CURRENT MISSION

To spend summer 2010 meeting great people to make music and have fun with. And to learn a new language or two.

ABOUT ME

Sociable, talkative, music geeking, software writing, alternative culture encyclopaedia.

I've lived in England, Wales, France, Portugal, and now I'm travelling for summer 2010.

I enjoy a party, as much as I enjoy a quiet night at home. I like a beer with friends. I like live music. I like spicy food.

I like that feeling you get when you realise it's tomorrow now.

I overuse the word "presumably".

Interests

Coffee
Music
Making music with computers
Cooking
News - current affairs/politics/economics/environment
Open source computer software
Technology
Skiing
Sailing
Surfing
Running
Cycling
Visual art
Alternative / counter cultures
Chaos
Whisky

• arts
• culture
• writing
• environment
• dining
• cooking
• beer
• coffee
• running
• partying
• politics
• technology
• news
• traveling
• music
• live music
• cycling
• surfing
• sailing
• skiing
• economics
• software

Music, Movies, and Books

Musically I like a lot of things, from soft acoustic music (Lazarus, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan) through techno (Underworld, Chris Liebing, Slam, ) to IDM (Aphex Twin, FSoL, Autechre, Biosphere) to industrial noise (Merzbow, Throbbing Gristle, Wolf Eyes) and masses in between.

I like odd music, music that influenced other music I like, music where the process of producing it interests me.

I like some classical music, mainly 20th century stuff (Schönberg, Berg, Webern, Stravinsky, Arvo Pärt, Stockhausen, Boulez, Ashley, Glass, Reich, Ligeti, ...)

According to last.fm, I'm into electronic, new wave, industrial, experimental and 80s, including:
Skinny Puppy, Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, Coil, David Bowie, Depeche Mode, Ministry, Einstürzende Neubauten, Pixies, Nitzer Ebb, Ellen Allien, New Order, Pigface, Front 242, Leæther Strip, The Cure, Underworld, The Knife, Current 93, Fad Gadget, Bomb 20, The Front, The Fall, Bauhaus, Swans, Lady Gaga, Joy Division, Nine Inch Nails, Pet Shop Boys, Beastie Boys, Scott Walker, Ulver, Lazarus, Anne Clark, Laibach, Orbital, Brian Eno, Nirvana, Melvins, Godflesh, Alec Empire, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Renegade Soundwave, Faith and the Muse, Chicks on Speed, Tuxedomoon, The Cramps, Bronski Beat, Fever Ray, Kraftwerk.
Check out my music taste: http://www.last.fm/user/joelbernstein

I don't watch as many movies as I ought to, but I love:
Jubilee, Blade Runner, Apocalypse Now, Taxi Driver, 12 Monkeys, Trainspotting, Pulp Fiction, Don't Look Now, Lost Highway, Point Blank, A Bout de Souffle, Christiane F: Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo, Dogville, Festen, Labyrinth, Withnail & I, Fitzcarraldo,

Reading fiction - David Mitchell, Irvine Welsh, Bret Easton Ellis, Virginia Woolf, Paul Auster, Margaret Atwood, Haruki Murakami, Hermann Hesse, JD Salinger, William S. Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, Carol Shields, Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson, William Gibson, Douglas Coupland, Chuck Palahniuk, Neal Stephenson, Patrick Süskind, .....this is really just the start, I have a lot of books.

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