8 августа 2019. Екабпилс, Латвия. Стилизованный бело-голубой щит на домах – общелатышский и заметный издалека знак “Памятник культуры” (Kultūras piemineklis). А.Ч. Впервые опубликовано в телеграм-канале “Секретарь повседневности”…
Month: August 2019
Narva Rail Terminal (1953), considered one of the most precious (because rare) examples of Stalin Neorenaissance in Estonia, therefore, protected by law. Appreciate the capitals.…
7 августа 2019. Валмиера, Латвия. На латышское кладбище меня занесло впервые, и пока я дальше добираюсь из Валмиеры к Мáдоне, немного любопытных наблюдений. Почти везде…
Nikolaj Aseev wrote only one poem of importance, but his whole life seems to be concentrated in it. Я не могу без тебя жить!Мне и в…
Omega‘s “Adventi Koncert” was such a huge success that they made a whole regular concert program out of it. It is worth not only listening to them…
Я долго искал, чем проиллюстрировать странное состояние в стране в последние дни. Цицероновским офигеванием. Примерно таким же: Mecum leges, mecum quaestiones, mecum iura magistratuum, mecum…
Antanas A. Jonynas (b. 1953) is a famous Lithuanian poet, and one his texts was sung in the early 2010s by a composer and performer Giedrius Arbačiauskas (1971).…
To finish this day on a more positive note, I will quote one marvelous book I bought and read recently. It is quite specific, cos…
Still pondering over what was happening in Moscow today, I keep thinking of one of the most dramatic moments in Roger Water’s “The Wall” (1982) in the…
Florent Pagny is mostly famous for his programmatic liberty song, in which he puts the freedom of thought above everything. Je peux bien vendre mon âme…