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About Me

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"With Patricia's passionate voice and Megan's [Mirvana] superbly crafted violin, "Patricia Wake" are an act worth spending time with..." - Martin Bowes of Attrition

I play violin for an experimental-electronic-ambient group known as Nyarlathotep, The Crawling Chaos--that's a reference to the works of HP Lovecraft and the Cthulu mythos. I also back up singer-songwriter Patricia Wake, and I've sat in with local bands such as Ishtar, Bonfire Night, and the Wild Geese, to name a few. If you need a violin arrangement with an exotic flavor, or a melody that just weeps melancholy, I'm your man.

Some highlights from my music career:July 2006 - (with Nyarlathotep) opened for The Brides July 2007 - (with Nyarlathotep) opened for Attrition at The Rex Theatre Aug. 2007 - (with Nyarlathotep) featured in an "Electronic music showcase" at the Sphinx lounge Aug. 2007 - (with Nyarlathotep) opened for Android Lust at Cyber Wars, Pegasus Nov. 2007 - (with Patricia Wake) opened for The Last Dance, Pegasus Feb. 2008 - (with Patricia Wake) featured at Jeff Mach's Wicked Faire, Edison, NJ. March 2008 - (with Patricia Wake) opened for Baby Dee @Frick Fine Arts Auditorium April 2008 - (with Patricia Wake) opened for Voltaire and Ego Likeness at Pegasus
I also teach bellydance classes in the Pittsburgh area. I studied tribal fusion dance for the past seven years.
My other interests include airsoft, Pennsic (SCA), independent film, photography, sewing, costuming, corsetry, knitting, karaoke, and trying new things.
I'm mostly here just for the bands, but meeting new people is good. I'm not real good about keeping up with the bulletins and messages here, so contact me directly if it's timely or urgent.
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - Hunter S. Thompson

Note: my opinions expressed here are mine and are not endorsed by my employer or my business associates. Standard disclaimers apply.

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My Interests

80s, abandoned places, airsoft, ambiguity, beer, being, bellydancing, Boston, Buddhism, buttons, chaos, chocolate peanut-butter ice cream, club nights, coffee, cookbooks, corsets, costumes, costuming, dancing, dharma, drinking, eighties, enlightenment, fitness, forgotten english, goddesses, gothic culture, henna, honesty, kitties, knitting, live band karaoke, Medieval history, mehandi, New Orleans, nothingness, penguins, pennsic, photography, piercings, pilates, Pittsburgh, redheads, Renaissance, Romantics, San Francisco, sewing, starting over, stripey socks, stuff, Switzerland, t-shirts, teaching, the color red, tivo, toast, travel, tribal fusion, truth, urban decay, Vajrayana Buddhism, veganism, vegetarianism, violins, weight watchers, wine, women, words, writing, yoga

I'd like to meet:

Henry Rollins--I'd like to marry him some day. Also, Laurie Andersen. Jon Stewart. Or, just anyone who isn't like a sucking black vortex of doom.

Music:

80s, Attrition, Between the Waters, britpop, eighties, electro, electronic, experimental, goth, Henry Rollins, indie, industrial, Ishtar, Laurie Andersen, live band karaoke, New Order, new wave, Patricia Wake, post-rock, punk rock, Rasputina, shoegaze, techno, The Dresden Dolls, trip hop, digi-folk, twee pop, death metal, black metal, Lacuna Coil, Fear Factory, Flight of the Conchords, melodic death metal, progressive

Movies:

Pan's Labyrinth, Legend, Bladerunner, The Duellists, Mirror Mask, Star Wars, The Princess Bride, Beetlejuice,

Television:

Dexter, Dead Like Me, My Name is Earl, The L Word, Lost, Farscape, Babylon 5, Red Dwarf, The Young Ones, Absolutely Fabulous, Black Adder, Project Runway, The Daily Show, Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations, Rome, Iron Chef, Dr. Who, Battlestar Galactica, House, Breaking Bad, Weeds,

Books:

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen, HP Lovecraft, A Shadow of Gulls, Patricia Finney, speculative fiction, Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood, The Accidental Buddhist, Dinty Moore, Emily Dickinson, TS Eliot, 19th c. Romantics, Neil Gaimen,

Heroes:

Henry Rollins, Laurie Andersen, Patricia Wake, Amelia Erhardt, Mario Lemiuex

My Blog

A firehose of Mirvana

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Posted by Mirvana on Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:57:00 PST

Birthday Party UPDATE

To accommodate my friends with youngens, I'm having a little pre-party get together earlier on Sat. July 12, starting at 4 pm. So we are having "the early show" at 4 pm and the "late show at 7" ...
Posted by Mirvana on Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:53:00 PST

Party woo!

I'm getting old. Yay.Sat. July 12, 7 pm 'til whenever. My house. 517 Halsey Ave. 15221. Bring food, drink, or more people if you want. Please RSVP. Ms. Mirvana at Gmail.com
Posted by Mirvana on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:44:00 PST

MUST SEE Amazing dance video!

http://www.vimeo.com/1211060 Matthew Harding spent 14 months visiting 42 countries in order to produce "Where the Hell is Matt?", a four-and-a-half minute video featuring Harding (and anyone else he c...
Posted by Mirvana on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:06:00 PST

Origins Game Faire, Columbus OH

I had a good time. I was in the TerrorWerks simulation most of yesterday, and I got to play a bunch of different NPCs. I didn't get to play marine again, but at least I put on all my gear and walked a...
Posted by Mirvana on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:13:00 PST

A few photos from Origins:

Last night, we suited up for a dress runthrough. Come see us at Origins Game Faire! Terrorwerks is running 9am-7pm every day, ballroom 1, across from registration, Greater Columbus Convention Center.h...
Posted by Mirvana on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:32:00 PST

Little Houdini...

So last night he started rubbing the bad ear again, so much that it started bleeding, but this time not a lot. Just enough to make me wrap his head up in bandages and put the collar back on. He showed...
Posted by Mirvana on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:39:00 PST

PITA emergency

Last night, I had already gone to bed when Stef came up and told me I need to come down and see PITA right away...PITA was on the couch acting as if nothing was unusual, and he wasn't in any visibil...
Posted by Mirvana on Sun, 22 Jun 2008 05:15:00 PST

PITA update

I took PITA to a surgical specialist yesterday, and after considering all of our options I have decided to do nothing. The bottom line is that surgery probably won't make that much of a difference in ...
Posted by Mirvana on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:52:00 PST

Airsoft Assault Commercial version 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZcVdMXnr44 How I will be spending my Saturday......
Posted by Mirvana on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:02:00 PST