The world we live in, Art (Photography, Drawing, Sculpture-some others), Dreams/Nightmares, Children Books, Pretty Things/Design, Brain Teasers, Travelling (!), MUusiC, Nature, PeoPLE, to die LAuGhiNg at life and everything, TheAtre/Drama/FilM, Psychology, Psychiatry, Violin, Piano, ReaDing, jAPan+eastern culture+Poetry,... ..
creative, imaginative,
interesting, inspiring, loving, passionate and mindful human beings who try their best to live in the present and who still believe in altruistic behaviour- which i believe- when you truly and freely l(o)ive- is natural and competition a foreign word. if you can love life with all its colours and little miracles, then you can love me. if you can face your fears and be sorry with insight, then you are genuine and share a beauty with me that not many people see for being blinded by politics of power over love."a human being is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be loved" M.Mayne
openminded and individually thinking people who want to live life to the full from crawling on all fours to climbing mountains, from working doubles to lazing around in the sun AND the other way round -who work for next to nothing if they enjoy what they are doing and that have pillow fights in the street and enjoy reading books as much as watching films. you get the idea.
people who yearn for more genuine friends for and in and to spice up everyday life.
i enjoy deep and meaningful friendships with people from all over the world.
someone who wants to go around and take pics with me on our travels/expeditions/"missons" ( ;-) )..
nice people who are reliable and trustworthy and know how to appreciate this one and only life and know what it means to try and get what they want or keep it, fight for it...
people who have hope and know that,when they have a headache, it will go over.;-)
Max Richter, Godspeed You! Black Emperor(a 12 minute song that mesmerized me), Arvo Paert, a silver mt zion, Esmerine, Yasmin Levy, John Tavener, Gustavo Santaolalla, Tom Waits, Tim Buckley, Zbigniew Preisner, Paul Giger, Eluvium, Rachel's, Album Leaf, Archive, Seefeel, Marillion, Lhasa, Alva Noto+Ryuichi Sakamoto, Zarah Leander, Clara Rockmore, Chopin, Caribou, Efterklang, Bueno Vista Social Club, Omara Portuondo, Django Reinhardt, Metallica, Four Tet, Scott Walker, LFO, Boards of Canada, fsion-band, Kronos Quartet, P.Glass, Mice Parade, M.Davis, J.Coltraine, Keith Jarrett, Ennio Morricone, Soad, Autechre, Tool, Charlie Parker, Led Zeppelin, Doors, Duran Duran, At the drive-in, Pearl Jam, N.Simone, The Chameleons, Requiems, Bach, Schubert, Beethoven, die form, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Dark Electro, dj Shadow, plaid, Mars Volta, Stereolab, Adult., Brian Eno, , Asja auf Capri, Shostakovich, Mystery Men, Japanese Telecom, Dopplereffekt, Nobekazu Takemura...minimal noise, jazz+blues, mad+very mellow classical stuff at "home" and crazy heavy metal to go out etc, dark electronic 80s sorta things to dance, as my moods change, my taste in music does. some talking heads is good and so many weird noise bands and all the good old "goth" bands like skinny puppy and joy division etc...kraftwerk etc etc oh, i love the soundtrack to "the good, the bad and the ugly", Chris Clark, Aphex Twin, John Cage(piano), To Rococo Rot.(Cars), Steve Reich...Laleh, Theoretical Girl,..+so many more.
