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yakalskovich

Nothing to tell

Oct 30, 2003 22:02

Would you believe it, the moment I get a space all of my own like this where I can put many months worth of blah and hoo, my mind is suddenly as empty as a dry bathtub? There is no effing thing worthwhile to write. Only the small and unimportant things to report like the entity entrusted with getting rid of all superfluous work having done his job ( Read more... )

varia, nazgul, rambling

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tekalynn October 30 2003, 23:11:34 UTC

(paprosii minyaaaaa...!)

We all know what tribe Snape, for example, would be if he was reborn as a Wraeththu a few centuries from now

We do? (Uigenna?) Inquiring minds, or at least this one, Want To Know.

I am frabjulated that you have an lj. And lord, you have a great prose style.

yakalskovich October 30 2003, 23:53:59 UTC

Ahh yes, you know tatu in the original as well. Why aren't I astonished? Really, in English they're a tad trite, but in Russian, they're really wild. The music feels different. I don't know what it is; I only know I wasn't so impressed with the girls before I heard them in Russian for the first time. Then I was. It's an open secret that all that lesbian act is a publicity stunt (sorry about that), but, singing in Russian, they have a fiery quality that the English language versions don't have.-

As for Snape's tribe, I meant the Garridan, of course, tribe of the poisoners; but you aren't far off as the Garridan, according the The Back of The Book, have incorporated many rogue Uigenna.-

tekalynn October 31 2003, 00:09:49 UTC

Garridan! Yes that's the merry band of psychotics I was thinking of. Lovely people, but if they offer you a sushi house special, decline politely and make a run for it before your innards do (sorry). I knew the Uigenna had something to do with them as well, but couldn't remember which group was which. Thanks.

I wouldn't say I "know" tatu or TATU or tAtU or however the hell they spell their name, but yeah, I have the Russian-language album, and most pleased I was to get it, too. Haven't the faintest idea what they're on about, of course, or even what the title tracks are, but oh well (yeah, I have their website bookmarked, I can look it up there).

I think they must be the first pop group in history to be in the closet about their heterosexuality. Kinda neat, in a disturbing sort of way.

yakalskovich October 31 2003, 00:23:51 UTC

I think they must be the first pop group in history to be in the closet about their heterosexuality. Kinda neat, in a disturbing sort of way.

It's really funny, isn't it? In any case, they're doing a great job for the acceptance of homosexuality in Russia where 70 years of communism has done great damage. Attitudes were slightly more relaxed before; there was that jargon expression that somebody who had a same-sex affair had made "a grammatical mistake", as in not being able to distiguish the masculine and feminine gender (the Russian language has those), and from this rather laid-back piece of ancient jargon I can't really recognise attitudes of utter abhorrence, can you? ;=)

In any case, the issue needs some working on in modern Russia, and tAtU definitely do a good job at opening the discussion, so hurrah for the closet hets nevertheless...