User:Desdenova

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, Phideaux, Uriah Heep, Shadow Gallery, Pain of Salvation, Pink Floyd, Marillion, Rush, Queensrÿche, 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, George R.R. Martin, Isaac Asimov, Steven Brust, Anne McCaffrey, Tad Williams, Patrick Rothfuss...


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


 * TV shows
 * some recent shows I like: Revolution, 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.