Gaddag

Fast facts

• At the movies I like

  (romantic) comedies

• Last movie seen

  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), dir. by H. Hawks. Marilyn Monroe as Lorelei Lee. "Diamonds are a girl's best friend."

• Music I listen to

  fm4.orf.at, F. Chopin, B. Bartók, S. Prokofiev, E. Satie, Björk, White Stripes, immortal Frank Zappa, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, industrial, minimal, John Mayall, Joe Satriani, Jeff Beck, bossa nova!

• Best album right now

  Frank Zappa - Jazz from Hell

• Favorite author

  Carl Hiaasen, Joe R Lansdale, Gene Wolfe, Tim Powers, K W Jeter, James P Blaylock, William Gibson, Lucius Shepard, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Michal Ajvaz, Haruki Murakami... and my ever beloved Francois Rabelais

• Last book read

  The Doctor Is Sick (1960) by Anthony Burgess

• Best game right now

  make ends meet

• Software I use

  Opera mini 4.1, testing Opera mini beta cs 4.2.13057, testing TeaShark Beta 0.9.411, radioBee 1.41 (free web radio in my mobile phone; many cool jazz stations), AVYS - Mobile Synthesizer 1.0.2, MAVYS - Pixel Music Production Center 1.1

• Hardware I use

  Nokia 6234 mobile phone [Vodafone]

• If I won 1 million dollars, I would:

  try to obtain an Ono-Sendai deck

• I wish I could:

  meet Mr Rimsky-Korsakov and Paul Di Filippo and Alberto Manguel

• Favorite travel destination:

  ye friendly bookshops

• On my vacation, I...:

  spend time in el jardín de senderos que se bifurcan and the Ryhope wood...

• Favorite sports team:

  Was ist das?

• I'm passionate about:

  music books movies art life boomerangs palindromes knots

• Food I like:

  *chocolate* and... did I say... cookies?

• I don't like:

  Sundays, insects and rodents and reptiles

Blog posts

• Oliver Herford - The Hippopotamus

Group memberships

• OPERA WORLD COMMUNITY™

  Member