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Hrafn the Black

By the power of Grayskull!

About Me

I'm a writer, an artist, and a musician. I live in a world of fiction. And you know what? I'm perfectly okay with that. I'm also a former chainmail artisan from the Renaissance faire circuit, so if I seem familiar, you've probably met me in Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, or New York. I live for creativity. My most favorite thing in the universe (period) is the female voice and my favorite singers are Simone Simons and Anneke van Giersbergen (I'm allowed to have two favorites because their styles are so completely different and it would be impossible to choose one over the other anyway). Arjen Lucassen is my freakin' hero, I absolutely adore Emilie Autumn, and I like vodka. That's pretty much me in a nutshell.
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Shows/Events <[b>that I intend to attend] / (that I want to attend but might miss)
MON NOV 10 - EMILIE MOTHERFUCKING AUTUMN @ THE MADISON, NYC

My Interests


Odin
guitars, violins, my didge, harpsichords, synthesizers, pianos, odd musical instruments, chicks with eyepatches, drawing, writing, reading, directing, acting, filming, movies, Swedish anything (but especially Swedish girls), tongues, Icelandic sagas, Norse mythology, swords, boots, metal, role playing games, Shion Sonozaki, fetish models, opera, prog, classical music, astrology, astronomy, anatomy, herbology, death

I'd like to meet:

I'd like to meet:
Sculptors, painters, designers, modelers, animators, guitarists, singers, violinists, pianists, drummers, bassists, blacksmiths, tattoo artists, piercers, photographers, models, performance artists, writers, actors, directors, linguists, philosophers, leggy females, one-eyed chicks, and, most of all, you.

Anneke van Giersbergen, Floor Jansen, Simone Simons, and Arjen Lucassen. Only person missing is...

...the lovely Emilie Autumn!

And who do I have no interest in? Traitors, thieves, and liars. You may kindly fuck off because I have no room in my life for dishonest fuckwits.

Music:


