Updated all the time.....

My personal taste in music, movies, literature, 
poetry, things, behaviour and much more.

This site is with a lot of pics, some MIDIS, Wavs, links, so be patient while it loads.

• Flower:  
  Amaryllis and Gladiolus
  (seems I've got something in common with Dame Edna there)

• Colour:
  Blue, darkgreen and last not least orange

• Animal:
  Cats
  (in particular siamese cats, I home one, named: Minos)

• Names:
  Sarah and Marcel

• Favourite dish:
  Every vegetable

• Favourite kitchen:
  Italian and Indian food

• Favourite lands:
  
  Information about Egypt: http://www.sis.gov.eg/
  
  
  

  PEOPLE
  
  

• Historical figures (female):
  

  	Hatshepsut (egypt. Queen, 1490-1468 b.c.), brief history of this Queen: http://interoz.com/egypt/18dyn.htm
  Cleopatra	(egypt. Queen, 69-30 b.c) http://touregypt.net/cleopatr.htm
  Boccadiae (Boadicea)	celtic female chief in England in roman times.

  Elizabeth I., Queen of England. Learn about Elizabeth I.

• Historical figures (male):
  

  	Buddha
  	Mahatma Ghandi, http://www.engagedpage.com/ghandi.html
  	Red Cloud, Sioux chief
  	Julius Caesar, Roman emperor, http://www.incwell.com/Biographies/Caesar.html

• Fictional figures (female):
  
  Marquise De Merteuil (Laclos): When I came out into society I was 15. I already knew then that the role I was condemned to, namely to keep quiet and do what I was told, gave me the perfect opportunity to listen and observe. Not to what people told me, which naturally was of no interest to me, but to whatever it was they were trying to hide. I practiced detachment. I learn how to look cheerful while under the table I stuck a fork onto the back of my hand. I became a virtuoso of deceit. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think, and novelist to see what I could get away with, and in the end it all came down to one wonderfully simple principle: that happiness and vanity are incompatible.
  
  Galadriel (Tolkien),
  
  Scarlet O'Hara

• Fictional figures (male):
  Lancelot,
  Mephisto (Faust),
  Red Butler

• Contemporary figures (female):
  

  Mother Teresa

• Contemporary figures (male):
  

  Dalai Lama http://www.magicoftibet.com/dalai.htm

• Favourite Artist:
  

  Franz Marc Visit his virtual museum at: http://sunsite.unc.edu/wm/paint/auth/marc/

  

  LITERATURE
  
  

• Favorite Books:
  

  	The Lord of the Rings (Tolkien),
  	Maurice (E.M. Forster)
  	Dangerous Liaisons (Laclos)

• Favourite Authors (female):
  Amy Tan,
  Rita Mae Brown,
  Anne Rice

• Favourite Authors (male):
  Tolkien  (go: http://www.timefold.com/mythman.html),
  Armistead Mauphin,
  E.M. Forster

• Favourite Poets:
  Rainer Maria Rilke,
  Heinrich Heine

• Favourite poem:
  Der Panther (R.M. Rilke),
  sorry can't translate THAT.
  
  Sein Blick ist vom Vorübergehn der Stäbe
  so müd geworden, daß er nichts mehr hält.
  Ihm ist, als ob es tausend Stäbe gebe
  und hinter tausend Stäben keine Welt.
  
  Der weiche Gang geschmeidig starker Schritte,
  der sich im allerkleinsten Kreise dreht,
  ist wie ein Tanz von Kraft um eine Mitte,
  in der betäubt ein großer Wille steht.
  
  Nur manchmal schiebt der Vorhang der Pupille
  sich lautlos auf -. Dann geht ein Bild hinein,
  geht durch der Glieder angespannte Stille-
  und hört im Herzen auf zu sein.
  

• Favourite Drama-Play:
  Faust (Goethe)

• Favourite Comedy-Play:
  Caesar and Cleopatra (G.B. Shaw)
  
  

  

  MOVIES
  
  

• Favourite Moviestars (female):
  
  

  	Marlene Dietrich
  	Mae West (hear her talk: Come up sometimes ) and visit her site at: http://www.sirius.com/~kims/maewest.html
  	Greta Garbo (hear her talk: I want to be alone )
  	Kathrine Hepburn Fan-Page: http://www.vintagehollywood.com/kate.htm
  	Susan Sarandon
  	Glenn Close
  	Shirley MacLain

• Favourite Moviestars (male):  
  James Stewart,
  Spencer Tracy,
  Gary Cooper,
  Jack Lemmon

• Favourite model (male):
  

  Marcus Schenkenberg; Loads of PICS find here: http://www-scf.usc.edu/~sblevins/marcus.htm

• The ultimate Movie:
  

  Beaches (Bette Midler) (midi:"You are the Wind...")

