I am repressed, but I am remarkably dressed. I am outrageously old-fashioned. I'd like to call myself an open-minded, albeit a slightly snobbish, elitist and probably rather odd misanthropic student, with a severely health-endangering tendency towards obsessive behaviour at times (one name: Morrissey!). I was born at least 20 years too late (if not 30), I listen to vinyl LPs and ignore the deeply annoying mobile technology.

I am a fervent believer in the animal cause. Some call my opinion extreme and fanatic, I call it human. I have been a vegetarian for nearly a decade and I turned vegan last year. Animals need all the protection they can get.

My motto in life: Life is too long to run. Really.
I have the writing "Still ill" tattooed on my foot, and "same old SOS" tattooed under my arm. Everyone who knows why gets an extra 10 points.

"Tried living in the real world
Instead of a shell
But before I began ...
I was bored before I even began" - The Smiths

To see how far I am willing to go with my obsession, be a witness of the best moment in my (admittedly) sad little existence:


(video shot at the Gasometer, Vienna 11/07/2009)


If I don't answer immediately, don't despair, I am extremely busy at the moment.

Upcoming gigs:

Soap&Skin 18 March (Brussels)
Suede 24 March (London)
Iggy Pop & the Stooges 17 April (Lille)
Joanna Newsom 14 May (Brussels)

Watch this and ask yourself why anyone in their right mind would want to eat an innocent animal. Everyone knows that meat is murder:

I'm looking for people, who do not fear to open a book once in a while, who have an obscenely good taste in music and who do not mind being slightly different.

After months of endurance and numerous one-line messages, I feel like saying this:
I don't have MSN, I don't intend to get it, I hate going out and I despise summer - that means: I am ASOCIAL  and you do not want me as your friend - i.e. I am not chatting with anyone here and I am surely no one's sweetie. So don't waste your energy on messages to me.

Despite my deceiving profile name, I am a convinced ATHEIST so please, no Bible-saving Jesus-obsessed people who pretend to save this lost world of sinners! There is but one God, and his name is Morrissey.

And you should be able to write at least 5 sentences in English without a mistake.

PLUS: I am not going to save anyone by marrying them and providing them a visa. So, dream on guys and leave me alone. You really do not want to marry me (except, of course, if you are Morrissey).

STOP SENDING ME FRIEND REQUESTS when you a) have never talked to me and b) I would never ever to talk to you anyway! It is ridiculous that I even have to write this, but this is the way our sad world goes.

NO intellectual fascists please. Being intellectual does not mean you should be without a heart, nor does it mean you should judge without knowing.

And no, the ridiculously annoying (and boring) books by D. "Rip-off" Brown are NOT literature!! Anyone who thinks differently should keep away from my profile and invest some time into seriously rethinking their position on stupid pseudo-historical mainstream thrillers that thrive on gullible philistines. Don't even try to get me started on the ludicrous vampire books. Remember the good old times when vampires and werewolves used to be scary?

And yes, some people would consider me a snob. Unlike you, I can live with that label. I can recommend some good snob instructions.

A useful website for the illiterate on this site:
http://www.d-e-f-i-n-i-t-e-l-y.com/

Or simply put: No crashing bores.

Main obsessions:  Morrissey, Charles Baudelaire, Amedeo Modigliani, D.H. Lawrence, H.B. Carter, Marcel Proust, the Pre-Raphaelites

I am passionate about symbolist, Pre-Raphaelite, expressionist & romantic art, art nouveau & Jugendstil. Enamoured by the likes of Millais, Waterhouse, Leighton, Burne-Jones, Rossetti, von Stuck, Schwabe, Kubin, Khnopff, Mossa, Mucha, Füssli, Delville, Watts, Munch, Hunt, Mackintosh, Böcklin but also 'modern' painters such as Bacon, Chagall, Jawlensky, Schiele, Kokoschka, Ernst, Klimt and Modigliani

