About The Author

1977-1988 - Born in Toronto, ON, Canada; shits and giggles, breaks arm by running into an unlit Weber hibachi leg at family garage sale.
1989-1991 - Total geekery: collects fountain pens, obsessed with Garfield, wears a hat; changes schools, loses hat and friends.
1992-1994 - Makes new friends as part of non-smoking, ultra-nerdy one-step-above-chess-club, “French immersion clique,” starts zine called “Quit Gawking” and draws comic strip based on said friends, learns how to play guitar; gets on honour roll, takes computer science, enriched maths; changes high schools and enjoys being a total outsider, wins geography award despite this.
1995-1998 - Moves to Montreal, QC, maintains a solid A-/B+ as a creative writing major at Concordia; co-hosts Underground Sounds on CKUT, writes about music for Vice and Chart magazines, DJ’s at Bifteck and Blizzarts; acquires Farfisa VIP 500.
1999-2000 - Meets Murray, sees The Dears play at Barfly and subsequently joins the band; records End Of A Hollywood Bedtime Story, drinks a lot, hangs out with tortured artists; celebrates Y2K; graduates Concordia with Honours (nerd), but bombs the GRE because it’s too early in the morning; makes plans to move to New York; End of a Hollywood Bedtime Story is released in Canada; buys a NordElectro keyboard on layaway.
2001 - Moves in with Cousin Laura in Bed-Stuy, NY to complete concurrent internships at Matador Records and Paper Magazine; moves back to Montreal to do The Dears full-time: manages and administrates the band; learns HTML from a book.
2002-2006 - Tours and records with The Dears; quits being a music journalist; gets married, moves to Park-Ex and has a baby with Murray; tours and records with The Dears; finishes paying for NordElectro and adds Roland X6 keyboard to touring arsenal.
2007 - Starts this blog; tours and records with The Dears
2008 - TBA (but probably: tours and records with The Dears).

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Hi. I’m so self-conscious about this page that I changed it again (adding the timeline above). I started this blog so I could have a place to write about anything I wanted to. I feel like its constantly reshaping itself, changing the way I think about thinking. I love comments so bring them on. Thanks for reading this far into the tender awesomeness that is my life. Yours, Natalia

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