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Mara

Fairy tales are important - not because they tell us that the dragon exists, but because they tell u

About Me


"A pidgeon swept across her window, and she marveled at its liquid movements in the air waves. She placed her dreams on the back of the bird and fantasized that it would glide forever in transparent silver circles until it ascended to the center of the universe and was swallowed up."
[Gloria Naylor - Kiswana Brown]
tadaa, ME!
M Meek
A Ambivalent
R Refreshing
A Appreciative
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You're a Deathrocker/Goth-Punk! You're into old
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**Your Room** (With CORRECT SPELLING)
Walls
What is the theme of your room?: whatever they may be, your rules don't apply to this area would be the motto. The theme..probably 'creative genius at work'
What color are your walls?: dirty white and pink-purple gauze
What color would you like your walls to be?: deep purple? rainbow? *snicker*
Do you have wallpaper? If yes, what is it?: uhm...yes, that crumbling stuff on my walls is actually supposed to be 5 or 6 layers of the cheapest wallpaper in the world and several colour-coatings on top.
Do you have posters up?: yep
If yes, of what?: 69 eyes, underworld, nin, london after midnight, vampire hunter d, serial experiment lain, resident evil+kill bill on my door, james dean, london map,london tube map, riddick&fry poster a friend made for me, a map of the nothern and southern sky, ultra violet...running out of space here
Bed
What color are your sheets?: dark blue
What color is your comforter?: a dazzling mix. main sheets(2x2,20m): dark-red-pink with green and orange lines. If you look on it long enough u swear it's moving. other sheets: blue-metallic satin; light-pink and dark purple with flowers - yes. right.
What size bed do you have?: 1.20m x 2m
One pillow or two?: 5
What do you sleep with on your bed?-pillows, blankets, stuffed animals, etc: 5 pillows, 4 blankets (someone likes it cozy), Alex in the morning hours, hot-water bottle in winter - until Mr. Furball shows up, book, husband-to-be
Do you make your bed?: uhm...sort of
What's in your room
TV?: definitely! mush my brain!!
VCR?: nope
DVD player?: uh-huh
CD player?: well, yes, I had one but it didn't survive the attack of the candles last winter *cough cough*
Any game system?: playstation 1+2, gameboy, used to have a NES
computer?: bob here *strokes her pc, still in love like on the first day*
mini fridge?: naw (but now that you mention it..hmmm...)
any animals?: mr. furball - ALEX the Magnanimous, my antisocial ferret
any trophies or awards?: naw...never won anything as far as I can remember. about time! but been nominated for the Braunschweiger Bürgerpreis! - and lost :(
Closet
Do you have a closet?: yep
Is it clean or messy?: messy
Is it a walk in?: well..for Alex, yes...
Is it color coded?: black with splotches of colour here and there
What is in it?: clothes per chance? oh and Alex. Last time I saw him he was sleeping somewhere between my socks
Other
How many windows?: 2 in this 2 in the other room
Is your room messy or clean?: rather m-m-messy. but you really can't blame me. Too much stuff, too little room; kinda cozy - I assume.
Do you have any cool lights or lamps?: blue and red lights on my wall, mesmerizing lava-lamp, loads of candles all sorts and sizes
Do you have any cool chairs or bean bags?: my easy chair. EVERYBODY loves it. but it's miiiiiiiine muharhar.
What color is your carpet?: originally you mean? I guess, once upon a time, a beige little carpet left his Swedish home for the land of Ikea. A few weeks later it was carpet-napped by an evil and wicked-looking woman in black. After hardships unnamed...okay, I'd rather not talk about my carpet..
Do you have any rugs?: yep, 2 old fashioned ones. they add to the general impression of a well-kept chaos
Do you have a phone in your room?: yep but I'm afraid to use it. Last time I did, I connected my mom to a friend. Effect: confusion on all sides. I prefer using my cell.
What is on your nightstand?: as my table is my nightstand: 'Alice in Wonderland', Alice in Wonderland essays, 'Coraline', a CD I should listen to, a Tarot set I did a review on and was too lazy to put it on a shelf, creative writing notebook, cell-phone, garfield picture that fell down the wall last month, more university stuff, marbles, candle, remote, water bottle, rest of the oven cheese...
Are there any pictures of you and your friends up?: nope. bad thing about digital cameras. Gonna change back to hardcopy
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My Interests

