Musician. Composer. Founder and Leader of the group-THE NOISE OF TIME. Member of FIGS, solo performer, Drum and percussion Teacher. Teacher of English as a foreign language. Oral examiner., PLEASE SEE OUR VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE!!! Where the sound and vision are more or less together!!!

Music! (not really an interest;simply my life). Literature. Poetry. Psychology. History. International Relations. Cooking. Food and Drink. Nature. Wildlife. Travelling

The insessant singing of the deep forest silence. Mountain steams. My, our music. J.S.Bach. Bela Bartok. Stravinsky. Georgi Ligeti. John Cage, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Witold Lutoslawsky, Gustav Mahler, Early music, Ravel--King Crimson, Robert Fripp, Brian Eno, Miles Davis, THE BAD PLUS, Frank Zappa, Thelonius Monk, the Beatles, Serge Gainsbourg, Steely Dan. Folk music-especially Balkan, Fred Frith, Chris Cutler, Vola Puk, Louis Sclevis &Co. Some Drum&Bass, House, Hip-Hop and Rap, (a lot of people making dance music with computers have advanced the art and traditon of drumming more than many actual "hands on" drummers over he last twenty years) FACE IT PEOPLE! Some things, some tracks that still sound good from my teenage years. Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Van Der Graff Generator, The Police, David Bowie--Iva Bittova, Vladimir Visotsky, Iva Nova, Aukstion, Hada Podumite. Metemorphosis, Most respected Drummers:- Bill Bruford, Max Roach, Steve Gadd, Jojo Mayer, Tony Williams, Chris "Daddy" Dave, David King, Elvin Jones, Peter Erskine, Art Blakey, John Bonham, The People of west Africa-especially Senegal. Master tabla players and other percussionists form the Indian subcontinent

Andrey (04-04)Tarkovsky-especially The Mirror(Zerkalo) and Andrey Rublev. Tarrentino-especially Pulp Fiction. Stanley Kubrick-especially 2001 a Space Odyssey. The Remains of the Day. The Deer Hunter. The Unberable Lightness of Being. Koyaani Squaatsi. The Tin Drum. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. This is Spinal Tap. Sideways. Colenel Redel. The Seven Samurai. V Etoi Strania. A Nos Amours. The Life Of Brian (I don't find it blasphemous) Bernie. Appocalypse Now. France Tour Detour(Goddard) And yes Harry Potter. LEAST FAVORITE FAMOUS FILMS.--Gone with the Wind. Citizen Kane. I've never been able to sit through these so called classics until the end. Last Tango in Paris-What a bore!!!

Oii! Nadyezhda Mandleshtam. Dostoyevsky. James Joyce. Milan Kundera.Franz Kafka. D.H.Lawrence. Tolstoy. Steinbech. Gunter Grass. Andrey Bely. Gogol. Evelyn Waugh. Solzhenitsyn. F.Scott Fitzgerald. Primo Levi. Poetry (Sticky Stixi) Pushkin. T.S.Eliot. Dante. Shakespeare. O.Mandleshtam. Akhmatova. Tsvetayeva. Mayakovsky. D.H.Lawrence.-- The Bible. I Ching (the book of Changes) . Confusious. Lao Tsu. Carl Jung. The St Petersburg Times and The Moscow Times- In our day, Moscow is clearly a more interesting city than Piter(Face it people))

The Singing Detective (Dennis Potter). Play for Today(as was)-Brimstone and Treacle(Dennis Potter) Monty Pythons Flying Circus. Fawlty Towers. The Young Ones. The Comic Strip. Ruddy Hell! It's Harry and Paul. Planet Earth(David Attenborough) and all his brilliant wildlife documentaries. The World at War(Jeremy Issacs) I Claudius. Brideshead Revisited. Channel 4 news( I miss it) Strip Tease( France 3 and no, it's not a sex show) A party for John Cage(Arte D.F.) Sestdesat ( CZ TV) IDIOT ( Russian TV version) No Comment(Euro News)

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
– Confucius.

Odna devushka kotoraya ja znaiu. " Nu blin .... ! Ti nekagda ne bila na odin iz moix kontsertax! V printsipe, ti Kulturni Korrespondant"! " Nu mozhet bit ja ne TAK kulturnaya"!

Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever GIVE UP! Winston Churchill.

Every time we perform on stage; no matter where, no matter when; it is the most important moment in our lives so far. Marcus Godwyn 2008.

A certain young lady whom I know "Ой! Баню не любю! Это слишком жарка"!

Hey! Is that a gun in ya pocket or are ya just pleased to see me? Mae West.

A woman needs to know that a man has been tested before committing to him. Alexander Solzhenitsyn. (Cancer Ward).

An irritated woman to Winston Churchill. "Oh Winston. You're impossible. If you were my husband, I'd give you a cup of poison to drink" His conclusive rejoinder: "If you were my wife Madam, I should most certainly drink it".

Behind (with) every GREAT man, there's a GREAT woman!!!

A certain young lady whom I know "Every time I look in the mirror, I just want to rape myself".

A nation that forgets its past has no future! Winston Churchill.

"What government has to do is to set the framework for human talent to flourish" - Margaret Thatcher