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Daniel Francisco

Life is a film, a journal its script and music its soundtrack.

About Me

Hailing from a naval and diplomatic family background, I just love living by the sea and travelling! Of all the places I have lived and visited, the sea cannot be far from me, it guides me.
Love the arts, adore independent/foreign films, ancient, colonial and modern history, a daydreamer, generous, attention-seeking, speak fluent English, Spanish and Italian and I can improve my French too!
Enjoy football (not soccer!), collecting cd's and books, global politics, international relations, following the ATP Tennis circuit, an avid constant traveller, following touring deejays and their music gigs, adore poetry, indecisive, believe in Astrology and New Age spirituality, would love to learn to play a musical instrument (somehow cannot), tango, photography, am an only child, adore the beaches, going to Football matches (even though I think the A-League sucks!), musical events/concerts, like drinking Pisco and Wine, visiting art galleries and museums, reading, writing, the internet, dancing particularly latin beats, salsa dancing...
My heart says to look beyond Australia, to Latin America and Europe, where the arts have more graze and sparkle and this will truly get me out of my comfort zone!
Oh and one last thing, I love Italian women! :P
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My Interests

Foreign/Independent film and cinematography
Arts
Football
Visual Arts and painting
Communications
Photography
Languages (English/Spanish/Italian/French/Portuguese)
Techno/Electronica/Rock/Latin/Chillout music
Travelling
Latin American culture
Tennis
Writing and Literature
Reading for long hours
New Age Spirituality
Astrology
Rugby
Aviation
Naval defence
Ancient and Modern history
Pisco and Wine
Tango, salsa and flamenco
World cuisine and dining
Clothing and fashion
Technology

I'd like to meet:

Most importantly, anybody who identifies and expresses the arts in terms of literature, photography, painting, languages, music, film, sports, social sciences, humanity and spirituality.
Who likes to travel and meet people along their journey of life, sharing different points of views.

Music:

Coldplay
Crowded House

Gustavo Cerati
Mana
Carlos Santana
Vicentico
Los Fabulosos Cadillacs

Alejandro Sanz

Ana Torroja
Juanes
Orishas

Fernando Ubiergo

Ozomatli
Catupecu Machu
Babasonicos
Zucchero
Divididos
Attaque 77
Tiziano Ferro
Amaral
Eros Ramazzotti
Ely Guerra
Nek
Mikel Erentxun
Ricardo Arjona
Laura Pausini
Diego Torres
Reik
Kudai
Francisco Gonz?lez
Saiko

Los Tres
Soda Stereo

La Ley
John Mayer
Jack Johnson
Pete Murray
The John Butler Trio
Sarah Blasko
Josh Pyke
Evermore
Missy Higgins
Thirsty Merc
The Whitlams

Xavier Rudd
Muse
Wolfmother
Led Zeppelin

Los Jaivas
Jimi Hendrix
Janis Joplin
Deep Purple
Elton John
David Bowie
Billy Joel
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Cream
The Beatles
Pink Floyd
Air Supply
Lionel Richie
The Police

The Doors
Phil Collins
Joe Cocker
Cat Stevens

Gilles Peterson
Sting
Sergio Mendes
Caetano Veloso
Carlos Antonio Jobim
Roberto Carlos
Gervasio
Pimpinella
Los Fabulosos Cadillacs
Miranda
The Cure
Duran Duran
The Rolling Stones
INXS
Yes

Miguel Bose
Red Hot Chili Peppers
La Oreja de van Gogh

Gotan Project
The Mars Volta
The Strokes
Sade
Bjork
Erykah Badu
Javiera Mena
Andrea Echeverri
Nicole
Javiera y los Imposibles
Morrissey
Jet
Radiohead
U2
Oasis
The Arctic Monkeys
Placebo
Green Day
Daft Punk

Depeche Mode
Deep Dish
Moby
John Digweed
Sasha
Carl Cox
Infusion
Paul van Dyk
Erick Morillo
Roger Sanchez

Beto Cuevas
Alex Bunbury
Moenia
Jarabe de Palo
Manu Chao

Ricardo Villalobos
Dave Seaman
Luke Fair
Satoshi Tomiie
Sarah Main
M.A.N.D.Y.
Booka Shade
Richie Hawtin
New Order
Nic Fanciulli
Pier Bucci
Adam Beyer
Armin van Buuren
Axwell
Coldcut
Chemical Brothers
Daft Punk
Desyn Masiello

