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amelie

only dead fish swim with the stream

About Me


"This is you. Eyes closed, out in the rain. You never thought you'd be doing something like this, you never saw yourself as, I don't know how you'd describe it... Is like one of those people who like looking up at the moon, who spend hours gazing at the waves or the sunset or... I guess you know the kind of people I'm talking about. Maybe you don't. Anyway, you kind of like being like this, fighting the cold, feeling the water seep through your shirt and getting through your skin. And the feel of the ground growing soft beneath your feet. And the smell. And the sound of the rain hitting the leaves. All the things they talked about in the books you haven't read. This is you, who would have guessed it? You."
My Life Without Me - 2003
It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
Anais Nin

My Interests

art, design, photography, architecture, computers, internet, computer graphics, computer games (settlers, starcraft, warcraft, diablo, civilization, sims, morrowind, guild wars), Second Life, reading, going out, music, fitness, traveling, africa, italy and all things italian, history, languages, restaurants, movies, film festivals (AFFF, IDFA, pluk de nacht..)

other good things
pear flavoured popsicles (perenijsjes)with my name on them
the way london smells in the autumn (car fumes mixed with the smell of rotting leaves), the hills around florence, gin & tonics, naked midnight swims, deserted beaches, cat toes, picnics in bed, orchids, cooking with friends, the colour change in the sky just before a tornado, good espresso, hoodies in every imaginable colour especially black, sweating at the gym, dancing when i can't help myself, white wine on a hot afternoon, marmite on toast, curry (thai, indian, malay), city trips, feet, eyes, rain, storms, abandoned buildings, early morning in the city before it wakes up to the chaos, the unexpected, beautiful contradictions

I'd like to meet:

interesting, fun, open minded people who think for themselves

PS: at the risk of sounding unfriendly, all men seeking sex, naked pictures, or a wife, please don't message me and anyone i don't know who just wants to pad their friends list, please don't bother trying to add me.

Music:

all sorts, difficult to list: varies from rap to classical..
to name a few: Molotov, Orishas, Control Machete, X, The Offspring, Sir Mix A Lot, Wu Tang Clan, West Side Connection, NWA, Tupac, Snoop Dogg, Portishead, Beth Hart, Ani DiFranco, Pussycat Dolls, Goldfrapp, PJ Harvey, Violent Femmes, Radiohead, Cypress Hill, Bloodhound gang, Manu Chao, X, Orbital, Cult, Kate Bush, Bow wow wow, Hazel O' Connor, Blondie, Ennio Morricone, Bach, Mozart.. and more. varies from hour to hour and from day to day.. this is list is nowhere near complete

Movies:

I'm a complete movie freak and can't list all the movies i love but i'll try.. Almodovar My life without me, Hable con ella,
Sergio Leone C'era una volta in America, Giu la testa, Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Per qualche dollaro in piu
Nanni Moretti La stanza del figlio, Il Caimano,
Akira Kurosawa Seven Samurai, The Hidden Fortress,
David Lynch Blue Velvet, Lost Highway, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, The Straight Story,

Peter Greenaway Prospero's Books, The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover, Drowning by Numbers, The Belly of an Architect , The Draughtsman's Contract, The Pillow Book
The Coen brothers Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Jim Jarmusch Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Coffee and cigarettes, Night on Earth, Mystery Train
Nicholas Roeg Walkabout, The Man who Fell to Earth, Don't Look Now,

Hayao Miyazaki Princess Mononoke, Spirited away, Kiki's Delivery Service, Castle in the Sky
Peter Jackson Heavenly Creatures, Bad Taste
Others: Tampopo, Henry and June, Goodbye Lenin, The Exorcist, Harold and Maude, Dr. Strangelove, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Tank Girl, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Being Julia, 28 days later, Nuovo cinema Paradiso, Hotel Rwanda, Tsotsi, La Meglio Gioventu, Bin-Jip, But I'm a Cheerleader, Imagine Me & You, Backstage, Fierce people.. Foxfire (Angelina Jolie) ANYTHING with Kristin Scott-Thomas, The Secretary.. and much more..

Television:

haven't watched tv for months, but i like bbc documentaries, bbc comedy, Absolutely Fabulous, Ali G, Will and Grace, the L word, 6 feet under, good movies..

Books:

too much to list, but these are some i've read recently: Shake Hands with the Devil - Romeo Dallaire, Dark Star Safari - Paul Theroux, Metaphysique des tubes - Amelie Nothomb, Antechrista - Amelie Nothomb, The Diaries of Anais Nin.

My Blog

trip to San Francisco and Lake Tahoe

trip to Tahoe and San Francisco the beach in Alameda on our way from San Francisco to Lake Tahoe the cabin in Tahoe behind the cabin village where we had the most delicious breakfast.. waffle...
Posted by amelie on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 01:57:00 PST

party 9 sept - Don't Trust Tally (part 2)

Don't Trust Tally - 9 sept The band also had pictures taken. You can see those on their website: http://www.donttrusttally.nl/oude_optredens/huiskamer_concer t/huiskamer.html Setlist: Nirvana -Lithium ...
Posted by amelie on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 03:03:00 PST

party 9 sept - Don't Trust Tally (part 1)

Don't Trust Tally - 9 sept I was a bit tired (read hungover) on Sunday and been busy since then so I didn't get around to posting the pictures taken on Saturday until now. Many were taken in semi-dark...
Posted by amelie on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:08:00 PST

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i'm so perplexed.. what was i thinking? what will i think of next?
Posted by amelie on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 06:00:00 PST

this time it's for real.. i think..

still trying to recover from my last wild weekend before surgery, tomorrow it's finally going to happen. after the last attempt at surgery it's been very difficult to take seriously, i still feel as i...
Posted by amelie on Wed, 10 May 2006 03:49:00 PST

close.. but no cigar!

what an absurd day... after two painful and failed attempts at the nerve block which entailed electric shocks administered via a needle deep in my neck to locate the correct nerve branch, dressed...
Posted by amelie on Tue, 25 Apr 2006 09:57:00 PST

12 hrs..

in 12 hours i'll be on the operating table for surgery on my shoulder, finally! i'm a little nervous, but so relieved that it's finally going to be fixed, 6 months after my scooter accident!...
Posted by amelie on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 03:00:00 PST