Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Victor Khomenko on February 03, 2000 at 05:31:59:

In Reply to: ;-) posted by gnat on February 02, 2000 at 23:53:24:

***Uhh... muskets, arkebuses, arbalets are in order I guess?
Such gradual introduction is *vital* with that kind of hobby,
since these things can be USED against you... I dunno why but
sometimes wives are dangerous even without guns, right?

That is why it is so important to find the right one. I got one.

***My wife couterbalances by making endless secret phone calls to Victor
Kamkin - THE priemier perveyour of Russin literature in this part of the
world. Since we kicked our daugher out of the house, my wife moved in
and ocupied her former bedroom, demolishing the built-in closet to get
more space for bookshelves (while I was away for the show, of course...).
Then - boxes, and boxes and more boxes from Rockville (Kamkin's
base) and now she is talking about tearing down the wall - the shelves
in two rooms are full (and I am talking about two good size rooms) with
the stuff she could not get enough of while back in Peter.

Any hot new writers there? She is such bookworm...
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My *special* greetings to her, since we share same passion.

I shall forward this to her. She is still fuming a bit from one of your movie recommendation - can't recall which one - so I will let her know not everything is lost for you:-)

***Actually, last time I did research in modern writers myself was ~1990.
Well, there was Dm Galkovsky "Beskonechnyi Tupik". He's a follower of
Vas. Rosanov, so the book is an acquired taste.

Writing this down...

***Recently I asked my friend about new guys, he recommended Vic Pelevin
"Chapaev & Pustota". I've read it. Can't say I was heavily impressed,
but it wasn't a waste of time at least.

She read some other work of his - I think she was not too impressed either. Quite a name, BTW... really rolls off your tongue.

***There's Alexandra Marinina. Wannabe Agatha. Worth checking. Get ONE (any:)
of her EARLIER books. Last one or two are boring.

Yes, I have read a couple - frineds dumped bunch of latest detective stories on me. She was the better one.

***I like Maria Semenova, "Volkodav". I think it's a *literature*, despite
slight Konan-ness.

...writing down...

Ohh and personally for you, Tolstoi "War and Peace" of course! ;) There
is an interesting trick. It's kinda coctail. "W&P" has four parts, and
Dostoevsky "Karamasoff Bros" have four as well. Read these books in
*interleaved* order : 1st part of "W&P", 1st of "KB", 2nd of "W&P" and
so forth. I did it once. Stopped after 5th part of coctail. I wasn't
bored, but *scared* by spiritual experience. Unforgettable.
BTW, "War and Peace" title is wrong afaik. "Mir" should be translated
as "Society", not "Peace". This main meaning was hidden when spelling
changed in 1917, and before it "Mir-Peace" and "Mir-Society" were
written differently.

That is interesting... I don't recall that fact. I shall try my ladies tonight, see if they know that piece of trivia. Sorry to say, my years before the revolution were kind of numbered, so how were these two written? I presume one was with the yat'?

>>>
Is the drama theater active and kicking in Moscow? It looks like most people
in Peter had lost their interest in it - life is too complicated for that, I
guess. They used to kill for a BDT tickets... Is Moscow different?
<<<

***I feel like Peter kind of guy... lost interest in it. But from what
I heard, drama theater life in Moscow is quite active last years.

There is huge difference between the two cities. All busines seems to be in Moscow and Peter seems to be simply sliding back and back and back. That's a real shame to see that old tradition bend under the heavy reality.

Been by the Kremlin yet?