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aleksandra-mckay

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About Me

I sing. The blues, jazz, soul and ef you en kay FUNK. like sparkly things. I like the colour red. I make tapes for people that I like, and not cds. I collect vinyl. I have a dog and 2 fish. I read lots of comic books too. (X-MEN RULE) Quick CV: I started doing silly little gigs in Chania, my hometown, when I was 15, got into the University, into the school of music and I am currently struggling to finish :/ While in Chania I played mostly with Sebastian and Kostas, two good friends, sang for a couple of other bands too. Shortly after moving to Thessaloniki I joined ON_THE_CORNER, the epitomy of electronica-drum'n'bass-bossa nova galore. We played in Thessaloniki at Cafe Americain, at Samothraki's world music festival, and elsewhere. A year after that I joined the Kinky Hats, an r'n'b, latin-funk, reggae band. They're still around, they're great you should check them out, and dance to the tunes of James Brown, Ray Charles, Christina Aguilera, and Bobby Marley. I'm currently in a project called MONKEY STEP, we play disco-funk dance music. We've got 3 singers, Eva, Grigoris and myself, a hot brass section (Giwrgos, Aris), a lethal percussionist and a wicked drummer (Theofilos, Giannis), a deadly keyboardist (Dimitris), a mean guitarist (Thanasakis Djingovicz-his solo album will be coming out shorlty) and a killer bass player (Aleksis). Over the years, I've recorded for friends and acquaintances, like the work I did with VelloLeaf on their latest EP (they've got a new song coming out soon with me singing), the soon to be released, by The Sound Of Everything label, "Feather" by a brilliant guy named V-Sag, a yet to be finished collaboration with Michael.s of Techsoir, and quite a few more. The song "One Last Tear" by VelloLeaf (Morning Star, EP) can be heard in the movie ALTER EGO with Sakis Rouvas :P And now the important stuff: I love to get smashed listening to Tom Waits. I wish people weren't stupid and mean to eachother. I so very much wish that. I wish I had super powers. I so very much wish I had super powers. Seriously: When I grow up? I want to have Tom Robbins' love child and get Tom Waits' name tattooed on every square inch of my body.

My Interests

music, and i like the beatles. pollock and krasner, klimt and the prime of ms. jean brodie. i like movies, especially quirky comedies, i like woody allen, and tarantino, and kung foo B movies.

I'd like to meet:

Frida Kalho and Marvin Gaye. Grandma Matty and John Candy. George Harisson (he's my favourite beatle) is also majorely high on my list as is Douglas Adams, author of the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy series.

Music:

The Beatles, Aretha Franklin, The King, GoTan Project, Beastie Boys, Beth Orton, Afformance, Marvin Gaye, Beyonce, Paul Simon, Cindy Lauper, Spinal Tap ;), Cinematic Orchestra, The Black Eyed Peas, MiloZ, Mogwai, Bjork, Led Zeppelin, QUEEN, The Band, Matchbox_20, Bonnie Raitt, Jill Scott, Etta James, Ruthie Brown, The Police, Transvision VAMP, The Pretenders, Brian Eno, The KinkyHats, The Guess Who, The White Stripes, Carlee Simon, Chambao, Topicader, Elefantes, La Oreja de Van Gogh, Six Pence None The Richer, Serrat, Haila, Average White Band, Estopa (pero no me gustan mucho), Santana, Eric Clapton, Bobby Marley, Peter Tosh, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Ojos de Brujo, Dilek Koc, Dolly Parton, Liza Minneli, Jimmi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, anything Django has ever recorded, Stephane Grappeli, Mahalia Jackson, Jethro Tull, Stillwater, Christina Aguilera, Portishead, Massive Attack, Hooverphonic, Wild CHerry, Bad Company, James Brown, Kostas Leibadas, Dusty Springfield, Jeff Beck, G&B The Product, Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean, the rest of The Fuggees, Miriam Makeba, Puressence, Shakira Shakira!, Humble Pie, Fleetwod Mac (good studio band, but aparently they were pretty crapy live-they made "rumours" basically,and it's a GREAT record, but it was pretty much downhill from there), Porcupine Tree, David Alvarez, Justin Timberlake, Giannis Palamidas, George Dimitriadis, Giannis Aggelakas kai oi Episkeptes, Morcheeba, Elton John, Billy Joel, Tracy Chapman, Norah Jones, Oscar Peterson, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, The Wootang Clan, Jann Arden, The Hooters, Miles Davis, The Darkness, Pink Floyd, anything and everything by Lena Platwnos, The Eagles, Rainbow, Cesaria Evora, Collin James, KD Lang, VelloLeaf, OASIS, Thin Lizzy, Chicago, Foreigner, Cole Porter, Chris Rea, James Taylor, Rod Stewart, Bob Dylan, Ottis Redding, Alanis Morisette, OnTheCorner, The Bare Naked Ladies, Mode Plagal, The Byrds, Roy Orbison, Lou Reed, The Doobie Brothers, Dire Straights, David Bowie, Prince, Blues Wire, The Clash, The Smiths, Manic Street Preachers, Los De Abajo, Jane's Addiction, Anastacia, Kristi Stasinopoulou, BEE GEEs, George Michael, Aerosmith, Meat Loaf, Bruce Hornsby, The Cleftones, Efi Thodi (ELLA es La Reina Del Pop, y no Madonna), Mana, Alejandro Sanz, The Go Betweens, The Decemberists, the tiger lilies,.......

