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krisse

chicken in a box

About Me

I lived across europe and am now in london, which has the perfect meltpot of people and tons of inspiration. I do have a soft spot for sweden though, my home. Perfect place would be a scandinavian country with a zest of italian culture for its food and wines, sun and crazyness and thrown into the mix the rawness of london.

My Interests

music, people, ex-pats, movies, super 8 films, lovely clothes, food, wine, the smell of coffee, my neighbour's chicken and trampoline, la dolce vita, buildings, gardens, history, discovering london in early mornings, snowboarding, watching freestyle mogul competitions while motorhead's ace of spades is playing, the fluid moves of samba...

Music:

everything on compost records, ubiquity records, thievery corporation, gilles peterson's music sessions, roy ayers, dj shadow, beastie boys, massive attack, peter kruder "pk", richard dorfmeister, dzihan and kamien, serge gainsbourg, francoise hardy, france gall, claude francois, vaughan mason, manu chao, mano negra, elis regina, jorge ben, turin brakes, kate bush, ultravox, thomas dolby, david holmes, foo fighters, dirty pretty things, the verve, the clash, everything but the girl, paul weller, beck, the beta band, the strokes, michel legrand, ennio morricone, yves montand, paolo conte, shahir's tablas, the sound of a harley-davidson...

Movies:

don't look now, rocco and his brothers, all films with jean gabin, alain delon, jean marais and marcello mastroianni, dogtown and z-boys, riding giant, the grey gardens, the warriors, singing in the rain, west side story, some like it hot, the great dictator, the kid, fargo, the cooler, y tu mama tambien, wild strawberries, edward scissorhands, festen, the edukators, italian for beginners, le chat, cocteau's the beauty and the beast, orfeo negro, lower city, les jeux interdits, les choses de la vie and many, many more...

Television:

dusting in a corner at the moment. When shown: messiah, documentaries like 1975's "the grey gardens", the persuaders (love the theme tune!), the mainzelmannchen on zdf, old music videos, monty python, smack the pony, eurotrash, pinocchio da luigi comencini(-72), peyton place, cosmos 1999, the culture show, jon snow on C4...

Books:

biographies, henning mankell, the journals of dan eldon, marcel proust, the illustrator sempe, photography books, les livres de martine, record sleeves...

Heroes:

leo, weather forecasters in England, edward norton, robert del naja, renzo rosso, tracy emin, josephine baker, bette davis, claudia cardinale, fred astaire, gene kelly, gilbert & george, les clodettes and all the people passing my way...