I've committed myself into slavery for coffee, books and music - of late I'm also working my ass off to keep on studying. Vicious circle: Work butt off to stay at university which eats up too much of the time I'd better use for studying -> gotta study longer -> for which I have to work my ass off in order to pay the fees and bills and...and food. Currently I have two jobs at university and one -rather unpaid- job as the 'English voice' of the LARPzeit Magazin doing a few interviews in the music section and happy to translate away if necessary. LARPzeit is a German magazine specializing in live action role-playing games, medieval culture and fashion.

Btw, I'm student of English Literature and Modern History (just in case you wondered) and chances are high you find me on Campus Nord either in the library near the coffee machine, at the library desk checking out your books (nope, I am not the friendly one. I am the one who kicks your ass if you enter the restricted area, walk right up to you to silence you and deny all responsibility as to the lockers and yes, I hate my fellow students and have prepared the lockers so they don't open properly anymore. Seriously guys, don't fuck with the lady behind the desk). When I don't happen to be at the library check my office or give a loud shout. Good chances someone has just seen me a few minutes before. oh, and bring a coffee if you want me to like you. Coffee helps.

Although I don't play any instruments, I'm desperately in love with music. Metal, Goth Rock, Punk Rock, and Glam Rock, Rock in general. But I listen to all kinds of music as long as it's gooooood. Since many of my friends are Metal bears who could easily win Lordi-look-alike contests I acquired a kind of taste for that too. Well, okay, okay no sense denying, actually that's where I come from. Like every good role-playing girl I started out with Blind Guardian, Hammerfall, Iron Maiden and Subway to Sally ;) ... You're still my heroes!! I have been told recently I'm being in the process of being converted to Black Metal - sorta. Still kicking. Call me fussy but I actually enjoy 'understanding'(acoustically) at least parts of the vocals. Not that I complain overly much when being forced to a night out in the company of my black-metal boyfriend *rolls her eyes* or my death-metal-loving friends *rolls her eyes some more*. Still, it's just pretty unlikely that you'd find much of it when browsing through my cd-'shelf'. At least as yet... . The reprogramming of my mind is in progress, I fear.

What else? Bookie girl that I am, I'm also a sucker for comics, horror movies and playstation games, and have played all kinds of role-playing games in my youth. Uh-huh, guess you could call me a little geeky from time to time. All-time faves are 'Das Schwarze Auge' and 'Shadowrun'.

some random keywords

writing + music + goth + glam + glitter + rock + punk + trash + horror + fiction + movies + Poe + Poppy Z. Brite + photography + art + castles + England + Scotland + Ireland + travel + Berlin + books + leather + studs + Firefly + underground + bands + friends + kinky people + colours + chocolate + piano music + sparkling or blinking objects (magpie-syndrome) + Chinese food + churches + cemeteries + croissants + muffins + role-playing games + Sandman + English + chocolate cappuccino + beds + hammocks + sleep + monster + ferrets + role-playing+ reading + night terror + water+ snow + skyscrapers + kudzu + caves + cold + animals + history + philosophy + computer + candles + light + my guys + people that keep me awake in the dead hours of the morning + music = chocolate + cripple + merchandise + socks (with ears, eyes, in porno pink, cute patterns...don't ask!) + men with long hair *purrs* + make-up + snow globes + musical boxes + playchild + cheese-pizza + vodka + wine + caffeine + energy drinks + big cites + bubbles + hickeys + the movies + pelvic bones + stars (those in the sky) + Asia + Finland + Norway + Sweden + cherry-coke + Finnish (yksi kaksi kolme!) + drinking games + sea + eagle rays + complicated + no sports + cuddle-bug + loner + sleep + butterflies + collages + long hot showers + designing book covers + tattoos + impatient + sensitive+ moody + moon + plush + zebra + leotard + Stundenglas-Delphine + fish+ full-time-dreamer + flowers + I-can-do-it-tomorrow + professional slave + hypochondriac (that you don't have it (yet) doesn't mean it can't kill you) + TV-junkie + fairy tales + metal+ Swedish + sunrise + sunset + northern lights + LARPzeit + being-on-the-road + wonderland + bands + walking-talking-nemesis-of-all-copying-machines, keyboards and burner + chaotic + librarian + neat technical devices + Africa+ easily impressed + easily depressed + hyper + fan of placebos + drawing + stay-up-all-nite + going for a walk + rain + surfing (and I DO mean on water, yaaahaaa!) + enthusiast + world's-greatest-pessimist + silly+ difficult + writers ink. + ... to be continued