I also love, in no particular order: reading French and English literature, Edward Gorey, symbolist art and poetry, bérets & hats, Franz von Stuck, German expressionism (esp. "Der Blaue Reiter" in art, "Die Ermordung einer Butterblume" in literature), Elfriede Jelinek, Stephen Jones, vintage fashion, Bluebeard, archaeology, Isabella Blow, Bohemia, Paris 1900-1920s, femmes fatales, symbolist and expressionist literature, Monty Python's Flying Circus, red wine, Roald Dahl, Parisian cemeteries, philosophy & semiotics (existentialism, Derrida, Habermas, Adorno etc.), art déco, R. Searle, His Dark Materials, Victorian England, fairy doors, Nadar, Italian film, vintage perfume bottles, frankincense, Aleister Crowley, comic books & graphic novels, cookies, traditional Arabian & Turkish music, video blogs, collecting snow globes and vinyl albums, Décadence/Fin de Siècle, Medieval markets, ice cream, churches, second hand (book) shops, gothic & sweet lolita, fairy tales, Dita von Teese, the Romantic period, LOTR, eccentric/weird personalities through the ages (Joan the Mad, the Borgia family, Edith Sitwell, Gertrude Shilling, Anna Piaggi etc.), magical creatures (elves, trolls, faeries), Philip Treacy, hatpins, glam rock, Harry Potter, Vivienne Westwood, velvet, ribbons/bows, burlesque & vaudeville, photography (Corbijn, Cartier-Besson, Capa, Newton), languages & grammar, DIY culture, lomography, Viktor & Rolf, politics and history (16th and 19th century mainly), cupcakes, gingerbread men, lollipops, Renaissance architecture, C. M. Barker, Bette Davis, Highgate cemetery, Brian Froud, Arthur Lee, A. Beardsley, hairpins, riot grrrl, Loriot, A. Rackham, leopard print & pin-up fashion, gin, tattoos, roses, Dublin, Converse shoes, Alice in Wonderland, Little Red Riding Hood, pop art, Salomé, Judith & Holofernes, Comme des Garçons, Ophelia, the sirens (all femmes fatales basically), sociology (Giddens, Weber, Beck), rain & wind, taking the ferry, graffiti art, art nouveau posters, experimental theatre from the 1920s and 1930s, old newspapers, collecting vintage postcards from the 1920s, subversive art, Victorian patterns and clothes, Absinthe (the beverage) & Absinthe advertisement posters from the early 20th century, Boutique Fouquet, vintage cigarette tin boxes, steampunk ---

I am an avid collector of: vinyl albums, snow globes, wine bottles, tinted postcards, beautiful editions of Les Fleurs du Mal, anything Morrissey (naturally), (wannabe) antiques, quirky anecdotes & deep day dreams

Current obsessions:
trying to survive the next 3 months
writing my thesis about animal welfare in the EU

indie/punk/60's pop/post-punk/glam/new wave/chanson/no wave/twee/C86/riot grrrl

Songs that saved my life mainly by: The Smiths/Morrissey, (early) Roxy Music, Saez, Leonard Cohen, Jacques Brel, Nico, James, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds/The Birthday Party, Suede, PJ Harvey, K. Bush, Siouxsie and The Banshees, Adam and the Ants, T.rex, New York Dolls, Franz Ferdinand, The Beatles/John Lennon, J. Mitchell, Ramones, Television, Blondie, The Velvet Underground/Lou Reed/John Cale, E. Smith, Grauzone, Buzzcocks, M. Faithfull, Tocotronic, Santigold, M. Farmer, Iggy Pop/The Stooges, I am Kloot, Inspiral Carpets, Beirut, Jesus & The Mary Chain, Kent, Guillemots, Antony & the Johnsons, The La's, Ch. & S. Gainsbourg, J. Birkin, Madrugada, White Lies, dEUS, The Divine Comedy, Radiohead, The Organ, Manic Street Preachers, My Bloody Valentine, Depeche Mode, Sneaker Pimps/ IAMX, Cocteau Twins, Héroes del Silencio, Interpol, Léo Ferré, D. Bowie, B. Dylan, Björk, Nikki and the Corvettes, Portishead, The Decemberists, The Shins, B'52s, The Libertines & Babyshambles, Cat Power, B. Holiday, The Dresden Dolls, The Tears, BRMC, CAN, Klaus Nomi, Bluetones, Bat for Lashes, At the Drive-In, Air/Sébastien Tellier, Saltillo, Violent Femmes, The Specials, Bloc Party, Orange Juice, Joy Division/Warsaw, The Indelicates, GoodBooks, Kristeen Young, Devendra Banhart, The Kills, Sparks, Patti Smith, T. Amos, B. Biolay, Tim & Jeff Buckley, Wovenhand, Tom McRae, Pulp, Rascals, Courteeners, QOTSA, Roisin Murphy, Last Shadow Puppets/Arctic Monkeys, Noir Désir, Magazine, M. Wainwright, Dominique A, Doll and the Kicks, The Republic Tigers, Pretty Balanced, Megapuss, The Mighty Lemon Drops, The Pastels, Felt, The Soup Dragons, The March Violets, D. Dors, Mina, S. Shaw, F. Sinatra, E. Presley, The Trash Can Sinatras, The Doll, The Fall, Gene, Public Image Ltd., Bauhaus, Reparata & the Delrons, T. Yuro, Au Pairs, M. Laforêt, The Sundays, L7, Bikini Kill, Gang of Four, Wedding Present, The Orchids, Lovers Love Haters, Lemonheads, Sleater-Kinney, Verlaines, Liliput/Kleenex, Lene Lovich, Delta 5, The Jam, Manicure, Bratmobile, The Slits, Jobriath, Duffo, UT, Martha & the Diamonds, The Kinks, The Raincoats, The Mo-dettes, L. Lunch/Teenage Jesus & the Jerks, The Cramps, Comateens, The Pop Group, The Sugarcubes, Family Fodder, A Certain Ratio, The Monochrome Set, Camera Obscura, Dolly Mixture, Josef K, Young Marble Giants, Shop Assistants, Vivian Girls, Þeyr, Fatal Microbes, Department S, Rubella Ballet, Maximum Joy, Theoretical Girls, Lost Cherrees, Occult Chemistry, Souvenir, Soap&Skin, Sonic Youth, Tom Waits, B. Biolay, KASMs, Liechtenstein, Florence and the Machine, The Dead Weather, The Associates, Y Pants, X-ray Spex, Joanna Newsom, The Primitives, The Flatmates, God Help The Girl, etc.

