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Icer Rose

Dead is the new alive.

About Me

"Falling toward delta, he sees himself the rose, each of his scattered fragments revealing a whole he'll never know - stolen credit cards - a burned out suburb - planetary conjunctions of a stranger - a tank burning on a highway - a flat packet of drugs - a switchblade honed on concrete, thin as pain."
- William Gibson "Fragments of a Hologram Rose"
If there is anything to know about me, it is that music and art are very important parts of my life. I am the resident DJ, founder, and promoter of Dystopia, a goth/industrial/punk dance night held on Saturdays at Club Midtown in downtown Toledo. I have previously DJed for R3V0LU710N and Goth Night at Club Bijou. I am available to DJ for parties and special events, please contact me for further information. I handle promotion, management, graphic design, website design & maintenance, and art direction for the Toledo based industrial/ metal/ rock/ punk/ experimental band, Living Dead. I also tour with the band when they are on the road. Also, I proudly work as a sales associate at Hot Topic at The Shops at Fallen Timbers in Maumee, Ohio. I have been an active participant in the Northwest Ohio music scene for the past 5 years. I have previously worked with such bands as Tranquil, Stained Glass Torture, Lollipop Lust Kill, Sinthetic, and several more. I have also worked for the following groups or clubs in the past, I.G.U.N., Club LIV (at Club Rain), Undertow Artists, and others. Currently, I assist in booking and promoting many shows at Club Bijou. I am also the graphic designer for Matrix Concerts, as well as the webmaster for Club Bijou (www.clubbijou.com). I offer my own graphic design service at my website, InvertedRealm.com .
Continuing further, I am also a writer of poetry and prose. In 1998 I was invited to the Young Author's Conference at the University of Toledo to be recognized for my writing at age 12. My work has been in various limited publications, and I am currently preparing a book to released in the near future.
"At the end—and this is what I’ve learned, and I don’t know why it took so long—at the end, everything dissolves. At the end, everything you thought mattered burns away and all that’s left is love and ashes."
-Hour of Arrival
Perhaps our role on this planet is not to worship God — but to create Him.
-Arthur C. Clarke
Satan means whatever people can’t fathom or understand; the Unknown, whatever breaks the commonplace and predictable mental patterns of conventional thought and experience; Satan represents the opposite of people’s fears, weakness, and crushing self-doubt about their world and the entire Universe.
- Lucifer Valentine
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My Interests

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"May God have mercy on our dirty little hearts. Shame on us, for all we've done, and all we ever were, just zeros and ones."
- Nine Inch Nails 'Zero-Sum'

"You the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness. You the people have the power to make life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy let's use that power - let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give you the future and old age and security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie. They do not fulfil their promise, they never will. Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfil that promise. Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness."
- Charlie Chaplin from 'The Great Dictator'

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who can hold an intelligent conversation. I try not to waste my time with those lacking in intelligence or maturity. I would definitely like to meet anyone that is open to discussing some of these subjects: horror literature, poetry, the occult, and music.

A.I.M. - Icer Rose
Yahoo - icer666xes
MSN - [email protected]

Cradle of Filth - Honey And Sulphur
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Slipknot - Psychosocial

Music:

I listen to more bands than I can count, but here are thirty or so of my favorite in no particular order.

Living Dead

Nine Inch Nails

The Beatles

Marilyn Manson

Cradle of Filth

The Misfits

Hanzel und Gretyl

Danzig

Samhain

The Horrors

The Smashing Pumpkins

Black Light Burns

Bauhaus

Satyricon

Siebenburgen

The Doors

Dax Riggs (Acid Bath, Agents of Oblibion, Deadboy & the Elephantmen)

