Morgana
- Fields of the Nephilim
- Flaming Lips, The
- Frankie Goes to Hollywood
- Franz Ferdinand
- Front 242
- Front Line Assembly
- Peter Gabriel
- Gang of Four
- Garbage
- J. Geils Band
- Genesis
- Green Day
- Nina Hagen
- Hall & Oates
- Hanzel Und Gretyl
- Billy Idol
- Billy Joel
- Elton John
- Tom Jones
- Joy Division
- Killers, The
- Nik Kershaw
- Kevorkian Death Cycle
- Kill Switch…Klick
- Killing Joke
- KISS
- KMFDM
- Knack, The
- Kraftwerk
- Ladytron
- Leaether Strip
- Lestat
- Lights of Euphoria
- Lords of Acid
- Love and Rockets
- Machines of Loving Grace
- Marilyn Manson
- Dean Martin
- Paul McCartney
- Meat Beat Manifesto
- Mephisto Walz
- Metallica
- Ministry
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult
- Napalm Death
- New Order
- Nine Inch Nails
- Nirvana
- Nitzer Ebb
- Klaus Nomi
- Nosferatu
- Gary Numan
- Oasis
- Offspring, The
- Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
- Luciano Pavarotti
- Penal Colony
- Pet Shop Boys
- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
- Pink Floyd
- Placebo
- Placebo Effect
- Pogues, The
- Police, The
- Project Pitchfork
- Psychedelic Furs, The
- Pulp
- Pygmy Children
- Queen
- Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Radiohead
- Rage Against The Machine
- Razed in Black
- REM
- REO Speedwagon
- Revolting Cocks
- Romeo Void
- Rosetta Stone
- Roxy Music
- Scissor Sisters
- Seraphim Shock
- Sex Gang Children
- Shadow Project
- Paul Simon
- Simple Minds
- Siouxsie and the Banshees
- Sister Machine Gun
- Sisters of Mercy
- Skinny Puppy
- Smashing Pumpkins, The
- Southern Death Cult
- Spahn Ranch
- Spandau Ballet
- Sparks
- Specimen
- Stray Cats, The
- Barbra Streisand
- Strokes, The
- Supertramp
- Suspiria
- Switchblade Symphony
- Talking Heads
- Talk Talk
- Tears For Fears
- Thompson Twins
- Tones on Tail
- Two Witches
- Type O Negative
- Ultravox
- Velvet Acid Christ
- Giuseppe Verdi
- Violent Femmes
- Virgin Prunes
- VNV Nation
- Vociferous Mutes
- Richard Wagner
- Tom Waits
- White Stripes, The
- Who, The
- Wolfsheim
- Wumpscut

Movies:

- Any Woody Allen
- Any Stanley Kubrick
- Any David Lynch
- 8 ½
- After Dark, My Sweet
- The Age of Innocence
- Alien
- Amadeus
- Amelie
- Apocalypse Now Redux
- The Aviator
- Being John Malkovich
- Belle de Jour
- Casino
- Donnie Darko
- Dracula
- Faust
- Fight Club
- From Dusk Till Dawn
- The Godfather
- The Godfather, Part II
- Goodfellas
- The Hours
- Kill Bill, Volumes 1 & 2
- La Dolce Vita
- La Double vie de Véronique
- La Strada
- Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
- Magnolia
- Memento
- Moulin Rouge
- Nosferatu
- Pulp Fiction
- Reservoir Dogs
- Romeo and Juliet
- Secretary
- Sexy Beast
- Seven
- The Silence of the Lambs
- Snakes on a Plane
- Snatch
- Strictly Ballroom
- Taxi Driver
- Trainspotting
- Trois Couleurs: Bleu/Blanc/Rouge
- The Usual Suspects

Television:

- Absolutely Fabulous
- Coupling
- Curb Your Enthusiasm
- The Day Today
- Extras
- Father of The Pride
- Fawlty Towers
- Frasier
- I’m Alan Partridge
- Knowing Me, Knowing You
With Alan Partridge
- The Office
- Prison Break
- The Simpsons
- The Sopranos
- South Park
- Spaced

