creating a darkly romantic ideal to inhabit to spite this rather dull world. art, books, music, film and film-making, photography, antiques, all things gothic, magical studies, myths, creatures great and small; esp cats, bats, rabbits and dragons. reading, writing, cellos, moonlight, long walks on the shore at sunset ( truly ), fighting insomnia, dinosaurs. monsters, graveyards etc etc etc....
Music
I enjoy a wide range of music: from rock to celtic folk to classical. For rock I enjoy goth, shoegaze, dark ambient, 70's glam & prog-rock, 80's new wave, 60's psychedelic, most music thats either sad or dark. etc.
Some faves include. Sopor Aeternus, Dead Can Dance, Lycia, Faith and the Muse, Cranes, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Cure, Human Drama, The Unquiet Void, Unto Ashes, Black Tape For A Blue Girl, Current 93, David Bowie, The Velvet Underground, Bjork, Kate Bush, Tori Amos, The Cramps, The Damned, Nick Cave, Legendary Pink Dots, Donovan, Mephisto Walz, Philip Glass, Slowdive, Ivy , Nico, Leonard Cohen, the Sisters of Mercy, And Also the Trees, PJ Harvey, Swans, Jarboe, The Changelings, Portishead, Peter Gabriel, Corpus Delicti, O.E.S , Stoa, Love Is Colder Than Death, My Bloody Valentine, This Acension, Impressions of Winter, Speaking Silence, Arcana, Eden, Diva Destruction, Diana Krall, John Foxx, Lush, Chandeen, The Shroud Rasputina, Cello, J.S Bach, Coil, Cocteau Twins, Holly Cole, G. Mahler, The Dreamside, Autumn, Diamonda Gallas, Covanant, Love & Rockets, Peter Murphy, Bauhaus, Massive Attack, Poe, The Psychdelic Furs, the Doors, Jimi Hendrix. and the sound of cellos....
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Movies
I'm quite a film buff as well as a film-maker. I have a passion for horror films as well as avant garde films. and most films set in previous times.
some faves of mine are; Suspiria ( and any other film by director Dario Argento ), Dellamare Dellamorte, Nosferatu ( the first and the remake ), Black Sunday ( the 1961 film ), Dagon, Call of Cthulhu, A Tale of Two Sisters, Living Hell, The Tenant, Brides of Dracula, Sister, My Sister, Meet The Feebles, Lord of The Rings, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Vampire Circus, most Hammer films, Dark City, Velvet Goldmine, Henry : portrait of a Serial Killer, any film by Tim Burton, Near Dark, 8 1/8, The Haunting ( 61' version ), the Innocents, The Hunger, Interview with a Vampire, Macbeth, most Woody Allen films, any film by Martin Scorsese, Brazil, Ravenous, Night of The living Dead, Day of the Dead, Raise The Red Lantern, Bubba Hotep, Films by David Lynch, David Cronenberg del Torro etc, etc, etc,
Television
I do not care for much main stream tv but here are a few shows I do enjoy:
The Simpsons, Futurerama, Family Guy, Home Movies, The Oblongs, Dark Shadows, The Outer Limits ( org ), Night Gallery, The Twilight Zone ( org ), Masterpiece Theatre, Mystery, Arrested Developement, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Addams Family, Twin Peaks, Tales from the Darkside, Monsters, Tales from the Crypt, Dexter, True Blood, Six feet Under, most shows on Animal Planet, Cheers, Frasier, Sienfeld, blah, blah, blah,,,,,,,
Books
ah books. my best friends. I am indeed a bookish type. In fact I collect them. for non-fiction I enjoy books on art, film, music, lit, the occult, and nature.
for fiction I mainly read and collect horror and fantasy. some of my favorite writers include:
H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Edward Gorey, Tanith Lee, Poppy Z Brite, Charles Addams, Nancy Collins, Tim Burton, Simon Clark, Elizabeth Massie, Elizabeth Hand, Ray Garton, Douglas Clegg, F. Paul Wilson, Clark Ashton Smith, Ramsey Campbell, Richard Laymond, Kathe Koja, J.R.R. Tolkien, Steven Burst, Charles de Lint, M. R. James, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Ligotti, etc, etc,
I also enjoy Poetry, esp 19th Century gothic romance poetry. like Rosetti, Poe, Baudelaire etc.
modern poets I like are e.e cummings, Patti Smith, Bruce Boston, Leonard Cohen, etc,
I also enjoy writing fiction.
