Только сейчас заметила @2:25 мин: она поёт где-то на крышах НЙ, может даже на 4th of July party, at a roof garden – за спиной знакомо-подсвеченные Empire-State и Chrysler. Это был первый (и самый лучший) её клип, кот. я видела – и мы были почти ровесницы… RIP, sparkle.
Posts Tagged ‘music’
In memory of Whitney
Posted in 2012, tagged in memoriam, music, women on February 11, 2012 |
Farewell, Barefoot Diva
Posted in 2011, tagged Cesaria, in memoriam, music, turbulences, women on December 17, 2011 | 6 Comments »
If you write me letter,… I will write you back If you forget me,… I will forget you… Until the day… You come back On December 17, 2011, Cesária Évora died in São Vicente, in her native Cape Verde, from cardiorespiratory insufficiency and hypertension. Her voice has been a source of [sometimes the only] consolation [...]
…At age 19 she was a fashion student at the Community College of Philadelphia. But, on a fateful day, while riding her bicycle, the driver of a Jeep made an illegal turn, hurdling into Gardot and leaving her in the street for dead. Hospitalized for months with multiple head injuries and pelvic fractures, her love [...]
Daisies
Posted in 2011, tagged alone, dreams, душекопание, пралюбоф, music, turbulences on September 15, 2011 |
Что ты как дура стоишь на перроне с букетом ромашек в руках На таких каблуках, На таких, таких каблуках Выкинь ромашки В мусорный бак Он же самый обычный мудак Inadequate translation
Audio commentary
Posted in 2011, tagged expat conquista, fun and games, music on July 9, 2011 | 13 Comments »
Чесслово, я не специально. Так сложилось в ЖЖ-ленте. Звуковой ряд вот к этому разговору.
I’m just so full of love, And to the world I’m making this plea: Where is the man I love? Somewhere I know, he’s waiting for me, Where can he be? [lyrics by Louis Wolfe Gilbert]
Came across Artist’ Den concert on Public Television, a performer that stopped me in my tracks. My jaw dropped and I was chained to the screen for an hour. Gee, never thought Channel 13 can present someone decent – and here he is, Ladies and Gents, I learned his name from the final titles: Ray [...]
O, фройляйн Грита (Oh, Fräulein Grete)
Posted in 2011, tagged artifacts, music, review on January 23, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Listen… Look at the photos. Then read the comments. And then listen some more to clips from the right margin – with Siegfried Arno and others. All I could find about Marek Weber Orchestra (the same one that plays “For You, Rio Rita in the previous post), came from this blog: In the 1920s Marek [...]
they all can. Mira:
Scorched leaves
Posted in 2010, tagged душекопание, пралюбоф, music, разборки с собой on December 5, 2010 |
From an old letter, titled Pajarillo and written in forgotten November …if you know it, so you’ll hear it in your mind. I wish you could. I can’t stop rewinding it back to track #5, and I can’t control my tears. Right, Que mi corazón lastima, however ridiculous it sounds It’s a freaking cheating weather [...]





