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Diabolo-Menthe

Man, Myth & Magic

About Me


Guess i am a simple
But Death-Fairy butterflies with me ...
In a relationship, 3 tatoos, 2 cats, 7 bonsaï,
No more piercings, one ghost
and a few friends ...
Visitors :
(Map your Fellow Vampires ...)
I was Born a MOON-DAY !
Tanit ~ J.-M. Nicollet (1982).
Moonlight Rêverie (Isabel & the Pot of Basil) ~ J.-W. Alexander (1897).
CURRENT MOON lunar phase
Before adding me to your "Friend-List", think a moment :

"You have but slumber'd here,
while these visions did appear.
This is only an idle theme,
No more yielding than a dream.
Gentles -- Do not reprehend.
If you pardon -- We will mend !"
Main Interest = Dark Cultures,
anytime, anywhere, any style !
PARCE QUE :
"C'est plutôt le sabbat du second Faust que l'autre,
Un rhytmique sabbat, rhytmique, extrêmement
Rhytmique. Imaginez un jardin de Lenôtre,
Correct, ridicule et charmant".

*

~ Nuit du Walpurgis classique. Verlaine (1890) ~
"We are all Children of the Black Sun".
In John Balance's Memory (1962-2004) ~ Art from Fidus (1894).
I used to wear dark. I still do.
"Poser-Style" Pic. I know... But it's one of the few worth of it.
Meanwhile ...
Personnal Philosophy :

Life is a sleepless woman, bowed in dispair, rounded by 9 swords.
Those 9 blades epitomize the weaknesses us, poor humans are trapped in :

Anxiety (about a loved One),
Concern,
Dispair,
Doubt,
Misery,
Shame,
Suffering,
Suspicion,
Worry.
Glimpses from the past (Old B&W photos) :
As Mister Xiii was unavalaible
(no-one really wants it to get a ride with)
i choose Truck 14 instead.
Those were the old conscription times.
Then, I got struck in the Occult.
Muhahahahah !
Superstition & Obscurantism :
It became a weird passtime.
I guess i am still in ;-)
"J'ai vu passer dans mon rêve
-Tel l'ouragan sur la grève,
D'une main tenant un glaive
Et de l'autre un sablier,
Ce cavalier.
Des ballades d'Allemagne
Qu'à travers villes et campagnes,
Et du fleuve à la montagne,
Et des forts au vallon,
Un étalon.
Rouge-flammes et noir d'ébène,
Sans bride, ni mords, ni rênes,
Ni hop ! Ni cravache, entraine
Parmi des râlements sourds
Toujours ! Toujours !
Un grand feutre à longue plume
Ombrait son oeil qui s'allume
Et s'éteint. Tel dans la brume,
Eclate et meurt l'éclair bleu
D'une arme à feu.
Comme l'aile d'une orfraie
Qu'un subit orage effraie,
Par l'air que la neige raie,
Son manteau se soulevant
Claquait au vent,
Et montrait d'un air de gloire
Un torse sombre et d'ivoire,
Tandis que dans la nuit noire
Luisaient en des cris stridents
Trente-deux dents !"
*
Eaux Fortes, Poèmes Saturniens II, Verlaine.
I love poetry, music, wine & women.
Life & Death, entwined and parallele ...
If we share the same interests,
thats a good point to start with.
Friendship is uneasy. Love is even less.
I make no promises.
Et parfois j'écris aussi un peu de poésie, médiocre.
(N'est pas Verlaine qui veut ;-)
Mais je n'ai pas honte de mes efforts^^
BANSHEE & the FAUN :
(Petite étoile d'Amagh)
___________________
Ce fut un amour,
Aux longs cheveux noirs,
Que célait toujours,
Gracieuse fomoire,
La fleur d’Irlande,
Porteuse d’espoir.

Si l’ oeil est amande,
Cerclé de khôl noir,
Bizarre prunelle :
Y luit j’aime y croire,
O Lac éternel,
Mon âme-miroir.

Elle a, verte Erin,
Avec ses caresses,
Claire Vespérine,
Su tisser les tresses,
Le remède exquis,
Dont mon coeur languit.

Son âme étincelle,
Charmant carrousel :
Regard – Malicieux,
Sourire – Silencieux,
Sont comme tranchants,
Mêlant tons sur champs.

Corolle bien née,
Luciole des amants,
D’un rêve incarné,
A moi le vieux faune,
Ma fragile enfant,
A su faire l’aumône.

Diabolo -02.01.2006-
Photos + récentes :
(Vanitas et Omnia Vanitas ...)
Pour finir ...
(oui c'est long,
et prétentieux,
mais vous vous
attendiez à quoi
d'autre sur MySpace
hein ? ...)
Mon ptit Blog'àlacon ...
STUPID FUNNY TESTS :

You are The Magician

Skill, wisdom, adaptation. Craft, cunning, depending on dignity.

Eleoquent and charismatic both verbally and in writing, you are clever, witty, inventive and persuasive.

The Magician is the male power of creation, creation by willpower and desire. In that ancient sense, it is the ability to make things so just by speaking them aloud. Reflecting this is the fact that the Magician is represented by Mercury. He represents the gift of tongues, a smooth talker, a salesman. Also clever with the slight of hand and a medicine man - either a real doctor or someone trying to sell you snake oil.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.


My Interests



Beauty in all its forms.
Poetry & Dark Music.
The Calling of the Muse.
Cryptic Lyrics & Mirror Meanings.
Eerie & Strange Stuff.
What Dreams are made off...

XIII Allegories.

Art-Nouveau.

Bat-Things.

Cats (Siamese & Sphynx).

Comic-Strips.

Dark Fairies.

Egypt & the Dead.

Gargoyles & the Medieval.

Goth Subculture.

Hair & Style.

Haunted Mansions.

Hauts de Forme.

Hearses.

Les Dégaines Sexy.

Mangas.

Marionnettes.

Norse Mythology.

Pre-Raphaelites.

Tarot Symbolism.

The Occult.

Vintage Eerie Keyboards.

I'd like to meet:



I've already Met My Love...

Otherwise, Artists & Free-thinkers People ...
Dead persons or the places they used to live in their imagination.
The alternate reality they left behind them ...

Churchyards (I love them !)

~ Photos taken by Mandine in Romania - Summer 2005. ~

Kamalkoff paintings (a great, underated artist) :

"L'Apparition."

"Gateway to Dreams."

Little Nemo in Slumberland (and most of Windsor Mc Kay Art) :

... and that' all for now, folk !

CURRENTLY in the PROCESS of UPDATING that SECTION ...

Music:



Make your own
music player

Cinema Strange.

Visage.

Movies:



Films about the Fantastic,
Old Black & White films,
Hammer Films ...

Deathnote :

Lenore :

Nosferatu :

Other Vampire films ...

Television:


No, Thank You !

Books:


Quite Eclectic. Paul Auster, Vladimir Bartol, Jonathan Caroll, Jeffrey Ford, Robert Holdstock, Neil Gaiman, Paul Mc Grath, Mervyn Peake, Clark Ashton Smith, Theodore Sturgeon, etc.

Heroes: