Sound engineering, audio production, 19th century mad science, collecting old acoustics books, old ghost stories books, steam machines, mechanical devices, illusionism and vintage magicians (Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, Wolfgang von Kempelen, etc). Hebrew culture, balcanic folk music, eastern Europe. I..m interested in politics, but I don..t belong to any political party, I..d just like to know "what..s going on". Architecture, lizards, open source, other countries gastronomy, open source, I love playing cards while having a good liquor too.
I'd like to meet:
Sound engineers, sound designers, musicians, artists, people really interested in music, or just nice people, I don..t want to recruit my own army (by now).
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Music:
Einstürzende Neubauten, Tom Waits, Motörhead, The Birthday Party, Hugo Race + the True Spirit, Coil, Jacques Brel, Scientists, Noir Desir, Foetus, Leonard Cohen, Sprung aus den Wolken, Test Department, Sonny Boy Williamson (both of them), Alvin Curran, Johnny Cash, Emir Kusturica & the no smoking orchestra, 16 Horsepower, Swans, Gestalt, Gogol Bordello, Skinny Puppy, The Dead Brothers, Howlin.. Wolf, Ministry, Spiritual Front, Spleen, Flogging Molly, Son House, Tindersticks, Javier Corcobado, Cinema Strange, Woven Hands, Francisco López, The Last Days of Jesus, The Pogues, Real McKenzies, Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphys, Dead Brothers, La Casa Usher and all that Deathrock shit we all already know, nowadays more into Horrorpunk maybe...Nim Vind, Deep Eynde, Shadow Reichenstein, The Death Riders, Crimson Ghosts, Creepshow, Rezurex, Bloodsucking Zombies from outer Space and so on...I..m into classical music too, specially in the early electronic musicians and pioneers, Messiaen, Stockhausen, Igor Stravinsky and so on. I can..t stand Karajan.Kill Barbra Streisand.About popular music; everything that sounds rusty, tacky, squalid, bugger, raw, or just old fashioned.
Movies:
Think you can guess; I love Terry Gilliam, Lynch, Kronenberg, Marx brothers, old and good horror movies, weird stuff. I don..t like remakes, bad comic adaptations, "let..s make tons of money" or christmas movies.
Television:
Prison Break, Lost, My name is Earl, History channel and the news.
Books:
William Burroughs, Jorge Luis Borges, Charles Bukowski, Tim Powers, Hunter S. Thompson, Philip K. Dick, Juan Rulfo, Goethe, Truman Capote, a little bit of Joyce, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett ("Lord Dunsany"), George Orwell, Stevenson, Thomas De Quincey, Kafka, Ambrose Bierce, Gustav Meyrink, Fiodor Dostoyevski, Gingsberg, Umberto Eco, H.G. Wells, Hammett, Quevedo, Coleridge, Jonathan Swift, Blake and some other dead guys. I hate Góngora and in the 99% of the cases, best sellers.
Heroes:
Nikola Tesla, Lev Termen, Martin Hannett, Steve Albini, Tony Cohen, Boris Wildorf, Tom Dowd, José Val del Omar, Luigi Russolo, Manuel Gama, Guy Fawkes.
