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: Sabato 28 Novembre - (Roma) In My Rosary + In Loving Memory
(dark.neofolk.new-wave) In Concerto a seguire dj set incubation: Minox,+Deathwish+,Alessio,Psychodark. (postpunk.dark.coldwave.goth.batcave.punk) da non perdere....
thanks for taking the time to add us! did you have a good night? we will be back in germany in may for a tour so hopefully you'll be able to catch us then!
Hi! Just wanted to make sure all my friends know that my new erotic horror novel THE 13TH is now in stores everywhere! I hope you'll check out this debauched and demonic horror ride!
There's even a website devoted just to the book, with an interactive map of the places and characters at www.the13th-horror.com.
Edward Lee called THE 13TH "A double-barreled shotgun blast of macabre entertainment -- an expert amalgamation of grotesquerie, eroticism, mystery, and pitch-black occult horror that no fan of the genre can miss."
And Gary A. Braunbeck said, "John Everson's The 13th is the first out-and-out horror novel in a long while to actually scare the **** out of me while reading it. It's stylish, extremely well-written, filled with richly-drawn characterizations, and boasts a labyrinthine plot worthy of Umberto Eco. Trust me -- this one will fry your nerves and break your heart."
Hi my dear friend, great news for you and for me. Now you can buy my album from this post. You can Download It directly to your pc or buy a Physical CD, also you can buy my music as a Ringtone for your Movil. Just click in what you want in the next widget and follow the instructions.
And again, thanks for your support.
Buenas Lunas, Sólo decirles que ahora pueden comprar mi album desde este post. Pueden Descargarlo directamente a su pc o adquirir mi album en CD Físico, también pueden comprar mi música en forma de Ringtone para su celular.
Hey..:) Freitag 13 November, "ICH BIN EIN BERLINER FESTIVAL" PartIV..@SO36 ...
Einlass 21:00!! ***Show-beginn 22:00***
4 Live Bands :
- Aerea Negrot (Electro/Tech/Pop)
- Platzblanche (Electro/Disco/Wave)
- The Moustache (Electro/Post-Punk)
- Electronicat (Electro/rockabilly/Exp)
4 Dj..s :
- Electrosexuel (Electro/showtunes/Afrobeat)
- Two For The Show (live) (Indietronic)
- Emmanuelle 5 (Electro/Glam/rock)
- David Maars (Electro/Disco/Wave)
1 Burlesque Show : -Mademoiselle Kla
Online Now!
Hi! Just wanted to make sure all my friends know that my new erotic horror novel 
