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Jovan

Et Quid Amabo Nisi Quod Aenigma Est?

About Me

Cool, considerate fine art photographer and painter in the Chicago area. Un monstre sacre www.jovanradakovich.comHome | Browse | Search | Invite | Film | Mail | Blog | Favorites | Forum | Groups | Events | Videos | Music | Comedy | Classifieds

My Interests

Travel(especially Europe), exploring museums/galleries/bookstores, foreign film, history, mythology, theology, physiognomy, aesthetics, ruins, Spanish guitars, fine writing instruments, all things Italian, cycling, swimming, chocolate, motorcycles and last but not least...eroticism

I'd like to meet:

Anyone beautiful and exceptional!I appreciate the friends requests but a couple emails do not a friend make.I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

Music:

Air, Goldfrapp, Avro Part, FRANCOISE HARDY!, Serge Gainsbourg, Margo Guryan, Louis XIV, Stravinsky, Erik Satie, Ravel, Debussy, Scirabin, Janacek, T REX, CCR, Kate Bush, Ladytron, Dwight Twilley, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Deerhoof, Stereolab, Pop Levi, Broadcast, The Rolling Stones, Led Zepplin, The Doors, Burt Bacharach, Herb Alpert, Nino Rota, and the great Piero Piccioni

Movies:

Dr. Zhivago, The Tenth Victim, Toby Dammit, 8 1/2, Blow Up, Performance, Fellini Satyricon, La Strada, Pat Garret and Billy the Kid, Shane, One Eyed Jacks, Lolita (Kubrick version), Rumble Fish, O Lucky Man, Svengali, The Red Shoes, Das Blaue Licht, 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould, Sorcerer, The Stranger by Orson Welles, When You Comin' Back Red Ryder, The Passion of Joan of Arc, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Mechanic, Aguirre the Wrath of God, Excalibur, Blade Runner, The Duellists, Le Mans, The President's Analyst, The Day the Earth Stood Still, La Femme Nikita, Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451, Night of the Hunter, Anchorman, Bedazzled(Dudley Moore version), The Magic Christian, The Day of the Jackal, La Belle Noiseuse, Montenegro, Belle Du Jour, Zulu, The Dreamers, Camille Claudel, Artemisia, Immortal Beloved, Impromptu, Queen Margot, Betty Blue, Titus, Mysterious Island, The Naked Prey, Big Wednesday, The Illustrated Man, The Devil and Daniel Webster, Get Carter, The Brides of Dracula, The Mask of Fu Manchu, Son of Frankenstein, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Andy Warhol's Bad, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, anything by Kenneth Anger, anything with James Coburn, Klaus Kinski, Pierre Clementi, Jean-Hughes Anglade or Gary Oldman

Television:

Man VS Wild, Moto GP, Tour de France every summer, The Sopranos

Books:

currently Vanished Splendors: A Memoir by Balthus, Revolt Against the Modern World by Baron Julius Evola, Ovid's Metamorphoses and Hell by Henri Barbusse, Les Caves du Vatican by Andre Gide

Heroes:

Dante, Goethe, Baudelaire, Salvador Dali, Ezra Pound, Michelangelo, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Leonardo Da Vinci, Raphael, Titian, Caravaggio, Vermeer, Federico Fellini, Edmund Teske, Giorgio De Chirico, Pietro Annigoni, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Nikola Tesla, Giovanni Papini, Victor Hugo, J.K. Huysman, Lord Leighton, Richard Wagner, Ivan Albright, Carel Willink, Fra Angelico, Giotto, Stanislav Szukalski, Goya, Velazquez, Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres, Valentino Rossi, Fausto Coppi, Antonio Gaudi, Leni Riefenstahl, Herbert List, Oscar Wilde, Louis-Ferdinand Destouches(Celine), Jim Morrison, T.S. Eliot, Oswald Spengler, Sir Edward Gibbon, Kenneth Clark, Maria Montessori, Julius Caesar, Marcel-Francois Lefebvre, Dr. Seuss, Massimo Tamburini, Dr. Fabio Taglioni, Sir Percy Blakeney, James Bond, The Mighty Thor, Roy Batty, Feyd Rutha, and Captain Nemo..

My Blog

Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast

the best use of slow motion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQtmFglneko&feature=PlayL ist&p=4CACF984EF461FC4&index=29...
Posted by Jovan on Fri, 25 May 2007 05:18:00 PST

quote for the day

It was slow at work today so I managed to finish another hundred pages of Giovanni Papini's breathtaking Life of Christ, underlining the following: "The person who says, "Woe to the solitary!" only gi...
Posted by Jovan on Fri, 25 May 2007 06:58:00 PST

McQueen

the visceral scene of freedom from The Great Escape  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gOdWnv0BMg ...
Posted by Jovan on Thu, 24 May 2007 04:28:00 PST

a photographer I like

http://www.edelmangallery.com/blackmon.htm
Posted by Jovan on Tue, 22 May 2007 05:10:00 PST

MOMO

I have long admired this Italian company's designs, whether they be watches, motorcycle helmets or bicycles http://www.momodesign.com/eng/index2.html...
Posted by Jovan on Tue, 22 May 2007 05:17:00 PST

Dig It!

a clip from CC And Company, starring Joe Namath as an outlaw biker trying to reform his wild ways after meeting sexy fashion photographer Ann Margret. A camp classic, the opening scene is on...
Posted by Jovan on Sun, 20 May 2007 03:48:00 PST

Take a Picture

by Margo Guryan, an album recommendation http://www.amazon.com/Take-Picture-Margo-Guryan/dp/B00004Z42 U/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-2095454-8251858?ie=UTF8&s=music&am p;qid=1179666330&sr=8-1...
Posted by Jovan on Sun, 20 May 2007 06:09:00 PST

Shoe Gazing

Wow and Flutter by Stereolab http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkpXoM0D-Pk Come on let's Go by Broadcast http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw5ztuhEat4...
Posted by Jovan on Fri, 18 May 2007 04:35:00 PST

The Ransom

by Baudelaire In order to pay his ransom, man is givenTwo fields of deep, rich soilWhich he must turn over and break upWith the iron plowshare of reason.To obtain the least rose,To wrest a few stalks ...
Posted by Jovan on Tue, 15 May 2007 01:57:00 PST

this week's featured artist

Renato Guttuso http://www.guttuso.com/ ...
Posted by Jovan on Tue, 15 May 2007 03:49:00 PST