| Member Since | 11/28/2006 | | Band Members | Krista Ryan (I do everything). (Various guest musicians and side projects TBA).
I have 2 other music pages on myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/youlooklikehelenblack
and
http://www.myspace.com/kristalryan.
I just made a music profile on vampirefreaks.com: http://vampirefreaks.com/u/YouLookLikeHelenBlac.......
I have a song on this benefit CD:
| | Influences | MUSICAL INFLUENCES: ALIEN SEX FIEND, ANGELO BADALAMENTI, BAUHAUS, BIKINI KILL, BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB, BLACK SABBATH, BLACK TAPE FOR A BLUE GIRL, BOYD RICE, BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE, BRIGHTER DEATH NOW, BUTTHOLE SURFERS, NICK CAVE, CHRISTIAN DEATH, COIL, COSMIC COINCIDENCE CONTROL CENTER, CRASS, CURRENT 93, DEATH IN JUNE, DEICIDE, EARTH CRISIS, EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN, EXTREME NOISE TERROR, HOVERCRAFT, IN SLAUGHTER NATIVES, JARBOE, KING MISSILE, MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO, ROSE MCDOWALL, MERZBOW, MINISTRY, MOBY, MOTORHEAD, MOZART, NATURE & ORGANISATION, NEUROSIS, NINE INCH NAILS, NON, NURSE WITH WOUND, PIGFACE, PSYCHIC TV, RUDIMENTARY PENI, ARNOLD SCHOENBERG, SEPULTURA, SKINNY PUPPY, SLAYER, SOL INVICTUS, SWANS, DAVID TIBET, TRANCE TO THE SUN, VEGAN BEGAN, VENOM, VIDNA OBMANA, VIVALDI, VOIVOD, WORLD OF SKIN, :wumpscut:...
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MUSIC GENRES: AMBIENT, AVANT-GARDE, DADA, DARK AMBIENT, DARKWAVE, EXPERIMENTAL, FURNITURE MUSIC, INDUSTRIAL, NOISE, NOIZE, OTHER, SPACE MUSIC...
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BOOKS & 'ZINES: "The Consumer" by M. Gira, "Griffin & Sabine" (also "Sabine's Notebook" & "The Golden Mean") by Nick Bantock, "Flesh Guitar" by Geoff Nicholson, "Go Now" by Richard Hell, "My Quest For Beauty" by Rollo May ...........................................................................................................................
OTHER INFLUENCES: Abnormal psychology, alternative medicine, anarchy, animal rights, aromatherapy, astrology, astronomy, astrophysics, avant-garde visual arts, Nick Blinko, Clive Barker, Battlestar Galactica, bohemians, Hieronymous Bosch, Ray Bradbury, brainwashing techniques, Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, cancer, Kurt Cobain, Andrei Codrescu, Colette, conceptual theory, criminal profiling, criminal psychology, Aleister Crowley, cult mentality studies, Jackie Curtis, DIY ethic, Dadaism, Salvador Dali, Guy de Maupassant, Dr. Who, dream analysis, Enneagrams, environmental studies, M.C. Escher, forensic science, French horror stories, H.R. Giger, global warming, Richard Hell, Alfred Hitchcock, horror flicks, hypnosis, industrial imagery, insanity, insomnia, Carl Jung, Jack Kerouac, Stephen King, Stanley Kubrick, Arthur Lee, Lost Highway, H.P. Lovecraft, Lydia Lunch, David Lynch, mania, metaphysics, Henry Miller, mods, Myers-Briggs personality typology, NDE's, neo-paganism, Anton Newcombe, Nietzsche, nightmares, nihilism, the occult, old sci-fi movies, Ophidean Suitheism, paranormal investigation, philosophy, phobias, physics, Marge Piercey, Sylvia Plath, politics, post-apocalyptic imagery, psychedelic subculture, psychology of violence, punk rock, questioning reality, rebellion, Red Dwarf, Trent Reznor, Rollerderby Magazine, Simara Rose, runes, Jan Saudek, schizophrenic artists/writers/musicians, serial killers, SETI, skepticism, sociology, sociopaths, Star Trek, Star Wars, Stargate SG-1, stargazing, "Stranger In A Strange Land", subcultures, Lisa Suckdog, surrealism, tarot cards, David Tibet, The Twilight Zone, Twin Peaks, underground literature, vegan junk food, Wicca, The X-Files, Zardoz and 'zines...
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| | Sounds Like | Sounds like... furniture music? Dark ambient? Darkwave? Avant-garde? Dada? Experimental soundscapes? Space music? New age music? Industrial? Architectural music? Neo-apocalyptic death dirge? Science fiction theme music? A slasher-film soundtrack? Your opinions are welcomed!
 
"I see Industrial, true Industrial, as a continuation of the Dadaist ideology and tradition. As Dadaism was anti-art and confronted the Bourgeois straight on, Industrial was Anti music and anti everything that came before. The early practitioners followed Dada, as is evidenced by their references to Tzara and his contemporaries. They were all about the art, the poetry and the shock tactics. Shock tactics, but with a meaning. Or sometimes not having any meaning at all, but just aiming to confuse or alienate or decieve. Clues being left to see who picks up on what is happening. A wicked playfulness and trickery that the KLF went on to explore later on.
Industrial was born out of miserable factory towns and a bleak Thatcherite, jobless climate that people transcended via art education and cheap electronics.
I see the stuff that's around today as a bunch of crap, mainly. Very few people understand where all of this came from and what it actually meant. The aesthetic has been embraced, but the actual meaning has mostly been lost along the way. A lot of modern work is empty, vaccuous crap that's often just rock music with synthesizers and drum machines instead of traditional instruments. People always forget that these things started as more than just a 'sound', but were a valid art movement. A confrontational socio-political movement.
I'd love there to be more art and happenings and performance and confrontations and sheer fucking chaos involved instead of all these whiney fucks from comfortable backgrounds making 'angry electronic music' involving overdriven vocals and synth arpeggios set to bit-crushed drums."
--Splitter
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"Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in neutral Zürich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1920. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature (poetry, art manifestoes, art theory), theatre, and graphic design, which concentrated its anti war politic through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through anti-art cultural works.
Dada activities included public gatherings, demonstrations, and publication of art/literary journals. Passionate coverage of art, politics, and culture filled their publications. The movement was a protest against the barbarism of World War I, the bourgeois interests that Dada adherents believed inspired the war, and what they believed was an oppressive intellectual rigidity in both art and everyday society. The movement influenced later styles, movements, and groups including surrealism, Pop Art and Fluxus. Dada was an international movement, and it is difficult to classify artists as being from any one particular country, as they were constantly moving from one place to another.
What is Dada?
According to its proponents, Dada was not art .. it was "anti-art". Dada sought to fight art with art. For everything that art stood for, Dada was to represent the opposite. Where art was concerned with aesthetics, Dada ignored aesthetics. If art were to have at least an implicit or latent message, Dada strove to have no meaning .. interpretation of Dada is dependent entirely on the viewer. If art is to appeal to sensibilities, Dada is to offend. It is perhaps then ironic that Dada became an influential movement in modern art. Dada became a commentary on order and the carnage they believed it wreaked. Through this rejection of traditional culture and aesthetics they hoped to destroy traditional culture and aesthetics.
According to Tristan Tzara, "God and my toothbrush are Dada, and New Yorkers can be Dada too, if they are not already." A reviewer from the American Art News stated that "The Dada philosophy is the sickest, most paralyzing and most destructive thing that has ever originated from the brain of man." Art historians have described Dada as being, in large part, "in reaction to what many of these artists saw as nothing more than an insane spectacle of collective homicide." Years later, Dada artists described the movement as "a phenomenon bursting forth in the midst of the postwar economic and moral crisis, a savior, a monster, which would lay waste to everything in its path. [It was] a systematic work of destruction and demoralization...In the end it became nothing but an act of sacrilege." Reason and logic had led people into the horrors of war; the only route to salvation was to reject logic and embrace anarchy and the irrational. However, this could also be thought of as the logical side of anarchy and rejection of values and order. It is not irrational to embrace the systematic destruction of values, if one thinks them to be flawed."
--From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Discipline is really necessary. We are working within a discipline-- the discipline of pop musik... We're now trying to put things we found out into structures. But that's not to say that we were chaos before. But we're now trying to work with song structures in order to dissolve them."
--Blixa Bargeld | | Type of Label | Major |
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