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About Me


Be well assured that on our side
The abiding oceans fight,
Though headlong wind and heaping tide
Make us their sport to-night.
By force of weather, not of war,
In jeopardy we steer.
Then welcome Fate's discourtesy
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My Interests

Music (playing, listening, journalism), Cinema and any form of Art, Literature, History and Philosophy, Photography, Athletics.

I'd like to meet:

People with similar interests and passion for the same things.
Who I don't want to meet:
lamers and fakers with 30.000 friends trying to raise their e-peen, myspace emo kids and intraweb multitasking superhumans, people who take internet seriously (musicians not included), spammers of any type, fake art appreciators, attention addicts, cyberlove seekers.
If you spent some time to read the stuff on this page and you like it, thank you, you should send me a friend request,otherwise, you'd better look elsewhere.

Music:

Too much to fit a column.. Ranging from 70s Rock classics to extreme progressive Metal and from Renaissance music to Blues.
inserting some random and diverse listenings:
J.S. Bach, W.A. Mozart, Antonio Vivaldi, Philip Glass, Marillion, Pendragon, Enchant, Sergei Rachmaninov, Shadow Gallery, Fates Warning, Yngwie Malmsteen, (1981-1984) Manowar, Warlord & Lordian Guard, John Williams, Lisa Gerrard, Nevermore, At The Gates, Max Bruch, Astor Piazzolla, Felix Mendelssohn, Porcupine Tree, Pink Floyd, Genesis, Whitesnake, Rainbow, Gary Moore, Magnum, Rush, Stevie Ray Vaughan, BB King, Joe Bonamassa, ZZ Top, Air, The Cinematic Orchestra, Savatage, Ark, Jorn Lande, Therion, Grip inc., Sieges Even, Conception, Ten, John West, Queensryche, Sanvoisen, Royal Hunt, Paradise Lost, Threshold, Sigur Ros, Hans Zimmer, Jacqueline du Pre, Mitsuko Uchida, Glenn Gould, Wilhelm Kempff, Mstislav Rostropovich, Jascha Heifetz, Gidon Kremer, Angelo Badalamenti, Yo-Yo Ma, Saviour Machine, good old Dream Theater..

Movies:

Random favorites of mine:
"Tous Le Matins Du Monde" by Alain Corneau, "Life Of Oharu" by Kenji Mizoguchi, "Ran" by Akira Kurosawa, "Nazarin" by Luis Bunuel, "Seppuku" by Masaki Kobayashi, "PI" by Darren Aronofsky, "Raging Bull" by Martin Scorsese, "Persona" by Ingmar Bergman, "La Dolce Vita" by Federico Fellini, "In The Mood For Love" by Kar Wai Wong, "Lost Highway" by David Lynch, "Dogville" by Lars von Trier, "Shine" by Scott Hicks, "Time" and "3-Iron" by Kim Ki-duk, "The Lives Of Others" by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Television:

is unplugged.

Books:

"Also Sprach Zarathustra" by Friedrich Nietzsche
"The Four Quartets" by T.S. Eliot
"The Hour Of The Devil" by Fernando Pessoa
"The Master And Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov
"Doktor Faustus" by Thomas Mann
"The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoevski
"Shapes And Sounds" by Mervyn Peake
"The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell" by William Blake
"Elric : Sailor On The Seas Of Fate" by Michael Moorcock
"Hard Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World" by Haruki Murakami
"Snow Country" by Yasunari Kawabata
"The Sea Of Fertility" tetralogy by Yukio Mishima
"Steppenwolf" by Hermann Hesse
"The Tower" by Franz Kafka
"Mohn und Gedächtnis" by Paul Celan
plus ancient Greek tragedians, philosophers (from the presocratics to neoplatonism) and historians..

Heroes:

I prefer anti-heroes from literature, cinema and real life.

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Late Night YouTubisms

Astor Piazzola's Oblivion performed by Esterhazy TrioNelson Freire plays the Rachmaninov Transcription of Gluck's MelodyMikhail Pletnev plays Rachmaninov's Rhapsody On A Theme Of Paganini: iiiTchaikov...
Posted by ← Kostas → on Sun, 17 Aug 2008 04:29:00 PST

My favorite albums for 2007..

Its a quite unnatural combination of musical expressions but there they are:1. SHELS : SEA OF THE DYING DHOW2. THE REASONING : AWAKENING 3. IAN BROWN : THE WORLD IS YOURS 4. SIXX A.M. : HEROIN DIARIE...
Posted by ← Kostas → on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:32:00 PST

William Blake : Proverbs Of Hell

Proverbs of Hell. In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead. The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. Prudence is a rich...
Posted by ← Kostas → on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:53:00 PST

Issa Kobayashi : This World

1819 tsuyu no yo wa tsuyu no yo nagara sari nagara this world is a dewdrop world yes... but... One of Issa's most famous poems, this haiku was written to mourn the death of his daughter Sato. It is...
Posted by ← Kostas → on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 04:13:00 PST