NAME: S.D.
DATE OF BIRTH: 19.02.1986
CONTACT & LINKS:-
winfalcon@hotmail.co.uk
www.myspace.com/winfalcon
www.theebigblack.com
ABOUT: I'm a chap of fairly simple pleasures, my favourite things include wine, breasts, cups of tea, and "tarting about a bit". I hold a degree in Film Study, which I completed at the University of Sussex between 2005 - 2009. I like to write about things that entertain or inspire me culturally, and hopefully provide worthwhile opinions in that capacity. I have written freelance if and when possible over the last five years, and also contribute and administrate at the independent website and magazine, Thee Big Black.
I don't know what else to say other than that, feel free to ask though.
STAFF BIOGRAPHY: I first encountered Marilyn Manson at the tender age of twelve, shortly after the release of Mechanical Animals, in late 1998. I had heard the band's cover of Sweet Dreams, and intrigued by the sound, I asked a helpful, though unreliable music store employee whether it was featured on the most recent Manson release. Telling me "yes", I purchased Mechanical Animals (already enrapt with the curious sexual imagery of the artwork, it felt like I'd bought a porno I didn't understand, and as though I'd have to learn sex education all over again), and eagerly took it home to listen. Though disappointed not to find the track I had been after, it almost became entirely irrelevant as I was treated to a soundscape unlike any I had heard before. Evoking records I had known from a musical upbringing of T. Rex, Gary Glitter, Nick Cave and Joan Jett, my life and ears were changed there and then.
Since that point Marilyn Manson became the cultural figure (and musical group) whose canon I have gravitated towards and been intrigued by the most above any artist, and that same record still holds position as the most beautiful and well-crafted piece of music I will ever hear (its penultimate track even being the inspiration for the title of this site). As a writer, lyricist, painter, philosopher, aesthete, commentator and wit, Manson has been instrumental in some of the ways I understand, appreciate, approach, and challenge the world, for which I will always owe a debt. More than just a musician, Manson is for those who know what to look for, a tutor.
Having been part of former Marilyn Manson online collectives now no longer with us, in 2009, an administration team was formed to create Provider Module, using the two words I had wanted to have represent a fully comprehensive Marilyn Manson reference site, and fastidiously drawing together the talents and resources of three lifelong enthusiasts. My role here is chiefly as writer, so where text exists, I hope people enjoy it.
INTERESTS & MEDIA: With the particulars always too vast to list, my living space is more of a house to many thousands of films, books and records than it is to me, which is what makes it where I am at home. Cinema is my drug, music is my companion, and literature is my teacher. I believe entertainment and culture should always be extreme, and reactions to them similarly so.
In equal measure, I admire the cinematic works of Roman Polanski, Alfred Hitchcock, Ridley Scott, Chris Marker, Jeunet & Caro, Fritz Lang, Neil Jordan and Todd Haynes, and the select acting talents of Bette Davis, Christian Bale, Gene Wilder, Mia Farrow, Johnny Depp, Oliver Reed, Christina Ricci, Edward Norton, Cillian Murphy, Marilyn Monroe, Jodie Foster and David Bowie, to name a few.
Favoured authors include Phillip K. Dick, Nick Cave, Oscar Wilde, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, Mary Shelley, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Frances Hodgson Burnett, J.G. Ballard and George Orwell.
I grew up on a diet of Seventies records in the early Nineties, which is probably a good thing, there wasn't much competition for my attention at the time. The sounds of Black Sabbath, T. Rex, Suzi Quattro and Slade were bombastic enough to give me the desire to seek out music that makes you want to "do" something. Music is a constant, and I think you experience it, you don't just listen to it. Besides the obvious figure to which this site is devoted, the musicians I hold in highest regard, in no specific order, include Queen, Fiona Apple, Manic Street Preachers, Iggy & The Stooges, Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, David Bowie, Velvet Revolver, Tom Waits, Rachel Stamp, The Doors, Johnny Cash, The Cramps, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, The Cure, Scott Weiland, and The Faint.
Anyone who knows me will also confirm that I have a vast and entirely unhealthy interest in Doctor Who, and the decade or more's worth of paraphernalia related to it that inhabits my house.
