I thought this would be a good fit with Motherland, by Zemfira, which I blogged two weeks ago. It was originally written by Yevgeniy Kliachkin, about the 1970s Jewish emigration; but this cover is by Boris Grebenshchikov, one of the founding fathers of Russian rock and a major Russian musical figure. Grebenshchikov, a critic of […]
Do you have a reasonable expectation of privacy when you break into a famous rapper’s house with an AR-15 and take his money? A group of Ohio sheriff’s deputies thinks so. Seven Adams County Sheriff’s deputies have filed a lawsuit against Afroman for using footage of them raiding his house in several music videos, FOX19 […]
Last week Zemfira, a prominent Russian singer who has been labeled a foreign agent and driven into exile, released a song—”Motherland”—that I found quite striking, in a brutal way. It’s about modern Russia, but it’s really about forced patriotism more generally, and indeed about forced adherence more generally. It has 1M views on YouTube, and […]
In the opening chapter of Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead, protagonist Howard Roark tries to explain to the flummoxed dean, who’s kicking him out of college for his heterodox views on architecture, why the Parthenon is a badly designed building. In short, the Greeks didn’t appreciate the novel qualities of the new building materials they were […]
From the prominent Russian band Leningrad; the video has over 750K views, though it was just posted Wednesday. The band members, as I’ve mentioned before, aren’t themselves particularly pro-Ukraine (see here and here)—they are more cynical and realist than ideological, it seems to me (see this song, which I blogged last year). But here, unless I’m completely missing things, […]
Government imposes a million rules. Americans seem to want more! Leftists want new gun laws and bans on single-use plastics, gas stoves, fossil fuels, gas-powered cars, nuclear power. Conservatives want to ban porn and books that discuss gender identity and critical race theory. People just accept bans on recreational drugs, flavored vapes, and menthol cigarettes. […]
Foreign adversaries seeking to harm America are impressed with what we’ve accomplished on our own. Parody of “Learn the Fly” by Foo Fighters written and performed by Remy; video produced by Meredith Bragg, Austin Bragg, and John Carter. LYRICS: Run and tell all of the Asians It’s gone be all right From what I’m seeing […]