Fine Beer, Fine Art, Concerts, Death Metal, Black Metal, Thrash Metal, Industrial, Jagermeister, Alcoholism, Moshing, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Martial Arts, Pro Wrestling, Richmond Lucha Libre, Computer Graphics, Astrophysics, Roman Archaeology, Stone Age Archaeology, Linguistics, Beat Poetry, Vikings, Men with long hair, Tattoos, Motorcycles, Swords, Gore films, Horror films, Star Wars, the Battlemoose, Wagner operas, Oompah music and assorted Bavarian drinking songs, Men in Lederhosen, Collecting Black Metal vinyl, H.R. Giger, Hans Bellmer, Hieronymous Bosch, Albrecht Durer, Gustav Dore, Aliens, Sebastian Bach, BEING GRIM :P, Diet Coke, Fine Cheeses, Intelligent Conversation... I also enjoy wasting time on the internet.
NON-METAL: Skinny Puppy, Terrorfakt, Converter, God Module, Chemlab, E-Craft, Mindless Faith, Hocico, Wumpscut, Pain, Bella Morte, The Last Dance, Sisters of Mercy, Killing Joke, Underworld, Tool, White Zombie, Jesu, The Misfits, The Distillers, The Plasmatics, Bad Religion, Led Zeppelin, Dogs D'Amour, Kiss, Abba, Toto, Tom Petty, Stevie Nicks, Patti Smith, King Crimson, Aesop Rock, Roky Erickson, and a million more bands I can't think of right now.
I also love Classical- mainly Grieg, Mahler, Wagner, Beethoven, and Shostakovich... big heavy German composers and weird Russian stuff.
Movies
Star Wars, Mad Max, Fight Club, Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man, Hellraiser, Nosferatu, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Cannibal Holocaust, Evil Dead, True Romance, The Big Lebowski, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Mean Girls :p, Spinal Tap, UHF, Clerks II, Trainspotting, The Full Monty, Elizabeth, Elling, Goodbye Lenin, The Seventh Seal, The Pink Panther movies and anything with Peter Sellers, Anything by Monty Python.
Television
I don't have TV nor watch it much, but the best show ever in the whole world is DETHKLOK METALOCALYPSE!!! I also like any Swedish comedy TV series with Fredde Granberg, because he a genius! If you can understand Swedish, check out "Ronny och Ragge", "Tratten och Finkel", and "Hem till Midgård"- my favorite!
Annnddd a few featuring yours truly from YouTube and Google Video:
Thismeansyou "Order 66" live at CD Release
Music Video for Thismeansyou's "River"
Music Video for Mindless Faith "Darkhall", featuring me singing the chorus!!
Promo vid from Richmond Lucha, featuring me as Fembot vs. Devil Kimura
Books
Jack Kerouac's On the Road, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Lords of Chaos, Ender's Game, Hyperspace, Goedel Escher Bach, Art and Physics, Flatland... My favorite authors and poets are probably Herman Hesse, Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Goethe, Poe, Lovecraft, Allen Ginsberg, and Robert Frost.
Heroes
I don't make heroes and idols out of humans, none of us have superpowers or are base-jumping billionares. However, I have met many people have influenced and inspired me by their motivation and ability. In my field, I have always looked up to Jos Stam. As musicians and vocalists, my greatest influences are Ihsahn, Bruce Dickinson, Mille Petrozza, Peter Tägtgren, John Tardy, Patti Smith, Stevie Nicks, and Wendy O Williams. My many wonderful friends all over the world, who are individuals and doers, and constantly inspire me to challenge myself.
University Of Virginia-Main Campus
Charlottesville,Virginia
Graduated: 2005
Student status: Alumni
Major: Computer Science / Studio Art
Clubs: Max Kade German Haus, Kumdo Club, Echols, GFX, 536 LD, The Fortress
I am Kim. I create and destroy. I am the bald chick, the human mannequin. A natural redhead, and a redhead at heart, I have been shaving my head for 8 years, and I have many wigs..a different look for each day. I lost my hair when I was a teenager to alopecia areata, but sometimes I feel it was the best thing that ever happened to me, and through coping with that I developed a unique sense of style, and self-confidence. I am not afraid to be myself in any situation. I never sleep, I travel the Western world, I'm interested in a million things. I am artist and individual.
