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Last update: 3 Mar 2009

I am already 44 years old. My occupation is electronic hardware engineening. I live in Athens, Greece, hoping to return in my beloved countryside some day. I own a HONDA XL600V Transalp motorcycle (what else ?), 1997 model, colored black - my preferred color ! My interests:

History and Archaeology: Prehistoric and Classical Ancient times, Roman-Byzantine, Arabian and Medieval history, history of Arts and Religions. Preference goes to Roman and Byzantine history

Painting: H.Bosch, Tiziano, Tintoretto, Caravaggio, El Greco, D.Velasquez, Rembrandt, F.Goya, E.Delacroix, W. Turner (late works), Yves Tanguy, Andy Warhol and Jeff Koons (no, no, the latter two ones are just a BAD joke!).

Music: Greek ("rebetiko" and popular music from 1950 to 1974. After that point , Greek music is about dull).
New wave (punk, post punk etc) like Joy Division, Killing Joke, Marc Almond,  Dead Kennedys, Zounds, Damned, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Mob,  Clash, Cure, Astronauts, Carter USM, Tindersticks. Oops! I forgot Rammstein (although they 're a bit trash-metallic). Recent addictions: VNV Nation, Apoptygma Berzerk, Covenant, :Wumpscut: and the like
Less or more advanced artists like Philip Glass, Cabaret Voltaire, Tuxeedomoon, Wim Mertens, Balanesqu Quartet, Coil, Clock DVA, Recoil.
"Classic rock"  like Rolling Stones (before 1971), Animals, Stooges, Bob Dylan, Tim Buckley.
"Classic music" like requiems (Mochart's Requiem is my favorite) and operas with baritone men singers.
Ethnic from Africa, Middle East and Cuba.
Last concerts I enjoyed: Mecano, VNV Nation, Covenant, 16 Horse Power, Marc Almond.

Prose literature: Greeks as Papadiamantis, foreign as F.Kafka, F.Dostoyefsky, E.A.Poe, J.L.Borjes, A.Camus, A.Huxley, R.Graves, P.Dick, P.S.Fidgerald, C.Bukowski, Stendhal, A.Maaluf, J. Cortasar, Ishmael Kantare.

Poetry: Greeks as Karouzos, Kavafis, Kavaddias, foreign as F.G.Lorca, T.S.Eliot, J.L.Borjes, C.Bukowski, beat poetry (Ferlingetti, Ginsberg et al) is one of my strong preferences,  Dylan Thomas.

Cinema directors: S.Eizenstein, Fritz Lang, A.Hitchcock, O.Welles, J.Houston, A.Kurosawa, F.Fellini, J.Lousy, F.Truffaut, Woody Allen, S.Kubrick, S.Leone, A.Tarkovsky, Monty Pythons, E.Koustouritsa, P.Almodovar, Mike Leigh, Hal Hurtley, Zhang Yimou, Atom Egoyan.
Best movies I saw in the last 6 years: "Sweet hereafter" (A.Egoyan), "Trust" (H. Hartley), "Voyzeck" (Janos Szasz), "Thin Red Line" (?).

Theatre: Classic writers like Aeschylus, Sofokles, W.Shakespeare, A.Chekhov, B.Brecht, Tennessee Willliams, E.Alby, S. Becket.

Astronomy and geography, electronics, PC adventure gaming (Sierra's "Quest for Glory IV" is the best game I 've ever played), motorcycle service & maintenance, (casual) mountain-hiking, travels.

Oops! I forgot: Donald Duck, Scrooge, Magica de Spell, Duffy Duck (he is black!), Pink Panther and Coyote from "Road Runner"  :-)

That's all ! (I hope I didn't mess too much with the names).