STATS STUFF:

Name: Artemisia
Real name: Lhizz
E-mail address: artemisia#innocent.com or octopus#ihug.co.nz
Web page: http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~octopus/artemisia.htm
Other newsgroups you frequent: alt.gothic.fashion, alt.books.poppy-z-brite, nz.soc.queer
Length of time on the 'net: since January 1996
Length of time as a net.goth: same, I think
Place of residence: Auckland, New Zealand

APPEARANCE:

Chromosonal makeup: unfortunately I left my electronic microscope in
my other jacket...
Age: 27
Height: 5'7.5"
Weight: about 70kgs
Hair for this week: black-but-not-as-black-as-it-should-be - grrr
Natural haircolor: can't remember, but by the look of my regrowth it could have mutated to a nice coco-cola-in-sunlight colour
Eyes: hazel
Tattoos: 2 (octopus on left shoulder, flaming pentacle on right buttock)
Piercings: 6 (three each ear) soon growing to 5 in each ear
Preferred clothing: long black skirts/dresses, Docs, big black coat
Caught in the act clothes*: um, Ugg boots - so shoot me, they're fecking warm!

[*caught in the act refers to caught in the act of not being goth (oh the horror!)]

LIFESTYLE:

Occupation: administrator/office/manager/general dogsbody for jukebox/pool table company
But I'd really like to be a: housewife ;) or this week's ideal profession - conservator!
Martial status: happily handfasted
Mating status: idle
Sexual preference: serial monogamously bisexual
Number of other acg'ers you've been "intimate" with: 0 (but I seem to know an awful lot about their sex lives anyway - go figure)
Religion: Catholic voudoun witch
Hours of sleep per day: never enough...
Time of day when you're at your best: 2am, as long as I have had enough sleep earlier in the day.
Pets: Information Superhighway the silver tabby
Dietary classification: Cajun
Perky/mopey/neither: moerky, currently mopey...
Liver: recovering
Hobbies: reading, music, shopping, painting, arthouse movies, genealogy and family history, collecting old photos and ceramic cats, crochet, patchwork, sewing clothes.

FAVOURITES:

Band: Dead Can Dance, with The Smiths and Nick Cave as runners up, but there's oodles of them.
Band that you are ashamed to admit you like on here: I have no shame - there are no bad music genres, just bad music
Pub: The Oxy (RIP), currently the Cellar
Cafe: NetCentral and Kamo
Club: *ahem* next
Epitaph: don't know, but I want it to have "relict" on there somewhere...
Book/author: Poppy Z Brite, Storm Constantine, "The Bone People", "And The Ass Saw The Angel", the "Chung Kuo" saga.
TV show: currently Game On and Changing Rooms, sadly missed: The Goodies, Neverwhere and A Very Peculiar Practice
Actor/actress: Julian Sands, Naveen Andrews, Kristin Scott Thomas, Wynona Ryder
Movie: Bladerunner, Imprompt, City Of Lost Children, Room With A View
Artist/artwork: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Frida Kahlo, Alexis Hunter, Rossetti's "Beata Beatrix"
Animal: cats and seals
Food: chocolate, cajun, japanese
Drink: coke, Chartreuse
Texture: latex and velour
Place to go: Kawau Island, The Domain, Wellington

MISCELLANY:

If you were stranded on a tropical island, what three things would you want with you?

1) my SO
2) constantly updating library
3) means to escape

Thin Elvis or Fat Elvis: Fat Elvis - the only *real* Elvis.

What is your greatest desire right now: to eat something sweet and win the lottery (which I won't do, because I forgot to buy a ticket)

What pisses you off the most: the shit in this world that people seem to be prepared to let happen; lack of empathy; people who let their personal prejudices affect the lives of other people.

What has the exact opposite effect: love and affection; bittersweet memories (mine and others) that reveal the complexities of human behaviour.

Anything else you want to say that you don't feel is covered above: what about: favourite comic, then eh?