The Way We Are Feeling

It's a Grease soundtrack kind of day:

I HATE this movie, but shit, I love the soundtrack.

Our feet just where they had to go

Lady and a Greyhound, Václav Brožík, 1895-7

The Last Post in Russia

Well, it's about time to head home to the states. I'd like to leave you, my faithful readers (hah), with one of my final impressions of Russia, which I predict will remain with me for many years to come:

"Ах, Джейк!" сказала Брет, "Как бы нам хорошо было вместе." 

..."Да," сказал я, "Этим можно утешаться, правда?"

Graffiti Collection

I've picked up the habit of collecting graffiti. Here's a look at some of my recent favorites from around St. Petersburg:

Who doesn't?

"Rap Sucks...Rock 'n' roll!"

This one was around the corner from one of Lenin with a swastika on his forehead =Awkward.

Suck it, skinheads!

I've also seen a lot of graffiti advertisements which I hate. Vandalizing buildings that have survived a revolution, the siege of Leningrad, and the collapse of the Soviet Union for your commercial interests is a dick move. Do what everyone else here does, and hire a babushka to push fliers onto the masses.

Never Thought I'd See This

GRASS!!!

Today I saw grass for the first time since January. It's a  (post-)St. Patrick's Day miracle! 

Welcome to the Neighborhood

I'm digging the graffiti of the Sovyetskayas (my hood):

Insert poem about unrequited love and mortality here

Definitely caused a setback in overcoming  my fear of clowns

Russian Cinema

While looking through a bin of movies at a bookstore today I came across several promising titles dubbed into Russian, including this beauty:

Not only was I pleased to know that Russians like a J-Lo flick as much as I do, but I really enjoyed the irony of the film's translated title, "План Б" (that's Plan B in Cyrillic, Eva). Maybe if whoever came up with such a terrible idea for a movie had had some EC nobody (Russians included) would have to sit through such a shitty movie (actually, I never saw it).