Ash Wednesday profile picture

Ash Wednesday

Strong as the shadows are long.

About Me

Bastard bitch merry-go-round.

My Interests

Animal rights and cruelty-free lifestyles. Arts n' farts n' crafts. All Hollow's Eve. Coast To Coast AM. Taxidermy. Paranormal activity. Aminals. The miracle of soy. Ghost hunting. Apothecary jars. Samsonite. Carnivals. Train rides. Dimly lit rooms. Dive bars. Religious art. Dia De Los Muertos. Sugar skulls. Caves and caverns. Breezes through open windows at night. Tights. Scarves (the pretty kind). Bat Boy. Surrealism. Dali. Photo booths. The art of brewing tea. The sound of high heels on tile floors. The smell of old books. Abandoned buildings. Historic districts. Ivy. The crackling of a record player. The smell of candle wax. Hardwood floors and area rugs. Victorians and Painted Ladies. Picnics. Japan. London. Spain. India. A perfectly constructed sandwich.

I'd like to meet:

Fruit bats! The ghost of Ian Curtis. The Driller Killer. Max Headroom. An arch nemesis. Pete and Pete (but mostly just Pete). An apple pie. The number Pi. Staring contest contestants. The Count!

Music:

♥ Murder City Devils
♥ Alkaline Trio
♥The Briefs
♥Queen
♥Blaster The Rocket Man
♥Mad Sin
♥Godless Wicked Creeps
♥ Elvis Costello
♥ VNV Nation
♥Baldwin and the Whiffles
♥ John Coltrane
♥ 2Pac
♥ Quintron
♥ Heavens
♥ Transplants
♥ Operation Ivy
♥ The Agony Scene
♥ Turbonegro
♥ Joy Division
♥ Daft Punk
♥ The Jesus and Mary Chain
♥ Throw Rag
♥ SWANS
♥ The Ghastly Ones
♥ The Briefs
♥ Eagles Of Death Metal
♥ Otis Redding
♥ Death In June
♥ The Jackalopes
♥ The Magnetic Fields
♥ Prince
♥ Filth

Movies:

Wizard People, Dear Reader. Rock & Roll Won't Wait. Live Freaky Die Freaky. Waking Life. Slumber Party Massacre II. Turkish ET. Wild Zero. The Indiana Jones Trilogy. Panda Go Panda. The Toxic Avenger. Kamikaze Girls. All Hitchcock. The Devil's Backbone. Dementia 13. MirrorMask. My Boyfriend's Back. Ginger Snaps. The Lost Skeleton Of Cadavra. Lost Boys. Plan 9 From Outer Space. Return Of The Living Dead. My Neighbor Totoro. Casper. Dead and Breakfast. Princess Mononoke. The Addams Family. Hedwig and the Angry Inch. The Amazing Panda Adventure. Velvet Goldmine. Carnival Of Souls. Elvira: Mistress Of The Dark. The Screaming Skull. Rebel Without A Cause. Little Shop Of Horrors (original). The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Monsters Crash The Pajama Party. Near Dark. The Virgin Suicides. Lilo and Stitch .

Books:

The Stranger. The Thief Of Always. On The Road. The Genius and the Goddess. Uzumaki. Diet For A New America. Blue Like Jazz. How To Make Yourself Miserable.

Heroes:

My Blog

Our Work Is Never Over.

You can huff and puff and try to blow this house down, but it's all in vain.There is no one on earth I'm afraid of.
Posted by Ash Wednesday on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 09:30:00 PST

Over and out, my dear.

God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of parties with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to wh...
Posted by Ash Wednesday on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:02:00 PST

Mean Girls.

It never fails to surprise me how catty and mean girls are. How horribly they treat eachother. So, thanks to the real girls I know. The good ones. The ones that will never leave a girl out. The ones t...
Posted by Ash Wednesday on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 02:46:00 PST

Manifest Destiny.

there's bound to be a ghost at the back of your closetno matter where you live.there'll always be a few things, maybe several thingsthat you're going to find really difficult to forgive.there's going ...
Posted by Ash Wednesday on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 03:34:00 PST

Have a Samosa.

I'm blogging on this blog about my other blog. It's not my Livejournal, which is an online journal, and not a web log. It's totally different, you see. http://onevisionofmay.blogspot.com/...
Posted by Ash Wednesday on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 12:33:00 PST

Neil Diamond is Forever.

We're at the Banshee last night...surrounded by people in Cosby sweaters and Santa outfits, Neil Diamond comes on at last call, and seconds later, strangers are embracing, singing at the top of their ...
Posted by Ash Wednesday on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 04:27:00 PST

Im going to make it through this year if it kills me.

2008: May the missed connections, missed chances, hesitation, bad decisions, bad nights, and general sense of "what did I do (or not do) that for?" be left behind. May the good friends, good time...
Posted by Ash Wednesday on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:46:00 PST

Together But Not Together.

Me: I've always wanted to slap a man. And he'd love me after. Melissa: Yeah it doesn't work so well. Me: It does in the movies. It's romantic. Slapping the love into someone. Melissa: When I've slappe...
Posted by Ash Wednesday on Sat, 17 Nov 2007 02:44:00 PST

Tonight we dine in hell. Tomorrow Im thinking Arbys.

...
Posted by Ash Wednesday on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 02:08:00 PST

A little less conversation, a little more activism.

"Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."    ...
Posted by Ash Wednesday on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 07:54:00 PST