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About Me

I enjoy conversing with Weirdos and other Enlightened Souls who are able to discuss any and all sorts of topics in an intelligent manner.
If you espouse the tired old judgmental right-wing school of "Closed Mind/Open Mouth," then please depart immediately and rejoin the rest of your lemmings as they dive head-first off the cliff. Life is too short for your sad kind of crap.
I'm a lover of Life and Laughter... and a total sucker for all things macabre and bizarre. I'm zany and kooky, serious and studious, in a never-ending search of Life's answers... I wants to experience as much as I can before I return to dust. I enjoy the company of friends and loved ones of both the two-legged and four-legged variety.
I'm recently married to a wonderful man and have never been happier. He is my best friend; a budding standup comic who has played in several venues around town here in Nashville.
I've been told I'm hard to figure out because of my eclectic interests. I guess I just can't be categorized, which suits me fine. First up, I love all things Sci-Fi and Horror... especially SPECIAL FX monster makeup! Halloween is a return to Mecca for me. I get excited when I smell liquid latex, greasepaint and spirit gum!
Because of the magic of such people as Rick Baker, Stan Winston, Dick Smith, Rob Bottin, Tom Savini and others, I once aspired to be a Hollywood special effects makeup artist (check my Photos for some examples of my imaginative handiwork). Now I have a blast doing it on Halloween or any other occasion that calls for monster makeup... like the NASHVILLE ZOMBIE WALK!!!
I participated in the very first Nashville Zombie Walk on Easter weekend, March '07, in downtown Nashville - what fun it was (check out my Photos here on my Profile). Looking forward to the next Zombie Walk with grim glee!
I also was featured in "Dr. Gangrene's CREATURE FEATURE" in October '07 as one of the minions of the Undead in the campy wraparound scenes (see the video clip here on my Profile) of "Night of the Living Dead."
I'm also into COMEDY... because Life provides us with plenty to laugh at, and if you weren't aware of that, I feel sorry for you. The world needs more laughter and far fewer tears.
Among other things, I'm interested in:
Alternative culture, ancient cultures, and culture in general... Cats, bats, frogs, dogs, lemurs, aye-ayes (I love all animals!), archaeology, architecture, art, body modification and TATTOOS, Eastern philosophy, violins, painting, ethnobotany, paleontology, all manner of fetish (rubber & leather clothing/corsets, erotica, pansexuality, boots and shoes, stockings, etc.), hair, makeup, poetry (I'm a published poet myself)... magic, meditation, music, mysticism, spirituality, PSI, the Faerie Realm, William Blake, Bukowski, Gurdjieff, Aldous Huxley, Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, The Three Stooges, Terrence McKenna, Arthur C. Clarke, George Carlin, Philip K. Dick, Frankenstein, Dracula, Eddie Izzard.... all things Egyptian, Scottish, Irish Celtic and Nordic, the First Amendment, history (the REAL history, and not the illusionary type we were force-fed as schoolchildren), Mac cosmetics, Mac computers, Canon cameras, digital photography, iMovie and Photoshop... and 11:11...
Am I boring you yet? Good.
And I also 'ave a hankering to live me life as a Pirate, arrrr! All ye scurvy dogs take heed, that September 19th is INTERNATIONAL TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY... observe it or ye be walkin' the plank down to Davy Jones' locker, aye!
I am a retired Editor/Publisher of several well-known alternative-type mags you're probably familiar with (FETISH, Leg World, AVN, and various fanzines, among others)... I thoroughly loved being a well-traveled photojournalist and am thankful for all the journeys I took and people I met - what fantastic memories they provided me! But I am glad to have turned a new chapter in my life at this point in time. We all need to do just that on occasion, kids, or we risk becoming stale.
I'm also an Artist/Performer who's taken time off to recharge the mental batteries, but I still enjoy being creative on my own terms here in my little corner of the forest.
Deadlines? Ha - I laugh as they whiz past me.
But really, you know what sums it up? I'm just a big kid who NEVER, EVER wants to grow up.
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My Interests

What gets the ol' gray matter vibrating these days, you ask? Lots.

