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anya

she said i know u & u cannot sing i said it's nothing u should hear me play piano

About Me

russian, ukrainian, gypsy, japanese, mongolian and more...... originally from riga, latvia in TO since 1996 currently teaching, writing, doing music, theatre

My Interests

writing (prose, poetry, drama), music writing and performing, photography, cinematography, philosophy, translation (specialising in 20th century russian poets)

Music:

my band: www.myspace.com/ personalcircusrussian:auktyon letov and grazhdanskaja oborona nautilus pompilius tsoy and kino naumenko and zoopark tequila jazz zemfira vysotsky bg and akvarium mamonov and zvuki mu ddt 5nizza markscheider kunst bravo linda bashlachevAlso:mr. bungle and patton's projects pixies joy division pj harvey doors spiritualized low sex pistols clash legendary pink dots iggy and the stooges patti smith sonic youth cure nick cave lacrimoza einsturzende neubauten smiths jeff buckley captain beefheart tiger lilies tom waits nirvana bowie meat puppets velvet underground bjork tricky massive attack portishead radiohead constantines blonde redhead distillers blood brothers peaches tv on the radio cocteau twins stereolab billie holiday interpol arcade fire sigur ros regina spektor gotan project my bloody valentine perfect circle queens of the stone age gogol bordello the new kings and more.........

Movies:

Russian: Solovjev, Uchitel', Mihalkov, Bondarchuk, Tarkovskij... Also: Greenaway, Lynch, Kubrick, Jonze, Lyne, Scott, Almodovar... and much more

Books:

Russian: Dostoyevski, Pelevin, Harms, Jerofeev, Bulgakov, Grishkovec, Nabokov, Khlebnikov, Mayakovski and the russian futurists......and more Also: Joyce, Kafka, De Bouvoir, Philip K. Dick, Kundera, Calvino, Borges, Marx, Brecht, Kierkegaard, Beckett, Albee, Rimbeau, Boudelaire, Marquez, Shakespeare, Proust, De Masoch, Remargue, Wilde, Vonnegut, Camus, Shaw, Hesse, Pamuk, Rushdie, Robbe-Grillet, Pynchon, Murakami, Cveig, Carter, Burger, and more

Heroes:

women in my family