I'd like to meet:

Devil cracked the earthly shell
Foretold she was the one
Blew hope into the room and said:
"You have to live before you die young"
[Opeth - Ghost of Perdition]

All sorts of people in general. Just walk up to me and hand over the beer, vodka or coffee. We'll get along, promise!
I love creativity in people and I cherish talks about all sorts of creative topics, well, actually I just like talking and people, alot ;). Gotta love the input you can get from talking to others. So there's a whole lot of people I'd love to meet.
But there are some particular people I want to meet, as well.
Maja, my evil twin from Kiel. We need to catch up over a mug of Swiss Miss
my older brother Nathan - come on, jerk, I'm nice. No reason not to inquire after your little sister from time to time. I promise not to run after your friends! All my English relations, Poppy Z. Brite, Neil Gaiman (again ^^ ), Karin Meissenburg + Cathy Dunsford again, my Daddy (R.I.P), ...this list could go on and on and on and will be updated ;)

something else: now, some of the pics on my page are not my own. If I used one of your pics and you don't want me to, please e-mail me and I will take it down immediately.

Music:

+ Trashlight Vision +

+ Stereo Junks +
+ Blind Guardian+
+ Stratovarius+
+ Rhapsody of Fire+
+ Helloween+
+ Iron Maiden+
+ Avantasia +
+ Sonata Arctica +
+ Dream Evil +
+ Brother Firetribe +
+ Aina +
+ Tarot +
+ Ayreon +
+ Tori Amos +
+ Anouk +
+ Bjoerk +
+ Vanessa Carlton +
+ Marilyn Manson +
+ Murderdolls +
+ Wednesday 13 +
+ Saltatio Mortis+
+ Celldweller +
+ Venus in Furs +
+ The Becoming +
+ Gemini Five +
+ Malice in Wonderland +

+ Private Line +
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+ The Cruxshadows+
+ The Cure +
+ Nick Cave +
+ Dresden Dolls+
+ The 69 Eyes +
+ Edguy +

+ Lordi+
+ HIM +
+ Misfits +
+ NIN +
+ Motley Crue +
+ Dir en Grey +
+ Disturbed +
+ Velvet Revolver +
+ David Bowie +
+ Pain +
+ London After Midnight +
+ Barenaked Ladies +
+ Alice Cooper +
+ Juliette and the Licks +
+ Backyard Babies +
+ Jakalope +
+ Die Toten Hosen +
+ Die Ärzte +
+ Falco +
+ Oomph +
+ Korn +
+ Paradise Lost +
+ Subway to Sally +
+ Eläkeläiset +
+ Sisters of Mercy +
+ Beborn Beton +
+ Billy Idol +
+ Loreena McKennitt +
+ Massive Attack +
+ Mila Mar +
+ System of a Down +
+ Smashing Pumkins +
+ Thomas D +
+ Guano Apes +
+ Tabitha's Secret +
+ Tagtraeumer +
+ U2 +
+ Piggy D+
+ Movie & Musical Soundtracks (Rent, Mozart, We Will Rock You, Dance of the Vampires, Pirates of the Caribbean, LotR, Silent Hill, Lost Boys, Breakfast Club etc etc pp Keks +
... this list could go on forever..

