Pictured to the left, Jasmine is fending off a fit of the giggles. Hence the strange set of her jaw. Yes, even a deranged lunatic like that loses a grip on her guffaws from time to time.
Jasmine Sailing used to put more time into crashing conventions than running them, or at least into staring dazedly from her perch on panels she was signed up for at them, and still isn't quite certain of what she got herself into by deciding to be the Chair Tyrant and Programming Director for Death Equinox. Before insanity struck and possessed her to run the convention, she'd dabbled in promoting film showings and music festivals in Denver, Colorado.
Having entered the promotional fields as a "music journalist" Jasmine began editing and publishing the magazine Cyber-Psychos AOD in 1992, and added the CPAOD Books imprint to her publishing roster in 1995. Currently her editing and publishing interests also include the Death Equinox convention books and CD-ROMs, plus some little... ultra-serious booklets for her church: Our Blasted Lady of the Jellyfish (First Church of Cnidaria).
Jasmine has performed music and vocalized in several bands over the years (including Futura Ultima Erotica, Goon Patrol, YHVH, and Ludicrous), and has a particular fondness for visual performance as well. Of late her performances tend to include considerable amounts of her own pain and blood, but the reasons for this have far more in common with carnal alchemy than they do with shock cinema. Just as they have yet more to do endorphins and evading collapses...
Writing is her #1 processing/ coping/ communicating mechanism, hence she is hesitant to submit her scribblings to any market or circumstance which might ultimately make her even slightly uncomfortable. This is merely a fine example of neurotic cripplings. Nevertheless, current publication credits include the essay DON'T Let Me Out of Here! in Morbid Curiosity #4; the fiction stories Without Pain, Without Death in What the Fuck: the Avant-Porn Anthology, Of Waxen Figures and Screaming Tombs in The Mammoth Book of Historical Erotica from Robinson UK/Carroll & Graf US, Phasing Spectrums into Halls of White in Mind Rot, and Vacuums Preserve Faith in Collective Cauldron #2; and the poem Peering Outward Through the Aether in Children of the Shadows. Upcoming works include Assimilation into the Vampiric Cannibal Cult in Morbid Curiosity #5 (essay) and Flow Like Rain in the Bare Bone anthology.
In her "spare" time Jasmine has posed as the Mother of Bastard Perverts to the Cyber-Psycho subculture, maintained 5 web sites, hosted numerous irc interviews, and generally committed endless rambling on most conceivable topics. Her main focus for everything is dark psychology and general human endurance. She is, much to her eternal chagrin, a highly addicted collector of anime cels as well. *sigh*
She dwells in Denver with her 2nd and 3rd heads (Mr. Tibble and husband Bruce Young), her 2 beloved children (Griffin and Amara), and her ancient fossil cats (O'Neill and the Patchetoid).
Jasmine has a strange habit of writing her bios in third person. We won't get into that, though.
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