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Røverdatter

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About Me

___spacelayouts @livejournal.comStudent of Medieval & Modern History, English & Finnish Philology and Scandinavian Studies, obsessed with music, extremely anglophile, enjoys learning languages, wanted to become a pirate captain or join a circus as a child, optimistic, laughs a lot, emotional, into black humour, cat lover, avid animal rights supporter, bookworm, prepared to leave Germany for the UK, France or Scandinavia when done with studying because most Germans suck, convinced of the fact that there's more in life than a 9 to 5 and making money, tries to make the world a better place, unconventional, ...
lady-astaroth.de
Prodigy-Net: The German Prodigy Website
My Flickr account
last.fm
DarkMode [My best friend's website]
Falstaffs Experience [Said to be the most haunted place in Britain]
Memberships
Greenpeace
Amnesty International
Society for Endangered Languages
PETA - People for the Ethical Treatment of Aminals
Deutscher Tierschutzbund
Menschen für Tierrechte
Vier Pfoten - Stiftung für Tierschutz
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My Interests

music, languages [English, French, Spanish, Finnish, Norwegian, Dutch, Latin, a bit of Swedish, Icelandic and Welsh], linguistics, literature, photography, travelling, paganism, wicca, vampires, Old and Middle English, dialectology, Hair Musical, tattoos, piercings, long hair, small men in eyeliner and eyeshadow, the paranormal, haunted places, fog, witchcraft, thunderstorms, starry nights, England [esp. Stratford-upon-Avon, York, Manchester, Lake District, Essex area, the Cotswolds], Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Finland [Helsinki rocks!], France [Paris, je t'aime!], Spain, Scandinavia, Celtic mythology, tarot, the 80s, cats, old cemeteries, castles, ruins, the moon, the sea, forests, candles, incense, lighthouses, meeting people from other countries, Indian/Italian/Spanish cuisine, Anton Corbijn, Johnny Depp, hippies, gypsies, pirates, vagrant people in general, Jacques Villeneuve, manchego cheese, suomalainen olut [Karjala, Karhu], salmiakki, norsk geitost, Andalucia, Canary Islands, spirituality, spring, individuality, non-conformism, writing, playing drums and bass guitar, English history, Victorian and Tudor England

I'd like to meet:

creative open-minded warm people, The Prodigy and John Fairs again and again :o)

Music:

The Prodigy | Kaizers Orchestra | Depeche Mode | Placebo | The Cure | Apoptygma Berzerk | The Chemical Brothers | Inkubus Sukkubus | Ville Valo (solo and side projects) | The Decemberists | The 69 Eyes | Nightwish | Bauhaus | Siouxsie & The Banshees | London After Midnight | The Smiths | The Housemartins | IAMX | Stone Temple Pilots | Scott Weiland | Blackmore's Night | Loreena McKennitt | The Doors | Fairlight Children | The Kovenant | FAQ | Secret Discovery | Sonic Youth | Björk | The Velvet Underground | U2 | Midnattsol | Seigmen | The Birthday Massacre | Gentleman | Eminem | The Charlatans | Oasis | Soft Cell | Bel Canto | Røyksopp | Nico | Serge Gainsbourg | Metope | Soulwax | Sigur Rós | Madrugada | Gåte | Belle & Sebastian | Motor | Client | Muse | She Wants Revenge | 80s | Breakbeat | Drum & Bass | Electronica ...

Movies:

Ronja Rövardotter, Pippi Långstrump, Interview with the Vampire, The Queen of the Damned, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Sleepy Hollow, From Hell, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Angel Heart, The Name of the Rose, Harry Potter, The Lost Boys, The Doors, Hair

Television:

I don't watch a lot of TV because most programmes seem to have been created for the small-minded. However, occasionally I tune in for Schillerstraße, Dittsche, Lesen, Zimmer frei, Mr Bean, Fawlty Towers, Domian, political discussions, documentaries on history.

Books:

Authors:
Oscar Wilde
Astrid Lindgren
Jostein Gaarder
Anne Rice
Arto Paasilinna
Matti Y. Joensuu
Jim Morrison
Barbara Erskine
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Albert Camus
T. C. Boyle
Charles Baudelaire
William Shakespeare
Edgar Allan Poe
William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
George Gordon Byron
Percy Bysshe Shelley
John Keats
Charles Maturin
Charles Dickens
Umberto Eco
Arthur Rimbaud
Victor Hugo
William Blake
Friedrich Nietzsche
Timothy Leary
Bernard Cornwell
Michel Houellebecq

Heroes:

my mum, my grandmum (RIP), my friends :o)

My Blog

Kaizers Orchestra in Cologne

I went to Cologne's Live Music Hall last Tuesday without knowing what to expect as I'd come across this band by accident via a girl from our Norwegian course at uni.Well... They blew me away completel...
Posted by Røverdatter on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 01:06:00 PST

All the gigs I've ever attended...

Get your rotten tomatoes ready to throw them at me... 23.01.1989 Bros (Dortmund, Westfalenhalle 2) 28.04.1990 David Hasselhoff (Dortmund, Westfalenhalle) 06.05.1990 New Kids on the Block (Essen, Gruga...
Posted by Røverdatter on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 05:06:00 PST

La Magie de Paris

Yummy! :o)Cimétière du Père LachaiseJim MorrisonOscar WildeEdith PiafMolière & La FontaineFrédéric ChopinPlace de ClichyGahan?Champs ElyséesUnfortunately, the weather wasn't too pleasant...At Virg...
Posted by Røverdatter on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 01:09:00 PST

Apoptygma Berzerk in Salzwedel

Saturday, 23 SeptemberHotel Katharinenhöfchen (recommendable!)Sunday, 24 SeptemberShow time!...
Posted by Røverdatter on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 04:52:00 PST

Q & A

Prologue:Where did you take your profile picture?Took it myself.What exactly are you wearing right now?Black skirt, black shirt with red skullsWhat is your current problem?A lack of sleep. That's all...
Posted by Røverdatter on Sat, 13 May 2006 10:56:00 PST

England vs Sweden, Cologne, 20 June 2006

St. George waving on my balcony...
Posted by Røverdatter on Tue, 20 Jun 2006 03:56:00 PST

Helsinki - Part 2

Continued...Helsinki, 06-03-2006, 2:16 pm"It has been snowing all day, so I did not walk around that much. I should have brought my Rangers boots instead of my Adidas trainers.The air here makes me so...
Posted by Røverdatter on Wed, 08 Mar 2006 08:44:00 PST

Helsinki - Part 1

I've just returned from Helsinki, and here's what I wrote down in my travel journal:"Helsinki, 05-03-2006, 8:40 pmI got up at 4 am because I never manage to pack my suitcase in advance, so things usua...
Posted by Røverdatter on Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:11:00 PST

Depeche Mode

They're finally back on tour!  I'll attend the following shows: 20.01. Dusseldorf, LTU-Arena 21.01. Dusseldorf, LTU-Arena 06.03. Helsinki, Hartwall Areena 30.03. Manchester, MEN Arena 31.03. ...
Posted by Røverdatter on Mon, 16 Jan 2006 02:54:00 PST