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Renate

he built a violin of glass so he could see the music

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My Interests

dancing to music, listening to music, making music, sharing music, running, reading, grinning, skiing, people, postcards, missions, massages, stories, sculptures, speedboats, shisha, animals, alliteration, fountains & wishing wells, flora & fauna, tea & coffee, mythology, philosophy, languages, theatre, Glenn Gould, gadgets, presents, apples, ice cream, words & definitions, trivia, mix cd's, accents, rain, Norway, stationary, bicycles, shadowfights, running up steps (two at a time), swimming in the sea whilst it's raining, the lights as you come into earl's court at night

I'd like to meet:

Glenn Gould Zhou EnlaiKurt VonnegutWilliam JamesBanksy

Music:

DnB, jungle, breaks, electro, hip hop, jazz, reggae, funk, dubstep, rock, garage ++ High Contrast, Logistics, Nu:tone, CLS + Wax, Shapeshifter, Calibre, Subfocus, Brookes Brothers, Bungle, Marky, Shy FX, Screamheads, Cursor Minor, Danny Byrd, Commix, Alix Perez, AI, 4Hero, Clipz, Die, Ben Westbeech, Fat Freddy's Drop, Hilltop Hoods, Chemical Brothers, Gilles Peterson, Otis Redding, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Ellington, Aesop Rock, A Tribe Called Quest, St Germain, Luke Vibert, Toots & the Maytals, Switch, Sinden, MJ Cole, DJ Spinna, Mr Scruff, NWA, Coldcut, Seu Jorge, Justice, Jaz-Z, Cypress Hill, Kid Koala, Aim, Diplo, Booka Shade, Erol Alkan, Digitalism, Skream, Bassline and Drumsound Smith, Digital Mystikz (Mala), TC, Roni Size, Zinc, Jenna G, Bad Company, Chase & Status, Nicky B, Dillinja, Hazard, Skibadee, Hype, Konflict, Plump DJs, Krafty Kuts, Conquering Lion, Mr Oizo, Kano, Dizzee, Roots Manuva, Kanye, Foreign Beggars, J5, Nitin Sawhney, M.I.A., Gnarls Barkley, Amon Tobin, Badmarsh & Shri, Unkle, Quantic, Mstrkrft, Radioclit, Sizzla, Capleton, Barrington Levy, RJD2, Bob Marley, Faithless, Massive Attack, Bloc Party, Mystery Jets, The GO! Team, The Noisettes, Missy Elliott, Michael Jackson, Bach, Brahms, Beethoven, Mozart, Debussy, Verdi, Grieg, Handel, Faure, Astor Piazzola, Ludovico Einaudi, Dimitri from Paris, anything recorded by Glenn Gould

Movies:

Citizen Kane, Persona, Requiem for a Dream, The Graduate, Belleville Rendezvous, Akira, The Third Man, Dead Poets Society, The Godfather, Spirited Away, District 13, anything with martial arts

Television:

david attenborough, spooks, have i got news for you, family guy, simpsons, 24, documentaries

Books:

Beatles and The Half Brother - Lars Saabye Christensen, Der Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse, Metamorphosis - Kafka, Fairytales - Godfried Bomans, Life is a Dream - Calderon, Willem Frederik Hermans, ZEMBLA mag, Les Mots - Sartre, The Line of Beauty - Akab Hollinghurst, Collected Works - Wyslawa Szymborska, Philip Larkin, Walt Whitman, anything by Kurt Vonnegut, Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway, Naiv. Super. - Erlend Loe, Connie Palmen, Shadow of the Wind, The Prime of Life - Simone de Beauvoir, L'Etranger and The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus, Fictions - Borges, Atomised, 100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia de Marquez, The Rum Diaries and Hell's Angels - Hunter S. Thompson, Grapes of Wrath, The Magus - John Fowles, Eugene Ionesco, Tom Stoppard, The History of Love - Nicole Krausz, Blindness, Fermat's Last Theorem - Simon Singh, Maverick - Ricardo SemlerCurrently reading 'Ideas: from Fire to Freud' - amazing

Heroes:

Anyone looking for the perfect beat

My Blog

Resident Advisor

Thoroughly enjoying browsing my way through a website called Resident Advisor, a " dance & electronic music magazine". Excellent collection of relevant information, sufficiently detailed yet ...
Posted by Renate on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 03:11:00 PST

Google game

Rules: Go to Google and type in quotation marks your name and then "likes to" (eg. "Liam likes to"). Type in the first ten things that come up.1. Renate likes to sing songs that reflect the Love and G...
Posted by Renate on Fri, 25 May 2007 04:42:00 PST