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Devlyn / J. Frances

Sweet and golden..like corn/The Devil's Instrument

About Me



sunny and dark, happy and wacky, focused and all over the place...my weakness is chocolate.

check out my band's website:
http://www.demonikaandthedarklings.com

OR here on myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/demonikaandthedarklings

I also play violin with UNEXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN. Click on the banner to check us out here on mySpace:

I have a kick-ass side project, The RocketDYN Disaster, with John "Wee Wee" Napier (from Ethyl Meatplow & Nitzer Ebb).

I've also played on a few tracks for Addicted2Fiction, Dorian Wood Guilt Trip, and Drance.

Upcoming shows:

My Interests

MUSIC,
synchronized swimming,
playing violin & theremin & writing music in Reason / Cubase with my band DEMONIKA & THE DARKLINGS,
being a geek, gardening, zen,going to JPL open house, dancing,
Pierre et Gilles' photography,
retouching- making people, places, & things look fabulous ....check out my retouching work(the site is a bit outdated, but you'll get the idea): http://www.antimatterproductions.com

I'd like to meet:

People to start a synchronized swim performance art troupe with!!! For REAL!
Friends who are misfits...who just don't fit in anywhere neatly...to hang out with, go dancing, go on adventures with, fellow vegetarians to go out to eat with, electronic musicians, live sound engineers, and recording engineers to learn from and talk shop with, theremin players, violinists and cellists. I need to learn how to speak German, so anyone who can help out with that...

Music:

in no particular order...industrial/goth/EBM, Marc Almond / Soft Cell, The Creatures, Siouxsie, Legendary Pink Dots / Edward Kaspel, Warren Ellis / Dirty Three, BlutEngel, Depeche Mode, Sheep on Drugs, Laibach, Front 242, Foetus (JG Thirlwell), Paul Roland, Dresden Dolls, Cinema Strange, Sisters of Mercy, Mesh, VNV Nation, And One, XP8, Covenant, ADULT.,Cruxshadows, Beborn Beton, Ethyl Meatplow, The Geraldine Fibbers, De/Vision, Funker Vogt, Einstürzende Neubauten, Mindless Self Indulgence, Sulfur, The Faint, The Bolshoi, Pulp, Magnetic Fields, Snog, Rasputina, Switchblade Symphony, Coil, Chris n Cosey, Erasure,Blancmange, Yaz, Severed Heads, Sousa, Korla Pandit, polka, Demonika and the Darklings, www.rantradio.com, www.electrowahn.org, http://www.live365.com/stations/theblasphemybros

Demonika and the Darklings - "Cry Me A River"
(cover of Justin Timberlake's song)

Unextraordinary Gentlemen "Mr. Soot's Black Book" .. mspmb src="http://www.youtube.com/v/B2dMmzunwLk" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425"

Movies:

Million Dollar Mermaid, Dangerous When Wet, Amadeus, Happiness, Gummo, The Brothers Quay, Chuck and Buck, The Glass Cage, Female Trouble, Desperate Living, Pecker, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Almodovar films, Werkmeister Harmonies, Breaking Glass, Ladies and Gentlemen The Fabulous Stains

Television:

Laverne and Shirley, South Park, Lawrence Welk, Six Feet Under, Strangers With Candy, Freaks and Geeks, Tipping the Velvet (BBC), Little Britain

Books:

Currently reading "A Song of Ice and Fire" series. Coraline, Neverwhere, Running With Scissors, Fast Food Nation, Geek Love, LOTR, Kafka stories, Wild Swans, Memoirs of a Geisha, WIRED magazine

Heroes:

my parents and sisters, Monique for always bringing me new music to listen to, and Johnny for teaching me how to make music

My Blog

Absurd Hero

What philosophical archetype are you?created with QuizFarm.com You scored as Absurd HeroLife is absurd, but that is no reason to become a depressive emo. You are a regular Camus style Sisyphus...
Posted by Devlyn / J. Frances on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 05:04:00 PST

Retouching

I make my living doing retouching, mostly for major films, and I really enjoy it. I try to leave people looking very natural. Many times clients have specific requests that I may not agree with but I ...
Posted by Devlyn / J. Frances on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 05:39:00 PST

EV - I’m SO angry!

PLEASE watch "Who Killed the Electric Car."I'm so pissed off after watching it. I wish I had the $$$ to convert a car to all electric and power it with solar power. I hate giving the oil companies and...
Posted by Devlyn / J. Frances on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 01:25:00 PST

my tarot card - just for fun...

You are The StarHope, expectation, Bright promises.The Star is one of the great cards of faith, dreams realisedThe Star is a card that looks to the future. It does not predict any immediate or powerfu...
Posted by Devlyn / J. Frances on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 05:09:00 PST

Unextraordinary Gentlemen

Our website is up! Discover the whole world behind the music!http://www.unextraordinarygentlemen.com/
Posted by Devlyn / J. Frances on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 06:40:00 PST

free Neo-Folk mp3's...if you love Coil and Death in June!

My band Demonika and the Darklings is on a wonderful Italian Neo-folk compilation!So much good music! 2 whole CDs worth and it's FREE!!!Just download from here:http://www.neo-folk.it/productions/produ...
Posted by Devlyn / J. Frances on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:55:00 PST

FOETUS - JG Thirwell

I had the honor of meeting one of my heros, JG Thirwell (Foetus)!He was doing a DJ set at Mr. T's Bowl just a few days after he was at UCLA to listen to The Kronos Quartet perfom a piece he wrote for ...
Posted by Devlyn / J. Frances on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 06:23:00 PST

Veggie car is up and running!!!

Now my exhaust smells like french fries!Right now it is running 100% soybean oil from Costco. I'm working on securing restaurant sources for used vegetable oil while I'm waiting for the home filtering...
Posted by Devlyn / J. Frances on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 01:56:00 PST

going to run my new car on vegetable oil!

I just found out I am getting my sister's 20 yr old diesel Mercedes-Benz! I'm planning on getting a conversion kit and will run it on SVO (straight vegetable oil)! Or actually WVO (waste vegetable oil...
Posted by Devlyn / J. Frances on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 04:55:00 PST

Right now

in response to a conversation with a friend:What you're saying is true. Nothing matters. What's great about our human existence is that you can make it whatever you want it to be. You have the power t...
Posted by Devlyn / J. Frances on Sat, 01 Apr 2006 09:56:00 PST