Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
Knowledge is not intelligence.
In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected.
Change alone is unchanging.
The same road goes both up and down.
The beginning of a circle is also its end.
Not I, but the world says it: all is one.
And yet everything comes in season.
[Heraclitus of Ephesus]
Karate, art, photography, poetry, music, theatre, concerts, museums, literature, cinema, castles, animals, nature, wine, the ocean, politics, russian culture and language, japanese food, economic theory, mathematics, cats, moscow nights, it, birch woods, swimming, history (esp. greek-roman antiquity), religion, paris, churches...
Waves and People
Waves roll in columns on their usual route –
Splashing and humming, they run;
People, too, stride in a lousy crowd –
Every one trails everyone.
Waves favor cold of their slavery more
Than heat of midday sunny rays,
People take care of their souls… But lo! –
Their souls are colder than waves!
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV (1814-1841)
Music:
Classical music (including opera), jazz, electronic, folk, metal, alternative, 50's and 60's, russian and french chansons, ambient, experimental...
Red Hot Chili Peppers , Madredeus, Blonde Redhead, Bach, System Of A Down, Paolo Conte, The London Steve Reich Ensemble, Vladimir Vysotsky, Chopin, Koop, Muse, Kronos Quartet, The Clash, Cavalleria Rusticana, Placebo, Elvis Presley, Goldfrapp, Lacuna Coil, Refused, Astor Piazolla, Verdi, Calexio, Jimmy Hendrix, Jack Johnson, Dean Martin, Beethoven, Zemfira, Pulp, Carmen, Katya Yarovaya, Tschaikovsky, Jacques Brel, VAST, Schubert, Ane Brun, Johnny Cash, Yann Tiersen, Mozart, Gorillaz, Jeff Buckley, Amália Rodrigues, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Pixies, Carmina Burana, Aida, Kill The Young, Francis A. Willey, Aleksandr Vertinsky, Nine Inch Nails, Michael Nyman, Sean Lennon, Debussy, Massive Attack, Georges Delerue, Frank Sinatra, Sepultura, Mozart Requiem, Phoenix, DDT, Opeth, Nick Cave, Carla Bruni, John Lee Hooker...
Madredeus - Ao Longe O Mar
Movies:
Takeshi Kitano, Martin Scorsese, Romy Schneider, Catherine Deneuve, Charlie Chaplin, Jean Seberg, Quentin Tarantino, Louis de Funès, russian movies, russian cartoons, film noir, Robert Altman, The Godfather (1-3), James Dean, Zatoichi, Ghost Dog, Fight Club, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Blue Velvet, East of Eden, Mystic River, Scarface, The Pianist, The Big Blue, Who's that Knocking at my Door, Lost in Translation, L. A. Crash, Walk the Line...
Gregory Colbert - Ashes and Snow
Al Pacino - Scent of a Woman (The Tango Scene)
Books:
Lines written with HEART and INSPIRATION...
(Russian) classics of the world literature, crime, history, religion, satire...Charles Bukowski, James Ellroy, Edgar Allen Poe, Bret Easton Ellis, Anais Nin, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Arturo Perez-Reverte, A. S. Puschkin, Anna Politkovskaya, Oscar Wilde, Oriana Fallaci, Ephraim Kishon, Terry Pratchett, Charlie Huston, Rainer Maria Rilke, Patrick Süßkind, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Robert Merle, Nick Hornby, William Blake, Henning Mankell, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Stefan Heym, Heinrich Böll, Henryk M. Broder, E. T. A. Hoffman, Erich Maria Remarque, Lewis Carrol, Joseph Brodsky, Hans Christian Andersen, Voltaire, Lew Tolstoy, Henry Miller, Marina Tsvetaeva, Francis A. Willey, Bertolt Brecht, Thomas Mann, Mikhail Lermontov, Hans Fallada, Stephen Fry, Loriot, Charles Dickens, Boris Akunin...Asterix and Obelix...
