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Anka072
:) Hope your exams are going well (if you haven't finished them yet) and if you have, then congratulations! You have come out from the hell called Exam Period alive. Such a stressful month June is. Urgh! And I agree, it's certainly a positive one. The number of new artists have doubled in my library over the past month (I became an active user only recently), and I'm on a quest to work my way through them over the summer. So that's why summer sorted. :D hm, the first band that comes to mind is Elbow, and (though ashamed to confess ) I have only just rediscovered U2. They are the missing puzzle to my playlist. I've got another question. What's the most interesting thing that you have come across in your course this year and you feel like everyone should know it?
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Anka072
Have been busy with exam preparations recently. At last it's Friday and I feel like I can allow myself a bit of last.fm time. ( I'm afraid soon I'll be addicted to this website). Thanks a lot for the suggestion! It's such a shame that these sort of artists never get anywhere near the recognition that they deserve. Have you seen them live? I must say there is so much positivity flowing through your page, your posts, your shouts, your music...I honestly feel like I have discovered a treasure.
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DrMojoRising
I'm glad you liked [artist]Lotte Kestner[/artist]. She's one of fav bedtime lullaby singers... real chill without a pill kinda stuff. If you've got anything like that, it would be more than welcome. I've even been listening to instrumental jazz when I come home so tired. Anyway, have a wondrous weekend... in the sun, perhaps?
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DrMojoRising
So how are your studies going? How do you get through those cold winters day after day? I know in that book of St. Peter all the pics were taken in summer... a great tourist promotion ;). I'm sure the city covered in snow is beautiful for a few weeks, but for me after that novelty wears off... well, I don't know how I'd cope :-o. Oh yeah, that li'le pic you see on my Last.fm page of the steaming boat through the ice flow. Well, that was apart of a your history. It was from a World War II merchant convoy steaming off to Russia. I did a massive Photoshop restoration of the image. Perhaps I should donate it to your country ;))? Does the Baltic sea get these ice flows? And what about the Neva river: does it freeze over in winter?
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DrMojoRising
I was thinking of u a few weeks ago, 'cause i went round to a friend of my mums and low and behold there was a rather large coffee table book of St. Peter on the kitchen table. As I flicked through it, I was left agog by the stunning architectural and cultural beauty of the city... it's on par with Paris (i've been there). My mum's friend is going on a cruise from the UK to St. Peter... to spend a *whole day* there! Don't how much u can do in that time. I thought I could spend a whole week going around exploring all the different buildings, museums, churches and art galleries. I know you mentioned it has opened up to tourism, but I think there's still perhaps a stigma related to the Soviet era: without all the communism, St. Peter would be recognised as one of the top 5 of 10 cities in the world... up there with Paris, London and NY. A real travesty; however, I think it will be one of those cities in perhaps another 20 years when it gets more widely promoted.
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DrMojoRising
Yeah, my current avi pic is one of my originals... a bit psycho hey (:'>? How do you think that would go in The Hermitage? Might keep people away! haha... especially if they posted it out the front somewhere. So how do you appraise art in context? That pic (it's A3 size) was drawn with a bunch of coloured textas (I only needed black & red) in just 2 hrs. How do you compare that to a work that's been done with a complete palate of oils/acrylics that has taken weeks to paint? Anyway, it represents better than words the way i've been feeling of late. I didn't really like it at first, but I've grown to accept it... the guy who did the pro scan of it liked it. It always surprises me... when someone likes something you don't like... but i guess that's the same with music. I'm sure you must have debates with classmates about works of art as well?
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DrMojoRising
Okay so it's been a long time between shouts... sooorreee :(. Yeah it's summer here and i don't really spend much time at home... I've been going out swimming down the beach, kayaking & hiking amongst many adventurous things I like doing. Yeah I even went for a swim of over a km in the ocean this afternoon. I'm kinda training for these long distance ocean swims. I did one last year... 2.3 km around Shark Island... ooooh, sounds scary hah? They also have another one around Wedding Cake Island... now that sounds more romantic? I often come home and want to drop a shout, but am too tired & have been stressed out, so haven't spent much time on last.fm. When I came home this eve, I fell asleep after listening to two songs of Mother Mother & all I've had for dinner is 2L of choc milk!!!!
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DrMojoRising
Okay, I did go in search of Nikolai Mirlikiisky, but got lots o' pious pics. So I tried looking for Grandfather Frost: is this the [url=http://imgur.com/gallery/4sX9i]ridgy-didge outfit[/url] (yeah, that's an Aussie colloquialism for bona fide) or is this [url=http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/towering-trees-grandfather-frost-and-4-parties/207634.html]simpler costume[/url] more what the average Grandfather Frost looks like? I think he's better suited to Christmas in Australia on the beach. Yeah, the blue and white matches the ocean and waves, very nicely ;)). I think I'll order one in time for next Christmas and parade around on the beach dressed in that garb (:'> Can I order one on Russian eBay?? haha
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DrMojoRising
Are ya trying to learn German? (:'> Well you're well and truly addicted to Rammstein at the moment. Hopefully it's only music, nothin' illicit ;)?? Although it would've been under the old régime, so you're lucky^^. When I heard Rammstein as interlude music between support acts at a concert last year, I really loved it; but only 'cause it was coming out these awesome speakers. Hard rock / metal sounds crap out of li'le computer speakers... but since I got these audiophile speakers, I'm listening to some harder stuff... well, during the day anyway... neighbours at night ;)
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DrMojoRising
Fear not the year past went so fast, and if it were fraught with bane, the pain will have taught you to feel fain once again. So ween for little in 2015 and indeed all will supervene ;). Off now... search for the gleam of a moonbeam and... dream! :)
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DrMojoRising
Indeed your perfectionism is perspicuous ;). My entire Last.fm page is a homage to my own perfectionistic fatuity! LOL. I've scoured the Internet for hours for many of those images you see on my page, then spent an inordinate amount of time modifying them to my own predilections: they're kinda like cover versions of songs. Being supercilious, I think my re-interpretations are always better than the originals ;) haha. At best, perfectionism is a curse; at worst a disease. Life doesn't always go as we hope or plan and when it doesn't, if you're still holding onto those perfectionistic ideals, well you'll probably be beset with melancholy. From your nom de plume, I think that's a hint at your woes. If you can absolve yourself of those perfectionistic tendencies, the reality is you'll achieve more in your professional life and lead a happier personal one. I know it's hard to believe, but it's true. I still grapple with this existential concept :(.
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DrMojoRising
Yeah, my PhD was in biochemical engineering, but I've always had art in my heart with an enterprising bent. I'm dabbling in painting at the moment in my spare time. It's rather serendipitous that you're a Russian studying art history, because my artistic muse is Wassily Kandinsky. I love his dissonance between geometry and free-form work. I'm sure you must know a great deal about him. I'd really like to read an autobiography about his life; in English! That's not that easy to find. I've only read snippets about him on the Internet. When you study art history, are you learning about the evolution of techniques and movements or about the sociological relationship between art and the cultural zeitgeist? This must sound like an essay question ;) haha. I do believe St. Peter is an enrapturing city more so than Moscow: after all you've got The Hermitage!
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DrMojoRising
I got back from my misadventure on the weekend... battered and bruised... ouch! I got your shouts when I was laying in a tent not far from where you see that new pic on my page. I was rocked to sleep listening to the ocean's roar by night. I went for a midnight walk in a T-shirt and shorts under the stars down to the beach and did some stargazing. I did plenty of crazy things... apart from being smashed in the nose with a surfboard, I fell off a horse riding bareback straight into the waves! The hang gliding was exhilarating: I know why birds are so happy ;)). No doubt, the polar opposite of your world ;). Do you have to wear a hat when you go outside like than female Russian soldier on my page? Even though everything is frozen, can't you go ice-skating? The one time I hate being in Australia is at Christmas time when it's stinkin hot... there ain't no cheer here; it feels oh so queer ;). I'll check out your Russian music in the New Year, no fear ;).
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DrMojoRising
thnx 4 all the shouts.... i'm in atown 800 km north of Sydney... it feels like Frankfurt airport by the beach... all i hear is German French Dutch & sometimes Slavic languages being spoken.... sometimes even English ;)) Went horse riding along the beach & then bareback straight into the ocean... of course i fell off my horse LOL & couldnt get back on :(. It's almost too hot. So how is life in St P?
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DrMojoRising
Yeah, I also stole System of a Down & Dead Sara from u as well. I did find this Russian band, PPK (ППК) by chance and it appears to be some kinda trance, not something to which you can dance or prance without a lance perhaps ;)). Ich mache eine Reise shon. Bis später mal. :))
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DrMojoRising
It's really interesting reading your shouts. I dropped German 'cause I was doing a PhD at the time and things got too hectic. The biggest problem I had learning German was my English grammar sucked... like most of us folk in English speaking countries. Don't be surprised, but your English is probability better than many native speakers. Really! Perhaps us Anglophones are probably arrogant in a way ;))... I think the schooling systems expect the rest of the world to learn English!! It's almost become the universal language, but like you, it's fun learning another one. In Australia though, we're so far away from everyone else, most people don't feel a need... you kinda need a friend or two to chat with to practice :((. Oh yeah, my grandparents emigrated from Kaliningrad when it was Königsberg: a part of Prussia not Russia ;). I'd like to visit the city, but some Lithuanian friends said it's too dangerous ;)) LOL?? What do you think?
