Every expression of art that moves me, broadens my mind, makes me think & feel ... mainly music, but also contemporary dance, photography... I love seeing the sincerity of the artist/maker and cherish those moments where art has the power to overtake everything and blows you off your socks.
I like to take time off every now and then to travel for a month. I love to discover new places & meet new people. I'm impulsive, I love change in general and trust life.
I love small concerts in small venues, chocolate, spending hours in book- and record-stores, enjoying the first sun, thinking my time away, dinners with friends, small independent movie theatres, coffee & croissants on a sunday morning, reading, travelling, candle light, Art Nouveau, bathing, being on my own, Rilke, the way the sun sets so slowly during Finnish winter, Helmut Newton, my freedom and independence, writing, notebooks, fairytales, love, sleeping, watching people go by, long walks in the forest, dancing, old people for their wisdom, old buildings for their soul, people in general and their -sometimes strange- behaviour.Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui & Akram Khan dancing Zero Degrees. As close as you get to the essence.
I'd like to meet:
Passionate personalities, creative minds, music lovers, likeminded souls, people who broaden my mind or way of thinking, warm-hearted, non-judgemental, openminded and free spirited earthlings (and/or aliens) ...
Music:
Leonard Cohen * Nick Cave * Tom Waits * Johnny Parry Trio * Tom McRae * Mark Lanegan * Tindersticks * Woven Hand * Dez Mona * Lambchop * The Low Lows * Black Heart Procession * The National * Elbow * Stuart A. Staples * Jeff Buckley * Ryan Adams * Pixies * Sophia * PJ Harvey * Sigur Ros * Antony and the Johnsons * Patrick Watson * Heavy Trash * Scott Walker * Steve Earle * Cave Singers * Silverjunkie * Murder * Devastations * Godspeed You! Black Emperor * Mazzy Star * Joseph Arthur * William E. Whitmore * Kate Bush * Calexico * M. Ward * An Pierle * Arno * Jacques Brel * Portishead * Spain * Low * Interpol * Howe Gelb * Bright Eyes * 16 Horsepower * Keith Caputo * David Gray * Husky Rescue * Ella Fitzgerald * Serge Gainsbourg * Joan as Policewoman * Ane Brun * iLiKETRAiNS * Gravenhurst * Ef * Pajo * Louis Armstrong * Nina Simone * Black Rebel Motorcycle Club * Grandaddy * Grant Lee Buffalo * The Sheila Divine * The Twilight Singers * Radiohead * Stina Nordenstam * Lisa Ekdahl * Under Byen * Hawksley Workman * Great Lake Swimmers * Velvet Underground * Afghan Wighs * Mercury Rev * Kent * The Denver Gentlemen * Tarantella * Otis Redding * Gutter Twins * Madrugada * The Smiths * Anne Clark * Bob Dylan * Mogwai * Massive Attack * Craig Armstrong * Max Richter * The Stranglers * Front 242 * Manu Chao * Luka Bloom * The Album Leaf * Arvo Pärt ... the Ever Expanding Musical Universe...I'm a Lyrics Girl and a musical Coctail Girl really...from New Wave to Klezmer and everything in between. As long as it moves me. I love to discover (and often re-discover) music for every mood(swing)...
Dez Mona
Books:
Irving * Nabokov * Palmen * Cave * Dostojevsky * Hesse * Rilke * Bukowski * de Botton * Houellebecq * Salinger * Hamsun
Heroes:
Praying Arm Lane Lyrics ..
