'80s, 80s music, antiques, asian food, asian movies, aubrey beardsley, badtz maru, baklava, baudelaire, black, blitz, books, burne-jones, combat boots, corsets, , edward gorey, eighties, eyeliner, falafel, fashion (dior, costume national, olivier theyskens, vivienne westwood, alessandro de benedetti et al), glam, goth, gothic, indian food, indian movies, italian food, italy, japan, japanese food, jewelry, languages, little britain, lomo, london, make-up, maxfield parrish, milan, museums, new romantic, new wave, old cities, origami, pazienza, photography, poetry, rubens, shakespeare, sushi, thai food, the mighty boosh, the office, the young ones, translation, trieste, vermeer, victoriana, vinyl. And of course.......
I'd like to meet:
I'd like to meet quality. Tout court.
Witty, stylish Anglophiles (this is why my whole page is in English; if you're the person for me you'll understand, regardless if you live in Hoxton or in San Pasquale), a sense of humour, quick repartees.
Italian machos don't exist in my planet (also, I don't exist in theirs; they don't know what to do with me, literally).
Of course they must have my same tastes in music and art, and, although I admit this is the most difficult bit, be dogmatic David Sylvian fans.
Expats to Italy are welcome. I've been an expat (not to the UK) and found the experience unexpectedly difficult, so I can listen patiently to your complaints.
Oh, and I'd like to meet people whose idea of de-stressing is a relaxing break.... in London. East London and Soho-The City, not those sissy places west of Covent Garden.
One prayer: if you want to be added, please send me an introductory message too, because sometimes I get the strangest requests from people who are clearly a thousand miles away from what I describe as my tastes or inclinations here. Thank you.
Also, I feel at liberty to refuse ANYONE who didn't read up to this point, and therefore sends a friend request without a message. I'm not here to collect 70,125 friends, thank you.
Music:
Bauhaus, Bel Canto, Blitz, Blixa, Cocteau Twins, CCCP+CSI, Bowie, Sylvian, Dead Can Dance, Diaframma, Duran Duran (first album only!), Dogs, Einstuerzende Neubauten, old electroclash and some old drum'n'bass, I am X, most Gothic classics which everybody knows by default, Goodnight Electric, Japan, Joy Division, Massimo Volume, Massive Attack, New Romantic, New Wave, Nick Cave, Orbital, Pulp, Sakamoto, Scott Walker, The Smiths, WRM etc etc....
I (rarely...) write for www.indiescene.it and I do some promotion for The Butterfly Collectors
I'm a Goth that basically switched to the Light Side after too many years of pretentious, plodding and derivative 100% Gothic music.
Halfway between dark and indie, you could call me a Dindie.
Movies:
Romantic: In the mood for love, Brief encounter, Stairway to Heaven, The anniversary party, Adele H, Lost in translation, Sur mes levres, Les dames du Bois de Boulogne, Derek Jarman's Edward II, Moulin Rouge, Le conseguenze dell'Amore, Ferro 3.
Humour: Withnail and I, 24-hour party people, Zoolander, This is Spinal Tap, Still Crazy, Harold and Maude, El dìa de la bestia, Ed Wood, Clerks, La Capagira, Frankenstein Junior (Where wolf????). Drama: Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, Gohatto, Hana-bi, Zatoichi, La decima vittima, A matter of life and death, All about Eve, Abre los ojos, Trainspotting, Audition, Alfie, The naked civil servant, Party monster, De vierde mann, De ontdekking van de hemel...
Television:
British comedy: Little Britain, A Bit of Fry and Laurie, The Office, The Young Ones, The Mighty Boosh, Look Around You, Absolute Power, The Smoking Room, classic Python, that Jeeves & Wooster series starring Fry and Laurie, and I recently got my hands on a lot of obscure old Steve Coogan and Lucas&Walliams DVDs, stuff from before they were famous, probably quickly rehashed by the Beeb in an attempt to make some quick quid. Am addicted to the BBC, and suffer because I can only get BBC Prime here in Italy, and it just won't do.
Books:
All the classics of English and French XIX century literature which I can't be bothered to mention in a huge list here but you understood; Baudelaire, Edward Gorey, Elisabeth Bishop (The art of Losing is so hard to master...), Hanif Kureishi, John Donne, Quentin Crisp, some comics, Stephen Fry (not half crafty for a comedian!), Toby Litt (I actually wanted to translate his books into Italian, sniffle; but at least he's in my Friends!)
Heroes:
Disclaimer: my "heroes" are decidedly tongue-in-cheek. Don't have a cow, people.
Aubrey Beardsley, Takeshi Kitano, Simon Napier-Bell, Tony Wilson (....damn....), Quentin Crisp, William Shakespeare. You don't go very far with this, I admit.