anything by Wes Anderson, Antonioni, Godard, Truffaut, Kubrick, Fellini, Visconti, Lynch, Akin, Herzog, Gondry, Wenders, Scorsese, Jarmusch, Bergman, Pasolini, Rossellini, etc.

My favourite film is "The Royal Tenenbaums", closely followed by "Rushmore". I also have a thing for "The Big Lebowski". Other (newer) movies I love: "Garden State", "Fight Club", "Little Miss Sunshine", "Sideways", "Gegen die Wand", "Wonderboys", "Lola Rennt", "Blue Velvet" and most movies by Tim Burton (a guilty pleasure). And I have just fallen in love with "Withnail & I".

Don't meddle with the classics:
"La Jetée"
"Il Deserto Rosso"
"Bande à Part"
"Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens"
"Jules et Jim"
"La Notte"
"L'Avventura"
"Orphée"
"L'Eclisse"
"East of Eden"
"8 1/2"
"La Dolce Vita"
"A bout de souffle"
"400 Coups"
"Blow Up"
"Rebel Without a Cause"
"Amarcord"

favourite actors: A. Delon, H.B. Carter, J. Dean, I. Rossellini, M. Mastroianni, M. Vitti, J. Moreau, J. Marais, A. Karina, O. Werner, K. Kinski, C. Brasseur, H. Berger, J.-P. Belmondo, etc.

Seinfeld, Monty Python, Black Books, 30 Rock, Californication, Lost, Weeds (early seasons), Life on Mars (British version), Dexter

Novels, novellas & plays:
The Book of Disquiet - F. Pessoa
Wuthering Heights - E. Brontë
Women in Love - D. H. Lawrence
Steppenwolf - H. Hesse
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept - E. Smart
Homo Faber - M. Frisch
A la Recherche du Temps Perdu - M. Proust
Rot - U. Timm
Faust - J. W. von Goethe
Everyman - P. Roth
Die Klavierspielerin - E. Jelinek
Macbeth - W. Shakespeare
Le Roi se meurt - E. Ionesco
Der Tod in Venedig - T. Mann

Other authors I love: V. Woolf, A. Döblin, L. Pirandello, A. Carter, J. Conrad, T. Gautier, E. A. Poe, G. Flaubert, A. Bennett, H. James, C. Brontë, F. Kafka, G. Grass, H. Böll, T. Morrison, E. Hemingway, A. Chekhov, O. Wilde, J. Joyce, S. Beckett, C. Pavese etc.


Poetry:
Les Fleurs du Mal - C. Baudelaire
A Shropshire Lad - A.E. Housman
Collected Poems - W. H. Auden
Alcools - G. Apollinaire
anything by G. de Nerval
Une Saison en Enfer - A. Rimbaud
anything by Verlaine
anything by Yeats
Transformations - A. Sexton
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - S. T. Coleridge

Poets I also love: R. M. Rilke, T. Hughes, J. Betjeman, J. Donne, J. Keats, W. Blake, T. S. Eliot, S. Heaney, G. Heym, G. Benn, A. Werfel, A. Stramm, G. Trakl, W. Shakespeare, S. Mallarmé, H. Heine, S. Plath, J. W. von Goethe, P. Eluard, Byron, W. Wordsworth, H. Heine, Novalis, A. de Vigny, F. Villon, A. Lamartine, P. Neruda, J. Prévert, etc.

"Providing one spends the time drugged or drunk, the world is a fine place" - Joe Orton

"I will not change and I will not be nice." - Morrissey

"I can resist everything except temptation" - O. Wilde

"Le Beau est toujours bizarre." - C. Baudelaire

"And when I'm lying in my bed
I think about life
And I think about death
And neither one particularly appeals to me" - The Smiths

"And no reason
To talk about the books I read
But still, I do."  - Morrissey

"You ask me how to cure your headache - use a gun." - Sneaker Pimps

"I talk to God, but the sky is empty." - Sylvia Plath

"Spending warm Summer days indoors
Writing frightening verse
To a buck-toothed girl in Luxembourg."
- The Smiths

"There's more to life than books, but not much more." - The Smiths

"Why live in the world when you can live in your head?" - Pulp

"The road to hell is paved with adverbs." - Mark Twain

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me." - Hunter S. Thompson

"I will be in the bar, with my head on the bar." - Morrissey

"Le désespoir est une forme supérieure de la critique." - Léo Ferré