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...many, many more.
Heroes
- My husband Justin is my #1 hero.
- The ALF If not you, who? If not now, when?
About me: There is another person using my name as their MySpace url; my actual url has the underscores. Don't be confused! ;)
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 20 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 an e-mail or two (or five...)
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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.
SARAH!!! AHHH!! =) I'm so glad to hear from you! Berlin must be so great. I miss you and our old scene in Chicago SO much... I'll write ya when I get a chance. I know you're busy so just write when ya can! Love ya!! XOXOX
Als Erk Aicrag und Racso Agroyam nach ersten musikalischen Gehversuchen 1993 Hocico gründeten, war nicht abzusehen wie erfolgreich die beiden Mexikaner einmal werden würden. Mittlerweile füllen die beiden Hard-Elektroniker, die für ihre aggressiven Live-Shows weltweit bekannt sind und deren Club-Hits landauf landab für volle Tanzflächen sorgen, Konzert- und Festivalhallen bis auf den letzten Zentimeter mit Fans.
Tickets für das Konzert am 24.07. im K17 könnt ihr euch unter www.k17.de sichern.
„Pfingstgeflüster“, der etwas andere Rückblick auf das Wave Gotik Treffen, welcher sich neben der Veranstaltung auch der Stadt Leipzig und der „schwarzen Szene“ widmet, erscheint am 17. Juli 2009 zum vierten Mal.
Eine Vorschau auf den Inhalt, Informationen und Bestellmöglichkeiten gibt es alles auf unserem MySpace-Profil und natürlich unter www.pfingstgefluester.de.
Über Anregungen, Lob und konstruktive Kritik, Wünsche und sonstige Meinungen freuen wir uns sehr. Auch im nächsten Jahr soll es einen hochwertigen Rückblick auf das WGT im Paperbackformat geben.
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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 ‘Welco
TRASH IS BACK! Jetzt hast du die Chance, deinen Film mit uns professionell und publikumswirksam auf Breitbild-Kinoleinwand zu präsentieren. Wir suchen die originellsten Kurzfilme aus den Bereichen Science Fiction, Action, Comedy und Art House Horror.
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