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ABOUT ME

Nice guy with a nose for the humorous side of things. Culture vulture. Younger brother to an older brother. And the son to my mom and dad. And music. Music is life. Making it. Listening to it. Going to shows. Etc. MAkes music with the guitar (with the help of my computer it even sounds good). Been thinking about starting to paint paintings.

PHILOSOPHY

I want my preconceived notions to be wrong. Everything I know can be wrong, but for the moment they're not.

Interests

Music. Books. Museums. Art and architecture have become somewhat of an interest of mine. Some people. History. Football (some cultures call it soccer) is a big love of mine.

• arts
• culture
• books
• architecture
• painting
• music
• guitar
• soccer
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Well, books: Paul Auster, Albert Camus, Pär Lagerkvist, J.D. Salinger, David Sedaris, Hjalmar Söderberg, Kurt Vonnegut.

And movies: First of all, everything with Bill Murray and/or Robert Downey Jr. is at least enjoyable.
Directors: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Roy Andersson, Stanley Kubrick, Jim Jarmusch, The Coen Brothers (Barton Fink, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?, No Country For Old Men), Monty Python, Paul Thomas Anderson, Akira Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman, Martin Scorcese, Woody Allen, Noel Baumbach, Wes Anderson, Ang Lee, every other movie by David Fincher (Seven and Fight Club for example).
Movies: Almost Famous, The Constant Gardener, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Happiness, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Pulp Fiction, Stop Making Sense, You Can Count On Me, Atonement, Back To the Future Trilogy, Blade Runner, Alien, District 9, Evil Dead Trilogy, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Gremlins, Mary and Max, Wall•E, Junebug, Monsters Inc, When Harry Met Sally, Smoke, This Is Spinal Tap, Trainspotting, Up, Badlands.

Music: Too mush really, but here’s a general rundown: Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto, The Band, William Basinski, Bright Eyes, Peter Broderick, Broken Social Scene, Calexico, Johnny Cash, Clem Snide, cLOUDDEAD, Donnacha Costello, Greg Davis, Matthew Dear, Taylor Deupree and the 12k label, Bob Dylan, Eels, Brian Eno, Fennesz, Fourcolor, Four Tet, Chihei Hatakeyama, Tim Hecker, Iron & Wine, Daniel Johnston, Labradford, Jens Lekman, Loscil, Nick Lowe, The Magnetic Fields, M. Ward, Minamo, Pan•American, Arvo Pärt, The Replacements, Arthur Russell, Spiritualized, Stars of the Lid, David Sylvian, Talking Heads, Talk Talk, Tape, Teenage Fanclub, Television, Andreas Tilliander, The Velvet Underground, Tom Waits, Paul Westerberg, Wilco, Yo La Tengo, Neil Young, Warren Zevon.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The Bosphorus. Stockholm in the winter, spring, summer and fall. Neil Young live (twice).

Countries I’ve Visited

Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Sweden