María

I'd like to meet:

Well I'd hate to die without having given my friend Richard from the other side of the pond a hug and a couple of kisses...

Some photographs I've "stolen" from other people's profiles because I find them beautiful, inspiring... positive for some reason. I'll post one every week and maybe I'll place a slide with them.

This is just pure beauty. I stole this photo from Bittersweet's profile .

Lena, a girl I love to death. She looks so much like a mischievous fairy or something!

Tom and Will from The Brian Jacket Letdown ... basically, I'm in love with this photo.

Richard is a lovely person. And what I like about this photograph is the openness of his gaze, smiling, warm, honest... It lights up the room I'm in every time I look at it. At him.

Well I find this photo of South very inspiring :D It makes me want to go and fetch the moon for them.

My friend Ethan and his son, a couple of years ago. Isn't this just lovely? :)

They're not the Brontes and that's not England, they're Ariadna and her friends, and that's Sevilla.

John Garrison of Budapest, the UK band. Just because :)

Dan with his son. I came across Dan's profile when I had just joined myspace and fell in love with this photo straight away :)

This is my friend Ariadna . Just look at her left hand holding the violin. Plus... she's a poetress ;)

Matthew from Wolverhampton took this picture of a lighthouse in Scotland.. Simply beautiful:

Michael of The Cloves . A beautiful soul he is:

Hmmm... Is he arriving or leaving??

My friend Andrew from Córdoba:

On a train in Germany. Such a serene and dreamy expression, while the world outside races past in a blurry haze...

Music:

Please, check out my friends' music:

Currently most played:
Mew , Bowery Electric , Boards of Canada , Slowdive , Tomorrows Son , Richard Radford , The Montgolfier Brothers , South , Ride , The Good Company , Erland , Engineers , Fran Dieli , Ed Laurie , M83 , DulceSky , Brookville , Dredg , Catherine Wheel , Fairchild , Riverside , Jim Moray , Belle and Sebastian , The Chameleons , The Cloves Ancient music, Opera, Lied, Bossa nova, Fado, Cabo Verdian folk, Greek music, Flamenco, Spain's folk in general (especially from the north), British folk, Celtic (whatever that is), music from the Balcans, "Arabic" music in general, Syriac liturgy (all the Eastern liturgic music really), Northafrican (Maghreb), Cuban (mostly old Trova), music from the Andes region...... 70's soul, Jazz, American standards from the 30's 40's 50's...... anything post punk, anything techno pop, that crazy huge thing they call shoegaze, anything with sweeping melodies and lush guitars on it, 70's electronica, cosmic, Kraut...whatever A-ha, Air, Albeniz, Alphaville, Richard Ashcroft, At Swim Two Birds, Azul y Negro, J S Bach, Badly Drawn Boy, The Beatles, Belle and Sebastian, Bellini, Bizet, Bjork, Perry Blake, Blur, Boards of Canada, Bowery Electric, David Bowie, Brahms, Broadcast, Brookville, Jeff Buckley, Tim Buckley, Butterworth, Montserrat Caballe, Tino Casal, Catherine Wheel, The Chameleons, Chapterhouse, Chopin, Suzanne Ciani, Clannad, The Cloves, Cocteau Twins, Coldplay, Complices, Couperin, Cousteau, Crowded House, The Cure, Cyan, Debussy, Depeche Mode, Dept, Desprez, Fran Dieli, The Divine Comedy, Dire Straits, Donizetti, The Doors, Doves, Dowland, Nick Drake, Dredg, DulceSky, Duran Duran, Eagles, Echo & the Bunnymen, Editors, Elgar, Elton John, Engineers, Eurythmics, Emily Van Evera, Fairchild, Fairouz, Falla, Faure, Bryan Ferry, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Ella Fitzgerald, Juan Diego Florez, Gabinete Caligari, Gabrieli, Galaxy 500, Marvin Gaye, João Gilberto, Philip Glass, Granados, Grant Lee Buffalo, Grieg, Golpes Bajos, Haendel, Hedningarna, Helen Stellar, Interpol, Iron & Wine, James, Etta James, Jean Michel Jarre, Joy Division, Keane, Khaled, Kings of Convenience, Emma Kirkby, Angelika Kirchschlager, Kitchens of Distinction, Kraftwerk, Alfredo Kraus, Lambchop, Ligre, Liszt, Lluis Llach, Julie London, Lully, Machaut, Mahler, Marais, Massive Attack, Loreena McKennitt, The Mission, Mompou, MONO IN VCF (with Charles on vocals -too bad he's left), Monteverdi, The Montgolfier Brothers, Jim Moray, Morrissey, Mozart, My Vitriol, New Order, Nightnoise, Michael Nyman, Oasis, Orchestre National du Barbes, Palestrina, Charlie Parker, Pet Shop Boys, Astor Piazzolla, Pink Floyd, The Police, Dulce Pontes, Portishead, Puccini, Richard Radford, Radio Futura, Radiohead, Ravel, REM, Ride, Riverside, Sade, St Germain, Saint Saens, Jordi Savall and his different ensembles and formations (Hesperion XX, La Capella Reial de Catalunya, etc), Satie, Schubert, Schumann, Seal, Sigur Ros, The Silencers, Simple Minds, Frank Sinatra, Slowdive, The Smiths, Mercedes Sosa, South, Sting, The Stone Roses, Suede, Supertramp, The Style Council, David Sylvian, Tallis, Talk Talk, Tchaikowsky, Tears for Fears, Tomorrows Son, Travis, T Rex, U2, El Ultimo de la Fila, Ultravox, Vangelis, Vaughan Williams, Suzanne Vega, The Verve, De Victoria, Wagner, Scott Walker, Robbie Williams...

