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ane amaia

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About Me


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I'm basque of origin (Euskal Herria or The Basque Country is somewhere between Spain and France, for those who don't know ;-) ), but I'm currently living in Finland. I studied three years of physics and specialised in electronic engineering, computing branch. I moved to Finland to do my PhD in the Helsinki University of Technology, in the area of statistical machine translation. That should take some 4 years, no idea about what I'll do afterwards. I can speak euskera (the basque language), spanish, english, some german, a tiny bit of french, and understand some italian and portuguese. My next aim is being able to speak some finnish, let's see how I do in a few months...*suomalaiset: voidaan myös löytää minut irc-galleriassa .

"If I act weird don't worry, I still haven't started to act weird enough..." ;-)

I take pictures of metal/rock concerts for the website of a friend of mine, you can check the gallery here: WILD ROSES PHOTO GALLERY

** beware the southerners!! **



A couple of wonderfull paintings I found in the Comics Festival in Gloria, if you like them you can visit the author's homesite in here .

Some bands that I love, check them out!


My Interests

music
fantasy and sci-fi
volleyball
travelling
finland
languages
concerts
photography
capoeira
juggling
manga and anime
japan
drawing
computers
artifficial intelligence
quantum physics
the sea
the mountains
forests
mythology
handcraft

.... too many!

I'd like to meet:

Due to the insanely high amount of people I have in my profile at the moment, I won't accept unknown people's requests without some message/reason why you would like to be accepted. Thank you very much for understanding :-)

Music:

most of all metal music and finnish / scandinavian bands:

Amorphis
Apocalyptica
Before the Dawn
Blind Guardian
Callisto
Charon
Children Of Bodom
End Of You
Ensiferum
Epica
Finntroll
For My Pain
Hammerfall
Hevein
Insomnium
Kalmah
Katatonia
Lacuna Coil
Lauri Porra
Machine Men
Mokoma
Muse
Naildown
Naio Ssaion
Nightwish
Norther
One Man Army and the Undead Quartet
Opeth
Sentenced
Sonata Arctica
Stam1na
Stratovarius
Swallow The Sun
The 69 Eyes
The Gathering
Therion
Tristania
Warmen
...

Movies:

The Lord of the Rings (all of them)
Nightmare Before Christmas

The Corpse Bride
Edward Scissorhands
Sleepy Hollow
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Harry Potter (all of them)
Beetlejuice
Le Pact des Loups
The Pirates of the Caribbean
Rurouni Kenshin OVAs
Ghost In The Shell
Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi
The Cronicles of Narnia
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Matrix
The Cube
Interview with the Vampire
...

Books:

The Lord of the Rings
The Simarillion
The Hobbit
The Unfinished Tales
Elric of Melniboné's saga by Michael Moorcock
Dune series by Frank Herbert
Foundation series by Isaac Asimov
all sorts of mythology (specially norse, celtic, egyptian, japanese and greek)
H.P. Lovecraft
V for Vendetta (the comics)
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Anne Rice's vampire and witches' sagas
The Name of the Rose
The Neverending Story
Dragonlance
...

Heroes:

I haven't got any real "heroes" but there's certainly a huge amount of people that I admire. I will be adding some more as I remember, hahhaa...

M.C. Escher, awesome artist!!

J.R.R. Tolkien and M. Moorcock, for creating such complex and amazing worlds in their work, in which I could get lost and never want to come back to reality again...
Tim Burton, for his aesthetic sense, so sublime...

My Blog

pics of the last gigs a.k.a. how to survive 4 days of gigs in a row

Busy busy week!! It began on wednesday, in the interview with Tom from Celtic Frost. Both Natali and me agree that it was a real pleasure to have the chance to talk with such an interesting person, we...
Posted by ane amaia on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 10:39:00 PST

update again: Swallow the Sun @ Rytmi-katti, Twilightning + Machine Men @ Tavastia

Last friday we went to check Swallow the Sun in Kouvola. I hadn't seen them since the FME (which was way to short a gig for me anyways), so I was really looking forward to it!! Also because I was fina...
Posted by ane amaia on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 11:22:00 PST

Norther @ Curium Metal Festival

I'm still sick (getting better, but little by little...), but how could we miss Norther?So, yesterday we went to Gloria for the Curium Metal Festival, first we had an interview with Norther (great guy...
Posted by ane amaia on Sat, 03 Mar 2007 02:05:00 PST

update 2: Finnish Metal Expo!!!

After gigs and partying on both wednesday and thursday, none Nat nor me were in the best shape possible for such an event, but we always try to keep up with it all Soooo, we had a shower, got rea...
Posted by ane amaia on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:04:00 PST

update 1: Gemini Five + Private Line @ Tavastia

Long time without writing, but I've been so damn busy and tired... Last week Nat and me finally began with the interviews again, and the first one was with Gemini Five from Sweden, who were playing in...
Posted by ane amaia on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 01:23:00 PST

Insomnium + Moonsorrow @ Nosturi

Yesterday I could finally visit Nosturi for the first time since before Xmas, and it was amazing!! There were Insomnium and Moonsorrow playing, and I must say that I really enjoyed both gigs, speciall...
Posted by ane amaia on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 07:14:00 PST

back to bussiness! Entwine + Gotham O.D in Tavastia

A whole week since I arrived in Finland after Xmas, time to get back to normality! Which means going back to finnish classes and university, but also gigs! First time for me was Entwine + Gotham ...
Posted by ane amaia on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 02:57:00 PST

Xmas...

...or joy and sorrow revisited It's been really ackward, I don't think I've had a period in such a strange mood lately... It's been a mixture of good and bad things, but a melancholic f...
Posted by ane amaia on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 02:29:00 PST

Inferno Bar

I already looooove that place!! We went to the opening on friday and it was a real blast (even though it was quite a bit overcrowded)! We met a lot of our dear friends, and some new ones On satur...
Posted by ane amaia on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 02:36:00 PST

Negative @ Tavastia

It's really late in here, so I can't write anything too long or fancy...Anyways, we went to see Negative's gig in Tavastia last saturday, and it was a blast! And not only because of the gig, but also ...
Posted by ane amaia on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 03:05:00 PST