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Language is a Virus

Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better. I saw this guy on the train And he seemed to gave gotten stuck In one of those abstract trances. And he was going:...

Laurie Anderson 184 песни

Kokoku

I come very briefly to this place. I watch it move. I watch it shake. Kumowaku yamano. Watashino sakebi. Watashino koewo. Ushano kokoku. Watashiwa sokoni. Watashiwa asobu. Mountain with clouds. A cry....

Laurie Anderson 184 песни

White Lily

I don't know about your dreams

But mine are sort of hackneyed.

Same thin

night after night.

Just...repetitive.

And the color is really bad -

And the themes are just...

Laurie Anderson 184 песни

One Beautiful Evening

One beautiful evening in the garden on Eden

A snake came walking in the twilight

He was leaning on his ivory cane

And he said, let me tell you a little secret about life

There'...

Laurie Anderson 184 песни

Broken

You say: Where have you been?

I say: Nowhere

You say: There, you're doing it again

You know I can't keep, I can't keep

I can't keep doing this



I wanted our life to...

Laurie Anderson 184 песни

Life on a String

A summer night the hot the heat

Sit at my desk fluorescent light

Drawing a picture of a perfect moment



I saw it once on a grand avenue

That stretched into the distance

Laurie Anderson 184 песни

One White Whale

How to find you, maybe by your singing

A weird trail of notes in the water

One white whale in all these oceans

One white whale



Slipping through the years of silence

Laurie Anderson 184 песни

Pieces and Parts

They say that in 1842 on a plantation in Alabama

The slaves unearthed a huge skeleton,

the bones of a giant whale,

a leviathan,

from the time when all the world was covered wit...

Laurie Anderson 184 песни

The Rotowhirl

Around 1978, I met a comedian, Andy Kaufmann. And he was performing his avant-garde Elise act in a club in Queens. The performance started with Andy playing the bongos, and for some unknown reason, so...

Laurie Anderson 184 песни

The Puppet Motel

I live on the highway Near the Puppet Motel I log in every day I know the neighborhood well. No about the residents Of the Puppet Motel They're more than a little spooky And most of them are mean. The...

Laurie Anderson 184 песни

World without end

I remember where I came from There were burning buildings and a fiery red sea I remember all my lovers I remember how they held me. World without end remember me. East. The edge of the world. West. Th...

Laurie Anderson 184 песни

John Lilly

Now in this book there are a lot of stories about talking animals: talking snakes, and birds, and fish; and about people who try to communicate with them.

John Lilly, the guy who says he can ta...

Laurie Anderson 184 песни

Washington Street

It's midnight downtown. It's been raining for days

Rain beats down.

It covers the streets with its sparkling skin.



In the deli purple light

A woman in a party dress pays...

Laurie Anderson 184 песни

The Soul Is A Bird

In 1984, as part of the press for the tour I was doing in Japan, I was asked to go to Bali and speak about the future with the prince of Ouboud. Now the idea was that I would represent the Western wor...

Laurie Anderson 184 песни

The Cultural Ambassador

Anyway, I was in Israel as a kind of cultural ambassador and there were lots of press conferences scheduled around the performances. The journalists usually started things off by asking about the avan...

Laurie Anderson 184 песни

Same Time Tommrow

You know the little clock, the one on your VCR

the one that's always blinking twelve noon

because you never figured out

how to get in there and change it?

So it's always the sa...

Laurie Anderson 184 песни

The Hollywood Strangler

I was living out in West Hollywood when a Hollywood strangler was strangling women. Every night there was a panel discussion on TV about the strangler, speculations about his habits, his motives, his ...

Laurie Anderson 184 песни

The Night Flight From Houston

It was the night flight from Houston. Almost perfect visibility. You could see the lights from all the little Texas towns far below. And I was sitting next to a fifty-year old woman who had never been...

Laurie Anderson 184 песни

The Ouija Board

In 1978, I spent some time in California in the fall, looking for a quiet place to live. I finally found what seemed to be the perfect apartment. But the night after I moved in I heard a tremendous po...

Laurie Anderson 184 песни

It Tango

She said: It looks. Don't you think it looks a lot like rain? He said: Isn't it. Isn't it just. Isn't it just like a woman? She said: It's hard. It's just hard. It's just kind of hard to say. He said:...

Laurie Anderson 184 песни

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....