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About your Sitemistress
While you've been wandering around the site, drinking in all of the tidbits about Julian and (undoubtedly drooling over) the images, you may have wondered who this person was who put all of this hard work into creating this site. (What kind of nut would do this and why?) I've had a few questions of this nature directed at me since this site was started, and while I have held off putting any personal information up on the site until now, I figured with the expansion and increasing profile of the site, it was about time I did something of that nature. So, here we go!
I'm
28 years old. My friends all call me Lace. 
No,
it's not my given name, but I like it, and if you call me anything
else I tend not to answer to it. I'm single, and likely to remain
that way (a long and involved story, but I'm generally content with
the solitary life). I'm a vegetarian. I've just bought my first home,
for myself and my 5 children (three of the feline variety and two of
the canine variety) to be closer to my Mother Ocean. Most recently
I've been an administrative assistant and webmistress for a real
estate and construction business. Before that, I was a receptionist
at Planned Parenthood, and I liked that job well enough to want to do
it again some day.
My
education/training lies in an altogether different field, though: I
was trained as a sound engineer, which goes right along with my
soul-deep love of music. I play guitar (rather well, or so I've been
told) and piano (well enough not to embarrass myself). I had some
education in film production and writing to go along with my training
as a sound engineer. Along the way, I've also been a photographer, a
writer, and a silversmith/jewelry designer. More recently, I've been
spending a large portion of my time (beyond what is devoted to this
site) designing web graphics (you can see some of those in the art
studio on my other site The
White Rose Emporium) and doing some freelance website design.
If
you're aware of the content and subject-matter of The White Rose
Emporium, you'll know I have some interest in Celtic and Pagan
religion and witchcraft (not at all what Julian Sands' Warlock
character was: as a rule, Pagans do not even believe in a
"devil" - that's a Judeo-Christian thing, and Pagan beliefs
are much older than that, and a "warlock" is an
"oathbreaker" to a witch, if they use the term at
all...). Suffice it to say that I worship both a God and a Goddess,
and am a titled priestess in my faith. If you want to know more, I'd
recommend you just go ahead and visit The
White Rose Emporium site. I've put a lot of work into both
sites, but even though it's been sorely neglected of late, the bulk
of The White Rose Emporium has been created from scratch, right down
to the graphics and nearly all of the articles. And as close as my
spiritual and religious beliefs are to my heart, that site has to be
equally close, as it is the physical representation of those beliefs.
It's quite interesting for me to notice how the Julian Sands site has grown when I make that comparison, because really, when it started out, that site was just an attempt to pull together all of the various sources on the Internet that I found when I was looking for information on one of my favorite unknown actors. I got tired of checking hundreds of pages in multiple search engines looking for some interesting tidbit that I hadn't already found and then mostly ending up with useless lists and advertisements (which is ironic considering that that is the main way I keep the site up to date now!). I wanted to have "one-stop shopping" for the information. I wished there was an official Julian Sands site or maybe a dedicated fan who perhaps managed a more comprehensive site for an unofficial fan club or something. Well, there wasn't. And with some good experience designing websites under my belt after putting together The White Rose Emporium, I decided I might as well take a shot at it myself!
So, really, starting the site was not so much a way for me to express my appreciation for Julian (Which is also to say I'm not stalking Julian! While I admire Julian rather a lot. and in a number of ways, I'm not interested in stalking anyone.) as it was a solution to the problem of finding information on him, a problem which I knew I was not the only one experiencing. I find Julian to be a fascinating individual, but I don't think I would have spent the amount of time I have on this site if there had been a comprehensive site already in existence (being rather much of a perfectionist doesn't hurt now that I've gotten started, either).
You might wonder why it is that Julian is one of my all-time favorite people. Well, it doesn't hurt that he's gorgeous, and very much "my type", with that lovely longish blonde hair, strong face and intense blue eyes. He's also rather tall, which, as a tall woman, I rather like; and his body's in perfect proportion to his height.