Movies:

High Fidelity, 200 cigarettes, The Eternal Sunshine Of A Spotless Mind, The Cotton Club, Arizona Dream, Coffee and Cigarettes, Four Rooms, my bluberry nights, one hour photo, breakfast at tiffany's, the prime of miss jean brodie, giant, A Mighty Wind, La Fille Sur Le Pont, everything by Almodovar, My Name Is Sam, Waking Ned Devine, Amelie, Blue Laggoon (one and two), i don't like fellini very much- but i like 8 1/2, Love Actually, Dark City, Almost Famous, Ratrace, Tokyo Story, The Discreet Charm of The Bourgoisie, 12 Monkeys, Seven, Die Kaiserin Und Der Kempfer, The Red Violin, Dial M for Murder, Vertigo, all kung-fu b movies, Hero, La Arma Mas Letal, FF Coppola's DRACULA, a clockwork orange by stanley kubrick, all of woody allen's films, Run Lola Run, Underground by Emir Kusturitsa, Resevoir Dogs, Red House, The Shining, Aberdeen, The Virgin Suicides, It's Raining Cats and Dogs, The Matchmaker, Josie and the Pussy Cats, Arizona Dream, Sense and Sensability, Pride and Prejudice, Garden State, We're No Angels, Bells Of Saint Mary's, all Alfred Hitchcock films, Mullholand Drive, Best In Show, Spinal Tap, Highway 60, U turn, Anchorman, Microcosmos, all Disney movies, up to the year 1998, The Dead Poet Society, ...

Television:

SCTV and SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE :D and of course MASH ;)

Books:

every single typed letter tom robbins has written- i've read; ultimate favourite is Still Life With Woodpecker, the princess bride, small world, changing places, the chocolate war, holes, mind's eye, anything and everything by jonathan safran foyer, to kill a mockingbird, in cold blood by truman capote, everything by isabel allende, the stationary ark, my family and other animals (one of the absolute funniest books in the world!), everything by Agatha Christie, hitch hiker's guide to the galaxy and all it's siblings, everything by roal dahl-especially the witches, everything by stephen king, anna karenina, all Kazuo Ishiguro novels (my favourite is The Remains of the Day), all Fletch books, all Paolo Cuelho books, the french lieutenant's woman, a tale of 2 cities, the old curiosity shop, all nancy drew mysteries, i've read everything from the babysitter's club, all enid blyton's books, and oh so many more! as time goes by I'll add titles...

Heroes:

Princess Buttercup from "The Princess Bride" and Lee Krasner.

My Blog

Love Saga_Part 1

Part 1 (Caution:  Part 1 may contain traces of Tom Robbins, tea and fruitcake, Kelly Clarkson, Allison Moyete, Sheila Nichols, Kazuo Ishiguro, Tom Waits, music, diet lemon soda, Athens, black an...
Posted by aleksandra-mckay on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:44:00 PST

feels like home to me?

"Feels Like Home" is a Bonnie Raitt song, and if you don't know it, I suggest you give it a hear before you read this post. I lived in the (sort-of) same house my whole life, at least the life part th...
Posted by aleksandra-mckay on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:00:00 PST

she’s so heavy

i want you i want you so bad i want you i want you so baaaad it's drivin' me mad, it's drivin' me
Posted by aleksandra-mckay on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 02:23:00 PST

the counting crows

several things that need to be mentioned before this blog officially begins: 1)  this will be my very first blog post that's title has no question mark, no full stop, no coma, no exclamation poin...
Posted by aleksandra-mckay on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:12:00 PST

fish tank blues.

I would like it not to be 4 am.  I would like to not have a lesson tomorrow morning for which I have to wake up early, make myself a shit breakfast, drink half a cup of joe, and race outta the ho...
Posted by aleksandra-mckay on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:12:00 PST

split lip._

i just smiled so wide that i split my lip. i split my lip and now there's a perfect shiny beed of blood on my bottom lip. i'm watching tv, and i'm looking at my room around me, and that's why i smiled...
Posted by aleksandra-mckay on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:57:00 PST

girl’s first blog ever.

sometime in the future... in the not so far away future, every single person in the world contributes daily or weekly or at least monthly to a blog, somewhere within the vast boundaries of the Net.&nb...
Posted by aleksandra-mckay on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 02:40:00 PST