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Dear fellow Wikipedians,
Having studied English and American Literature (MA cum laude, 1988) along with Comparative Literature (French and Russian) at the University of Amsterdam and Exeter University, I joined Voluntary Service Overseas and was posted to Indonesia, where I've been working as an English Lecturer/Teacher Trainer and trilingual translator for almost a decade. I've contributed to Wikipedia entries in English (Meher Baba, AmLit, American crooners) and Dutch (Meher Baba, Hafiz, pop music, notorious corsairs) and look forward to writing longer articles. I live in Bandung, Indonesia with my Javanese wife Widiyastutik and two children, Bella and Alex. I teach TOEFL Preparation and Conversation for International Relations classes at Parahyangan Catholic University. There's still work to be done, for no Floridian mums have been spotted saying, "Help! My son the Wikipedian is drowning...". Don't Worry, Be Happy!
A LIST OF FAVES
(I have contributed to English and/or Dutch Wiki-articles on the marked (@) artists below)
POP SONGS:[in no particular order] Evergreen: Life Is Just A Bowl of Cherries (Rudy Vallee@)
- Great Balls of Fire (Jerry Lee Lewis)
- Heartbreak Hotel (Elvis Presley@)
- Twenty Flight Rock (Eddie Cochran)
- Travelin' Man (Ricky Nelson)
- I'm Gonna Be Strong (Gene Pitney@)
- I Can Hear Music (The Beach Boys)
- Monkey On Your Back (The Outsiders@)
- The Wind Cries Mary (Jimi Hendrix)
- Celluloid Heroes (The Kinks@)
- White Room (Cream)
- Something in the Air (Thunderclap Newman)
- Five Years (David Bowie@)
- Sea and Sand (The Who@)
- Something for the Girl with Everything (Sparks@)
- You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet (Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
- Mandolin Wind (Rod Stewart)
- Sweet Jane (Lou Reed)
- So You Win Again (Hot Chocolate)
- Who Will Be My Friend? (Andy Pratt@)
- Lonesome Day Blues (Bob Dylan)
MOVIES:
- Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog)
- Modern Times (Charles Chaplin)
- 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini)
NOVELS:
- Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)
- Miss Lonelyhearts (Nathanael West@)
- The Erl-King (Michel Tournier)
- Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (Robert Musil)
- London Fields (Martin Amis@)
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This user is a big fan of the comedian Peter Cook. |