Collecting records (the big black ones and the 7''s), writing down long irrelevant lists on my Myspacesite, attending gigs, meeting friends and people I don't know, travelling (South-Africa rules!), watching dodgy footballgames in Breda (Zigge zagge! Zigge zagge!) and the St.Pauli district of Hamburg, wearing sneakers, eating Indian food like there's no tomorrow (to quote Lord Byron:“Much depends upon dinner.â€, reading big books, writing smaller texts, (solving) communication problems, teaching, being me.
You, that's why I'm here I guess. So come on, say hi and have a beer or 12...
LOADS! Here's my nerdy top of all times, but the rankings change all the time I guess. The combination of new dance (will be more, I'm working my way through the WARP collection and I'm excited all the time), folkrock, both old school metal and 100breaksaminutemetal (and whatever) may seem weird, but all has/had in their own times what I want from music : progressive thinking, enthousiasm, skill and an own fresh perspective.But wtf, here's the shit. Take these fine examples of bloody good music away from me and I will soon be into techniques that were made famous some time ago by the Spanish inquisition. 1. Rush 2. Thin Lizzy 3. Pogues 4. Watchtower 5. Metallica (1st 4) 6. Muse 7. Ozzy Osbourne (1st 2) 8. Sepultura (Roots + Chaos) 9. Judas Priest (Unleashed In The East) 10. Armored Saint 11. Janes Addiction 12. Living Colour 13. Death Angel 14. Shiva (NWOBHM) 15. Tool 16. Queensryche (Operation: Mindcrime) 17. Voivod 18. Savatage (1st 4) 19. Riot 20. Sixteen Horsepower 21. UFO (Strangers In The Night) 22. Iron Maiden (1st 4) 23. Y and T (early) 24. Fishbone 25. Red Snapper 26. Van Halen (1st) 27. Loudness (1st 4) 28. Warlord 29. Raven (NWOBHM ) 30. AC/DC (w. BS) 31. The Specials 32 Johnny Cash (all American recordings) 33 Nomeansno 34. Cynic 35. Blackfoot (HS live!) 36. Angel Witch (NWOBHM) 37. Beastie boys 38. Dead Can Dance 39 Underworld 40. Fear Factory 41 Prong 42 Temple of the Dog 43. Pantera 44. Urban Dance Squad 45. Journey 46 Marillion (w. Fish) 47. Black Sabbath (w. Dio) 48. Slayer (after the attempt to imitate venom, and before the fat necks, and screw their solos) 49. Al Dimeola 50. Clearance Clearwater Revival. Put these somewhere in between:Satan (NWOBHM-band, not the red bloke), 'deth, The Gathering, SOAD, Anacrusis, Culprit, Warning (2), Diamond head, Mercyful fate (early), Testament, Nightmares On Wax, Bad Brains, Tesla, Massive Attack, Kyuss, Primus, Dead Kennedys, Soundgarden, Little Axe (+ other Tackhead stuff), Mastodon, The Mars Volta, SYL, The Roots, dEUS, Tricky, NERD, (uptempo) ska, Earth, wind and fire (can't help it)some DrumnBass and let us not forget the voice of Europe: Eddy Wally. Still there?
A Clockwork Orange (and other Stanley Kubrick), Peter Greenaway, Coen bros, Texas Chainsaw Massacre and other 70's (and earlier) scary flix, Psycho, Pi, Tim Burton stuff, Taxi driver and other "now I'm pissed off!" stuff, David Cronenberg, Eraserhead, Ken Loach, Spike Lee, Reservoir Dogs, Monty Python and beyond, Mike Leigh, Pipi Langkous, Stephen Frears, Dogma and other filmhouse stuff, mainly on social issues.
Don't care that much. English comedy series, that is about it. SHAMELESS is just legendary.
Literature. If I read I wanna read good stuff. Russians like Dostojevski and Gogol, Germans like Doblin and Grass, contemperary Brits/Irish like Doyle and Hornby but also Clive Barker, American like Steinbeck, Auster and Richard Adams, 19th century Gothic novels like Poe, M.R. James and Lovecraft, Strindberg, Coetzee, and books on fandom (football and music), travelling and social issues. And anything really..
If there's any I'd say Dostojevski, James Clifford Burton, Rat Verlegh and Neil Peart. Great thinkers in different ways I am really, really grateful. AND the people I'm close with. You know who you are. And Batman.