It’s been a couple of years already that Mr Freeman has been the mystery no. 1 on the Russian Internet. Although there have been many a guess who may be hiding behind this matchstick man, the re...
What would have happened if we had never had this wildly passionate and funny performance of Suspicious Minds? Apart from seeing the range of Presley’s singing and acting abilities, we wouldn...
I noticed that this year I didn’t make a big deal, if any, out of two events. One was this blog’s 4th anniversary; another – my birthday. The anniversary was in August when I was on ...
La Bergamasca, as Britannica tells us, is a lusty 16th century Italian dance; given that it is mentioned in Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream as bergomask, this can surely be seen as t...
Exegi Monument, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. My parents and I went recently to Kuskovo, a Moscow residence of the famous noble family of the Sheremetievs. The father, Pyotr, and his son...
The song It Don’t Come Easy was co-written by Ringo Starr and George Harrison. It became Ringo’s first UK solo release following the Beatles’ breakup. In this video, however, it is G...
In continuation with various translations of Russian poetry, here is an amazing example of work by Innokenty Smoktunovsky. In 1982 he recorded a TV programme dedicated to Alexander Pushkin, and this p...
I know that when I’ve written Parma Ham, I’m going to dedicate it to the world’s largest direct marketing company. But while I’m writing that one, Reed.co.uk, a UK job advertis...
This may or may not be surprising, but the song I absolutely love is I Say a Little Prayer for You. It’s a kind of a good omen song: whenever I hear it, good things happen. A dull party begins t...
I don’t always go back and republish the posts but now and again I simply have to draw the reader’s attention. I have just discovered Mina’s cover of Love Me Please Love Me that we m...