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mandy

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything el

About Me


"She had a heart full of love and devotion, she had a mind full of tyranny and terror."
My name is Mandy. I am an artist (in many fashions), designer, and entrepreneur. I am generally an impractical and spontaneous person; my aspirations and values are likely to change at any given moment. Life is too short and the future is too uncertain to fall into a comfortable routine; time is my most feared adversary, lest it run out before I have satiated my body, mind, and soul. I care deeply, love passionately, give freely, have a fierce sense of loyalty, and practice kindness as often as possible. I adore life and detest cruelty in any form. Despite the overly serious profile, I am mostly a happy, optimistic, and occasionally silly person :). Hmm..what else? The most common misconception people have about me is that I am pretentious or arrogant. In truth I am painfully shy and reserved, and my diffidence is often mistaken for snobbery. Offer me a glass of Captain Morgan (or several) and a bit of your time, and chances are you will see another side of me entirely. I am on a quest to experience as much love, happiness, adventure, travel, spirituality, culture and passion as one can fit into a lifetime (and perhaps a bit of deviance for good measure). I have an insatiable lust for the extraordinary, and loathe mediocracy and every moment that is wasted. I am a vegan, writer, activist, keyboardist, and amateur mechanic.

My Interests

angels, animal rights, animals, art, art nouveau, backbones, beardsley, beauty, bellydancing, black, blood, bpal, bubbles, camaros, candles, candlemaking, car restoration, carnivals, carousels, cats, classical, compassion, corsets, dancing, deco, devils, doc holliday, domination, doves, dye, edward gorey, egypt, erte, eyeliner, fashion, fetish, frenchies, glam, glitter, goth, healing, hope, horses, ice, immortality, industrial, julian sands, justice, keyboards, kindness, kissing, kurt veith, latex, living foods, long hair, love, magic, make-up, meditation, midori, motif, music, music composition, mythology, nature, night, occultism, ocean, orchids, painting, peta, photography, piano, poetry, punk, purity, purple, rain, raw foods, reading, roses, rum, sculpture, sewing, sex, shyness, snakes, snow, songwriting, spirituality, storms, submission, synths, tall men, tarot, the ocean, thunderstorms, tightlacing, travel, truth, unicorns, veganism, velvet, vinyl, wine, women, writing, yamaha ex7

I'd like to meet:

People who are genuinely kind, intelligent, loyal and honest. Those who live life with a sense of urgency and passion. Friends, musicians, lovers, poets, models, artists, dreamers, fighters, vegans and soulmates. And a knight in shining armor.

Music:

16 horsepower, 34 vampires, advent sleep, alien sex fiend, and one, andy williams, assemblage 23, bach, bauhaus, beborn beton, bel canto, billy idol, claire voyant, christian death, classical, combichrist, concrete blonde, dark voices, david bowie, dead kennedys, deep red, depeche mode, disdain, evil's toy, faith and the muse, funker vogt, gary numan, gene loves jezebel, glis, goth, he said, human drama, industrial, joy division, kommunity fk, laibach, leonard cohen, london after midnight, malign, mentallo and the fixer, ministry, nick cave, peter murphy, praga khan, prince, project pitchfork, queen, red temple spirits, rosetta stone, seabound, seraphim shock, seven sunless days, sex pistols, shaun f, sisters of mercy, skinny puppy, switchblade symphony, the cure, the damned, the pist, the smiths, the wake, theatre of tragedy, tristania, virgin prunes, vnv nation, voltaire, wumpscut, yendri, ziggy stardust.

Movies:

Farinelli, The Mists of Avalon, Plunkett and Maclean, Labyrinth, The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Secret, Tattoo, Metropolis, Edward Scissorhands, Harry Potter, Sunset Boulevard, Velvet Goldmine, love stories, historial dramas, and almost any documentary.

Books:

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Sex and Life, The Golden Ass, The Dominion of Love, Tuesdays with Morrie, God Bless the Gargoyles, Stardust, The Blood Countess, À Rebours, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, and almost anything by Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allen Poe, Beardsley, Diet Goedde, or ancient texts.

Heroes:

We don't need another hero We don't need to know the way home.