• Favourite Movies (Comedy):
  
  Choose Me, Say Yes ( from Alan Rudolph)
  

  Some like it hot

• Favourite Movie (Monumental)
  

  	Gone with the wind (midi: Movietheme )
  	Kagemusha (Kurusawa)

• Favourite Movie (classic):
  Witness of the Prosecution (Marlene Dietrich)

• Favourite Movie (gay):
  Maurice

• Favourite Filmmakers:
  Peter Greenaway,
  Modovar (spanish),
  Akira Kurusawa
  
  

  

  MUSIC
  
  

• Favourite Opera:
  Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Mozart),
  Tosca ( Giacomo Puccini),
  Akhnaten (Philip Glass)

• Favourite Composer of Classical Music:
  

  	W.A. Mozart Resource: http://geocities.datacellar.net/Vienna/5314/
  	Giacomo Puccini

• Favourite traditional song:
  The Parting (irish):
  
  When my love and I parted the wind blew cold
  When my love and I parted our love untold
  How my heart kept crying love come with me
  but I turned my face from him and sought the sea.
  
  When my love and I parted, we shed no tears,
  For a bird was signing upon a tree
  and a gleam of sunlight lay on the sea
  
  Parting is bitter and weeping vain
  and our true lovers will meet again
  And no feet sever my love from me
  For his heart is the river and mine the sea.
  

• Favourite middle-age song:
  Unter der Linden
  (Walter von der Vogelweide)
  

  Unter der linden an der heide, da unser zweier bette was, Da magt ir vinden schone beide gebrochen bluomen unde gras. Vor dem walde in einem tal, tandaradei, schone sanc die nahtegal. Ich kam gegangen zuo der ouwe, do was min friedel komen e. Da wart ich empfangen, here frouwe, daz ich bin saelic iemer me. Kust er mich ? wol tusentstunt, tandaradei, seht wie rot mir ist der munt. Do het er gemachet also riche von bluomen eine bettestat. Des wirt gelachtet innecliche, kumt iemen an daz selbe pfat. Bi den rosen er wol mac, tandaradei, merken wa mirz houbet lac. Daz er bi mir laege, wessez iemen (nu enwelle got), so schamt ich mich, Wes er mit mir pflaege, niemer niemen bevinde daz wan er unde ich, Und ein kleines vogellin, tandaradei, daz mac wol getriuwe sin.

  Beneath the linden tree upon the heath,  where lay our common couch, you'll find both grass and flowers neatly trampled. In a valley by the wood, tandaradei, sang the nightingale. I came on foot to the meadow, where my lover was already waiting. I was welcomed there like a high-born lady, so that I shall be blessed for evermore. Did he kiss me ? A thousand times tandaradei, see how red is my mouth. He'd prepared so splendid a bed of flowers that all who chance the place will surely smile to themselves in amusement. They'll be able to tell by the roses; tandaradei, where my head lay. If anyone knew that he lay beside me (God forbid), I'd be so ashamed. What he did to me, none shall ever find out, save him and me - and a little bird, tandaradei, that will no doubt keep its own counsel.

• Favourite Arias:
  Martern aller Arten (aus Mozart's Entführung),
  Cara Sposa (Händel: Rinaldo),
  Der Hölle Rache (aus Mozarts Zauberflöte)

• Favourite classical singer (male):
  Alexander Kipnis (bass),
  Giuseppe di Stefano (tenor)

• Favourite classical singer (female):
  

  Maria Callas Resource: http://www.callas.it/

  Leontyne Price,
  Marylin Horne,
  Maria Stader

• Favourite pop singer (female):
  
  

  	Annie Lennox (midi:"Don't let it bring you down"), Fan-Page: http://www.well.com/user/sunspot/annielennox.htm
  	Bette Midler (midi:" From a distance"), Fan-Page: http://shoga.wwa.com/~carlvs/index.html
  	Millie Jackson (listen to her (178k): Handle all you can
  	Madonna (midi:"You'll see") Resource: http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~i9053929/madonna.htm
  	Cher Fan-Page: http://www.inch.com/~harbur/cher/index.html

• Favourite pop singer (male):
  Michael Bolton,
  Elton John

• Favourite jazz singer (female):
  Billie Holiday,

• 
  Lady Day, listen to her, telling you what the blues is: "The blues"
  

• and my dear friend Lisa Michaelson, now back in South Africa.

  
  

• Favourite albums:
  

  	Beaches (B. Midler)
  	Back to the shit (Millie Jackson)
  	Something to remember (Madonna) All about this album: Wavs, Videos and more: http://www.wbr.com/mad/index.html
  	Love hurts (Cher)

• Favourite song:
  Now this is hard:
  O.K: I choose:
  The story of love (B. Midler)

• Favourite instrument:
  
  Harp
  
  
  

  

  OPINION ON THINGS
  
  

• What I love the most: Laughter and honesty

• What I hate the most: stingy or cheap people
  
  

• Historical Events I hate:
  Invention of gunpowder,
  atombombs and the Holocaust
  

• Historical Events I love:
  Every contribution towards humanity

• The greatest luck on earth:
  Life itself and love

• The greatest misfortune:
  Illness

• What would I like to be ?
  
  I am what I am:
  

• Religion:   pagan

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