REIKO MATANE



Your favourite virtue ::
kindness

Your favourite qualities in a man ::
honesty

Your favourite qualities in a woman ::
honesty

Your favourite occupation ::
doing music

Your idea of happiness ::
being able to enjoy life: being with friends, seeing / hearing inspiring things, having enough time to do music and not having to sell my soul

Your idea of misery ::
working only for money all the time without being able to do the things you feel you should do, living without having time for creativity or friends

If not yourself, who would you be ::
some ghost

Where would you like to live ::
berlin, tokyo

Your favourite colour and flower ::
black, white lily

Your favourite prose authors ::
Michel Houellebecq

Your favourite poets ::
Scott Walker's lyrics on records like "tilt" or "the drift"

Your favourite heroes in fiction ::
John Blaylock (David Bowie) in The Hunger by Tony Scott

Your favourite heroines in fiction ::
The Groke of the Moomins
The Groke

Your favourite painters and composers ::
Wolfgang Tillmans, Gerhard Richter, Lucy McKenzie, Rothko
music: all time:Talk Talk, My Bloody Valentine, William Basinski, Gas (Wolfgang Voigt), H. Gorecky, Sunn o))), Boris, Brian Eno, Wu-Tang Clan, Corrupted; recently: Burial, Hisato Higuchi, Pantha du Prince, Burning Star Core, Murcof, old acid house samplers, Bolt Thrower, Oren Ambarchi, Go-betweens

Your favourite heroes in real life ::
-

Your favourite heroines in real life ::
-

What character(s) in history do you most dislike ::
all dictators

Your favourite food and drink ::
Sushi, green tea

Your favourite names ::
Yuki, Hirohito, Ayako, Emma, Anna, William

Your pet aversion ::
insects

The reform which you most estimate ::
war-less-ness, but it won't happen

The gift of the nature which I would like to have ::
Flying

How I would like to die ::
Sleeping

What is your present state of mind ::
You made me think about my death with that question. Therefore, small but content.

For what fault have you most toleration ::
Social anxieties, Insecurity

Your favourite motto ::
The light at the end of the tunnel could be a train.

9 novembre 2007

"I live in Nakano, central Tokyo. I am 32 and work to pay my rent (3 days), rest of the time I spend doing music, watching movies, going out with friends. I used to play guitar when I was younger, normally with a Wall of Sound-approach (we were all big shoegazer-fans... but also metal, hihi...)"

Reiko Matane (aka Le Mépris, aka René Margraff) is a musician

website :: Le Mépris at myspace

:: the questionnaire is based on the original "questionnaire of marcel proust", created by antoinette faure around 1890