Books:

Antonin Artaud
- Heliogabalus: Or, the Crowned Anarchist
- The Monk
- The Theater and Its Double
J. G. Ballard
- The Atrocity Exhibition
- Cocaine Nights
- Concrete Island
- Crash
- The Drowned World
- The Drought
- High Rise
- The Kindness of Women
- Millennium People
- Rushing to Paradise
- Super Cannes
- Terminal Beach
- War Fever
Henri Barbusse
- Hell
Georges Bataille
- Accursed Share, Vol. 1: Consumption
- Blue of Noon
- Divine Filth
- Erotism: Death and Sensuality
- The Impossible
- Inner Experience
- L’Abbe C
- Literature and Evil
- Story of the Eye
- The Tears of Eros
- Theory of Religion
- The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge
Charles Baudelaire
- The Flowers of Evil
- On Wine and Hashish
Samuel Beckett
- Act Without Words
- Disjecta: Miscellaneous Writings and a Dramatic Fragment
- Eleutheria
- Endgame
- How It Is
- More Pricks Than Kicks
- Murphy
- Waiting for Godot
- Watt
William S. Burroughs
- Naked Lunch
Geoffrey Chaucer
- The Canterbury Tales
Bret Easton Ellis
- American Psycho
- Glamorama
- The Informers
- Less Than Zero
- Lunar Park
- The Rules of Attraction
Jean Genet
- Our Lady of the Flowers
Edward Gorey
- Amphigorey
- The Haunted Tea-Cosy: A Dispirited and Distasteful Diversion for Christmas
Joris-Karl Huysmans
- The Damned
Alfred Jarry
- Exploits And Opinions Of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician: A Neo-Scientific Novel
Comte de Lautreamont
- Maldoror and the Complete Works
Henry Miller
- Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
- Black Spring
- Colossus of Maroussi
- Opus Pistorum
- Sexus, Plexus and Nexus
- Tropic of Cancer
- Tropic of Capricorn
- Quiet Days in Clichy
Chuck Palahniuk
- Choke
- Der Simulant
- Diary
- Fight Club
- Flug 2039
- Invisible Monsters
- Lullaby
- Nonfiction
- Stranger Than Fiction
- Survivant
- Survivor
Sylvia Plath
- Ariel
- The Bell Jar
- The Colossus and Other Poems
- Crossing the Water
Marcel Proust
- In Search of Lost Time
Marquis De Sade
- The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings
- Incest
- Juliette
- Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom and Other Writings
- The Misfortunes of Virtue, and Other Early Tales
J. D. Salinger
- The Catcher in the Rye
- Franny and Zooey
Jean-Paul Sartre
- L'Être et le Néant
- L'imaginaire
- L'imagination
- Les Mains Sales
- La Nausée Huis-clos
Bram Stoker
- Dracula
Tom Stoppard
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
John Kennedy Toole
- A Confederacy of Dunces
Anthony Trollope
- Barchester Towers
- Can You Forgive Her
- Doctor Thorne
- Dr. Wortle’s School
- The Duke’s Children
- The Eustace Diamonds
- Framley Parsonage
- He Knew He Was Right
- Phineas Finn
- Phineas Redux
- The Prime Minister
- The Warden
- The Way We Live Now
Kurt Vonnegut
- Bluebeard
- Breakfast of Champions
- Cat’s Cradle
- Deadeye Dick
- Galapagos
- God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
- God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
- Hocus Pocus
- Jailbird
- Mother Night
- Player Piano
- The Sirens of Titan
- Slapstick: Or Lonesome No More
- Slaughterhouse-Five
- Timequake
- Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons
- Welcome to the Monkey House
Oscar Wilde
- Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Stories, Plays, Poems and Essays
Virginia Woolf
- Between the Acts
- Jacob’s Room
- Mrs. Dalloway
- On Being Ill
- Orlando
- A Room of One’s Own
- The Years
- The Waves
- To The Lighthouse
- The Voyage Out