I am the frontwoman and vocalist for the Charlottesville-based metal band Thismeansyou, who I have been with for about 7 years..
As for my main interests, I love metal- mainly elite black metal, death and thrash. I like to travel all over to go to metal shows, and drink beer and Jagermeister. My favorite bands are Iron Maiden and Emperor. I also enjoy some types of more aggressive industrial music, and frequent goth/industrial clubs. I enjoy the nocturnal aesthetic- I'm an Atheist, not a Satanist, not a Pagan, but I do respect intelligent spirituality in many forms. Outside of music, I also enjoy designing and fabricating my own clothes, mainly leather, chainmail, and corsets. Proudly, I admit my geekdom in saying that I also am a big Star Wars fan. I have a large collection of black metal vinyls and demo tapes. I drink way too much Diet Coke when I'm not drinking beer. I built my own Bavarian biergarten in my house, complete with kegerator, so I never have to leave home to raise a big icee stein of Paulaner and say, "Prost!".
Right now I am employed by the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, a stellar academic research organization that facilitates projects dealing with computing and cultural heritage. I am currently working in the field of Roman Archaeology on a large scale real time digital model of ancient Rome. My job is awesome because I get to travel all around the world to present and collaborate with others on this really fascinating project! I have degrees in Studio Art and Computer Science, and was awarded a graduate fellowship in Digital Art. Please check out my art on my personal website here:
I like to think of myself as a warrior in some sense or another. I love Viking culture, and Norse mythology. I am German, Icelandic, and Irish, and I speak fluent German and am also learning Norwegian. I would like to live in Europe someday, ideally in some grim old castle. I am trained in the way of the sword, and I was on the Kendo team at UVA, and went to Nationals. For the past three years, I have been doing Pro-Wrestling with Richmond Lucha Libre and Ground Xero Training School, and that is amazingly fun and painful. SUPPORT LOCAL MAYHEM!
"Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it." - Jack Kerouac
-DON'T SEND ME "THANKS FOR THE ADD" OR "HEY, WHAT'S UP?" MESSAGES OR COMMENTS!
-DON'T PROPOSITION ME, AND I AM NOT INTO FETISH STUFF SO DON'T SEND ME THAT SHIT!!!
-DON'T POST ADVERTISEMENTS OR PROMOTE YOUR BAND ON MY PROFILE!
Who I'd like to meet: Metal brethren, other bald women, artists, musicians, pro-wrestlers, and intelligent individuals! Add me if you wish, however, I DON'T HAVE MUCH TIME TO CHAT, SO IF I DON'T KNOW YOU PERSONALLY, I USUALLY WILL NOT RESPOND!
Metal brethren, other bald women, artists, musicians, pro-wrestlers, and intelligent individuals! Add me if you wish, however, I don't have much time to chat, so I usually don't respond if I don't personally know you. DON'T POST ADVERTISEMENTS ON MY PROFILE!
While wasted, I tried to clean your kitchen for you. If that's not love, I don't know what is! Come to think of it..I might have actually made it worse :) Had a blast with you as always babe! Hope your show went well.
HAILZ. thanks for the add, Saturday was a blast! You fuckin rock woman! but seriously, you're refreshingly brutal, beautiful, and down to earth (which of course is the only way to do it). I've been listening to the album and I love it! hopefully by the time I see you guys again I'll have some of your lyrics memorized so I can rock even harder. Keep in touch. :) -Shara
this is a new bethlehem freebie service here as a little thank you for all you people who supported us through all the years. special mixes, unreleased tracks, new songs etc. will be posted here from time to time. all songs are done as good quality MP3s in 320 kbps. enjoy and never forget - play loud !
the first track you can download is "The 11th hour..." with Nihilist (In Memorium, USA) vocals on. You also can find an EDIT version of that song in the profile player.
More will follow in the next time. take it easy, Bethlehem
Hey, thanks a lot for the add, i'm so glad about it, it's just that i liked your myspace, your self-description, and think your pics are good and funny many of them, greetings from Mex, for you and the guys from TMY, hope you'll be great, bye!!!
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