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Namgyal

Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo

About Me

"Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I've gone which would not have happened if I had not come. Nor am I particularly exceptional in this matter; each "I," every one of the now-six-hundred-million-plus of us, contains a similar multitude. I repeat for the last time: to understand me, you'll have to swallow a world."(from "Midnight's Children", by Salman Rushdie) www.myspaceeditor.it

My Interests

Listening to/making music, playing bass guitar in my band (Ecnephias), watching good movies, reading, travelling. Learning Mandarin Chinese.

I'd like to meet:

Kim Ki-duk, Tashi Dawa, Oliviero Toscani, Elio e Le Storie Tese, Dodo

Music:

Basically everything I may decide (upon listening) being good music, ranging from folk, jazz, indie electronica to - for the most part - rock, postrock & metal in all of its forms and most extreme derivations. Nevertheless - I found by experience - my personal idea of "good music" generally seems to leave rap and such OUT(there's a limit to open-mindedness hehe). One last thing: I am no purist. I seek contamination of genres.Here's a few names in my playlist: Dark Tranquillity, Arcturus, Opeth, In Flames, Death, Morbid Angel, Carcass, Dissection, Emperor, Cradle Of Filth, Dimmu Borgir, Sadist, Arch Enemy, Moonspell, Katatonia, My Dying Bride, Children Of Bodom, Blind Guardian, U2, The Cure, Kent, Jeff Buckley, Muse, Depeche Mode, Guns'n'Roses, God is an Astronaut, Mogwai, Tiger Lou...and many more

Movies:

The Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre, Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Passion, Hurlyburly, Ravenous, La mala educación, Hable con ella, Address Unknown, 3-Iron, Oldboy, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, The Crow, Nightmare Before Christmas, Primal Scream, 25th Hour

Television:

The Simpsons, Friends, Prison Break, Zelig, Le Iene. Sometimes I'd watch history documentaries.

Books:

Esp. into Magic Realism fiction, poetry, Chinese (contemporary) literature & more in general books concerning Far East Asia. Some of my favorite authors are: Gabriel García Márquez , Alejandro Jodorowsky, Salman Rushdie, Pablo Neruda, Tashi Dawa, Acheng, Yu Hua, Mo Yan

Heroes:

Alejandro Jodorowsky, Tiger Man