Name: Haraldur.

Ethnicity: I am half English (mother) and half Icelandic (father). I have citizenship in both the UK and Iceland.

Languages:

Fluent: English

Mostly Forgotten: Icelandic, German, Latin, Classical Greek (Attic)

Want to learn, but don't have the will: Finnish, German (re-learn), Icelandic (re-learn), Japanese, Polish, Russian, Spanish

Age: 20 as of 12/05/2008

Interests/obsessions:

Major: Politics (see list of dead (majority: bearded) white men for details), Computers, Anime, History, Russian Rock

Other: Linguistics, Russia, Natural Sciences

People I admire:

Ideologically (approximately descending order): Nestor Ivanovich Makhno (Нестор Иванович Махно), Buenaventura Durruti, Peter (Pyotr) Alexeyevich Kropotkin (Пётр Алексеевич Кропоткин), Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (Михаил Александрович Бакунин), Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Howard Scott

Scientists: Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Norman Borlaug, Linus Pauling

GNU/Linux/anti-copyright/file-sharing/free software: Linus Torvalds and Richard M. Stallman

Musicians: Viktor RobertovichTsoi (Виктор Робертович Цой)

Favourite books:

Peter Kropotkin: Mutual Aid: A factor of Evolution

George Orwell: Homage to Catalonia, Animal Farm, Nineteen-Eighty-Four

Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice

Terry Pratchett: the Discworld series

J.R.R. Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings and Dune (Frank Herbert).

Music: I generally like rock, ska, punk etc... and Russian Rock!

Russian(/former USSR) bands I like: Кино (Kino/Cinema, composer/singer: Viktor Tsoi), Пикник (Piknik/Picnic), Земфира (Zemfira/?), Монгол Шуудан (Mongol Shuudan/Mongol Postal Service (Yes!!))

Russian songs: Полюшко Поле (Polyushko Pole/(something about a field?))

Кино songs: Группа Крови, Филмы, Кукушка, Видели Ночь, Алюминиевые Огурцы, Камчатка, Сказка, Звезда По Имени Солнце (youtube should have them all, if anyone is interested)

Пикник songs: Иерогдиф, Вертолёт, Великан, Настиашые Дни, Смутние Лни, Интересно, У Шамана Три Руки, Дай Себя Сорвать

Монгол Шуудан songs: Черная Шаль, Москва, Далняя Дорога

Other bands I like include: Ska-P, Banda Bassotti, Dead Kennedys, No Respect, Scrapy, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tom Lehrer etc..

Other songs: The Internationale, Bandiera Rossa (especially the versions by KUD Idijoti, Big Foot Mama, Die Commandantes and Arja Saijonmaa), El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido (especially the versions by Quilapayun and Banda Bassotti), Ay Carmela (especially the Los Muertos de Cristo version), Si Me Quieres Escribir, A Las Barricadas, Bella Ciao, Polyushko Pole (especially Origa and Banda Bassotti versions), Die Moorsoldaten (Hannes Wader's version), Mestizaje (Ska-P), Ghosts of Cable Street (The Men They Couldn't Hang), Could Care Less (No Respect), How Much Longer (No Respect), Die Arbeitsloser Marsch (Banda Bassotti), I Fought the Law, and I Won! (Dead Kennedys), Kill the Poor (Dead Kennedys).

Favourite Anime/Manga: Naruto, Last Exile, Full Metal Alchemist, Elfen Lied, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Trigun, Haibane Renmei, Blood, Lucky Star and Princess Mononoke. I would also say Welcome to the N.H.K, though to be honest it was a bit too close to the bone.

Favourite Films: Land and Freedom, Libertarias, Stalingrad, Nineteen-Eighty-Four, Taxi Driver, Full Metal Jacket, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Monty Python's Life of Brian, The God Who Wasn't There, LotR trilogy, Citizen Kane and The Third Man.

Favourite TV shows: Yes, Minister, Yes, Prime Minister, Blackadder, House of Cards, Porridge, Not the Nine O'Clock News, Newsnight.

My opinion on who deserves the title of "The Most Evil Man in History": Leopold II of Belgium. Seriously. Look up "Congo Free State". 10 million dead, out of a population of perhaps 20 million, just for the rubber trade. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4748355130635434378&hl=en