Greetings

Good morning, ATS members.

I am Erek, or Vex, whichever you feel so inclined to address me by. I have been a member of this website for many months (a 'lurker' for longer than that), but I tend to be more of a reader than participant, so I never composed an introduction post for myself. I have started to feel that this was a little rude of me, so I thought that it was time that I rectified the situation.

As i have said, I do not post or comment very often, but I enjoy many of the threads that I read here. Being a Minister (Church of affiliation to remain nameless, thank you) I am especially partial to religious topics, but you will not find me preaching to or chastising others for holding beliefs other than my own. In fact, I rather love learning what beliefs others are passionate about, be they spiritual or otherwise.

On a more personal note, I love music above all things. I am a fan of metal (black, death, doom, thrash...you name it), industrial, classical, opera, and even country (although I prefer older country music rather than most of the new country I have heard). I have my own solo music project, Stygiophilia (industrial black metal), that I have been playing at for many years. I am also a rather big theatre buff, musical or otherwise.

Books are another passion of mine, and I love nothing more than to spend hours upon hours listening to music while I read. My favourite books are by the author, and my friend, Thomas E. Sniegoski. I also highly enjoy the novels of Christopher Moore, Neil Gaiman and Clive Barker (especially his books of plays). I will watch any film involving Guillermo del Toro. As something of a make-up artist myself, I always love to see the make-up work and creature designs in his films.

I am more than a bit of a World of Warcraft 'nerd', as well as a proud Brony. WoW and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic accomplish the difficult task of bringing some semblance of joy to my otherwise tedious world. I also write a web comic, Satan Saves!, that amuses me greatly when nothing else seems to do the trick.

Well, I suppose that I have rambled on enough for now. It is a pleasure to finally greet you all properly, and I look forward to my occasional interactions with all of you.

~Erek "Vex" Vaehne

reply to post by Vaehne

May your time be long and your interest wide. Erm..wait...you are a Preacher but like Black Metal? I guess the Aliens Priest can't hold a candle to you! (An article here on ATS. about a Pastor who has an Alien themed Church ..)

Be welcome and feel free to pull up a Pew. I hope to see you around. But now, mu bed is calling me ungodly names. I'm a Pastafarian at the moment. "May His noodly appendage be upon you."

Considering that you've been 'around' for such awhile.. I'll just cut to the chase and give you your presentation tour.

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Originally posted by LightSpeedDriver
reply to post by Vaehne

 

May your time be long and your interest wide. Erm..wait...you are a Preacher but like Black Metal? I guess the Aliens Priest can't hold a candle to you!

(An article here on ATS. about a Pastor who has an Alien themed Church ..)

Be welcome and feel free to pull up a Pew. I hope to see you around.

But now, mu bed is calling me ungodly names. I'm a Pastafarian at the moment. "May His noodly appendage be upon you."

edit on 26/2/12 by LightSpeedDriver because: Grammar

edit on 26/2/12 by LightSpeedDriver because: Ty

Ah, I have not seen this Alien Church thread. I must investigate!

Thank you for your kind welcome. Rest well, and may His noodly appendage also be with you! ~_^

~V

reply to post by JohnnyAnonymous


I thank you kindly and will peruse these links carefully so that I will not embarrass myself while on ATS. ~_^

~V