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Lars

Without music, life would be a mistake. -- Fredrich Nietzsche

About Me

I am a musicfanatic, amateurmusician and record/cd collector from Sweden who in periods since the mid-70s have been playing with different groups. The groups are The Sensations, Distortion Cowboys, The Brain, Jazzholes, Paradogx and Processor. (see links in my "top friends" section for some of them!) I am not a professional musician. I make my living by working at the hospital in my hometown.

My Interests

music, literature, art, religion, philosophy, politics and film.

I'd like to meet:

Nice people with similar interests.I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

Music:

Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Captain Beefheart, Joni Mitchell, Scott Walker, Sun Ra, Talk Talk, Mark Hollis, Gillian Welch, Robert Fripp, King Crimson, Paul Bley, Staple Singers, John Fahey, Noah Howard, Arnold Schoenberg, Residents, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Tom Waits, Otomo Yoshihide, Maurice Ravel, Espers, Can, Beatles, John Surman, Van Der Graaf Generator, Peter Hammill, Arbete & Fritid, Meshell Ndegeocello, KarlHeinz Stockhausen, Stooges, Evan Parker, Popol Vuh, Davy Graham, Brian Eno, Meshuggah, Emmanuelle Parrenin, Byrds, Curtis Mayfield, Olivier Messiaen, Henry Threadgill, Frank Zappa, Laura Nyro, Burning Spear, Eric Dolphy, Fairport Convention, MC5, Morton Feldman, Herbie Hancock, Incredible String Band, Wilco, James Brown, John McLaughlin, Trees, Faust, Bob Marley, Tim Berne, György Ligeti, Magma, Pentangle, Bert Jansch, Muhal Richard Abrams, Aretha Franklin, Ghost, Electric Prunes, Diamanda Galas, Cecil Taylor, Rolling Stones, Fela Kuti, Bill Evans, Kebnekaise, Mu, Johnny Cash, Oum Kalsoum, Henry Cow, Fred Frith, Meshuggah, Bela Bartok, Anthony Braxton, Van Morrison, Dave Holland, Funkadelic/Parliament, King Tubby, Iannis Xenakis, Bob Dylan, Peps Person, Tony Williams Lifetime, Velvet Underground, John Cale, Lou Reed, Nico, Roland Kirk, Tim Buckley, Andrew Hill, Lihtnin Hopkins, Krakatau, Johan Sebastian Bach, Hamza El Din, Turid, Roy Harper, Charles Mingus, Jimi Hendrix, Roky Erickson, 13th Floor Elevators, Sam Rivers, Art Bears, Claude Debussy, AMM, Neil Young, Keith Jarrett, John Lee Hooker, November, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Harry Partch, Jefferson Airplane, United States Of America, Stina Nordenstam, Miroslav Vitous, Blue Cheer, Ann Peebles, Hank Williams, Munir Bachir, Sonic Youth, Julian Cope, Thelonious Monk, Patti Smith, This Heat, Ornette Coleman, Guru Guru, Lee Perry, Alice Coltrane, King Sunny Adé, Howlin Wolf, Marilyn Crispell, Pugh Rogefeldt, Terry Riley, Gil Evans, Camarón De La Isla, Sandy Denny, Captain Beyond, Jackie McLean, Meters, Igor Stravinskij, Grateful Dead, Fläsket Brinner, Marvin Gaye, Witold Lutoslawski, Pere Ubu, John Zorn, Leonard Cohen, Greg Osby, Little Feat, Steve Reich, Soft Machine, Robert Wyatt, Kinks, Cluster, Harmonia, Sly & The Family Stone, Clash, David Sylvian, Amon Düül II, Nick Cave, Erik Satie, Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Willie Nelson, Elmore James, Albert Ayler and many more!!!

Movies:

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michelangelo Antonioni, Luis Bunuel, Andrej Takovsky, Robert Bresson, Alain Resnais, Wim Wenders, Akira Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman, Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, Werner Herzog, Federico Fellini, Nicholas Roeg, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jean Cocteau, John Cassavetes, Stanley Kubrick, Maya Deren and Jean-Luc Godard.

Books:

Julien Gracq, Birgitta Trotzig, Thomas Bernhard, Italo Calvino, Antonin Artaud, William Burroughs, Arthur Rimbaud, André Breton, Lars Norén, Henry Miller, Gunnar Ekelöf, Henri Michaux, Samuel Beckett, Willy Kyrklund, Georges Battaile, Charles Baudelaire, Mare Kandre, JMG Le Clézio, Clarice Lispector, Ernst Jünger, Alfred Jarry and Paul Eluard.

Heroes:

Art: Max Ernst, Leonor Fini, Hans Bellmer, Paul Klee, Marcel Duchamp, Caravaggio, Joan Miro, Ivan Agueli, Gerhard Richter, Francis Bacon, Frida Kahlo, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, Leonora Carrington, Hugo Van Der Goes, Jan Van Eyck, Leonardo Da Vinci, Hieronymus Bosch, Caspar David Friedrich, Pieter Bruegel, Ola Billgren, Roj Friberg, Mark Rothko, Robert Rauschenberg, Paul Delvaux, Dorothea Tanning, Remedios Varo, Velazquez, Alberto Giacometti, Egon Schiele, Salvador Dali, Joseph Beuys, Yves Klein, Henri Michaux, Victor Brauner, Wifredo Lam and Anselm Kiefer.