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Maria Jo

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About Me


A long, long time ago I have made a lot of photo’s of great post-punk and
new wave bands at a venue called "Arena", better known as "Exit". This relatively small venue was and still is located in Rotterdam. Some of these bands were very successful like U2 and Simple Minds. Others don’t make records anymore, but are remaining populair until this day. Those were the glorious days of Talk Talk, Tears For Fears, Killing Joke, Echo & The Bunnymen and many more.
Whatever the reason may be,some of these excellent bands never made it to stardom and were sadly forgotten.
When I was a student at The School of Fine Arts, two of the most interesting bands came to visit The Netherlands on a regular basis. They had (and I believe they still have) an enthusiastic group of followers, so the concerts overhere happen to be sold out very quickly. At the beginning of the Eighties, there was a brief moment, that they were selling even more records than U2! Although U2 may have become one of the greatest rockbands on this planet, whenever and no matter how often I listen to "From The Lions Mouth" or "Sleep No More", I’ll never get tired of listening to The Sound or The Comsat Angels...and after The Sound broke up...to the great late Adrian Borland.
On my website www.okkibox.nl you can view some of the pictures I've made.
And there will be more in the near future.Further more, I also have a collection of photo's of birds, horses and other stuff....so, if you can find the time, you're welcome to visit my website.
About Me....I am a graphic designer, photographer and illustrator. I love to paint and recently I have discovered the great possibilities of digital art en design.
I will still have to learn more about webdesign, but with great subjects such as music, photography and illustration it will not be that difficult, I guess...Maria Jo.

My Interests

Photography, music, movies, painting, webdesign, birds, horses, butterflies, nature, history, art, old buildings and many more

I'd like to meet:


Alle lieve, prettig gestoorde post-punkies, natuurliefhebbers en creatieve mensen.
Graphic designers, photographers, webdesigners, musicians and everyone, who is concerned about our lovely blue and green planet.

And all the huge fans of Adrian Borland, The Sound, The Comsat Angels,
The Opposition and The Chameleons in the whole wide world!

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Music:

The Sound, Adrian Borland, The Comsat Angels, The Chameleons, Dead Guitars, And Also The Trees, Roxy Music, Depeche Mode, White Rose Transmission, Diary of Dreams, Sad Lovers and Giants, Joy Division, Opposition, Talk Talk, Simple Minds, The Cure, Lady's Besery's Garden, Modern Eon, Japan, David Sylvian, Feeding Fingers, Icehouse, Psychedelic Furs, David Bowie, The Search, Ikon, Dragons, Editors, Interpol, Pink Floyd, Yes, Kate Bush, Peter Gabriël, Buena Vista Social Club, Eliades Ochoa, Ibrahim Ferrer, Rubén González, Douglas Spotted Eagle, The Beatles, The Kinks and I must have forgotten a few!

Movies:


Lord Of The Rings, Pirates Of The Caribbean, The Insider, LA Confidential, The Green Mile, Cast Away, The Gladiator, Braveheart, Dances With Wolves, The Silence Of The Lambs, As Good As It Gets, Notting Hill, The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, The Killing Fields, Witness, Ben Hur, A Time To Kill, Men Of Honor, Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, Traffic, A Beautiful Mind, Sleepers, Sling Blade, U 571, Forrest Gump, Hero, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Bandits, The Last Castle, Platoon, Ghandi, West Side Story, Shawshank Redemption, A Few Good Men, The Usual Suspects, The Pianist, Once Upon A Time In The West, Geronimo, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Black Rain, The Matrix, Gangs Of New York, Donnie Darko, The Hours, Elizabeth, Finding Nemo, Master And Commander, Blood In Blood Out, Schindler's List, The Englisch Patient, Phone Boot, Heat, Mystic River, Apocalypse Now, The Missing, 21 Grams, Runaway Jury, Lost In Translation, Troy, Gods And Generals, King Arthur, Collateral, Thunderheart, The Last Of The Mohicans, The Departed and this list is much longer

Television:

No time left to watch TV

Books:

Book of Happy Memories, Native American history and culture, computers, photography and illustration, art, design, history in general

Heroes:



My Blog

Adrian Borland and The Sound

Check deze video: Adrian Borland and the sound ..Aan mijn Profiel Toevoegen | Meer video...
Posted by Maria Jo on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:30:00 PST

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Posted by Maria Jo on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 08:08:00 PST

DEAD GUITARS are coming to town!!!

Dead GuitarsThis is another great band that deserves attention from a wider audience! Check out their first album "Airplanes". See and meet the band on Dead GuitarsI'm looking forward to see you ...
Posted by Maria Jo on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:27:00 PST

Going back in time with THE SOUND of....

Great clippings from the past!More and more clippings of both The Sound and The Comsat Angels are showing up! When I started the website, I never expected that there were still so many fans of my favo...
Posted by Maria Jo on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:46:00 PST

okkibox

I have removed the links from my profile on MySpace, that will lead you to www.okkibox.nl until my little site is whitelisted by Tom. The reason why I did this.. is obvious. I am a graphic designer an...
Posted by Maria Jo on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:52:00 PST

Box of Happy Memories

Box of (Happy) MemoriesIk heb deze weblog de naam gegeven van een liedje van Adrian Borland. Niet echt origineel....maar vooruit, de inhoud van mijn blog past prachtig bij deze titel, dacht ik zo....
Posted by Maria Jo on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 02:33:00 PST

Top albums van Maria Jo

Feeding FingersLive zijn ze met z'n drieën. Toch is dit een muzikaal project van slechts één persoon. Zijn naam is Justin Curfman, 27 jaar oud en hij woont in Austell, Georgia (USA). Justin noemt zich...
Posted by Maria Jo on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 01:51:00 PST

The Sound

The Sound and Adrian BorlandMisschien heb jij ook wel een leuk verhaal of iets mede te delen over deze fantastische groep? Je kunt dat hier doen of even naar mijn website gaan om jouw verhaal toe te v...
Posted by Maria Jo on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 09:32:00 PST

Welkom

Welkom Hey....het heeft wat voeten in de aarde gehad, maar ik heb vandaag deze MySpace aangemaakt. Het een en ander is nog niet goed gegaan, zoals een aantal links in het contactkader. Misschien zijn ...
Posted by Maria Jo on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 08:30:00 PST