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Nov 05, 2011 00:46

Can someone become a hipster by accident? I don't smoke anything, drink Pabst or any kind of coffee, wear large glasses, sun or otherwise, or sport funky angular hair in colors never found on mammalian heads in nature. I do not live in Brooklyn, and I don't own a fixed-gear bike, or any bike for that matter. All the computers in my house run ( Read more... )

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hamsterwoman November 5 2011, 05:59:01 UTC
You cut off your hair?

Also, do YouTube links exist for the Czech gypsy rap / renegade philologist singing old Soviet propaganda songs in Yiddish to a klezmer band? That sounds pretty much up our alley! :)

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axmxz November 5 2011, 06:17:11 UTC
I did! There are pictures up on Facebook - are you there at all? I'm Anna Zaigraeva.

Here are the Czech gypsies.

I haven't managed to find the Soviet klezmer songs I was looking for, but here's the same guy singing this:

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hamsterwoman November 5 2011, 06:34:23 UTC
Thank you! The gypsies, especially, are quite wonderful!

BTW, the idea of Soviet songs in Yiddish reminds me, have I ever linked to this song:

I think it affects me more because I can understand some of the Heberew, but, just, total brain-skew, between the melody, lyrics, and essentially Russian pronunciation of the Hebrew words.

I log into Facebook once every couple of months, mainly when someone messages me, but I shall have to remember to do so and friend you on there!

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axmxz November 5 2011, 06:37:02 UTC
I played the first couple of seconds and started laughing again - this bizarre number has been a treadmill favorite of mine for a couple of years now. Can you please tell me what the HELL it is about?! I am Hebrewless, so I've been wracking/wrecking/raking my brains for ages...

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