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Title: Gravestones of The Russian Mafia
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Sad and Useless Humor
URL Source: http://www.sadanduseless.com/2015/02/russian-mob-gravestones/
Published: Aug 18, 2017
Author: Unknown
Post Date: 2017-08-18 16:09:20 by A Pole
Keywords: Mafia, Russian, crime
Views: 9336
Comments: 29
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#1. To: A Pole (#0)
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They don't live to be very old, it seems. The gravestones look like the typical bad taste of the nouveau riche. I kinda liked the first one, where the sculptor tried to show the wind blowing his tie aside, revealing his little pot belly more. Those buttons on his belly are stretched tight.
Russians tend to have an artistic flair, even the gangsters. That is why Americans play on July 4th Russian music (commemorating 1812 victory over Napoleon) Here is "The Sacred War" song - victorious war against 3rd Reich
The Russian people had every reason to be proud, they nearly single handed beat the Nazis into submission. If the US hadn't taken care of Japan, it would have turned out a lot worse, but the Germans...they kicked the living shit out of them.
Here are a few very different Russian songs Russian shaman lady "Blessing of Nature":
Considering what Poland suffered at the hands of Russia over the centuries, it's rare for a Pole to like Russian culture and Russian politics as much as you do.
What he loves is communism,so Russia to him is like Vatican City is to Catholics.
He never talks about Polish culture and Polish politics with the same enthusiasm as he does with Russia. It is striking.
I love Witkiewicz, Gombrowicz, Galczynski and several others. They speak to my heart, especially the first one. Unfortunately they are hard to translate and not very relevant to you. There are Polish songs I like, for example these two, but you might not. Tell me what you think: Maria Peszek - Dog People, "we will eat sadness with large spoons" "we will go to steal peace from human hearts" This is a political song by Jacek Kaczmarski "Mury was the anthem of the Polish trade union Solidarno[ (Solidarity), which was instrumental in bringing about the fall of communism in Poland in the 1980s. Ironically, the last couple stanzas were rarely broadcast for being too pessimistic, though they offer a profound and ominous warning"
This is more joyful, "In my little garden":
Where's your Chopin? Are you even Polish?
I am Polish with some admixtures (but no Russian blood). I respect Chopin greatly, but does he not move me, I am not sure why. Bach or Wagner on other hand do move me. I know, they are German, is it treacherous according to you? Which American composers do you like or recommend?
None really. I don't even consider the Gershwins to be serious composers. Classical music is simply not native to America. We have many other kinds of music but we do not do classical well other than some decent repertory performances and an occasional star solo performer.
Here is another one - Hujawiak (pron. Khuyaviak - ie Bonersong) I translated lyrics specially for you. Here it comes:
It's boring. You should have saved your keystrokes.
How do you explain million plus YT views in a much smaller country? You just don't understand music, cultural context and nuances. You wanted Polish stuff and now you are whining. Russian music is more universal and more forceful, easier to get at least a part of it for you, maybe 20% max I guess. You said: "Classical music is simply not native to America." Really, how is it possible? BTW, translating such text is a hard work, it is not just keystrokes.
I was correct too. American composers simply do not have the intellectual heft of the old European masters. They lack their own voice and they always have. America has plenty of music styles but almost nothing in the classical genre. You're entirely off-topic on your own thread. Did you just want some meandering chit-chat thread for you to spew your usual anti-Western bile? You didn't ever have anything to say about the graves of Russian mafia dons to begin with, it seems.
You really seem to be flatfooted and tone deaf. Do you want me to explain the esthetics of those gravestones? OK, here you have old traditional American gravestone to compare: You see, I appreciate Puritan austere simplicity of it. But indeed in such severe soil classic music might have problems with sprouting. Or fairy tales.
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#2. To: Tooconservative (#1)
I kinda liked the first one, where the sculptor tried to show the wind blowing his tie aside, revealing his little pot belly more.
#5. To: A Pole (#2)
#8. To: jeremiad, Tooconservative, sneakypete (#5)
#9. To: A Pole (#8)
#10. To: Tooconservative, A Pole (#9)
Considering what Poland suffered at the hands of Russia over the centuries, it's rare for a Pole to like Russian culture and Russian politics as much as you do.
#11. To: sneakypete (#10)
#13. To: Tooconservative (#11)
(Edited)
He never talks about Polish culture and Polish politics with the same enthusiasm as he does with Russia.
#14. To: Tooconservative, sneakypete (#13)
#15. To: A Pole (#14)
#16. To: Tooconservative (#15)
Where's your Chopin? Are you even Polish?
#17. To: A Pole (#16)
(Edited)
Which American composers do you like or recommend?
#20. To: Tooconservative (#17)
Lick me, I'm Polish,
or if you prefer,
you can salt me,
or crumple.
Lick me, I'm Polish,
or if you prefer,
you can salt me,
or crumple.
I don't know, I'm looking
at various doors I knock.
Knock knock, fuck fuck
fuck you, how do you do?
I am walking around
knock and huff,
huff and fuck
(the whole repeated)
#21. To: A Pole (#20)
#22. To: Tooconservative (#21)
It's boring. You should have saved your keystrokes.
#23. To: A Pole (#22)
(Edited)
You said: "Classical music is simply not native to America." Really, how is it possible?
#27. To: Tooconservative (#23)
You didn't ever have anything to say about the graves of Russian mafia dons to begin with, it seems.
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