Good morning ... I'm just another nameless Weyland-Yutani redshirt, 32 years old and many would probably describe me as truly insane!
Besides Alien & Predator I also have a specific love for the classical sci-fi tokusatsu works of the Toho studios (Godzilla, Mothra, The Mysterians ... anyone? Toho also produced a majority of Akira Kurosawa's master works btw - sure, you can bet that the great and artistically accurate samurai-style fight between Hanzo and the Predator in Predators really gave me chills
) and I'm a real enthusiast of practical man-made special effects work (you know: good 'ol stuff like miniatures, suitmation, animatronics, pyro tech and such) - that's maybe one of the main reasons, why I also love the Alien and Predator films so much ... they even today still follow that wonderful tradition what was started off by great craftsmen like Stan Winston, Albert Nozaki, Willis O'Brien and Eiji Tsuburaya!
And furthermore I'm a collector of various soundtracks - Well, you can expect, that names like Horner, Goldsmith or Silvestri rank very high in my personal record (along with more obscure names, such as Ifukube, Sato or Morricone) ...
As for music, I'm also a huge fan of several electronic music artists and bands, mostly settled in the genres EBM, electro industrial and future pop (such as VNV Nation, Funker Vogt, Apoptygma Berzerk - little nerd knowledge: their track "Bitch" was heavily inspired by ... you know what
- furthermore KiEw, Feindflug, Wumpscut - that guy who uses our beloved WY corporation logo as his project sign - and so on ... and, of course, the german Grampas: Kraftwerk!
) and if that's not enough, I'm involved in my own music project of that kind (for more information, just visit my profile, there's a link for the curious people
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So far about me ... signing off ...