Nicander

General

Things I like: French chateaux, European medieval literature, Renaissance art, vampires, nature and animals (raptors, foxes, martens, sun bitterns, raccoon dogs, red pandas and lepidoptera {Megalopyge Opercularis} the most), to drink tea (white, black, oolong, rooibos, jasmine, dandelion, and ginkgo biloba) and coffee, to eat fresh fruit (kiwis, cherries, cherimoyas, grapefruits, star fruits, and blackcurrants the most). I play basketball and tennis, and like to swim, I also know how to play the piano and like to compose. I'm attempting to write a epic war poem, and I might be becoming an alcoholic. Video Games: Dwarf Fortress, The Legend of Zelda (I like Majora’s Mask and Twilight Princess the most), Nier Automata, Batman: Arkham, Dark Souls 1, Bioshock, Valkyrie Chronicles, No More Heroes, Final Fantasy X, The Witcher 3, Gal Gun 2, Professor Layton, Paper Mario, Terraria, Don’t Starve, Ratchet & Clank (II), Devil May Cry, Morrowind, Skyrim, Metal Gear Solid (V), Banjo-Tooie, Conker’s Bad Fur Day, Pokémon Soulsilver, Manhunter 2.

Music

Rockabilly, Surf Rock, Hard Rock, Goth Rock, Prog-Rock, Garage Punk, Post-Punk, Shoegaze, Indie Folk, Industrial, Japanoise, Thrash Metal, Death Metal, Black Metal, Classical Music (Early, Baroque, Contemporary), Jazz (Post-Bop, Free Jazz), Enka, Chanson Française (50s, 60s), Soul, RnB, Britpop, Electronic, Dance. Favourite Groups/Musicians/Composers: Rock: The Velvet Underground, Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention, The Beach Boys, Roxy Music, Uriah Heep, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC. Punk: The Stooges, Plasmatics, Dead Kennedys, Wire, Adolescents, Television, The Fall, Agent Orange, Bad Brains. Post-Punk, No Wave & Noise: Sonic Youth, Pylon, Fad Gadget, Joy Division, The Beatnigs, Killing Joke. Indie, Alternative & Shoegaze: My Bloody Valentine, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Broadcast, The Smashing Pumpkins, The White Stripes, Alice in Chains, Pulp, Suede. New Wave and Electronic: A-ha, Depeche Mode. Prog-Rock: Eloy, Camel, King Crimson, Museo Rosenbach. Metal: Judas Priest, Rainbow, Dio, Trouble, Thor, King Diamond, Halloween, Queensryche, Slayer, Darkthrone, Immortal, Bathory, Marduk, Gorgoroth, Morbid Angel, Painkiller, Naked City, Napalm Death, Cannibal Corpse. Jazz: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, Wayne Shorter, McCoy Tyner, Freddie Hubbard, Don Cherry, Ornette Coleman, Anthony Braxton, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Alan Silva, Sun Ra, Alexander von Schlippenbach. Classical: Andrea Antico, Antonio de Cabezón, J.J. Froberger, Giovanni Gabrieli, G.A. Pandolfi Mealli, G.B. Vitalli, Bonaventura Rubino, G.B. Ferrini, M.A. Charpentier, J.A. Benda, Dieterich Buxtehude, G.F. Handel, J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, F.J. Haydn, Leopold Koželuch, Johannes Brahms, Karol Lipinski, Julius Röntgen, Gustav Mahler, Anton Bruckner, Carl Nielsen, Dimitri Shostakovich, Charles Wuorinen, Elliott Carter, Benjamin Britten, P.M. Davies, H.W. Henze, K.S. Sorabji, Beat Furrer, Enno Poppe, Olga Neuwirth, Guy Reibel, Karlheinz Stockhausen. Favourite Operas: De Temporum Fine Comoedia – Carl Orff. Dialogues des Carmelites - Francis Poulenc.

Movies

Barabbas, Sucker Punch, American Psycho, The Hidden, Highlander, Zardoz, Rocky III, The Ruling Class, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, Diamonds are Forever, The Man with the Golden Gun, Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, The Living Daylight, Croupier, Synecdoche New York, The Lobster, Children of Men, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), The Truman Show, Inside Llewyn Davis, Mulholland Dr., Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, November, 99 Francs, Funny Games, The House That Jack Built, Melancholia, Leaving Las Vegas, Átame!, Last Tango on Paris, The Swimmer, Lawrence of Arabia, The Man Who Would Be King, Beau Travail, Watchmen, Laura Les Ombres de L’Eté, Dune: Part Two, The Night of the Hunter, The Phoenician Scheme, Pumping Iron, Fiume o Morte!, Somewhere in Time, Doctor Zhivago. Vampires, Horror & Exploitation: Daughters of Darkness, The Evil Dead, 呪怨, 鉄男, Vampire’s Kiss, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, Ebola Syndrome, The Thing, Saw (I, III, V, X), Rec (1, 2), 28 days later. Musicals: The Bells are Ringing, Top Hat, Funny Face, High Society, On the Town, An American in Paris, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Anime: パプリカ, 紅の豚, 風の谷のナウシカ, 吸血鬼 バンパイア ハンターD. More "Cute" Stuff: Submarine, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Moonrise Kingdom, The French Dispatch, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Harry Potter Saga, The Producers (1967), The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, Young Frankenstein, A Night at the Roxbury, There’s Something About Mary, Austin Powers International Man of Mystery, Scary Movie 2, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, The Venture Bros: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart, Meet the Robinsons, Bolt, The Iron Giant, Big Fat Liar, Stardust, Spy Kids, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Tropic Thunder, Madagascar 3: Europe’s most wanted, Cars 2, Shrek (2, 4), Yes Man, Arthur and the Minimoys, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Top Secret!. More "Artsy" Stuff: Na Srebrnym Globie, Восхождение, 砂の女, Marketa Lazarova, Possession, L'Avventura, Teorema, Cabiria, La Corona di Ferro, Viridiana, کلوزآپ ، نمای نزدیک, Valerie a Týden Divů, Welt am Draht, Lions Love (. . . and Lies), 愛のコリーダ, Triumph des Willens, Antichrist, Aguirre der Zorn Gottes, Mr. Freedom, Metropolis, Jud Süß.

Television

M – Il figlio del secolo, Miami Vice, The End of the F***ing World, Maniac, Severance, Utopia (UK), True Detective (Season 1), The Leftovers, Riget, Hannibal, Dexter, Police Squad! Documentary Now! Yes Minister. Cartoons: The Venture Bros, Adventure Time, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law. Anime: Berserk (1997).

Books

Political Science: For my Legionaries by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu. Novels: Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre. Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse. Niebla by Miguel de Unamuno.

Heroes

• Iturbide I. • Carlos V. • Corneliu Zelea Codreanu.

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