Nature
Art
Music
Cinema
Photography
Bass and Cello
Exploring the unknown
Darkness
Being alone
Thunderstorms
Snowfall
Autumn leaves
Animal lore
Plant lore
Ossuaries
Decay
The Hávamál
Desolate Beaches
The Kalevala
Shamanism
transcendentalism
Sharing a silent moment with a friend
Odinism
Languages
The smell of old books
Rune lore
Mythology
Folklore
Mead from a drinking horn.
History
Felines and goats
Briloner Waldgeister (Kräuterlikör)
Reading
Forgotten places and buildings
The smell of woodsmoke on a crisp morning
Traveling
Quantum Physics
Experiencing life to its fullest
Wine making
Gin & Tonics (thanks Jeff ;)
He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.~Tad Williams
Music
Agalloch Vindensång Bathory Thule (Norway prog) Dornenreich Beyond Dawn Negura Bunget Blut Aus Nord Lunar Aurora Alter of Plagues Deathspell Omega Fall of the Leafe The Iditarod Darvulia Funeral Mist Peste Noire Kroda Silencer (Swe) Bethlehem (old) Reverence Moonlit Vermillion Svanat Arvo Pärt
Hagalaz' Runedance Sculptured Nest In The Woods Ludicra Fauna
Satyricon Dysperium Vento Negro Windir In Gowan Ring Thurisaz Orplid Naglfar Nagelfar Krohm Menhir Tenhi Neun Welten Nothing Gruntsplatter The Waking Cold Waldteufel Sunn O))) Forseti Changes Die Verbannten Kinder Eva's Comus Xerxes Landberk Anekdoten Amon Duul II Noekk Algarnas Tradgard Anglagard Dark Sanctuary Diamanda Galas Angizia Dissection Venom (old)
Sol Negra Enslaved Poccolus Master's Hammer Thy Primordial Abigor (old) Ulver Gehenna (old only) Enslaved GYBE! Silver Mt. Zion O Paradis Swans This Empty Flow Einsturzende Neubauten Peter Murphy Seigmen Of the Wand and the Moon Blood Axis Steve Von Till Allerseelen Death in June Current 93 Fire and Ice Neun Welten Canaan Katatonia Primordial... Parnassus Burzum .Amorphis Autumn Blaze Decoryah Love History Boards of Canada Loreena McKennitt Throes of Dawn Darkthrone Graveland Forlorn Taake Falkenbach Drudkh Lik to name a few...
*Valley of the Bees, The White Dove, Adelheid (Frantisek Vlácil)
* Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov)
* Stalker, Nastalghia, the Sacrifice, the Mirror, My Name is Ivan (Andrei Tarkovsky)
*The Wicker Man ...Original!!..(Anthony Shaffer)
*The Man Without a Past, Juha, Drifting Clouds, Leningrad Cowboys, Take Care of Your Scaf Tatiana, The Match Factory Girl, Ariel, Calamari Union (Aki Kaurismaki)
*House of Fools (Andrei Konchalovsky)
*A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
*Forbidden Games (René Clément)
*The Seventh Seal, The Virgin Spring, Wild Strawberries, Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, The Silence,Cries and Whispers, etc(Ingmar Bergman)
*Faust, Little Otik (Jan Svankmajer)
*Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro)
*The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky)
*The Fall of the House of Usher (Jean Epstein & Luis Bunuel )
*Faust (F.W. Murnau's)
*Dead Man,Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Coffee and Cigarettes, Night on Earth, Mystery Train, Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch)
*Rivers and Tides, Touch the Sound (Andy Goldsworthy)
*Noi (Dagur Kari)
*Ratcatcher, Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay)
*Ordet (Carl Th. Dreyer)
*The Return (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
*Letters from a Dead Man (Konstantin Lopushansky)
*Fando and Lis, Santa Sangre (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
*Begotten (Elias Merhige)
*City of Lost Children, Delicatessen, Amelie (Marc Caro/Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
*Me You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July)
*Mother and Son, Russian Ark (Alexander Sukurov)
*Northfork, Twin Falls Idaho (Mark and Michael Polish)
*The ballad of Jack and Rose (Rebecca Miller)(don't let the name fool you, this is a devastating movie!))
*Suspiria (Dario Argento)
*Withnail and I ( Bruce Robinson ).
*Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring (Kim Ki-Duk)
David Lynch has his moments as well...
A few films that have shaped my life...
Bela Tarr - Werckmeister Harmonies
Jim Jarmusch - Dead Man
Andre Tarkovsky - Stalker
Lars Von Trier - Antichrist
A short by Jiri Barta - Balada
Andre Tarkovsky - The Mirror
Television
Not much. Dexter. Black Books. The history channel. TAPS. ...
For the most part I would much rather be watching the squirrels chase each other around the tree in the back yard.
I don't believe in omens or fear
Forebodings. I flee from neither slander
Nor from poison. Death does not exist.
Everyone's immortal. Everything is too.
No point in fearing death at seventeen,
Or seventy. There's only here and now, and light;
Neither death, nor darkness, exists.
We're all already on the seashore;
I'm one of those who'll be hauling in the nets
When a shoal of immortality swims by.
