Chuck me a book and I'm happy for hours. I make stuff. I make a really bitchin' dreamcatcher. I paint. I write. I veg in front of the DVD. I listen to music. Puzzles. Taking long walks on deserted roads waiting for someone to pick me up so I can brutally murder them... you know, all the usual stuff...
Kate Bush, The Bastard Faries, The Birthday Massacre, Dresden Dolls, Blondie, David Bowie, Type O Negative, The Police, The Pretenders, Queen, Roxette, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Loreena McKennitt, Savage Garden, Oasis, Queens of the Stone Age, The BeeGees, Seal, Simon and Garfunkel, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Fleetwood Mac, Toto, Chicago, Carly Simon, Linda Rondstadt, Jon English, Crowded House, Mental as Anything, Steppenwolf, Cat Stevens, Black Sabbath, U2, The Corrs, The Clash, Dido, Eskimo Joe, Hinder, Rick Guard, Iron Butterfly, Janis Joplin, Abba, Nickleback, Pink, Unkle, Split Enz, Deep Purple, Osibisa, Velvet Revolver, Melanie, Mike Oldfield... is the list long enough yet? This list is subject to additions without notice, so I'm not going to bother listing everyone who's ever influenced me. Take it from me... everything barring hip-hop.
Movies
Any and all Troma films, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and anything with a twisted perspective. Mulholland Drive, Pathfinder, The Matrix (but not the sequels), Elizabeth, Kingdom of Heaven, The Pillow Book, Donnie Darko, Ghostworld, The Sin Eater, Blade, V for Vendetta, Babel, Nightwatch, Dune, I Robot, Willow, Labyrinth, Pan's Labyrinth, Underworld, Ronin, Ultraviolet, Aeonflux, Wolf, Frankenstein, The Dark Crystal, The Crow, Soylent Green, A Clockwork Orange, 1984, Starship Troopers, Virtuosity, The Lawnmower Man, Logan's Run, Elektra, Constantine, The Fifthe Element, Merlin, The Chronicles of Riddick, THX 1138, Pirates of the Carribean, Trick or Treat, Johnny Mnemonic, Reality Bites, The Omen, and many more...
n. An outbreak of a contagious disease that spreads rapidly and widely. A rapid spread, growth, or development: an unemployment epidemic. You are infectious! You know what you want and you're not afraid to go for it. you live outside society's standards. hell yes!
Chuck it in front of me and I'll read it, but if it's sci-fi or fantasy I'm more likely to get into it. Talking non-fiction style, I'm always working on something dealing with alternate religion. Call it my thing.
Isaac Asimov, Iain M Banks, Piers Anthony, Ursula LeGuin, JRR Tolkein, Algernon Blackwood, Arthur C Clark, Ben Bova, R. A. Salvatore, Paulo Coelho, Raymond E. Feist, Charles DeLint, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Ed Greenwood, Anne McCaffery, Stephen Donaldson, Stephen Laws, Julian May, E E Doc Smith, Andre Norton, Isobelle Carmody, Douglas Adams, Brian Aldiss, Octavia E Butler, Orson Scott Card, C J Cherryh, Ray Bradbury, Philip K Dick, Robert Heinlein, Robert Silverberg, Clifford Simak, A E Van Vogt, John Wyndham, Frederick Pohl, Lovecraft... the list continues and will never reach an end until I do...
The Empress is a maternal symbol. She is the mother figure who loves, nurtures and protects.
She will protect you, she will always be there when you are in trouble. When you fall over and graze your knee, the Empress will kiss it better.
Yet she is not a weak figure. Her compassion is strength. If her children are threatened she will stop at nothing to protect them. If well aspected in a Tarot spread, the Empress can symbolise security, protection and unconditional love. If badly aspected it can represent over-protectiveness, fear of risk taking and refusal to face the real world.
III - The Empress
100%
XIX: The Sun
81%
II - The High Priestess
81%
XI: Justice
75%
XVI: The Tower
75%
XIII: Death
75%
VIII - Strength
69%
0 - The Fool
63%
IV - The Emperor
56%
VI: The Lovers
56%
I - Magician
44%
X - Wheel of Fortune
31%
XV: The Devil
19%
Heroes
Me!!! I wear wierd colours and a lot of lycra and spandex...
About me: Please click my eggs to help them grow to be dragons. 50 facts about me: 1/ My diet consists of sugar, fat, coca-cola and cigarettes. 2/ I look at myself in every reflective surface I pass. 3/ My favorite movie is Armageddon. 4/ I tell everybody that my favorite movie is Vanilla Sky (I don't know why, maybe I think it's more high brow than Armageddon). 5/ I can insert Simpsons quotes into any conversation, no matter how short. 6/ I only fall in love with people who will never love me back. 7/ I talk myself into believing that I love people I'm in relationships with. 8/ I hate that I do this. 9/ I eat peanut butter straight off a spoon. 10/ I have a secret stash of romance novels. 11/ I'm embarrassed that I have a secret stash of romance novels. 12/ I sleep under a doona even in the middle of summer. 13/ I still suck my thumb. 14/ My pyjamas are pink, fluffy, and have hearts all over them. 15/ I'm allergic to my cat. 16/ I'm prepared to put up with allergies so long as I can have a cat in my life. 17/ I never expect people, even good friends, to remember me if I haven't seen them for more than six months. 18/ I'm always surprised when they do. 19/ I'm not comfortable unless my bedroom has a layer of junk at least 3 inches deep on the floor. 20/ I hate this about myself. 21/ I panic if there are too many people around me. 22/ People think I'm nice. 23/ I'm really not. 24/ I'm never attracted to anyone physically. Ever. Honestly. 25/ Nobody believes me when I say this. 26/ My favourite colour is violet. 27/ 99% of my clothing is black. 28/ I think people are only sexy if they can carry a conversation. 29/ I am completely self obssessed. 30/ If an activity wastes copious amounts of time for no gain, I'll probably enjoy it. 31/ Everything I say eventually turns towards sex. 32/ I never intentionally turn conversations towards sex. 33/ Guys ask me out everywhere I go. 34/ I don't understand why. 35/ My favourite childhood toy is called Little Lion. 36/ Little Lion is actually a tiger. 37/ I like fried brains on toast. 38/ I suffer from tinnitus. 39/ I have temporal lobe epilepsy. 40/ I see strange things because of my temporal lobe epilepsy. 41/ My ultimate fantasy is a romantic evening being wined and dined by someone I love. 42/ I tell people my ultimate fantasy is sex with five men at once. 43/ Sex with five men at once wasn't that great. 44/ I want the entire world to read my poetry. 45/ I'm too lazy to bother getting my poetry book published. 46/ I'm the most vain person I know. 47/ I no longer try to pretend I'm not vain. 48/ Dogs scare me. 49/ I love boysenberry ice cream. 50/ Everything in this list is a lie, except the things that are true.
Ah! Some of the coolest people in the world are Spiritual Atheists. Most of them weren't brought up in an organized religion and have very little baggage. They concentrate on making the world a better place and know that death is just another part of life. What comes after, comes after.
