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Vera

[til human voices wake me, and i drown]

About Me

Between the mind that plans and the hands that build there must be a Mediator, and this must be the heart.

My Interests

art, fiction, breathing, putting the lotion in the basket and not getting the hose, pop surrealism, pommegranites, mythos, bananas, ben, wolves, sleep, dreaming, waking. zombies, how could i forget zombies.

adopt your own virtual pet!

I'd like to meet:

The fictional: Stephen Colbert, Zep Hindle, Willard Stiles, Johnny C., Jame Gumb. Are you paying close attention? A very Thin Man, Willy Wonka, Layne, Salad Fingers. People with brains who are full of goo.

Music:

ah cama-sotz, secede, skinny puppy, nine inch nails, RiB, covenant, imperative reaction, tori amos, david bowie, the matadors, midnight syndicate, vitaminsforyou, coil, sigur ros, johnny cash, kettel, ohgr, M83, pj harvey, the killers, interpol, ayria, c2, frank zappa and the mothers of invention, the legendary pink dots, autoclav, pneumatic detach, snog, ritalin, multiplex, queens of the stone age, gary numan, bong-ra, extropy, the creepshow

Movies:

uzumaki, corpse bride, the nightmare before christmas, the man who cried, wait 'til you're older, dark city, saw, saw 2, saw 3, pi, spirited away, brokeback mountain, grizzly man, dead and breakfast, charlie and the chocolate factory, from beyond, dumplings, tetsuo: the iron man, ichi the killer, what is it?, cemetery man, koma, home sweet home, the silence of the lambs, wild at heart, the prestige, the hills have eyes 2006, reanimator, the fountain, son del mar, lost in translation, howl's moving castle, fritz lang's metropolis, feed, kairo, haxan: witchcraft though the ages My score on The Non-lame Zombie Survival Test :
Zombie Master.
(You scored 80% survivability and 54% kickass-ability!)
You were born for z-day. Not only will you be killing zombies left and right, but you will be leading the other survivors. You will be the one making decisions and the person who is looked to for advice. Congratulations.
Link: The Non-lame Zombie Survival Test ( OkCupid Free .. Dating )

Television:

the daily show, the colbert report, lost, invasion, csi, jeeves and wooster, house, surface, invader zim, harvey birdman, ANYTHING STEPHEN COLBERT that i can find...aqua teen hunger force, the venture brothers

Books:

johnny the homicidal maniac, the living and the dead, nightmares and fairytales, the thief of always, the dark tower, the talisman, desperation, ojo, i feel sick, grimm's grimmest, haunted (chuck palahniuk), haunted (kelley armstrong), the abandoned, off season (jack ketchum)

Heroes:

we don't need no stinkin heroes

My Blog

The Horror of Christmas!

The time is finally upon us! Who doesn't love scrambling through crowds of surly shoppers listening to Christmas music, which is the work of the Devil, let me fucking tell you (no holy being could hav...
Posted by Vera on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:52:00 PST

More Success! First Industry of Guilt...

...and now The Open Vein! Yay, a story (The Pit) by me (as Annick Sever) will be appearing in Issue 3 of this awesome new online horror magazine! Download the first issue now, and I guarantee you won'...
Posted by Vera on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:56:00 PST

This Lampshade is Perfectly Delicious.

As the author of the blog you are currently before cannot manage to post any word where the letter "eye" won't be replaced by what follows "..", the author has pasted a shortcut to another blog, one t...
Posted by Vera on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 11:46:00 PST

Submission Pays.

Some time ago I submitted a couple of stories to the Industry of Guilt. Wonder of all wonders, they have kindly accepted one! It's called Road Song, and it's a short day in the life of a young girl on...
Posted by Vera on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:53:00 PST

Read Me.

I have an account on fictionpress.com. I may include this on my main page, but I'm pressed for time, so I'm treating it as a major announcement: Ta-da! Read me, it makes me want to kill myself less. T...
Posted by Vera on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:18:00 PST

sometimes i think everyone hurts all the time

I did sleep last night, and again today for a while. My head is killing me as a result, and I wonder if I'm just supposed to feel like this all the time - carved out and scoured empty. This is turning...
Posted by Vera on Sun, 28 May 2006 07:51:00 PST

i a m g o i n g c r a z y

I think I'm losing my mind. I am not myself. I haven't been sleeping or really eating properly. I have this friend, and I know that every time I go out with him I don't eat, and he must think I have a...
Posted by Vera on Sat, 27 May 2006 11:46:00 PST

Quiet

Sometimes I just need quiet. Nothing but the sounds of cars passing outside, no voices, no questions. No fucking commercials and no soap operas. The birds sing, and that's okay. The further away the s...
Posted by Vera on Thu, 04 May 2006 10:35:00 PST

I suppose I'll have to do something about it, sometime.

Eventually, this will have to change. It's just so neat-o to look at! You know what I'm talking about. You know exactly what I'm talking about...
Posted by Vera on Sun, 02 Apr 2006 09:33:00 PST

...and the guy who was shot apologized.

Again, I don't have a joke for this because at this point it's not really funny anymore, just a bit sad. Sad that an elderly man, innocently hunting down little furry creatures in their homes who have...
Posted by Vera on Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:33:00 PST