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Myke Amend - I paint and draw stuff

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About Me


I am the terror that flaps in the night; I am the stuff of your most uncomfortably awkard nightmares; I am the surprise in your cereal box that you really didn't want but now you have it anyway; I am the building collection of right socks, and the confusion over where the left socks go... and why? I am the squirrel that buries its nuts in your back yard! And then unburies them! And buries them again!
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:
    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

My Interests

Art, Paint, Canvas, Music, Far Away, DJing, Piratey Stuff, Storms, Night, Live Shows, Dancing, Drinking, Horror, Theater, Haunts, Caves, Rocks, Forests, Graveyards, Gothic Music, Deathrock, Punk, Post-Punk, Horror Punk, Medeival, Ambient, Classical, Lounge, World Beat, Visual Kai, J Pop, Anime, Sex, Murder, Art, Evil, Art, Sex, Nature, Sex, Darkness, Art, Trouble, Chaos, Peace, Conflict, Evil, Dankity dank darkened dark of darkness, The black plague, Sharp pendulums of the finest Toledo steel, Kittens.

I'd like to meet:



Music:

45 Grave, 12 Step Rebels, 1919, 39 Clocks, 45 Grave, A Fire Inside, abney park, Abra Cadaver, absinthe, Action Pact, Alien Sex Fiend, All About Eve, And Also The Trees, Android Lust, Antiworld, Asmodi Bizarr, Aus Rotten, Ausgang, autumn, B Movie, Bad Brains, Basking Sharks, Bauhaus, Bell Hollow, Bella Morte, big electric cat, Black Cat Rebellion, Black Ice, Blitzkid, Blood and Roses, Bloody Dead and Sexy, Bohemien, Bone Orchard, Brickbats, Brigandage, Calabrese, Calling Dead Red Roses, Carcrash International, Charge, Children On Stun, Christian Death, Cinema Strange, claire voyant, Clan of Xymox, Cocteau Twins, collide, Colourbox, corpus delicti, cranes, Crass, Current 93, Daisy Chainsaw, Dali's Car, Danielle Dax, Danse Society, dead can dance, Dead or Alive, Deadchovsky, death cult, Death In June, delerium, Demented Are Go, Depeche Mode, Devo, die laughing, Die Unbekannten, Dinah Cancer and 45 Grave, Dinah Cancer and the Graverobbers, diva destruction, drowning season, E Craft, Echo and the Bunnymen, Escape With Romeo, Every New Dead Ghost, executive slacks, faith and disease, Faith and the Muse, fictional, Fields of the Nephilim, Flipper, Frank The Baptist, Front 242, gary numan, Gavin Friday, Gene Loves Jezebel, girls under glass, Gitane DeMone, hocico, Holy Cow, Human Drama, hungry lucy, Ikon, inkubus sukkubus, iron maiden, Jack Off Jill, Joy Division, Kastle Grey Skull, Katzenjammer Kabarett, Killing Joke, Klute, L'ame Immortelle, lace, Leaether Strip, legendary pink dots, Leitmotiv, lenore, leonard cohen, London After Midnight, loreena mckennitt, love spirals downwards, lycia, lydia lunch, Lydia Lunch, Madre Del Vizio, Marc Almond, marionettes, mephisto walz, merry thoughts, mesh, midnight syndicate, Ministry, Miranda Sex Garden, miranda sex garden, Mister Monster, Modern English, mors syphilitica, Morticia, motorhead, Murder At The Registry, My Bloody Valentine, naked and the dead, Necromantix, New Order, nick cave, Nightmare Of The Elf, Nightmares In Wax, Nitzer Ebb, nosferatu, Oingo Boingo, ophelia's dream, Paul Roland, Penis Flytrap, Peter Murphy, Pink Turns Blue, Play Dead, premature ejaculation, project pitchfork, Reagan Youth, Red Scare, Red Temple Spirits, rhea's obsession, Rosetta Stone, Rudimentary Peni, sanctuary, Scarecrow, scarecrow ny, Scarlet's Remains, Scarling., Screams For Tina, seraphim shock, Sex Gang Children, Sexbeat, Shakespears Sister, She Wants Revenge, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Skeletal Family, skinny puppy, Soft Cell, Son Of Sam, southern death cult, Specimen, Spell, spf 1000, Stiv Bators, strange boutique, Strawberry Switchblade, sunshine blind, Suspiria, Switchblade Symphony, temple of misery, The Adicts, The Automatons, the azoic, the birthday party, The Bolshoi, The Brides, The Chameleons, the chameleons, The Changelings, The Church, The Cramps, The Creatures, the cruxshadows, The Cult, The Cure, The Damned, The Dead Boys, The Deadfly Ensemble, The Dickies, The Empire Hideous, The Ghost of Lemora, The Glove, The Horrorpops, the legendary pink dots, The Lords of the New Church, The March Violets, The Merry Thoughts, The Misfits, The Mission, The Mob, The Naked and the Dead, The Nekromantix, The Phantoms Limbs, The Plasmatics, The Ramones, the shroud, The Sisterhood, The Sisters of Mercy, The Smiths, The Southern Death Cult, The Sun and the Moon, the tea party, The Vanishing, The Venomettes, The Virgin Prunes, theater, this ascension, this mortal coil, Thompson Twins, thou shalt not, Tones On Tail, Tragic Black, TSOL, UK Decay, UK Subs, Undying Legacy, Uninvited Guest, unto ashes, Untoten, voltaire, Warsaw, X, X Ray Spex, Xmal Deutschland, Xymox, You Shriek, Zombie Ghost Train, Zombina and the Skeletones

