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fiona

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About Me

Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Fiona. I was born in Aberdeen to a Scottish mother and a Greek father but was flown back to Athens only a month old (which explains my passion for travel) and have lived here ever since. I have a beautiful younger sister and an extended family living on all sides of the globe.I went to Greek school and studied Communication and Mass Media at Panteion University. I am currently working as a free-lance translator/interpreter but still exploring my potential in life. My dream is to move to the countryside and open a camping site. My dream is also to have a family and spend lots of time with my kids.I am a woman of extremes - a bit hard to handle they tell me and, shit, they're right!I can be kind and caring, generous, passionate, sociable, easygoing, dynamic and energetic.I can also be cruel and indifferent, selfish, numb, a loner, difficult, weak and lazy.I am extremely curious and interested in pretty much everything.I am also very opinionated and love a good argument with people who feel equally strongly about things.I can never have hard feelings for more than 5 minutes. Having said that, once somebody gets into my black book they never make their way out of it. Still, there are no more than a handful of entries in my black book. I take pride in my good judgment of characters (the good old gut feeling) and my good luck in life and so I have always been surrounded by great people. If I don't like you, I won't bother trying to!I love people that make me laugh, whether it is making faces and goofing around or the wickedest, most subtle sarcasm, even if I am the victim of it!I love my family and friends, even when they give me a hard time - I wouldn't change them for anything in the world!I could go on and on but, frankly, I can't be bothered!

My Interests

Daydreaming, wondering, observing, dancing and singing to music, human nature and the world in general, reading, writing, watching movies, walking, talking, traveling, playing, snoozing.

I'd like to meet:

People who try to be true to themselves.

Music:

CDs/tapes/vinyls that have reached melting point (liosimo) from playing on my 11-year old Sony stereo (R.I.P. December 1995 - June 2007) for hours, days, weeks, even months (kollimeni!): All Pixies albums, The Cure Boys don't Cry, The Smiths Best I and II, their Singles collection and their Strangeways...album, Depeche Mode Singles 81-85 and 101, Madonna's Ultimate Collection, Michael Jackson's Number Ones, Guns n' Roses Appetite for Destruction, The Stone Roses first album - missing Fool's Gold, Nirvana Nevermind, INXS Kick, Tricky Maxinquaye, Pure Essence (The Fire/India/Alright album), The White Stripes Elephant, Thievery Corporation Songs from the Thievery Hi-Fi, Rockers Hi-Fi (missing it...), ChangesBowie, Frank Zappa's Strictly Commercial, The Screamin Trees Sweet Oblivion, Manu Chao's first album, Cypress Hill III Temples of Boom, Tom Waits Heart Attack and Vine, Kate Bush: The Whole Story, The Make-Up Save Yourself, Songs we Taught the Fuzztones, DJ sets by Goa Gill, Sasha and old tapes from Faz Club and Kanali 15, a creme de la creme collection of Velvet Underground songs that appeared in my drawer out of nowhere on a blue September post-Amorgos day (there is a God and he loves the VU), garage/psychedelic compilations by Jristos, soulful compilations by Elias, groovy dance mixes by Sophtmoos and the Loot Dj's (check their mixes out on myspace) and REGINA SPEKTOR's "Begin to Hope" (latest entry).

Movies:

After considerable thought-my cinemagic: Pulp Fiction,Reservoir Dogs,Jackie Brown-Tarantino, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Paths of Glory-Kubrick, Big Fish, Dead Bride, Beetlejuice-Burton, Wild Strawberries, Persona, Smiles of a summer night-Bergman, Farenheit 451, Day for Night (La Nuit americaine)- Truffault, Down by Law, Night on Earth, Stranger than Paradise-Jarmush, Fast Food Fast Women-Amos Kollek, Fargo-the Coen brothers, Annie Hall and others by Woody Allen, Noi Albinoi-Dagur Cari, Run Lola Run-Tom Tikwer, Ran-Kurosawa, Il Monstro, Life is Beautiful-Benigni, Clerks-Kevin Smith, Brokeback Mountain, The Wedding Banquet-Ang Lee, Idioterne, Dogville-Lars von Trier, The life of Brian, The Quest for the Holy Grail, Flying Circus-Monty Python, The Party with Peter Sellers, 21 grams-Inaritu, Kika, High Heels, All about my mother-Almodovar, Underground, When Father was Away on Business-Kusturica, Le Couperet-Gavras, Lock Stock and two Smocking Barrels-Guy Richie, La Haine-Kassovitz, Sose me-Tzitzis, Apo tin akri tis polis-Giannaris, Where is the Friends Home?-Kiarostami, Do the Right Thing, 24 Hours - Spike Lee, Naked, Secrets and Lies-Mike Leigh, Land and Freedom-Ken Loach, Rosemary's Baby, the Tennant-Polanski.Also (I'm getting tired): This is not a love song, Kung Fu Hustle (hilarious), The Blue Kite (Chinese), 8 women (french musical with 8 beautiful french women), Being There, Il postino, Braindead (splatter), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, L.A. Confidential, Au petit Marguerie, Gazon Maudit (French), Goodbye Lenin, The Experiment, 12 monkeys, Seven, Fight Club, American History X, Natural Born Killers, Sid and Nancy, It's all gone Pete Tong, 24 hour party people, 4 weddings and a funeral, About a boy, Love Actually, Hi-Fidelity, Alien, Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, Days of Wine and Roses, Usual Suspects, American Beauty, Trainspotting, Glengary Glen Ross, The Wizard of Oz, all Disney Classic animations (I think Bambie and Cinderella are my favourites), Monsters Inc... shite, it's almost 3am! Hope this list helps next time you visit the DVD store!!

Television:

Ditched it in October 2006. Definitely better off without it! Miss it sometimes though!

Books:

My beloved English Classics: Jane Eyre-Charlotte Bronte, Wuthering Heights-Emily Bronte, Tess of the D'Urbervilles-Thomas Hardy, Pride and Prejudice-Jane Austen.The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings -J.R.R. Tolkien, Still Life with the Woodpecker, Jitterbug Perfume-Tom Robbins, J'irai crasher sur vos tombes, Et on tuera tous les affreux-Boris Vian, The Clown-Heinrich Boll, The Dispossessed, The Earthsea novels- Ursula LeGuin, To Kill a Mockingbird-Haprer Lee, Pet Cemetery, Misery-Stephen King, The Metamorphosis-Franz Kafka, The Unbearable Lightness of Being-Milan Kundera, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul-Douglas Adams, El Tunel, Sobre Heroes y Tumbas-Ernesto Sabato, The Group-Mary McCarthy, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings-Maya Angelou, The House of the Spirits-Isabel Allende, The Outsider-Albert Camus, Hunger-Knut Hamsun, short stories by Anton Chekhov, Lying on the Couch, When Nietzsche Wept-Irvin Yalom, 1984-George Orwell, The Quiet American-Graham Greene, Siddhartha, Steppenwolf-Hermann Hesse, Yugerman-Karagatsis, Aioliki Gi-Venezis, Fonissa-Papadiamandis, O Xristos Xanastavronetai-Kazantzakis, Xamogela re, ti sou zitane, Kala esy skotothikes noris-Xronis Missios, Matomena Xomata, Katedafizometha-Dido Sotiriou, Ta Paliopaida ta Atithasa-Tsiforos, and many many more...

Heroes:

We're all heroes in a way!

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Posted by fiona on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:00:00 PST