Du Dunkelheit, aus der ich stamme ( Read more... )

Short update, but I have to share this, because GUYS GUYS GUYS I NEARLY FELL OVER A DEER TODAY. I was out in Dalby Forest with my parents and apprentice_lurk, and I was leading the way as we went down a narrow trail. All of a sudden, out of the undergrowth less than twenty feet from me, up popped a roe deer buck with a full set of antlers, his coat shining russet ( Read more... )

I've always wanted to try my hand at the Urban Explorer thing. I love lonely, lost, derelict and secret places, and climbing around them with a camera sounds like awesome fun. Unfortunately, due partly to having been raised with a healthy fear of the law and therefore being a bit nervous about the whole potential-trespassing aspect, and partly to ( Read more... )

Today, I spent all day expecting a phone call from the printers to tell me that they'd done my flyers that I need to promote the upcoming Ravenage/Old Corpse Road gig around Whitby Goth Weekend, and also the other flyers I'm also handing out which are for the new record store in Whitby Shambles (run by an awesome bloke name of Paul, his website is ( Read more... )

They say, beware of [horror] geeks bearing gifts...

...or in this case, accept the gift with enthusiasm, cos it turned out to be a fantastic one. ^_^ Many thanks to the lovely hellbound_heart for providing the material for this episode of Movie Night, in the form of a film that I'd heard of a few times in the past, but knew nothing about. Quite how, based on a ( Read more... )

So, since apparently there's been all this epic solar storm stuff going on (that'll be why my cellphone has been as much use as a small brick all afternoon, then) I went out onto the cliffs to look for the Northern Lights. I didn't see them ( Read more... )

I'd have made this post a long time ago, but when I first wanted to, there weren't any good photos online that could have served to illustrate it. Thankfully, the wonders of the internet have now changed that, so, here we go, since I've got some free time here.

A few years ago, I went to Paris with lonescorpion, and among the various other places we went ( ( Read more... )

You know those Japanese and other Far Eastern pop/rock bands where you get pretty boys who kiss and cuddle onstage to delight their fans? Well, guess what - there really is a metal answer to EVERYTHING, and this time I don't just mean Children of Bodom...

I have literally never seen anything quite so awesome as this. Ever.That is Swedish Black ( Read more... )

Yes, I am still doing these, honest, around the edges of the violent Black Metal kick I've gone on recently. >.> From hellbound_heart: Neofolk!

( Not a morris dance in sight. )

Lo, Be It Known that it was totally my fault that someone just played Mayhem's Buried By Time And Dust over the PA in the upstairs of a pub in Whitby ( Read more... )