IF YOU ARE A BAND, ACTOR/ACTRESS, MOVIE PRODUCER, DIRECTOR, AUTHOR, CLOTHING MAKER, OR ANY TYPE OF COMPANY... don't send me a friend request or message unless you are looking to have me do some design or artwork for you. I like to be able to read things from friends without a lot of BUY MY STUFF posts in between.
I'm a semi-retired DJ, and avid music review blogger type, writing things partaining to the gothic, new romantic, deathrock, horror punk, and steampunk genres.
In the early days of the interweb, I was the owner/moderator/editor of paganamerica.com and paganohio.com (no longer existing as the sites they were, domains slipped long ago). I spent much of my online time writing weird humor articles, drawing funny pictures, provoking the leaders of the religious right, being a bit of a watchdog/advocate for alternative subculture and alternative religious rights/recognition.
I spent a good while as a promoter, working night and day to make the Cincinnati Ohio region visible and appealing to bands we could previously only see in other cities. I've assembled shows featuring Voltaire, Bella Morte, 45 Grave, the Brides, Black Cat Revival, and many others, and events such as the 2006 Gothic Prom at the Madison, as well as several occurances of the Cincy Dark Arts Festival.
Currently I am a graphic designer by trade, and also an artist and author, typically of the steampunk, horror, gothic genres and I do my work in the fantastic realism and surrealism styles, mostly in traditional mediums such as oils, acrylics, temperas, watercolors, charcoal, pencil, itaglio/engraving, scratchbord, clayboard etc - things in the works for (self) publishing include a comic book and several children's books - both of which I am being pretty secretive about until the ink is dry.
Who I'd like to meet:
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Creative, interesting, bohemian malcontents hell-bent on world destruction, chaos, fun in general.People who don't spam me.People who actually take the time to read this.
Vincent Price, Neil Gaiman, Edgar Allan Poe, Dante Alighieri, Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, [ x ] Voltaire, Shane McGowan, Kurt Cobain, [ x ] Dinah Cancer, Eva O, [ x ] Bella Morte, John Milton, Warren Ellis, Michelangelo, Carravaggio, [ x ] Jennifer Finch, [ x ] Milo Auckerman, [ x ] A Giant Pantomime Chicken, Rozz Williams, Mick Mercer, H.R. Giger, Kevin Spacey, Gustave Dore', Ridley Scott, Clive Barker, Darren Aronofsky, Isaac Asimov, Mozart, Beethoven, Crispin Hellion Glover, Tom Waits, Vincent Van Gogh, Pieter Brughel the Elder, Albrecht Duhrer, [ x ] Gigi Edgley