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Mandi Apple

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About Me

Hi, my name is Mandi Apple, I'm 35 and I juggle my time between being a full-time mom and a movie reviewer at my reasonably well-known Asian extreme/horror movie review site Snowblood Apple ^_^

99% of the time I dress in gothic/classic lolita style, despite being almost continually laughed at in the street XD The good denizens of Calne, Wiltshire, don't seem to care for frills, lace and parasols ¬_¬ XD I'm from Bristol originally, and oh, how I wish I lived there and not sodding Calne XD

I have a beautiful daughter, Astrid Yuki, who's three years old now, and she takes up pretty much all my time - writing and listening to music occupies the rest ^_^ I also love to make things: drawings and portraits, jewellery, embroidery, lacy accessories, and I'm just starting to learn how to sew small things as well, though I'm still pretty crap at it, but improvingly crap XD

I'm also a practicing Mahayana Buddhist and play piano, cello, clarinet, mountain dulcimer (though I am hopelessly out of practice) and bass guitar ^_^ I have a livejournal at mandiapple.livejournal.com , where I hang out and normally embarrass myself in front of all my friends XD

Seriously, I need to improve this page, it looks like a mess right now #^_^#

My Interests

Asian extreme/cult/horror movies, horror movies in general, music, art, writing (reviews, poetry and fiction), dressing in gothic lolita, classic lolita and erololi , playing with my daughter, reading, painting, Mahayana and Pure Land Buddhism, bondage (especially Japanese rope bondage), lace and ribbon fetish, vampirism, Catholic iconography, walking around my garden naked at night, Guerlain perfume, strange jewellery (especially Suppurate System ), tattoos, piercings, being a bit too passionate for my own good sometimes ♥

I'd like to meet:

The Dalai Lama, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Richard Barbieri, David Sylvian, Sam Herlihy, Tom Barman (I already met him once but I'd like to meet him again and say less stupid embarrassing nervous things next time XD), Christopher Lee, Debbie Harry, Christopher Walken, Ryo Ishibashi, Sono Sion, Koji Yakusho, Ryonai and Micael of Suppurate System, Mana, Sadao Abe, Hideo Nakata, Tadanobu Asano, Masatoshi Nagase, Sogo Ishii, Higuchinsky, Ren Osugi ♥

Music:

Hope of the States, Troubles, Blocks, Sigur Ros, Guided By Voices, Japan, Jansen/Barbieri/Karn, Porcupine Tree, David Sylvian, Interpol, Cardiacs, dEUS, DAAU, Swans, Sea Nymphs, Zita Swoon, Kiss My Jazz, Bat For Lashes, Mogwai, Fields, Secret Machines, Libertines, Levitation, Beck, Death From Above 1979, The Mystery Jets, The Duke Spirit, Clor, Blondie, Auf der Maur, Kula Shaker, all krautrock (the madder the better, including: Faust, Can, Neu!, Amon Duul II, Popol Vuh, Ash Ra Tempel, Magma, Kraftwerk, etc), Television, Pink Floyd, Tom Verlaine, Acid Mothers Temple, Metric, The Young Knives, Wire, Ghost, The Arcade Fire, The Go! Team, Mansun, My Bloody Valentine, Pixies, Miranda Sex Garden, Led Zeppelin, The Kills... oh I dunno, bloody loads ♥

Movies:

Kairo, Suicide Circle, Acacia, Cure, Charisma, Ring, Loft, Uzumaki, The Wicker Man, the original V-Cinema Ju-on, Strange Circus, Muzan E, Mulholland Drive, Les Yeux Sans Visage, Session 9, Fascination, Vampyr, Metropolis, Akira, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, Freaks, Der Golem, M, Haxan, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, anything Hammer/Amicus, Blair Witch Project, The Woman in Black, anything by Jean Rollin/David Cronenberg/John Carpenter/Kiyoshi Kurosawa/David Lynch etc - our site is a pretty good indicator of what I like ♥

