Ample. There is no use in limiting oneself in any which way.
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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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.
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.
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.
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:
Not for me.