I love learning about different cultures and I have a passion for languages.  I love to cook and travel and some of my best friends are books :)  I am interested in just about everything!  History, ancient civilisation​s...

I have been to Latvia, Germany, Austria, Italy and England.  I want to see the rest of the world, especially Japan, China, Russia, Georgia, Iran, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey, Nigeria, Cuba and Haiti.

Please do not write to me if you wish only to make comments about my photos.  If I get one more message saying "Hey babeeeee you are hotttttttttttt!"​ I will be forced to remove my pictures and add ones of Jabba the Hut.  Likewise, I would be crushed were someone to say, "****, you're ugly."  Please don't make me cry.

I learned Arabic and Georgian at a language institute, but I'm not very confident in them anymore.  I have an interest in Russian, but I have put it aside because I am more interestedin​ Japanese and Chinese these days.  I know snippets of Dutch, French and Latvian...I like to know a little about most languages.  Hindi interestd me at one point, as did Polish and Vietnamese..​.

Cooking, travel, creating artwork, writing short stories and books, reading reading reading, backgammon, mah jongg, football (what Americans call soccer)...mu​ch more.

Adam Ant
Adele
Lily Allen
Tori Amos
The Arctic Monkeys
The B-52s
Bach
Erykah Badu
The Beatles
Jane Birkin
Bjork
Blumfeld
Blur
David Bowie
Kate Bush
Johnny Cash
Cibo Matto
Jarvis Cocker
Cocteau Twins
Graham Coxon
The Cranberries
The Cure
Vanessa Daou
The Darkness
Debussy
Depeche Mode
Nick Drake
Duffy
Falco
Gabriel Faure
Franz Ferdinand
Peter Gabriel
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Serge Gainsbourg
Gorillaz
Handel
Francoise Hardy
P.J. Harvey
Richard Hawley
Haydn
The Hives
Billie Holiday
Iron Maiden
Joy Division
The Kinks
KMFDM
Lady Sovereign
Led Zeppelin
Lulu
The Magnetic Fields
Manic Street Preachers
Ministry
Morrissey
Mozart
Muse
My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult
New Order
Nina Simone
Oasis
The Orb
Outkast
Pet Shop Boys
Pink Floyd
Pizzicato 5
Placebo
The Police
Pulp
Queen
Roxy Music
The Shangri-La's​
Helen Shapiro
Sandie Shaw
Siouxsie and the Banshees
The Smiths
Suede
Supergrass
Tears For Fears
U2
The Verve
Vivaldi
The White Stripes
The Who
Robbie Williams
Amy Winehouse

A Clockwork Orange
A Fish Called Wanda
Alice In Wonderland
Amadeus
A Taste of Honey
Blade Runner
Blow-up
The Crying Game
Dangerous Liaisons
Fight Club
Full Metal Jacket
Ghost World
Girl Interrupted
The Grudge 1&2
Hot Fuzz
Interview With the Vampire
Ирония судьбы, или С лёгким паром! (The Irony of Fate, or, Enjoy Your Bath!)
呪怨 (Ju-on)
Labyrinth
Look Back In Anger
Lost In Translation
Marie Antoinette
Москва слезам не верит (Moscow Doesn't Believe In Tears)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
ナナ (Nana)
No Country For Old Men
Once
Orlando
Papillon
Raise the Red Lantern
(リング (Ringu)
リング2 (Ringu 2) 
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Shaun of the Dead
Trainspottin​g
Truly Madly Deeply
The Unbearable Lightness of Being

CSI, Little Britain, Prime Suspect, Inspector Morse, Sherlock Holmes w/ Jeremy Brett, Cracker, Ab Fab, Rising Damp, Blackadder, Mr. Bean, Whose Line Is It Anyway, Monkey Dust, Big Train, The Mighty Boosh, The IT Crowd, The Young Ones, Michael Palin's travel stuff, The Naked Archaeologis​t w/ Simcha Jacobovici