Television:

I avoid this as much as possible XD But I am addicted to Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe, Most Haunted, Project Catwalk/Runway, Top Gear, The Mighty Boosh, Mythbusters, Ray Mears, Dragons' Den, and I'm a bit of a Wiggles fangirl XDDDD

Books:

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov is my favourite book EVER; anything by Junji Ito, Jean Genet, Junko Mizuno or Kazuo Umezu; Bizenghast by M. Alice Legrow; poetry - Apollinaire, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarme, Plath, Paul Celan, Owen, e.e. cummings etc etc etc; anything by Neil Gaiman; anything by Angela Carter, but especially The Magic Toyshop; The Epic of Gilgamesh; The Rubaiyyat; The Song of Solomon; loads of art books; the Dhammapada; too many to list, I have about 10 bookcases full to the gunnels -_-

Heroes:

We could be heroes, just for one day ♥

My Blog

FINALLY got my Etsy shop open...

After many months of slog, chasing fancy Asian fabrics and many, many needle-related injuries, my mom and I finally got our joint Etsy shop open http://www.shulamite.etsy.comAnd additionally we g...
Posted by Mandi Apple on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 03:37:00 PST

Red Room and Suicide Circle 2: Noriko's Dinner Table reviews

For anyone who missed the bulletin! :DFinally got these little perishers finished at last! Alex's superb review of Sono Sion's mind-warping Noriko's Dinner Table is now up at http://www.mandiapple.com...
Posted by Mandi Apple on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 04:23:00 PST

Livejournal syndicated RSS feed for SAF

(x-posted just about everywhere)I've just syndicated Snowblood Apple Forums' RSS feed for Livejournal users, so if you want to see what new threads have been posted on the forum via your LJ flist page...
Posted by Mandi Apple on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 08:04:00 PST

Apparently I am Clouds, whatever that means XD

My score on The Elemental Balance Test:Clouds(~ 81% Water ~ 81% Wind ~ 55% Earth ~ 55% Fire ~)Big ring around the moonIt's gonna rain hard soonYour colours are the dark green of the sea and silver, bu...
Posted by Mandi Apple on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 03:32:00 PST

Niku Daruma review uploaded

(Reposted from the bulletin for anyone who missed it)It's been a bumper time for reviews this last fortnight at Apple Towers - finally pulled our fingers out and did some work for a change XD So we've...
Posted by Mandi Apple on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 01:19:00 PST

TROUBLES SHOWS!!!!!!111! :D

Troubles (aka The Troubles Musick, ex-Hope of the States) are playing some shows next month!!!!  If they're playing anywhere near you, you should definitely get along to one of their shows - I ho...
Posted by Mandi Apple on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:05:00 PST

Snowblood Apple on Myspace

I am SO sorry to everyone who I owe replies to - I am so behind it's terrifying  I'll try and get in contact with everyone this afternoon if I can.In other news, Alex has now set up a Myspace for...
Posted by Mandi Apple on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 03:56:00 PST

Sorry everyone ;__; (out of commission currently)

I owe so many people replies/messages it's mental - I am SO sorry! I have a rotten rotten case of flu and have barely been out of bed since last Thursday so if I owe you any kind of communication, I a...
Posted by Mandi Apple on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 05:20:00 PST

Get well soon Hamster! ;___;

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/5367616.s tmI felt absolutely sick to my stomach when Alex told me about Richard Hammond's terrible accident last night I've heard some unconfirmed r...
Posted by Mandi Apple on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 06:48:00 PST

Lady Snowblood review uploaded to Snowblood Apple (for anyone who missed the bulletin)

Alex's review of the seminal and exquisite Lady Snowblood: Blizzard from the Netherworld is now uploaded to Snowblood Apple!http://www.mandiapple.com/snowblood/ladysnowblood.htmC oming soon: Tyler's do...
Posted by Mandi Apple on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 08:39:00 PST