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About Me

artist, libertine, architecht-in-training, absintheur, serpent

"the hymn to the morning star" by the mighty sleepytime gorilla museum

My Interests

art (visual & music), esoterica (thelema, magic & alchemy), perversion, architecture, philosophy, death, absinthe

I'd like to meet:

the intelligent and the esoterically-minded. the beautiful and the existentially-brilliant. anyone who can aid in my inspiration.

Music:

laibach, damanda galas, peter gabriel, fields of the nephilim, rollins band, rammstein, sopor aeternus, black tape for a blue girl, sleepytime gorilla museum, behemoth, emperor, ihsahn, peccatum, white/rob zombie (pre-"horses"), tool, a perfect circle, ministry, nine inch nails (pre-"fragile"), the birthday massacre, lustmord, swallow the sun, sun o))), khanate, opeth, nile, cannibal corpse, dimmu borgir, khold, threat signal, miles davis, billie holliday, john coltrane, benny goodman, elliot goldenthal, hans zimmer, angelo badalamenti, howard shore, gyorgi ligeti, krzystov penderecki, ludwig van beethoven, wolfgang a. mozart, hector berlioz, johann s. bach, frederich chopin, blood axis, les joyaux de la princesse, der blutharsch, coil, the blue hour, et cetera

Movies:

david lynch, ingmar bergman, stanley kubrick, jan svankmejer, brothers quay, david cronenberg, early works by clive barker, intelligent science fiction and horror, et cetera

Television:

the prisoner, doctor who (william hartnell through tom baker), twin peaks, star trek, six feet under, rome, carnivale, and only on dvd.

Books:

julius evola, h.p. lovecraft, william s. burroughs, hunter s. thompson, aleister crowley, kenneth grant, andrew chumbley, r.a. schwaller de lubicz, j.r.r. tolkein, edgar allen poe, charles baudelaire, dante aligheri, william blake, william butler yeats, alexander dumas, sir arthur conan doyle, the marquis de sade, leopold von sacher-macoch, francis d.k. ching, h.g. wells and, strangely enough, star wars novels.

Heroes:

hr giger, leonardo da vinci, salvador dali, francis bacon, gustave dore, albrecht durer, max ernst, dante aligheri, william blake, NSK, giovanni piranesi, gaius julius caesar, gaius germanicus caesar, julius evola, william s. burroughs, hunter s. thompson, christopher lee, darth vader, spock and the god emperor leto atreiedes II.

My Blog

entry thirty-five: dream, june 18, 2007

the main body of the dream is lost. i remember being on a picnic with some people, siting on a street corner trying to draw and being accosted by white trash, and i remember shopping at one poi...
Posted by propraetor on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 03:00:00 PST

entry thirty-four: the place where my black stars hang (x-post)

the sword is mighty. the pen is mightier than the sword, as its effects influence the will behind the sword. the hand is mightier than the pen and the sword, as it wields them. the will drives the han...
Posted by propraetor on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:04:00 PST

entry thirty-three: state of the monolith, June 7, 2007

are we transmitting? is anyone receiving?artistic:it has come to my attention that there are two unfinished drawings in my portfolio which need to be addressed. i will be working on these concurrent ...
Posted by propraetor on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 03:25:00 PST

entry thirty-two: betrayal (x-post from deviantart)

good evening all. i am firmly in the grip of the green fairy this evening, so i apologize in advance and disavow any reponsibility for anything i say in this post.it would seem i have reneged on my wo...
Posted by propraetor on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 05:52:00 PST

entry thirty-one: an artistic frustration and an observation

i am not producing as much as i would like to be. this much can be easily established.i am finding it difficult to work, of late, on anything not related to my architecture classes. my time has been c...
Posted by propraetor on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 04:20:00 PST

entry thirty: a prayer to mars (x-posted from deviant art)

i am challenged by the adversity of my courses, it seems. the architecture courses i am taking are weighing rather heavilly on my psyche and on my time. i commented to someone recently that i haven't...
Posted by propraetor on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 03:15:00 PST

entry twenty-nine: as above is not quite yet as below

so it seems i have been unable to, as of yet, marry up my artistic practice with architectural design.last night i attended my design studio class, as part of the r.a.i.c. syllabus course. i actually...
Posted by propraetor on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 03:54:00 PST

entry twenty-eight: zos kia

i feel as though my mind is aflame. for some inscrutible reason, my consciousness is inflating somewhat. i feel intensely more aware of the fabric of my world and of the people that move through it. ...
Posted by propraetor on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 03:19:00 PST

entry twenty-seven: another way to find me

just letting you all know that i now have a deviantart page here. feel free to add me if you see fit. there will be little posted there that is different than here.end of line.......
Posted by propraetor on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 04:33:00 PST

entry twenty-six: AVE IVLIVS CÆSAR!!!

tonight, on the anniversary night of his tragic and hateful assassination, i raise a glass of italian red to the memory and the shade of GAIVS IVLIVS CÆSAR, consul, general, dictator, hero and god of...
Posted by propraetor on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 05:08:00 PST