*** ART **W*I*T*C*H*C*R*A*F*T**WORSHIPPING MY DIVINE HIGH PRIEST *** LIVING IN BLISS *** ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS (THAT ARE NATURALLY INDUCED) *** DREAMING - BOTH IN THE CONSCIOUS AND SUBCONSCIOUS REALMS *******************************************************************************
I'd Rather Be Burned as a Witch
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ONEIROMANCY *** HEARING VOICES / SONGS *** MUSIC!!! *** SLEEP DEPRIVATION - INDUCED HALLUCUNATIONS *** FULL MOONS *** OUTER SPACE *** THE ARTS *** MYSTERIES OF THE UNKNOWN *** SPIRITUALITY,....N-O-O-O-T-T-T RELIGION!!! *** PYROMANIA *** GAZING THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS *** SHAPESHIFTING *** HIDDEN MESSAGES / OMENS FROM OTHER DIMENSIONS THAT FIND THEIR WAY INTO EVERYDAY OCCURENCES ***
PRIMORDIAL PHENOMENA *** ALL THINGS SACRED AND PROFANE *** VISUALIZATIONS THAT ALLOW ONE TO CATCH A GLIMPSE OF THE HIDDEN ORDER UNDERLYING REALITY *** HEAVY LIGHTENING STORMS THAT GET YOU RILED WITH EXCITEMENT ***
*** VISUALIZING THE COMING OF A FANTASTICAL WORLD
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ON A SOCIAL LEVEL
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WORSHIPPING BEAUTY THAT DEFIES SOCIAL CONDITIONING *** PAINTING *** RECORDING MUSIC OF MYSTERIOUS PROPORTIONS WITH MY DIVINE PHARAOH, DIVINE DAVID ************
AND....OF COURSE, DRESSING THE GORGEOUS INHABITANTS OF EARTH WITH THE COSMICK COUTURE-INSPIRED THREADS OF
TOOOOO MANY TO NAME, BUT TO BEGIN WITH, ALL OF THE MEDIEVAL EUROPEAN HITS FROM THE 11TH TO 14TH CENTURIES, FROM GREGORIAN CHANTS, HINDU DEVOTIONAL MUSIC, ELECTRONIC STRANGENESS, CORVUS CORAX, DAEMONIA NYMPHAE, ARKANE, ALIEN SEX FIEND, TO THE INDUSTRIAL MAYHEM OF EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN, SKINNY PUPPY, NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS, BAUHAUS, THE PRIESTS AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN;
THEATER OF ETERNAL MUSIC / DREAM SYNDICATE, NICO,THE VELVET UNDERGROUND, TO COOL GLAM ROCK FROM THE 1970'S ~ FROM T.REX, BOWIE, AND ENO TO JAYNE COUNTY; THE NEW YORK DOLLS TO PUNK;
MOST OF WHAT CAME OUT OF MAX'S KANSAS CITY AND CBGB'S; CHANTS FROM TIBET TO KODO DRUMMERS, *TRUE* '60'S GARAGE, EARLY SOFT MACHINE AND THE LIKE, TO DIAMANDA GALAS, ETC., ETC., ETC.,
ALL SILENT MOVIES, ESPECIALLY GERMAN EXPRESSIONIST FILMS *** ANYTHING BY DAVID LYNCH, FELLINI, WERNER HERZOG, TONY GATLIFF, AND FRITZ LANG*** B-MOVIES *** WARHOL FLICKS **** GADJO DILO *** BLACK CAT WHITE CAT *** DELICATESSAN *** WINGS OF DESIRE ***
ANY MOVIE / DOCUMENTARY ON THE ROMA *** ELIZABETH *** ALL HORROR, YOU NAME IT, I'VE SEEN IT....ESPECIALLY THE EXORCIST!!!
****** IS THE T.V. EYE THAT STEALS YOUR BRAIN FOR LABORATORY EXPERIMENTATION ****** A TOOL LIKE ANYTHING ELSE **** IS NOT EVIL IN AND OF ITSELF, IT'S ALL IN HOW THE INDIVIDUAL USES THIS THING *** EITHER TO ZOMBIFY OR EDUCATE THE MIND **** I DISLIKE TELEVISION, BUT IF PUT AGAINST THE WALL AND FORCED TO NAME ONE SHOW THAT HAS THE POWER TO REDEEM THE VALUE OF T.V., I WOULD HAVE TO HAIL "THE HILARIOUS HOUSE OF FRIGHTENSTEIN" AS THEE COOLEST SHOW EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, HANDS DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!****************************************************************
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ALL OCCULT TEXTS, TOMES, GRIMOIRES AND THE LIKE
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*** BOOKS ON THE FOLLOWING SUBJECTS WHICH COVER A MYRIAD OF THEMES FROM THE SACRED TO THE PROFANE: ************
THE UNKNOWN, PARANORMAL PHENOMENON ***
*** ANCIENT "ANYTHING", SUCH AS "EGYPT, SUMERIA, AND PRE-CLASSICAL GREEK CULTURES (MINOAN GREECE) ETC... THE RESEARCH OF LOST CIVILIZATIONS~ ESPECIALLY THOSE OF THE WORLDS WHERE THE FOUNDATIONS OF WITCHCRAFT GESTATED; NAMELY THE ARKANE REALMS OF THE WITCHES OF THESSALY, AND THE LIKE ***
*** CURIOUS REALITIES ***
ILLUSTRATED MANUALS ON HUMAN DISEASE *** ALL TASCHEN TEXTS
*** ASTRONOMY ***
ALCHEMY *** MAGIC *** MUSIC *** ANCIENT ART, ARCHITECTURE AND ARCANE ALPHABETS *** THE COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS ***
*** BIOGRAPHIES ON THE STRANGE AND MYSTERIOUS SIDE OF LIFE~ COVERING A WIDE SCOPE THAT ENCOMPASSES SURREALISTIC, UNDERGROUND CULTURES TO PRIMORDIAL HUMAN BEHAVIOUR ***********************************************************
*** ILLUSTRATED TEXTS ON MEDIEVAL CLOTHING ***
ACCOUNTS OF THE EXPERIENCES OF MYSTICS IN EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE *** ALTERNATIVE LIFESTYLES / BDSM *** HORROR ***
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******** THE GREAT UNKNOWABLE SPARK BEHIND THE UNIVERSE- WHOSE SENSE OF COSMIC RETRIBUTION IS PERFECT (OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE GREAT GODDESS)*** MOVERS AND SHAKERS *** OUTCASTS *** DIVINITY-INCARNATE
(****ONE HUMAN BEING COMES TO MIND IN THE FORM OF MY DIVINE DAVID...AND, OF COURSE, H.R. GIGER...BLESSED BY OTHERWORLDS, WHOSE BRUSH SPEAKS IN TONGUES~ GRACING HUMANITY WITH DIVINE VISIONS!)
*** FREAKS *** BAD-ASSES *** EVOLVED SPIRITS DWELLING ON EARTH WHO BLESS OTHERS WITH ENLIGHTENED IDEAS *** AVATARS OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THIS LIMITED SOCIAL ORDER WE LIVE IN***
*** VISIONARIES***
*** PRIESTESSES *** THOSE WHO DARE *** THOSE WHO ARE DEDICATED TO THE DREAMS OF THEIR HIGHER SELVES ***
SUBVERSIVE TEACHERS / THOSE WHO SHARE KNOWLEDGE ***
UNORTHODOX HEALERS *** ECCENTRICS ***
PEOPLE TOUCHED BY MADNESS ***
ESOTERIC GATEKEEPERS ***
*** GHOSTS / SPIRITGUIDES /
FAMILIARS *** WARRIORS *** ARTISTS ***
*** MUSICIANS ***********************
DREAMERS AND TRUTHSEEKERS *** ALIEN LIFE FORMS *** B-MOVIE CREATORS *** SWORDSMITHS *** BEINGS WITH A FUTURISTIC/RACY EDGE *** ADVOCATES OF TRUE ANCIENT EROTICISM *** DESTROYERS OF DELUSION *** TRICKSTERS *** MYSTICS ***
OTHER-WORLDLY IMAGINATION *** THOSE THAT TRANSCEND SOCIALLY-CONDITIONED BEHAVIOURS *** THOSE THAT LOVE THEMSELVES *** THOSE THAT BELIEVE IN YOU!!!
