About Me

  • About Me: The man stands between life & death. The man thinks... The horse thinks... The sheep thinks... The cow thinks... The dog thinks... The fish doesn't think. The fish is mute. Expressionless... The fish doesn't think, because fish knows. Everything.

Movies

  • Favorite Movies: Addams Family, Everything is Illuminated, Six-String Samurai, Une affaire de gout / Question of Taste, Scoop, Meet Joe Black, Tulse Luper Suitcases, Scent of a Woman, Mala educacion / Bad Education, Volver, Mulholland dr., Lucia y el Sexo, L'Enfer / Hell, Clockwork Orange, the Wind that Shakes the Barley, 101 Reykjavik, Takeshis', Mon meilleur ami / My best friend, Pink Floyd The Wall, No News From God, the Jacket, Noorderlingen / The Northerners, Irina Palm, Being John Malkovich, Pulp Fiction, Juno, An Ordinary Miracle (1978 film), That Very Same Munchhausen (1979, USSR)
  • Favorite Actors: John Travolta, Johny Depp, Elijah Wood, Penelopa Cruz, Cillian Murphy, Christina Ricci, Al Pacino, Gael Garcia Bernal, Evgeni Leonov, Oleg Yankovsky, Irina Kupchenko, Andrei Mironov, Yekaterina Vasilyeva
  • Favorite Directors: Pedro Almodovar, Michel Gondry, Woody Allen, Alex van Warmerdam, Wang Kar-Wai, Jim Jarmusсh, Mark Zakharov, David Lynch, Coen brothers
  • Favorite Genre: all genres are good if director is clever
  • Favorite Soundtracks: Mulholland dr., Quentin Tarantino' and Emir Kusturica' films
  • Movie Quotes I say all the time: The man stands between life & death. The man thinks... The horse thinks... The sheep thinks... The cow thinks... The dog thinks... The fish doesn't think. The fish is mute. Expressionless... The fish doesn't think, because fish knows. Everything. (c) Arizona dream
  • Movies I can watch over and over: Addams Family, Mimino, Scoop, An Ordinary Miracle (1978 film)
  • Actor that would play me in a movie: Noone else except Christina Ricci

Food

  • Favorite Cuisine: my mom's
  • Favorite Dishes: Gordon Blue, sushi, salads, pizza... oh, too many others
  • Favorite Desserts: east sweet with nuts, ice-cream, Kiev cake
  • Favorite Drinks: Mohito, tomat juice, tequila, Baileys, Pina Colada...
  • Favorite Junk Foods: don't remember
  • Best meal ever: breakfast into bed
  • My Original Recipes: secret
  • Favorite Restaurants: i know few
  • Foods I hate: caraway-seeds, coriander and McDonalds

Travel

  • Places I love: Bayamo, Cuba! and St.Petersburg, Russia
  • Places I've been: Cuba, Germany, Lietuva, Latvia, Finland, Russia, Belarus, Bulgaria... and so on
  • Places to see before I die: Australia, Tibet, Japan, New Zealand, Iceland, Scotland, Liverpool, South America, Africa... etc :)
  • Dream Vacation: Cuba... and Vienna

Television

  • Favorite Shows: Mr. Bean is the best one
  • Favorite Channels: National Geographic and VH-1
  • Most Addictive Show: none
  • Favorite Theme Song: "Friends"

Music

  • Favorite Artists: gypsy punks, Editors, Tom Waits, Iggy Pop, Gogol Bordello, Richard Wagner, Alice Cooper, Red Elvises, Marilyn Manson, Elvis Presley, Tiger Lillies, Placebo, Neil Young, the Cure, Kaiser Chiefs, Juliette & the Licks, Billy Idol, Madonna, Mylene Farmer, Ozzy Osbourne, Bloodhound Gang, Muse, Dresden Dolls, the Offspring, Radiohead, Aerosmith, Rolling Stones, Depeche Mode, Robbie Williams, Oasis, David Bowie, Arctic Monkeys, Cake, Lenny Kravitz, Cranberries, Manu Chao, Bjork, NoFX, Tori Amos, Blur, Beck, Alanis Morissette, Garbage, Rufus Wainwright, Crowded House, the Feeling, Coldplay, Marc Shaiman, Pain, Frank Zappa, Foo Fighters, Pink Floyd, Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra, Patty Smith, Goran Bregovich, System of a Down, Panic! at the Disco, the Stooges, Jamiroquai, Alien Ant Farm, Stereophonics, Bryan Ferry, Franz Ferdinand, Keane, Moby, Gorillaz, Sting, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Green Day, Bon Jovi, U2, Maroon 5
  • Favorite Albums: "Welcome to My Nightmare" Alice Cooper
  • Favorite Genre: ethno psycho hip-hop, jazz, cuban jazz, reggae, rock, rockabilly, classic, blues, rock'n'roll
  • Favorite Songs: Billy Idol "Sweet Sixteen", Marilyn Manson "If I Was Your Vampire", Richard Wagner «The Ride of the Valkyrier», Gogol Bordello "Start Wearing Purple"
  • Favorite Lyrics: "Poison" by Alice Cooper
  • Songs for Roadtrips: gogol bordello, sure
  • Songs I hate: russian pop-music
  • Songs I repeat the most: soundtrack from "Emmanuelle"
  • Band I wish I was in: Gogol Bordello, huh! and Marilyn Manson's retinue :))

Books

  • Favorite Books: Mikhail Bulgakov "The Master and Margarita", Milan Kundera "The Farewell Waltz (Valčík na rozloučenou)" (1972), "The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí) (1984)", Milorad Pavić «Ящик для письменных принадлежностей» (Кутија за писање), Haruki Murakami "Hear the Wind Sing" (1979), "South of the Border, West of the Sun", Shakespeare at all
  • Favorite Authors: Mikhail Bulgakov is genius, William Shakespeare - the same, Terry Pratchett, Milan Kundera, Milorad Pavic, Haruki Murakami
  • Favorite Genres: just good books
  • Favorite Characters: tragic :)
  • Favorite Quotes: Something is rotten in the state of Denmark...
  • Recent Reads: going to read "Everything is Illuminated" by Jonathan Safran Foer and "The Glass Bead Game (Das Glasperlenspiel)" by Hermann Hesse

More About Me

  • Interests: music, cinema, films, interview, festivals, awards, art, artists, travelling, connecting people, photo, motorcycles
  • Expertise: travelling & interviewing
  • Occupation: journalist