Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: upstate New York
Posts: 71
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Haunted when the minutes drag...
Just be forewarned, I tend to ramble on and on...
1. What do you do? (Hobbies, job)
At the moment I work as an assistant manager at a store that sells music and movies. Once the economy improves I'd like to leave that job and pursue something in the field of art (the field I have a degree in). Past work experience I've had includes working at a friend's new age shop, grocery store (hated it), vet clinic, funeral home, costume and set designing, and giving free art classes to kids. My passion is art... I enjoy photography, drawing, painting, graphic design, film making and editing, sculpture, ceramics, clothing design, etc.. etc. I have a violin that I'd eventually like to be able to play... eventually. I love to travel and would like to return to Europe and explore it more extensively one of these days.
2. Where are you from?
Upstate New York... way, way, waaaaaay upstate as in directly on the Canadian border.
3. Who is your favorite author?
A narrowed down list would include Neil Gaiman (got into him through the Sandman series back in the day and moved onto his novels, "American Gods" being my favourite), Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, William Shakespeare, Anne Rice, Poppy Z. Brite, Stephen King, Clive Barker, Alan Moore, Lord Byron, Sylvia Plath, Oscar Wilde, etc... I was obsessed with Koushun Takami's "Battle Royale" at one point (the film pales in comparison to the novel). I also like reading about the occult, mythologies (particularly Egyptian... Norse is good too), astronomy, psychology, etc..
4. What are your favorite films?
Terrible question for me! I am a ridiculous film junkie. My favourite genre is horror and I prefer old horror movies particularly anything featuring Vincent Price like House of Wax, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, The Pit and the Pendulum, Last Man on Earth, etc. I also love silent horror movies, foreign horror, horror musicals, scifi horror, cheesy b-horror, indie horror, vampires, zombies, werewolves, etc.. etc.. I'm not really a big fan of remakes at all. I also like scifi movies, experimental work, dark comedies, fantasies, suspense/thrillers, period style pieces, dramas, etc... even if it doesn't really seem like something I'd like I'll give any movie a try. My two favourite contemporary directors would probably be David Lynch and Tim Burton.
5. What music do you want played at your wedding?
"Love Song" by The Cure... terribly cliche I know, but it is a very lovely song... "Dark Romantics" by The Awakening, "Love Like Blood" by Killing Joke, etc..
6. At your funeral?
"The Funeral Party" by The Cure, "Fades Like a Song" by Bella Morte, "Twenty-four Years" by Claire Voyant, etc..
7. This IS a gothic website, so... how do you want to die?
I keep having reoccuring nightmares in which I'm dying a terribly painful death, I'd prefer not to die in agony...
8. What kind of casket would you want?
This is funny, I used to work at a funeral home when I was 17! I'd go old-school, forget the casket, give me an old fashioned 6-sided "toe-pincher" style coffin. Yes, there is a difference between coffins and caskets (again, former occupation). I'd like it to either be black or a nice dark wood like Walnut, with a burgundy velvet interior, and antiqued silver for the metal bits... give me one of those, put me in an elegant mausoleum and I promise I (probably) won't haunt you..
9. What's your FAVORITE outfit?
Another terrible question for me! I don't own a single pair of jeans, not even black ones, and will use any excuse to dress my best even if it's just out to the store. My favourite fabrics to wear are lace, velvet, brocade, satin, silk, fishnet, etc. I'm not really a fan of pants, I would much rather wear a dress or a skirt and a nice shirt. The pieces that I always include in my outfits are boots, beautiful chokers or necklaces, elegant gloves, pretty or interesting tights.... and the almighty corset. I HATE, hate, hate that people think that Hot Topic, Victoria's Secret, etc. sell corsets. They sell bodice tops with plastic boning that they refer to as "corsets" but they aren't the real deal. If there isn't a risk of breaking ribs or readjusting your internal organs it isn't a real corset. I wear real corsets. Overall most people would refer to my style as "romanti-goth" or "old world artistocratic vampyre". Sometimes I wear special f/x contacts in colours like red or Underworld blue *shrugs*.
10. What's one thing you miss about being a little kid?
Not having to pay bills, less drama...
11. What's your favorite band?
Yet again, too many to name just one... The Cure (obviously..), Bauhaus (and all the various solo and side projects), The Sisters of Mercy, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Joy Division, New Order, Christian Death (with Rozz), Clan of Xymox, Bella Morte, Skinny Puppy, Rosetta Stone, The 69 Eyes (their "Blessed Be" and "Paris Kills" eras, not the new stuff so much), Emilie Autumn, London After Midnight, Corpus Delicti, Malice Mizer, Collide, Switchblade Symphony, The Birthday Massacre, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, VNV Nation, Covenant, Wumpscut, KMFDM, Velvet Acid Christ, Illusion of Joy (you're welcome, Seth! haha), Das Ich, Faith and the Muse, Cinema Strange, Specimen, Alien Sex Fiend, Rasputina, Depeche Mode, Killing Joke, The Misfits, The Damned, The Smiths, Android Lust, Claire Voyant, The Cruxshadows, Diva Destruction, The Last Dance, Qntal, Dead Can Dance, etc.. etc..
12. What kind of education do you have? What is/was/will be your major?
BA degree in Art... at some point I might get some more schooling but not sure at the moment. It wouldn't necessarily be just to get a better job, it's also to assist in filling my constant desire for knowledge and self-improvement.
13. Why did you join?
At the moment I'm recovering from an injury and am started to really feel the effects of cabin fever and isolation...
14. If the first 13 questions didn't give it away. What is your gender?
Female
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