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Dreigiau

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I generally dislike humanity. There is a small segment of the population I can tolerate. Chances are you are not in that segment.

Someday Wee Evil and I will make poo angels together.

My Interests


All things Celtic, all things about the UK and Ireland, Druidism , Paganism , Counterculture, Gothic subculture , Ghost and Monster hunting , the paranormal and unexplained phenomenon , jewelry making, painting, drawing, sculpting, amateur photography, web design, reading, listening to music, animals, nature, organic gardening, wine , travel, writing, environmentalism, vegetarianism, mysteries, Death, Quantum Physics, Magick, Pre-Raphaelite art , Art Nouveau , Art Deco , Surrealism , psychology, going out to clubs and shows, schadenfreude, museums, anything with black and white stripes, things that push the boundaries of "civilization", wrought iron, astronomy, Lalique , divination, Gothic Bellydance , the human brain, Real Ale , shiny things, RPGs, archaeology, evolution, pirates, the moon through the trees on a winter night, Dragons , sarcasm, self deprecation, twilight, hallucinogens, Head Injury Theater , the Gashlycrumb Tinys, Vodka , Anarchy, Foamy the squirrel , body piercing, anthropology, intelligence, really nice hands, and anything that puts that evil grin on my face....

I'd like to meet:


sick and twisted individuals with astute and acerbic wit

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Stuff that pisses me off.
because people are pointless and stupid.....

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People who do stuff
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Internet Personality Allocator
Because you can't have an identity these days unless it is provided by an abitrary internet quiz!,

Which Trainspotting Character Are You?


Which Horrible Affliction are you?
A Rum and Monkey disease.

So I am a herion addicted deadly virus....YES!,
All my dreams are comming true!,


Could You survive a zombie breakout?
You Are a Survivor .

You are smart and strong minded and you know what you are doing. You are a survivor.

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Apparently I will also survive a Zombie attack, good to know...

More places I inflict myself on others

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The Chicago Paranormal Research Society Meetup Group!

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The Chicago Pagan Meetup Group!

The Zoo


Because animals are better than people.

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Music:

goth, post-punk, deathrock, darkwave, shoegaze, ethereal, Celtic, classical and neo-classical, psychobilly, some classic rock, good dark Pagan music, ambient, medieval, trance, new wave, dream pop, punk, glam, industrial, stuff from the 40's and 50's, *some* ebm

Movies:

Velvet Goldmine, Donnie Darko, Sense and Sensibility, Four Weddings and a Funeral, All the Harry Potter, all Lord of the Rings, The Lost Boys, Star Wars, Beetlejuice, Quills, Swingers, Exorcist 3, Dr. Strangelove, Office Space, Citizen Kane, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Wedding Singer, Life of Brian, Fight Club, Practical Magic, American Psycho, What the @&*%# do we know!?, all Hitchcock movies, Trainspotting, The Pillow Book, Heathers, Secretary, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Fifth Element, May, Ghost in the Shell, Seven, A Life Less Ordinary, A Knight's Tale, Metropolis, Shrek, A Clockwork Orange, Moulin Rouge, Lilo and Stitch, Nightmare before Christmas, Labyrinth, The Crow, Mulholland Drive, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, The Sixth Sense, Interview with the Vampire, The Matrix, 2001: A Space Oddessy, Unbreakable, Love Actually, Kill Bill, Edward Scissorhands, 12 Monkeys, High Fidelity, From Dusk Till Dawn, Say Anything, Pulp Fiction, Annie Hall, Reservoir Dogs, Ghost World, The Big Leboski, Poltergeist ( my first horror movie!), Wicker Man (the original not the remake!!!!), Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Clerks, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Snatch, Nosferatu, Bullets over Broadway, The Shining, Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, Rosemary's Baby, Sin City, A Fish Called Wanda, St. Elmo's Fire, The Witches of Eastwick, Sixteen Candles, White Noise, The Hunger, Pirates of the Caribbean, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Better off Dead, Nightbreed, Pretty in Pink, Dark City, A Christmas Story, American Werewolf in London, Sleepy Hollow, The Mothman Prophesies, Say Anything, Boondock Saints, Match Point, Tristan and Isolde, Pan's Labyrinth, Sweeney Todd, The Orphanage

Television:

