YouTube’d memories: Hands Up
The other day, my teenager and I got into one of nowadays frequent verbal exchanges that end with her effectively telling me to mind my own business, since she is grown up and all that and is capable...
View ArticleMusical hits 40’s-90’s
I thought this was a really nice compilation of musical hits from 1940’s to 1990’s, so I figured I’d post a link here. It’s a Russian LiveJournal blog post, but the list is heavier on Western music...
View ArticleA Russian musical treasure exhibit
My tastes as far as Russian music is concerned more or less calcified at the point of my emigration. Whatever I liked then, I like now. New acts that sprouted in the last two decades – not so much....
View ArticleYouTube’d memories: Hafanana
Sometimes, the most insignificant of memories lodge themselves in one’s brain… I must have been four or five when I overheard my Mom and her girlfriends discussing comparative qualities of foreign...
View ArticleYouTube’d memories: Waltz from “Beware the automobile”
I have been wounding down this recurring feature on my blog, for lack of material. Unless I get a sudden flashback to some remarkable piece, I can no longer think of a non-Russian song or performer...
View ArticleBeing cool
I am getting into a car to go pick up my teenage daughter and a couple of her friends from a trip to the mall. Because I’ve been volunteered to deliver those kids to their homes, and because one of...
View ArticleFour chords
I think I’d do really well as a blogger if all I did was to borrow content from Exler. So here it is, two appropriations in a row. This is Axis of Awesome with an awesome demonstration that a huge...
View ArticleA New Year’s song performed by Becky
My Russian-speaking audience will enjoy this impromptu performance by Becky of the well-known New Year’s song, which she literally learned in an hour or so prior to going to her New Year’s party. Those...
View ArticleMah-nah-mah-nah
One of those songs that I cannot get out of my head for days once someone plants it there. Maybe, if I pass it on to someone… The post Mah-nah-mah-nah appeared first on Burlaki.com.
View ArticleHooked on Beatles
Last weekend we went for a movie screening of the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine, shown as part of New York International Children’s Film Festival. Lifelong Beatles fan that I am, I have never actually seen...
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