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Ninel
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I was born and lived in
Romania until just after the
Romanian Revolution, lived in
US during
George H. W. Bush,
Bill Clinton and
George W. Bush presidencies and now live in
Canada since
Stephen Harper's first PM term. My current main interests include
history,
numismatics,
linguistics,
phylogenetics,
cosmogony,
quantum mechanics,
finance,
math history,
number theory, and US/Canadian
politics. I am a borderline
compulsive hoarder and
bibliomaniac. I also have interests in
football,
baseball,
hockey and
basketball.
Some of my favorite authors and auteurs are (in semi-random order):
Jules Verne,
Charles Baudelaire,
Aldous Huxley,
Philip K. Dick,
Neal Stephenson,
Margaret Atwood,
Mircea Eliade,
Edgar Allan Poe,
H. P. Lovecraft,
Eugène Ionesco,
Stanley Kubrick,
Akira Kurosawa,
Ingmar Bergman,
Alfred Hitchcock,
Hayao Miyazaki,
Sergio Leone,
Krzysztof Kieślowski,
Wes Anderson,
Lars von Trier.
My music tastes are eclectic:
-
classical music/
symphonic music/
opera (e.g.
Bach,
Mahler,
Ravel,
Verdi,
Wagner,
Chopin)
-
choral music (e.g.
Mormon Tabernacle Choir,
Bulgarian Female Choir,
Russian Army Choir,
Vienna Boys' Choir)
- all varieties of
rock music/
pop music
-
world music/
new-age music (e.g.
Dead Can Dance,
Peter Gabriel,
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan,
Deep Forest)
-
electronica (e.g.
Vangelis,
Enigma,
Kraftwerk,
Armin van Buuren)
-
jazz (e.g.
Miles Davis,
The Bad Plus)
-
reggae (e.g.
The Police)
-
hip hop music/
rap (e.g.
N.W.A,
Snoop Dogg,
Beastie Boys,
Eminem)
-
Klezmer/
Romani music/
folk music (e.g.
Taraf de Haïdouks,
The Klezmatics)
-
space music (e.g. TC's podcast
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-
minimalism (e.g.
Philip Glass)
-
comedy music (e.g.
"Weird Al" Yankovic,
Jim Stafford,
Ada Milea) and
contemporary classical music (e.g.
Hania Rani).
See my wikipedia stats here:
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