creating a darkly romantic ideal to inhabit however dull this world is. art, books, music, film and film-making, photography, antiques, all things gothic, magical studies, myths, creatures great and small; esp cats, bats, rabbits and dragons. reading, writing, cellos, moonlight, long walks on the shore at sunset ( truly ), fighting insomnia, dinosaurs. monsters, graveyards etc etc etc....
kindred spirits of course!! esp. cute ones.... and a ghost or two.
I enjoy a wide range of music: from rock to celtic folk to classical. For rock I enjoy goth, shoegaze, dark ambient, 70's glam & prog-rock, 80's new wave, 60's psychedelic, most music thats either sad or dark. etc. Some faves include. Sopor aeternus, Dead Can Dance, Lycia, Faith and the Muse, Cranes, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Cure, Human Drama, The Unquiet Void, Unto Ashes, Black Tape For A Blue Girl, Current 93, David Bowie, The Velvet Underground, Bjork, Kate Bush, Tori Amos, Happy Rhodes, The Cramps, The Damned, Nick Cave, Legendary Pink Dots, Donovan, Mephisto Walz, Philip Glass, Slowdive, Ivy , Nico, Leonard Cohen, the Sisters of Mercy, And Also the Trees, PJ Harvey, Swans, Jarboe, The Changelings, Portishead, Peter Gabriel, Corpus Delicti, O.E.S , Stoa, Love Is Colder Than Death, My Bloody Valentine, This Acension, Impressions of Winter, Speaking Silence, Arcana, Eden, Diva Destruction, Diana Krall, John Foxx, Lush, Chandeen, The Shroud, early Christain Death, Rasputina, Cello, J.S Bach, Coil, Cocteau Twins, Holly Cole, G. Mahler, Dorian James, The Dreamside, Autumn, Diamonda Gallas, Covanant, Love & Rockets, Peter Murphy, Bauhaus, Massive Attack, Poe, The Psychdelic Furs, Audra, the Doors, Jimi Hendrix. and the sound of cellos...... width="425" height="350" ..
I'm quite a film buff as well as a film-maker. I have a passion for horror films as well as avant garde films. and most films set in previous times. some faves of mine are; Suspiria ( and any other film by director Dario Argento ), Dellamare Dellamorte, Nosferatu ( the first and the remake ), Black Sunday ( the 1961 film ), Dagon, Call of Cthulhu, A Tale of Two Sisters, Living Hell, The Tenant, Brides of Dracula, Sister, My Sister, Meet The Feebles, the three Lord of The Rings, bram Stoker's Dracula, Vampire Circus, most Hammer films, Dark City, Velvet Goldmine, Henry : portrait of a Serial Killer, any film by Tim Burton, Near Dark, 8 1/8, The Haunting ( 61' version ), the Innocents, Wings of Desire, Texas Chainsaw Massacar, The Hunger, Interview with a Vampire, Macbeth, most Woody Allen films, any film by Martin Scorsese, Brazil, Ravenous, Night of The living Dead, Day of the Dead, Raise The Red Lantern, the Iron Man, Bubba Hotep, etc, etc, etc,
I do not care for much main stream tv but here are a few shows I do enjoy:The Simpsons, Futurerama, Family Guy, Home Movies, The Oblongs, Dark Shadows, The Outer Limits ( org ), Night Gallery, The Twilight Zone ( org ), Masterpiece Theatre, Mystery, Arrested Developement, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Addams Family, Twin Peaks, Munsters, Tales from the Darkside, Monsters, Tales from the Crypt, the Actor's Studio, Queer Eye for a straight Guy, most shows on Animal Planet, Cheers, Frasier, Sienfeld, blah, blah, blah,,,,,,,
ah books. my best friends. I am indeed a bookish type. In fact I collect them. for non-fiction I enjoy books on art, film, music, lit, the occult, and nature. for fiction I mainly read and collect horror and fantasy. some of my favorite writers include: H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Edward Gorey, Tanith Lee, Poppy Z Brite, Charles Addams, Nancy Collins, Tim Burton, Simon Clark, Elizabeth Massie, Elizabeth Hand, Ray Garton, Douglas Clegg, F. Paul Wilson, Clark Ashton Smith, Ramsey Campbell, Richard Laymond, Kathe Koja, J.R.R. Tolkien, Steven Burst, Charles de Lint, M. R. James, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Ligotti, etc, etc,I also enjoy Poetry, esp 19th Century gothic romance poetry. like Rosetti, Poe, Baudelaire etc. modern poets I like are e.e cummings, Patti Smith, Bruce Boston, Leonard Cohen, etc, I also enjoy writing fiction.
hmm so many, many being female as well as fictional too...E.A. Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Barbara Steele, Anna Varney, David Bowie, Dario Argento, Ross Williams, Elvira, my mother, my sister, Theda Bara, Nico, Johnny Depp, Tim Burton, Vincent Price, D.G. Rosetti, H.R. Giger, Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, Mario Bava, Clive Barker, Pinhead, Dracula, Oscar Wilde, John Keats, Patti Smith, Charles Baudelaire, Morticia Addams, Robin Hood, etc, etc, etc,