Dorian Vandenberg-Rode

U. of Michigan, (Ann Arbor), Rice U.

violinist, violin teacher of little kids

mostly with crazy funny cellists and pianists.. and other wierd music people mostly..

reading, drinking.. sadly thats about it, I used to take dance (salsa, ballroom) and miss it now

I'm tackling the Proust again... but this time in English, ha ha!.. recent major discovery: Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse Five, Cat's Cradle, Player Piano, Bluebeard. LOVE Bluebeard. It's a lot about contemporary art and artists (in the broad sense as well as strict visual art), what place we have, why modern art is like it is, etc.. very interesting, at least to this musician... If you're not TOO religious, you have got to read "Religion Explained" by Pascal Boyer. It's SO fascinating

Ran, La Vie Revee des Anges, I saw and loved The Birds but I will NEVER watch it again because it scared me so bad, Breakfast at Tiffanys, & Roman Holiday (because I have ever so slight of a platonic crush on Audrey Hepburn), Bringing Up BAby, Jean de Florette, Pulp Fiction, chacun cherche son chat, Trainspotting, Romuald et Juliette, Thelma& Louise, Persona, Notorious, Irma Vep, Black Cat White Cat, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Underground, Suzhou River, All About My Mother, was going to put Amelie because I just saw it but that's almost too hackneyed for someone like me. The Piano Teacher, because though I hate to admit it to myself, it reminds me of my relationship with my mother!!! (just a little bit) More Kurosawa favorites: Seven Samurai, Ikiru, Rhapsody in August. And I can watch any hollywood 30s or 40s movie, no matter how retarded the plot is. Especially if Cary Grant is in it.

Szymanowski, master of strange harmonies.. Marriage of Figaro-- Don Giovanni-- late Lutoslawski-- Debussy Pelleas et Melisande-- Bruckner 4 & 9-- I LOOVE Couperin-- and Tchaikovsky ballets. Especially the parts on my recording where Ida Haendel plays solo violin, she is so awesome!-- prokofiev romeo &juliet-- curtis curtis-smith piano trio-- ooh, I forgot mozart piano concertos. AND bach cantatas. Beethoven Op. 59 no. 1(esp. budapest qt) and when I'm in a really bad mood, I put on either beethoven violin cto, or beethoven late quartets. actually that's if I want to feel better after. If I want to cry, I put on Mozart, and if I really want to cry my eyes out, I put on schubert.... my favorite will ALWAYs, always be schubert-- so actually I don't put him on much when I'm upset, but at other times

sex & the city, south park, um..used to watch Red Dwarf (british star trek spoof) with my brother in high school..

I miss my friends! who are mostly all over the place, like on different continents... I just got a job and am having trouble adjusting my self-image to "mature person" ! In my "spare" (read "wasting") time I read far too much, books & the news. Other than that, I love to hang out & drink. Politics affects my mood...when did I realize this? after walking around for the last two days with a grin on my face...
I am a very perfectionistic though lazy person, which means basically I'm always giving myself a hard time about everything and then not doing it, but in light of this, I think I'm also surprisingly happy...