Here's some keywords that may or may not sum up my life:
- Absolutely Fabulous
- Art
- Avant-garde metal
- Britcoms
- Disco
- Electro
- English
- English dialects
- Eurodance
- Folk metal
- Guitar
- Languages
- Literature
- MUSIC - Mythology
- Opera
- Pagan metal
- Progressive metal
- Randomness
- Rock
- Surrealism
- Vruchtenhagel (I'm tellin' ya, it's gay disco in a box)
Music
ABBA, Ace of Base, After Forever, Agalloch, Alanis Morissette, Alphabeat, Amy Winehouse, Angela Gheorghiu, The Animals, Apocalyptica, Arkona (Russia), Auf Der Maur, Ayreon, The B-52's, Behemoth, Beth Hart, Black Sabbath, Bloodbath, Daft Punk, David Guetta, Diablo Swing Orchestra, Diana Damrau, Dixie Chicks, Does It Offend You Yeah?, Doro, DragonForce, The Eagles, Eluveitie, Equilibrium, Eurythmics, Faithless, Falconer, Finntroll, Finsterforst, Flowing Tears, Frou Frou, Gabriella Cilmi, Garbage, Goldfrapp, Guano Apes, Hanzel und Gretyl, Heart, Hollenthon, Imperia, Judas Priest, Kalevala, Bob Katsionis, Keep of Kalessin, Korpiklaani, Kosheen, Kylie, Lady GaGa, Led Zeppelin, Lucia Popp, Madonna, Maria Callas, Maria Mena, Metallica, Moloko, Mozart, Nile, No Doubt, Oi Va Voi, Opeth, Otep, Placebo, Prodigy, Queen, Rhapsody, Rihanna, Róisín Murphy, Satyricon, Save Ferris, Sheryl Crow, Skunk Anansie, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Spice Girls, Stream Of Passion, Therion, Tool, Tori Amos, Tourettes, Trail of Tears, Vader, Vreid, Wagner, Windir
I listen to basically anything as long as it's interesting and made from the heart.
Bands seen live:
- 2Unlimited
- Adele
- After Forever (3x)
- Alphabeat
- Apocalyptica
- As In RebekkaMaria
- Ayreon
- Battlelore
- Beth Hart
- Delain
- Die Apokalyptischen Reiter
- Distorted
- Doro
- Draconian
- DragonForce
- The Dreamside
- Dylath-Leen
- Elis
- Epica
- Firewind
- Flowing Tears (2x)
- Gabriella Cilmi
- Grave Digger
- Growlin' Love & Pain
- Guano Apes
- Holy Moses
- Imperia (2x)
- Interria
- K's Choice
- K3
- Lacrimas Profundere
- Leaves' Eyes
- The Legion of Hetheria
- Maria Mena
- Morning
- Nemesea (2x)
- NovAct
- Novastar
- Oi Va Voi
- Prey
- Regicide
- Reincarnatus
- Sabaton
- Seraphim
- Superfly 69
- Therion
- Tingsek
- Tourettes
- Valkyre
- Wies
Movies
- 12 Monkeys
- Alien
- American Beauty
- Cube
- Dracula
- From Dusk Till Dawn
- The Hills Have Eyes
- Kill Bill
- Misery
- Pulp Fiction
- Resident Evil
- Se7en
- Serial Mom
- Silence of the Lambs
- Snatch
- The Exorcist
- Trainspotting
I'll watch anything when I'm bored. Even if it's Uwe Boll.
Television
All-time favorite: Absolutely Fabulous
- 30 Rock
- 3rd Rock from the Sun
- Bottom
- Desperate Housewives
- Dollhouse
- French & Saunders
- Gossip Girl
- Grey's Anatomy
- Heroes
- House M.D.
- Law & Order: SVU
- Little Britain
- Lost
- Never Mind the Buzzcocks
- Parks And Recreation
- QI
- Sex and the City
- Supernanny
- The Catherine Tate Show
- Ugly Betty
- United States of Tara
- Will & Grace
- X Files
I also like watching documentaries about random things. Animal Planet and National Geographic are favorite channels here.
Not that I watch that much telly... (hello, denial!)
One of the funniest French & Saunders sketches ever:
Books
I love reading. I don't read Dutch novels; I believe that Dutch as a language is very/too limited to express textual beauty. I read and have read LOADS of English novels, mainly because of my education, but also because I like to expand my ever-growing vocabulary.