Movies:

just a really small sample of my faves:
horror movies (I'm a freak for horror movies, the creepier the better! I like everything dark and twisted): dawn of the dead (the remake); 28 days later; seven; silent hill; resident evil 1+2; dark water (the japanese original); the ring 1+2; the nameless; brainscan; the fog (the original); texas chainsaw massacre; fear of the dark; psycho; them; the first hellraiser movies; IT; the shining; halloween; candyman; chucky movies (chucky's bride!); wrong turn; the crow (can you truly consider this a horror?); dracula (diverse versions); brain dead; house II; the blob; pet sematery; 'katzenaugen'; are you ready for freddy? (nightmare on elmstreet (all of'em)); the hand; madhouse; house on haunted hill; haunted hill; the haunting; rose red (yeah, I like films about haunted houses, hehe); alien I-III; 13 ghosts; the skeleton key; old horror movies, any zombie movie, jeez...many many more
action/thriller: fast and the furious; extreme rage; knockaround guys; pitch black; chronicles of riddick (yeah, you've found a true Vin Diesel fan); boondock saints; dark harbor; hackers; fight club; american history x; sin city; the game; girl interrupted; troy; gossip; ballistic: ecks vs. sever; flesh & blood; serenity; pacte des loups; constantine; equilibrium ... argh, there are so many...
animes: vampire hunter d; ayashi no ceres; akira; jin roh; serial experiment laine; wolf's rain; x-1999; howl's castle; spirited away; kenshin; that goddamn fave series of mine I never remember the name of and have lent out my DVDs - btw: who has my DVDs??? ...
love/comedy: hugh grant films; bette midler films; little nicky; 10 things I hate about you; sleepy hollow (or would that be horror? naw); beetlejuice; breakfast on pluto; grease; moulin rouge; tank girl; original sin; wayne's world I+II; corpse bride; rocky horror picture show; playing by heart; mathilda; closer;
misc: gangs of new york; dreamers; pan's labyrinth; hearts in atlantis; dark city; requiem for a dream; avalon; quills; pirates of the caribbean 1+2; fear and loathing in las vegas; v for vendetta; detroit rock city; the velocity of gary;
slc punk
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velvet goldmine (meow!) ; nightmare before christmas; stand by me; clockwork orange; labyrinth; sid and nancy; party monster; ladyfalk; willow; volkodav; dead poet's society; breakfast club;
powder; hamlet; tim burton movies; RENT; betty blue;

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I know too many films. This is still to be continued. And what does it tell us? Rightyright...GET A LIFE!!
some fave actors and actresses: norman reedus, hugh grant, vin diesel, angelina jolie, johnny depp, colin firth, edward furlong, matthew lillard, benicio del toro, bruce willis, julia stiles, bill murray, robin williams, david bowie, willem dafoe, rhys ifans, bette midler, robert deniro, james dean, jean reno, ewan mcgregor, antonio banderas, lucy liu, christopher walken, rutger hauer, crispin glover, fairuza balk, cillian murphy ...
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Television:

Doctor Who, Fire Fly (they're producing so much shit but cut Fire Fly..can't believe it grrrr), Monk, X-Files, Perry Mason, Black Adder, Twin Peaks, Gilmore Girls, Golden Girls, Mein Leben und ich, Crossing Jordan, Home Improvement, X-Factor, Justice League, X-Men, Freakazoid, Invader Zim, Shin-Chan, Bob Morane, Sabre Rider, Sponge Bob *cough cough*(Gary my hero), Koenigin der 1000 Jahre, Tales from the Crypt, lot's of History, Animal and Science stuff - whatever catches my eye... Oh bla, TV is running constantly - if only on 'mute' to have some movement in the room.

