Music taste
My interest in music covers a wide spectrum of genres and fusions between genres. It is easier to say what I don't like in music. Schlager songs, for instance. As a teenager it was albums of orchestras like Genesis, Pink Floyd and Tangerine Dream which were placed on the 'sacred shelves'. In the 1980'ies Peter Gabriel was the great guru. Together with Brian Eno. My first meeting with the congolese soukous – on a journey in Africa in 1985-1987 – turned hot and wild, and since then my world of music was never the same.
The album which was most frequently in my CD-player in 2002-2004 was '1 Giant Leap'. Since then I got busy with producing and listening to our own music.
Here is a page in Danish with more info about my taste and interests in the field of music...
Favourite films
There are films which have changed my life – and there are films which are just brilliant little pearls I'll never forget.
In the late 1970ies and beginning of the 1980ies, it made a deep impression on me to see French movies such as 'Les Enfants du Paradis' and 'Moliere', and we freaked out over '2001 The Space Odyssey ', 'Koyaanisqatsi & Powaqqatsi' and 'Blade Runner' long before they got to be hype. Oh, and 'The Passenger' (with Jack Nicholson), not to mention.
'Quest of Fire' also
made an impact in my life when I was in the early 20ies.
Later in life, I have become particularly fond of films which
– skillfully recreate moments and conversations of love and everyday life of today, such as 'Four Weddings and a Funeral', 'Twogether',
'As Good As It Gets', 'Bitter Moon',
'Moonligt and Valentino',
'Truly Madly Deeply', 'Bagdad Café',
'American Beauty', 'Short Cuts', 'Do The Right Thing',
'Home For Holidays',
‘Two Weeks Notice’, ‘La leggenda del pianista sulloceano’, ‘Finding Forrester’, ‘High Fidelity’, ‘A Lot Like Love’
– touch the essence of romance, fantasy and dreaming such as ‘Don Juan DeMarco’, ‘Big Fish’,
‘What Dreams May Come’, and ‘Finding Neverland’
– are real life stories that move you, such as ‘Hurricane’, ‘Charlotte Gray’
– off-the-beaten-track stories such as ‘Meet Joe Black’
– well-told love stories and emotions-stirring epic movies of past times, such as 'Shadowlands', ‘84 Charing Cross Road’, 'The English Patient', ‘Nowhere in Africa’, 'Legends of the Fall', ‘Gandhi', ‘Moll Flanders’, ‘Cold Mountain’, 'The Whole Wide World', ‘Mary Bryant' and ‘The New World’
– well-told sci-fi and future stories such as ‘Children of Men’,
– great music films like 'Moulin Rouge' and 'The Red Violin'.
And well-produced portraits of a music stars from real life, such as the film
‘Ray’
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father-and-son movies like 'A Bronx Tale'
– family-in-a-nutshell movies like 'Little Miss Sunshine'
– antropological movies such as 'In a savage land'
– romantic girl’s movies (in this case about life, and death) such as 'P.S. Iove you'. I was among those who had my center of emotions in a state of emergency for at least 24 hours after the premiere of 'Titanic'. Yes, I admit it. But then again, for some reason I couldn't bother to watch it just one more time when, lateron, it was shown on tv.
DiCaprio's later movie, 'The Beach', on the other hand, seems to me to get better and better every time I watch it.
As far as the obligatory 'Lord of the Rings' is concerned, I watched all its three episodes in one stretch and loved it.
– A tv series I have enjoyed the first and second seaon of was ‘Six Feet Under’
– The DVD '1 Giant Leap' from 2002 is among my absolute favourites as far as music productions are concerned. (You might as well just buy it straight away!).
They followed it up in 2008 with 'What about me' which I enjoy watching and showing to people just as well.
Favourite actors?
Now, THIS is a very personal question: Who are the film actors who turn a film production into a magnificent experience and generally make the world of movies such an enriching and fascinating place?
Ioan Gruffudd ('Hornblower', 'Man and Boy'), Jeremy Irons ('Brideshead Revisited') Tim Roth, and Hugh Grant, definitely!
And Kevin Spacey ('American Beauty'), Harvey Keitel, Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Anthony Hopkins, Jack Nicholson - ...among the males. Oh, and Tom Hanks, not to mention.
Among women actors, hm... I can think of Emma Thomson, Sandra Bullock, Annabella Sciorra, Angelina Jolie, and Michelle Pheiffer, who all have great charisma and human quality as an actor.
Speaking of beauty, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Jennifer Lopez are tops, if you ask me, but beauty was not what I was talking about as a criteria here.
Who did I forget? Remind me, please...
Books
I love books, but I don't know why... I just never get down to reading any. Christmas gift books are piling up. 'The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy' by Douglas Adams, 'The High Price of Materialism' and You Shall Know Our Velocity are some of those I'd love to read,
when some day eventually I find myself on a sunny beach and with all the time in world.
Another one on the list is How To Be Idle
Religion
In the later years, I find myself becoming kind of religious about my weekly 1.5 kilometers of swimming. And about eating right – avoiding sugar. That's about it.
The word "religion" comes from latin – religiõ – and means "to bind". Which is what it does: religion binds groups of people together.
I was brought up on Christianity, fell in love with Islam in my early years of travelling in Egypt and Sudan, and have learned a lot from Buddhism which I have found full of genuine life wisdom.
But basically, I find it absurd and sad the way people use religion to promote their own agendas which have nothing to do with anything devine but only with very-much-down-to-earth power struggles between groups of human beings, economic gain, prestige, and similar narrowminded issues.
I guess I feel about religion like I do about astrology and horoscopes: ‘Okay, fine, but... eh, should we move on with things now?”
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Spots I go to
• During the long nights out here in my little corner of cyberspace, I enjoy looking leaning back and glancing up in the great cyber-sky
• Visit The End of The Internet
• Try 'The Really Big Button That Doesn't Do Anything'.
• This is what a computer is supposed to do: Just click on this link and then type in your first name.
• At this page, I have placed a number of my favourite bookmarks
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