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Lionfrost

Let the sword of reason shine.

About Me


Flandria parva loco sed nomine maxima et est re.
Singula sunt aliis, haec bona cuncta tenet.

Since some people apparently either don't seem to get the drift from the "I'd like to meet" section below or they simply don't read it, let me start off by saying prejudiced people of any sort need not bother requesting an add. Spare me the trouble of checking out your profile.
Now on to business...
My job has made me move around quite a bit, allowing me to get in touch with many different people from many different cultures. By consequence I think it's safe to say I have quite a broad horizon and a healthy look on reality. While I would say I'm an easy going person in general, at the same time I'm far from naive and rather sceptic when it comes to fully trusting people I don't know. Experience has taught me at times you don't even really know the people you are supposedly close with. Things aren't always what they seem and neither are people.
Needless to say these views prevent me from revealing all too much about my personal life on a public profile. If some of the things mentioned here make someone think they might have something in common with me, I'm always glad to hear from them. There's a nifty little button in the contact table called "send message" and it happens to be one of my favourites.
About the music:
In case you feel like enjoying some good music, I decided to have a go at hosting a bit of good stuff on here. Just to give a bit of a rough idea of what I'm into. I've noticed I quite like these Flash players on other people's pages, myself. I might add I left out the major bands since there is ample opportunity to listen to their stuff elsewhere. If I did include a "bigger" band it will be with older material, typically the stuff through which I got to know them.
Feel free to skip through the tracks as fast as you want or play each song as often as you want. You will soon notice I pretty much stuck to the more metal oriented music since I don't expect everyone to be willing or able to cope with my musical schizophrenia quite as well as I am.
And if you've got comments, I'll only read the positive ones. ;-)
On a side note, if the player's not there or the songs aren't playing, that's probably because the host is having server problems and/or Murphy's messing with us. In which case so be it. You just know you'll return to check these fine tunes out later though, don't you? Sure you do!
Note: These non-downloadable songs are provided by means of promotion only. They happen to be by bands I personally appreciate quite a bit and whose albums I have purchased. Some of these songs are old, some are new, all of them are borrowed, none of them are blue... Well, the player is.
Anyway, I have no intention of spreading these songs against the will of the artists. If you are the copyright owner of any of these tracks and you want to see them removed from this page even though they cannot be downloaded, don't hesitate to get in touch and thy will shall be done.
Cheers to Chriss for the player codes.
About the moving images:
Billy Connolly goes to the movies in the US. Good points made and in fact I've always felt like the closing lines in this video whenever and wherever at the movies. It's not a friggin' diner, now is it?!
Also, Billy got himself a nice tattoo. I'm kind of jealous. Overall this man simply rocks. Sure he generalizes but at least he only does it to the face. And his old "bodily functions" humour is out of this world.

My Interests

Ample. There is no use in limiting oneself in any which way.

I'd like to meet:

It's mainly the music that got me into MySpace. While I don't rule anything out, I'm not specifically looking to share my life story with anyone, nor do I expect them to share theirs with me.
Experience tells me it's better to get to know someone face to face than through any medium. Even in real life misjudgement is a real threat, not seldom due to people's instability.
For the moment, this profile is not a very active one - perhaps rendering it a "low profile", I don't know. At any rate, my not being on the look-out to have the most expansive "Friends" list in the whole of the MySpace community is even more true now than before.

If there is one thing I am certainly not looking for, it is to have to deal with hypocrisy or other childish qualities many people are "blessed" with. I lead a life that renders me enough good times and I have people I deeply care about nearby.
Whatever extra MySpace may offer in a positive sense of the word, I will gladly accept. Everything else I will not bother with, albeit I will not refrain from speaking my mind from time to time. In that respect, everything here is on an "as is" basis.

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Music:

Could be anything from classical through folk and mainstream to the harshest kind of metal, as long as it triggers something.

Since it is metal and friends from the metal scene that brought me to MySpace, not to mention the fact metal in all its forms has taken up an even more important place in my life lately, here are some bands I enjoy quite a bit, roughly ranged by genre. Very roughly (so don't hold it against me), since it will soon be apparent I don't care much about pigeonholes:

Black Sabbath (GB), Coffins (J), diSEMBOWELMENT (AUS), Funeral (N), Mournful Congregation (AUS), My Dying Bride (GB), Novembers Doom (USA), Orphaned Land (IL), Paramaecium (AUS), Saturnus (DK), Serenades (IT), Shape of Despair (SF), Solitude Aeturnus (USA)

Equilibrium (D), Moonsorrow (SF), Primordial (IRL), The Living Fields (USA), Thyrfing (S), Woods of Ypres (CDN)

Destroyer 666 (AU), Emperor (N), Hellhammer/Celtic Frost (CH), Immortal (N), Sathanas (USA), Venom (GB)

Legion of the Damned (NL), Mezarkabul (TR), Slayer (USA), Sodom (D), Testament (USA)

Amon Amarth (S), Armoured Angel (AUS), God Dethroned (NL), Morbid Angel (USA), Obituary (USA), Suhrim (B), Unleashed (S)

Forgotten Silence (CZ), MachinaArcana (B), maudlin of the Well (USA), Scholomance (USA), Renaissance (B)

Danzig (USA), Dropkick Murphys (USA), The Exploited (GB), The Misfits (USA), Motorhead (GB), Ramones (USA), Volbeat (DK)

Agathocles (B), Godflesh (GB), Ministry (USA)

In the list above, all clickable names refer to the band's official MySpace profile so you might want to check them out.

