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other orphans, Rroma, Uyghurs, Kyrgyz and other minorities from around the world...
I'm looking for my family from Hagota in Harghita (Kevin and Luminita Schaffer and their children: Titus, Ana-Maria, Monica, Ionna, Alex, Stefan and Matthew) i miss you and love you very much! I'm also looking for any friends from Piatra Neamt, Botasani or anywhere in Romania. I would also like to meet anyone anywhere, especially from the Balkans or Asia.
The Manics, Martin Newell & the Cleaners From Venus, anything Morrissey and not everything by a-ha, Bauhaus, the Beautiful South, Beck, Beirut, Belle & Sebastian, Bloc Party, Billy Bragg, Goran Bregovic, the Clash, Cocteau Twins, Copeland, the Cure, Dead Can Dance, the Divine Comedy, Robyn Hitchcock, Half-handed Cloud, the Heroes are Horses, Japan, Joy Division, Killing Joke, Love Spit Love, any Stephen Merritt incarnation, Midnight Oil, Poni Hoax, the Posies, Red House Painters, Sixteen Horsepower, SMZB, Elliot Smith, Son Volt, Suede, the Sundays, David Sylvian, Talk Talk, They Might Be Giants, Tindersticks, Travis, Wilco, XTC, all the great Gypsy bands such as Taraf de Haidouks, Balkan Beat Box, New York Gypsy All-stars Band, Ostblocket, Slavic Soul Party and Urban Gypsy Circus keeping it alive and really good Bollywood music from the likes of Anuradha Paudwal and a few certain Kumars.Concerts attended include:The Cure - Disintegration 1989 and twice in 1995. Swans - in 1990 and again in 1997 for their last show. Beautiful South - Carry On Up the Charts tour. Beck - Odelay tour, Athens. Blur - The Great Escape tour. David Bowie - Outside tour. Billy Bragg - William Bloke tour. Cardigans - First Band On the Moon tour. Cocteau Twins - Four Calendar Cafe tour. Dead Can Dance - Into the Labyrinth and Towards the Within. Elekibass (from Japan). Erasure - ? Washington DC. Fugazi with Branch Manager. Half-Handed Cloud - We Haven't Just Been Told tour. Robyn Hitchcock - Moss Elixor tour. Lemonheads - with Matchbox 20, Athens. Low - with Magnetic Fields. Lush - Lovelife tour, House of Blues, New Orleans (no, Jarvis didn't show up but NIN and Marilyn Manson did). Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs. Mojave 3 - with Lush in New Orleans. NIN - with Prick and David Bowie. Nirvana - In Utero tour with the Breeders. Of Montreal - with Elekibass and Half-Handed Cloud. On The Might of Princes - Chattanooga. Brendan Perry of Dead Can Dance - Eye of the Hunter tour. Pink Floyd - Pulse tour, Birmingham. Prick - with NIN and David Bowie. Sean Na Na - with Title One, Knoxville. Shelleyan Orphan - with the Cure. SMZB - the Music Kitchen, Qingdao, China. Poni Hoax - Bastille Fete on 60th, nyc. They Might Be Giants - the Else, nyc. New York Gypsy All-stars - Delecorte Theatre. Balkan Beat Box - Central Park. Beirut - nyc, Sept 26, 2007. Bloc Party - Madison Square Garden, nyc, Oct 3, 2007. Kristeen Young - Hammerstein Ballroom, nyc, Oct. 23. Morrissey - Hammerstein Ballroom, nyc, Oct. 23, 2007.* All shows in Atlanta except where otherwise noted.
Anything by Tony Gatliff, Emir Kusturica http://www.kustu.com/, Todd Solondz, Lucian Pintilie, Eric Rohmer, Abbas Kiarostami, Bruno Dumont, Atom Egoyan, Lukas Moodysson, some films by Wang Xiao Shuai and earlier Zhang Yi Mou. Une Adolescente, Les Triplettes de Belleville, Delicatessen, Ma Vie en Rose, C'est La Vie, Vagabond, Tiresia, Fat Girl, Ken Park, 27 Besos Robados, the Bicycle Thief, i Centro Passi, Amores Perros, Voces Inocentes, Dog Days, Lovely Rita, Le Tambour, Moloch, My Life as a Dog, Head On, When Ruo Ma Was Seventeen, Unkown Pleasures, Red Cherry, Earth, Gandhi, Sling Blade, An Everlasting Piece, Elephant, the Talented Mr. Ripley, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, King of Masks, Turtles Can Fly, the Adopted Son, Father, A Time For Drunken Horses, the Colour of Paradise, Osama and most other Eastern films i've seen.
Rroma photos, stills from Emir Kusturica's "Time of the Gypsies" and my own...
"Faust" - Goethe,"Balkan Ghosts" by Robert D. Kaplan,"Black Lamb and Grey Falcon" by Dame Rebecca West..."Uncertain Roads" by Yale Strom
Costa Blanca, Espana 2006Qingdao, China 2001-2005Romania 1999-2001