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October 10, 2018: Requiem for a Dream
Tsarist- and Soviet-era sounds found in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn
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![]() Добрый вечер |
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![]() Здравствуйте! Как дела, Гэри? |
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![]() Gang! |
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![]() Bodega! |
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![]() looking forward to your discoveries. again. |
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![]() how do we know this broadcast isn't sponsored by Russia Today? does Gary have an alibi for the Skripal poisonings? are there shadowy connections to banking oligarchs? I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS |
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![]() one oligarch could float WFMU for ever. |
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![]() @hyde - LOL!!! |
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![]() I only ate in Brighton Beach and visited gaudy Russian mobby clubs (my Russian friends thought I was crazy, but the kitsch is so over the top. |
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![]() I don't believe I've ever seen a happy Russian movie. The best "arty" ones makes one suicidal. Wait, I saw a decent Russian comedy in the 90s, can't remember the name. |
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![]() Tim! Michael! Hyde! Chresti! NGH! |
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![]() we recently re-watched Cronenberg's _Eastern Promises_ |
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![]() @Michael 98145 ooh, that's good stuff |
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![]() I have a copy of "окно в Париж" (Window to Paris) but haven't watched it yet. (www.imdb.com...) |
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![]() Have you all seen Requiem for a Dream? |
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![]() @Gary yes |
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![]() @Gary - I have not. |
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![]() @Tim -- Hyde and others may wish to qualify this, but to *me* ... it was pretty much the most viscerally depressing film I've ever seen. |
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![]() Bring on the oligarchs! |
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![]() Know where that is! Is the Black Sea Bookstore still open? Looks dead in the pic. FWIW, my first summer job ever (when I was 14) in the 1980s was at Mrs. Stahl’s knishes which would be about 10 to 20 steps to the right of this picture. |
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![]() If we have seen Requiem, i don't recall it -- and i love Jennifer Connelly ... |
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![]() More importantly, did Garry find the Trump pee tape. |
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![]() @Jake -- yeah, it's dead -- took that pic on Friday (a rare day off for us) |
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![]() I have not seen Requiem.. |
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![]() @JG, i think we learned that Black Sea is closed ... |
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![]() @Gary i have mixed feelings about Aronofsky, but i like that one. it is kind of depressing, but it's not Ingmar Bergen! |
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![]() Oy. Sad. They were the first Russian language bookstore in the neighborhood. Right across the street from where this pic was shot was this corner store/newsstand called “40 Thieves” and that was also the first place I played video games. |
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![]() (of course i mean Bergman, d'oh) |
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![]() Haha, I knew I'd be overrulled! |
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![]() Let's get Slavic |
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![]() Whoa, that's amazing, Jake |
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![]() Jeff! Your Loft show was freaking inCREDible! |
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![]() Darren Aronofsky is humorlessly depressing which is not what I find to be truly an Eastern European attitude. There is humor in the darkness… Unless you are Darren Aronofsky. That said, “Requiem for a Dream” is the only film ever to capture a unique bit of awkwardness growing up in Brighton Beach: Having to constantly walk past aging old Jewish yentas when you left your building. Holy crap did that stress me as a teen. |
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![]() Here's that show: wfmu.org... |
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![]() Grew up there when the neighborhood was more of a “Lower East Side by the Sea” instead of the predominantly Russian neighborhood it is now. Got to see it transition! Awkward and sad. |
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![]() Track suit, check. gaudy Russian Orthodox gold chains, check. Double eagle Romanov tat, check. improbably cheap cigarettes, check. vodka, check. Slav squatting commencing, check. ok, I'm ready for this show! |
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![]() ohmigod, i missed that @Jeff Golick show. Never around on Sunday mornings of late. will rectify |
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![]() Floor dweller! Welcome! |
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![]() THANKS, GARY! |
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![]() also. i need that Loft Jazz book. i finally got the Val Wilmer free jazz book, that might be my next purchase for music reading |
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![]() happy to be here :) |
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![]() It helped make my commute feel less like torture and more like a listening opportunity |
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![]() @ngh that's the whole package. try not to die young |
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![]() whoa - looks like i need to check out this archive, thanks. www.wfmu.org... |
Wed. 10/10/18 7:34pm
Ike:
Nargis Cafe for the win! | |
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![]() Wow, this Viktor Tsoi is from '82!?? (new to me and digdug!) |
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![]() Ike! and, NGH, no it was a tribute to Tsoi, not Tsoi himself -- at least, I don't *think* |
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![]() And speaking of Korean Russians, I ate here: www.yelp.com... |
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![]() i expect to have heard nearly none of tonight's music. yay! |
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![]() @Gary, wow. Far from the left coast, but sure sounds like a great place. |
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![]() @Gary ooh, that looks good. when i had a business trip to Jersey City, I bookmarked this Korean-Russian place called Honey Bakery but didnt get there: www.honeybakerynyc.com |
Wed. 10/10/18 7:41pm
Doug Schulkind:
Hello Gary, Master of Ears! | |
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![]() How was Cafe at Your Mother-in-Law, @Gary? |
