My name is Angelica and I’m a twenty-eight year old woman from Sweden. I was born on the 29th of July 1983 in the northern part of the country but live in the south since many years. Me and my two cats, Sarah and Nicky Wire, share a small but lovely apartment in the city of Västerås, located about an hour from Stockholm.

At the moment I’m rethinking my life, trying to figure out what I want to do with it. Before that I studied web design, IT, Flash, 3D modelling, graphic design and political history as a distance education university student.

In my spare time I enjoy doing creative things. I paint and draw (both digitally and traditionally), I build web sites, I write, I sew and create things out of just about anything, including – in the case of web design at least – thin air.

Besides creativity I also fill my life with music and literature. I enjoy many literature genres but in my large collection of books fantasy is what you’ll find the most of.

When it comes to music I have a preference for alternative rock, goth, industrial, indie pop and punk. My favourite band is Manic Street Preachers who I admire immensely not only for their brilliant music but also for their intellect. Among other things they sing songs about politics from a left-wing stance which I being of the same political stance of course find extremely inspiring.

Being left-wing socialism, feminism, vegetarianism (although I’m a pescetarian, a vegetarian who eats dairy, eggs and fish) and environmentalism are ideologies I subscribe to. Call me an idealist, I’m proud to be one.

“Mushrooms, poppies, sugar and spice, all those things are very nice.”
18:th century fashion and architecture. 80s goth. Adventures. Auctions. Antique books. Black and white. British accent. Castles. Converse All Stars. Counter culture. Cyberpunk. Fairy tales. Famous outlaws. Fantasy. Geocaching. Interior design. My little ponies. Piercings. Pirates. Post-apocalyptic and dystopic societies. Silver stars. Snow leopard print. Steampunk. Surreal art. The hippie lifestyle. The middle-ages. The sea. The wild west. Travelling. Vampires. Visby and the medieval week. White flowers. Zombies.

Alternative rock, Goth, Industrial, Indie Pop, Punk, Metal, Folk.
Abney Park. Alanis Morisette. All Gone Dead. Blackmore’s Night. Blind Guardian. Broder Daniel. Charta 77. Cirkus Miramar. Dia Psalma. Emilie Autumn. Garmarna. HIM. Hole. Kent. KMFDM. Lars Winnerbäck. Loke. Manic Street Preachers. My Chemical Romance. Nirvana. Nordman. Placebo. Scary Bitches. Sex Gang Children. Silverchair. Siouxsie and the Banshees. Suede. Theatre of Tragedy. The Birthday Massacre. The Cure. The Sisters of Mercy.

My music collection holds more than 200 different bands and artists so what’s listed here are just those of my favourites which I’ve either listened to for many years and/or heard just about every single song by. There’s so much more so for more info on what I listen to check out my last.fm. Everything I’ve listened to since April 2006 (I’ve ripped my entire CD-collection so I only listen to music on the computer) is listed there so you can’t possibly get a more accurate picture of my taste in music than that. The lists below are from said site.

My all time top artists: This weeks top artists: My recently played tracks:

Adventure, Drama, Historical, Horror, Fantasy, Post-apocalyptic.
28 Days Later. Almost Famous. Bang Bang You’re Dead. Beauty and the Best. Bonnie and Clyde. Bowling For Columbine. Corpse Bride. Cutthroat Island. Dazed and Confused. Far and Away. Girl, Interrupted. Hair. Highlander. Hocus Pocus. Indiana Jones 1-4. Interview With the Vampire. Jimmy and Judy. Klass. Mean Girls. Moulin Rouge. Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy. Robin Hood – Prince of Thieves. Sleepy Hollow. Star Wars. Suburbia. Terminator 2. The Addams Family 1 and 2. The Breakfast Club. The Crow. The Grudge. The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The Neverending Story. The Three Musketeers. Tillsammans. Titanic. Tjenare kungen. Tuck Everlasting. Twelve Monkeys. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape. Wristcutters: A Love Story. Young Guns I and II. Zero day.

Drama, Crime, Comedy, Horror, Post-apocalyptic, Sci-Fi.
Are You Afraid of the Dark? Bones. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eureka. Extreme Makeover – The Home Edition. Friends. Freaks and Geeks. Gilmore Girls. Glee. Hex. How I Met Your Mother. Jericho. Masters of Horror. My So-called Life. NCIS. Nile City 105,6. Percy tårar. Pistvakt. Road to Avonlea. Supernatural. Survivors (BBC series, NOT the reality show!). The Stand. The Vampire Diaries. The Walking Dead. The X-files. True Blood. Viva La Bam.

• Favourite books:
• Douglas Adams – The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
• Brooks Brown – No easy answers – The truth behind death at Columbine
• Jenny Downham – Before i die
• Unni Drougge – Regnbågens tid
• Maria Gripe – Skuggböckerna
• Johanne Hildebrandth – Sagan om Valhalla-trilogy
• Robin Hobb – The Liveship Traders-trilogy
• Katharine Kerr – The Deverry-series
• Stephen King – The Stand
• Elizabeth Kostova – The Historian
• John Ajvide Lindqvist – Hanteringen av odöda, Let the right one in
• Stephenie Meyer – The Twilight-saga
• Anne Rice – The Vampire Chronicles.
• J.K Rowling – Harry Potter
• Gena Showalter – Oh My Goth
• Deborah Spungen – And I Don’t Want To Live This Life
• Lina Strandberg – När mörkret kom
• J.R.R Tolkien – Lord of the Rings-trilogy
• Tad Williams – The War of the Flowers
• Marion Zimmer Bradley – The Mists of Avalon
• Sofia Åkerman – Zebraflickan

• Books read in 2011:
• Diana Wynne Jones – House of Many Ways (Finished July 28)
• Diana Wynne Jones – Castle in the Air (Finished July 3
• Diana Wynne Jones – Howl’s Moving Castle (Finished June 29)
• Kathleen McGowan – The Expected One (Finished June 22)
• Elizabeth Kostova – The Historian (Finished March 31)
• L.J. Smith – Night World No. 2 (Finished March 16)

• Books read in 2010:
• Kerstin Ekman – Häxringarna (Finished December 12)
• William Sutcliffe – Are You Experienced? (Finished November 14)
• Deborah Laake – Secret Ceremonies (Finished May 4)
• Kate Mosse – Sepulchre (Finished April 8 )
• Kylie Fitzpatrick – Tapestry (Finished February 12)
• Chris Patmore – The Complete Animation Course (Finished February 1)
• Dan Brown – The Lost Symbol (Finished January 24)
• Dan Brown – Digital Fortress (Finished January 21)
• Gena Showalter – Oh My Goth (Finished January 16)
• Zana Muhsen – Sold: Story of Modern-day Slavery (Finished January 5)
• L.J. Smith – Night World No. 1 (Finished January 5)

My book case:
View the complete list of all the books I own.