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Ariel

What doesn't kill us, makes us stranger.

About Me

22, confused, interested in way too many things.
Former DJ, talented complainer/procrastinator.
Artist grudgingly preparing for Master's Degree in...Art.
(Very) lazy Wiccan with reluctant Buddhist leanings.
I like chocolate and semicolons and hate insomnia and not understanding things immediately.

My Interests

Antiquing; Art (making it); Art (Francis Bacon, Zdzislaw Beksinski, Joseph Beuys, Hieronymus Bosch, Frida Kahlo, Ana Mendieta, Cindy Sherman, Remedios Varo, and others); Autumn; Bad horror movies; Cameras; Chocolate; Clubbing; Collecting fancy clothing that almost never gets worn; Dancing; Funky Hair; Halloween; Organizing things; Poetry; Picnicking; Reading.

I'd like to meet:

Interesting people who like to do fun, spontaneous things and who are not assholes.

Also

Mr. Spock

Mister Bowie

Andrew Eldritch

Mark Sandman

Tom Waits

Klaus Nomi!

Music:

Industrial, Synthpop, David Bowie...I like way too much to even try to list it all.
Tori Amos, Assemblage 23, Autovon, Back and to the Left, Bauhaus, The Birthday Massacre, Bjork, Cesium_137, Christian Death, Ladytron, Leonard Cohen, Covenant, The Cure, Dead Can Dance, Depeche Mode, The Dresden Dolls, Elysian Fields, Fischerspooner, The Genitorturers, God Module, Hocico, Imperative Reaction, In Strict Confidence, Marilyn Manson, Massive Attack, Modest Mouse, Morphine, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, New Order, NIN, Gary Numan, Placebo, Portishead, Project Pitchfork, Rotersand, Seabound, The Sisters of Mercy, The Smiths, Suicide Commando, Tool, VAST, VNV Nation, Tom Waits, Wolfsheim, and so on and so forth.

Movies:

Donnie Darko, Fairy Tale, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Freeway, I Heart Huckabees, Mad Max, Mulholland Drive, Natural Born Killers, Orlando, The Professional, Quills, The Silence of the Lambs, Tank Girl.

Anything with Peter O'Toole or Geoffrey Rush in it.

I also have a lurking fascination with Ingmar Bergman; I love love love The Seventh Seal, and Fanny and Alexander. And Werner Herzog is...well, really awesome. And bizarre.

Television:

Drawn Together, Mystery! on PBS, South Park, The occasional old Star Trek episode, X-Files reruns.

DOCTOR WHO!!!

Books:

Current Favorites: Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk, Ladders to Fire by Anais Nin, Sex Wars by Marge Piercy.

Anything Hunter Thompson because he is one of the only authors who can make me laugh so hard that I wheeze.

Clive Barker
Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)
Gerald Durrell (My Family and other Animals)
Robert Graves (I, Claudius)
C.S. Lewis
Don Marquis (Archy and Mehitabel)
Somerset Maugham
Mervyn Peake (Boy in Darkness, Titus Groan)
Tom Robbins
J.R.R. Tolkien

Heroes:

Oscar Wilde, and David Bowie. Also, Dita Von Teese. She's one cool lady.

My Blog

'Nuff said

10:10 left house10:20 entered Toast10:30 ordered a Guinness, stood at bar looking bored11:00 ordered amaretto sour11:05 the DJ played New Order and I had to dance.11:30 ordered Coke so I could keep da...
Posted by Ariel on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 11:47:00 PST

Holgariffic

So, after years of dodging it, I finally bought a Holga.Why, might you ask? It is terribly dramatic, actually. I am finally going to attack the beast that is COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY!!! And I don't know abou...
Posted by Ariel on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:54:00 PST

Matt Groening made me insecure

I watched a Simpsons episode tonight in which hanging out at bookstores, eating at tapas bars, reading about Dali and Miro, drinking coffee and watching art films were slammed as being stereotypical w...
Posted by Ariel on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 09:45:00 PST

Tarot

You are The MoonHope, expectation, Bright promises.The Moon is a card of magic and mystery - when prominent you know that nothing is as it seems, particularly when it concerns relationships. All logic...
Posted by Ariel on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 09:18:00 PST

Amused and horrified/Dorky fangirl moment

Starts off kind of rough but...um...well. It's funny, OKAY!?Bowie Add to My Profile | More VideosLemme just say that I feel like the entire music world is David Bowie's bitch. This is ha...
Posted by Ariel on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 08:43:00 PST

Elysian Fields @ Joe's Pub

Many years ago (8), a friend introduced me to Elysian Fields, and I have been totally addicted to them ever since. The first song of theirs I heard was "Lady in the Lake" from "Bleed Your Cedar". It a...
Posted by Ariel on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 06:19:00 PST

I stole sugar from Salvador Dali

Having a strange year.So far, I have been rejected from Yale, Parsons, and Mass Art. Waiting to hear back from BU. I should be more upset but I'm just not. Frankly, I didn't feel I was ready for grad ...
Posted by Ariel on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 09:02:00 PST

This is Completely Irrelevant

...But I have found two new things I really like. One is Marge Piercy's book "Sex Wars: A Novel of Gilded Age New York", which I am plowing through at an alarming rate--and that only happens whe...
Posted by Ariel on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 08:52:00 PST

Best Shopping Ever.

This is a little late coming, but&. For those who have run out of ideas...these are the most fabulous gift sites out there in my opinion. I've definitely gifted from most of them.   1. Dark Cand...
Posted by Ariel on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:30:00 PST

Barbie Doll

Barbie DollThis girlchild was born as usualand presented dolls that did pee-peeand miniature GE stoves and ironsand wee lipsticks the color of cherry candy.Then in the magic of puberty, a classmate sa...
Posted by Ariel on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:07:00 PST