If you live in a house - the house will not fall.
I'll summon any of the centuries,
Then enter one and build a house in it.
That's why your children and your wives
Sit with me at one table,
The same for ancestor and grandson:
The future is being accomplished now,
If I raise my hand a little,
All five beams of light will stay with you.
Each day I used my collar bones
For shoring up the past, as though with timber,
I measured time with geodetic chains
And marched across it, as though it were the Urals.
I tailored the age to fit me.
We walked to the south, raising dust above the steppe;
The tall weeds fumed; the grasshopper danced,
Touching its antenna to the horse-shoes - and it prophesied,
Threatening me with destruction, like a monk.
I strapped my fate to the saddle;
And even now, in these coming times,
I stand up in the stirrups like a child.
I'm satisfied with deathlessness,
For my blood to flow from age to age.
Yet for a corner whose warmth I could rely on
I'd willingly have given all my life,
Whenever her flying needle
Tugged me, like a thread, around the globe.
-Arseny Tarkovsky
Books
"Altogether, I think we ought to read only books
that bite and sting us. If the book does not shake us awake
like a blow to the skull, why bother reading it in the first place?
So that it can make us happy, as you put it? Good God, we'd
be just as happy if we had no books at all; books that make
us happy we could, in a pinch, also write ourselves. What we need are books that hit us like a most painful
misfortune, like the death of someone we loved more than
ourselves, that make us feel as though we had been banished
to the woods, far from any human presence, like a suicide.
A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
That is what I believe.”...
Franz Kafka, January 27, 1904
Heroes
Those who live life on their own terms, regardless of how the world may view them.
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Henry David Thoreau
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Blurbs
About me:
I am a photographer and Artist now living in the Pacific Northwest. A recluse by nature I prefer having a few close friends as opposed to an
entourage of acquaintances.
I find fascination and beauty in the decay of
abandoned buildings and areas that are being reclaimed by nature and will always
seek them out to explore and photograph.
For me there is nothing quite like the sound of thunder, exploring forests and
woods, crickets, cloudy desolate beaches and the still silence that comes with
snowfall.
I am greatly interested in the study of certain cultures, ( Romanian,
Eastern European/Slavic, German, Native American and Scandinavian), their
history, music, myths and
folklore.
"There is pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes,
By the deep sea and the music in its roar;
I love not man the less, but Nature more." — Lord Byron
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." —
Henry David Thoreau
Hey!Thanks for the add. I found you on Agalloch's page and check out some of your stuff. I really really like it;It's just....beautiful. One of the most interesting projects i've ever seen ;)
Thank you very much, yep, the weather is way better as in your part of the world (sunny, 12deg. cent.). Hope you wont get any trouble with breaking trees!! I hope you and John are fine (KiKi and I are...), greetings from KiKi as well..take care and best regards from sunny Antfeld!! A+K
Thank you very much for commenting the pics Veleda, I'm really glad you like them! I suggest you to visit Trentino and South Tyrol if you can, their lands are absolutely gorgeous in my opinion, I was speechless in front of such beauty
Der individuelle Wille, der zugleich ichhaft und zerstreut ist muss umgewandelt werden in den allheitlichen Willen, der konzentrisch ist und das Irdisch - Menschliche übersteigt. (Frithjof Schuon)
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HAGAL
Jan 5 2010 2:47 PM
Have an impressive 2010!
All the best
Lord Agheros
Jan 5 2010 3:37 AM
Jan 4 2010 6:46 AM
I found you on Agalloch's page and check out some of your stuff.
I really really like it;It's just....beautiful.
One of the most interesting projects i've ever seen ;)
Oh!Happy New Year btw.
Greetings from Mexico.
Dec 31 2009 10:58 PM
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Have a nice week, heils from Slovakia
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Thanks for the support we really appreciated it!!! Nature-Worship
Nov 26 2009 10:10 PM
Nov 24 2009 1:32 PM
greetings from Slovakia
by MM
Nov 22 2009 5:31 PM
Hope you wont get any trouble with breaking trees!!
I hope you and John are fine (KiKi and I are...), greetings from KiKi as well..take care and best regards from sunny Antfeld!!
A+K
Nov 18 2009 5:51 AM
Cultus.-
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thx for add...good luck
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New album out now!
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Nov 4 2009 8:37 PM
Your photography is very inspirational!
Take care...
Nov 4 2009 5:21 AM
I suggest you to visit Trentino and South Tyrol if you can, their lands are absolutely gorgeous in my opinion, I was speechless in front of such beauty
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Greetings from Slovakia
morr
Oct 7 2009 7:43 PM
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Skål!!!
Regin Herjar
Oct 7 2009 7:43 PM
thank you
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Skål!!!
Regin Herjar
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Best wishes, JENS
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Hope everyone has a safe a wonderful weekend
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May 24 2009 6:16 AM
Der individuelle Wille, der zugleich ichhaft und zerstreut
ist muss umgewandelt werden in den allheitlichen Willen,
der konzentrisch ist und das Irdisch - Menschliche übersteigt.
(Frithjof Schuon)
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