Opeth
2-kut, aerosmith, acumen nation, ac/dc, aesop rock, a fine frenzy, a.f.i., after forever, agua de annique, alice in chains, alien sex fiend, the allman brothers band, ambeon, amon amarth, tori amos, amphibious assault, andre 3000, android lust, angra, anthrax, a perfect circle, apocalyptica, fiona apple, apoptygma berzerk, april march, arch enemy, arsis, as i lay dying, asmegin, assemblage 23, atari teenage riot, atmosphere, a tribe called quest, (melissa) auf der maur, autumn, emilie autumn, avantasia, ayreon, ayria, bathory, bauhaus, the beastie boys, beautiful sin, behemoth, bella morte, beloved, benny benassi, bif naked, big boi, bikini kill, bile, the birthday massacre, bitter:sweet, björk, black label society, black light burns, black sabbath, sarah blasko, blaqk audio, blind guardian, blondie, bloodbath, bond, bon jovi, boston, david bowie, sarah brightman, bt, buckethead, buck-tick, burial rites, kate bush, cabaret voltaire, cake, carfax abbey, johnny cash, celldweller, chainsuck, chemlab, children of bodom, chimaira, chroma key, cinderella, circle of dust, coal chamber, coheed and cambria, collide, combichrist, common, chris connelly, corrosion of conformity, covenant, cradle of filth, cretin, crossbreed, the cure, daath, the damage manual, the damning well, dark moor, das ich, days of the new, deadsoul tribe, deadstar assembly, deadsy, death from above 1979, deathride 69, deep purple, def leppard, deftones, delain, demon hunter, demons and wizards, depeche mode, devildriver, the devin townsend band, diablo syndrome, diecast, die warzau, the dillinger escape plan, dimmu borgir, ronnie james dio, dj? acucrack, dj mea, dj rap, free dominguez, the doors, dope, drain sth, the dreaming, dreamside, dream theater, luca turilli's dreamquest, drill, dr. steel, drudkh, ecryptus, edenbridge, edguy, effcee, eilera, einherjer, einsturzende neubauten, eisbrecher, elfonia, hanin elias, elis, eluveitie, emperor, en esch, ensiferum, epica, evanescence, evergrey, evil mothers, excessive force, faith and the muse, fear factory, filter, finntroll, foetus, foo fighters, foreigner, fragma, freezepop, front 242, front line assembly, funker vogt, garbage, the gathering, genitorturers, god forbid, godspeed you! black emperor, gojira, goldfrapp, gorillaz, gotthard, gravity kills, green jellö, grim faeries, guns n' roses, gwar, gym class heroes, sammy hagar, nina hagen, haitian hate god, halford, haloblack, hammerfall, hanzel und gretyl, hate eternal, haujobb, heart, heavenly, helloween, helltrash, helmet, jimi hendrix, hole, hypocrisy, h3llb3nt, iced earth, icon of coil, in flames, incubus, into eternity, inxs, tony iommi, iron maiden, isis, jack off jill, jane's addiction, j dilla, jefferson airplane, jefferson starship, journey, judas priest, juno reactor, kaleidoscope, kamelot, kansas, karelia, katatonia, kerli, kidneythieves, kill hannah, killswitch engage, king's x, kittie, kmfdm, sascha konietzko, korn, korpiklaani, kreator, krypteria, lacrmas profundere, lacuna coil, ladytron, lamb of god, lana lane, leave's eyes, led zeppelin, le tigre, liquid tension experiment, london after midnight, lolo, lordi, lords of acid, lostprophets, love and rockets, arjen anthony lucassen, lucia, ludacris, lullacry, lunatica, lycia, macbeth, machine head, madlib, madonna, magnum, manegarm, marilyn manson, the mars volta, massive attack, mastodon, mc chris, mdfmk, med, megadeth, meldrum, melk money, mephisto walz, meshuggah, metallica, mf doom, mia, midnattsol, ministry, the misfits, isao mizoguchi, moby, monster magnet, moonsorrow, morbid angel, more machine than man, morrissey, mortal love, mos def, mostly autumn, the mothers (of invention), mötley crüe, motörhead, mudvayne, mullmuzzler, mona mur, peter murphy, muse, murderdolls, my life with the thrill kill kult, neikka rpm, new order, new skin, nightwish, nile, nine inch nails, nirvana, nocturne, no doubt, nonplus, norma jean, octavia sperati, oh no, ohgr, opeth, orgy, otep, our lady peace, outkast, pagan's mind, jimmy page, pain, pain of salvation, panic dhh, pantera, paradise lost, paramore, particle son, peach, pearl jam, john petrucci, the pharcyde, pig, pigface, pig hut, pink floyd, pissing razors, pitchshifter, pixies, robert plant, plumb, poe, poison, porcupine tree, portishead, franka potente, powerman 5000, probot, project .44, project pitchfork, prong, psychic tv, psyopus, psykosonik, public image ltd, pure essence, puscifer, queen, rage against the machine, rammstein, rasputina, razed in black, red hot chili peppers, reflux, renholder, revolting cocks, rhapsody (of fire), william rieflin, ritalin, rotting sausage, rush, joe satriani, schaft, schwein, sepultura, serenity, sevendust, sex pistols, shadows fall, billy sheehan, sheep on drugs, she wants revenge, shocknina, sigur rós, sinnistar, siouxsie and the banshees, sirenia, sister machine gun, skinny puppy, slayer, slick idiot, slipknot, snoop dogg, soil, soilwork, sonata arctica, soulfly, soundgarden, sow, spineshank, stabbing westward, star one, static-x, stone sour, stone temple pilots, strapping young lad, stream of passion, superjoint ritual, super sport, switchblade symphony, symphony x, system of a down, tantric, tatu, telefon tel aviv, tenacious d, testament, theater of tragedy, therion, to-mera, tool, devin townsend, tribe, tristania, turisas, twisted sister, type o negative, tyr, u2, nobuo uematsu, underoath, unearth, union underground, vagiant, steve vai, van halen, vanishing kids, velvet acid christ, veruca salt, virgin black, virus iv, voltaire, volto!, voodou, vnv nation, raymond watts, wax trax!, kanye west, white zombie, the who, within temptation, wumpscut, xandria, phideaux xavier, yeah yeah yeahs, yes, you shriek, zao, frank zappa, zebrahead, zombie girl, rob zombie.

