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THINGS THAT ALWAYS MAKE ME HAPPY:
foreign travel, medieval castles, fantasy/historical/speculative fiction, Wave-Gotik-Treffen (I think I have been to WGT more times than any other American - I started going with #7 and haven't missed one since. - If you can beat that, I need to meet you!), Mexican silver jewelry, exotic cuisine, rare and beautiful books, libraries, edged weapons, souvenir keychains, pre-raphaelites, history/mythology/folklore, ruins of all kinds, overgrown
gardens, outdoor cafes, picnics, cats, snakes, fish, all things aquatic, mermaids,
pirates, stone carving and cemeteries, National
Geographic, ebay, my digital camera,
velvet silk and shiny
flowing clothing, thrift shops, Scrabble, cider, watermelon, all
things ornate and overdramatic, loud
clubs and quiet pubs, crowded cities and deserted
islands... new experiences and things I can depend on. Also, paperbackswap.com - see my profile and available books here!






Me & Andrea @ NMA
Me & Kitty

Me & Mark
Me & Myke
Me & my sister




Byte Oct. 07 - I love this picture!
Jamaican Sunset (it looks like a tacky postcard, but I took it from my hotel room)
My Birthday, Negril, Jamaica.
Me & Rob 2/07
me & Rob. 10/06
My last night of work at CBs...

