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Cypress Hill - Tequila Sunrise
Cypress Hill - Insane in the Membrane
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Rest in peace, Mstislav Rostropovich.
In 1989 he celebrated the demolition of the Berlin Wall by playing Bach’s cello suites amid the rubble; and he became a national hero in Russia in August 1991 when, without telling his wife, he flew from Paris to Moscow after the coup against President Gorbachev and joined Boris Yeltsin inside the besieged Parliament building.
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Twenty years earlier Rostropovich had fallen foul of Leonid Brezhnev and the Soviet hierarchy when he and Vishnevskaya publicly defended the dissident novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn and offered him accommodation in their home.
Full article here.
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Orion Books, according to the Times of London is going to start publishing select classics pared down by 30 to 40%. While I can't say I'm thrilled, exactly, I can't complain too much. I mean, I am the person who says that War and Peace can be summed up in five sentences, the last of which is, 'The End.'
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And, in personal news, I had thought I'd make it to 20K on L'Oiseau tonight, but I decided to cut 3K from the middle. I'm back up to 17K 18K now, but I'm not going to hit 20K. I've also come close to 6K on the new fic, tentatively titled Secrets and Shadows. I've thusly been productive, just not in the ways and the amounts I would've liked.
Cypress Hill - Insane in the Membrane
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Rest in peace, Mstislav Rostropovich.
In 1989 he celebrated the demolition of the Berlin Wall by playing Bach’s cello suites amid the rubble; and he became a national hero in Russia in August 1991 when, without telling his wife, he flew from Paris to Moscow after the coup against President Gorbachev and joined Boris Yeltsin inside the besieged Parliament building.
[...]
Twenty years earlier Rostropovich had fallen foul of Leonid Brezhnev and the Soviet hierarchy when he and Vishnevskaya publicly defended the dissident novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn and offered him accommodation in their home.
Full article here.
--
Orion Books, according to the Times of London is going to start publishing select classics pared down by 30 to 40%. While I can't say I'm thrilled, exactly, I can't complain too much. I mean, I am the person who says that War and Peace can be summed up in five sentences, the last of which is, 'The End.'
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And, in personal news, I had thought I'd make it to 20K on L'Oiseau tonight, but I decided to cut 3K from the middle. I'm back up to 17K 18K now, but I'm not going to hit 20K. I've also come close to 6K on the new fic, tentatively titled Secrets and Shadows. I've thusly been productive, just not in the ways and the amounts I would've liked.