Movies:

Dog Soldiers, MirrorMask, the Pit and the Pendulum, Boondock Saints, Cube, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Event Horizon, V for Vendetta, Silent Hill, 28 Days Later, Shaun of the Dead, etc..

Television:

InuYasha, Full Metal Alchemist, Ghost in the Shell, Sealab 2021, the Brak Show, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Battlestar Galactica, Farscape, Stargate Atlantis, Stargate SG1, Buffy, Angel, Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, History Channel, National Geographic, the Travel Channel, and any decent or bad horror movies I can find.

Books:

(by author) Neil Gaiman, Edgar Allen Poe, H.D. Thoreau, Warren Ellis, H.P. Lovecraft, Clive Barker, Terry Brooks, Jonathan Swift, Stephen Lawhead, Isaac Asimov, C.S. Lewis, Dave Barry, Jack Handy, Roman Dirge, Voltaire

My Blog

Some great photography.

I rarely post about photography and such, but this guy's work is utterly fantastic - especially the HDR photos. As a sidenote, there are also some motorcycle shots here that any bike enthusiast must s...
Posted by Myke Amend - I paint and draw stuff on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:46:00 PST

A Painting

I was stuck on this for a while. I ended up taking DarkDisney's advice on pushing the black, which I knew I would - I just didn't want to rush it. There also needed to be another element or two t...
Posted by Myke Amend - I paint and draw stuff on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:12:00 PST

Massachusetts

I've been here for a week. I haven't posted anything here since I said I was coming out this way, and his is more of a post to let you know I arrived intact. As usual I have a lot of painting and dr...
Posted by Myke Amend - I paint and draw stuff on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:37:00 PST

Updatey

I haven't been all that updatey lately... 'been just trying to catch up with people here as much as possible before departing, getting all things car related looked over, squeezing in some quality tim...
Posted by Myke Amend - I paint and draw stuff on Thu, 22 May 2008 12:58:00 PST

Smile

"Smile"  ::  A series of small acrylic paintings on canvas (5x7) The funny thing about doing small paintings like these, is that larger versions would have taken me half the time.I am going ...
Posted by Myke Amend - I paint and draw stuff on Thu, 22 May 2008 09:35:00 PST

A room with a moose

Okay... not a room or a moose... though I was so tempted to hide a moose in the icebergs somewhere.. The painting is 36 x 24 on mohogany panel. The photo does it little justice. ...
Posted by Myke Amend - I paint and draw stuff on Mon, 05 May 2008 09:14:00 PST

*laughs*

You’ve probably already seen this one on Steamfashion or from sepiachordBut just in case you didn’t.. ..  ...
Posted by Myke Amend - I paint and draw stuff on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 06:28:00 PST

More originals on the cutting block

I seriously shredded my left pectoral and left shoulder today trying to cart all the crates to the post office in one armload... and with all the paintings I shipped, there were still a few left out.....
Posted by Myke Amend - I paint and draw stuff on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:58:00 PST

Want?

I put together this assemblage last nightIt goes up on Ebay when I wake up. If however you want it before it goes on ebay, I’ll take the first offer of $170, or the highest offer above $125 (mai...
Posted by Myke Amend - I paint and draw stuff on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:53:00 PST

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Engraving + figurative work on a small scale is a serious bitch. It came out okay - but likely could have come out a lot better as a painting. The piece is 5x7 (probably much smaller than it is ...
Posted by Myke Amend - I paint and draw stuff on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:50:00 PST