A friend of mine wrote this in Russian, and I've stolen the text and loosely translated it because I can totally relate.....


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 What exactly that place and time is, would be determined by each person's individual experience. For me, it's France post WWI.Something very ancient, but with a hint of foreign hipsterism, soaked through with cheap red wine, the smell of Gitane cigarettes, and apaches dancing the tango in Monmartre That's probably because I was never forced to ( Read more... )

An acquaintance on FaceBook recently said that I have "adorable" and "creepy" reversed in my brain.
I am afraid I have to agree...or maybe there is a fine line between the two, and Ihave a different sense of where exactly it lies.And  I don't think I am alone in the way I percieve things.

For example...
Here's a blog I came across recently called Cake ( Read more... )

The degree of my removal from the Ruissian immigrant community mostly passes me by unnoticed
I mean, in my daily life my friends on LJ and the various comms I belong to are the extent of contact I require.

But during a trip across the street  to The Record Bar, Shaun, one of the owners, asked me which vodka he should serve to Mummyi Troll, who are ( Read more... )

Lately I've been thinking about the odd residue of folk beliefs and superstitions that continue to survive in my family, and my life by extension.
Some Russianbeliefs are the same as in all other places across the world...black cats, spilled salt, broken mirrors, horsehoes for good luck etc.
But it's the st more obscure ones, which are interesting to ( Read more... )

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Went to a 3-day music festival in Denver.


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Drove from Kansas City to Denver  last weekend, which is about the most mind-numbingly boring, featureless, and flat landscape in the US...okay, maybe the area around Austin, TX is comprable.

There were two visual highlights of the trip.
1) The multiple signs for an "Adult Superstore" strung along empty stretches of I-70 ( to entice lonely truck ( Read more... )

 
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Gioven enough time evemn the most shocking and graphic of a time period's depictions of human sexuality first become quaint, and then gain a respectability for presenting an insioght into human nature by virtue orf the years passed since publication.
Prte-Columbian pottery, friezes of Pompeii, and the illuminated manuscripts of the Dravidians cannot ( Read more... )