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Jan

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About Me

I'm still amazed at how easily I have allowed myself to be lured into this, but oh well. My name is Jan, not like in January, but more sort of like "yawn". (This is not meant to imply that I'm motivationally challenged.) This boy is 18 years of age, i.e. technically an adult and entitled to do all sorts of awesome things, some of which better remain undisclosed. Being as fond of illusions as I have proven to be, I like to believe that I have a good character. I care a lot about my friends and I'm generally one of the good kids. Some people think I'm arrogant and disgustingly full of myself. Frankly, nothing could be closer to the truth. I love myself. Justice, honesty and love are the basic principles ruling my world and I hate to be surrounded by people who are oblivious to these values. I'm very into language of any kind. My universe revolves around words, voices, phrases and songs. I always have an opinion on almost everything, but don't hesitate to debate me point-to-point if you feel inclined to do so. I love to travel. Despite apparent flaws, America is among my favorite countries, which is in large part due to a fantastic year I was lucky to spend in Bozeman, Montana. There is a whole lot more about me, but in order to maintain a certain secrecy, I shall leave you with this.

My Interests

Theater - Reading - Broadway musicals - Music in general - Singing - Politics - Language - Photography - Traveling - Eating - Sleeping

I'd like to meet:

Anyone. Have a personality, be someone and chances are I might like you.

Music:

Every aspect of my existence seems to be somewhat influenced by music. I can sing a song to every imaginable occasion, quite often to the annoyance of everyone around. :) Generally, I like different kinds of music, anything with a great melody, but mostly Rock/Brit-Pop . Also, I'm very into musicals. Cats, Rent, Mamma Mia! and Wicked would be among my favorites. Les Miserables and Chicago also never fail to delight me. So I guess you could call my taste in music somewhat odd, although I prefer the term eclectic. Favorites arists/bands/singers of mine include Arctic Monkeys, Mando Diao, Joss Stone, Oasis, Panic! at the Disco, Death Cab For Cutie, Kelly Clarkson, Revolverheld, The Killers, Damien Rice, Liza Minnelli and Sutton Foster. Also, behind closed doors, I am hopelessly obsessed with the A*Teens.

Movies:

American Beauty, L.A. Crash, The Pianist, Good Will Hunting, Spiceworld (and proudly so), Good-Bye Lenin, Lost in Translation, Brokeback Mountain, Million Dollar Baby, 8 Frauen, Ray, Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie Poulain, L'Auberge Espagnol, A Beautiful Mind, Napoleon Dynamite, Philadelphia. To be continued and not necessarily in that order.

Television:

Not really all that much into television, but if I had to pick, I'd go for all of the below: Tuerkisch fuer Anfaenger (don't ask), Sex and The City, MTV Made (it's gratifying to see how far whiny and pathetic individuals can go when given proper training), Kuttner. (they cancelled it!! What do I do?!), David Letterman.

Books:

Very into books. I admire John Grishman, but I also like Steinbeck, Miller, Rowling etc. So in case you care, here's a list (by no means complete): The Wishing Game (Redmond), The DaVinci Code (Brown), Je l'aimais and also Je voudrais que quelqu'un m'attende quelque part (Gavalda), 'Tis (McCourt), The Pelican Brief (Grisham) Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck), Russendisko (Kaminer), Der Vorleser (Schlink), Die Wahlverwandtschaften (Goethe), Brave New World (Huxley), any short story by Oscar Wilde...

Heroes:

Kathy Tyers is my personal hero, a constant source of support and inspiration.

My Blog

Art?

What a tempting thought.
Posted by Jan on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:01:00 PST

YEEESSS!!

I. Love. Life.I passed my driver's test yesterday. I have decided to enter a convent in order to give this some justification. I was a 100% convinced I had failed during the test, because of some stup...
Posted by Jan on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 06:37:00 PST

En route vers la capitale de l'amour...

Hola chicos and chicasJust to attract your jealousy, I felt like letting you know I'm leaving for P-A-R-I-S tomorrow morning. All preparations have been taken, stuff is packed and everything. Hopefull...
Posted by Jan on Fri, 07 Apr 2006 01:58:00 PST

Rien d'étonnant comme d'habitude...

I somehow seem to have neglected this blog for a long time... Hope it'll be able to forgive me someday, it has proven to be very jealous and unforgiving in the past. Keep your fingers crossed for the ...
Posted by Jan on Sun, 05 Mar 2006 02:26:00 PST

AMSTERDAM here I come!

Hello folks! Hope that all of you are having a wonderful Christmas break! I'm leaving for Amsterdam tonight with four of my friends for the party of a lifetime for New Year's! Yay! I know I have y...
Posted by Jan on Thu, 29 Dec 2005 07:55:00 PST