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** RO! * THE * KNIFE * TM ** PETER MURPHy....... Thou Art Divine..... Your Music Blew me away again, and your Soul is Beautiful... You are TRULY the Godfather of GOTH! view more
WATCH A FEW SECONDS OF RO! THE KNIFE'S RAVEN RECITAL BELOW AT THE FIRST ANNUAL GOTHIC GALA!
(RAVEN HEADDRESS, CLASSIC *** VELVET * 13 *** )
*** YOUR C*O*U*N*T*E*S*S OF COUTURE! *** TM
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What could I possibly say to welcome your BEAUTIFUL SELF
into my FANTASTICAL WORLD???
I am really a visual person moreso than a being of words- but once I turbo-charge that introverted self into extroverted "MAD SCIENTIST" mode-WATCH OUT!!! My lingo gets erratic, and a bit manic and zany! I am of Hungarian Romany and Sicilian descent, so one can say that the most quintessential symbol to describe my being is best captured in the form of a volcano....still without, yet containing a fierce fire of molten lava within!
I am a True Solitary Practitioner of the Olde Religion better known as Witchcraft- or, the Sacred Earth Spirituality of the Great Goddess...
This past year, adding to the Personal Goddess Path of My Lifetime, I had the Sacred Blessing of Becoming an Initiated Dianic Witch at the Divine *Gathering the Goddess* Festival~ deep in the Heart of the Redwood Forests of La Honda, California~ presided over by the One and Only Founding Mother of the Women's Spirituality Movement in the U.S: The Divine Zsuzsanna Emese Budapest.
Furthermore, a Sacred group of us became the Newly Initiated, 21st Century Reincarnation of the Susan B. Anthony Coven #1 of whom Z. Budapest is High Priestess, and her Belov-ed Cerridwen Sidhewolf is Spiritual Mentor.
Our Awesome SISTERHOOD OF FEMINIST DIANIC WITCHES have one motto:
***CAUSE TROUBLE!!!!!!!!!!!***
.... and in a Patriarchal Society, that is *EXACTLY* what we intend to do!
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Misogyny and Ignorance have no Place in OUR FUTURE!
.So what can I possibly Say to Introduce My Soul to Thy Glorious Being?
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I can firmly say that I feel like an Extra Terrestrial visitor exploring the PHANTASMAGORICALLY SURREAL realm of Human Reality!***I also feel as though Life is a PERPETUAL DREAM- existing on many levels simultaneously- where a David Lynch-like Being, The Twilight Zone, Disembodied Spirits, Natural Disasters, Eternity, and the Unknown are brewing a Supernatural concoction in which to entertain Us! I am several parts WITCH / ALIEN / ARTIST / DREAMER / ANARCHIST / SMARTASS /
MUSICIAN / MULTI-EXPRESSIONIST/
ENTREPRENEUR / THINKER / CO-CONSPIRATOR / REINCARNATIONALIST / TRICKSTER / SENSUALIST / LISTENER /
AND HAG- all rolled into ONE- to name but a few traits that I can conjure up off-hand!!!
I HAVE A FETISH FOR OCCULT KNOWLEDGE, and for existing in a state of action-inspired TRANCE that results in Life-Affirming Creativity! I seem to understand the language of animals moreso than that of human Beings- and I always "BLOW MY COVER" where conventional value systems identify me as a complete and utter devotee of INNOVATIVE WAYS OF LIFE **********
I ADORE people who are not afraid to be fragile, yet warrior-like. I strongly dislike pretension, individuals who harbor dishonest ulterior motives, and individuals who assess the value of others according to how high their income is!!!! ***********************************
I ASPIRE to take every chance that I receive to remember the most important things in Life: To laugh at One's self, to live in ****PERPETUAL BLISS*****
To walk on the edge of EXPERIENCE as often as possible.....and to HONOUR the things that make living Ecstatic: ***THE ARTS***SPIRITUALITY***MUSIC***AND VISION*** I find a Kindered Spirit in those that are not afraid to acknowledge that diversity is a blessing, not a curse in Life, and that -therefore- there are many valid truths, belief systems and lifestyles which hold equal value*****I acknowledge that CHANGE is the only thing that holds any permanence**** I admire open-minded individuals that*** "KICK AGAINST THE PRICKS"
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MY SPACE IS MY PERSONAL TEMPLE***I ACKNOWLEDGE CONNECTIONS THAT ARE IN SYNC WITH MY VALUES*** SO IF THAT IS YOU***YOU SUBVERSIVE COOL CAT****THEN WELCOME***
VAMPIRES NEED NOT APPLY!!!!