I'm trying really hard and succeeding at not having enough time to watch TV, that's why I'm glad it's all going on DVDs these days so I can watch when and if I feel like it.
British Comedy:
Red Dwarf, Absolutely Fabulous, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Young Ones, Fawlty Towers, Black Adder, Little Britain, As Time Goes By, Are you Being Served?, Peep Show, Coupling, This list could go on forever...
Misc British:
Bargain Hunt, Cash in the Attic, Watercolour challenge, 15 to 1, The River Cottage Series, Sea of Souls, etc.
American Comedy:
Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad, The Oblongs, Harvey Birdman, Sealab 2021, Drawn Together, South Park, notice a pattern here......
Discovery Channel/PBS type of stuff:
Meet the Ancestors, Mythbusters, Antiques Roadshow, Ghost Hunters (new season starting 10/11 yay!!!), Most Haunted (purely for the entertainment value, we invented a drinking game that involves drinking everytime "psychic" Derrick Accorah consults his spirit guide "Sam", claims the place in question is haunted by a "very evil evil man" or claims to know a name or a date which they then say cannot be found to exist in any record anywhere. You can get seriously trashed in an hour :),
Misc American:
Heroes, Jeopardy, Stargate SG1, Sex and the City, The Addams Family, House, X-files, The Twilight Zone, Lost, Oz, CSI, The Munsters

Books:

My favorite fiction books tend towards:
fantasy, mysteries, anything bizzare, dark, twisted.
My non-fiction tastes run towards:
science, Paganism, unexplained phenomenon, travel, history, politics, true crime, consciousness expansion, archaeology, mythology (ancient and urban)
Fiction By Author
Katherine Dunn-
Geek Love (I just read this for my new book club, I would like to try her other novels as well.)
Terry Pratchett-
Discworld Series (love love LOVE these books)
Good Omens (with Neil Gaiman)
Neil Gaiman
Neverwhere
American Gods
Good Omens (with Terry Pratchett)
Anansi Boys
The Sandman
Margaret Mahy
The Changeover (still, despite it being for young adults, my favorite book ever!)
Mercedes Lackey
Heralds of Valdemar Series
Diana Tregarde Series
Bedlam's Bard Series
Robert Holdstock
Ryhope Wood (Mythago Wood) series
Charles De Lint
Moonheart
Spiritwalk
The Little Country
Jack of Kinrowan
All the Newford books
Rosemay Edghill
The Bast Mysteries
Marrion Zimmer Bradley
The Avalon Series
The Firebrand
Tom Deitz
David Sullivan Series
Robert Asprin
MYTH Series
Randall Garrett
Lord Darcy Series
Harper Lee
To Kill a Mocking bird
Richard Bradford
Red Sky at Morning
J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter Series
Douglas Adams
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series
Dirk Gentley's Holistic Detective Agency
The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul
Piers Anthony
Incarnations of Immortality
If I Pay Thee not in Gold (with Mercedes Lackey)
A lot of the Xanth series til I got bored
J.R.R. Tolkein
Lord of the Rings
Robert Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land
Elizabeth George
Inspector Lynley Series
Nancy Atherton
Aunt Dimity Mysteries
M.C. Beaton
Hamish McBeth Mysteries
Rhys Bowen
Evan Evans Mysteries
Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
-The Eye in the Pyramid
-The Golden Apple
-Leviathan
Non Fiction by Title
Celtic Heritage: Ancient Tradition in Ireland and Wales - Alwyn Rees, Brinley Rees
Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe: Early Scandinavian and Celtic Religions - Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson
People of the Earth: The New Pagans Speak Out - Ellen Evert Hopman, Lawrence Bond
Real Magic - Issac Bonewits
The Druids - Peter Beresford Ellis
Drawing Down the Moon - Margot Adler
Modern Pagans - V. Vale and John Sulak (ed)
Celtic Wisdom - Caitlin and John Mathews
The Pagan Path - Janet Farrar, Stewart Farrar, and Gavin Bone
The Elegant Universe - Brian Greene
Dancing Wu Li Masters : An Overview of the New Physics - Gary Zukav
The Physics of Consciousness: The Quantum Mind and the Meaning of Life - Evan Harris Walker
Hyperspace : A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension - Michio Kaku
A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld - Patrick Harpur
Monsters - John Michael Greer
Three Men Seeking Monsters : Six Weeks in Pursuit of Werewolves, Lake Monsters, Giant Cats, Ghostly Devil Dogs, and Ape-Men - Nick Redfern (This book is freaking hilarious!)
Memoirs of a Monster Hunter - Nick Redfern Weird Illinois : your travel guide to Illinois' local legends and best kept secrets - Troy Taylor ; Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman, creative directors
Weird Wisconsin: Your Travel Guide to Wisconsin's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets - Linda S. Godfrey, Richard D. Hendricks (this is a series)
Haunted Illinois - Troy Taylor
Windy City Ghosts (Vol 1 and 2) - Dale Kaczmarek
Chicago haunts : ghostlore of the Windy City - by Ursula Bielski
More Chicago haunts : scenes from myth and memory - Ursula Bielski
Weird Georgia : close encounters, strange creatures, and unexplained phenomena - Jim Miles (this is not part of the aforementioned series)
What the %$&035;@ do we know!? : discovering the endless possibilities for altering your everyday reality - William Arntz, Betsy Chasse, Mark Vicente (companion book to the movie)
The complete guide to mysterious beings - John A. Keel
The Mothman prophecies - John A. Keel
Angels and aliens : UFOs and the mythic imagination - Keith Thompson
The Occult - Colin Wilson
Beyond the Occult - Colin Wilson
Mysteries : An Investigation into the Occult, the Paranormal, and the Supernatural - Colin Wilson
Curious Encounters - Loren Coleman
Mysterious America - Loren Coleman
The New View Over Atlantis - John Mitchell
The Fairy Tradition in Britain - Lewis Spence
Stalking the Wild Pendulum - Itzak Bentov
How to Find a Ghost - James M. Deem
Psychic Self Defense - Dion Fortune
Historic Haunted America - Michael N, Beth Scott
Ghost - Katherine Ramsland (interesting read despite the authors persistant confustion between dust and ghosts and not a book I take too seriously)
Alien Dawn - Colin Wilson
Cosmic Trigger Series- Robert Anton Wilson
Notes From a Small Island - Bill Bryson
Devil in the White City - Erik Larson (in the middle of reading this now)
Ghost Hunting - Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson with Michael Jay Friedman (actually reading this now and a whole lot more but this is enough for the time being...