Celtic Frost

Anti-Flag

Superjoint Ritual

Bad Religion

Apocalyptica

Tool

Dimmu Borgir

Cold

The Cure

Depeche Mode

A Perfect Circle

Slayer

Slipknot

Velvet Acid Christ
Carpathian Forest

Mortiis

National Acts I Have Seen Live

1) 3 Inches of Blood (2)*
2) 40 Below Summer*
3) The Agony Scene (2)*
4) Alice Cooper
5) All That Remains
6) American Headcharge*
7) Anthrax
8) Arch Enemy (2)
9) Bauhaus (2)
10) Behemoth (2)
11) Black Light Burns*
12) Bleeding Through
13) Bleed the Sky
14) Bobaflex*
15) Bozo Porno Circus*
16) Cannibal Corpse
17) Children of Bodom*
18) Chimaira (7)*
19) Cold (3)*
20) Cradle of Filth (2)*
21) Crossbreed*
22) columbine*
23) The Crüxshadows*
24) Danzig (5)*
25) Dark New Day
26) Dax Riggs (2)*
27) Deftones
28) Depeche Mode
29) Depswa
30) DevilDriver (3)*
31) Die Trying
32) Dimmu Borgir (2)*
33) Dope (2)*
34) Dog Fashion Disco (2)*
35) Eyes of Fire
36) Fear Factory
37) Finger 11*
38) Flaw*
39) Ill Nino*
40) Hatebreed
41) Hanzel und Gretyl (12)*
42) High On Fire
43) Himsa (3)
44) hopesfall
45) Kataklysm (3)
46) Kill Hannah
47) Kittie
48) L.A. Guns*
49) Lacuna Coil
50) Lamb of God*
51) Linkin Park
52) Limp Bizkit
53) Living Dead (every show since 2004)*
54) Lennon (5)*
55) Lollipop Lust Kill (3)*
56) Macabre
57) Manmade God*
58) Marilyn Manson
59) Meshuggah
60) Metallica
61) Mindless Self Indulgence (3)*
62) The Misfits (without Glen Danzig)*
63) Moonspell (2)*
64) Mortiis (2)*
65) Mudvayne
66) Mushroomhead (6)*
67) Napalm Death
68) Nevermore
69) Nine Inch Nails (4)
70) Opeth
71) Orgy
72) Otep
73) Papa Roach (4)*
74) Peaches (2)
75) Premonitions of War*
76) Saliva*
77) Satyricon*
78) Seether
79) Sevendust*
80) Six Feet Under
81) Slayer
82) Soil
83) Stemm
84) Superjoint Ritual (4)*
85) Throwdown
86) Tool
87) Trivium (3)
88) Tub Ring (3)*
89) Twisted Method
90) VAST*
91) Ventana*
92) Wednesday 13*

*denotes that I have met the band or band members

note: I may have forgot a few

Movies:

I enjoy a wide variety of films, a few of my favorites are listed below.

Ghostbusters

Ghostbusters II

Nosferatu

Night of the Living Dead

Call of Cthulhu

Pan's Labyrinth

The Crow

Constantine

The Ninth Gate

A Scanner Darkly

Slaughtered Vomit Dolls

Cradle of Fear

Television:

I don't watch much TV... but I do have a few shows I download.

Doctor Who

Torchwood

Books:

As with everything else, I enjoy many books; my top ten writers are listed below.

H.P. Lovecraft

Edgar Allen Poe

Robert Frost

4 Poppy Z. Brite

Jim Morrison

Aleister Crowley

H.G. Wells

George Orwell

Stephen King

Anton LaVey

Heroes:

Trent Reznor, Udo Kier, H.P. Lovecraft, Danny Lohner, and Johnny Depp.

My Blog

Poem: Apocalypse, My Love

Now is the start.We twist and turn,As we hallow our hearts. Prick by prick,The blood begins to drip. With shattered glasses,We toast to the ghostsOf the long dead masses. Taste by taste...
Posted by Icer Rose on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:29:00 PST

PLEASE READ: Looking for a guitar player for an industrial metal project.

I'm looking for an experienced lead guitar player in Northwest Ohio to join an industrial metal band I'm forming. Influences include Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, Mushroomhead, Slipknot, Cradle of ...
Posted by Icer Rose on Mon, 19 May 2008 01:35:00 PST

Poem: through the cracks

it doesn't explain that I don't know where I amor where I'll bethe fact that everything is fadingis all I can seeI give up when I wake up I can feel myself slipping throughsl...
Posted by Icer Rose on Sun, 18 May 2008 02:33:00 PST

ART: Strangeland

Sometimes the world looks like this to me...
Posted by Icer Rose on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:24:00 PST

Art: Universum


Posted by Icer Rose on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:15:00 PST

Short Story: A Dream of Destruction

The strangest tales that you could ever imagine come to me at night, night or whenever it is that sleep finds me.  My dreams are often epic sagas of the most unimaginable events that you could ev...
Posted by Icer Rose on Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:50:00 PST

Poem: Snakes On A Silver Tongue

I'm a cynical sinner who keeps on getting thinner.If you spit in my eye, I'll have you for dinner.We don't really need to feel, we just need hurt.And I need you to come closer and take off that skirt....
Posted by Icer Rose on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:45:00 PST

Top Ten Reasons the Christmas Celebration Is Not About Jesus

10. Christmas was banned by Christians in England and later America (Boston) from the mid 1600s (England) to the late 1600s (Boston). In America, after the Revolutionary War the custom was dropped alm...
Posted by Icer Rose on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 10:26:00 PST

Poem: cyclone zombies

broadcast begin transmissionthis is the timethis is the futureand we are just caught in the cyclone don't you feel it?there's something in the airthe dead are waking upand the living are fal...
Posted by Icer Rose on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:44:00 PST

Poem: down

lightning bolts of violence live within her skinthe deadliest of crayons occupy her eyesshe's a silky smooth demon         & nbsp;    &n...
Posted by Icer Rose on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 12:41:00 PST