Folkwise I especially enjoy acts from my homeland of Belgium (more specifically the Northern region I live in, being Flanders) as well as Scandinavian, Irish, British and Eastern European performers. Some names would include Lais, Olla Vogala, Kadril, 't Kliekske, Rum; Värttinä, Hedningarna, Wimme.

Completing the musical schizophrenia, a rundown of artists: Kate Bush, John Coltrane, Dead Can Dance, Miles Davis, Endraum, Front 242, Peter Gabriel, Huelgas Ensemble, Wim Mertens, Morphine, Mike Oldfield, Portishead, Praga Khan, Sixteen Horsepower, Underworld, Weather Report and the proverbial many more.

Movies:

The theme might start to get boring, especially for more narrow-minded folk, but again there are few limits in what I enjoy movie wise or at least to what I give a try. It's not like I'm a sponge that will soak up everything and anything.
My collection goes from silent movies like Nosferatu, Bronenosets Potemkin and Die Somnambule through black and white classics such as A Streetcar Named Desire and The Third Man and pretty much everything Hitchcock ever produced for the white screen, all the way through to the more contemporary madness of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and The Big Lebowski to Carrey flicks such as The Mask and Dumb and Dumber. One of my fave directors would have to be Hal Hartley for his work on films like Trust and Amateur. Can't miss out on Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction. The Usual Suspects, Once Were Warriors, Suture,... the list is sheer endless.

Television:

Not unlike my interests in general, I watch TV shows covering a broad range of subjects albeit hardly anything that hasn't been pre-recorded in order to be able to easily weed out all the window dressing (commercials, anyone?).

Unlike many people I am not worried about the Big Brother effect of television. Be alert when watching, check different sources and don't just accept everything you see. Pretty much like real life, I'd say. Scratching the surface simply will not do.

Books:

Reading is done in on and off periods in my world, depending on the circumstances.

Recent reads include
Lords of Chaos ( Michael Moynihan / Didrik Soderlind), Insjallah, mevrouw (Annemie Struyf / Lieve Blanquaert) and Mijn status is positief (idem).

Last read:

Heroes:

Not for me.

My Blog

Religion

Just thinking out loud here, but why doesn't MySpace offer the choice of "None" under "Religion" in the Background & Lifestyle section? It's not like "Atheist" will quite cover it for some of us.It's ...
Posted by Lionfrost on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 01:19:00 PST

Leaving.

If you're leaving a place, it's better to talk about the place you're going to than about the place you're leaving behind.A few wise words I picked up. And eerily applickable right now since I will be...
Posted by Lionfrost on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:29:00 PST

"Friends" list?

I figured it was time for another little blog. Especially since there's something that's been kind of bugging me for a little while now, somewhat related to the "Interests and attention span" blog I w...
Posted by Lionfrost on Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:03:00 PST

Inbev? No, thanks.

So the other day, I went ahead and packed all my Inbev glasses in a couple of cardboard boxes and stocked them in the basement. Maybe what keeps me from tossing them out altogether is a kind of "ultim...
Posted by Lionfrost on Wed, 10 May 2006 08:19:00 PST

The Dark Continent

My weekend consisted of a trip to Sierra Leone, Africa, and I thought I'd just shed a little light on what we did and saw down there. A two day trip took us to meet with children in the Southeast of t...
Posted by Lionfrost on Thu, 04 May 2006 01:32:00 PST

Interests and attention span

When browsing MySpace and the profiles therein, I was wondering to what extent people's Friends lists are representative of their own views and feelings as in how much the content of their Friends' pr...
Posted by Lionfrost on Mon, 10 Apr 2006 05:36:00 PST

Johnny Hedlund or Reason Speaks

Let me quote from an interview in German Metal Webzine Voices from the Darkside: Not too long ago UNLEASHED have been accused of having a right-wing / fascist type attitude... Do you have any explanat...
Posted by Lionfrost on Mon, 03 Apr 2006 12:16:00 PST

California: Pay to Play

The following text was writting by Aaron Copelan of US death metal band Pax Mortis back in 1994. At that time, I published it in my underground magazine.I decided to post it here because the issu...
Posted by Lionfrost on Sun, 12 Mar 2006 04:19:00 PST

Photobucket, anyone?

Initially, I simply used the MySpace photo corner of this profile to store any and all images I used on this page. Why bother storing them elsewhere if it's perfectly possible to keep them right here,...
Posted by Lionfrost on Sun, 12 Mar 2006 06:37:00 PST

Politics suck.

Nothing new there, really. However in this context, it's a statement I am making with regards to music. I've had my share of nonsense in the music scene because of politics and have recently come acro...
Posted by Lionfrost on Sat, 11 Mar 2006 10:01:00 PST