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This band was later turned in the Leningrad Cowboys by Aki Kaurismäki.

This, in turn - wait for it, Poemless - lead to their appearance with the Red Army choir in a lacklustre version of 'Sweet Home Alabama'.

The vagaries of Finnish popular music never cease to amaze me...

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by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Nov 29th, 2007 at 02:27:56 PM EST
Heh.  You think this is news to me?  I love love love those nutty Leningrad Cowboys.  Hey, check this classic footage out:

Kalinka!

LOVE IT.

BTW, it gets weirder:

From wiki:

In 2003, Roman Abramovich bought Chelsea FC. Since then, Kalinka has been associated with the London based Football Club and is often played before or after important matches, including the Champions League clashes with FC Barcelona and the Carling Cup final.


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by poemless on Thu Nov 29th, 2007 at 02:39:00 PM EST
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less weird BTW: this concert took place in Helsinki's Senate Square where key scenes of Warren Beatty's 1981 'Reds' were shot.

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by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Nov 29th, 2007 at 02:56:31 PM EST
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Holy cow, it's just too meta for words...

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by poemless on Thu Nov 29th, 2007 at 03:03:36 PM EST
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Not to mention Apted's 'Gorky Park'. A little perk of being the only Russian built historic downtown that was open to Hollywood film crews for quite a period.

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by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Nov 29th, 2007 at 03:23:35 PM EST
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(this conversation may simply never end)...  

Gorky Park, the movie.  Never saw it.  I should put it on my Netflix list.  But I want to read it first.  I've just become addicted to the Arkady Renko detective stories...  In fact, just last night I was reading one, and ... listening to ... Kind of Blue.  

Gorky Park, the park.  My first night in Moscow, there were fireworks being shot off from Gorky Park, which I was living directly across from.  Very cool.  By day, however, I was pretty unimpressed.  I guess it has all of these connotations for westerners...  and it's just a park, you know, and at that time was rather dilapidated as well...

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by poemless on Thu Nov 29th, 2007 at 03:41:07 PM EST
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I've just become addicted to the Arkady Renko detective stories...

another big fan. Gorky park is definitely the best so far, but "Wolves Eat Dogs" will haunt you in a way like no other book. It imprints you, the mark may never leave.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Nov 29th, 2007 at 03:50:54 PM EST
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The thing is I just finished the last one, Stalin's Ghost, and I love that -because of my freakish obsession with Russian politics- I know what all of the allusions are to.  Also the descriptions of Moscow make me homesick ...

Can't wait to read them all!

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by poemless on Thu Nov 29th, 2007 at 03:57:37 PM EST
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Ok, I'm taking home Gorky Park tonight.  I'm going to read the rest of them in proper order.

Uhm, this is not terribly related, but Ekho Moskvy plays some great jazz at this hour...  

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by poemless on Thu Nov 29th, 2007 at 06:22:07 PM EST
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Parks in cities. Very important. Helsinki is rather blessed in that regard.

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by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Nov 29th, 2007 at 03:51:54 PM EST
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From memory - well the ones I have read - were Renko in Gorky Park, Polar Star, Red Square and the current gem, Wolves Eat Dogs.

Are there others?

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by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Thu Nov 29th, 2007 at 08:54:08 PM EST
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I was vaguely aware of them, but I am just laughing my head off.

Smoke on the water

fire in the sky

by PeWi on Thu Nov 29th, 2007 at 06:55:24 PM EST
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