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The sun also rises...

About Me

I am all about cinema.

My Interests

films, photography, travelling, gigs, collecting junk, lomos, mix tapes and cds, lighthouses, winter, astronomy, landscape, film festivals, car boot sales

I'd like to meet:

anyone sincere.

Music:

tori amos, the cure, dirty three, rachmaninov, godspeed you black emperor!, mogwai, songs:ohia, ravel, the smiths, belle and sebastian, arab strap, chopin, hanne hukkelberg, joanna newsom, sufjan stevens, regina spektor, smog, anything and everything in a very large spectrum, any music that is moving in some way.so instead i'll give you this:

Movies:

andrei tarkovski, ingmar bergman, krzysztof kieslowski, tsai ming-liang, alfred hitchcock, pedro almodovar, nicholas ray, apichatpong weerasethakul, david cronenberg, wong kar-wai, lars von trier, zeki demirkubuz, alexander sokurov, fatih akin, isabelle huppert, daniel auteuil, liv ullmann, steve buscemi, tim roth, emmanuelle beart, marcello mastroianni, jean marc barr, maggie smith, humphrey bogart, anna magnani, james mason

Books:

oguz atay, franz kafka, milan kundera, jean-paul sartre, zadie smith, fyodor dostoevski, haruki murakami, sylvia plath, ferhan sensoy, elif safak, ahmet hamdi tanpinar

My Blog

a woman's touch

i've been listening to so much of kings of convenience recently. i dug up my old stuff (remember? nostalgia nostalgia nostalgia since last week) and there it was: the fantastic voice of erlend øye an...
Posted by B on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 03:43:00 PST

nostalgia

this entire week i was reminded a certain period of my life by various reasons. it is the years 1999 and 2000. it was when i saw my future in a career of law and would even daydream about being a mem...
Posted by B on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 06:17:00 PST

one mixtape can save the world!

today, as i was on a bus going to shepherd's bush, i was thinking of an old friend who would really enjoy bonnie 'prince' billy (since i was on my way to his gig) and decided to make him a mixed cd w...
Posted by B on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 06:21:00 PST

your little fig newton

i just have a couple of more days to finish writing one essay on the idea of a happy couple being an illusion with references from la cage aux folles and probably nikita; another essay about avant-gar...
Posted by B on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 02:24:00 PST

all the people i love, come here...

it's been a long time since i've written anywhere so it feels strange to let my fingers catch up with the stream of thoughts. i never really wrote here. i don't use my livejournal these days. i don't ...
Posted by B on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 06:01:00 PST

if...

if your way of getting a university degree involves writing a piece on wim wenders and americanisation of german cinema... if your gloomy london afternoons are vivid and colourful with a coffee o...
Posted by B on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:17:00 PST

regina spektor....

i saw this woman live last thursday and she is one of the most beautiful things ever lived. give her a listen. i'm quite confused and undecided. i still don't have a settled plan for next year. all...
Posted by B on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

oh, yes...

i just wanted to drop by here and say first entries suck. exactly.
Posted by B on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST