Spending time with my family and friends. Music-, film-, web- and magazine-production, and... of course, lots of other things, such as travel, exploring new things, DJ'ing, dancing, going to the movies, enjoying a beer with a good friend, or a glass of rosé wine with my wife at a romantic location, and that sort of stuff
Music
My interest in music covers a wide spectrum of genres and fusions between genres. It is easier to say what I don't like in music. Schlager songs, for instance. As a teenager it was albums of orchestras like Genesis, Pink Floyd and Tangerine Dream which were placed on the 'sacred shelves'. In the 1980's Peter Gabriel was the great guru of my musical life. Together with Brian Eno. My first meeting with the congolese soukous - on a journey in Africa in 1985-1987 - turned hot and wild, and since then my world of music was never the same.
The album which has been most frequently in my CD-player in 2002-2007 is '1 Giant Leap'.
Movies
There are films which have changed my life – and there are films which are just brilliant little pearls I'll never forget.
In the late 1970ies and beginning of the 1980ies, it made a deep impression on me to see French movies such as 'Les Enfants du Paradis' and 'Moliere', and we freaked out over '2001 The Space Odyssey ', 'Koyaanisqatsi & Powaqqatsi' and 'Blade Runner' long before they got to be hype. Oh, and 'The Passenger' (with Jack Nicholson), not to mention.
'Quest of Fire' also made an impact in my life when I was in the early 20ies.
Lateron, I have become particularly fond of films which skillfully recreate moments and conversations of love and everyday life of today, such as 'Four Weddings and a Funeral', 'Twogether', 'As Good As It Gets', 'Bitter Moon', 'Moonligt and Valentino', 'Truly Madly Deeply', 'Bagdad Café', 'American Beauty', 'Short Cuts', 'Do The Right Thing', 'Home For Holidays', ‘Two Weeks Notice’, ‘La leggenda del pianista sulloceano’, Finding Forrester, ‘High Fidelity’. Stories of romance and dreaming such as ‘Don Juan DeMarco’, Real Life stories that touch you, such as ‘Hurricane’, off-the-track stories such as ‘Meet Joe Black’, or simple, well-told love stories of the past times, such as 'Shadowlands' and 'The Whole Wide World',
... but also emotional and epic movies as 'Legends of the Fall', 'The English Patient', 'Gandhi' or great music films like 'Moulin Rouge' and 'The Red Violin'.
The DVD '1 Giant Leap' is among my absolute favourites as far as music productions are concerned. (You might as well just buy it straight away!)
I was among those who had my center of emotions in a state of emergency for at least 24 hours after the premiere of 'Titanic'. Yes, I admit it. But then again, for some reason I couldn't bother to watch it just one more time when, lateron, it was shown at tv. DiCaprio's later movie, 'The Beach', on the other hand, seems to me to get better and better everytime I watch it.
As far as 'Lord of the Rings' is concerned, I watched all its three in a row and loved it.
Now, THIS is a very personal question: Who are the film actors who call for quality, and make the world of movies such a rich and fascinating place?
Ioan Gruffudd ('Hornblower', 'Man and Boy'), Jeremy Irons ('Brideshead Revisited') Tim Roth, and Hugh Grant, definitely!
And Kevin Spacey ('American Beauty'), Harvey Keitel, Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Anthony Hopkins, Jack Nicholson - ...among the males. Oh, and Tom Hanks, not to mention.
Among the females, hm... honestly, I don't know why, but I can't think of anyone but Emma Thomson, Sandra Bullock, and Michelle Pheiffer, who reaches that same level of charisma and human quality as an actor.
Speaking of beauty, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Jennifer Lopez are tops, if you ask me, but beauty is not what I was talking about. Who did I forget? Remind me, please...
Television
I seldom watch tv. When I do, it is usually the news on BBC World.
Books
I love books, but I don't know why... I just never get down to reading any. Christmas gift books are piling up. 'The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy' by Douglas Adams, 'The High Price of Materialism' and You Shall Know Our Velocity are some of those I'd love to read, when some day eventually I find myself on a sunny beach and with all the time in world.
Another one on the list is 'How To Be Idle'
About me: I regard myself as a human being who likes to play and dream. Or dream and play.
As simple as that.
(More about my 'professional dreamer' activities on
dreamer.dk.)
About my music
I primarily make music together with a good friend, Torsten. We have formed a duo we call Travelog. The music playing on this profile-page is a Travelog-song which
I produced. My sister Pernilla sings the vocals together with Tchando Embalo. You can hear more of this music on myspace.com/songsthatdream and myspace.com/travelog.
Visual memories
- from a wonderful musical journey to the 'Arctic Paradise Live' festival in Finland in April 2008:
About my family
Here's a little video of my family - Matt, Alex and Deb - at the dinner table in December 2007, when Matt was nine months old and Alex was almost two and a half years old:
My debut as an animation film director
Here's a little animation film we made when we were... I think we must have been around 11 or 12 years old then, in the middle of the 1970's. We 'filmed' with a Super8 camera, picture by picture, click, click...
More details about me
can be found on mikaidt.dk - in English, and (even more detailed) in Danish.
Who I'd like to meet: Travellers, thinkers, artists, authors, achievers, and people of all cultures with an open mind.
Work
I can probably claim to be that journalist in this world who has written the highest number of articles and produced the most hours of video about the topic music censorship. Here are some of the numerous small video interviews I produced for Freemuse since 2006:
hi mik, i have to apologize for my late comment: your music sounded very interesting to me - it's the way, how i understand music. i wish you a beautiful weekend. regarding this rainy summer (at least here in austria) i added my new music-video with shots from a tepee-fire: Herderberg - Share the Light with kind regards, sylvia
hi Mik many thanks for accepting request. hope you enjoy the sounds of Ireland's greatest lost band, GOATS DON'T SHAVE!! cheers steve GOATS DON'T SHAVE fan in UK
AUDITION er i Århus: lørdag 21. februar (Dansestudiet. dk, Bissensgade 14B) og København: søndag 22. februar (Rust, Guldbergsgade 8).
Begge dage er mødetiden kl. 12 -præcis!
Showet bliver lørdag 6. juni 2009 i Vega (København)
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Apparently you're quite a talented and busy guy. I have enjoyed the song with your sister very much, I'll check out her myspace too. Keep up the great work with Freemuse!
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MUSIKETHNOLOGISCHE HÖHENFLÜGE IN EINER POSTKOLONIALEN WELT
Ein Plädoyer für die Musikethnologie in der Schweiz / Thomas Burkhalter
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GLOBAL GHETTOTECH Fresh Musics from a post-colonial World / Camilo Rocha
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"GLOBALISTS“ SEEK PERIPHERAL SOUNDS
The New US-Ghettotech-Generation / Camilo Rocha
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HIDDEN TRUTHS Music, Politics and Censorship in Lukashenko’s Belarus' (Lemez Lovaz and Maya Medich
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GET STARTED, ROMANIA! Rumäniens neue Generation elektronischer Musiker / Norbert Lang
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I hope you are all doing fine where ever you are!!
Please check out my new song "Twinishye" together with Ashimba Dau, the most talented singer and songwriter I have met in Tanzania. I hope you like it, I do. More songs will come soon.
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