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![]() Comrade Schulkind! |
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![]() @Doug yay, always good to see you! |
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![]() I had an Uzbeki noodle soup that I would totally order again. Plust the bread. OMG, the bread |
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![]() There's a significant Korean minority Korean population Kazakhstan, due to Stalin deporting a huge Korean ethnicity fleeing to Russia from the atrocities of the Japanese. Actually they are all over the former USSR, mostly in Russia and Uzbekistan as well. |
Wed. 10/10/18 7:45pm
Ike:
I’ve been to Cafe at Your Mother-in-Law! Not bad, but not as good as Nargis IMHO. | |
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![]() NGH, yes! |
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![]() i always thought of Koreans as the Slavs of Asia -- because of them being overrun ... and their sensibilities, i suppose. |
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![]() I need to try Nargis |
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![]() HotTip™: If you want to see some of the most depressed holiday workers on Earth on Thanksgiving, head over to Brighton Beach. The stores that are open—mostly the Turkish shops—are staffed by Uyghur's and holy crap do they scowl on that day. |
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![]() the order you back announce is more intuitive |
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![]() that describes a real dj, pal |
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![]() Michael 98145- me too! |
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![]() more "ethnic" |
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![]() How To Scowl — a course in non-violent dissuasion. |
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Wed. 10/10/18 8:06pm
glenn:
turn that smile upside down. or something. |
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![]() Ok, leaving work, hear ya at home! |
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![]() @Brian: It really is. |
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![]() @Gary: So do you go to that record shop that is on Brighton 2nd Street? On the corner across from Saint Petersburg records and gifts and all that? |
Wed. 10/10/18 8:13pm
Ike:
There’s a Nargis location in Park Slope now, so that’s convenient. Though it doesn’t have the TVs playing ridiculous Russian music videos, so you lose some of the proper atmosphere. | |
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![]() or.."country" |
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![]() And I know there is also that corner shop on 5th Street where I’ve seen burned CD-Rs being burned on demand. What a country! |
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![]() Jake, yes! Most of this is from there ... RCB Video, yes? |
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![]() Brian and Glenn ... welcome! |
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![]() @Gary: Cool! Saint Petersburg books used to be the neighborhood toy store, “Youth World.” This guy who had family in the neighborhood back then took this cool shot of the space in the pre-Russian days. gothamist.com... |
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![]() Holy Shit! Those are amazing photos |
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![]() They are! Also notice a toy store for kids also sold tons of folding chairs to the old people in the neighborhood so they could sit in front of buildings and judge the young people with their fun toys. |
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![]() those are great @jake. |
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![]() Haha ... get off of my gum-pocked sidewalk! |
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![]() @Gary: One time I was walking down the street with stiff legs as a kid as a fun joke for myself and some old guy just shouted, “BEND YOUR KNEES!” |
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![]() @jake those are great |
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![]() thank you again. must rejoin you all in archive-time. |
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![]() Hy there, hyde! |
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![]() Night, Michael! |
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![]() back! |
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![]() GOD I FUCKING HATE SOCIAL MEDIA |
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![]() Sorry; just had to get that off my chest |
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![]() Is there a band called "the Comrades" |
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![]() I keep thinking of The Lawrence Welk show during Disco Club- 15 (B) |
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![]() There has *got* to be a The Comrades band |
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![]() has to be |
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![]() <3 |
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![]() This dude is the Nick Drake of the CCCP |
Wed. 10/10/18 8:51pm
Dean:
GOD I FUCKING HATE THE INTERNET, AND THE PRINTING PRESS, AND CARS Pitched in, 'cuz I think I had to defer last week...? | |
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![]() Ha ha Dean |
Wed. 10/10/18 8:54pm
Dean:
One of the things about the internet I hate is the pretense that new is better. The new pop-up, for example, has much lower volume than the former one. | |
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![]() Haha ... HI DEAN!!!!! |
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![]() Dean, can't you listen to the 128k? (I'm guessing the answer is no) |
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![]() AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROUS PLEDGE!!! |
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![]() I am not familiar with Nick Drake |
Wed. 10/10/18 8:57pm
Dean:
Not on a Chromebook, or at least not on my 5 1/2 year old Chromebook. I really am skeptical of the value/impact of the printing press. I think we have enough experience by now to recognize that many people are not interested in reading. Why, then, should they? This, from a librarian. | |
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![]() food above chin! |
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![]() OMG, Chreti -- you gotta go do some Nick Drake googlin |
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![]() What it sounded like he was saying... |
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![]() Batshlachev, new to me! |
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![]() After this track, we're going to dive into a 30-minute set of EXTREMELY DEPRESSING MUSIC from the tsarist / early revolutionary era ... |
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![]() Lots to say about Bashlachev ... will see how much I remember at the break |
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![]() I mean, I've seen his name and all- just have not heard any of his music, to my knowledge |
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![]() You should play some Иван Павлов (CoH). A mainstay at Raster-Noton Records, his output is on the more minimal side of Pan Sonic. Probably my favorite contemporary Russian electronic musician. |
