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An orchids paradox

I am the phoenix, I'll see you in hell.. and while you are burning, from my ashes I'll be born again

About Me

--------------"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination" ~ Thomas De Quincey, On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts

My Interests

Bizarre Beauty, Music, music making, bass playing, avant-garde films, arts and architecture, surrealism, existentialism, morbid art, photography, romantic literature, suicidal insane poets, freaks, androgyny, Saint Seiya Gold Saints, German expressionism, graveyards, serial killers, criminalistic, occultism, supernatural horror, Italian clowns, gore movies, paranormal sciences, ghosts, death cult, pop culture extravaganza, Art Deco, Remedios Varo, MC Escher, Bach, gays in lingerie, fucked up kids, voyeurism, mindfuckers, orchids, maths games, paradoxes, hypnotic sounds & images, healing infinite sadness, economics, animation, fairy tales, Cannis Lupus Belayi, Radiskull & Devil DollRemedios Varo's Cazadora de Astros

I'd like to meet:

Aleister Crowley (1875 - 1947)

Music:

Joy Division, Human Drama, Devil Doll, Godspeed you black emperor!, King Crimson, John Zorn, Frank Zappa, Miles Davis, J.S. Bach, Nico, Magma, Meshuggah, 90 Day Men, Crime in Choir, Weights & Measures, Hella, Cabezas de Cera, Anekdoten, Muslimgauze, Amon Tobin, Aphex Twin, Goblin, Angelo Badalamenti, Skeletal Family, Lycia, Atrition, Tuxedomoon, Rush, Black Sabbath, Einsturzende Neubauten, Throbbing Gristle, Sunn 0))); Death in June, Current 93, Nurse with Wound, Cabaret Voltaire, In Slaughter Natives, Velvet Acid Christ, Franz Liszt, Beethoven, Bela Bartok, Astor Piazzolla, Dead Can Dance, Afro Cuban Stars, The Legendary Pink Dots, Nick Cave, Peter Murphy, Swans, Bark Psychosis, Rozz Williams, Popol Vuh, Sopor Aeternus, Faith and the Muse, MEW, Jeff Buckley, Perry Blake, Kopecky, Niacin, Jaco Pastorius, Jeff Berlin, Billy Sheehan, LTE, The Residents, Fates Warning, Anathema, Porcupine Tree, Katatonia, Slayer, Tool, Iron Maiden, Fantomas, Isis, Alice in Chains, Sisters of mercy, La perra, Tortoise, Sigur Ros, Mercury Rev, Billie Holiday, Leonard Cohen, John Coltrane, Yann Tiersen, CAN, Jim O'Rourke, Sonic Youth, Screaming Headless Torsos, Catherine Wheel, After Crying, Volapuk, Circle, MIA, The Durutti Column, Bedroom Heroes, Diamanda Galas, Portishead, NIN, Trans Am, Autechre, Hocico, Mogwai, Trail of Dead, Mars Volta Devil Doll's Eliogabalus

Movies:

Filmmakers: Dario Argento, Luis Bunuel, David Lynch, Darren Aronofsky, Peter Greenaway, Orson Wells, Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, Alfred Hitchcock, Alejandro Jodorowski, Takashi Miike, Ingmar Bergman, Roman Polanski, Christopher Nolan, Alex Proyas, Tim Burton, Ed WoodMovies: My favourite ever Darren Aronofsky - Pi, followed by Dario Argento's - Suspiria and Alejandro Jodorowsky's Santa Sangre.The Godfather trilogy, Citizen Kane, Los olvidados, Un chien adalou, Ensayo de un crimen, Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, Mullholland Drive, Pillow Book, Modern Times, The Shinning, Contact, Take the money and run, Psycho, The rope, Rebecca, Nosferatu, Dracula's Daughter, The Hunger, The seventh seal, Wild Strawberries, Rosemary's Baby, Asian Horror and extremes such as Ichi The Killer, Audition (I love it!!), Ju-On, Reincarnation, Ringu, The Eye, Bangkok Haunted, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, Blade Runner, Dark City, Cronos, Veneno para las hadas, Batman Returns, Ed Wood, This is Spinal Tap!, Clerks, Bully, Sin City, Halloween I, Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Tod Browning's FreaksTod Browning and the cast

Television:

The prisoner, Twin Peaks, CSI, Twilight Zone, The Adams Family, The Munster, Daria, Lenore, Family Guy, Monty Python, 2D TV...

Books:

Hesse's Stepenwolf and Demian, Kakfa's Metamorphosis and The Process, Hofstater's Goedel, Escher and Bach, Caleb Carr's The Alienist, Sade's Justine, Nietzche's The Antichrist, Oscar Wilde The Portrait of Dorian Gray, Lewis Carrol Through the looking glass, Virginia Woolf A Room of One's Own, Sartre Behind Close Doors and Nausea, Poe's The Extraordinary Narrative (Favs. The Black Cat and The Mask of the Red Death) H.P. Lovecraft Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Orwell 1984 & Animal Farm, William Blake The Marriage of Heaven and Hell & Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, Lautreamont's Les Chants de Maldoror, Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and The Sea, Stephen King Carrie and The Shining, Arthur Rimbaud A season in hell, Charles Baudelaire The flowers of Evil, Aldous Huxley The Doors of Perception and Brave New World, Burroughs Junky, Brett Easton Ellis American Psycho, Douglas Coupleland Generation X, Irvine Welsh Porno & Trainspotting, Thomas De Quincey On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts, Georges Bataille History of the Eye, Dante's Inferno William Blake's Virgilio and Dante at the Gates of Inferno

Heroes:

Anyone who has challenged rules in arts, film, literature and music making.Anyone who has the talent to find beauty on what establishment considers to be bizarre...JS Bach, Franz Liszt, Beethoven, Frank Zappa, John Zorn, Robert Fripp, John Cage, Luis Bunuel, David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick, Orson Wells, Remedios Varo, M. C. Escher, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro;, Edvard Munch, Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, Vincent Van Gogh,Dave McKean, Chris Cunningham, Jan Svankmajer, Joel Peter Witkin, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Antoni Gaudi; Marcel Duchamp, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Oscar Wilde, William Blake, Lord Byron, E.A.Poe, Arthur Machen, George Orwell, Adam Cooper

My Blog

Silly quizzes...

Ok, today I am sassier and sillier than usual and with plenty of time. Hope you have fun with those quizzes as much as I did....   Which Trainspotting Character Are You?   Which Grunge Ba...
Posted by An orchids paradox on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 11:26:00 PST

Sold out bands!!!

It's very common that hardcore fans get dissapointed when their favourite artist acquires a softer more easy listening sound. Sometimes they are right when the musician is too good for making sh...
Posted by An orchids paradox on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 09:38:00 PST

About London Kiss...

This picture was taken on my first trip to London. I was walking by the Thames River with my brother very late at night. I intended to take a picture of a Victorian house that amazed me but never real...
Posted by An orchids paradox on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 08:02:00 PST