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Carola Christan

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I live in Amsterdam and attend the Rietveld Academy of arts, specifically; the writing department. If you can read dutch, check out this very nice and clear description of what the writing department is all about:http://www.gerritrietveldacademie.nl/spreekuur/downloa d/aanmeldenSchrijven0405.pdfI write poetry and short stories, which are in dutch almost all of the time. Pretty soon I'll be putting up some more stuff I make at school, video, sculptures and photography.The rest of my time, not alot, is spent reading books on filmmaking and philosophy, at least right now it is. And checking out bands, or going to poetry nights at Perdu in amsterdam, and of course, shopping for BOOKS!!!! Which I can't get enough of.CHECK OUT MY POETRY IN THE LITERAIRY MAGAZINE'OP RUWE PLANKEN'AND MY SHORT STORY ABOUT A MAN CALLED 'EVERT' IN A SHORTSTORY BOOK AVAILABLE AT KRUIDVAT NEAR YOU BY THE END OFMAY 2007.

My Interests

Literature, film, art, poetry, yoga, music, philosophy, majestisism.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who's in my heroeslist. including you.CHECK OUT THE VIDEO OF THE MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE VENDING MACHINE, A CONCEPT I MADE AND REALIZED THANKS TO A LOVELY RIETVELD ACADEMY JANITOR WHO BORROWED ME HIS COCACOLA VENDING MACHINE. ON THE VIDEO YOU SEE MY NORWEGIAN CLASSMATE HANNE BUYING A MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE FROM MY MACHINE.

Music:

Bowie, Jane's Addiction, Velvet Underground, Porno for Pyros, Bauhaus, Joy Division, Radiohead, Björk, PJ Harvey, Aimee Mann, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Monk, Wayne Shorter, Beatles , Led Zeppelin, RHCP, The Rolling Stones, Jeff Buckley, Nico, Vincent Gallo, John Frusciante, Kashmir, MissAntarctica, The Pixies, Mike Watt, Pink Floyd, The list goes on and on and on.....

Movies:

Me and you and everyone we know, Festen, Magnolia, Betty Blue, Amelie, Basquiat, Donnie Darko, sideways, don't move, etc.

Television:

no thanks

Books:

A lot. poetry, essays, fiction, arthistory, philosophy.

Heroes:

Ed van der Elsken, Jan Wolkers, Simon Vinkenoog, Herman Brood, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Erwin Olaf, the Antichrist (who ever you are),David Bowie, Lou Reed, Vincent Gallo, PJ Harvey, Jeff Buckley, Prince, Nico, Lucebert, and everyone who fights their way through the deepest, darkest shit, and comes out shiny and mad, so maybe now I should also mention Syd Barrett...