by balqan
Kalyi Jag was a Hungarian Gypsy music group that was active during the 80s and the 90s. They have given concerts all over the world and they were highly appreciated for the authenticity of their music. They among the last ambassadors of the rich and little known music tradition, that of the authentic Roma music [...]
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December 16th, 2008 by balqan | Posted in Music | No Comments
by casualb
In the Monday’s election, for the first time a candidate of the Quebec Solidaire party, Amir Khadir got elected. For those of you who are not familiar with Quebec politics, QS is a separatist (they want Quebec to be separated from Canada) political party with a leftist orientation. Click here to go to their English [...]
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December 11th, 2008 by casualb | Posted in Politics | No Comments
by balqan
Well, it’s another election, and just as the posters of different candidates in the federal elections are disappearing, we got the new ones, from PLQ, ADQ and PQ.
Going to the train station, every day I pass by a sign of the PQ candidate for the Acadie circumscription. It’s Marc-André Nolet, an accounting student at the [...]
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November 28th, 2008 by balqan | Posted in Politics | No Comments
by casualb
I just finished this rather thick book about the hostage crisis at the American Embassy in Tehran. This is the first time I read a book written by Bowden and I found him to be a an excellent story teller. It was a book that I could hardly put down and once over it, I [...]
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November 17th, 2008 by casualb | Posted in Literature | No Comments
by balqan
Last night the American people have elected Barack Obama, an African American as their next president. As the results were coming in, I could hardly believe my eyes, virtue has won over skin color and reason has defeated religious bigotry.
TV channels were streaming images of people celebrating on the street, cars were honking and a [...]
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November 5th, 2008 by balqan | Posted in Politics, Top News | 2 Comments
by casualb
The job
by trescourt
Written and Directed by Jonathan Browning
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November 1st, 2008 by casualb | Posted in Cinema, Entertainment | No Comments
by balqan
I found these guys on YouTube, and I think I’m not alone really enjoying what they do. They are the Goulasch Exotica, a group of three DJ from Hungary.
This song called Zöld Marci Nótája (the song of green Martin …) is about love and the hardships that come with it, comparing it to a whetstone.
Want [...]
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October 24th, 2008 by balqan | Posted in Music | No Comments
by balqan
I have the habit to go down every weekend to the video store and rent three movies, as the time passes it’s becoming a more and more difficult task, since there are less and less movies left that I’ve not seen or that I would spend time to watch.
This time after about 40 minutes of [...]
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October 13th, 2008 by balqan | Posted in Cinema | No Comments