stalin, khrushjev and brezhnev are sitting on a train. suddenly the train stops.
stalin throws a tantrum and announces: "you know what? i'll go up front, shoot the damned traitor and you'll see: the next one will do better!"
"calm down, josip," says khrushjev, "no need to shoot anybody! the guy is probably terribly sorry and doing his best. trust me. i'll go up front, talk to the guy. you'll see, he'll calm down, recognize what went wrong and we'll be driving on in no time!"
"why so agitated?" asks brezhnev, "you know what? nobody needs to get up. we just close the curtains and _pretend_ we're driving!"

brezhnev i'm not.

creating video games.
injecting every bit of beauty in this world into my system.

designing video games.
taking anything i get pleasure from and calling it research (transforms me from "daydreamer" to "always-on artist" ;) ).
being happy with myself for doing something for which the above could not apply at the best of times.
explaining complicated stuff.
"wurstsuppe royal" (use debreziner instead of frankfurters, add fennel heart, spice with half the things in my kitchen. add fresh coriander!).

i'd like to know that too...

i don't do favorites in that regard.
"something cool i didn't know of yet" usually beats whatever the current favorite is.

here are some artists that never get old or wrong (for me, at least):

* seu jorge -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6l8zrsf4LY
* ella & louis -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIDOEsQL7lA
* bach -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU_QR_FTt3E
* melt banana -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ6Sk8Aj-SQ
(or live, with terrible audio, but you've just have to have seen those guys: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAug_UmsTgQ)
* and occasionally, only very occasionally, i get homesick for some traditional austrian music -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgLUbPEfwdk
(past rotations: rahsaan, miles davis)

* egger lienz -
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albin_Egger-Lienz-Nordfrankreich-1917.jpg
* riley -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/64092228@N00/6023438406/
* darrow -
http://imageshack.us/f/152/hardboiled24041.jpg/
* mignola -
http://cache.io9.com/assets/images/8/2008/04/medium_lobster_johnsonfighting.jpg/
* hokusai (go the museumsquartier while the exhibition is still running! amazingly beautiful stuff!) -
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XEc2h6xmEd0/Ta9yA4hrEuI/AAAAAAAAB14/KzO8H6-DT08/s1600/Hokusai.jpg

* tezuka -
http://www.lambiek.net/artists/image/t/tezuka/tezuka_osamu_ignis.jpg
* moore -
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nUuzRfboWcI/TJOyzY0gDOI/AAAAAAAAEm4/nbKQ-q5PQf8/s1600/Promethea.jpg
* morrison -
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DLkdxZ-YDpM/S7eiprE0WPI/AAAAAAAAA0I/ttPZlbHyW98/s1600/könny.jpg

* musil -
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Mann_ohne_Eigenschaften
* pynchon -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_the_Day
* bolano -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2666

* kurosawa -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMWsOyOHaaA
* leone -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEbHP-3EcLU
* to -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnqIC3IU3j8

* meier -
http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,3/
* gollop -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-COM:_UFO_Defense
* cave -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5_jPOaLGFM
* roberts -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eCLiVt3sIQ
* brathwaite -
http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,6264/

friends. everything else is negotiable.

wouldn't it be cool if...

i try to keep those atypical.

kind of beats the definition of "private", doesn't it?

...you feel like it.