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![]() I was wondering how undercover some of the artists were |
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![]() Most of this is new to me-except Egor, I think |
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![]() I might be confusing Egor with Igor |
Wed. 10/10/18 9:12pm
Dean:
franken-STEEN | |
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![]() I have something by CoH, actually, NGH, but it falls past the timeline of tonight's show |
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![]() this is so depressing that i wish i had a sable to skin |
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![]() there is no sable, no potato, just a dry crust of bread and antifreeze. Such is life in Rusiya. |
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![]() That is depressing |
Wed. 10/10/18 9:19pm
Dean:
I got yer depressing. Pop-up now reads, "Service temporarily unavailable." Being an optimist, I take that to mean, "Service temporarily available," too. | |
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![]() Sadness! |
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![]() The only people who are more depressed then Russians are the Finns (and they have it rather good) (Greenlanders also neck and neck there w depression). |
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![]() Happy Wednesday Everyone!! |
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![]() Happy? Stick around a bit, coelacanth∅ ... :) |
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![]() there is no happiness |
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![]() whoa, what did i do to my user name? haha, there is happiness |
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![]() i don't need help being depressed, thank you |
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![]() we must accept Depression Wednesdays, it's for our own morale and happiness. |
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Wed. 10/10/18 9:26pm
Dean:
hump day | |
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![]() *this post is just to clear that all out* coff coff hack |
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![]() Dean, if only... |
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![]() What? |
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![]() @Gary oh no |
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![]() Remember, our glorious leaders of the Russian Soviet have declared that happiness is mandatory, so let your informers, errr.... neighbors, see those pearly whites, errrr... gums.... |
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![]() Hey all you Krazy Kidz ... right after this show? Larry Grogan will TESTIFY! (starting at 10 PM-ish), with an episode promising "The Sound of God": wfmu.org... |
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![]() it's all salt mines all the way down |
Wed. 10/10/18 9:31pm
Funky16corners:
Gary! | |
Wed. 10/10/18 9:31pm
Dean Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, cu diam moderati:
Unknown sewing machine | |
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![]() Wallow that piano! |
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![]() Larry! Tell us about the Sound of God! |
Wed. 10/10/18 9:33pm
Funky16corners:
Any chance of Mischa Auer singing ‘O Chechornya’? | |
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![]() maybe i'm happy i don't know what he's saying ...so - happy! |
Wed. 10/10/18 9:34pm
Funky16corners:
Gary - The sounds of all kinds of musicians attempting to address the divine, many sincerely, others maybe not... | |
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![]() this is so sad I'm laughing |
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![]() I was sad before now I laugh |
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![]() salt mines, I wish, my extended family was sent to the dirt mines, to provide dirt and bones for the salt mines. The bonus, we got two handfuls of dirt if we filled quota, such joyous time! I cry w/ happiness of such memories I make tears. |
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![]() that's why they're so morose! They're sots! |
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![]() Oddly enough TCM was showing Dr Zhivago tonight, filled with icy, Siberian austerity. |
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![]() now, no tears, must conserve tears for baby detka. |
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![]() nyet yet |
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![]() i wish i had a saab |
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![]() yet! yet! |
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![]() and oddly dr. zhivago came up in conversation a few days ago, in my non-fmu life. i saw it on tv i was maybe 8? and it was probably the first drama movie i liked, and the first movie i appreciated for the acting and the scenery. |
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![]() I'm a huge David Lean fan, so I will always stop to watch it. |
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![]() @coel cool movie. nicholas roeg shot some of that |
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![]() Whoa, he did? |
Wed. 10/10/18 9:47pm
Dean:
I do not like film. The medium variously bores and upsets me. I'll never get the attraction. | |
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![]() Haha |
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![]() snicker |
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![]() Wow, this track is epic - good call! |
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![]() Tim! I love love love love love this band, and yes, this track in particular ... lemme know if you want me to send along some tracks |
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![]() I've never seen Dr, Zhivago |
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![]() i did a "photoshoot" with a woman from siberia (pronounced see-beer-e-uh) and when i said we're going to do some b/w she said no. i didn't understand but she explained that that's all they had in siberia. fortunately she relented and those are by far the best shots. |
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![]() Thanks, Gary, wonderful, amazing show. dobroy nochi! |
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![]() thanks Gary! |
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![]() I love Lawrence of Arabia-I saw it on tv |
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![]() Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful! Thanks, Gary! |
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![]() Thanks Gary! |
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![]() Thanks Gary |
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![]() Night, everyone -- thank you so much for hanging out! |
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![]() funtime! |
Fri. 10/19/18 3:36pm
Marie:
Fabuloso, Gary! Thanks! I love Brighton Beach, the beach (have yet to explore the neighborhood--I want to go some cold evening and eat at a Russian restaurant), and also really liked the movie "Requiem for a Dream"--was just telling a friend about it | |
Fri. 10/19/18 4:38pm
Marie:
So much really beautiful music. "Eternal Spring" is amazink. Thanks again Gary. | |
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