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TOM VAN DE MERBEL

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About me

Gender	Male
Industry	Arts
Occupation	Freelance Game Artist & Media Designer
Location	Capelle aan den IJssel, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
Introduction	Freelance Game Artist, Media-Designer and culture addict.
Interests	games, science, art, technology, culture, literature, history, philosophy
Favorite Movies	Spirited Away, Stalker, Apocalypse Now, Amelie, Alien, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Before Sunset, The Fountain, The Seven Samurai, Inception, Black Swan, The Dark Knight, Ghost in the Shell, Pulp Fiction, Fight Club, The Thing, Requiem for a Dream, Blade Runner, No Country for Old Men, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, 12 Angry Men, Game of Thrones, Moon, Pan's Labyrinth, Children of Men, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Lost in Translation, Le Scaphandre et le Papillon, Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring, Hable con Ella, Akira, Solyaris, Mar Adentro, Oldboy, Das Boot, Rear Window, Casablanca, Mononoke Hime, The Straight Story.
Favorite Music	A Perfect Circle, Leonard Cohen, Beethoven, Debussy, Bach, Vivaldi, John Lennon, The Offspring, Led Zeppelin, Dead Can Dance, Garbage, Mike Oldfield, Led Zeppelin, Tchaikovsky, The Doors, Jack Johnson, Daft Punk, Jamiroquai, Adele, John Williams, Coltrane, Mahler, Buena Vista Social Club, Tom Jobim, Sting, Prodigy, Ravi Shankar, Miles Davis, Sade, Sarah McLachlan, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Johnny Cash, Nina Simone, The Beatles, Sigur Rós, The Velvet Underground, Placebo, Janis Joplin, Elvis Presley, Björk, UNKLE, The Cure, Linkin Park, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Hisaishi, No Doubt, Audio Bullys, Mount Sims, Chemical Brothers, Basement Jaxx, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Art of Noise, Tool, Igor Stravinsky, Hooverphonic, The Beach Boys, Zero 7, Jan Hammer, Tomoyasu Hotei, Röyksopp, Ulrich Schnauss, Nick Drake, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Norah Jones, India Arie, Bob Dylan, Freddie Hubbard, Schubert, Chopin, Berlioz, Carl Maria von Weber, Josquin des Prez, Shostakovich, Mozart, Mussorgsky, Arvo Pärt, Ennio Morricone, Ali Akbar Khan, Hans Zimmer, Yann Tiersen, Jocelyn Pook, Enya, Tori Amos, Coralie Clément, Noir Desir, Radiohead, Within Temptation, Muse, Blur, The Strokes, Queens Of The Stoneage, Tiger Army, Smashing Pumpkins, Nine Inch NailsL, Pixies, The White Stripes, Korn, Switchblade Symphony, Coldplay, The Cranberries, Dido, The Postal Service, Aimee Mann, Pink Floyd, Neil Young, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Depeche Mode, The Mammas and the Pappas, Sergio Mendes, Jefferson Airplane, Fairport Convention, Feist, Lou Rhodes, Queen, Bob Marley, Sublime, Gorillaz, Squarepusher, Morcheeba, DJ Krush, DJ Shadow, Aphex Twin, Moloko, Roisin Murphy, Goldfrapp, AIR, Cocteau Twins, Crustation, John Murphy, Enigma, Karsh Kale, St. Germain, Massive Attack, Clint Mansell, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Tricky.
Favorite Books	War and Peace - Tolstoy, Oblomov - Goncharov, Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky, The Red and the Black - Stendahl, The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings - Tolkien, Madame Bovary - Flaubert, The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Kundera, The Sorrows of Young Werther - Goethe, The Complete Stories & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, The Master and Margarita - Bulgakov, The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka, The Catcher in the Rye - Salinger, Heart of Darkness - Conrad, Lord of the Flies - Golding, Neuromancer - Gibson, A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bryson.