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Legion

You may be a sovereign in your distant land, but I am a prince wherever I stand

About Me

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Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow
Life is very long
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I am a man of reason, a man of culture, a man of stern corsetry and loose morals. The way will sometimes be stony and dark, but with the guiding light of Beelzebub, a hipflask of absinthe and various slim volumes of decadent poetry I will surely claw my way to the distant chimera of certitude and hope.
I design websites; write when inspiration hits me; experiment with sleep deprivation techniques for fun (Uberman sleep schedule!)... which I invariably fail at because I love sleeping; climb buildings; act silly; love films; read a gazillion books at the same time; dream of unusual matters; want to visit the Hyades... though the rest of the earth'll do, for now; do magic; walk in rain & storms; wear big torques; collect dice; spout poetry at the most inopportune moments; love old buildings (also to climb); want to be a Roman Emperor when I grow up; am mostly good-natured, a touch sardonic, perhaps, but not cynical; like cooking for more than one person; hate cooking for only me; do own that mad hatter hat, yes; hate wristwatches, but still want a backwards-running pocket watch; can name all of Ursa Major's stars; love tea; am free to answer any other question you have.
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I have not heard lutes beckon me, nor the brazen bugles call,
But once in the dim of a haunted lea I heard the silence fall.
I have not heard the regal drum, nor seen the flags unfurled,
But I have watched the dragons come, fire-eyed, across the world.
I have not seen the horsemen fall before the hurtling host,
But I have paced a silent hall where each step waked a ghost.
I have not kissed the tiger-feet of a strange-eyed golden god,
But I have walked a city's street where no man else had trod.
I have not raised the canopies that shelter revelling kings,
But I have fled from crimson eyes and black unearthly wings.
I have not knelt outside the door to kiss a pallid queen,
But I have seen a ghostly shore that no man else has seen.
I have not seen the standards sweep from keep and castle wall,
But I have seen a woman leap from a dragon's crimson stall,
And I have heard strange surges boom that no man heard before,
And seen a strange black city loom on a mystic night-black shore.
And I have felt the sudden blow of a nameless wind's cold breath,
And watched the grisly pilgrims go that walk the roads of Death,
And I have seen black valleys gape, abysses in the gloom,
And I have fought the deathless Ape that guards the Doors of Doom.
I have not seen the face of Pan, nor mocked the Dryad's haste,
But I have trailed a dark-eyed Man across a windy waste.
I have not died as men may die, nor sin as men have sinned,
But I have reached a misty sky upon a granite wind.
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My Interests

Hmmm ... in no particular order:

Reading, writing, tea, music, climbing buildings, Roman Emperors, exclusive liquers, philosophy, poetry, psychology, Tesla coils, criminology, occultism, decadence, art, sleeping, knives, storms, ancient history, literature, architecture, fantasy, dragons, interesting people, alchemy, archaeology, art, art noir, books, calligraphy, cards, cats, classic films, cyberpunk, dark comedy, dice, Don Quixote, Edda, Enochian, existentialism, film-noir, games, gauntlets, Victorian & Regency times, gnosticism, gothic, hieroglyphs, horror, internet, irony, kabbalah, lock picking, mad science, magick, masks, movies, serial killers, museums, romantic poets, mythology, night, Odin, old books, pathology, autumn, pirates, renaissance, archetypes, riddles, rpg games, runes, sarcasm, science fiction, shadows, stars, steampunk, synchronicity, twilight, used book stores, voudoun, web design, zen, Zork

... and a whole lot more! Try me, I might be interested in it.

I'd like to meet:

Interesting people. People I can explore a strange city with, have a spirited & intelligent conversation with, whom can show me new & intriguing things, etc.

Robin Goodfellow's Friend Space
I have ‡ friends.

