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Samantha

The Tentacular Lifestyle

About Me

The enhancements I make to my physical body are merely to bring it more in line with what dwells inside... the memories of another existence outside Time. Enhancements are - Muscles and sinews trained to dance, myriad arcane tattoos, flesh pierced with metal, dreadlocks. Inside dwells: Freedom from the restrictions of gravity, thought communicated through an instant's download of a symbol or dynamic code, an intimate merging between machine and flesh, senses expanded by questing tentacular organs that perceive the ultraviolet, the infrared, the emotive and the secrets of the universe.

I believe in the dynamic power of entertainment and pop culture. To that end, I have founded: Boom Boom Bollywood and The Sexy Scallywags Pirate Circus . I also perform with and choreograph for Domba and Fyrae ...

I also believe in you.

Believe it or not.

My Interests

18th century, 666, 93, absinthe, accordions, aleister crowley, anais nin, antiquities, archetypes, asp, black adder, blood, boba fett, bollywood, boots, borg, bunburying, cemeteries, cenobites, chaos magick, coffee, conversational fencing, coyote, cthulhu, darth vader, decadence, domba, dreadlocks, eschatology, ferocious geeks, fire arts, francisco de goya, freestyle sorcery, french quarter, fyrae, ghosts, goetia, guinness, halberds, intelligent people, kit fisto, knights templar, lady washington, lucifer, melkor, middle-eastern dance, morris dance, multi-slacking, naberius, necromancy, paimon, pirates, programming, puns, reading, red dwarf, red wine, sailing, sailors, sangvamps, sex magick, shakespeare, sharukh khan, shub-niggurath, sith, skeletons, smoking, sql server, stage combat, star wars, submission, swordfighting, tall ships, tarot, tattoos, technomancy, tengwar, tentacles, the invisibles, thelema, thoth deck, tribal bellydance, unadulterated slack, ungoliant, urban tribal dance company, vampires, voodoo, writhe and shine

I'd like to meet:

Adventurers, smugglers with hearts of gold, suitors with hearts of smugglers.

Music:

The Decemberists, Corvus Corax, Wolgemut, Gogol Bordello, DeVotchka, VNV Nation, Skinny Puppy, Ministry, Natacha Atlas, Cradle of Filth, Tapping the Vein, Wumpscut, Black Heart Procession, The Strand, Cheb i Sabbah, Tristania, Opera, Stellamara, Crystal Method, Bollywood Music, Bhangra, Snake River Conspiracy, Ekova, Devil Doll

Movies:

Star Wars, The Fifth Element, Kill Bill 1 & 2, LoTR, Blade 2, X-2, Nightbreed, Hellraiser, Hellbound, The Cube, The Matrices, Dark City, Pi, Donnie Darko, Queen of the Damned, The Scorpion King, Batman (only the Tim Burton ones), Pirates of the Caribbean, From Hell, Hellboy, Lagaan, Taal, Devdas, Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, Bend It Like Beckham, Harry Potter III and V, Monsoon Wedding, Kal Ho Naa Ho, I Robot, Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham, Harold and Maude, Shaun of the Dead

Television:

Firefly, BSG, BtVS, Star Trek in all its forms

Books:

Sea of Glory, Heart of the Sea, The Surprise (and the others), Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (and the others), The Invisibles, Lord of the Rings, Silmarillion, Lost Tales I & II, Unfinished Tales, Lays of Beleriand, Cryptonomicon, Baroque Cycle, Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, Stirling's Nantucket and Change series, The Khaavren Cycle, War for the Oaks, Good Omens, Discworld Series, Goedel Escher & Bach, Blake Poetry, Baudelaire Poetry, Rumi Poetry, Dragonlance, Harry Potter, Borderland books, Pluto books by Jeffrey Green, the Richard Sharpe series, The Three Musketeers, Neverwhere, American Gods, Cestus Deception, Shatterpoint, Rogue Planet, more...

Heroes:

Josephine Riggs, Mike Gravel, Shahrukh Khan, J.K. Rowling, Henry Rollins, Boadicea, Danny Elfman, Grant Morrison, Neal Stephenson, Madhuri Dixit, Heidi Alexander, Pleasant Gehman, Rachel Brice

My Blog

The Wreck of the Andrea Doria Pie

My friend Pleasant Gehman (aka Princess Farhana) and her sister have started this food blog which somehow became rated one of the top food sites on the internet. It's called the Haphazard Gourmet Girl...
Posted by Samantha on Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:02:00 PST

Disconnected

I cannot feel rhythm. Land is so quiescent. I am in stasis. I cannot sleep for all this lack of motion.
Posted by Samantha on Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:32:00 PST

Tall Ships Pics

I have started posting the pictures from my summer-2008 tall ships experience... most of these were taken by David Bonner III (aka "Rocky"), who was the Bosun to my Bosun's Mate for most of the summer...
Posted by Samantha on Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:56:00 PST

Quick Update - Tallships Tacoma Links

My Captain, Evil Ryan Meyer, in a video about nautical cannon battle tacticswith footage of a battle sail (I was gunning that day):http://www.thenewstribune.com/942/story/405851.htmlAwes ome photo of m...
Posted by Samantha on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:15:00 PST

Aberdeen, WA - tall ships countdown...

So many things have happened! I got on board the Lady Washington June 5 in Portland after spending some time visiting the amazing, clever and witty Shane. Lucked right into a forecastle rack. Luc...
Posted by Samantha on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:23:00 PST

I am going to keep posting this...

...until it actually sinks in for me. An Ode To Reasonable Men By Samantha Riggs   The subtleties of rage are such that I am at a loss to elucidate them to you, but since I am driven, I try....
Posted by Samantha on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:09:00 PST

Sam & Tricia Farewell - tonight! Phoenix!

We decided to call it our "Mid-Life Isis" farewell party because she is running away to the circus and I am running away to sea... and it will resurrect us!It will be at Tranz tonight.- but I will not...
Posted by Samantha on Fri, 30 May 2008 01:25:00 PST

Why Samantha Falls in Love in an Instant

Please forgive this outburst, but you must understand that it comes only from a need to express my visions.Pardon my irrepressible urge to seek you out, but, you see... you remind me of someone......s...
Posted by Samantha on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:09:00 PST

Tall Ships Challenge - Summer 2008

If you are in the area (NW coast... Portland north into BC) over the summer you really should see this. Especially if you like the Age of Sail. This is where the Lady Washington will be when I am sail...
Posted by Samantha on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:50:00 PST

The Latest Chapter in "Mike Gravel is a Badass"

I must state... I am not posting this because I am open to debate about which candidate is the best... I am merely disseminating information.Mike Gravel gives me hope for our country... for the first ...
Posted by Samantha on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:44:00 PST