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About Me

Hi, it's me, Sietse, Msc in geology with specialization in Science Communication. I have been tricked into myspace quite some time ago (27th or 28th of December, 2004) by a sweet girl (hope you are reading this Sarah :p)
It seems that I have some addictions, of which one and most important is buying records. Yes, I am a record collector. The other addictions also have to do with music, but mainly in combination with internet or computers in general.
Besides my buying and listening habbits I also play music with two projects.
Solo I make music as Orphax, which you can check out on my other myspace account myspace.com/orphax
Or even better just go and check www.orphax.com
You can listen to several releases online and download them, or buy them on cd over there.
My other project is with the band Zonderland, which is with my friends Bart and Michel. We also have a myspace page, which can be checked at www.myspace.com/zonderland or our own website www.zonderland.org
We have got one cd our so far which you can listen on this website of ours and of course also buy there.
Listening habbits:
Overall last.fm chart

My Interests

Music, movies, science (mainly Earth sciences and Biology) and comics (Japanese and European). Bowling with my friends. My plants and flowers (I make pictures of them, you can find them at flickr if you really try hard, or just ask me the link).

I'd like to meet:

just nice people.
BUT
In general you don't have to add me if i don't know you yet, you don't make music, don't have a label or don't share any interest in common.

ps. I hate HTML Comments.

Music:

Troum, Stars of the Lid, Marillion, Thomas Koner, Fennesz, Erstlaub, The Village Orchestra, The Marcia Blaine School for Girls, Cordouan, Tsukimono, Six Organs of Admittance, Richard Youngs, Charalambides, Vashti Bunyan, Songs: Ohia, Bonnie Prince Billy, Minamo, Bjork, Brian Eno, Fursaxa, Sunn O))), Merzbow, Tim Hecker, Acid Mothers Temple, Nurse With Wound, Goldmund, Xela, Deaf Center, Bark Psychosis, Shuttle358, MHPB, Guided by Voices, Auburn Lull, Mitchell Akiyama, Off the sky, Billie Holiday, Maeror Tri, John Cage (piano works), Erik Satie, William Basinski, Fennesz, Wouter van Veldhoven, Machinefabriek and much more.

See also:
Last.fm
Musicmeter (Dutch)
Rate Your Music
Discogs

Movies:

My main movie interests are in arthouse, classics and horror movies (read: bad splatter and gore)
Some directors I really appreciate:
Akira Kurosawa, David Lynch, Wim Wenders, Takashi Miike and Kitano

Some movies that always do good for me:
Blue Velvet, Santa Sangre, Stalker, Himmel Ãœber Berlin, Englar Alheimsins, Rashomon, Det Sjunde Inseglet, High Fidelity, Hotaru no Haka, Twin Peaks, Paris Texas, Seven Samurai, Night of the living dead, City of the lost children, Hable Con Ella, Braindead, Dogville, Evil Dead, Shaun of the dead.

See here:
IMDB
Moviemeter (Dutch)

Television:

Twin Peaks, Heimat (I, II and III), The Kingdom (Lars von Trier), The shield, Carnivale, Lost, Heroes, 24 and others.

Books:

I am not really a reader but I liked Angels of the Universe by Einar MÃ¡r Gudmundsson a lot. This therefore, is a book that I recommend everyone to read. It brings some sort of peace in your mind, but also a lot to think about.

Heroes:

John Peel
MLK

The heroes are dead :(

My Blog

Work, or how it fucks me up when it doesnt do what I want.

Pff, it's been a weird week for me at work. Having the shift from 11:30 till 20:00 doesn't do me any good, specially not if there is nothing to do.Tuesday I had a day of and tomorrow again, but Saturd...
Posted by Sietse on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:49:00 PST

Hortus

Most part of this morning I was in doubt what to do...go to the zoo, go to the botanical garden, go to bike a bit around...and finally I decided to go for the botanical garden.Not that I have very int...
Posted by Sietse on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:46:00 PST

Preperations

There is so much coming up music wise. Something I can't just talk about, but let's say that it's hard trying musicians/bands to play in the mid of the summer.What I can eleborate about is that today ...
Posted by Sietse on Wed, 28 May 2008 03:12:00 PST

Record buying break

As of now I am talking a break of buying records (at least almost a break).With Get Records in Amsterdam closing, my favourite shop has gone. Of course you can still order through the net (as I do qui...
Posted by Sietse on Wed, 28 May 2008 11:53:00 PST

Not so much myspacing

Yes, yes, after all this time, over a year it's time for an update. I am still not so much into myspace and probably never will be so much (i am more into myspace and last.fm i guess)But still let's j...
Posted by Sietse on Mon, 12 May 2008 07:04:00 PST

2006 almost for end, time for a short list of albums

Hooray, for over 1 year and 6 months no new nonsense on myspace posted by me. Time to change that fact (i am at home sort of sick, so nothing else to do)Actually I have nothing special to tell at all,...
Posted by Sietse on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 07:46:00 PST

Study

I think everyone once had it. The feeling they don't want to do anything anymore for their study. Well I am having it at this moment, or not moment, even for half a year already. Probably it is becaus...
Posted by Sietse on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

the big musical holiday

I have decided to have some short brake in making music for my solo stuff, this so i can finish my study and also so i can find away again to later finish those tracks I am working on. For now that wo...
Posted by Sietse on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Queensday->Flea market->Me buying records

Yes, today it was Queensday again, one of the most terrible days in the year, though it is very good for me buying records. For only 25¬ i bought 4 cd's and 12 vinyl records. Here is the catch of to d...
Posted by Sietse on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Uncle Sietse

I AM GOING TO BE UNCLE. I am really happy with this...really really really happy
Posted by Sietse on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST