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Divine [The Problem Being]

You've got no right to sit there saying I abuse it, when you only sleep with girls who say they like

About Me


Freelance Musician/DJ/Composer/Producer and amateur Cold War and CCCP historian. Laughingly bad at speaking Russian, but improving slowly - I am learning more words every day, though apparently my accent needs a lot of work. Will probably never fully understand the alphabet...
If you need some incredible, ground-breaking, innovative, imaginative electro/sonic-art compositions for any medium, and money is no object, I'd love to hear from you but I probably won't as you'll go to someone you've actually heard of, I expect. On the other hand, if you need something knocked up quickly on the cheap, preferably by a starving artist who will work 24 hours a day for peanuts, just to get the rent paid - I'm pretty sure I'll get that commision as that's what they all seem to be at the moment!
When not playing with studio equipment I do Synth/Programming/Loops for The Problem Being - an exciting new band on the London scene. Not so much a band as a sonic Chimera, the result of a genetic crossbreeding of Electro, Punk, Indy and Alternative. Let's be honest, with that description you just gotta come and see more - gigs at various locations in London and further afield.
I'm also a paid professional know-it-all, being one of AQA (The text message service that answers any question)'s freelance researchers.
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." George Bernard Shaw
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." Voltaire
You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretences of your civilisation which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all life and feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the free world.

My Interests

80s, absinthe, anime, anne rice, apocalypse, apocalypse fiction, armageddon, art, arthur c clarke, beauty, books, burlesque, byron, cabaret, cabaret voltaire, chicks on speed, cinema, cinema strange, clive barker, clothes, club bohemia, clubbing, cold war, coleridge, communism, computer games, computers, corsets, covenant, daily mail baiting, dancing, darkwave, david bowie, death, death penalty, decadence, depeche mode, dirty motels, dita von teese, drawn on eyebrows, dresden dolls, ebm, electro, electro-glam, electroclash, electronic music, electrosleaze, espionage, fetish, future pop, gender blending, glam, glam-ou-rama, glamtrash, goth, gothic, guitars, harry potter, hedwig, horror, imajica, immodesty blaize, indie, industrial, journalism, joy division, kabarette obscura, kinkyness, knightmare, ladytron, literature, liza minelli, make-up, modelling, money, moral panic, music, music production, musicals, nazi history, nineteen eighty-four, nuclear war, oblivion, opium, performance, poetry, rasputina, reading, romantic poets, samplers, sci fi, sex, shelly, singing, sleaze, smoking cigarettes, soft cell, soviet chic, star trek, stockings, suspenders, synth pop, synth punk, synthesizers, theatre, tom waits, transvestitism, ussr, ute lemper, vampirism, vaudeville, velvetgoldmine, weimar republic, women, writing

I'd like to meet:



Anyone Young, Interesting, Beautiful, Creative, Intelligent, Dangerous or Decadent... London based or further afield...!

Music:


Anything electronic and synthesized:

Electro
Electropop
Electroglam
Electropunk
Electroclash
Electrosleaze
EBM,
Future Pop

Guitar based indy/glam such as Suede, Pulp, Bowie, T-Rex.

Goth and Darkwave.

Also Cabaret music, like Kurt Weil, Ute Lemper, Tom Waits, and classical composers such as Tchaikovsky or Chopin, or more modern composers such as Michael Nyman.

Movies:


Salon Kitty
Downfall
Conspiracy
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, And Her Lover
Mulholland Drive
Lost Highway
Velvet Goldmine
24 Hour Party People
Party Monster
Labyrinth
The Wicker Man
Dr. Strangelove
Brazil
From Hell
Howl's Moving Castle
Threads
The War Game

Books:


Clive Barker:
Imajica
Coldheart Canyon
The Hellbound Heart

George Orwell:
Nineteen Eighty-Four

Bulgakov:
Master and Margerita

Antoni Libera
Madame

J K Rowling
Any Harry Potter
Stephen Fry
The Stars Tennis Balls
Moab is my Washpot
The Liar
Paperweight

Heroes:

David Bowie..

My Blog

My journal

My Livejournal is here: My Livejournal 
Posted by Divine [The Problem Being] on Sun, 05 Feb 2006 08:49:00 PST

My views on religion in the context of the Holy Teddy Bear of Sudan (PBUH)

Once again followers of a certain religion are baying for blood at an imagined slight upon their sacred beliefs. Are these peoples' faiths so shaky and insubstantial that they cannot bear to have it t...
Posted by Divine [The Problem Being] on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:31:00 PST

5 little questions of an everyday sort...

I was asked 5 questions by Fran:1. How did you start playing bass? I mean, why bass and not another instrument?I always wanted to play the 'cello - however, my music teacher needed a double-bass playe...
Posted by Divine [The Problem Being] on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 06:23:00 PST

Myspace and HMTL Horror!!

So this is the Myspace I've heard so much about from everyone. Following constant nudging from various people, I've finally launched myself onto the bandwagon just as it was pulling out of the station...
Posted by Divine [The Problem Being] on Sun, 05 Feb 2006 09:29:00 PST