I came to this world in a very tempestuous time – destructive, yet sympathetic psychedelia-reigned period. Vietnam War was just about to enter annals of history, Viking 1 landed on Mars and Czechoslovakia won 5-3 in the football finals against West Germany…
I was born in Posavina, a province in the northern Bosnia, and I lived there until April 1992. Due to Serbian aggression on my home country (and a civil war that followed) I live now in Kingdom of Denmark.
My native tongue is Bosnian, but I started this online scribbling in English since I have friends and readers all over the world. However, as the description of the site suggests, I am also writing in Bosnian and Danish, so this blog has become more of a trilingual attempt. However, I feel the urge to write more often in Bosnian. I don’t know exactly why; probably because I want to practice my native tongue. Believe me, when residing in a foreign country, native words have a tendency to disappear from one’s vocabulary.
My interests range from literature, history, philosophy, graphic design and art in general to (real) football, films, food and music. I am a pleasure monger who also happens to be a writer, poet, gourmand, sybarite and bon vivant.
Someone who knows me would most likely describe me as: patient, insightful, interested in innovativeness & knowledge, respectful, content-oriented, responsible, analytical, loyal.
If you want to contact me, you can email me: derion1 at gmail com.
Literature
I respect writers: Fernando Savater, Fyodor M. Dostoevsky, Ivo Andrić, Lord Byron, Musa Ćazim Ćatić, Meša Selimović and Erich Fromm. I am actually trying to make a list of books I read.
Cinematography
My favorite movies are What Dreams May Come, Big Lebowski, Annie Hall, Amelie, Magnolia, American Beauty and Match Point. As you can see, I am quite fond of independent, European and Coen brothers movies. You can also take a look at my movie ratings.
Musical directions
Regarding music I listen mostly to progressive metal and bands like Dream Theater, Pain Of Salvation and Andromeda, but when I want to sharpen my hearing senses or just relax I turn to Mozart, Bach and Beethoven. If of any public interest, my poorly updated CD collection is accessible. Here’s my most recent last.fm playlist:
On life
I am not one of those people who think it’s the coincidence that we live our lives. Au contraire, I think we are born to achieve certain goals. Right now I believe that some of the most important goals in our lives are learning the values of LOVE, KNOWLEDGE and RESPECT.
Fortuitous facts
- Fortuitous means “…is applied to what occurs without any known cause
- I am happily married to my beloved A. We run together after our little snowflake H.
- My sporadic writings on various subjects can be found here
- I published my first book of poetry called Pathétique in 2006. Currently working on a short stories book.
- When I was a kid my uncle called me his “Yesenin“. I guess that is one of main reasons why I became interested in literature.
- I loathe (aggressive) nationalism, jingoism and conformism.
- I really enjoy watching (good) movies, and I tend to rate them from 1 to 5 stars.
- I also enjoy reading good books.
- I like driving cars without all those fancy gadgets. God, I miss my Škoda Favorit from ‘94!!
- I am occasionally publishing my photos on 23hq.com. Not as polished as Flickr, but their service is much more flexible and less restrictive.
- I am in a slow, yet constant process of organizing some interesting links at my del.icio.us account.
- I read daily newspapers, well… on a daily basis. It’s either Politiken, Information, Oslobođenje, Metro or Nyhedsavisen.
- For more random facts on me, take a look at my “100 things”.
Websites and blogs I visit
Amila Bosnae, Arts & Letters, Booksa, Design Observer, Filmski, Free Metal Albums, Futility Closet, Humanisme, Ironic Sans, Kottke, Metafilter, Miris Bregave, Nocturno Minds, Pepeo, Send A Picture, TBDR, Distrowatch.com, Damn Interesting, Futility Closet, newz.dk and politiken.dk.
Colophon
I use rock-solid WordPress backed by several plugins (Akismet, WP Paged Comments, Post Teaser, Force Word Wrapping, Wordcount, Smart Archives, WP Automatic Upgrade). The theme used on the website is Mistylook.
The site is hosted at Unoeuro. For uploading I am using FileZilla, for image manipulations Photoshop and Picasa.
