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Astor LaVista

It's Biker Tyme!

About Me

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Biker - Definitely
Travel - The more, the better
Technical - Yes
Music - My main drug
Food - Mmmm...
Drink - Coffee
Beer - Guinness, Kilkenny, Bud Ice
Wine - The classic Bordeaux's, La Rioja Alta, Californian Zinfandels..
Whisky - Laphroaig, Ardbeg...
You Are Guinness
You know beer well, and you'll only drink the best beers in the world.
Watered down beers disgust you, as do the people who drink them.
When you drink, you tend to become a bit of a know it all - especially about subjects you don't know well.
But your friends tolerate your drunken ways, because you introduce them to the best beers around. What's Your Beer Personality?

Most ridiculous commercial - ever: "Look at Opel now..."


Your Japanese Name Is...
Hibiki Sanjo What's your Japanese Name?

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My Interests

Bikes, Cars, Driving, Movies, Music, Reading, Tech stuff, Travelling, Software, Working out, Skiing, Running, MotoGP

I'd like to meet:

You!
What Secret Society Are You? (pics)


Illuminati
This literally means ''The Enlightened Ones.'' A very old society similar in some respects to Freemasonry. However, the Illuminati are not required to believe in any Supreme Being; as a result, many are atheists or agnostic. Not much is known of the Illuminati, except that they have a structured system. It is rumored that the Great Seal of the United States (See the back of a $1 bill) represents the all seeing Illuminati watching over America.
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Music:

ABC, Air, Tori Amos, Antony & the Johnsons, Baxter, Marit Bergman, Beyonce, Bush, Kacy Crowley, Terence Trent D'Arby, Depeche Mode, The Distillers, Divinyls, DJ Shadow, Anna Domino, Tanya Donelly, The Donnas, Lila Downs, Editors, Elastica, Eve6, Electronic, Frames DC, Garbage, Ghanima (on myspace), Gotan Project, Paul Haig, PJ Harvey, Kristin Hersh, Hole, Honey is Cool, Hooverphonic, Interpol, Isis, Jethro Tull, K's choice, Kent, Killers, Kills, Ladytron, Lamb, Lykke Li, Live, Courtney Love, Lush, Aimee Mann, The Mars Volta, Curtis Mayfield, Maria McKee, The Medusa Maya (on MySpace), Metric, Lisa Miskovsky, Moloko, Morrissey, Muse, Heather Nova, Our Daughter's Wedding, Linda Perry, Placebo, Poe, Portishead, Primal Scream, Prince, Public Enemy, Pusjkins, Radiohead, Republica, Patti Rothberg, Ruby, Sahara Hotnights, Sigur Ros, Sisters of Mercy, Skunk Anansie, Smashing Pumpkins, Sneaker Pimps, Soundtrack of our Lives, Regina Spektor, Linda Strawberry, Suede, Talk Talk, Anna Ternheim, Justin Timberlake (who would've thought), Emiliana Torrini, Turin Brakes, Tweet, U2, White Stripes, Lars Winnerbäck, Woven Hand, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Neil Young, Sophie Zelmani, Zero7,

The world's most boring men

Prince Charles, Phil Collins, Paul McCartney, Lasse Berghagen, Ulf Lundell, Kenny G, (Has to be more. Send me suggestions....)

Great live music / Music great live...

Pat Benatar, Garbage, PJ Harvey, Michael Jackson (earlier..), Jethro Tull, Kent, Lisa Loeb, Madonna, Heather Nova, Portishead, Prince, Public Enemy, Rolling Stones, Anna Ternheim, Wannadies, Lars Winnerbäck, Sophie Zelmani,

A history of some of my favourite albums - through the years...

Paul McCartney - Band on the run
Neil Young - Harvest (my first LP)
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Dire Straits - Communique
City Boy - Heads are Rolling
Ultravox - Rage in Eden
Paul Haig - Rhythm of Life
Our Daughter's Wedding - Digital Cowboy
Jethro Tull - A
Republica - Republica
Tori Amos - Under the Pink
Kent -
White Stripes - Elephant
Metric - Live it Out

Movies:

