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Nadia

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About Me

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I am a musician by training, a record store manager by trade. Every 7 years I end up spending a good chunk of time away from Montreal. So count one year in California, and seven in Nova Scotia. Coming back to Montreal felt like putting on well worn favorite slippers. Trying to get some kind of discipline back into my life, to start playing my hammered dulcimer again, and to go back to swimming, which I love. I have a lot of imagination, which ends up being channelled through bad jokes, to everyone's dismay. And here is what you get when you put my name in the Monster Name Decoder!
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My Interests

Music, movies, reading, biking, swimming, indian food, tea, dreams,

I'd like to meet:

Gosh, I have met Duran Duran, so my wish list is growing short now!!
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Music:

PRESENTLY IN MY CAR: Mark Ronson - Version; Muse - Origin of Symmetry; Monsieur Mono - Pleurer la Mer Morte; Eden, a Six Degrees Collection; Joel Plaskett Emergency - Ashtray Rock; Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters LATEST ACQUISITIONS: Chingon - Mexican Spaghetti Western; Winterpills - Light Divides; Elsiane - Hybrid ; Patrick Wolf - Magic Position; Julie London - Best of ME LIKES (in no particular order!): CLASSICAL (15% of my collection): Faves are Early music, Renaissance, Baroque, some romantic, some classical-era; JAZZ (5% of my collection): cool, Pat Metheny, big bands, Sarah Vaughan, Ella, crooners, lounge; WORLD(15% of my collection): Middle eastern, Classic indian, Bollywood sounds, tex mex, bossa nova, celtic, any hammered dulcimer music, duduk, Putumayo, FRANCO (3% of my collection): Charles Aznavour, Jo Dassin, Brel, Daniel Bélanger, Mylène Farmer, Felix Leclerc, Claire Pelletier; ROCK (all the rest!)

Movies:

Last movies watched: At the theatre: Shrek 3; At home: Afro Samurai

Television:

Sci fi: Star Trek (all series but not the original!), Battlestar Galactica, just got into Red Dwarf - hilarious! Cartoons: Looney Tunes, Animaniacs, Pinky & The Brain, Family Guy Muppet Show Prime Time: House is the only one I watch right now Guilty Pleasures: Joss Whedon rules!

Books:

Last 5 books read: The Thrall's Tale - Judith Lindbergh; Tower of Ravens, Kate Forsyth; Supernatural, Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind - Graham Hancock. Looking forward to: Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows in July; Children of Hurin by Tolkien

Heroes:

Jim Henson

My Blog

The Police live in MTL

So... Finally!!!After all this time. This was a great show. They made an effort to make you think they were still young, as in they wore outfits quite similar to what they used to wear way back then, ...
Posted by Nadia on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:58:00 PST

Music and Movies

Two important things I owe to my parents.  My love of music comes originally from my mom. My mom did not teach me music, but she played it at home all the time. She played piano, so I wanted to p...
Posted by Nadia on Sun, 27 May 2007 10:50:00 PST

Supernatural (the last book I read)

Supernatural, Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind by Graham Hancock. I am going to try to give you a short condensed version of what was said in there (it is a 600+-page book). I thought it ...
Posted by Nadia on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 07:52:00 PST

Kate Beckinsale - Serendipity?

So by the subject you know I will be talking about my - second!!!- Kate Beckinsale encounter. Last year, she had walked in HMV in Halifax at the arm of her husband (which I did not know she was the wi...
Posted by Nadia on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 06:13:00 PST

The Apocalypse

This happens sometimes. I have a dream, wake up from it then go back to sleep and dream the same dream, with some variation. In this case I replayed the ending. I am at the store on the street fl...
Posted by Nadia on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 09:21:00 PST

Winter sports

I am not into winter. I used to like cross-coutry skiing, and I think I like crazy-carpeting, but I have not done any of that in a long long time. I don't like skating, nor downhill skiing. But I...
Posted by Nadia on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 05:43:00 PST

Cabin fever

So this was one of these days. I feel like everyone today had something to bitch about, someone to bitch about. A bitched about B, B bitched about A, and so on. So many people are getting intolerant r...
Posted by Nadia on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 09:38:00 PST

My new musical obsesssion

So I think this band is going to be my Killers-like (1st album) obsession (or the first one, hopefully more to come later!) of the year. Man, that CD is good and I have only listened to it 3 times in ...
Posted by Nadia on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:40:00 PST

Jan 26 dream

I think I am already sick of winter. I say already because it only started on Dec 26 here, when we had our first real snowfall. And it is since that date that we have had snow staying on the ground as...
Posted by Nadia on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 06:48:00 PST

Some dream!

I will post some of the funkiest dreams when I have had them. The most memorable one I had in the last few weeks is the one where I actually do a line of coke! I have never, ever did drugs like t...
Posted by Nadia on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 05:58:00 PST