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Ellen

Le remede est dans le poison.

About Me

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.-Oscar Wilde. .Death: I am the one who will make a serious woman of you; Come, let us embrace. -Gustav Flaubert 'The Temptation of St. Anthony'I also have a livejournal: Dreams Made Flesh

My Interests

ART, MUSIC, AVANTGARDE, SURREALISM, DECADENCE, FETISH, ELECTRONIC MUSIC, FASHION, EXPRESSIONSM, MACABRE, LITERATURE. POETRY, ROMANTICISM, FEMINISM, BLASPHEMY, CABARET. BURLESQUE, ART HISTORY, FRANCE. FRENCH LANGUAGE, SUBVERSION, MAKEUP, PHOTOGRAPHY, DIGITAL ART, CORSETRY, PSYCHOLOGY, PERFORMANCE ART, STUDYING, DEBAUCHERY, JAPAN, PHILOSOPHY, WRITING, TRAVEL, AESTHETISM, IDEALISM, ANTHROPOLOGY, HISTORY, HORROR, PAINTING, SYNTHESIZERS, ENLIGHTENMENT, ... etc!....

I'd like to meet:

Livejournal: _glassphyxia_

Music:

[GOTH. INDUSTRIAL. ELECTRONIC. DEATHROCK. GLAM. PUNK. CLASSICAL. EXPERIMENTAL., etc...:] Siouxsie and the Banshees, Die Form, Bauhaus, Skinny Puppy, Ghosting, David Bowie, Sex Gang Children, Depeche Mode, Christian Death (w/Rozz!),Cinema Strange, Chants of Maldoror, Das Ich, Attrition, Ministry, London After Midnight, Machine in the Garden, Elend, Numb, Xmal Deutschland, Wumpscut, Lycia, Coil, Skeletal Family, (old) My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, Sopor Aeternus, Nico, Death in June, Kirlian Camera, Dark Sanctuary, ++..etc!!,etc!!

Movies:

[SURREAL. HORROR. FOREIGN. INDIE. BLACK, TWISTED HUMOR. TRANSGRESSIVE. NOIR. SILENT. EXTREME. etc:] Velvet Goldmine, The City of Lost Children, The Hunger, Les Vampires(Louis Feuillade), Basquiat, The Professional, Clockwork Orange, Three Extremes, Return of the Living Dead, Amelie, Female Trouble, The Heart Above All Things is Deceitful, Labyrinth, Vampyros Lesbos, Mysterious Skin, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Brazil, Les Triplettes De Belleville, Cabaret, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Quills, Russian Ark, Bladerunner, Farewell my Concubine, Suburbia, Desperate Living, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Return of the Living Dead, Shadow of the Vampire, Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary, Aimee and Jaguar, Videodrome, Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, The Elephant Man, Twin Peaks, Lost Highway, (pretty much anything by David Lynch..or by Dario Argento), Freaks, The Exocist, Repulsion, Hellraiser, Nosferatu, Häxan, Shadowmagic, Frida, Naked Lunch, The Brothers Quay, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust, Jackie Brown, Pink Flamingos (I

Television:

[I don't really like most TV, but there are few exceptions...] Absolutely Fabulous , Real Time w/ Bill Maher, Twin Peaks, Black Adder, The Young Ones, The Colbert Report (yes.lol.) ...South Park, Invader Zim, Family Guy...Various Documentaries (Scientific, Medical, Historical, etc.), awful things I really should NOT watch (but do) that manage to amuse and horrify me simultaneously, "The Alternative" on VH1Classics...and the Style channel! haha.

Books:

The Little Prince, The Story of O, Fluers Du Mal (I love Charles Baudelaire.), Notes From the Underground, The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot(Dostoevsky), Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices, 120 Days in Sodom, Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom (Marquis de Sade), A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, The Beauty Myth (Susan Faludi), Les Chants de Maldoror (Lautremont), The Physics of Immortality, Our Lady of Flowers, Miracle of the Rose (Genet), Picasso's Weeping Woman: The Life and Art of Dora Maar, Futurism and Photography, The Physics of Consciousness, Tao Te Ching, The Stranger (Camus), Otto Dix(Karcher), Sexual Personae, Dancing Into Darkness: Butoh, Zen, and Japan, The Picture of Dorian Grey, Prometheus Unbound (Shelley), Erotism (Bataille), The Bacchae (Euripides),A Rebours, La Bas (Huysmans), Voluptuous Panic, Kant, Nietzsche, Poe, the Bhagavad Gita, The Art of Seduction, Candide, Images from the Floating World, The Hot Girls Of Weimar Berlin, The Screwtape Letters, Symbolist Movement: A Critical Appraisal, The Wasteland(T.S.Elliot), Surrealism: Desire Unbound, the kabbalah, Burroughs, The Symposium (Plato), Occultism in the Avant-Garde, Symbolists and Symbolism (Delevoy), Memoirs of a Geisha, Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant Garde in Nazi Germany (Baron), The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature (Ridley), Japonisme' Comes to America (Weisberg), The Lucifer Principle, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Right You Are if You Think You Are (Pirandello), New Objectivity: Painting in Germany in the 1920's, Antonin Artaud, Gunter Brus: Werke aus der Sammlung Essl, Dada Surrealism and Their Heritage ... etc, etc, blah, blah...

My Blog

Danse Macabre

(these are two of my favorite poems:)   The Dance of Death "Proud as a living person of her noble stature, With her big bouquet, her handkerchief and gloves, She has the nonchalance and easy mann...
Posted by Ellen on Fri, 07 Apr 2006 06:42:00 PST

my stars....

This is my astrological chart, which I recently had done. This sort of thing (astrology, etc.) is certainly nothing I live and die by, but I do find it interesting never the less. Perhaps you will to...
Posted by Ellen on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST