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ReichEngel
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Latest Journal Entry: i now resemble roadkill more closely than usual December 29, 2008, 07:35am
Profile: Well, hello there. Ica's the name. I'm something of a reckless, moody, opinionated scoundrel.I scribble poetry and make vague attempts to draw and paint, I'm also a voracious but slow and thorough reader, and drink copious amounts of black tea. I was born in the month o' December , in a port-city by the name of Vladivostok , in Russia. I've lived in Australia for the past 8 years. I like military history and Romantic poetry. I'm not famed for being very likeable - and this is probably with good reason. Likes: sunset light in dusty warehouses, my hand-me-down cat Grey, invading abandoned factories, drawing, listening, watching, trench warfare, anything to do with Erwin Rommel, fire, old Wespes, dating men of questionable sanity, singing badly at the top of my lungs, heights, asking questions, the black plague, peculiar senses of humour, rifles, WWI, parsnips, bunkers, the beauty found in minute detail, lavender blossoms ,watching cars rush by below an overpass, walking down the middle of two way roads, wandering without a particular purpose, the Pre-Raphaelites, anything to do with the Afrika Corps, WWII history in general, Russian history, Aztec and Slav mythology(actually, mythology in general), antagonists, mind games, the German approach to handling the longsword (much preferred to the Anglo-Celtic school), arguing, poetry, Goethe, scribbling on walls, the German language, languages in general, Baudelaire, chess, journals and journaling, rings from coffee cups on pages, dancing, bonfires, lipstick stains on coffee cup edges, graphology, P.B. Shelley, music, moths ,daddy longlegs, the smell of old books, Solomon Asch, travelling by train, railroads, art galleries, decent coffee, the good old SA, Shakespeare, palmistry, sleeping(when able to), mind games, scapegoats, my dislikes list, my time alone, sincere laughter, my habits, rain at night, actually, the rain full stop, abstract thinking....Dislikes: self-imposed ignorance, holding faith to any local political party, needy stalkers, swollen egos, bands that pride themselves on being lame, the kind of psychology student (well, actually, any student) that just parrots off whatever they're told, disregards contradictions and questions nothing, petty scum, people who can't argue their opinion, Basquait, television , individuals whose social lives consume their mind, Himmler, Goering, lazy muses, fashionable mental disorders, my frequent bouts of nostalgia, blackmail, that band kriegsberichter, people who pose for photographs with fake guns... fake guns, fake flowers, fake hair, people who collect shit wobbly swords and decorative weapons made from pressed tin, the term "to date", wanton animal cruelty(maim fellow men but leave the animals alone)...(i do, however reserve my right to eat and wear all the fuzzy cute fuckers i bloody well want),Siegfried Kracauer and other wanky , inept social critics from the 30's, most modern art, money lovin' skum, cultural relativists, trendy post-modernists, sophistos of any sort, most monotheists and the fundamental ideals of the major "religions of the book", the fact that I'm useless at maths, being approached by members of the Socialist Alliance (and similar groups) who automatically assume I will support their cause as I'm slightly odd-looking and an immigrant, Epistemophobes, Eleutherophobes, the fact that being artistically inclined seems to mean you must be intensely left-wing in a vague and fashionable manner, people on the feminist bandwagon, feminist readings of texts, most feminists, whiny pseudo-intellectual pseudo-rightists and pseudo-leftists, people who call me a nazi for the WRONG reasons, people who write my autobiography for me, "artistes", art snobs, art patrons, most of the local "art scene", Susan Sontag, men named David, the current state of affairs...the list could go on....Favorite Music: Rammstein, Leonard Cohen, Kimmo Pohjonen, The Bolshoi, Wumpscut, The Crooked Fiddle Band, Delerium, Machina Vremeni,Philip Glass, Mumiy Troll, DDT, Nautilus Pompillius,the sound of the rain, wind in dry grass, the rattle of trains, creaking old buildings, Suicide Commando, Dead Can Dance, Little Birdie, Melnitsa and Illet(Russian neo-folk bands),Dolls Head, Smashing Pumpkins , Falkenbach, Sigur Rois, W. A. Mozart(Dies Irae is love) , Rachmaninov, Big Electric Cat,familiar human voices, Kraftwerk, Uriah Heep, Assemblage 23, Sisters of Mercy, Bjork, Wolfsheim (selectively), Front 242, The last unicorn soundtrack(shut up and don't laugh, or i'll have your tongue),Agatsuma ,Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Joe Henry, SA marches, Kobalt, The Cure(on occasion), Restrukture, Butterfly Temple, Lacrimosa, Goethes Erbens, Autumn Rain Melancholy, Feindflug, Cherry Poppin' Daddies....i'm sure thre's plenty i've failed to mention, but this should be enough to give you a general impression of my tastes.Homepage: http://grind-the-rust.deviantart.com/gallery Link 1: http://nocleanfeed.com/ Link 2: http://http://nocleanfeed.com/learn.html#reading
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