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Alia

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About Me


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I am a

Music lover

Concert fanatic

Computer skeptic (yessssss)

New York fan

Gourmet (looooove GOOD food!)

Hopeless melancholic, deep thinker (where is the button to turn it off sometimes?)

Nature lover (yes, although I’m a city girl, but someone else gotta take care of the bugs and spiders *lol*)

Multicultural “creature” (half German-half Somalian), rainbow child...

And the list goes on and on.

I was born and raised in Berlin, Germany.

I loooove music, this is the main reason I finally got this account at Myspace. It took me a while and the constant reminders of friends (“You STILL ain’t got a Myspace account?!”).

I hope the people that I’ll meet here will share their passion for music with me. Though I still don't trust all this internet-I-have-one-million-friends-stuff all too much, I think it is a good way to reach out to dear friends and get to know new people.

At the moment, I'm all into Grime (or "wot u call it" ;)), Dizzee, Wiley, Lethal Bizzle, JME and so on. Why? - because it's fresh to def!!! There must be a reason Jay-Z used the "POW"-beat at a concert for one of his freestyles, right?

However, I'm by no means limited to just one style of music, BUT my heart belongs to Hip Hop and Soul.

Music is the perfect source to help you express and channel your emotions, and it doesn’t matter if you’re the person who makes the music or the one who listens to it. It helps you in every situation, in every mood. (For example, try listening to Dizzee Rascal’s “Respect Me”, when you're real mad and feel someone’s been treating you like you don’t deserve it. Limp Bizkit with “My Way”, when you just wanna freak out. Some Teddy Pendergrass, Marvin or Luther, when you’re in a sexy mood ;-). Or do you know these type of songs – I call them “Freedom songs” - that make you feel you can achieve anything you want, or that tell you everything’s gonna be okay? Beautiful!)

I hope I'll make many exciting discoveries here at Myspace.

To put it in Hi-Tek songs' words: MUSIC (is) FOR LIFE!
(Alia - Dec 06)

My Interests

Concerts!

Traveling

ART in general! ART is BEAUTY, pure.

I'd like to meet:

Quincy Jones!

Music:

Mary J. Blige / Jay-Z / Nas / Stevie Wonder / 2Pac/ Musiq /Common / Anita Baker / Luther Vandross / Jimi Hendrix / Mos Def / Joy Denalane / Michael Jackson / Outcast / Prince/ Jill Scott / Pharrell / Kanye West / Masta Ace / Maxwell/ D'Angelo / Erykah Badu / Billie Holiday / K'Naan / Samy Deluxe / Dizzee Rascal / Wiley / JME / Fat Freddy's Drop / Kano / Saul Williams / Bilal / Al Green / Lionel Richie / Spank Rock / Lupe Fiasco / Lady Sovereign / 50 Cent / The Game / Roll Deep / Jaheim / Beyoncé/ Busta Rhymes / Jamiroquai / Saian Supa Crew / The Streets / Sade / John Coltrane / Alicia Keys / Ray Charles / Babyface / James Brown / Bob Marley / Dead Prez / Xavier Naidoo / Kasabian / The Roots...

Movies:

All films by Spike Lee (especially "Bamboozled")/ Woody Allen films / Michel Gondry's "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" / RIZE / "Irma la douce" with Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon ...

Books:

Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God / Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man / Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - Der Kleine Prinz / Jamaica Kincaid - My Brother / Zadie Smith - White Teeth / Jhumpa Lahiri - The Namesake / Nuruddin Farah - Geheimnisse / Q - The Autobiography of Quincy Jones / novels by Toni Morrison / poems and novels by Langston Hughes / ...

My Blog

Money cant buy...

My friend Galina in L.A. (celly-)texted me this one day before I was about to visit her in June.It came just at the right moment, and fit the situation perfectly.I had to write it down today because I...
Posted by Alia on Sun, 14 Oct 2007 02:49:00 PST

Maxwell finally with new music :: Album overflow 07 :: Thoughts on the CD

Oh  my  Goodness! Maxwell finally released a snippet of a new song from his upcoming album. "Pretty Wings"  this is pure beauty, this song is IT! I can't wait for the album. Though I have been rath...
Posted by Alia on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 07:32:00 PST

I have "Fernweh"!

I have serious Fernweh. I found out there's no English word to translate what Fernweh means exactely. The yearning to be somewhere else, another place. The opposite of homesick.Anyway, like being home...
Posted by Alia on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 12:06:00 PST

Call me a NERD

Yeah, call me a nerd. Call me a LONER.I went to a party/concert alone, by myself.Some people can't relate to that. They simply can't imagine doing that.Tonight DJ Krush played a set at the club Maria ...
Posted by Alia on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 07:54:00 PST

Wiley retires - Jay-Z style?

Just had the time to read the short piece of the Wiley-interview on RWD magazines homepage. I think it's really sad he's retiring.What kind of shook me most is the way he's talking...like an old man. ...
Posted by Alia on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 04:50:00 PST

My Brand New Sneaker Hassle

Maaaan, what a day, what a hassle.Today was the day I was going to wear my BRAND NEW Betty Boop adidas.You know there are two camps of people  those who hate it when their sneakers look new and the o...
Posted by Alia on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 04:03:00 PST

Music - Bridge or Boundary

i was thinking about this since i set up this account.music is the bridge that helps people connect with each other, even if one doesn't speak the same language.but isn't it also like a boundary somet...
Posted by Alia on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 03:00:00 PST