Simon

I'd like to meet:

I think it's strange how people think being down-to-earth is an admirable characteristic. I'd prefer someone completely unrealistic. Someone with a real imagination. Those people are always more interesting. I'd prefer someone with their head truly in the clouds.

And more people situated in a relatively close proximity to me to make gig going more convenient, yes please!

And pragmatic teenage antisexuals to start an Orwell style junior anti-sex league, but this time we'll get it right.

And more males to speak to me on myspace. Of my last 50 comments (at the time of writing) only four have been from males. Pathetic. I don't think 92% of the people I talk to are female, so what's the deal?

But most of all, I'd like to meet a traveling companion. I really would. Main interests: Russia, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia + Iceland, Portugal/Spain, North Africa, Brazil, Japan, China. Please.

Music:

last week: overall: now:
LET IT BE SAID, I HATE THE MAJORITY OF TODAYS SO-CALLED "INDIE ROCK". I HATE IT NEARLY MORE THAN RADIO-FRIENDLY EMO (mainstreamo, cite me if you want to use it), NEW AGE, PUNK SKA, BACH AND 'ONLY TOLERABLE BECAUSE IT'S NOSTALGIC' FILTH PUT TOGETHER. AND DON'T GET ME STARTED ON MODULAR RECORDS, THE HORRORS, CRYSTAL CASTLES AND THE KLAXONS.

essentials i really must mention: weezer's pinkerton, scott walker, john zorn (especially naked city), steve albini's everything, stereolab, melt banana, my bloody valentine, the zombies, boris, the smiths, burial, joanna newsom's ys, the field, growing, deerhoof, crass, bikini kill, casiotone for the painfully alone, phillip glass, steve reich, fabulous diamonds, grandaddy, caribou, jens lekman, phil spector girl pop (especially the ronettes), sleater-kinney, optimus prime, volta do mar, camera obscura, the crayon fields, sly hats, nico, you am i, el perro del mar, animal collective, panda bear, paavoharju, islaja, es, kiila, kemialliset ystävät, liars, os mutantes, caetano veloso, lightning bolt, jihad against america, bang! bang! aids, the locust, battles, magma, ennio morricone, kaoru abe, kim jung-mi, blonde redhead, bright eyes, camille, architecture in helsinki, beat happening, flying scribble, ted leo, my disco, la quiete, quebec, majorca, agents of abhorrence, belle epoque, orchid, eleventh he reaches london, circle takes the square, racebannon, suis la lune, apache beat, catcall, kiosk, kukl, bjork, amiina, mum, yann tiersen, shostakovich, debussy, berio, stravinsky, mussorgsky, tchaikovsky, rachmininoff, dvorak, grieg, ravel, luciano cilio, moondog, mono, doom, discharge, colditz glider, sun ra, cleves, tom ze, okkervil river, marissa nadler, ozma, emmylou harris, jesu, xasthur, good clean fun, beirut, om, love like... electrocution, luciano cilio, man is the bastard, crux, scum system kill, royalchord, mike patton, nick cave, os mutantes, slint, m.i.a., venetian snares, most dubstep as well as almost anything on the labels yellow ghost, art school dropout/nervous jerk, fonal, ape must not kill ape, cock rock disco, soul jazz, kranky, music your mind will love you, archive, important, kompakt, cadenza, memo musik, klockworks and liebe detail.. that went a lot longer than expected.

Movies:

tetsuo: iron man, sophia coppola, russ meyer (esp. beyond the valley of the dolls), charlton heston sci-fi triliogy, planet of the apes saga, david lynch, charlie kaufman/michel gondry, hayao miyazaki, josé mojica marins, current wave of brazilian cinema (esp. os homem que copiava), serbian black comedy, lukas moodysson, krzysztof kieslowski, mario bava, alfred hitchcock, stanley kubrick, dawn of the dead triliogy, terminator 1 + 2, jean-pierre jeunet's pre-amelie days, lars von trier, the dogme 95 movement (esp. elsker dig for evigt and italiensk for begyndere, matthew barney, woody allen, ingmar bergman, roger corman, paul bartel, most films starring audrey tautou, bollywood (esp, salaam namaste), juan pablo rebella (rip), plus films not included under any of those: ghost world, bonnie and clyde, cindy: the doll is mine, death race 2000, noi albinoi, dolls, romance in manhatten, orfeu negro, hardcore, good bye lenin, blueprint, fröken sverige, akira, caché, lost and delirious, boomerang, 27 missing kisses, flesh (not andy warhol), osama, the castle, l'auberge espagnole, bænken, rock and roll high school, airheads, evil dead, metropolis, milagre segundo salomé, bangkok dangerous, ring trilogy, the grudge ju-on, ricordati di me, clara et moi, jalla! jalla!, ceský sen, su zhou he, de dag dat ik besloot nina te zijn, suzhou he, al qods fee yom akhar, iedereen beroemd, ondskan, kinamand, aligato, shiza, carmen, the station agent, cowboys and angels

Television:

twin peaks: the only tv show that ever really mattered, south park, john safran, extras, shorts on screen, city of men

Books:

Blankets by Craig Thompson is the most beautiful book I've ever read. It's a graphic novel which makes me feel sorta like drinking lady grey and looking out my window does. If anyone wants to borrow it I'd be happy to lend it.
MYKEL BOARD!!, nick hornby, charles bukowski, daniel clowes, fyodor dostoyevsky, ivan turgenev, anton chekhov, leo tolstoy, andrey kurkov, jack kerouac, patrick white, gustave flaubert, oscar wilde, james joyce, f. scott fitzgerald, shakespeare's tragedies, charles burns - black hole, phillip k. dick (especially the man in the high castle), michael moorcock - behold the man, richard matheson - i am legend, robert a heinlein - stranger in a strange land, arthur miller, robert miles biographies, clinton walker - inner city sound, caetano veloso - tropical truth: a story of music & revolution in brazil, legs mcneil and gillian mccain - please kill me, astonish yourself: 101 experiments in the philosophy of everyday life - roger pol-droit, the how to make trouble and influence people series, most books about movies/music/pop culture/education
and i like reading (maga)zines such as: the wire, mess + noise (rip), voiceworks, you, cyclic defrost, nerds gone wild, what we do is secret and the rare decent article in vice.

Heroes:

Not heroes, but people I think are way cool and wish I was more like: Mykel Board, Agent Dale Cooper, Charlton Heston, Ian Mackaye, David Lynch, Calvin Johnson, Eugène Aynsley Goossens, Paulo Freire, John Holt, John Taylor Gatto, Henry Rollins, Kathleen Hanna, Bell Hooks, Cindy Sherman, Caetano Veloso, Tom Ze, Charlie Kaufman, Bjork, Frank Zappa, Seth Putnam, David Pajo, Anton LaVey, The Christian God.