Love traveling and discovering strange, offbeat new places and people. I love the awesome people and cities of Portland, Oregon; San Francisco, CA; and Nashville, TN.
I'll take a nice lightning-filled rain storm over a hot sunny day (gimme those negative ions in the air, please!); and prefer reflective solitude with my cats over a smoky, crowded room any time.

Playing my violin is my newest passion... next, it's learning the bowed psaltery, and then, mastering the tuba!

And what Nordic Goddess would I be, you ask? Well, obviously...I Am Loki
Loki is the darkest-natured of all the tricksters and like him, your sense of humor can be morbid, even a bit spiteful at times. You find it wickedly amusing when someone makes a fool of themselves and you're willing to help the process along. Cries of outrage fall on deaf ears - you couldn't care less what the commoners think. And god help anyone who tries to make a fool of you - they'll find out quickly just how nasty you can be! Which Trickster Are You?
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I'd like to meet:

Creative, intelligent people with a sense of humor! Anyone who enjoys adventure, music, films, belly laughs, soul-stirring esoteric studies, healthy cooking, nature, art, history, fine cheeses, kitty cats, conspiracy theories, philosophy, quantum physics, metaphysics, booze and chocolate.
And frogs, of course.

And, since you were wondering, what Greek Goddess would I be?
Hecate

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Music:

Vintage stuff like the Beatles, the Stones, Pink Floyd, The Doors, old '60s Psychedelia, acid rock, the Moody Blues... Surfabilly, Rockabilly, and Psychobilly (The Ghastly Ones, Demented Are Go, The Meteors, Creeping Cruds, etc.)...

Frank Zappa, Monty Python songs, Klaus Nomi, Weird Al Yankovic, old Spike Jones records, movie soundtracks, and of course, Dr. Demento... Tom Waits, Edith Piaf, Sinatra, Glen Miller, Cab Calloway, 'Tin Pan Alley' jazz a la 1920's-era... Queer music (be it campy or disco)... The Pogues, The Chieftans, Loreena McKinnet, Hagalaz Runedance... the whole '70s Old School Punk and New York music scene, including Johnny Thunders, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, The Cramps, Iggy Pop, Blondie... The Lords of the New Church, Swans, Killing Joke, X, the Virgin Prunes, Chameleons UK ... Old Glam/Glitter rock like David Bowie (including obscure EARLY Bowie from the '60s), Alice Cooper, the Runaways, and Sweet. And of course, there will always be a spot in my heart for vintage metal like Motley Crue, WASP, Black Sabbath, and OZZY!

... And I could not live without Techno-Trance-Industrial -New Wave - Darkwave!
...45 Grave, Dead Can Dance, Diamanda Galas, Christian Death, The Damned, The Deep Eynde, Alien Sex Fiend, Foetus, Skinny Puppy, and all that great Deathrock/Goth stuff from the '80s...
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Dinah Cancer! of 45 Grave!
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And I LOVE old country a la Hank Williams, vintage Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, Wanda Jackson and such. You wanna hear real heartbreak, then listen to that stuff, kids...

On the complete opposite end of the spectrum, I'm an absolute Classical music maniac. Love and crave opera equally as well, it just rips me to shreds inside when I hear it. Give me Tchaikovsky, Bach, Beethoven, Rossini, Liszt, Chopin, Mahler, and Mozart!

I recently discovered that songbird who flew down from heaven to bestow us with her magical voice: Sarah Brightman. When Sarah sings, I sob!

I do have other favorites, but if I told you, you'd think I was totally uncool and laugh at me.
And then I'd have to kill you.

