If you want to know more about me

A small questionnaire: (almost de Proust)

Real names:Marta Elzbieta (Elizabeth)


Me at the Gershwin hotel, New York City, September 2003

Year of birth:1981

Nationality:Polish

Home town: Warsaw


This is my grandfather, who I knew little, cos he died when I was about 3, but whom I admire a lot and just look how cool he was with kids back in 1951!!! He was a professional photographer, and head of some really important military photo lab back in the day. :))

Current occupation:student of Applied Linguistics (English and French) at Warsaw University in Warsaw, Poland

Claim to fame:featured in the documentary film about the Polish band Cool Kids of Death, awarded at the 44th Cracow Film Festival in June 2004;
Cool Kids of Death
Cracow Film Festival


VU fan

Favourite type of music: classic rock, alternative
Favourite band: the Velvet Underground
Favourite poets: 1. Lou Reed, 2. Allen Ginsberg, 3. Edward Stachura (a Polish guy)
Favourite drink: Bailey's and most other whisky cream things
Favourite food: Oh, many, but strictly vegetarian, ... ok, I sometimes eat fish, too. Rice with vegetables, pancakes, spaghetti, pizza, cheese...
Favourite word:underground
Favourite movies: Andy Warhol's Chelsea Girls, Vinyl, Easy Rider, Blow-Up, Velvet Goldmine, Taxi Driver,
My department at the university applied linguistics, English and French
Best mode of expression: poetry
My current state of mind: "like a summer rose..."

What I appreciate in friends: tolerance, easygoingness, when they like to have fun and at least try to understand,
Who I'd like to be, if I weren't who I am: myself. But I'm kinda like

Yes, Anita Pallenberg, Stones' goddess and muse. Stronger than all of them guys combined!

My favourite literature caracters: Jim and Jane, Chuck, Lady Godiva, Angel, Waldo Jeffers, (...) Dean Moriarty, ...
What I can't stand: intolerance, pop teeny stars and their music, living here in Warsaw, Wladimir Putin and all Russian generals...

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My record collection

(without the bootlegs, MCs recorded from the radio and other non-disc recordings):

It doesn't reveal my contemporary favourites very much, since I only listen to a few of these regularly (mainly VU, Lou, Manfred Mann and the Stones)

(These are all CDs unless otherwise stated)

Order:

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