Heroes:

Grandma Farrow, Granny Weatherwax

My Blog

werewolves and fairies and ghosts oh my!

So I finally got The Beast of Bray Road and Hunting the American Werewolf both by Linda S. Godfrey over the weekend. She was at Parapalooza so they are both signed too. I have already finished The Bea...
Posted by Dreigiau on Wed, 14 May 2008 12:04:00 PST

Graveyards of Chicago and NMA all in one weekend!

So I got Graveyards of Chicago yesterday, signed by Ursula Bielski who is really nice and gave a very intereting talk at the CPRS meetup. The cemetaries are one of the most interesting things about Ch...
Posted by Dreigiau on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:27:00 PST

Happy fucking birthday

I collapsed the wave function. Computer says no.........
Posted by Dreigiau on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 10:26:00 PST

To Billy

To put this into context this is a response to one of  "Raina's" whiny, incoherent, delusional, bulletin rants. This one was the straw that broke the camel's back, and I felt compelled to share h...
Posted by Dreigiau on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:49:00 PST

The Cholla Pit

Even though this wasn't my brilliant idea, it was my Dad's (evil genius runs in the family) I have decided that if the world worked the way it should, I would have a Cholla Pit in which to throw mine ...
Posted by Dreigiau on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:14:00 PST

I’ll be selling jewelry/ornaments at this month Nocturna (11/24/07)

I've got new earrings since the swap and sale and goth holiday tree ornaments, get a jump start to your holiday shopping and decorating! :)Dreigiau- Saturday, 24 November 2007DJ Scary Lady Sarahat "No...
Posted by Dreigiau on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 04:56:00 PST

Portraits

So I have been having fun photo editing and have made some B&W portraits of people I know. Lemme know what you think I know a certain someone who will probably have a fit but fortunately I don't g...
Posted by Dreigiau on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:09:00 PST

Halloween 2007

Sat Oct 27th- Went to Nocturna at HOB. HOB sux. drank overpriced well drinks. bitched about same. drank more. Won 2nd prize in the costume contest. Was Smog Fairy. had much better time after placing i...
Posted by Dreigiau on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:50:00 PST

Yay Luminous!

wow the night went off really really well despite some issues at the beginning. The bands were awesome and such a pleasure to work with! And the turnout far exceeded everyone's expectations! Major Kud...
Posted by Dreigiau on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 08:18:00 PST

WTF is it about my profile that attracts fascists???

Gods what the hell, where does it indicate that I want to listen to white power music on my fucking profile? I HATE FASCISM!! maybe I should make a list of hates as well as likes and put stupid people...
Posted by Dreigiau on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 10:47:00 PST