If it has to do with History (Anthropology/Archaeology, Linguistics) I'm interested! (Also, any occult or paranormal subjects, including Cemetery research.) I attend historical re-enactments, cultural events, and visit Disneyland as often as possible. I love to discover historical recipes, or create new ones! I often go hunting for antiques and vintage goodies (especially Tiki bar stuff). I enjoy working on illustration projects, costume designs, or whatever else spontaneously manifests! I also do some freelance writing, and I'm in a voice-over group. Sometimes I play World of Warcraft. I'm into scifi, horror, comics, graphic novels, goth/lolita, retro, vintage, pop ulture, tattoos, belly dancing, RPG's...
Did I mention, I love cats?
I'd like to meet:
Musicians, filmmakers, curators, historians, archaeologists, project collaborators, dreamers, creators, philosophers, artists, gypsy wanderers with adventures to share, hopeless romantics, lost souls... and maybe someone who could teach me how to surf?!
In the spotlight, to name a few:
Michael Cremo, Dr. Fred Alan Wolf, Dr. Richard Boylan, Colin Wilson, Jack Nicholson, Rupert Sheldrake, Alan Rickman, Christopher Lee, Dave McKean, Danny Elfman, Udo Kier, B B King, John Carpenter, Jeffrey Combs, H R Giger, Robert Englund, Marty Sklar, Gitane Demone, Brian De Palma, Craig Ferguson, Peter Gabriel, Jacqueline Carey, Larry King, Anthony Hopkins, Grace Jones, Greg Bear, Desmond Morris, Nathan Fillion, Edward James Olmos.
WHATS NEW WITH ME?
I was offered an opportunity to do museum collection archiving and management.
I was given the task of Production Design for our big Museum event in October!
I am selling some jewelry designs at a store in Pahrump. I'll be holding workshops there soon!
Proving I'm insane by volunteering to organize the CSTS this year (again). It will be held on August 2.
I'm working on a website/portfolio, and I set up an Etsy store - finally!
This summer I'm studying Egyptology & Egyptian Hieroglyphs!
I'm Beta testing the LGW card game.
I'm developing a new Ren Faire guild, for re-enactments and historical education (I have finally started up a group page for it).
I'm trying to redo my new Faire garb!
Calendar of Events
Art Reception & BBQ [July]
Anime Expo [July]
Red Barn Reception [July]
Westercon [July]
Red Barn Reception [July]
Labyrinth [July]
Civil War [July]
Flagstaff Games [July]
COMICON!!![July]
CSTS! [August]
Notable Quotes:
"If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called Research."
-A. Einstein
"It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people."
-Giordano Bruno
"Do I dare to eat a peach?" -T.S. Eliot
"An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex."
-Aldous Huxley
"It may be discovered that the Human Race possesses an ignorance which is far superior to any intelligent life form in the Universe. Of course, a Human will not discover this fact."
-J.M. Hodges
"If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it."
-Andy Warhol
"Choices are the hinges of destiny."
-Edwin Markham
"I became insane with long intervals of horrible sanity."
-E.A. Poe
"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
-James Madison
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." -Scott Adams
“You just have to trust in your own madness…â€
– Clive Barker
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."
- Jimi Hendrix
Music:
I find myself drawn to unusual music and soundtracks, or whatever suits the mood.
WHAT IVE BEEN LISTENING TO: Kansas Public Radio's "Retro Cocktail Hour", Broken Saints soundtrack, Stay Awake, Shonen Knife, Bach, Deep Forest, Dead Can Dance, Star Wars: the Saga Continues, Lost in Translation soundtrack, Gitane Demone, Velvet Goldmine soundtrack, Blade Runner: Esper Edition, The White Album, Stardust Ballroom, 12 Girls Band, Switchblade Symphony, Tina Root/Tre Lux, Gary Moore, Artie Shaw, Jesus Diestre
I'm very fond of Old Time Radio Programs.
Movies:
Almost anything, but I love: classics, film noir, horror, suspense, thriller, Chinese cinema, Japanese horror, German silent films, period (historical) movies, independent films, anime.
WHAT IVE RECENTLY WATCHED: The Number 23, Perfume, White Noise: The Light, La Jetee, Blade Runner: The Final Cut, Paprika, Superman Doomsday, Dragons of Autumn Twilight, Warlords, Doctor Strange (animated), B5: the Lost Tales (Voices in the Dark), Lions for Lambs, Children of Huang Shi, The Other Boleyn Girl, Iron Man, Indy 4, Till Human Voices Wake us
Television:
I generally avoid it like the plague but I have been watching Masters of Horror, Battlestar Galactica and the Ghost in the Shell series on DVD.
Old favorites: Twin Peaks, Forever Knight, Secret Agent/The Prisoner, Night Gallery, Wild Palms, Kolchak: the Night Stalker, Twilight Zone, the Outer Limits, Strange Luck, Robotech(Macross), Battle of the Planets, Thundarr the Barbarian, Friday the 13th: the Series, V, Tales from the Crypt, Battlestar Galactica, Dark Shadows, Kindred: the Embraced, Poltergeist:the Legacy, Doctor Who (Tom Baker of course!)
The BBC: Butterflies, Good Neighbors, To The Manor Born, The Fall & Rise of Reginald Perrin, The Two Ronnies, Fawlty Towers, Benny Hill, Dave Allen at Large, and of course Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Books:
I am still trying to keep up with my growing library.
WHAT IVE BEEN READING: Dark Delicacies, Seeing Redd, The Blood Countess, Time Detectives, From Stonehenge to Las Vegas: Archaeology as Popular Culture, Who Owns the Past, Stealing History, The Future of the Past, Museum of the Missing, The Earth Chronicles Expeditions, Ancient Egyptian Jewelry, Mary Reilly, Kushiel's Scion, Eyewitness - Ancient Egypt, StarGate: Rebellion
COMICS/GN: Black Hole, Hatter M, Battle Royale II, The Stranded, Echo, Star Wars, Wild Cards, Cairo
Heroes:
The ones who: are unconventional, think out of the box, refuse to compromise, do it their own way, and succeed!
"Saint Andrew" of course...
Vincent Price
Giordano Bruno
And all the wonderful people I'll never meet, or even know about...