Judi

Robert

Sofia

Jenni

Ren

Tiffany

Roslyn

Andy

Adam

Maria

Garnet

Fiona

Devil Doll

The Tea Party

John Keats

Percy Bysshe Shelley

View All of My Friends

Music:

Devil Doll, The Tea Party, Tom Waits, Sergei Rachmaninov, Blind Guardian, Blue Öyster Cult, Qntal, Mediæval Bæbes, Arnold Schoenberg, Janis Joplin, Apoptygma Berzerk, Jeff Martin, The Beatles, Lou Reed, Steeleye Span, The Doors, Dead Can Dance, Deine Lakaien, Bauhaus, Enigma, Moonspell, Sopor Aeternus, Theatre of Tragedy, Carl Orff, The Sinister Ducks, Donovan, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, Leonard Cohen, VNV Nation, Therion, Clan of Xymox, The Alan Parsons Project, Deep Purple, Al Stewart, A Perfect Circle, The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown, Lake of Tears, Killing Joke, Coil, David Bowie, Golden Earring, Philip Glass, U2, The Moody Blues, The Sisters of Mercy, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, The Cure, Nine Inch Nails, Queen, Camille Saint-Saëns, Rammstein

Movies:

Great Expectations, Immortel (Ad Vitam), Apocalypse Now, Doctor Zhivago, The Prophecy, The Lord of the Rings, Amadeus, The Big Sleep, Citizen Kane, The Company of Wolves, M, An American in Paris, Ghandi, De Aanslag, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, From Hell, The Mummy, Duck Soup, Lawrence of Arabia, Nosferatu: Eine Symphonie des Grauens, The Raven, La Cité des Enfants Perdus, The Matrix, Star Wars, Casablanca, Young Frankenstein, Pi, Ben-Hur, Psycho, Seven Samurai, Le Pacte des Loups, Hero, Excalibur, Evil Dead III - Army of Darkness, The Crow, Guys & Dolls, Braindead, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Discovery of Heaven, Battle Royale, A Fish Called Wanda, Caesar & Cleopatra, Dark City, The Last Temptation of Christ, Rebel Without A Cause, Vidocq, Sense & Sensibility, Star Trek Films, A Room With A View, Wilde, The Birds, Spartacus, Metropolis, Vertigo, Bridge on the River Kwai, Als Je Begrijpt Wat Ik Bedoel, Un Chien Andalou, A Clockwork Orange, The Hound of the Baskervilles

Television:

I Claudius, Hustle, Manchild, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Pride & Prejudice, Bottom, Blackadder, Middlemarch, QI, The Storyteller, Rome, The Prisoner, Have I Got News For You, Northern Exposure, Fawlty Towers, Sherlock Holmes, Red Dwarf, Friends

Books:

I can spend hours talking about my favourite books and authors - be warned if ever you try to begin this subject with me.
"Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there are others who will lie and scheme and steal to get books as wildly and unconscionably as the dope-taker in pursuit of his drug. They may not want the books to read immediately, or at all; they want them to possess, to range on their shelves, to have at command. They want books as a Turk is thought to want concubines - not to be hastily deflowered, but to be kept at their master's call, and enjoyed more often in thought than in reality."
Roger Zelazny's "Amber" & "A Night in the Lonesome October" & "Lord of Light" - Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Grey" - Joseph Campbell's "The Hero With A Thousand Faces" - Friedrich Nietzsche's "Also Sprach Zarathustra" & "Beyond Good & Evil" - Patrick Süskind's "The Perfume: Story of a Murderer" - William Gibson's "Neuromancer" & "Pattern Recognition" - Jack Vance's "The Devil Princes" - Patricia McKillip's "Riddle-Master of Hed" - Isidore Ducasse (the Comte de Lautréamont)'s "Maldoror" - J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" & "The Silmarillion" - Susanna Clarke's "Jonathan Strange And Mr Norrell" - G.K. Chesterton's "The Club of Queer Trades" & "The Man Who Was Thursday" - Søren Kierkegaard's "Either/Or" - Robert Anton Wilson & Robert Shea's "The Illuminatus! Trilogy" - Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" - Arthur Conan Doyle's "Sherlock Holmes Stories" - Robert Graves' "I, Claudius" & "Claudius The God" - Jane Austen's "Pride & Prejudice" & "Sense & Sensibility" - Nicolo Machiavelli's "The Prince" - Neal Stephenson's "Snowcrash" - Hubert Lampo's "De Komst van Joachim Stiller" & "Casper in de Onderwereld" - Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose" & "Foucault's Pendulum" - H.P. Lovecraft's "The Call of Cthulhu" & "Beyond the Mountains of Madness" - Hermann Hesse's "Steppenwolf" - William Shakespeare's "The Tempest" & "The Tragedy Of Macbeth" & "A Midsummer Night's Dream" - Thomas de Quincey's "Confessions of an English Opium Eater" - E.A. Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" & "The Fall of the House of Usher" & "The Masque of the Red Death" - Michael Marshal Smith's "Only Forward" - Lloyd Alexander's "Chronicles of Prydain" - Plato's "Dialogues" & "Symposium" & "The Republic" - Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" - Joris-Karl Huysmans' "Against Nature" - Tanith Lee's "Don't Bite the Sun/Drinking Saphire Wine" - Albert Camus' "The Stranger" - Fyodor Dostojevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov" - Emile Cioran's "On the Heights of Despair" - William Burroughs'"Naked Lunch" - Iain Pears' "The Dream of Scipio" - Mikhail Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita"
Poetry:
John Keats' "Ode To A Nightingale" & "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" - Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Prometheus Unbound" - Algernon Charles Swinburne's "Dolores (Notre-Dame des sept Douleurs)" - George Gordon (Lord Byron)'s "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" - John Milton's "Paradise Lost" - Rainer Maria Rilke's "Duino Elegies" - T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" & "The Hollow Men" - E.A. Poe's "The Raven" & "Ulalume" - Goethe's "Der Erlkönig" - Charles Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs Du Mal (The Flowers Of Evil)" - William Blake's "Songs of Innocence and Experience" & "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" - A.E. Housman's "A Shropshire Lad" - Robert Howard's "Solomon Kane's Homecoming" & "The Tempter" - Dylan Thomas' "Death shall have no Dominion" & "Elegy" - W.B. Yeats' "Second Coming"

