I’ve recently been in a church – for the first time in my life not as a tourist. It was build around 900 years ago, and looks really like this from outside. At first, I was confused, which one of the many doors to use and if I am, as a non-christ, supposed to enter the church at all. …
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Viktor Tsoi
Today, 19 years ago, Viktor Tsoi died in a car accident. He was one of the leading USSR rockers of 80ies. I was a teenager at that time and he was my idol. I used to come back from the school, lie down to the bed and start hearing his songs. Most of the days in the …
This Week in Twitter
Learned and tested ?????????. Interesting word choice for the 1st chapter: hungry and tired, you go out to eat bread, soup and rice # Powered by Twitter Tools
This Week in Twitter
Learned and tested ?????????. Interesting word choice for the 1st chapter: hungry and tired, you go out to eat bread, soup and rice # Powered by Twitter Tools
Tenderness
In the University where I’ve studied, there is a student theatre called Mannequin. Several years ago, they played a performance based on the short story of Henri Barbusse named Tenderness. I like the original story; so I want to share it with you. It is tiny but emotionally intense, dark but romantic, not really realistic, but with …
This Week in Twitter
In Russian, I can build 12 different cozy, informal names from the formal name ??. And seven of them would even sound good. # On2, a company developed probably most popular VP6 Flash video codec, is acquired by Google # "And then the market shifts…" How to grow properly: http://is.gd/24GyX (start from the slide 40). …
Stalker
Recently, I’ve watched the “Stalker” again, the 1979 cult movie of the cult Russian director Tarkovsky. The screenplay has been written by the most influential russian science fiction authors Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, based on their “Roadside Picnic”. In the movie, there is the Zone, an area full of strange and dangerous natural effects that cannot be explained by …