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uriel ===== Ego --- "*The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. All progress, therefore, depends upon the unreasonable man.*" -- George Bernard Shaw **Name:** uriel **Gender:** male **Location:** Djursholm - Stockholm - Sweden **Children:** no **Religion:** - **Smoking / Drinking:** no / no **Living:** alone **Hometown:** somewhere far away. **Nationality:** Citizen of the Universe. **Qualities:** Good taste, critical thinking, high standards, passion. **Passions:** Freedom, art, style, aesthetics, philosophy, biology, psychology, economics, and all other mysteries of life. Actions ------- "*The chill of the wind in my face pulls tears of joy from my eyes, dawn illuminates and brings life to the earth under my feet while the stars still stare to remind me of my dreams. I am one with reality, I'm the edge of fate's sword cutting the shapes of the future in the dark cloth of the universe.*" -- uriel **Traveling:** Tierra del Fuego, Norrland (Sweden), Berlin, Japan, Antarctica, other planets. **Sports:** Swimming, hiking, tennis, biking, chess. **Eating:** Japanese food, korean food, ... kimchi ramen! Interests --------- ### Art and philosophy "*Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures!*" -- Alex DeLarge **Music:** Einstürzende Neubauten, Jérôme Attal, Shinvi, NIN, F. Zappa, X Japan, Primal Scream, TSP, BV3k, Kraftwerk, Tori Amos, Jeff Buckley, Piano Magic, Bob Log III, hide, Aviador Dro, David Bowie, Anna Ternheim, Lars Hollmer, Zbigniew Preisner, Yoko Kanno, First Floor Power, Prodigy, Plastilina Mosh, Pink Floyd, Bach, and almost anything for piano. **Films:** Trois couleurs: Bleu, A Clockwork Orange, となりのトトロ(Tonari no Totoro), Cube, O Lucky Man!, どですかでん(Dodesukaden), Monty Python and the Holy Grail, His Girl Friday, おたくのビデオ(Otaku no Video), E la nave va. **Tv:** Fawlty Towers, Dr.Slump, Absolutely Fabulous. **Directors:** Stanley Kubrick, Hayao Miyazaki, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, Jim Jarmusch, Krzysztof Kieslowski. **Actors:** Malcolm McDowell, John Cleese, Toshiro Mifune, Gunnar Björnstrand, Cary Grant, Diane Keaton, Juliette Binoche and Irène Jacob. **Books:** Le Petit Prince, Die Unendliche Geschichte, The Hobbit, Neuromancer, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, L'Étranger, The Elements of Style. **Writers:** P. G. Wodehouse, Jack Vance, Philip K. Dick, William Gibson, Brian Kernighan, Franz Kafka, Albert Camus. **Painters:** Yoshitaka Amano, Maurits Cornelis Escher. **Philosophers:** Diogenes of Sinope, Friedrich Nietzsche, Baruch Spinoza. ### Science "*The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.*" -- Richard Feynman **Scientists:** Richard Feynman, Milton Friedman, Ken Thompson. Work ---- **Occupation:** philosopher and entrepreneur.