Movies:


REPO! the Genetic Opera
300, A Clockwork Orange, Akira, Alice in Wonderland, Amelie, American Beauty, Anatomie, Appleseed, Army of Darkness, Clerks, Death Proof The Devil's Rejects, Dogma, Encino Man, Escaflowne, Evil Dead, Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn, Euro Trip, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fight Club, Full Metal Jacket, Ghost in the Shell, Grindhouse, Hot Fuzz, House of 1000 Corpses, The Incredible Hulk, Interstella 5555, Iron Man, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Kung-fu Hustle, Perfect Blue, Planet Terror, Princess Mononoke, Resident Evil, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Serenity, Shaun of the Dead, Sin City, Speed Racer, The Thing, Vampire Hunter D

Television:

..
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
Avatar: The Last Air Bender, The Boondocks, Cowboy Bebop, Death Note, The Original Dirty Pair, Dirty Pair FLASH, Firefly, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Gundam: 0083, Gundam: The 8th MS Team, Gunnm, Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, Kodomo no Jikan, KUNOICHI, Last One Standing, Lexx, Love Hina, Metalocalypse, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Princess Tutu, SASUKE, Scrubs, Slayers, Stargate SG-1, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Titus, Vision of Escaflowne

Books:


Gunnm
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-glass and What Alice Found There, Utopia, Stardust, American Gods, Anansi Boys, Neverwhere, Good Omens, Reaperman, Rhapsody, Prophecy, Destiny, Requiem for the Sun, Elegy for a Lost Star, The Wayfarer Redemption, Enchanter, Starman, Sinner, The Dark Elf Trilogy, The Niebelungenlied, Egil's Saga, Beowulf.

Heroes:


Kamina
Arjen Anthony Lucassen, Emilie Autumn, Mikael Ã…kerfeldt, Mark Jansen, Steve Vai, Lori Linstruth, Uli Jon Roth, John Petrucci, Dimebag Darrell, Adam Jones, Maynard James Keenan, Kevin Ogilvie, Sascha Konietzko, Neil Gaiman, Alex Grey, Aidan Hughes, Yoshitaka Amano, Masamune Shirow

My Blog

Mediocrity wears a superfabulous bag over its head.

And yet we still wonder why we don't bother to applaud.
Posted by Hrafn the Black on Sat, 01 Nov 2008 06:04:00 PST

New York, motherfuckers!

I've made up my mind--one way or another, I WILL make it to the New York show in November to see Emilie Autumn. All who wish to join me are more than welcome (pitch in a bit for gas and I'll love you...
Posted by Hrafn the Black on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:07:00 PST

going AWAy....

Once upon a midnight drearyI found a fellow who failed to fear meYet hid behind countless friendsThat misery met in the bitter endAs, eagerly, the flock convergedWith Paper Planes his dreaded dirgeBat...
Posted by Hrafn the Black on Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:28:00 PST

Oh, that I could cleave my way through space....

Life would be much more pleasant with the ability to tear a hole through the fabric of reality and translocate myself elsewhere....
Posted by Hrafn the Black on Sat, 13 Sep 2008 02:59:00 PST

Happy Muffin?

Finally got in my signed Opheliac EP today, so that was fairly exciting. Came with a few other little extras (a signed postcard, a Six of Cups tarot card, a coin purse, etc.), but sadly, no clockwork...
Posted by Hrafn the Black on Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:24:00 PST

Farewell, Michelle

You will be missed. Posted by Hrafn the Black on Fri, 23 May 2008 08:36:00 PST

Sorry, but this wont vacate my brain.

"Nocturnal poetry Dressed in the whitest silver, you'd smile at me Every night I wait for my sweet Selene But, still.... Solitude's upon my skin A life that's bound by the chains of reality Would yo...
Posted by Hrafn the Black on Sat, 17 May 2008 01:40:00 PST

Watershed

is fucking sexy. Thanks again, Flay. ^_______________________^ 2 more weeks 'til the Dream Theater/Opeth show--who else is going? Ash and I'll be there.
Posted by Hrafn the Black on Thu, 15 May 2008 04:11:00 PST

The Scarecrow

I'm just a loser in this game of loveI'm just a stray boy in the shadeAnd how I wish to know what love is likeTo find someone to contemplateThere's a voice and a million answersTo the questions I don'...
Posted by Hrafn the Black on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:47:00 PST

I cant help but wonder

whether the parallels between the stories I've been writing and my real life are merely coincidences or I've absorbed the personality of my character(s) so much that I'm reacting to situations in the ...
Posted by Hrafn the Black on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 11:44:00 PST