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vriad_lee ([personal profile] vriad_lee) wrote2005-12-04 01:36 am

I am a lovely and lonely Lady who is looking for the man who will make me happy and whom I want to f

yesterday was a german day. first off, we bought a few second-hand illustrated german books on arbat street.









then we saw a german-style pub emitting cheerful bavarian tunes with an arrow pointing to it that read 'на берлин' ('to berlin' - they used to write that on soviet tanks towards the end of the war).

then at a grocery store i saw a kid watching slot machine demo. the demo featured playing cards, coins, a grinning nazi officer opening safes filled with golden bars and holy grails, and a busty kath-the-radio-operator type girl dressed in a short-skirted nazi uniform. kid's mother left him by the screen after a second's hesitation, and joined the queue. the short demo ran over and over as he stared at the screen, sometimes laughing and jumping with exitement, until she returned with her groceries and took him away.



then we talked about an old friend who studied deutsch and spent some years in germany working for consumer electronics firms like bosch. we used to call him nazi for that and for his hitler-style haircut, and he often referred to germany as his 'naziland.'
then i took a burgher-style shot of natasha dressed in an old german dress holding two german tankards captured during ww2.



then in the evening i watched metropolis [livejournal.com profile] emma_loy downloaded from the internet.













and that was the end of that day, as drab and scheußlich as most of my days lately, but unique it its germanness.

[identity profile] zipzilla.livejournal.com 2005-12-03 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I love that movie. It's one of the few that I actually own a copy of.

[identity profile] vriad-lee.livejournal.com 2005-12-03 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
the caption was truncated by livejournal. it should read: "I am a lovely and lonely Lady who is looking for the man who will make me happy and whom I want to feel like in paradise with"

[identity profile] vriad-lee.livejournal.com 2005-12-04 07:17 am (UTC)(link)
paste the complete sentence into the subject line and post, if you don't believe me!

[identity profile] vriad-lee.livejournal.com 2005-12-04 03:21 pm (UTC)(link)
eh.... what types are available right now?

[identity profile] magnetic99.livejournal.com 2005-12-04 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
sexual,
a nice house,
moving to another country . . . .

etc

[identity profile] vriad-lee.livejournal.com 2005-12-04 03:30 pm (UTC)(link)
damn, that sounds like the Bourgeois Paradise, a-ha-ha-ha-ha!

[identity profile] magnetic99.livejournal.com 2005-12-04 03:31 pm (UTC)(link)
those were separate options, dear.

[identity profile] vriad-lee.livejournal.com 2005-12-04 03:50 pm (UTC)(link)
to tell you the truth, i copy-pasted that line from a spam email. that being said, my idea of paradise is a few ivory elephants on a bureau plus not being a footstool for my husband when we get to heaven (if i were a woman and actually got to heaven)

[identity profile] magnetic99.livejournal.com 2005-12-04 05:12 pm (UTC)(link)
your response intrigues me. i am interested in your culture, as we don't make those distinctions here. in your world, are there still bourgeois and proletariat? is the concept of bolshevism still alive?

[identity profile] vriad-lee.livejournal.com 2005-12-04 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
i mean bourgeois as a mindset that can be applied to any time/country. maybe bourgeois isn't quite the word, i don't know. but thinking that paradise is a big beautiful house/comfortable country/good sex sounds very bourgeois to me. i don't think we have distinct classes in russia now, soviet union mixed everything up

[identity profile] vriad-lee.livejournal.com 2005-12-05 07:37 am (UTC)(link)
наверное. буржуа/бюргер/мещанин. all of these are rather vague to me though and i wish i could differentiate between them better

Concepts such as personal liberties, religious and civil rights, and free trade all derive from bourgeois philosophies. But the bourgeoisie was never without its critics; it was first accused of narrow-mindedness, materialism, hypocrisy, opposition to change, and lack of culture, among other things, by persons such as the playwright Molière. The earliest recorded pejorative uses of the term "bourgeois" are associated with aristocratic contempt for the lifestyle of the bourgeoisie. Successful embourgeoisement typically meant being able to retire and live on invested income (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourgeois)

[identity profile] magnetic99.livejournal.com 2005-12-04 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
well, i still prefer what my imagination thought you meant ;-]

[identity profile] magnetic99.livejournal.com 2005-12-04 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
which was: "I am a lovely and lonely Lady who is looking for the man who will make me happy and whom I want to force to eat huge slabs of beef."

[identity profile] vriad-lee.livejournal.com 2005-12-04 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
that's exactly what i want: to stuff beef into someones mouth. also, to slap their face with a huge slice of pork

[identity profile] magnetic99.livejournal.com 2005-12-04 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
hahaha. let's not even begin to talk about what happens with the sausage!

*gasp*

[identity profile] magnetic99.livejournal.com 2005-12-04 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
hehehe.

im sorry, but it's all your fault.

[identity profile] vriad-lee.livejournal.com 2005-12-04 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
i know - it's the funniest part!

[identity profile] magnetic99.livejournal.com 2005-12-04 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
if i was there, you would have to receive a severe tickling :P

[identity profile] valentyna.livejournal.com 2005-12-03 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
klass!

[identity profile] emptymotel.livejournal.com 2005-12-03 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
The naked women riding mammals are stupendous. Gives me an idea for pottery class.
Or a Canadian field trip...
ja voll!

[identity profile] vriad-lee.livejournal.com 2005-12-04 09:18 am (UTC)(link)
naked mammals riding women are great too

[identity profile] stillcarl.livejournal.com 2005-12-04 10:58 am (UTC)(link)
An interesting post...

Do you often have German Days, or was this a one-off?

A fuller version of that last Metropolis pic was my computer's backdrop for a while.

[identity profile] vriad-lee.livejournal.com 2005-12-04 11:20 am (UTC)(link)
i realized it had been a german day the following morning only. so maybe i have more german days that are passed unnoticed. the film is great so far (i have seen only a small part of it yet). i plan to make a big post with metropolis screenshots later

[identity profile] stillcarl.livejournal.com 2005-12-04 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Metropolis is wonderful, if slightly mad. Have you seen the fembot yet - the "false Maria"? It is a very good robot.

[identity profile] vriad-lee.livejournal.com 2005-12-04 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
not yet, but i'm going to RIGHT NOW

[identity profile] vriad-lee.livejournal.com 2005-12-09 08:10 am (UTC)(link)
not yet. it has so many title screens in german that i put it off till the end oа my project

[identity profile] stillcarl.livejournal.com 2005-12-04 07:48 pm (UTC)(link)
PS: And have you seen my latest post...

http://www.livejournal.com/users/stillcarl/230545.html

?