Movies:

My taste in cinema ranges from sophisticated
to sentimentally schmaltzy
to children's films
to mondo-bizarre-O
to side-splitting funny
to indie experimental
to creep-o-rama scary.
LOVE Monty Python movies, and own them all. I'm an absolute nut for them. Have you got anything without Spam?
Clockwork Orange... Wings of Desire... Pan's Labyrinth... Lord of the Rings trilogy... Everything is Illuminated... Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind... Being John Malkovich... Sunset Boulevard... Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (love any lurid Joan Crawford movie!) ... Wizard of Oz... Spinal Tap... Rocky Horror Picture Show... Evil Dead...Seven Years in Tibet... Princess Bride... 2001: A Space Odyssey... Time Bandits... Amelie... Suspiria... La Vie en Rose... Sid and Nancy... The Blue Angel (early Marlene Dietrich is the best Dietrich by far!)... Charlie and the Chocolate Factory... Hellraiser... Young Frankenstein (any pre-'80s Mel Brooks!)... Velvet Goldmine... Donnie Darko... Oliver! ... Mad Monster Party (did our parents ever realize that Rankin-Bass provided some mighty twisted children's fare in the '60s?!)... and all Tim Burton movies as well.
Needless to say, I crave classic Horror, duh!
I'm huge on Cult movies - "The Loved One" is a humungus fave, as is "Harold and Maude" and many more too numerous to mention (but I will add anything that J. Michael McCarthy did will be on my list, especially "The Sore Losers")...

Did I neglect to mention John Waters movies - especially his earlier ones with the supremely queenly Divine?

Television:

Discovery Channel... The History Channel... HGTV... Animal Planet... IFC ... Sundance Channel

Books:

There are too many to list here... I have literally hundreds in my library, from philosophy to poetry to history and more. I'm forever collecting more. I devour reading material of all sorts (but favor the deep academic/non-fiction stuff). If you are curious what I'm reading right now, ask me.

Heroes:

Both of my beloved Dads, of course. May they rest in peace.
Seems all my heroes are dead... I would love to meet the enchanting Dr. Timothy Leary again (met him in the 1980's) and this time, have a real long nice sit-down with him.
If given the chance, I'd like to have the opportunity to meet a few of my other heroes, including Charles Bukowski, William Blake, Frank Zappa, Aldous Huxley, Michael Baigent, John Lydon, Arthur C. Clarke, Stiv Bators, Comte. St. Germain, Buddha, Mozart, Terrence McKenna, Voltaire, Nicholas Flamel, and Jack Wild.

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The Passing of Dr. Verna Aridon Yater

Seekers of Truth: Beloved Verna V. Aridon Yater, PhD, crossed into Spirit on Good Friday, March 21st, in Santa Barbara, California. Dr. Yater's work on transforming the consciousness of mankind was d...
Posted by iLLUMINATrix on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:54:00 PST

UPDATE: It's been a long time...

...since I've posted. So much has transpired in my life of late, it's been borderline insane for me. But I cope well because I'm a survivor.I won't go too deep into it but will say simply that my reas...
Posted by iLLUMINATrix on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

What I Did On Feb. 02, 2002

Tonight! & At 20:02, we will witness a perfect PALINDROMIC moment (thats a word or numbers the same way backwards and frontwards). Youre probably wondering, Gee whillikers! Just what the fuc...
Posted by iLLUMINATrix on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Isn't it funny...

...in that odd, sadly ironic way how you can stumble across a profile here on My Space, and something in it just makes you melancholy? I just found The Slanderin's site, and in it, a really awesome...
Posted by iLLUMINATrix on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

To add more stink to the pile...

... I just now NARROWLY avoided getting a $330 parking ticket! This is private property, and we NEVER see the parking ticket peeps here. Well, today being the Day From Hell for me, I was parked i...
Posted by iLLUMINATrix on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

It's days like this...

...that make me want to pack my bags and leave this shithole of a town. Ahh... but it's ok. I just need to blow off steam. It's just "one of those days." And like the fetid wind it is, it too shal...
Posted by iLLUMINATrix on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

The Boss's show is nearing completion...

And he's already gotten positive writeups in some of the local newspapers! This is going to be phenomenal. Taking his big mega award-winning skin flick and turning it into a live, non-nudity stage dan...
Posted by iLLUMINATrix on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Welcome to the First Blog.

I say that to myself as much as to you who are reading this... whomever "you" are, oh faceless voyeur. "M" (also known as "SO," or Signifcant Other) had some really interesting symbolic dreams the ...
Posted by iLLUMINATrix on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST