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 |