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Elf Åžener

The King Is The Man Who Can - said Keith Richards!

About Me

I was born in Istanbul, on September 18, 1985. As the second child of a writer father and an artist mother. Everything since then has led me to become a writer - actress, a polyglot, a tourism student, an anti-racist, a Freddie Mercury and Peter Sellers fan, a Unicef volunteer for about 8 years now and an active member of Amnesty International. If I’m not working or traveling, I’ll be at my apartment; watching, writing and reading about the things you see in the “Interests” section. If you want to learn more, subscribe my blogs.
A little note: I am mildly dyslexic. I apologise in advance for my possible, disturbing grammar and spelling mistakes.
~ Give them a chance to survive ~ ''Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.''
Dalai Lama

My Interests

Cinema, activism, writing, theatre, comedy, psychology, photography, anything art related, journalism, literature, lingustics, politics, soccer, dancing (latin, belly, ballroom and tango), world & art history...
Greek mythology, renaissance, epic poetry, Buddhism, philosophy, F1, accents, quotes, NBA, bowling, cooking, kick-box, board games, people's fun quirks, people-watching, Mediterranean cuisine (esp. Turkish & Italian).

I'd like to meet:


Music:



(In alphabetical order)
AC/DC, Aerosmith, AFI, Apocalyptica, B.B. King, Beach Boys, Blondie, Blur, Bob Dylan, Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen, Bryan Adams, Burhan Öcal, Chuck Berry, Coldplay, Cream, Danny Elfman, David Bowie, Dead Kennedy's, Deep Purple, Def Leppard, Depeche Mode, Dire Straits, Dream Theater, Duran Duran, Eddie Cochran, Elton John, Elvis Presley, Elvis Costello, Eric Clapton, Eurythmics, Frank Zappa, Franz Ferdinand, George Michael, Glenn Miller, Gorillaz, Guns'n'Roses, Iggy & The Stooges, INXS, Iron Maiden, Jamiroquai, James Brown, Jeff Buckley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Johann Sebastian Bach, John Lee Hooker, Johnny Cash, Johnny Thunders, Kings Of Leon, Kinks, Kiss, Led Zeppelin, Lenny Kravitz, Little Richard, Los Kjarkas, Los Lobos, Ludwig van Beethoven, M.F.Ö, Madonna, Megadeth, Metallica, Michael Jackson, Motley Crue, Muse, New York Dolls, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Ozzy, Pearl Jam, Pet Shop Boys, Phil Collins, Pink Floyd, Placebo, Queens Of The Stone Age, R.E.M, R.L. Burnside, Radiohead, Rage Against The Machine, Rancid, Ray Charles, Robbie Williams, Sex Pistols, Stealers Wheel, Steve Marriott, Sting, The Clash, The Corrs, The Cure, The Doors, The Killers, The Misfits, The Ramones, The Verve, The Who, Tina Turner, Travis, U2, Van Halen, Whitesnake, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
And opera.

Some: Aretha Franklin, Barry White, Bee Gees, David Gray, Earth Wind & Fire, Jefferson Airplane, Marilyn Manson, Marvin Gaye, Mary J Blige, Nancy Sinatra, Roy Orbison, Santana, Sheryl Crow, The Cardigans, The Divine Comedy, The Velvet Underground, Tom Jones, W. Houston, Will Smith.

Movies:


(In alphabetical order)
DRAMA / ACTION
8 1/2, 12 Angry Men, 25th Hour, A Clockwork Orange, A Love Song For Bobby Long, Amadeus, Amistad, Arizona Dream, A Time To Kill, Awaara, Babam Ve Oglum, Back To The Future series, Batman, Batman Returns, Casablanca, Citizen Kane, Click, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Crash, Dead Man Walking, Edward Scissorhands, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Face/Off, Fearless, Finding Neverland, Forrest Gump, From Here To Eternity, Godfather 1&2, Goodfellas, Gegen die Wand, Hable Con Ella, Highlander, Hero, Husbands, Independence Day, Indiana Jones, Kramer vs Kramer, La Vita È Bella, Ladri Di Biciclette, Last Tango In Paris, Leben der Anderen,Das, Lorenzo's Oil, Malcolm X, Memento, Midnight Cowboy, Motorcycle Diaries, Mystic River, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Philadelphia, Piyano Piyano Bacaksiz, Platoon, Raging Bull, Reservoir Dogs, Road To Perdition, Scarface, Schindler's List, Serpico, The Gangs Of New York, "The Good, The Bad And The Ugly", The Hunt For Red October, The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers, The LOTR, The Misfits, The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Shawshank Redemption, Trainspotting, Videodrome, Walk The Line, Usual Suspects, Uzak...
COMEDY / MUSICAL
A Fish Called Wanda, Airplane! (1&2), Analyze This&That, Artists and Models, As Long As It Gets, Beetlejuice, Bridget Jones 1&2, Bruce Almighty, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Dr Strangelove, Duck Soup, Finding Nemo, First Wives Club, Forget Paris, Ghostbusters, Hababam Sinifi, Hero (S. Frears'), Hot Shots, How to Murder Your Wife, Husband and Wives, It Happened One Night, Liar Liar, Maverick, Naked Gun, Once Upon A Crime, Oscar, Pure Luck, Sideways, Soapdish, Some Like It Hot, The Ghost Breakers, The Graduate, The Great Dictator, The Hook, The Lion King, The Party, The Pirates Of The Caribbean, The Police Academy series, The Terminal, Three Amigos, Three Men&A Baby/Little Girl, Tosun Pasa, We're No Angels, Wedding Crashers...
Chicago, Kiss Me Kate, Moulin Rouge, Saturday Night Fever, Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, The Blues Brothers, The Sound of Music, West Side Story...
HORROR / THRILLER
Birds, Constantine, Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, Dracula, Final Destination, Rosemary's Baby, Se7en, Shikoku, Sleepy Hallow, The Blair Witch Project, The Crow, The Evil Dead 1&2, The Exorcism Of Emily Rose, The Exorcist, The Forgotten, The Gift, The Night Of The Living Dead, The Psycho(original), The Ring, The Shining, The Silence Of The Lambs, The Sixth Sense, The Vanishing, War Of The Worlds...

