![]() Name: Michael Nationality: American (of French and German descent) Place of Birth: Cambridge, MA, USA Date of Birth: February 16, 1990 Education: BA in History and American Studies Location: Dublin, Ireland (Since November 2012) Languages Spoken: American English (Mother language), French (C1 Level), German (C1), Italian (B2), Spanish (B1), Russian (Starting) Welcome, wilkommen. The very first thing people get to know about me is that I have a wide collection of interests. Friends usually come to look at my room coming out with puzzled faces wondering about what the hell is one or another thing, where the hell on earth could I have got that, how and why, but let's get briefly through it. Main interests: Writing: ça va sens dire. My author's influences for fiction are pulp novelists like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, adventure writers like Clive Cussler, war writers like Sven Hassel, western-themed like Cormac McCarthy.Reading:After the already named fiction authors I enjoy reading Detective Fiction classics like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, fantasy like J.R.R. Tolkien or the more commercial George R. R. Martin, the last works of Stephen King, classics like E. A. Poe and H. P. Lovecraft, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, non-fiction like works of philosophy, history, archeology and literary critics.Music:It depends on the mood, I can shift from Jazz to Blues, from Elvis to Led Zeppelin and beyond. If Beethoven told Tchaikovskij the news, it should have been that Manowar tributed Nessun Dorma to Opera buffs.Movies: I don't have a favorite genre, I'm quite elastic, it depends on the story. I loved westerns and adventure as a kid, John Ford and Indiana Jones made many of my saturday afternoons. I was more on crime and war movies in my teens, Clint Eastwood's 'Dirty' Harry Callahan should have carried out the investigations in 'The Night of the Generals'. Historical movies were important in my growth as much as Star Trek, even if I think even Lawrence of Arabia would have been scared watching The Invasion of the Body-Snatchers. Not to forget I'm a non-US movies aficionado, I think Kurosawa-san would have kicked most of today's director's asses. TV Shows:HBO shows are the only reason why I'm still a subscriber. Historical ones like Band of Brothers (Lots of then-great actors), The Pacific, Rome, The Boardwalk Empire, Deadwood, The Sopranos is the definitive mafia, The Wire is THE crime show, fantasies like Carnivàle and Game of Thrones made me skipping a few hours sleeping, nothing compared to what I lost watching Twin Peaks. Picard over Kirk, Eleven over Ten and I still wonder if Sam Beckett will ever leap back home.Video Games: In Sam Fuller's own words: "What is the hook? It's the STORY. S-T-O-R-Y." Any game with a decent storyline worths the hours you lose on it, but Metal Gear saga is more than a simple game. Total War is good for brain. Sports:I'm a Bostonian for life. Don't dare spit out a single word about Yankees or Lakers, you might get an arrow to the knee. So, I'm a proud Red Sox, Celtics, Patriots and Bruins fan. Soccer (football for non-Americans) is a gentlemen's game played by hooligans, rugby is pretty the other way round. FC Bayern is not a team, it's family pride as well as Man U.Other activities:Historical reenactor, licensed warhawk pilot, damn the time for not allowing me to practice martial arts, riding bikes or taking everything seriously, apart from being an avid collector. |
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