Thursday, May 27, 2010

Couldn't drag me away

Some nights, I want to French kiss youtube. Or the Internet. Or technology. Or just have a plain orgy with all of them.

Seriously, just pause for a minute and think about how amazingly incredible it is that you're watching this performance, by this artist, from almost 40 years ago, with such ease and freedom.

At least, I hope you are.

Koni Priviredliviye (Fastidious Horses) - Vladimir Vysotsky


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For the movie buffs among you, the answer to did I first come across this song in White Nights is a resounding, unabashed yes. As always, due to not just my bilingual capabilities but also my ability to do almost simultaneous translations from English to Farsi, I got to see this, I think, about a year after it came out in theatres, back home on a black market video a friend of a friend had managed to get a hold of (really, some day I should do a whole post on how being bilingual was perhaps the best barter and currency for exchange in the war-time Iranian black market...).
You should check out the scenes with Gregory Hines--amazing dancing--and certainly the young Isabella Rossellini and youngish Helen Mirren just were the cherry on top of the dynamic dancing by Hines and Baryshnikov.

Fastidious Horses - Vladimir Vysotsky (from the movie "White Nights" featuring Mikhail Baryshnikov)

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