Gothic music & fashion, costuming, goth-fetish photography, occult and supernatural subjects, 40's pulp literature, etc.
I'd like to meet:
Other musicians, (see the website of my band, Stone 588 and the Myspace Stone 588 site) creative people, other gothic/pagan costumers, artists & photographers, people who like to argue about politics but are open-minded, people who like to muse about supernatural or philosophical things. Visit my IPSO FACTO store website and my GHOST/ORB images & experiences site. Also you can join the Myspace IPSO FACTO GROUP for a cyber grope from Bob and Terri.
Music:
Gothic, particularly guitar based bands. Faves include, in no particular order Qntal, Helium Vola, This Ascension, Faith and the Muse (with whom I toured as a backing vocalist), Diary of Dreams, Blooding Mask, And Also The Trees, Die Laughing, This Burning Effigy, Die Form, Cocteau Twins, Ultravox, Xmal, Requiem in White, Christian Death (Rozz), Superheroines, The Birthday Party, The Last Dance, Switchblade Symphony, L'ame Immortelle, Dead Can Dance, and many more. Female vocalists I admire: Yma Sumac, Lene Lovich.
Watch my band (Stone 588) on Youtube here (video made by our bassist Jon.)
Movies:
My favorite genre of movie is comedy, like "Saving Grace," "Bridget Jones- The Edge of Reason," "Connie and Carla," Woody Allen's "Sleeper" or "Love and Death" and "The Aristocrats" was particularly hilarious! But I also really enjoy eerie, suspenseful films like "The Skeleton Key," "Gothic," " M," "The Gift," "The Cell," (the last of which has some beautiful yet terrifying magickal realism, artfully done.) I really enjoyed "Constantine" as well, mainly for the visual design and the detached moodiness of the story. Fave actors include (in no particular order): Peter Lorre, Vincent D'Onfrio, James Spader.
Television:
Since we are no-cable household, I can only rave about Network t.v. shows I watch at the moment "Boston Legal," "Crossing Jordan," "House M.D.," "Law and Order Criminal Intent," "Medium," "C.S.I." I also like the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Conan O'Brien, Penn and Teller. I mostly prefer shows with good dialogue and acting, and then sometimes I just need pithy political commentary or straight up sophomoric humor a la "That 70s Show." Past favorite shows include "Ellery Queen," "Forever Night," "Penelope Pitstop"...."Dead Last," that show that ran 6 eps in 2001 about a rock band who had a talisman that allowed them to see dead people whom they helped move on to the next world? Great premise. Wish that had happened to my band!
Books:
Non -fiction: Richard Clark's "Against All Enemies" and John Edwards' "Four Trials" are awesome. Also Michael Moore's "Stupid White Men." Fiction: Anything by Edgar Allen Poe, HP Lovecraft, Jack Iams (40's crime fiction), also Christopher Penczak's "City Magick" or "Urban Primitives." Can't forget the magazine "Morbid Curiosity which I read cover to cover when it comes out. Other random fiction authors I admire: John P. Marquand, Dolores Hitchens. Really an eclectic mix...
Heroes:
Definitely Mae West (for her pluck in getting her plays produced and fighting the Hayes code.) Also Z. Budapest, Doreen Valiente, Dion Fortune: women pioneers of modern paganism. Gosh, my memory is so bad...I will add more here later about suffragettes, and other perhaps obscure figures who deserve attention.
