User:Desdenova

Just some random guy.

This user is a member of the Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians. The motto of the AIW is conservata veritate, which translates to "with the preserved truth". This motto reflects the inclusionist desire to change Wikipedia only when no knowledge would be lost as a result.

Fields of interest (in no particular order):

•  Music

• •  Rock
    •  Toto, Foreigner, Asia, Bryan Adams (his earlier stuff, that is), David Bowie, U2, Oingo Boingo...

• •  Progressive rock
    •  Kansas, Van der Graaf Generator, Phideaux, Uriah Heep, Shadow Gallery, Pain of Salvation, Pink Floyd, Marillion, Rush, Queensrÿche, Radiohead, Muse, Supertramp, Styx, Dream Theater...

• •  Metal
    •  Blue Öyster Cult, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Sortilège (French band), Anathema...

• •  1980s pop and new wave
    •  Duran Duran, Nik Kershaw, Howard Jones, China Crisis, Japan, Billy Joel, Blancmange...

• •  French "chansons à textes" (ie. songs where the lyrics are more important, usually telling little stories and/or very poetic)
    •  Francis Cabrel, Alain Souchon, Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine, Gérard Manset, early Jean-Jacques Goldman, Jean-Louis Murat, Jean Guidoni...

•  Music videos
  •  some favorites: Nine Inch Nails' The Perfect Drug, KoRn's Freak on a Leash and the more recent Tribulations by LCD Soundsystem...

•  Science-Fiction
  •  favorite writers: Roger Zelazny, George R.R. Martin, Isaac Asimov, Steven Brust, Anne McCaffrey, Tad Williams, Patrick Rothfuss...

•  Film
  •  favorite directors: Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, Steven Spielberg, Ridley Scott, Roger Corman...

•  TV shows
  •  some recent shows I like: House of the Dragon, Foundation, Sandman, Game of Thrones...
  •  some older favorites: Prison Break, Battlestar Galactica, Lost, Veronica Mars, Desperate Housewives, Alias, Hill Street Blues, The Wild Wild West, Mission: Impossible, and so many many others... I'll add more later.

•  Comics
  •  some favorites include: Daredevil, the X-Men and the more recent Runaways, Y: The Last Man, etc.

•  Reading and writing
•  Computers, and in particular Linux and Mandrake

I will try to contribute what I can to the above mentioned fields.