Books:

only a very small sample: + Poppy Z. Brite +
+ E.A. Poe +
+ Neil Gaiman +
+ Bart Yates +
+ Lewis Carroll +
+ Armistead Maupin +
+ William Shakespeare +
+ Oscar Wilde +
+ Stephen King +
+ Thomas Hardy +
+ Wolfgang Hohlbein +
+ David Gemmell +
+ Jon Land +
+ Jean Rhys +
+ Cathie Dunsford +
+ Elizabeth Bowen +
+Terry Pratchett +
+ George Orwell +
+ Aldous Huxley +
+ Isaac Asimov +
+ Lovecraft+
+ Clive Barker +
+ Arthur Machen +
+ lots of stuff on literature (secondary literature - whe!)+
...
I love horror fiction and Gothic Literature and I am always looking for new authors, so if you have anything to recommend, feel free!
A second fave genre is Utopian fiction. Orwell, Huxley, Lessing, Wells, Samjatin...
Last but not least one of my major interests lies in the field of Post-Colonial Literature (African + Caribbean Literature in particular but the rest as well). I've been to a PoCo-conference in Spring 2005 at Berlin (Post-Colonial Spring School), spent a whole week with authors, creative people and aspiring writers there. Cool thing!

Heroes:

my childhood heroes: Robin Hood, Wolverine and Lydia Gambit, Punisher and Spiderman!

There are definitely a lot of inspiring people all over the world I'd pick as examples

my mother who is completely crazy but always did her best to raise us.

Neil Gaiman and Poppy Z. Brite are definitely on the list. They are my gurus as it comes to writing.

people helping other people... Just in case you feel like helping, UNICEF
http://www.unicef.org
and people having the balls to pursue their dreams.

My Blog

nothing better to do than fill in another survey - oh well...70 Things

70 THINGS YOU PROBABLY DON'T KNOW ABOUT ME1. ARE YOU SHY?highly depends on the other person but when I'm thrown into a sort of new situation like meeting up with new or important people I haven't met ...
Posted by Mara on Sun, 13 Aug 2006 05:38:00 PST

motivation and thesis, anyone?

Hey folks,  it's term paper time again. Some of you may know what that means. Righty, pissed-off, stressed-out Mara fighting against a lack of motivation and creativity getting more desperate eve...
Posted by Mara on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 01:05:00 PST

suuurvey

This quiz has 85 questions. Here's what you're supposed to do....and DON'T spoil the fun. Copy this entire bulletin and paste it onto a new bulletin that you will send. Change all the answers so that ...
Posted by Mara on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 12:07:00 PST

Good morning! - Feel like shit.

My what a night. I remember leaving for meeting up with one of my 'Grufti'-friends after hours and hours of watching the Edguy-DVD. Two worlds collide. The next thing I remember is sitting on his couc...
Posted by Mara on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 11:49:00 PST

My, what a heatwave in Trini...Braunschweig - your butterfly on Edguy and caffeine

It's fuckin hot. Sorry, but someone had to say that. I can't remember the last time I suffered from heat so badly and I can't remember the last time I enjoyed the summer so particularly much. "Sonne m...
Posted by Mara on Mon, 24 Jul 2006 08:45:00 PST

Birthday - life's short, wear your party pants

 I was born on 7th of July something around 10:20 am. It's my  birthday today and I wanna tell you about what happened so far because I am pleasantly drunk and can't sleep:  On July 6th...
Posted by Mara on Fri, 07 Jul 2006 04:54:00 PST

what I'm doing with my life atm

To all of you who either wonder what I'm doing with my time and why I'm hardly ever available for chats or going out, or for those who need some ideas as to what to read here is my book list for this ...
Posted by Mara on Wed, 28 Jun 2006 07:34:00 PST

family ties

I'm off to home AGAIN this weekend. My family's having some crisis atm now that my little sister has moved out. I feel a bit worried about my mother but then that's just the way life goes, isn't it? P...
Posted by Mara on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:46:00 PST

Alexander

As people keep asking me about my lil' pumpkin I thought I might put up a few pictures of him and explain a few things like in FAQ. Q: Why did you get a ferret? A: I love ferrets. But first and fore...
Posted by Mara on Mon, 29 May 2006 02:01:00 PST

On Writing

I've been feeling like writing all day long but I figured I that I can't write something sensible today. So I made some Brownies instead. Cooking or baking is better than yoga and so much more rewardi...
Posted by Mara on Sat, 20 May 2006 11:45:00 PST