Hi There. My name is Winfried. I'm a young bisexual guy from Oostvoorne, the Netherlands. I know there's other Dutch people on here, so I'm not sure why I'm typing this in English. Maybe it's because everything else is.

Anyway, I'm a rather quiet, not all that outgoing person. Which is also part of my nickname (LIKE THAT PAUL SIMON SONG SILENT EYES, BUT WITH FRIES, WHICH IS ALMOST PART OF MY FIRST NAME GET IT? aren't I clever). I don't like big parties, loud music or just great numbers of people. Maybe it's shyness, maybe it's being an introvert, or perhaps it's just general misanthropy. I don't think it's that last one though. I like people. Just not when there's so many of them.

When I go running I put on some mad beats by Tchaikovsky. Fool knows how to keep a steady rythm going, and I can't even spell rhythm right without checking first.

Recently I quit University after realizing Philosophy isn't really right for me after all. Currently I'm brushing up on Physics, so that hopefully I can go back to school next september to study Engineering. While I'm doing that I'm also working a minimum-wage job at a local restaurant. A few months ago I started clay modelling in my spare time. It's soothing, if a bit messy at times.

sleeping in. I can do that for hours

Oscar Wilde is a pretty great author. Philip K. Dick as well, even though I'm not all that into sci-fi. My favourite book of all time is probably The Count of Monte Cristo. Or maybe it's Catch-22.

There's also a few comics that I really like. This started mainly by accident when I typed "what the hell is Dada anyway?" into Google, and I came upon this GeoCities Doom Patrol fansite. After I read, and enjoyed those stories, I also picked up a copy of Batman: Arkham Asylum when I found out Grant Morrison was involved with that too. This is all really odd, because superheroes normally don't interest me at all.

I haven't seen that many movies from the past...decade. I did enjoy the Lord of the Rings adaptations, but not as much as I enjoyed Casablanca, Snatch, Trainspotting and Magnolia.

There's this SyFy original show called Haven. It's pretty good. I'm usually not that into comic books, but for some reason the show Arrow tickles my fancy. It's probably shirtless lead actor guy. Then there's Game of Thrones, Downton Abbey and that other one with that one guy from the thing.

I used to say I like everything but Country&Western. But as I started to appreciate the pain that's in every country song more and more, I've started disliking a lot of other music. Now I usually keep to the Classical and Romantic periods, Jazz and Blues. Oh, and sometimes I'll put on some Ratatat. Or Modest Mouse. And also Nick Cave. And Brant Bjork.

I like food. That's a simple way to put it. I love to eat, even though I get full quite easily. I love to cook too, but I still have a fair bit to learn. Excuse me for tootin' my own horn, but I do make a mean pizza, though.

1) My vital organs (well there's more than one, but let's group them together).

2) Music. If there was no music the world would be an ugly place.

3) Books. The weight of them in your hands. The subtle cracks and creases in the spine that show which pages have the good parts. The smell when you first open one after sitting on a shelf for a while. And of course, the nearly infinite possible combinations of letters and empty spaces that can lead you to worlds that never existed and show you the secrets of the one we know does exist. What's not to love about them?

4) This is getting hard. Am I that boring, or just more of a Stoic than I realized?

5) Food and water. Possibly shelter. Maybe some clothes too.

6) Some way to vent this impotent, but very strong, creative urge. If there's no paper to befoul with my incoherent scribblings or no clay to shape into what might - in the right light - look like a thing, I would probably go mad.

Lately I get worried if I'm a dick for enjoying the artistic and philosophical works of the so-called greats who were also kind of huge assholes, like for instance a Wagner or a Heidegger. How much do their tremendously upsetting political views influence their creative output, and should I actually care about that? If this is beauty, and this particular beauty is informed by antisemitism and authoritarianism, does that redeem those views? Does it diminish the severity of how terribly terribly wrong those views are? That wouldn't be cool. Not at all. No sir.

I've also started reading the Bible recently. Although it has some nice stories about the Jeez, I can't get over this one simple, yet fundamental question: "What the hell was Abraham thinking?" Seriously, that shit's fucked up.

Probably at home, watching a movie, or pretending to be a real sculptor, or engrossed in some book. I don't enjoy bars & clubs terribly much. Too much noise. Too many people in a too small space. But if a band I really like is playing a show those things suddenly don't matter anymore.

I don't know much of anything about art.

you want.