Lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living

Dancing communist pirates on a train = revolution

 Discussing the question of when the Russian Revolution changed from revolution to counter-revolution, a friend of mine gave, I think, the only unassailable answer: in 1920, when Trotsky stopped fighting the civil war by traveling around on a train with a brass band.

I was reminded of this when &catherine posted something about the tATu best of, which I wasn’t aware of but which is pretty good. Apart from most of the tracks from Dangerous and Moving, the album includes the closest tATu have yet come to dubstep, a pleasingly eerie remix of “Cosmos,” and a “Bollywood” version of “Craving.” Which works surprisingly well, but more importantly served to remind me of a great film I saw a while back (with, coincidentally, the same friend who so wisely analyzed the Russian Revolution), Bhagam Bhag. Read more↴

Our home forever is, outer space

The Chinese space program involves babies, pandas, and rabbits. Communism is the future.

Where next for Russian space station promoters?

Moves to get official backing to send Madonna into space have been blocked.

My own answer is, I suspect, rather predictable (picture from the always-wonderful Chinese Propaganda Poster Pages, via Dwayne M.)

I demand a concept album

I’ve only now realized that Tatu’s Cosmos doesn’t just express a generalized desire for cosmonaut revolution, it’s a narrative of a utopian experiment. I think Tatu’s next course of action is clear.