21 Grams, 25th Hour, Aeon Flux (MTV style), Aguirre wrath of God, Alien 3 , Amelie, American Beauty, Andrej Rublev, Barbarella, Blade Runner, Blue Velvet, Boiler Room, Bound, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Citizen Kane, Cloverfield, Code Inconnu, The Conversation, Crash, Dancer in the Dark, Do the Right Thing, Dog Day Afternoon, Dogville, Donnie Darko, The Door in the Floor, Fight Club, Garden State, Ghost World, Goodfellas, Happiness, Hero, High Fidelity, LA Confidential, The Legend of Bagger Vance, Lost in Translation, Magnolia, The Maltese Falcon, Michael Clayton, Mulholland Drive, Pi, Last Samurai, Set it Off, Sheakespeare in Love, Star Wars (so given I almost forgot..) Run Lola, Pulp Fiction, The Thin Red Line, Truman Show, U-Turn, Volver (To Return)
Directors
Pedro Almodóvar, Paul Thomas Anderson, Francis Ford Coppola, Sofia Coppola, David Fincher, Michael Haneke, Curtis Hanson, Werner Herzog, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Lukas Moodysson, Steven Soderberg, Todd Solondz (painful, though), Quentin Tarantino, Orson Welles,
IMDb list

Television:

Dead Like Me, Homicide - Life on the streets, K Street, Project Greenlight, Seinfeld, The West Wing, The Wire,

Books:

By the bed
Scientific American,

Great reads
Maya Angelou, Isaac Asimov, Hernando DeSoto, Philip K Dick, Charles Dickens, Dostojevsky, Umberto Eco, James Ellroy, William Faulkner, Timothy Ferris, Al Franken, William Gibson, Homer, Franz Kafka, Mare Kandre, John LeCarré, Elmore Leonard, Sture Lönnerstrand, Jack Kerouac, Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling, Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Wolfe,
On the list:
Ernest Hemingway, August Strindberg, Leo Tolstoy, Oscar Wilde, Graham Greene - Ulysses

Heroes:

Santiago Calatrava, Bill Clinton, Albert Einstein, John F Kennedy, J. Craig Venter

"Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate." - John F Kennedy

"When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes. When you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours. That's relativity..." - Albert Einstein

"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard..." - John F Kennedy

"It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure." - Albert Einstein

"Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country." - John F Kennedy

"Big things are expected of us, and nothing big ever came of being small." - Bill Clinton

My Blog

Poet & Prophetess

My friends know that I am not an opera-person. Hell, I don't even listen to classical music, normally. However, we decided to visit the Norrlandsoperan, and see their new co-production with the Cape T...
Posted by Astor LaVista on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 01:06:00 PST

Fantastic meal...

A local (but not low-cal... :-)  restaurant has invented something called a "Calzskrove". It is a Calzone pizza, with two small burgers and french fries baked into it. Really great idea.... ;-) I...
Posted by Astor LaVista on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:55:00 PST

Nice - Firenze - Siena

Nice was nice, but Florence was Fabulous!
Posted by Astor LaVista on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 02:49:00 PST

Magic with Lisa

I saw Lisa Miskovsky live on her home turf tonight. It was a magic evening! Thanks Lisa! She started with The Killers' - When You Were Young! I was flabbergasted! The lady has better taste than I thou...
Posted by Astor LaVista on Sat, 26 May 2007 01:28:00 PST

Slaves to the Genes

Once upon a time there was a planet. A huge number of plants and creatures were living on the planet. Many of them liked their existences. Many of them had dreams and goals.Many of them had things the...
Posted by Astor LaVista on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:29:00 PST

Meeting Rudolph

On friday night I was driving along the E4, on my way to visit some friends, minding my own business. When I went past a slight hill, I suddenly realized that the slope in front of my didn't look as I...
Posted by Astor LaVista on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 06:20:00 PST

Live Music...

1987-04-xx Stockholm - Johanneshovs Isstadion - Sheila EStockholm - Johanneshovs Isstadion - Prince1988-06-11 Göteborg - Eriksbergsvarvet - Michael Jackson (Bad, 53000...)1988-06-12 Göteborg - Eriksbe...
Posted by Astor LaVista on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 12:04:00 PST

Best of 2006

SongsMetric - Monster HospitalKillers - When You Were YoungMuse - Supermassive Black HoleThe Automatic - RecoverAlbumsKasabian - EmpireNine Inch Nails - With Teeth (2005)Lars Winnerbäck - Efter Natten...
Posted by Astor LaVista on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 10:16:00 PST

Sinking a Destroyer

Imagine a huge pool indoors or underground.Now imagine three large destroyers side by side in this pool.Also imagine that each destroyer is filled with coal.Then imagine three teams, each trying to si...
Posted by Astor LaVista on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:57:00 PST

Anna Ternheim Live!

Anna played live in Umeå yesterday. I had very high expectations, but still was surprised at how good she was live! She's got a way of writing beautiful songs with a slight twist that makes them ...
Posted by Astor LaVista on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:01:00 PST