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Saira

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About Me


I do two radio shows at CHRY 105.5fm. The one show is for 'fun':
Superfly Tuesday nights 11pm -2am and the other is for work: Propirganda Thursday's Noon - 1pm

You can check out/listen to both shows online: CHRY 105.5 FM
If you have radio show related queries send 'em here:

[email protected]

My Interests

Music, movies, politics and pop culture. I also read too much, so I suppose that books ought to be up here as well.

I'd like to meet:

people who laugh with me, not at me

Music:

I like music, I like lots of music, so this is an abbreviated list... Brian Eno, Spacemen 3, techno (Jeff Mills / Gaetek / Robert Hood / Marco Carola / Surgeon / Advent / Stewart Walker / Adam Beyer etc), The Fall, Minor Threat, Minutemen, Man or Astroman?, Nomeansno, The Mummies, LOVE, The Seeds, The Sonics, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Henry, Galaxie 500, Leather Uppers, Stone Roses, Pavement, Quadrajets, Mercury Rev, Legion 666, Man Is The Bastard, Buzzcocks, Rezillos, Quintron, Big Black, Hershel Savage and the American Flag, My Bloody Valentine, The Smiths, Can, Faust, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Neu, The Chesterfield Kings, Kishore Kumar, Rorschach, Psychic TV, Chrome, Left For Dead, Happy Mondays, Dropdead, Kraftwerk, Six Finger Satellite, Supersuckers, Legendary Stardust Cowboy, The Stinkies, Husker Du, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Os Mutantes, Front 242, Lassigue Bendthaus, Nitzer Ebb, Asmus Tietschens, Vomito Negro, Test Department, Jesus and Mary Chain, Detroit Cobras, His Hero Is Gone, Infest, Sun Ra, Television, Suicide, Velvet Underground, Basic Channel, Immortal Lee County Killers, Deadly Snakes, ESG, Antibalas, The Oblivians, The Dik Van Dykes, The Jam, Thee Headcoats, Belle and Sebastian, Ultramagnetic MCs, PiL, Spiritualized, Spectrum, E.A.R., Simply Saucer, 13th Floor Elevators, The Stooges, Toots and the Maytals, Daniel Johnston, Horace Andy, Los Crudos, Guided By Voices, Satan and Disciples, Dilated Peoples, The Kominas...

Movies:

24 Hour Party People, If..., The Thin Blue Line, La Guerre est Finie, Chinatown, Diva, The Devil's Backbone, The Fourth Man, The French Connection, etc. I also grew up with Bollywood films and really enjoy movies directed by Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Akira Kurosawa, Takashi Miike, Hayao Miyazaki, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Werner Herzog...

Television:

T.V. can be really bad for you, sadly I watch a lot of it.

Books:

Tropic of Capricorn, Love and Longing in Bombay, Agents of Repression, Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Ticket That Exploded, Revenge of The Lawn, South of No North, The Bijak, Saragossa Manuscript, If On A Winter's Night A Traveller...

Heroes:

"No more heroes anymore..."

My Blog

A haiku for the Wii

  Awesome Nintendo, countless hours spent on bowling in Shannon's basement.    
Posted by Saira on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 09:51:00 PST

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Antonio, El Caballo Verde, I'm sorry... With love and respect, Saira
Posted by Saira on Tue, 09 May 2006 09:43:00 PST

stuff

The weather is eerily warm for January in Toronto. I'm not complaining, but I'd be lying if I told you that I wasn't freaked out. This Friday it's all about the Brutal Knights show/record release&nbs...
Posted by Saira on Tue, 31 Jan 2006 11:27:00 PST

vacation brain drain

Still on vay-kay (as my friend Linda likes to call it). I've been avoiding thinking about who might be doing the fill in's for my radio show while I'm away. Fill ins may seem unimportant, but a month ...
Posted by Saira on Fri, 23 Dec 2005 01:50:00 PST

Baja California Sur

I'm on vacation, spending a little time with the spouse and some close friends. Fully enjoying this beautiful city (La Paz) and grateful for the time that I have here because it's grim up north. More ...
Posted by Saira on Sun, 18 Dec 2005 08:13:00 PST

Records are the gift that keep on giving. Especially if they're given to me.

The most fantastic thing happened today. After years of slogging away, doing the three hour record show for transient listeners, I have been rewarded by an anonymous gift of: VINYL...This guy who...
Posted by Saira on Fri, 30 Sep 2005 07:39:00 PST

Sgt Dan - Boy Hustler

Men who look like suburban "Dad" types should really stay away from the t-shirts that advertise the apparently "Big Dick" they happen to sport. There is something inherently wrong with wearing the "I ...
Posted by Saira on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST