Take comfort in the fact that every time someone types out the phrases "should of (sic) complied" or "play stupid games win stupid prizes" a spirit appears like in A Christmas Carol and shows them the future where they die alone without ever having known the love of another living being.
We hear you, we see you, and we know - as you do - that you're a miserable sorta-excuse for a human being who will never know a moment's happiness let alone be tolerable to any other person. Your existence is a cancer on the world and everyone forced to encounter you, even for a moment, is worse off for it. And unlike this woman shot down in cold blood, the moment you die will pass entirely unnoticed and unremaked upon. It will be like you never existed, and you know every word I said here is true. That's why you act the way you do and talk the way you do - because at night, when you're alone, you know all of this. The only thing that never occurs to you is that everyone around you knows it about you, too. You think your act fools anyone, and that's the scariest thing to you: the possibility that people see you for the coward you are.
They do. We do. Sleep tight. ...
It takes an enormous amount of courage to stand there, keep filming, and scream "What the fuck, you asshole" at someone wearing a badge who just shot and killed one of your neighbors in cold blood.
If you're grasping for anything to feel good about right now - and that's a very difficult thing to find - feel good about the fact that not everyone is as much of a spineless, collaborating coward as our elites. Total strangers will risk their lives to stand next to you. ...
Courtney says:
Before I even clicked play, I knew you must be speaking of the LENINGRAD COWBOYS. Have you ever seen any of the movies? I saw LENINGRAD COWBOYS GO AMERICA at midnight showing a few months ago, and it was pretty fantastic. The Finnish answer to Blues Brothers (because the world really needed one). With a Jim Jarmusch cameo, to boot.My favorite song of theirs is most most definitely their cover of Tom Jones's Delilah. With the Red Russian Army Choir, it's the aural equivalent of taking a giant shit.
j tyler says:
i don't know about that…So Happy Together was pretty fucking fantastic.
Kulkuri says:
There is Leningrad Cowboys beer in Finland. Their movie was funny in so many ways, I liked how their manager always had a supply of cold beer available by packing it in the ice in the coffin on the roof of the car.
Nan says:
I love the beginning of Leningrad Cowboys Go America — after listening to the band play, the Russian promoter critiques the performance in one word ("shit") and then suggests to the manager that they go to America — because Americans will listen to anything.
According to a Finnish friend from grad school who knows the producer, the movie is actually a serious allegorical treatment of the fall of Communism and the Russian people's inability to survive without a strongman telling them what to do. We naive Americans just think it's a simple road trip comedy.
So, Ed, what do you think of Finnish opera metal bands like Nightwish?
You can call me, 'Sir' says:
I'm dead. You just killed me with that. I'm writing this from the grave.
So awful.
Liz says:
Seriously, what did we do before the Internet?