Name: El. Also known around the net as Elf, Bloodfax, Ellie-chan and a bunch of other strange names.

Sign: Virgo

Element: Earth

Planet: Mercury

Tarot card: Hermit

 

A number of rather crappy pictures (also not particularly new ones, either):

On the Brooklyn Bridge

On Broadway

With the view of Manhattan

Another Manhattan view

 

 

 

 

 

Some vital stuff:

Born in: Ukraine

Grew up in: Moscow, Russia

Usually live in: Toronto, Canada

Now live in: Miyoshi-cho, Tokushima-ken, Shikoku, Japan

Formative experience: immigration.

Best adventure: Visit to Spain in 1997.

Emotional rescue: music at full blast.

Best single word to describe myself:  mentally pained

Below is some of the stuff I like. I cannot, however, paint the entire picture, because it is too fluid and sometimes invisible even to me. I could never figure out what things exactly I like, as I tend to be more in the gray area and be rather flexible. My preferences are difficult to define, which actually bugs a lot of people. 

Books: Master and Margarita, by M. Bulgakov. This has been on my favs list forever. Actually, pretty much anything by Bulgakov is excellent, but this certainly tops the list. 

Music: classical, rock. My musical interests are pretty hard to define, they are very flexible and fluent. These two categories simply stand out most. More specifically: Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Grieg, Liszt. Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Four Star Mary, Voskresenie.... etc etc etc.