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The Dark Dude

You better pray tender pray baby tender prey

About Me

MyGen Profile GeneratorEh...I'm not good at this.... Well I'm here to do the obvious, meet people. I like to discuss about things so an obvious (oops did I say obvious again ??) way of picking friends is their interests in music, movies and books ... so check mine out. Oh and I live in Greece. Near the sea. And I love Asian cinema in general and Korean cinema in particular.....

My Interests

Read below and add to that the drawings of M.C. Escher and .. erm... my favorite soccer team and soccer in general...

I'd like to meet:


Music:

Goth/Darkwave:

Nick Cave, The Cure, Katatonia, Joy Division, Fields of the Nephilim, Sisters of Mercy, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Bauhaus, Diary of Dreams, Oomph!, Rammstein, Lacrimosa, Bel Canto, Covenant, Apoptygma Berzerk, The Mission, The Gathering, Theatre of Tragedy, Moonspell, Lacrimas Profundere, Anathema, Clan of Xymox, AFI, Alien Sex Fiend, Dead Can Dance, The 69 Eyes, The Cult, Paradise Lost, Lacuna Coil, Within Temptation, Charon, In Extremo

Metal:

Opeth, Tool, Meshuggah, 80's Metal (the good stuff), Metallica, System of A Down, Isis, Pelican, Neurosis, Mastodon, God Forbid, Lamb of God, Between the Buried and Me, Shadows Fall, Clutch, Fu Manchu, Monster Magnet, Black Sabbath, Faith No More, Guns 'N' Roses, Motorhead, AC/DC

Other:

Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Mogwai, Muse, Sigur Ros, Queens of the Stone Age, Red Sparowes, Godspeed you Black Emperor, King Crimson, Leonard Cohen and many more....

Movies:

General:

Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Once Upon a Time in the West, Once Upon a Time in America, The Dollars Trilogy, The Big Lebowski, Miller's Crossing, Boogie Nights, Memento, Grosse Pointe Blank, Groundhog Day, Rushmore, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Shaun of the Dead, This is Spinal Tap, Layer Cake, Lock Stock and Two Smokin' Barrels and everything by David Lynch, David Mamet and Tim Burton.

Asian Special:

Hero, Once Upon A Time in China 1,2 & 3, Iron Monkey, Oldboy, A Bittersweet Life, A Tale of Two Sisters, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Battle Royale and everything by Kim Ki-Duk and Takeshi Kitano.

Television:

CSI, CSI Miami, Lost, 24 (strictly on DVD), as for TV itself I watch only sports.

Books:

Authors : Ian Rankin, Philip K. Dick, Josef Conrad, Dashiell Hammett, James Ellroy, Andrea Camilleri, Carlo Lucarelli, Franz Kafka, James Lee Burke, John Fowles, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Boris Akunin, William Faulkner, Wilkie Collins, Tomas Pynchon, Arturo Perez-Reverte Gothic Horror :H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, M.R. James, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, M. Lewis, Sheridan Le Fanu Other Favorites : "Foucault's Pendulum" by Umberto Eco, "The Shadow of the Wind" by Carlos Ruiz-Zafon, "The Quincunx" by Charles Palliser, "The Illuminatus Trilogy" by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, "I, Claudius" by Robert Graves, "The Disposessed" by Ursula K. LeGuin, "The Dirt" by Neil Strauss and Motley Crue, "Want to Play?" by P.J. Tracy and many more...

My Blog

The 80's

Well for all these past years everytime some egregious *journalist* mentions the 80's there's always a comment about how lame it was back then, about how this decade sucked. Well, I was there in the 8...
Posted by The Dark Dude on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:57:00 PST

Quotes...Quotes...Movie Quotes...

Some Classic Westerns first.... [Tuco is in a bubble bath. The One Armed Man enters the room] One Armed Man: I've been looking for you for 8 months. Whenever I should have had a gun in my right h...
Posted by The Dark Dude on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 10:35:00 PST

Depeche Mode

If someone comes today and asks me "Which you think is the most influential band in today's music?" (I don't know anyone who will ask this but just stay with me here OK?), I'll say without any he...
Posted by The Dark Dude on Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:19:00 PST

What I do for a living...

I teach...Yes I am a *professor* (well, I said it...)..Does that freak you out??? It's not as bad as it sounds. First of all I have only a master's degree so I can't teach in a university (so I'm not ...
Posted by The Dark Dude on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:45:00 PST