About
Name pronunciation: ye-kah-ti-REE-na
Hobbies: creative writing, digital art, photography, medieval history, mythology.
Books
Arthurian mythology and poems, Mark Twain, Terry Pratchett (Ankh-Morpork City Watch), Max Fry, Jerome K. Jerome, Lope de Vega, “The Fall”, Сами боги, Трудно быть богом, “Flowers for Algernon”, “A Woman’s Portrait”, “Notes of a Young Doctor”, “The Catcher in the Rye”, “Middle Sex”, Белая гвардия, Алые паруса, Gormenghast
Music
alternative, rock, indie, grunge, russian rock, folk-rock, The Amazing Devil, Editors, Shinedown, Garbage, Fool’s Garden, Sin Shake Sin, Florenze + The Machine, MS MR, Lord Huron, Autoheart, Мельница, Сплин, Наутилус Помпилиус, Пикник, Мумий Тролль, Хелависа, Канцлер Ги, Земфира, Вероника Долина, Борис Гребенщиков, Немного Нервно
Movies & Series
movies: Amelie, The Interpreter, The Fifth Element, Source Code, Run Lola Run, In Bruges, Maverick, Cloud Atlas, Transcendence, Chocolat, District 9, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Девять дней одного года, Weekend at Bernie’s, Убить дракона
animation: The Road to Eldorado, How to Train Your Dragon, Jack et la mécanique du coeur, Song of the Sea, Shrek
series: Gravity Falls, The Musketeers, Everybody Hates Chris, Black Books, Altered Carbon, Loki, Derry Girls, Our Flags Means Death
Games
Neverwinter Nights, Age of Empires, Lineage II, Warcraft III, Majesty 2, The Witcher 3, Heroes of Might and Magic III
Quotes
And computers are getting smarter all the time: Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (By ‘they’ I mean ‘computers’: I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.) // Dave Barry
The only true religion is a good heart.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. // Mark Twain
The greatest thought in military science undoubtedly belongs to the good soldier Švejk: “What are you shooting at, idiots? There are people here!”