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Mina

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me




I love taking pictures...
My deviantart account: minaharker82.deviantart.com

I speak (in this order) Spanish, English and French...

I like spiders! :P

adopt your own virtual pet!

Some paintings...

My little homage to the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879):




My Interests

music, art, photography, film, literature... travelling!!

I love silvery, brilliant and cloudy days after rain, looking to the sky at night, the moon, feeling the wind on my face, Autumn and Winter, November, the smell after having rained, the sound of the waves of the sea, the sea, walking, a warm smile, nature, insects and arachnids, animals, taking pictures, cemeteries, cemetery sculptures, cathedrals, the smell of incense, gardens, reading for a long while, travelling by train, seeing beautiful or moving paintings, Middle Ages, legends, Romanticism, concerts, Egyptology (!), Saturday mornings+breakfast+inspiring music+watching our garden...

I'd like to meet:


just interesting people with things to talk about...

IFERN AN NAONED : le seul disquaire spécialisé Metal & Hardcore de tout l'ouest de la France...

A great gothic death/doom band:

check some samples here or here

Music:

I specially listen to gothic and doom metal but I'm open to other kinds of metal (e.g. melodic black and death, progressive...) and other musics such as classical (Mahler, Mussorgsky...)or dark ambient (Elend, Dark Sanctuary...)...

* From time to time I do interviews for the Spanish website www.rafabasa.com

* Some bands that I like (in no particular order):

Draconian
Anathema
Orphaned Land
After Forever
Epica
Desire
Doom:VS
Daylight Dies
Swallow the Sun
Shape of Despair
Slumber
Necare
Reclusiam
Pantheist
Saturnus
Nightwish
For My Pain
Charon
Sentenced
Entwine
Poisonblack
To Die For
Battlelore
Lacrimas Profundere (Memorandum!)
Moonspell
Apocalyptica
Haggard
Therion
HIM (Greatest Love Songs 666, Razorblade Romance)
Tristania
Sirenia
The Sins of Thy Beloved
Nemesea
Ebony Ark( www.ebonyark.com )
Lacuna Coil
In Flames
Moonsorrow
Dark Sanctuary
Elend
....


Movies:

Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls, 1948); Lord of the Rings (Peter Jackson); Sleepy Hollow (Tim Burton, 1999); Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton, 1990); V for Vendetta (James McTeigue, 2005); From Hell (Albert Hughes, 2001); Cyrano de Bergerac (Jean-Paul Rappeneau, 1990); Girl with a Pearl Earring (Peter Webber, 2003); The Constant Gardener (Fernando Meirelles, 2005); Das Kabinet des Doktor Kaligari (Robert Wiene, 1919); Los Amantes del Círculo Polar (Julio Medem, 1998); The Secret Life of Words (Isabel Coixet, 2005); Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982); Before Sunrise + Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 1995 and 2004) ...to name a few...

Television:

Only for some films and documentaries about travelling or history.
Oh! I used to see "X-files" and "er"! :P

Books:

Dracula (Bram Stocker); The Sorrows of Young Werther (Johan Wolfgang Goethe); The perfume (Patrick Süskind); The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins); Cyrano de Bergerac (Edmond Rostand); The Physician (Noah Gordon); The Egyptian (Mika Waltari) ...to name a few...

My Blog

a survey: personality types...

I don't take too much seriously these things but I have to admit that sometimes they point out some trues! And this one does, I think! ..> You Are An ISFP ..http://images.blogthings.com/what...
Posted by Mina on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 01:33:00 PST

Interviews...

Here you have the links to some of the interviews I've done so far: Epica, February 2004, in English: http://www.darklifezine.de/dlzine9_special1.html Draconian, August 2004, in Spanish: http://www.r...
Posted by Mina on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:06:00 PST

DOOM:VS

I just had to tell you this...  DOOM:VS "Aeternum Vale", a more funeral doom (yet melodic) oriented project of Johan Ericson from DRACONIAN, has already a release date: 10th July 2006! I have v...
Posted by Mina on Wed, 31 May 2006 04:17:00 PST

The poem...

The Lady of Shalott  by Alfred Tennyson (1809 - 1892) On either side the river lie  Long fields of barley and of rye,  That clothe the wold and meet the sky;  And through the field...
Posted by Mina on Tue, 09 May 2006 02:29:00 PST