Avenius

About me

Gender Male
Industry Student
Occupation Geisteswissenschaften
Location Espoo, Finland
Introduction I'm a graduate student of anthropology, a Sunday cinephile, an avid listener of music of various kinds, and a reluctant globetrotter. Mostly I just like to sit and talk.
Interests anthropology, film, music, art, Thai food
Favorite Movies M, Grand Illusion, Lady Eve, Philadelphia Story, Sunset Boulevard, Sweet Smell of Success, Smiles of a Summer Night, Seven Samurai, Harakiri, Ugetsu Monogatari, Night and the City, Pickup on South Street, High Noon, Vertigo, Bicycle Thief, Pickpocket, Andrei Rublev, The Exterminating Angel, Breathless, The 400 Blows, Ashes and Diamonds, Le Samouraï, The Leopard, 8 1/2, Blow-Up, The Graduate, Aguirre the Wrath of God, Rosemary's Baby, Ride the High Country, The Hustler, Cool Hand Luke, Five Easy Pieces, The Last Detail, Dog Day Afternoon, Walkabout, Picnic at the Hanging Rock, Taxi Driver, All the President's Men, The Conversation, Barry Lyndon, The Long Goodbye, Days of Heaven, Cutter's Way, Annie Hall, Excalibur, Blade Runner, Videodrome, The Thing, Brazil, Down By Law, Match Factory Girl, Blue Velvet, Manhunter, Repo Man, The Draughtsman's Contract, Withnail and I, Do the Right Thing, Vampire's Kiss, La Ardilla Roja, Princess Mononoke, Twilight Samurai, The Royal Tenenbaums
Favorite Music Lee Hazlewood, Nuggets, The Kinks, Love, The Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Serge Gainsbourg, Scott Walker, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Nick Drake, Tim Buckley, The Stooges, Iggy Pop, Gentle Giant, David Bowie, Joni Mitchell, Patti Smith, Radio Birdman, Television, Ramones, Brian Eno, Suicide, Talking Heads, Elvis Costello, The Clash, Joy Division, JMKE, The Pogues, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Kate Bush, PJ Harvey, Sufjan Stevens, The National, Magnetic Fields: 69 Love Songs, M.A. Numminen, Wigwam, Kauko Röyhkä, Sielun Veljet, Tuomari Nurmio, CMX, Deep Turtle, Circle, Kuusumun Profeetta, Risto, Arvo Pärt, Sun Tryst
Favorite Books Das Kapital, Lord of the Rings, At Swim-Two-Birds, Valis, Crime and Punishment, The History of Tom Jones - a Foundling, Master and Margarita, Lolita, Catch-22, The Magic Mountain, Demian, The Plague, Travels With Charley, Catcher in the Rye, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Foucault's Pendulum, Tohtori Finckelman, Kun isoisä Suomeen hiihti, The History of the Siege of Lisbon, essays and short stories by, Nikolai Gogol, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, George Orwell, Daniil Kharms, Jorge Luis Borges, and, Franz Kafka, for light reading anything by, Kurt Vonnegut, for non-fiction, Something Like an Autobiography, by Kurosawa, or, I Am Alive and You Are Dead: A Journey into the Mind of Philip K Dick, by, Emmanuel Carrère, for anthropology, Islands of History, by, Marshall Sahlins, or, The Savage Mind, by, Claude Lévi-Strauss, graphic novels by, Alan Moore, Gilbert Hernandez, and, Ralf König