Heroes:

All kinds of writers...

My Blog

The soundtrack of my life

*The Soundtrack To Your Life*Opening Credits:Iced Earth - DraculaWaking Up:Edvard Grieg - MorgenstimmungAverage Day:Blind Guardian - The Soul ForgedRainy Day:The Doors - Riders On The StormSunny Summe...
Posted by Legion on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 04:01:00 PST

The Nameless

I have many names, and none of them matter.Names are not important.To speak is to name names, but to speak is not important.A thing happens once that has never happened before.Seeing it, a man looks u...
Posted by Legion on Fri, 07 Jul 2006 06:50:00 PST

2 Poems by Robert Howard

Solomon Kane's HomecomingThe white gulls wheeled above the cliffs, the air was slashed with foam,The long tides moaned along the strand when Solomon Kane came home.He walked in silence strange and daz...
Posted by Legion on Thu, 15 Jun 2006 04:04:00 PST

To Sleep, Perchance To Dream

Last night I dreamt I was back at school.At least a sort of school. It actually looked like a combination of my work place and one of my old schools mixed together, with some of the Westminster Abbey ...
Posted by Legion on Wed, 07 Jun 2006 03:51:00 PST

Some pictures of London

My mind was perceiving the world in terms of other than spatial categories....
Posted by Legion on Tue, 06 Jun 2006 02:40:00 PST

Swinburne - Dolores (Notre-Dame des sept Douleurs)

Cold eyelids that hide like a jewelHard eyes that grow soft for an hour;The heavy white limbs, and the cruelRed mouth like a venomous flower;When these are gone by with their glories,What shall rest o...
Posted by Legion on Tue, 09 May 2006 03:22:00 PST

About A Boy

TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The SurveyName:RobinBirthday:December 4th, 1975Birthplace:St. Jozef Hospital, Gouda, the NetherlandsCurrent Location:Again GoudaEye Color:Grey-greenHair Color:BrownHeight:6'3"...
Posted by Legion on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 06:57:00 PST

"Lions and tigers and bears and oh my!"

Well okay, no bears. Otherwise there were a lot of animals. Which isn't too surprising, seeing as I was in a zoo this Saturday. The answer to why is easy - each year my work has an annual feast and we...
Posted by Legion on Mon, 10 Apr 2006 06:44:00 PST

An evening of television

“An evening of television”TV is one big box of steaming crap. You know this, I know this. Every-bloody-one knows this – howmany times haven't you been subjected to someone moani...
Posted by Legion on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 01:59:00 PST

Cards

"Who cares for you?" said Alice, "You're nothing but a pack of cards!"I do actually, I like cards. I've always done so - tarot and normal cards alike. There's always been something strangely alluring ...
Posted by Legion on Mon, 27 Mar 2006 01:08:00 PST