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DrMojoRising
and hey, Last.fm isn't an English exam (:'> LOL. You don't need to worry about any spelling / grammar mistakes. My maternal grandparents emigrated to Germany from Kaliningrad; now part of your country ;). I studied German at uni for a li'le while & our teacher told us Russian was one of the most difficult languages to learn. Do you think that's true? What I found, once you learn another language, it's easy to learn others... but I think I'll skip Russian ;)). I can understand why others get crazy bout learning em... it's fun^^ Do want to learn any other languages?
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DrMojoRising
thnx for all those recommendations Ann :). Doesn't really matter what music we have in common... there isn't much i don't like. Sometimes I just haven't gotten round to an artist i know yet. I'll download some of your suggestions... oh yeah, I also stole a few other random bands from your lib. Those sidebar band names are a great way to pick something and just try it (; I looked for those two Russian artists u suggested, but i can't find em anywhere :(. where do you get that kind o music from? I do have one Russian band in my collection: [artist]Mooncake[/artist] but that was just serendipity ;).
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DrMojoRising
i was vacillating as to what to do with the about me section of my page... was gonna delete it, but your compliment staved it from getting the axe :-o. thx!! you've got some interesting artists... anything u can recommend? does everyone learn english in Russia now? clever nick (:'>
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arrazolavguille
Hello there! thank you for accepting the friend request, you have a great tracklist, greetings from Mexico and have a good week :)
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Marentora06
Hi my friend! ;) I hadn't so much time, because of my final exams in high school, but everything is done and I'm waiting for the results. I hope, I get to the Finnish studies at the University of Warsaw. My life changed, but now I'm happy, because I do what I really want :) Recently I started a cooperation with a band called Reskrypt. My friends needed some help to promote their music, I was interested in their music skills and I thought I help them a little bit. Here's their fanpage: https://www.facebook.com/Reskrypt - they need likes to go on their first tour. You can listen their music here, there are 2 movies from the studio, but they need a support to make something more and go on stage. They won a music competition, but in Poland everything is harder. If you can, I'll be grateful for your help :) And what's about you?
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Mortenmetal
When I read: ...I want to know life better, I want to know new people, new languages, new books and new music. Which is why I am here... I felt that was I, which was speaking! You are fantastic! A curious mind, and in constant search of knowledge. There is so much, that the life is too short to get bored!
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wilburfan48
This is a great age to start discovering the great literature. Catcher In The Rye told me that I was not alone. It's impact on my life was profound and lasting. Perhaps it's time to reread it with the perspective of a few years. Other books that influenced me greatly were Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Joesph Heller's Catch 22, William Golding's Lord Of The Flies, James Joyce's A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man, Jack Kerouac's On The Road, Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar. Other favorite authors of my late teens & early 20s included F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men, D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley, Hemingway's The Old Man And The Sea], Mark Twain's Huck Finn, Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf. By the time that I reached my mid twenties, I had read almost all of these authors works. Like music, so many books, so little time.
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Static_Voice
Отвечаю на реквест: Mavis,sing!, New Desert Blues, Sad Lovers and Giants, Ocean Jet, Kiss Kiss, The Presets, Ashbury Heights, Umbilicus, Kap Bambino, Soviet Siviet, Wolfsheim, Bondage Fairies, Soul Sister Dance Revolution, Sounds Like Violence, My Dad is Dead, She Wants Revenge, Guano Apes. Надеюсь, найдёте себе что-нибудь по вкусу, Аннушка.
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EmielC_
Hah, and yet another answer to your cry for 'new music' (I come from the Heavy Young Heathens page). Maybe you'd like bands like "Chef'Special" "Beware of Darkness" and "The Presidents of the United States of America". "Foxy Shazam" is entertaining aswell (their last two albums though..).
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jayindie93
So I know it's belated, but I just saw your post on The Futureheads' artist page and I wanted to lend a couple of recommendations. Here are some bands with some definite tracks you should check out: Static Jacks: "Wallflowers," "My Parents Lied," "Whoa, Whoa, Whoa," "Defend Rosie," "Into The Sun," "Walls," "I'll Come Back," "Ninety Salt," "Party Favors," and "Zombie Prom." Bombay Bicycle Club: "Magnet," "Always Like This," "Evening/Morning," "Beg," "Shuffle," "Luna," "Carry Me," and "Feel." Little Comets : "Adultery," "One Night in October," "A Little Opus," "Violence Out Tonight," "Worry," "Little Italy," and "Coalition of One." Last Dinosaurs: "Zoom," "Time & Place," "Alps," "Weekend," "Sunday Night," and "School Is So Easy." Glass Towers: "Jumanji," "Tonight," "In The City," "Castles," "Halcyon," and "The Best of Friends"
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IdemPerIdem
Hi, if you're still looking for more music i'd like to suggest you to check out The Romanovs, Humanwine (as i see you like some dark cabaret artists) and maybe Gogol Bordello. Btw, i saw Serj Tankian perform last year in Vilnius and totally agree you cann't get enough of him. He's beyond awesome:}
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