My blogs

About me

Gender	Male
Occupation	Writer
Location	Finland
Introduction	This is my private forum to share my thoughts and news to my friends worldwide.
Interests	Literature, movies, music, surrealism, magic realism, different cultures (especially Chinese, Japanese, Russian, and Finnish), history, spirituality, religions, swimming, walking, chess, and so on.
Favorite movies	2046 by Wong Kar-wai, 8½ by Federico Fellini, Andrei Rublev + Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky, Ostrov by Pavel Lungin, Seven Samurai by Akira Kurosawa, Hiroshima mon amour by Alain Resnais, The Road Home by Zhang Yimou, Pink Floyd The Wall by Alan Parker, films directed by David Lynch, Sergei Eisenstein, Hayao Miyazaki, Michelangelo Antonioni, Aki Kaurismäki, Kim Ki-duk, Hong Kong films, Western films, science fiction, film noir etc.
Favorite music	Teresa Teng, Faye Wong, Michiko, Meiko Kaji, Masako Mori, Katie Melua, Tori Amos, Ronnie James Dio, Iron Maiden, X Japan, The Rolling Stones, The Flower Kings, Pink Floyd, old progressive rock, classical music, especially Beethoven, Bach, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, and Una furtiva lagrima (opera aria by Donizetti).
Favorite books	The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin, The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne, The Bible, books written by Yasunari Kawabata, Haruki Murakami, Yasushi Inoue, Nikolai Gogol, Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy, Aleksis Kivi, Tove Jansson, Veikko Huovinen, Kurt Vonnegut, Agatha Christie, Ray Bradbury, Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen King, André Breton, William Shakespeare, Gao Xingjian, old Chinese wisdom and proverbs and legends, Kalevala.