Music. Veganism. Travel. Art. Friendships. Love. Peace. Introspection. Exploration of all the above and all of the below...
Also:
the goth subculture; shoegazing; life in Berlin and Chicago; ethical veganism; my amazing husband; my cats; floatation/sensory deprivation tanks (my "other" business;) travel; following bands; good reading; left of centre politics; art (Pre-Raphaelite, symbolism, Art Nouveau, surrealism;) bicycling; ecology; conscious living and much more.....
Music
Goth, Ethereal, Shoegaze, Darkwave, Deathrock, Dark Indie, Industrial, Psychedelic, Post-Punk, Dream / Twee Pop and the politically-charged Hardcore Punk of my youth...
Dark, beautiful music...
My favourite band will always be Cocteau Twins...
Movies
Withnail & I; Harold & Maude; Blade Runner; The Exterminating Angel; A Clockwork Orange; Arsenic & Old Lace; Harvey; High Plains Drifter...
Books
Authors/Poets: Virginia Woolf, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, Christina Rossetti, Edward Gorey, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, John Donne, Lord Byron, Willliam Butler Yeats, Elizabeth Siddal, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Edgar Allan Poe, Stevie Smith, Luke Rhinehart, Jane Austen, The Bronte sisters, Storm Constantine, Oscar Wilde, Leonora Carrington, William S. Burroughs, Neil Gaiman, Audrey Niffenegger. More recent reads include: Theodore Dreiser, Harry Crewes, Knut Hamsun, Frank Zappa, Katherine Dunne, Yann Martel, Alan Moore, Phil Rickman, Evelyn Waugh, Oliver Sacks, Alan Moore, Gustave Flaubert, Richard Dawkins...many, many more.
Heroes
- My husband Justin is my #1 hero.
- The ALF If not you, who? If not now, when?
About me: Amongst many other things, I am:
- A career DJ and Impresario/Promoter; my company is American Gothic Productions. www.AmericanGothicProd.com
- Living in Berlin, Germany though I fly back at least 6 times per year to my hometown of Chicago to DJ, etc.
- Vegan
- GAF
I passionately enjoy & promote good, new, dark alternative music. I DJ, book bands & produce club events & have been doing so for over 21 years. I absolutely love what I do.
BANDS THAT ARE INTERESTED in the *possibility* of having me spin their songs at my club events, hold promo nights for them or have a live gig booked by American Gothic Productions should contact me. My postal address for cds & promo materials is:
American Gothic Productions,
PMB 258, 2506 N. Clark Street
Chicago, IL 60614 USA If your band is located in Europe & you'd rather post to my Berlin address, just send me a message for that info.
I love to play as much new music as I can at my club events; please send me your cds or mp3s! I work with bands in the genres specified in the "music" category on the left side of this page. I am generally not interested in bands outside those areas, though I've been pleasantly surprised here & there. I do not, however, book bands from other genres.
I am infamously poor at keeping in touch with friends electronically, so please do not feel slighted if I owe you a message or two (or five...) If it's important, a direct email to me will get a quicker reply than a MySpace message. My email address can be found on the AmericanGothicProd.com website's contact page.
Who I'd like to meet: People who want to know about & attend my club & concert events; other intelligent people who share the same interests; bands that fit somewhere within the genres I have listed as musical interests who create exceptional, original, emotionally evocative "dark" music. People who sincerely want to learn more about becoming vegan feel free to write, too!
I will not accept add requests from people who are hunters, racists, homophobic, right-wing or overtly religious of any sort. Fairy tales are nice but adults really shouldn't believe they are nonfiction.
I'd be glad to add you IF you share at least a few of my interests, but please don't feel slighted if I don't leave a comment on your profile- I struggle to keep up with all of my on-line communications as it is!
Please don't add big advertisements to my comments, though you may mention your concert, how to acquire your music or similar.
Incubation Presenta: Babel 17+ Atmosphere 0 - In Concerto Sabato 31 Ottobre a seguire dj set incubation: Minox,+Deathwish+,Alessio,Psychodark. da non perdere....
This weekend! At the stroke of MIDNITE - Different show each night! It's dark, ethereal, fleshy, vampy, theatrical... it's GRIM BURLESQUE! Promises to get your soul's heart throbbing to the spirit of Halloween. Be serenaded through our horror-themed tour of gothic erotica!
1901 W. Belmont (entrance on Wolcott) $10 special admission price when you mention “I’m a sexy bitch” at the door! BYOB – 18+ Awesome line-up that just keeps growing– spread the love!
Many thanks to you for accepting the request, I'm glad to be added to your friend and it's a pleasure to meet you and to know your fantastic work for dark music.
Hello There Sarah, Thanks alot for letting us get all friendly with
ya.. we really appreciate it. So much so that we might throw a party in
your honor.. sounds cherry aye?.. thanks again. have a good
day new friend.. PARTY ON
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Thanks so much for the add and supporting my music :-)
I'm an Aussie Singer/Songwriter about to release my debut independent album Ladybug featuring the song Blackbird which I wrote as a tribute to all animals and the amazing life lessons they can teach us when we respect and appreciate them.
If you have a chance to check it out, I would love to know what you think :-)
Any comments or friend requests are always welcomed and very much appreciated.
Thanks again for your support, hope all is well in your world :-)
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