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Myspace Layouts at MySpaceSupport.com / MySpace Backgrounds I've managed a couple of bands in Macedonia, and have a deep interest in ethnic music, modern classical and avant-garde, progressive rock, garage rock, nu-jazz, trip-hop, break-beat, 60s and 70s music, punk, goth, apocalyptic folk, post-punk, math rock, cocktail and lounge music. Because of my interests, I'm forming another record label (I had two in the past) called CLCX .
Speaking of Macedonia, I used to live in Skopje, in the Aerodrom district (if you know where Vero is on Bulevar Jane Sandanski, then you know where I was at). I look forward to the day I can return there.
I love film, and you can see a few people who inspire me in the FILMS section here. I have to admit a weakness for tacky Euro flicks, Italian horror, Russian and Swedish drama, Mel Brooks and Groucho Marx films, documentaries and art-house faire.
I practice Eastern Orthodox Christianity after converting about 15 years ago, and it was perhaps the best move of my life, both theologically and philosophically. I am especially interested the works of Seraphim Rose, Gregory Palamas and Saint John Chrysostom, Orthodoxy's greatest thinkers in my opinion. I have a fondness for Timothy Kallistos Ware and Fr. Thomas Hopko, British and American Orthodox theologians who are currently active. However, I still have a love for Catholic and Protestant thinkers, especially Karl Barth, Balthasar Gracian (the man whose work would influence Artur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche), Saint Thomas Aquinas, John of the Cross, Teresa of Avila, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Josemaria Escriva (founder of Opus Dei, who are not a cult), Saint Isadore (the patron saint of education and the Internet), Soren Kierkegaard, Immanuel Kant, atheists like Oriana Fallaci and Christopher Hitchens, and a Marxist defender of Christianity, Slavoj Zizek, a Slovenian guy who actually makes reading Philosophy a lot of fun!
Politically, I am very conservative (and no, that does not mean Republican, just conservative). This may come as a shock to some of you who have been added and you perhaps perform experimental or some sort of music that one doesn't normally associate as being interesting to the right side of the spectrum. Don't assume that. Some of your biggest fans may well be either conservative, Republican or of that stripe.
I am proud to say that I have a direct descendancy from scientist (and safecracker!) Carl von Linne (Carolus Linnaeas, the man who gave Latin names to plants). How's that for a fun fact?! Funny, because I have almost no interest in science...
I also enjoy just talking about mundane things in one's life (How are you doing? How's the weather?, that kind of stuff), and I'm a firm believer that everyone has an interesting story to tell, so I'll probably be delighted listen to yours. I blog here , so please feel free to come by and drop a note.

My Interests

Music, film, literature, theology, philosophy, travel, grappling sports, teaching and learning.

I'd like to meet:

Dead people, philosophes, kind-hearted souls, those who actually have the ability to hold a conversation, charming people I can take to either family functions or somewhere nice. Especially interesting are fellow travelers, people who get a kick out of life, non-miserable sorts and people who possess some sort of beauty to them (Why? Because ugly is everywhere).

Music:

Movies:

Andrei Tarkovsky (Andrei Rublev, The Sacrifice, Solaris)
Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove)
George Lucas (The Star Wars Series)
Akira Kurosawa (Ran)
Leni Riefenstahl (Olympia, Triumph of the Will)
Sergio Leone (The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, A Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More)
Dario Argento (Profondo Rosso [Deep Red], Suspiria, Zombi)
Pier Paolo Pasolini (Salo)
Federico Fellini (8 1/2, La Strada, Amarcord)
Roman Polanski (Macbeth, Rosemary's Baby)
Wolfgang Petersen (Das Boot)
Sergei Eisenstein (Alexander Nevsky, Battleship Potemkin)
Plus...
The Last King of Scotland, The Flowers of St. Francis, The Omen, Patriot Games, Ed and His Dead Mother, Vampyros Lesbos, A Streetcar Named Desire, Shane, Ben-Hur, Citizen Kane, tacky Italian films, Eurotrash, hi-quality Mexican Cinema from the 1940s and 50s (their golden age), and a host of others.......

Television:

The Muppets, Beavis and Butt-head, The Twilight Zone, Woody Woodpecker, Johnny Bravo, Bugs Bunny, Fox News.

I used to love Crossfire as well, being that I enjoy the dry wit of William F. Buckley.

Books:

GREAT BOOKS
The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha, The Koran, The Analects, The Tao Te Ching
GREAT AUTHORS
Anna Akhmatova
Dante Alighieri
Ivo Andric
Honore de Balzac
William J. Bennett
William Blake
Jorge Luis Borges
Paul Bowles
The Brothers Grimm
William F. Buckley
Edmund Burke
William S. Burroughs
Italo Calvino
Ivan Capovski
Caleb Carr
Castiglione
Rosalia do Castro
Miguel Cervantes
G. K. Chesterton
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Umberto Eco
Carlos Fuentes
Hugh Hewitt
James Joyce
Franz Kafka
Marc Kurlansky
Lautreamont
Haldor Laxness
Clive Staples Lewis
Moses Maimonides
Yukio Mishima
Pablo Neruda
Friedrich Nietzsche
Orhan Pamuk
Pier Paolo Pasolini (yes, the director - his Roman Poems are beautiful)
Octavio Paz
Plutarch
Ezra Pound
Pu Sung-Ling
Dionisio Ridruejo
Rumi
William Shakespeare
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Leo Strauss
Sun Tzu
J.R.R. Tolkein
Leo Tolstoy
Voltaire
GREAT SUBJECTS
Central Asian and Mongol history
Scandanavian eddas
The history of language and letter forms
Balkan, Celtic, Ancient Christian, Iberian History
Contemporary Avant-Garde movements in Mexico

Heroes:

Christ, My Family, Jorge Luis Borges, William F. Buckley, Jr., Lech Walesa, Victor Yuschenko, Fr. Seraphim Rose, Simon Bolivar, Mother Teresa, Goce Delcev, The Firemen and Police Officers of New York City during 9/11, Aleksandr Solzhenytsin, Daniel Miller of Mute, Ivo Watts-Russell of 4AD, Tony Wilson and the Factory Records family, Postcard Records of Scotland, all New Martyrs who were killed under vile Soviet cretins, our soldiers, and the brave missionaries who go to dangerous areas spreading Holy Orthodoxy to the world.Those who say you don't need heroes either live in a bubble or are utterly miserable. Thanks, post-modernism, for this "gift" you've wrought.

My Blog

O. Henry - The Gift of the Magi

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Posted by Rudy on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 12:34:00 PST

Democracy in Iran

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Posted by Rudy on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 12:31:00 PST

Little Richard Turns 75

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Posted by Rudy on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 07:13:00 PST

Little Richard Turns 75

The Cult of the Difficult

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Posted by Rudy on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 05:21:00 PST

Reactions To The Iran NIE

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Posted by Rudy on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 04:44:00 PST

Tom Brokaw, Unplugged

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Posted by Rudy on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 04:41:00 PST

Farewell, John Howard

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Posted by Rudy on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 12:59:00 PST

Russian Robbery

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Posted by Rudy on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 12:58:00 PST

US hails Chavez referendum defeat

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Posted by Rudy on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 12:55:00 PST