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blasphemous_girl

Show us what you were. What you are. Still.

About Me

History postgrad currently researching early film censorship; opinionated, pro-choice, anti-censorship....You'll either love me or hate me.

My Interests

Alternative press; burlesque; abandoned asylums and hospitals; vintage clothes, especially the 1940s and 50s; old medical paraphernalia; religious imagery and Catholic kitsch; art of Trevor Brown and Joe Coleman.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone with converging interests.... ..This profile was edited with Thomas' myspace editor™ V2.5

Music:

Radiodrama, Jack Off Jill, Whitehouse, Beatsteaks, Nicole 12, Johnny Cash, Horrorpops, Manson(s), Empire Falls, Cocksparrer, Angelic Upstarts, The Church, Necromondo, Brutal Attack, Koffin Kats, Whitelaw, Sudden Infant, Stray Cats, Brandkommando, Marlene Dietrich, Ramleh, Navicon Torture Technologies, The Business, Amazing Crowns, Panicsville, The Horrors, Strom.ec, Montage, Scarling, Deathpile, The Cure, Lou Reed, Screaming Tribesmen, The Lime Spiders, Streicher, Tura Satana, Gruntsplatter, Billie Holiday, Vera Lynn, Throbbing Gristle, Propergol, My Ruin, Elvis Costello, Kadaver, Nina Simone, The Start, Buzzcocks, Fire in the Head, Bully Boys, Letters to Cleo, Prurient, Whorebutcher etc., etc.... And although I'm not a particularly judgmental person, I really hate emo....

Movies:

Bizarre gore, atmospheric black and whites - Rebecca, Dead of Night etc., Amicus, Will Hay, Argento, Ealing comedies, pre-cert horror/exploitation on VHS - House of Whipcord, Cataclysm etc., 50s B-movies, Nekromantik, Marilyn Monroe, Fight Club/Jacob's Ladder type things, and most recently, The Trailer Trash Boys.

Television:

Black Books, Bill Bailey etc., CSI, Kingdom Hospital.

Books:

Chuck Palahniuk, Jim Goad, Re/Search, Amok, Feral House publications, anything involving Shade Rupe, Sotos, Creation's books on horror/mondo etc.

Heroes:

Heroes are bound to disappoint you.

My Blog

Collaboration

We've come to look after each other, to watch each other. I don't kid myself. I don't let the word 'love' creep into my head. She's as sick as myself and we need each other. A strange coupling. Me, ag...
Posted by blasphemous_girl on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 01:08:00 PST

Back by popular demand

Think back. That day so many years ago. Her wrists bleeding onto a white tiled floor. The stitches. Do you think she is in any way sorry? Is she better now? Looking at you in who the fuck knows what w...
Posted by blasphemous_girl on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 01:23:00 PST

I am....

 My voice is no longer heard. My heart is slowing. My veins are filled with your sickness. My head is filled with the rules to your games. My hands are yours in their caresses. My feet have walke...
Posted by blasphemous_girl on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:26:00 PST

No. ?

I didn't mean it. No one ever does. But when you look into those eyes and feel your mask slipping, that's when you can say you've finally arrived. Nothing else need matter now. Even the pain and degra...
Posted by blasphemous_girl on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:27:00 PST

Psycho

I had the misfortune this weekend to catch a glimpse of a Psycho remake on TV - already, the words "Psycho remake" send alarm bells ringing, but to make it even worse, Norman Bates was played by Vince...
Posted by blasphemous_girl on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:05:00 PST

Another history essay...

 More history for those of you who are so inclined. The end has gone missing, along with the footnotes, thanks to myspace's bureaucracy regarding blog lengths! Also the apostrophes I just noticed...
Posted by blasphemous_girl on Thu, 31 Aug 2006 04:58:00 PST

One for the history buffs...essay on authoritarianism

  Why were so many educated Europeans attracted to authoritarian regimes in the 1920s and 1930s?      The large amount of support for authoritarian regimes in the interwar period h...
Posted by blasphemous_girl on Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:26:00 PST

1

He gets inside and I can't sleep. He keeps his secrets in his head - the ones I can't keep - but if I could bore a hole to let them out I would. Let them wash around me; cleanse or taint me depending ...
Posted by blasphemous_girl on Fri, 17 Mar 2006 09:50:00 PST