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Winter in the cemetery
No summer, when everything is in rampant bloom, can compare to the austere, white-and-black beauty of Winter. -
A quote from Baron von Ungern-Sternberg
The only ones who are able to preserve truth, good, honor, and customs, which are so cruelly trampled upon by the honorless people - revolutionaries, are tsars. It's only those who can safeguard religion and elevate faith on the earth. But people are self-interested, impudent, liars, have lost faith and given up truth; and there are no more tsars ( Read more... ) -
What an interesting woman is like
I deem a woman interesting if she has the tender soul and beautiful body of a woman combined with the intellect and the heart of a man.
Fyodor Shalyapin -
Sid and Nancy (1986 film about Sid Vicious and his muse)
The film would have been not bad at all but for the actress. I wonder WHY they decided that Chloe Webb matched the role in any conceivable sense. She is a total parody and I don't think that Nancy Spungen deserved such a terrible reincarnation of her ( Read more... ) -
Verse
Originally posted by stihi at Зажигалка-любовь
Зажигалка-любовь,
Окаянное пламя.
Оживаю с тобой,
Без тебя - доживаю.
Протлеваю свой век
Искрой воспоминанья.
Не найдётся ль огня?
Не найдётся, я знаю.
(The author did not introduce herself.) -
A comment about provocation in art
Если вы ценитель музыки, например, вам нужна будет не провокация, а музыка. То же с любым другим искусством. Провокация нужна прежде всего посредственности, чтобы пробиться, и простакам, чтобы выбраться иногда в музей, в театр, на концерт - ведь они ничего не понимают в искусстве, а "мы же тоже белые люди, и вкусы имеем-с". При этом она, конечно, ( Read more... )
