User:Desdenova

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Just some random guy.

Fields of interest (in no particular order):

•  Music

• •  Rock
    •  Toto, Foreigner, Asia, Bryan Adams (his earlier stuff, that is), David Bowie, U2, Oingo Boingo...

• •  Progressive rock
    •  Kansas, Van der Graaf Generator, Rush, Shadow Gallery, Queensrÿche, Pain of Salvation, Marillion, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Muse, Supertramp, Styx, Dream Theater...

• •  Metal
    •  Blue Öyster Cult, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Sortilège (French band), Anathema...

• •  1980s pop and new wave
    •  Duran Duran, Nik Kershaw, Howard Jones, China Crisis, Japan, Billy Joel, Blancmange...

• •  French "chansons à textes" (ie. songs where the lyrics are more important, usually telling little stories and/or very poetic)
    •  Francis Cabrel, Alain Souchon, Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine, Gérard Manset, early Jean-Jacques Goldman, Jean-Louis Murat, Jean Guidoni...

•  Music videos
  •  some favorites: Nine Inch Nails' The Perfect Drug, KoRn's Freak on a Leash and the more recent Tribulations by LCD Soundsystem...

•  Science-Fiction
  •  favorite writers: Roger Zelazny, Isaac Asimov, Steven Brust, Anne McCaffrey...

•  Film
  •  favorite directors: Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, Steven Spielberg, Ridley Scott, Roger Corman...

•  TV shows
  •  some recent shows I like: Prison Break, Battlestar Galactica, Lost, Veronica Mars, Desperate Housewives, Alias, The 4400, John Doe...
  •  some older favorites: Hill Street Blues, The Wild Wild West, Mission: Impossible, and so many many others... I'll add more later.

•  Comics
  •  some favorites include: Daredevil, the X-Men and the more recent Runaways, Y: The Last Man, etc.

•  Reading and writing
•  Computers, and in particular Linux and Mandrake

I will try to contribute what I can to the above mentioned fields.