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I WELCOME YOU TO EXPLORE THE MULTI-FACETED REALM OF THIS SPACE...HERE, I INTRODUCE TO YOU MANY REALMS OF ART *** MUSIC *** WITCHCRAFT *** AND GLAMOUR ******* I INTRODUCE TO THEE, ALL YOU GORGEOUS ROCK 'N ROLL KITTENS, THE ONE AND ONLY REALM WHERE GENDER IS NOT AN ISSUE....WHERE PEACOCKS, CEREMONIALISTS, WITCHES, DRAG-QUEENS AND OUTCASTS FIND A SIMILAR REALM OF STYLE IN WHICH TO CELEBRATE THEIR SUBVERSIVE SELVES***WHERE INDIVIDUALS DEVOTED TO BEING A LIVING WORK OF ART COME TO FIND THEIR RITUAL THREADS! THIS IS WHERE ART AND FASHION UNITE... WHERE ONE ENCOURAGES THE EXPRESSION OF ONE'S INNER MAGICKAL SELF...THIS IS VELVET * 13 * TM * ******* SINISTER RITUAL CHIC! ********
***COME SUPPORT THE WOMEN'S SPIRITUALITY FORUM BY PURCHASING "ARADIA's CHANT"~~Written and performed by RO the KNIFE!
Follow the link in Z BUDAPEST's 2009 January Edition of GODDESS MAGAZINE found in my blog above, and make your contribution to support WOMEN'S SPIRITUALITY!
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Who I'd like to meet: *************
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ALL OF THE WITCHY, *SHINING ONES*...SEXY CHEETAHS AND VIXENS, and *LIVING WORKS OF ART EMBODIED AS HUMAN BEINGS* THAT HAVE A FETISH FOR
*** VELVET *** 13 *** CLOTHING *** TM *** !!!
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ALL FOXY BIZARRO SOULS *** REVOLUTIONARIES *** ARTISTS *** ALIENS *** CIRCUS FREAKS *** DREAMERS *** PRETTY THINGS *** SPIRITUAL LEADERS *** ANARCHISTS *** VISIONARIES, ET AL WHO PRETTY MUCH RESEMBLE MY LIST OF HEROES !!!!! THAT, I'M SURE, IS YOU, YOU SUBVERSIVE KOOL KITTEN!!!! XOXO
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** RO! * THE * KNIFE * TM **'s Friend Space (Top 40)
I have been sunburned for the sun never seems to set this time of year! I am so ready to shovel snow instead of cut the grass HAHA! May your summer be more peachy than mine, may your week be full of much happiness and joy!
Blessed Greetings of Full Moon Aura to thee Beloved RO! May Luna's glorious light illuminate your spirit, heart, and body to heights of bliss, and bring your desires in joyful Boon! Deep Love and Embrace... Divine Sister, RO! ~Luxor
THE RETURN OF THE BAT
Specimen will bring their special brand of glam mayhem, The Batcave to London again.
After last year’s wildly-successful 25th anniversary Batcave event, The Batcave returns to its original spawning ground of London’s West End on Sunday July 19 for another night of blasphemy, lechery and blood.
Specimen (Fresh from a fantastic show at Leipzig’s Waves Gotik festival), the original Batcave instigators will headline the lurid frolics at the Embassy Club, (29 Old Burlington St, London W1S3AP) Also on the bill are original Batcavers Sexbeat, with DJs Hamish and Cavey Nick, cavorting from decks to decadence with the usual brutal, trouser-dropping surprises & suitably confronting & barbaric entertainment.
The 2009 Batcave will feature installations from exciting new artists of the ‘Dark London Underground’ and visuals from the upcoming ‘Welcome To The Batcave’ book, along with this year’s bitcrushed message from the creature in t
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