Currently reading: Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveler's Wife and Lynne Truss - Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Favorite novels include:
- Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451 - M.E. Braddon - Lady Audley's Secret - Aldous Huxley - Brave New World - Ken Kesey - One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest - Thomas Kyd - The Spanish Tragedy - Wally Lamb - She's Come Undone - Toni Morrison - Beloved - George Orwell - 1984 - Patrick Süskind - Das Parfum - John Webster - The Duchess of Malfi
Yes, I am aware of the fact that The Spanish Tragedy and The Duchess Of Malfi are plays.
Worst book ever: Samuel Richardson's Pamela. Don't read it. Ever. Seriously.
Runner-up is Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative. Interesting, my derrière!
Heroes
- Ace of Base
- Bill Bailey
- Diana Damrau
- Johnny Depp
- Dawn French
- Jo Frost
- Kathy Griffin
- Phil Jupitus
- K3
- Helen Mirren
- Meryl Streep
About me: I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it.
My name is Nienke and I'm a music addict. So there you have it.
I live in some town in the north-east of The Netherlands. It's almost as boring as watching the 400th rerun of Oprah's Favorite Things in 1344BC, though you don't get anything for free around here. Yes, very sad. We do have some hawt local celebs walking around here besides me, though. Infamous duo Lucas & Gea, for instance (Google or YouTube them if you're like 'huh?'). Goth, I wish I could learn some of their dance moves...
To pass the oceans of free time I currently possess, I play the guitar. Electric. Classically trained. I've been playing for four years now and still I'm crap. Yay me! I also write music and I'm slightly better at that. Not much though, but who cares? Check my music MySpaz for gay disco explosions of the Oprah-kind.
I love British comedy. Absolutely Fabulous is my all-time favorite, closely followed by Little Britain and Bottom. These series have expanded my vocabulary to the size of Oprah's hairdo back in the early nineties. I can't really say this expansion has been beneficial to me as a person because, boy/girl/tranny/alien/whatever, do I know some naughty words... I also like stand-up and improv comedy. Well, unless it's crap, then I don't like it.
I believe that Ace of Base are the pioneers of death metal just because that band is totally gay disco on a stick. They deserve to be reunited on the Oprah show. Yes, I have an Oprah-show obsession. No idea why; if you know the answer, drop me a line and I might send you some cookies. I don't even like her that much, really. I'm insane, can't help it.
I guess I don't have to mention I like to ramble about random things, oder? :P
I blame my education for my borderline shy/wildness, insomnia, and schizophrenic vocabulary expansions. Yes, I confess: I am a student of English.
I've studied English for 5 years and I graduated for my BA in 2007 (16/17th-century revenge plays; John Webster and Thomas Kyd). I graduated for my MA in February 2009 -no idea how because writing that damn thesis (modern English lit; individuality in totalitarian states; Aldous Huxley and Kazuo Ishiguro) was worse than having to listen to Céline Dion songs on a loop for more than two weeks.
From the start of October I will begin a six-month internship at SDL in Sheffield as a Dutch translator. That's all there is to say about jobs, really.
Anyway, enough with the boring crap. Just remember this: what can't be said, can't be said, and it can't be whistled either.
I'm also on Twitter since very recently. I have no idea why because my life is kind of boring at the moment, but whatever... Here goes: @Nienerhausen
Last.fm rocks my socks:
Who I'd like to meet: Interesting people. Non-interesting people. You. Or maybe not... who cares?
Note: if you're looking for free advertising for your crappy bands, don't come a-knockin'. I'm V selective and will only add you if you passed the pink test. Ha!
I love collecting spam in my comments, so please, go ahead and make my day!
Cheers my friend. Just passing to wish you a great day. Sharing a cold one with your friends is some of the most fun you can have with you pants on !!! "Fear no beer" and always, Rock Hard... Timo kaarkoski - Temple of Sin
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have a rockin weekend my friend!! let us all pray to The Almighty God, may He will protect us all from the H1N1 virus... and lets pray for those who got infected already, may they all will recover soon... please God, help us all...
hey there Nienke... thanks so much for your friendship... looking forward to have a long chat with you someday... take care and thanks again Nienke... u rock!!
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