Heroes
hmm so many, encluding fictional ones too...
My mother and my dear sister, E.A. Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Barbara Steele, Anna Varney, David Bowie, Dario Argento, Rozz Williams, Elvira, Theda Bara, Nico, Johnny Depp, Tim Burton, Vincent Price, D.G. Rosetti, H.R. Giger, Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, Mario Bava, Clive Barker, Pinhead, Dracula, Oscar Wilde, John Keats, Patti Smith, Charles Baudelaire, Morticia Addams, Robin Hood, etc, etc, etc,
About me: greetings,
I am Thomas and I reside in spooky ol' Rhode Island in the town of No. Providence. I haunt the streets and country lanes, dark woods, and ancient graveyards of New England in search of... love? Well in truth I mainly read horror novels, watch strange films and listen to strange music. I have a strong interest in art, music, film and literature. I have been active in the goth commuity, theatre community, etc etc.
I have a romantic nature, am quiet, witty, well read, eclectic and have a looney sense of humor and of course I have many faults....
Sometimes when I'm at the computer I get bored so I form myspace groups. Please check out my groups if you like.
Who I'd like to meet: kindred spirits of course!! esp. cute ones.... and a ghost or two.
Come see our all Gorey goodies! Edward Gorey, Tim Burton, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Ryden, Alice in Wonderland, Gris Grimly, Emily, Coraline, Lenore, Twilight, Tattoo & Pin-up Art, Dark Décor, Haunted Portraits, Vintage Halloween, Classic Horror Monsters, Vampires, Skulls & Gargoyles, Pirates, Zombies, Alchemy Gothic Jewelry, Villainess, Rubber Stamps, T-shirts, Postcards, Toys, Books, Posters, and much more!
"I have brought to light a monstrous abnormality, but I did it for the sake of knowledge. Now for the sake of all life and Nature you must help me thrust it back into the dark again."
DROPPING BY TO SAY THANX FOR BEING A FRIEND OF CRISS KARVER AND THE LUNACY MACHINE. ALSO, WANTED TO WISH YOU A FABULOUS DARK AND TWISTED WEEK!!!
HERE IS A PREVIEW FOR THE UPCOMING STORY 'OUIJA' WHICH IS ONE OF MANY TWISTED RHYMES INSIDE THE NEW LUNACY MACHINE.
OUIJA
Is there someone there? Is there someone there? Come talk to us tonight. We’re asking for the dead to speak, It’s only us . . .my wife and me. Come tell us how you died.
The oracle moved about the board A figure-eight reply. The oracle started slowing down, then stopped . . . above the Y.
Tell us more, tell us more, what brought you here to me? Tell us how you died tonight. Tell us when you died tonight. Tell us what brings you here tonight. Keep spelling it for me.
The figure eight continues and around the board it moves. It’s slowing down, it’s slowing down. Come, spirit, talk to me right now, Tell us tonight, because we want to know . . Then the oracle stopped on the letter O.
You’re coming in so very clear, Now tell us why you’re roaming here, on this dark and stormy night. Speak to me, speak to me, Travel through this board to me. Tell us why you sleep tonight beneath your resting tomb. Speak to me, speak to me, speak to me now. Then the oracle stopped on the U.
Y-O-U, Y-O-U, this isn’t making sense. You spelled out, YOU is this what you meant to do? Then the oracle stopped on YES.
*COME BY AND VISIT ME AND PREVIEW SOME OTHER STORIES FROM THE LUNACY MACHINE, TWISTED TALES OF UNFORTUNATE TIMES 'R' in my blog section SEE YA!! -CRISS KARVER
