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Yaroslav

Every man is a hero in his dreams

About Me

I'm a man, it is very strange, don't you think so ))))

My Interests

Music, sports, travelling, reading books, watching movies and some TV programmes, and simply to hang out with my friends

I'd like to meet:

Friends, musicans, lawyers and simply the people who appreciate my interests!!!!

Music:

Classical (Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Gershwin, opera singers,Placido Domingo and Fedor Schalyapin are favourite ones, russian classical music from Glinka to Schnittke, especially Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, Scriabin, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, etc)Jazz (Louis Armstrong, Duke Eliington, Charlie Parker, John Coltraine, Ella Fitzerald, Tower of Power, etc) blues (B.B. King, Steve Ray Vaughan, etc)Rock music (Beatles, The Who, and some other British Groups of 60-es, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, other early rock'n roll stuff, Johnny Cash, Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Doors, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Cream, Free, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, King Crimson, YES, VDGG, Jethro Tull, Genesis, Soft Machine, Caravan, Iron Butterfly, Steppenwolf, CCR, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Jimmy Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Rush Aerosmith, Journey, Cars, Talking heads, Joy Division, Ramones, Clash, Toy Dolls, Dead Kennedys,Iron Maiden, Van Halen, Ratt, Extreme, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Def Leppard, Guns and Roses, W.A.S.P., Sonata Arctica, Dragonforce, Stratovarius, Kamelot, Iced Earth, Dream Theater Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Sepultura, Soulfly, Voivod, Pantera, Machine Death, Morbid Angel, Meshuggah, Opeth, Porcupine Tree, RiversideThe Smiths, The Cure, Bauhaus, Misfits, U2, R.E.M., Sonic Youth, Pixies, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Bush, Stone Temple Pilots, The Hole, Mudhoney, Screaming Trees, Foo Fighters, Deftones, Kuyss, QoATSA, Smashing Pumpkins, Korn, Slipknot, Mudvayne, System of a Down, Disturbed, Staind, Creed, Nickelback, Breaking Benjamin, Daughtry, Godsmack, Chimaira, TaprootStone Roses, My Bloody Valentine, Oasis, Blur, The Verve, Radiohead, Muse, Coldplay, Keane, Travis, British Sea Power, Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkyes, The Killers, MEW, Snow Patrol, Libertines, Rakes, Strokes, SIGUR ROS, Mogwai, Maximo Park, The Hives, Mando Diao, Explosions in the Sky, Deine Lakaein (epecially Alexandr Veljanov and his voice) Electronic music: Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Daft Punk, Chemical Brothers, Air, Boards of Canada, IDM, etcPop: ABBA, Ace of Base, Roxette, new wave (Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Alphaville, etc), Jamiroquai, De-Phazz, Christina Aguilera, Shania Twain, Mariah Carey, Alicia Keys, Kate Bush, Tori Amos, Regina Spektor, Fiona Apple

Movies:

Films by Andrey Tarkovsky, Emir Kusturica, italian classical movies, Takeshi Kitano, Ingmar Bergman, etcFilms with Tom Hanks (Big, Forrest Gump, etc), Borat, Fear and Loathing in Las-Vegas, Platoon, American Beauty, etc

Television:

South Park, The Simpsons, Futurama, sports programmes

Books:

Fav authors: Dante, Bocachcho, Shakespeare, Goethe, Schiller, Hugo, Stendal, Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Kafka, Bulgakov, Solzenitsyn, Fowles, Murakami, Kundera, Zuskind, Dovlatov, Venedikt Erofeev, Vladimir Sorokin, Oriental poetry, Pushkin, Tutchev, Fet, Pasternak, Mandelshtam, other Silver Age Poetry, Esenin, Rubtsov, Brodsky

Heroes:

My parents

My Blog

Boris Pasternak Poetry - 117 anniversary of his birthday

Winter NightIt swept, it swept on all the earth,At every turning,A  candle on the table flared,A  candle, burning.Like swarms of midges to a flameIn summer weather,Snowflakes flew up towards...
Posted by Yaroslav on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 03:38:00 PST