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Stalin

When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion, and I must despise the w

About Me


Songwriter/composer, Vocalist, Guitarist, Bassist, computer programmer, romantic, cynic, elitist, hedonist...

- Currently recording my 1st full length album, due Summer 2008!!! -

I've always believed that gallows primarily exist to supply me with humor..

(And yes, it is my real name.)

"The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The artist can express everything. Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art. All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors."- OSCAR WILDE

My Interests

Me, Sex & Death, Music Theory, Vocal Technique, Occult Literature, Poetry, machines of all types (except human ones), firearms, 19th Century Literature, Existential Philosophy, Psychology, , anthropology, Film, Theater, Digital Audio Workstations, Sound Design, Audio Engineering, Motorcycles, Satanism, Tarot, Social Darwinism, Objectivism, low waist-to-hip ratios, Surealism, Serial Killers, Cats and Cat-Like people.

I'd like to meet:

Musicians, Painters, Film-makers, Writers, Sculptors, Fashion Designers, Jewelry Designers, Photographers, Actors, Art Models, Performance Artists, Graphic Artists, Iconoclasts, Aesthetic Terrorists, Serial Killers, etc...

Visit the Link below and be Visually Terrorized by my Good Comrade Laetitia Mantis:

Music:

I'm an eclectically epicurean:

Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Dio, WASP, Iron Maiden, Mercyful Fate, King Diamond, Yngwie Malmsteen, Ozzy

Frank Sinatra, Vic Damone, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, Perry Como, The Platters, Al Bowlly, Scott Walker

Megadeth, Metallica, Slayer, Venom, Death, Voivod, Morbid Angel, Dimmu Borgir, Deicide, Overkill

Nightwish, Therion, Paradise Lost, Opeth, 69 Eyes, Kamelot

Dokken, Def Leppard, White Lion, Whitesnake

Sol Invictus, Death In June, Diamanda Galas, Nick Cave, Portishead

Fields of the Nephilim, The Cure, Joy Division, Christian Death, Rasputina, The Wake, The Swans, Chameleons U.K.

Depeche Mode, Mesh, Pat Benatar, Billy Idol

The Doors, Pink Floyd, Uriah Heep, Rainbow

Beethoven, Bach, Lizst, Rachmaninov, Shubert, Vivaldi, Mahler

Various Soundtracks

Movies:

Sweeney Todd, Cashback, ONEGIN, Perfume, Memento, The Planet of the Apes, Dogville, The Sea Wolf, Dangerous Liasons, The Gangster, The Secretary, Crash (The Croenenberg one), "M", The Shining, Eyes Wide Shut (and most things Kubrick), Immortal Beloved, Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Game, Sin City, The Sixth Sense, The Man Who Wasn't There (and most movies by the Coen Bros.), Easy Rider, Death Wish, Batman, Office Space, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Edward Scissorhands, Dr. Strangelove, The Devil In Ms. Jones, The Black Cat, Mulholand Drive, Requiem for a Dream, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Closer, 2046

Television:

Four Arguments For the Elimination of Television

Books:

Currently Reading: "33 Strategies of War", Robert Greene

Anton Szandor Lavey, Ayn Rand, Jack London, Fredrich Nietzsche, Nicolo Machiavelli, Fyodor Dostoyevski, Lermontov, Turgeniev, Herman Hesse, George Bernard Shaw, William Shakespeare, Aleister Crowley, Ambrose Bierce, Marquise De Sade, Octave Mirbeau, Robert Heinlein, Chordelos De Laclos, Anne Rice, Howard Bloom, John Paul Sartre, Carl Jung, Wilhem Reich, Douglas Hoffsteder, Miguel Cervantes, John Milton, Oscar Wilde, Milan Kundera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Anatole France, Mark Twain, Bulgakov, Robert Greene (48 Laws of Power), Clive Barker, Carl Jung

Heroes:

Anton Szandor Lavey, Ayn Rand, Fredrich Nietzsche, Fyodor Dostoyevski, Marquis De Sade, PePe Le Pew, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Lucifer, Jim Morrison

My Blog

Seldom saying no....

"In all these things-the choice of food, locality, climate, and recreation-the instinct of self-preservation dominates, expressing itself with least ambiguity in the form of an instinct of self-defen...
Posted by Stalin on Thu, 08 May 2008 03:32:00 PST

Video of me performing with Winter’s Thrall!!

...at Court of Lazarus, Circa 2006Those that missed this show now get a second chance to see part of our best performance!Winther’s Thrall at Court of Lazarus .....
Posted by Stalin on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:52:00 PST

Rescue the Dead

"Rescue the Dead" - David Ignatow Finally, to forgo love is to kiss a leaf, is to let rain fall nakedly upon your head, is to respect fire, is to study man’s eyes and his ges...
Posted by Stalin on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 05:30:00 PST

Divine Origins

The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever...
Posted by Stalin on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 07:30:00 PST

Art, Why Bother?

An article on the future of Classical Music, and art in general. Very, very interesting...and frightening. But it affirms my stance on certain issues************************************************...
Posted by Stalin on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:16:00 PST

to the Night

"Must the morning always return? Will the despotism of the earthly never cease? Unholy activity consumes the angel-visit of the Night. Will the time never come when Love's hidden sacrifice shall burn...
Posted by Stalin on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:47:00 PST

The Accidental Protege

Death in June - The Accidental Protege When you prey in silenceAnd see our Jesus staggerAwake! Take a perfumed candleAnd use life like a daggerI'm your accidental protégéThe gift, the bloodThe throwna...
Posted by Stalin on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 01:59:00 PST

Utopia...

I was recently asked a question about Utopian ideals...>Do you have something against utopian beliefs? Or trying to achieve them?and I answered thus...Absolutely. It is the perpetual struggle that ...
Posted by Stalin on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 07:01:00 PST

Birth

"He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give b...
Posted by Stalin on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 08:44:00 PST

Genius, Power, and Magic...

"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kil...
Posted by Stalin on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 07:02:00 PST