Shows/Performances that I've actually voluntarily gone out of my way to see recently: Bella Morte, Ego Likeness, Lucas Lanthier, Arielle Adamy, Funker Vogt, The Faint, Ladytron, Die Walkure, Tyr, Alestorm, Suidakra, Das Rheingold, The Drowning Season, Mark Steiner, Tindersticks, Ninth House, The Cross Between, Blackpool, Thievery Corporation, Ego Likeness, Platform One, Weep, Blood, GPKism, Seabound, De/Vision, The Gypsy Nomads, Obscenity Trial, Spetsnaz, The Cruxshadows, Voltaire, Fern Knight, Nicki Jaine, Night Gallery, Bitter Grace, Ninth House, The Grand Inquisitor (theatre), Genesis P. Orridge & Bryin Dall, Medieval Baebes, Sisters of Mercy, Dystopians (live soundtrack to Alien), Blacklist, Mark Sinnis, Woyzeck (w/ music by Nick Cave), Imperative Reaction, [:SITD:], QNTAL, Trillian Green, Priscilla Hernandez, Gypsy Nomads, Zodiac Mindwarp, Ronnie Sweetheart & the Strip Club Devils, Black Swan Green, Weep, Autodrone, Otto's Daughter, Karen Black/Armen Ra, The Crimson Pirates, Low Life City Festival 2008, Voltaire, The Faint, Desir, Iggy & the Stooges, XP8, Yaz, Ninth House, The Cross Between, Bitter Grace, Sonic Youth, Blondie, Miss Derringer, Piker Ryan, Duran Duran, Your Vegas, Velvet Mafia memorial reunion, Lindo (Croatian Folklore show), WAVE-GOTIK-TREFFEN: (Corvus Corax, Faun, Saltatio Mortis, Miss Construction, Militant Cheerleaders on the Move, Gothika, FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM, London After Midnight, Samsas Traum, Christian Death 1334, Star Industry, Atomic Neon, The Moon & the Nightspirit, Covenant, Bacio de Tosca, New Days Delay, Cauda Pavonis, In the Nursery, Paradise Lost, Blutengel, Unheilig, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Das Ich, Solar Fake, Santa Hates You, Ashbury Heights, Murkeley, Nachtwindheim), Colony 5, Necessary Response, Head-Less, New Model Army, Obscenity Trial, Blacksun Festival with: Hungry Lucy, Cesium_137, Iris, Attrition, Seabound, Alter Der Ruine, Ego Likeness, Behind the Scenes, The Azoic, Zombie Girl, Assemblage 23, Darker Days Tomorrow, Fetish Dolly, Hypofixx and You Shriek, The Seagull (play) by Chekhov w/ Alan Cumming (thank you Raven!), And One (with Life Cried and Cervello Eletronicco), BadAss w/ Queen V, The Cross Between, Gene Loves Jezebel/Spear of Destiny, Rasputina, Deadfly Ensemble, Nicki Jaine with Natalia, Mark Steiner w/ Tex Napalm and Woman, Inswarm/Jarboe, Voltaire, Ninth House, 'Screen Test' multimedia performance w/ Theo & the Skyscrapers and Vangeline Theatre, Bitch Macbeth (play), A Place to Bury Strangers, Chemlab, Wintuk by Cirque du Soleil (I don't recommend it ), Au Revoir Parapluie at BAM, Vulgaras & BadAss Burlesque, The Slips, Ego Likeness, Mexican Folkdancing for Day of the Dead, She Wants Revenge, QNTAL, The Crimson Pirates, Indian Folkdancing @ Incredible India Fest., Hate in the Box, Destroid (Haujobb side project), Combichrist, Psyche, I Synthesist, Maxx Klaxon, Lowlife fest @ Tompkins, esp: Dean Johnson of the Velvet Mafia (RIP) and Voltaire, Ninth House, Gothminister, Marilyn Manson, Slayer.
Your life is guided by the principles of Hedonism: You believe that pleasure is a great, or the greatest, good; and you try to enjoy life’s pleasures as much as you can.
“Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die!”
Hedonism |
| 100% | |
Strong Egoism |
| 95% | |
Existentialism |
| 75% | |
Nihilism |
| 75% | |
Justice (Fairness) |
| 65% | |
Utilitarianism |
| 30% | |
Kantianism |
| 25% | |
Apathy |
| 10% | |
Divine Command |
| 0% |
Sigh... PLEASE NOTE: I absolutely do not have time to sort through all the friend-requests that pile up here... if you want to request me, feel free, but SEND ME an e-mail letting me know who you are, or I probably won't ever get around to even looking at your profile... and even if I did, I very well might not recognize that you were my best friend in 3rd grade or whatever...
I am really happy to make new friends... but I want to actually "meet" you, not just have your picture around taking up space... tell me something interesting!
I like to travel. A lot. SEE my Travel Map at tripadvisor HERE!
Countries I've been to:
Austria
Belgium
Belize
Bosnia & Hercegovina
Canada (a lot)
Croatia
Czech Republic
Egypt
England (a lot)
France
Germany (a lot)
Grenada
Honduras
Hong Kong
Iceland
Italy (3x)
Jamaica
Japan (2x)
Macao
Mexico (2x)
Montenegro
Netherlands
Scotland
Spain
Switzerland
Thailand
United States (duh)
Vatican
Next travel plans:
PERU - (including Lima, Cusco, Lake Titcaca and of course Machu Picchu!) in the early fall, I hope! [update: it looks like this will NOT be happening, because most likely in the fall I am going to be in court fighting eviction. Suck.]
Places that are on my list of to-see-before-I-die:
Cambodia, Angkor Wat
Venice - (at Carnival)
Italy - San Gimignano, Venice - (at Carnival)
Spain - Barcelona & Madrid - Prado
Thailand - rural areas & beaches
India
France - rural areas & castles
Poland - maybe for castle party!
Greece - small island cruising...
Taxco, Mexico - when I have a load of cash to spend on silver jewelry!
I'll be adding to this as the mood strikes me....
Anyway, if you've never left your own country, don't try to tell me about how yours is the best place on the planet. But if you want to tell me about all your favorite places and why they're awesome, I would love to hear...
I just got signed up with kiva.org. They let you give 'microloans' to individuals in developing countries. It's pretty cool.
I tend to say what I think, to be highly opinionated, and to have a high opinion of myself. All of my opinions, of course, are Extremely Sensible and Logical, and it is really too bad that they are not shared by the rest of the planet. If you would like to hear my solutions for all the world's ills, just ask me!
Right now, I've recently started work at a new job at a large photo library. So far, so good!
Before that, I worked at the Brooklyn Museum for 4 years, in the Library and Archives, and as Digital Imaging Specialist.
In an unexpected wrinkle, I also did financial proofreading for a while.
I was a bartender at CBGB from 1991 to the bitter end - Oct. 2006.
I promoted goth clubs, DJ'ed, and booked bands for over a decade. My first club was TOCSIN, located at The Far Side, which later became Meow Mix. When the ownership changed, I moved the night to Alcatraz, and then Kaleidoscope Lounge. When that bar closed down, I created ALCHEMY at CBGB 313 Gallery, and that went for just shy of a decade. During that time, I also did Wasteland (named after the Mission UK song), Absolution (which I named after the Gary Numan song), and many many many other club nights at many different venues. (I've worked at Limelight, Pyramid, Z Bar, Flamingo East, Coney Island High, etc, etc.) I also did graphic design for zillions of flyers throughout this time. But then, once it was beginning to look pretty definite that CBGB was getting closed down, I had to concentrate on a career change. Grad school and now new jobs have meant that my energies have been focused elsewhere than into club nights.
Now it's my turn to have fun and let other people entertain me.
I did music journalism & band interviews for quite a while, most frequently for SECONDS. A couple of things I did are in the recently published book .45 Dangerous Minds. There's some other stuff out there as well...
I read a lot, I listen to music a lot, I travel as much as I can, and I have a killer collection of souvenir keychains (only from places I've been).
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Abstraction NY
Frank Buttenbender
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Aug 14 2009 11:13 PM
THE SPIRITUAL BAT LIVE IN THE US
September 23 - The Nite Light Café, Berwyn, IL
September 27 - Vendetta Festival, Denver, CO
September 28 – Black Monday@The Sunset Tavern, Seattle, WA
More dates may be added
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Keep on rockin' and happy - belated - birthday!
The new EP "Ikaros" from Dawn of Oblivion is available now!
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY AND A VERY NICE DAY!
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Jul 13 2009 3:20 AM
Have a wonderful birthday.
Let’s drink to that!
Cheers DE/VISION
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May 27 2009 9:07 AM
GLITTER+TRAUMA __ queer wave party
29. mai 2009 _ 23 h _ sweat! leipzig
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live: SCHWEFELGELB [germany]
djs herr auth, echodisko + zacker love new wave, sub80s, post punk, goth classics, indietronics, minimal, quitar wave, queer rock'n'roll