Coming back.

TalkingBackwards · 01-31-2011, 01:15 PM

I joined almost a year ago and then vanished until now. I think it warrants a new introduction, because I've changed so much since then. Hurr.

1. What do you do?
-I volunteer at animal shelters and adoption centers. No job yet.

2. Where are you from?
-California. San Francisco Bay Area, more specifically.

3. Who is your favorite author?
-Still trying to figure that out, honestly. I like Neil Gaiman a lot. I've been reading a lot of non-fiction lately, though.

4. What are your favorite films?
-Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari, Eraserhead, classic Disney (YES), and Akira

5. What music do you want played at your wedding?
-None. I also don't want a wedding. SO.

6. At your funeral?
-I don't want a depressing funeral service. I want my friends to have a party. It's easy to say that and disregard them being sad, but it's true. A funeral would be boring anyway.

7. This IS a gothic website, so... how do you want to die?
-Old, but with the physical and mental qualities of the young. I'm afraid of old age. I kind of want to be able to self-destruct.

8. What kind of casket would you want?
-A burning one.

9. What's your FAVORITE outfit?
-Navy medic shirt, cadet cap, pants tucked into boots, green German military jacket.

10. What's one thing you miss about being a little kid?
-Running back and forth in front of my house and not feeling embarrassed about it. No responsibilities, except for taking care of animals, which I still do anyway.

11. What's your favorite band?
-Skinny Puppy. Lately I've been listening to a whole lot of Weimar era cabaret music. A friend got me into Threepenny Opera and Lotte Lenya.

12. What kind of education do you have? What is/was/will be your major?
-Graduated high school. I want to go to art school, not to get an art job, but for my own benefit. I also want to be a vet tech, though. More animal jobs!

13. Why did you join?
-I joined a year ago after stumbling onto this forum and joined on a whim. My less-than-triumphant return is for similar reasons, I guess.

14. If the first 13 questions didn't give it away. What is your gender?
-Male.

I draw a lot and live in a transitional housing program because I'm homeless. Not... very fun, but it works.

vindicatedxjin · 01-31-2011, 01:21 PM

<3 Caligari!!!

TalkingBackwards · 01-31-2011, 01:21 PM

Yes!

I also love Conrad Veidt in general.

MissCheyenne · 01-31-2011, 01:24 PM

Caligari, cool. Reminds me of college when we had to write a score for the film. Pretty cool project actually. Anyway, good film.

TalkingBackwards · 01-31-2011, 01:26 PM

That sounds fascinating. What kind of music did you give it?

MissCheyenne · 01-31-2011, 01:28 PM

Well, it was a class project so there ended up being a bunch of different styles all thrown together (basically, everyone in the class was given a section of film to score, some people, such as myself ended up doing more than one piece as a lot of the class were lazy fuckers and didn't complete their sections).Some of them worked, some of them didn't but it was interesting to hear it all put together.

vindicatedxjin · 01-31-2011, 01:38 PM

I would love to do something like that to a silent film.

MissCheyenne · 01-31-2011, 01:39 PM

You should go for it, it's fun to do. One of the most enjoyable projects I did on that course actually.

TalkingBackwards · 01-31-2011, 01:48 PM

That's incredible. I don't suppose it's anywhere on the internet, huh? It'd be neat to hear it.

MissCheyenne · 01-31-2011, 01:54 PM

I honestly don't know if it's on the net. It's possible. I'll have a look round and see if I can find my copy of it anywhere. It was certainly an interesting project, my own pieces were decidedly....creepy. I'd love to do the whole thing again by myself though.

TalkingBackwards · 01-31-2011, 02:54 PM

You should do it. It's always neat to see different people's take on what the music would be like. If you do, I'd like to hear it.

MissCheyenne · 01-31-2011, 02:55 PM

I'll see what i can come up with. Gotta dig out my music software first. I haven't made any music in quite a while now

TalkingBackwards · 01-31-2011, 02:56 PM

What kind of software do you use? I admittedly don't know much about it at all. I should, because my father's crazy about music, but I don't. Ahah...

MissCheyenne · 01-31-2011, 03:00 PM

I use whatever I can get my hands on really. I'm quite good with Cubase, that said I would love to get my paws on Logic, I just don't have a mac to run it on

. I used to have a great time playing around with samples and the like but my pc crashed badly and I lost everything I was working on and just never got round to reinstalling and starting again.