Michael
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Location | Birmingham |
| Introduction | Born (if that's the word) in 1978 in Poland, currently lives in Birmingham, UK. Once a radio presenter, a teacher and the founding father of Polish Pink Floyd fanbase. Translator and self-taught webdesigner. Huge music aficionado. An occasional writer and reviewer for Teraz Rock - Polish music monthly. |
| Interests | Music (receiving) ,::, Music (writing about) ,::, Music (watching) ,::, Graphics (creating) ,::, Animation (a little bit) ,::, Film (watching and shy creative attempts) ,::, Mixing all the above ,::, Immersing myself in everything that can be labelled as ATMOSPHERIC and/or EMOTIONAL (above everything else) ,::, Collecting CDs (mmmm... special editions...) ,::, Evening walks (4 inches above the pavement with music in my ears) ,::, Digging in memories (sometimes a pleasure sometimes a torture) ,::, Translating (when poetry moves the heart) ,::, Sentimental journeys ,::, Everything Apple (iMac / iPod / iStrudel! ;) ) |
| Favorite movies | Solaris (Steven Soderbergh's 2002 version) ,::, Bladerunner (Ridley Scott) ,::, Vanilla Sky (Cameron Crowe) ,::, Dolls (Takeshi Kitano) ,::, Lost In Translation (Sofia Coppola) ,::, Possible Worlds (Robert Lepage) ,::, Casablanca (Michael Curtiz) ,::, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick) ,::, Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders) ,::, Three Colours (Krzysztof Kieslowski) ,::, Hana-Bi (Takeshi Kitano) ,::, Dark City (Alex Proyas) ,::, Dune (David Lynch) ,::, Twin Peaks (David Lynch) ,::, The Straight Story (David Lynch) ,::, Birdy (Alan Parker) ,::, The Nightmare Before Christmas (Henry Selick) ,::, The City Of Lost Children (Jean Pierre Jeunet) ,::, Amelie (Jean Pierre Jeunet) ,::, The Station Agent (Thomas McCarthy) ,::, plus the whole ocean of Polish cinematography by Kieslowski, Polanski, Wajda and many more... |
| Favorite music | David Sylvian ,::, Pink Floyd ,::, Roger Waters ,::, David Gilmour ,::, Peter Gabriel ,::, The Blue Nile ,::, Robert Fripp ,::, Steve Hackett ,::, Genesis ,::, Brian Eno ,::, Mike Oldfield ,::, Pat Metheny ,::, Daniel Lanois ,::, Eric Clapton ,::, Chopin ,::, Henryk Gorecki ,::, Jon & Vangelis ,::, Mark Isham ,::, Sigur Ros ,::, No-Man ,::, Neil Young ,::, Sting ,::, Talk Talk ,::, Zbigniew Preisner |
| Favorite books | Art albums ,::, Everyting by Storm Thorgerson ,::, Ember Glance: A Permanence of Memory by Russell Mills & David Sylvian ,::, Soul Music by Terry Pratchett ,::, The House Of Doctor Dee by Peter Ackroyd |