The steamroller and the violin, Being There (Hal Ashby/Jerzy Kosinski), Stalker, The Sacrifice, (TARKOVSKY),I Kina spiser de hunde(In China they eat Dogs)(Lasse Spang Olsen), Cesar et Rosalie(Claude Sautet),Spider, Dead Ringers(Cronenberg), The scent of green papaya(anh hung), Flesh and the Devil (Clarence Brown- 1926), Frozen(Wang), Frantic, The Pianist(Polanski), Mio mein Mio(Vladimir Grammatikov), Momo(Johannes Schaaf), Ring(Nakata), Life is beautiful(Benigni), L'Homme du train(Leconte), Audition( Takashi Miike), In the mood for love(Wong Kar-Wai), Down by law+maybe Broken Flowers(Jarmusch), Julien donkey boy(Korine), Forbidden kisses(Truffaut), Last tango in paris(Bertolucci), Through a Glass Darkly, Persona, Fanny and Alexander, The seventh seal, Wild Strawberries(Ingmar Bergman), Julio Medem films, Abre los ojos(Alejandro AmenEbar)+after a 2nd time even Vanilla Sky(Cameron Crowe), The Experiment(Hirschbiegel), The Talented Mr. Ripley, cACHE, The Piano Teacher(Michael Haneke), Satan's Brew(Fassbinder), Summer Things/Embrassez qui vous voudrez(Michel Blanc), The Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr), The Elephant Man (David Lynch), Jan Svankmajer AnimatioN, Memento(Christopher Nolan), Harold and Maude, Le Dîner de cons, L'Appartement, Magnolia(Paul Thomas Anderson)-well, it has more truth than lies in it and although it being a lil over the top, hell, man, you gotta love it for raining frogs...always loved film noir and old -mainly french- psychothrillers...American Psycho maybe...I ? Huckabees, Love me if you dare, Kammerflimmern
Spaced:-) FAVOURITE ARTISTS: E.Munch (1893 "Despair", "Separation", "Attraction", "The Flower of Pain", "Funeral March" etc), W.Blake ("The Soul hovering over the Body reluctantly parting with Life", "Job Confessing His Presumption to God Who Answers From the Whirlwind"), www.jkotkowski.com, A.Rodin ("Prodigal Son", "The Kiss", "Thinker", "The Cathedrale", etc selected drawings), A.Tapies, A.Gormley, A.Kiefer, F.Kahlo ("The Suicide of Dorothy Hale"), F.Goya, R.Horn, M.Chagall, K.Kollwitz, H.Bosch ("Hell" etc), M.C.Escher ("Three Worlds" etc), R.Magritte, R.Lidberg, Franz Kline, John Bauer, J.Casebere, M.Kostabi...H.Finster, B.Brandt, H.Bresson, H.Newton, X.Young, Man Ray, Banksy, Simon Marsden, ...so many more.. Gavin Hamilton's "Achilles Lamenting the Death of Patroclus" is one of the most powerful and intense paintings i know and love. you have to see it. no copies in the world could give you an idea of the original in Scotland. and the National Gallery makes sure noone gets copies. not even private prints :( i cannot describe in words how i feel when i stand in front of this painting. it makes me speechless and the gallery around me disappears. it is like someone putting a warm coat around you in the freezing cold. it is thunderstorms. it is getting the ground pulled beneath your feet. it is a deep sensation of burning. and yet. i have seldom felt so uplifted.
i don't really have a "favourite book" but the following i "enjoyed": The Pillowman(Martin McDonagh), Bahnwaerter Thiel(G.Hauptmann), Reclam German Literature books, R.Tagore, Far East Poetry, Paul Celan (Von Stufe zu Stufe), Rilke, C.Baudelaire, H.Hesse, F.Kafka, The little Prince(A.Exupery), Momo(M.Ende), Brontë sisters, Astrid Lindgren, Betty Blue(P.Djian), Spiegelkanon/Canone Inverso(P.Maurensig), The painted bird(Kocinsky), The Physicists, The Alchemist (value it for its fairly unique existence- very annoying style of writing- in those terms "veronica decides to die" is better), Whatever, Atomised (Michel Houellebe...), The Time Traveller's Wife, Murakami(Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World), Memoirs of a Geisha, Mark Ravenhill, Sarah Kane (Cleansed),The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time maybe, the dictionary, Music at the edge (Colin Lee), Life and Death in Shanghai(Cheng),Born on a blue day, The Quantity Theory Of Insanity (Self,..bits),The Master and Margarita(Mikhail Bulgakov), A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole) ...so much to read!
people who inspire me. people that challenge me and make me burn with interesting conversation/thought/writing, where everything flows, where laughter is free and the mind limitless. thinkers who inspire you passionately to DO things and hang on in there. i don't understand what "heroes" means. ha. i deeply admire and feel awe for people like Yehudi Menuhin and Martin McDonagh, Sebastião Salgado, Bill Hicks, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr... and the other handful of people who tried to save the soul of humanity and were not afraid to stirr the puppet show and suffer for truth- out of love, love for life and the belief in a universal soul in each and everyone of us. and composers. yes, selected composers of classical music. i owe more than half of my life to Bartolomeo Cristofori of Padua, Antonio Stradivari and whoever invented the violin. Max Von Sydow. i also admire "strong" people....... by the way i am at the cusp, not just a fish but ram, too. my (t)horns may be round but i know how to use them effectively. i feel this is really important to say. don't ask me why. ..