Last name: SHTEPHAN
First name: EVGENY
Middle name: DMITRIEVICH
The way people call me (nickname): Zhenya
Sex: male
Date of birth: 12 May 1970
Place of birth: Maleta village, Chita region, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Nationality: Russian
Current citizenship: Russian Federation
Current location: Seoul, South Korea
Graduation: Chemistry Department of Irkutsk State University (Russian Federation)
Degrees: Ph.D. February 1996 (Irkutsk State University)
Current position: Editor of "The Seoul Herald" , Seoul

Postal address:

Dr. Evgeny Shtephan,
The Seoul Herald
Samho officetel #717/718
236-10, Yongdap-dong
Sungdong-gu, Seoul
SOUTH KOREA

E-mail:

johnny_at_pagoda@hotmail.com

TEL: (02)217-5399 (ask for Zhenya)
FAX: (02)217-5398

Size: height = 190 sm, weight = about 70 kg

Photo ( kind of useless information, because that's just one of my faces; you definitely won't recognize me, because I love changing):

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SOME POINTLESS INFORMATION:

Favorite music:

Nico, Velvet Underground, Kurt Weil, Marlene Dietrich, Edith Piaf, Bob Dylan, Throbbing Gristle, folk-industrial (Current 93, etc.), Bob Marley, Boris Grebenshchikov, Yana Dyagileva, dance music, Maria Callas, Igor Stravinsky, Tom Waits, Kate Bush... and so on.

Favorite and recently seen movies:

"Salo or 120 days of Sodom" (and other things by Pier Paolo Pasolini), "Prospero's Books" (and things by Peter Greenaway), some movies by David Lynch ("Eraserhead", "Lost Highway"), "The Doom Generation", "Crying Game", "Total Eclipse", "Europa Europa", "Okoge", "Shine", "Happy Together", "Zamri, Umri, Voskresni". Saw "Querelle" by Fassbinder and didn't get it. Querelle of the book is beautiful and his crimes are fascinating, but the movie is just a freak show. Fassbinder fails to make a viewer love the killer. Read books, guys.

Books:

Well, basically I don't like books. James Joyce, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Russian early XX century authors: Khlebnikov, Kharms, Blok...; philosophy stuff, for example, Wittgenstein, though I cannot boast of reading any of his books to the end. Recently read: "1984" by Orwell, "Journals" of Andre Gide, "Querelle de Brest" by Jean Genet (re-read once again, thanks too Appolinaria), Oscar Wilde's "Portrait" and "Importance of Being Earnest", Shakespear's "Tempest" (just to compare with that Greenaway's movie).

Things I hate:

any intolerance, especially antisemitism, racism, nationalism, intolerance based on religion or sexual orientation; stupidity; slaves who forget their duty to slave and become rude to their masters (janitors, taxi drivers, presidents); idleness; boredom; monotony; rules, traditions and customs; things going according to a plan; cockroaches; death.

Things I like:

strawberry, smoking, living, singing, working, youth

Recent revelations:

No. 1. (While watching water slowly making its way on the ground in the direction of a black hole).

Our life is nothing but taking a form of a vessel made of circumstances. You can overcome all the difficulties and win all your enemies just to see yourself sucked, like a piece of shit, in the black hole of history.

No. 2. True revelation always sounds vulgar.