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Ilona

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

Passionate, tender, witty, silly, funny, complicated, independent, strong, creative, sometimes loud. A friend of mine once described me as follows: "you're strange, but complicated". However...well, why don't you find out yourself :)All my background photos have been taken by me, unless otherwise informed. Also all the photos in the slideshow below have been taken and postprocessed by me. I believe it's pretty obvious that the copyrights belong to me as well ;)Have a look at my photos in flickr, just click here!

My Interests

photography, music, reading, art, life, people, cats, tattoos

I'd like to meet:

Lovely, warm hearted, sensitive, intuitive, smart, silly, headstrong people.

Music:

Dark Suns, Bleak Origin, Strapping Young Lad, Porcupine Tree, Flower Kings, Opeth, Dream Theater, Liquid Tension Experiment, Apocalyptica, Muse, Rammstein, Disillusion, Antimatter, Spock's Beard, Patricia Kaas, Astor Piazzolla, Symphony X, Pain of Salvation, Anathema, Porcupine Tree, Moonsorrow, Deadsoul Tribe, Katatonia, Tarot, In Flames, Steely Dan, Iron Maiden, Evergrey, Pekka Pohjola, Värttinä, Marillion, Rammstein, Sonata Arctica, Nightwish, Queensrÿche, Slayer, Manic Street Preachers, W.A. Mozart, L. van Beethoven, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Buena Vista Social Club etc... ..

Movies:

all the good ones...hmmm...to name a few: Kurosawa: Ran, Ford Coppola: Apocalypse Now (Redux), Nolan: Memento, Almodóvar: All About My Mother/Talk To Her, Torres: Woman On Top, Jackson: LOTR I-III, von Trier: Breaking the Waves, Monty Pythons etc.etc. ..

Television:

news, documentaries, some British comedy shows ..

Books:

yes, please. I'm always reading something and there are just too many good books to be listed here... ..

Heroes:

He-Man, Hän-Mies ..

My Blog

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I'm 28 now. I don't feel different. How am I supposed to feel now? I'm a bit closer to my 30th birthday, but this age is just a whistle-stop on my way to the middle age ;)I've also been thinking about...
Posted by Ilona on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 07:18:00 PST

they took pictures of our dreams...

I got to shoot the Burgdorfer Rocknight last Saturday and it was prolly the highlight of this year, at least so far. I've seldom sensed the passion in me the way I did on Saturday. The last time was i...
Posted by Ilona on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 03:24:00 PST

things that I have and which make me feel alive and happy

Hey hey,my life's so good! I have a wonderful husband, four lovely cats, a great dad, a kind stepmom, a dear sister-in-law, mother-in-law and a step-father-in-law. Needless to say I feel blessed.In ad...
Posted by Ilona on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 04:17:00 PST