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But it's far more than his physical looks that make him so eminently watchable. He has a charisma, a charm, which goes well beyond being handsome. His intensity and passion come through in every look and every movement, giving his characters life beyond what most actors are capable of attaining. He also has a refinement which goes beyond the classy English accent, and says quite clearly, even when he is not speaking, that this is a man whose mind bends around the intellectual and philosophical with ease. A passionate man who thinks! And makes it apparent every moment of his life. Who could resist that? And, as I continue to learn more about Julian by working on the site, I continue to find more and more things about him to like.
Some of my other favorite things:
Music: The
Fixx (Hi, guys, fellow Fixxtures!), Sarah McLachlan, Stevie Ray
Vaughn, U2 (not the newer stuff), Shriekback/King Swamp, Fleetwood
Mac/Stevie Nicks/Lindsey Buckingham, Daniel Lanois, Loreena
McKennitt, Duran Duran (not the newer stuff)/Arcadia, Social
Distortion, The Police/Sting, The Pogues, Big Country, King (very
obscure), Sinéad O'Connor, Camper Van Beethoven, Metallica,
Stone Temple Pilots, modern Celtic music in general
Art:
John William Waterhouse, Maxfield Parish, Neo-Classical sculpture,
Pre-Raphaelite art, Art Nouveau
Actors: Jean Réno, Harrison Ford, Armand Assanti, Mark Ryan, Colm Meaney, Robin Atkin Downes, Michael Ironside, Dermot Mulroney, Seth Green, Isabella Rossellini, Isabelle Adjani, Virginia Madsen, Julie Delpy, Marisa Tomei, Patricia Tallman
Movies: Julian's films, A Walk in the Clouds, Like Water for Chocolate (subtitled, not dubbed), Citizen Kane, Untamed Heart, Camille Claudel (ditto, on the subtitles), The Big Blue, Before Sunrise, Lady Jane, Against All Flags
Writers: Patricia Kennealy Morrison, Mercedes Lackey, John & Caitlin Matthews, Rupert Brooke, John Boyle O'Reilly, Percy Bysshe Shelley
Television:
La Femme Nikita, Babylon 5, Roswell, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The
Pretender, the old Robin of Sherwood series, Chicago Hope, Bill Nye
the Science Guy
Memberships/Causes: Mensa, Amnesty International, Greenpeace, Planned Parenthood, PFLAG (Parents, Friends & Families of Lesbians and Gays), Blue Belt in American Karate
Places: the ocean; Dublin, Ireland; Walt Disney World; Nice, France; London; Morocco, Istanbul, Kenya, Greece, Venice, New Orleans and San Francisco all seem nice, but I have yet to visit any of them...
Miscellaneous: Sleeping Beauty; Eeyore; Fender guitars; white roses; the beach; the ocean; thunderstorms; the moon; tattoos; traditional archery; swords and daggers; silver jewelry; pewter fairies, witches and goddesses; my "little" (all 6'2"+ of him) brother, Rain; polar bears; tigers; hawks; butterflies; men with long and/or red hair, or green eyes; all things Celtic
Pet peeves/dislikes: people who use the word Witch as if it were a less profane synonym for b**** (I use "wench", myself...); people who lie to you because they think it will go better for them if they tell you what they think you want to hear; people who play mind-games; passive-aggressives; "empty shoe" shots in the news; pop-ups on websites :P; the Christian [not] Right, the [less than] Moral [non-]Majority; the petroleum mentality (solar energy, people!); gory, pointless horror movies that take themselves too seriously; rollercoasters; raisins; red inkpens; people who aren't nice to others
Quotes:
Jim Morrison:
"What ARE you?" / Patricia Kennealy (soon-to-be) Morrison:
"A Witch."
(Patricia's
one of my all-time favorite people. A truly great Lady...)
Q: So you think
intelligence leads to trouble?
A: from
Director Mike Figgis (musing on the subject of actor Robert Downey,
Jr.): "It's a kind of curiosity. I think the brighter you are,
your thirst for knowledge will take you to areas that are, quote,
dumb, sometimes. Because there's a certain courage that comes with
that curiosity, with that kind of intelligence. And most of us are
meager. And most of us very quickly recognize that when you put your
hand on the hot plate, it hurts, rather than, 'I wonder what the
hurting feels like.'"
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