Lucien Nicolet (Lucien-N-Luciano)
Serge Santiago
Derrick Carter
Tania Vulcano
Argenis Brito
Dandy Jack
Ian Pooley
Gabriel & Dresden
Ferry Corsten
Ewan Pearson
Dirty South
Fatboy Slim
Goldfrapp
Massive Attack
Faithless
Gui Boratto
Groove Armada
Infected Mushroom
Hernan Cattaneo
Jon Carter
James Zabiela
Antoine Clamaran
Jeff Mills
Miguel Migs
Miss Kittin
MSTRKRFT
Junkie XL
Paolo Mojo
Sven Vath
Laurent Garnier
Sandy Rivera
Scarlett Etienne

Chambao
Wighnomy Brothers
Tobi Neumann
Will Saul
Tiefschwarz
Tiga
Troy Pierce

Movies:

Foreign/Latin American films are my soft-spot. I particular enjoy titles and feel influenced by
Federico Fellini
Fernando Leon de Aranoa
Tim Rice
Agnes Jaoui
Walter Salles
Alejandro Amenabar
Costa-Gavras
Gabriele Muccino
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Silvio Caiozzi
Rolf de Heer
Peter Weir
Ray Lawrence
Andres Wood
Emir Kusturica
Francis Ford Coppola
Quentin Tarantino
Roberto Benigni
Giovanni Veronesi
Pedro Almodovar
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Marcelo Pineyro
Miguel Littin
Alberto Fuguet
Luis Bunuel
Alfred Hitchcock
Woody Allen
Titles such as:
Before Night Falls
Woman On Top
Amelie
The Sea Inside
Look At Me
Machuca
Play
En La Cama
Fuga
Kamchatka
The House of the Spirits
Se Arrienda (For Rent)
Shawshank Redemption
Alive
Missing
Lantana
Ned Kelly
La Spagnola
La Vita e Bella (Life is Beautiful)
Ricordati di Me (Remember Me)
Lost in La Mancha
La Mujer de mi Hermano
Frida
and countless others.

Television:

So You Think You Can Dance?
Thank God You're Here
Rove
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
Goallisimo
House
The Cutting Edge
Foreign Language news
The Movie Show
The World Game
Rockwiz
LOST
and all British comedy sketches

Books:

On literature, titles by/on:
Gaston Bachelard
Enrique Lafourcade
Antoni Gaudi
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Roman Polanski
Frida Kahlo
Hermann Hesse
Friedrich Nietzsche
Immanuel Kant
Sigmund Freud
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Carlos Castaneda
Federico Garcia Lorca
Miguel de Cervantes
Ariel Dorfman
Laura Esquivel
Isabel Allende
Jorge Luis Borges
Albert Camus
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Marcel Proust
Frederic Mistral
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Jean-Paul Sartre
Michel Foucault
Salvatore Quasimodo
Mario Vargas Llosa
Gustave Flaubert
Juan Ramon Jimenez
Miguel Angel Asturias
Patricio Manns
Ruben Dario
Gabriela Mistral
Jaime Bayly
Antonio Skarmeta
Andy Warhol
Julio Cortazar
Emir Kusturica
Noam Chomsky
Oscar Wilde
Nicanor Parra
Milan Kundera
Pablo Neruda
Mario Benedetti
Vicente Garcia-Huidobro
George Orwell
Ernest Hemingway
Patrick White
Paulo Coelho and many others.
Many architectural, naval defence, literature, aviation and biographical titles on magical surrealism, art noveau, politics, sport, New Age, renaissance art for example.
Particularly books on Barcelona, Berlin, Rome, Seville, Macchu Pichu, New York, Boston, Paris, Habana, Mexico City, London, Buenos Aires, travelling books too.

Heroes:

Nobody really yet I do admire and respect the following:
Don Diego de la Vega (Zorro)
Gerard Depardieu
Marcel Marceau

Johnny Warren
Charlie Chaplin
Beto Cuevas
Gael Garcia Bernal
Pedro Almodovar
Pablo Picasso

Salvador Dali
Elias Figueroa

My Blog

Causing the young and the restless

Since the game woke up from sleeping thirty-two years on the world stage, during the past year it has digested a delicious WeetBix as well with all the added delights of a good morning breakfast. Tho...
Posted by Daniel Francisco on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 06:44:00 PST

My favourite little cousin is coming to town!

I'm so happy my favourite cousin with the most funkiest name in town is coming to town.. He's that little brother I don't have! Well I mean, after all, he's from Nimbin... My adopted town.So plenty of...
Posted by Daniel Francisco on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 06:09:00 PST