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Valerian Caprice

thelemicmagus

About Me

Probably the most puzzling question of all! What about me? Really? What do you want to know?.... I like to go out with the boys, go camping (provided a lot of beer is brought along), hiking, mountain-biking - and still also, when in the mood, to just be a total shut-in, doing little else but watching new movies or old favorites, reading, and - from time to time - putting my own pen to page and writing myself. And...umm...oh! - I'm also an avid gamer, a student of psychology and philosophy, and am curious to the point of folly in all things concerning the outre or the bizarre. There! Anything else you wanna know?...

My Interests

Answered pretty much in full below in "About Me".

I'd like to meet:

First and foremost, those two incomparable succubi, Raven Riley and Liz Vicious. After that, I'm not sure....I mean, they're all dead. Does that count?...

Music:

I'm pretty much a late 60's-early 70's rock kinda guy. Give me THE DOORS, Zep, Hendrix, Janis, Dylan, Airplane...that kinda stuff. But I've also been found guilty of enjoying AC-DC, Blondie, The Ramones, Michelle Branch, Vanessa Carlton, Kelly Clarkson, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Concrete Blonde, Dido, Evanescence, Lacuna Coil, Fleetwood Mac, Godsmack, Avril Lavigne, The Misfits (ONLY with original singer Glenn Danzig!), Bob Seger, Shakira, Rob Zombie (both solo and with White Zombie), Amy Winehouse, Warren Zevon, Jim Croce, Steely Dan

Movies:

Included among my favorites would be American Psycho, Amityville Horror, Bad Santa, Blair Witch Project, Brotherhood Of The Wolf. Cabin Fever, Cruel Intentions, The Descent, The Doors, Dracula, the El Mariachi trilogy, Frailty, From Hell, The Grudge, the Hannibal Lecter movies, House Of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects, Identity, Good Will Hunting, James Bond flicks, Jay and Silent Bob, The Last Temptation Of Christ, The Lord Of The Rings, The Matrix movies, Memento, Monty Python And The Holy Grail, Open Water, Pirates Of The Caribbean, Smokin' Aces, Star Wars, 300, Troy, Alexander, Ultraviolet, Under Suspicion, Underworld, Van Helsing, V For Vendetta, Wild Things....to name a few.

Television:

Surprisingly enough, there actually have been SOME good shows on TV. A few of the ones that I got into were Alias, Battlestar Galactica, Farscape, Gilmore Girls (yeah, I admit it!), Party Of Five (yeah, I admit that, too!), Kindred - The Embraced, South Park, Family Guy, Firefly, Lost, Deadwood, Rome, Weeds

Books:

Mostly what I read is non-fiction. A list of favorites would be extensive, but a few essentials for me if I were, like, stranded on a desert island or something would have to include Modern Magick (Kraig), The Magician's Workbook (Tyson), The Magicians of the Golden Dawn (Howe), The Monuments of Mars (Hoagland), The Closing of the Western Mind (Freeman), The Gnostic Gospels (Pagels), Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Gibbons), The Trial of the Templars (Barber), A Genius for War (Dupuy), The Civil War (Foote), the Dialogues of Plato, The Illiad & The Odyssey (Homer), The Aeneid (Virgil), The Prince (Machiavelli), the Theban Plays (Sophocles), Don Quixote (Cervantes), Le Morte d'Arthur (Mallory), Beyond Good and Evil (Nietzsche), The Equinox Vol. I - #1-10, the collected works of H. P. Lovecraft, and the plays of Oscar Wilde

Heroes:

Aleister Crowley, Jim Morrison, H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe, Oscar Wilde, MacGregor Mathers, Eliphas Levi Zahed, Roger Bacon, Thomas Vaughn, Robert Flood, Cagliostro, Dr. John Dee, Jack Parsons, Elaine Pagels, Bart D. Ehrman, Richard Hoagland, Dr. Stanton Friedman, Christian Rosenkreutz, Raven Riley, Liz Vicious, Eric Cartman, Stewie Griffith and....uh....oh yeah, Batman.... Definitely Batman.