Movies:

Anything with Timothy Dalton, Alan Bates, Tom Courtenay, Richard Burton or Albert Finney on it! European neo-realism, mostly British, Italian and Spanish. American comedy from the 40's, 50's and 60's. American films like East of Eden, Parrish... all those, I love them!! British film in general (and if its classic literature adaptations then... I'm in heaven). Films based on historical (ancient or modern) facts. Intelligent science-fiction (intelligent from my point of view!). I avoid films with lots of violence and blood... there's enough of that going on in the real world already. Why would I want to put my head in a rubbish bin? Plus, I always have a really bad time watching them. I end up feeling sorry for everybody that gets hurt or killed, yes I know: "it's only a film"... but still.

Television:

First, some radio:

The Bolshoi - Away U2 - One Tree Hill live

South - Better Things (live)

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Books:

I can't bear to see black on white without wanting to know what it's about.

I've read a lot about the Brontes in the past few years. I think "Wuthering Heights" is one of the most fascinating stories ever written. "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" and "Jane Eyre" are also favourites of mine. A link to the Bronte Society (the pic is from my trip to Haworth last year):

Maybe the book that's touched me the most lately is "Fathers and Sons" by Ivan Turgenev. I think we are all reflected on its characters some way or other. A link to Amazon:

Some other books I've especially enjoyed reading...

Yourcenar's "Memoirs of Hadrian" Jose Cruset's "San Juan de Dios" Marcus Aurelius' "Meditations" Baroja's "El Arbol de la Ciencia" Perez Galdos' "Lo Prohibido" Braine's "Room at the Top" Rutherfurd's "London" Plutarch's "Life of Antony" Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" and "Mansfield Park" Gaskell's "Mary Barton" Zola's "Une Page d'Amour" Hesse's "Under the Wheels" Sillitoe's "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" and "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" Laurie Lee's "I Can't Stay Long" Rubenstein's "When Jesus Became God" Vazquez Figueroa's "Tuareg" Dahl's "Going Solo" Dos Passos' "Manhattan Transfer" Prevost's "Manon Lescaut" Cervantes' "Novelas Ejemplares" Josefina Aldecoa's "Historia de una Maestra" Delibes' "Viejas Historias de Castilla la Vieja" and "El Camino" Aeschylus' "Oresteia" Maalouf's "Leon the African" Garcilaso de la Vega's sonnets Lawrence's "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" Aubet's "Tiro y las Colonias Fenicias de Occidente" Mattingly's "Catherine of Aragon" Flaubert's "L'Education Sentimentale" Undset's "Kristin Lavransdottir" "Scriptores Historiae Augustae" Laforet's "Nada" Pardo Bazan's "Un Viaje de Novios" Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" ... etc

Heroes:

The only one I'd consider a hero is Jesus Christ.