Television:



The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Inside the Actors Studio, Hard Talk (UK), sports, the news, Listening Post, Genc Bakis.
SERIES: Avrupa Yakasi, Boston Legal, Criminal Minds, CSI: NY, House, Medium, My Name is Earl, Numb3rs, Prison Break, The Office (UK), The Simpsons, The Tudors, Without A Trace.

Books:



Pretty much everything by: Agatha Christie, Ayse Kulin, Charles Bukowski, Charles Dickens, Clive Cussler, David Benioff, Friedrich Nietzsche, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Irwin D. Yalom, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jack London, James R. Flynn, Jean-Christophe Grange, John Steinbeck, Kurt Vonnegut, Leo Tolstoy, Orhan Pamuk, Oscar Wilde, Socrates, Stephen King, Victor Hugo, Viktor Frankl, William Shakespeare, Yasar Kemal...
*And autobiographies*

Heroes:


'' Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers? ''
~Victor Hugo

My Blog

A brilliant idea: whydemocracy.net

Yesterday I found a site which is running by a group of young people in South Africa. I don't know who they are but they are officially my new heroes.In the web site, there are short movies about worl...
Posted by Elf ^ener on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 03:39:00 PST

Oldies are still goldies.

It's been more than a year since the last time I watched something on a music channel. Today, after a friend looked at me like he saw an alien because I didn't know the song Umbrella and had no idea w...
Posted by Elf ^ener on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 04:43:00 PST

Ladies and gentlemen, wanna do some reading?

If yes and if you are not in a " I'm so cheerful, don't say anything negative " mood right now, check out The State of the World's Children 2007* report. Especially ladies. This year the report (160 p...
Posted by Elf ^ener on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 02:11:00 PST

Holy 80s

You know what would be really great. A brand new Highlander movie when we still have Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery around. That or a new Back to the Future film. 80s were great. Airplane!, Bat...
Posted by Elf ^ener on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:40:00 PST

Liverpool vs Milan again in final!

As some of you might remember, I am a huge soccer fan since my very early childhood and never miss any UEFA games. After a very pleasent UEFA Champions League season, Liverpool and AC Milan made fin...
Posted by Elf ^ener on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:40:00 PST

Let's stop the world and talk about a pop singer

Oh wait... we're already doing that. The news, newspapers, even economy magazines. She's everywhere these days like we don't have anything else to talk about. Genocide in Darfur, the wars, even Oscars...
Posted by Elf ^ener on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:40:00 PST

Tragicomic reality shows

I lost my reality show watcher virginity the other to an old episode of Beauty And The Geek:     Mike Richards: What is the capital of Iraq?   The girl: Could you spell Iraq, please...
Posted by Elf ^ener on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:40:00 PST

3 Things About Christmas

Santa Was A Real Person.      '' The real Santa lived a long time ago in a place called:Asia Minor. It is now the country of Turkey. His name was Nicholas      Nichol...
Posted by Elf ^ener on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:40:00 PST

My Definiton Of The Perfect Man...

After reading and watching thing like that, I truly admire Clooney. UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Actor George Clooney on Thursday told the U.N.'s most powerful body that if it did not send peacekeeper...
Posted by Elf ^ener on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:40:00 PST

Health Report

My brother and grandmother who stayed with me last week confused me a little about my lifestyle and health when they saw I can't jog and talk at the same time. When we got home from jogging for 2 hour...
Posted by Elf ^ener on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:40:00 PST