Woke Up Like Hell Knows When, Decided To Heat Myself My Homemade Cinnamon Apple Waffles And Eat Them

Woke up like hell knows when, decided to heat myself my homemade cinnamon apple waffles and eat them with yoghurt and strawberries. Made myself some Lviv coffee with almond milk and maple syrup to drink. Currently, I'm sitting on kitchen counter, consuming the aforementioned perfect breakfast Haven't had such a pleasant morning for a while now. Just me, the fresh air and the crows singing.

Vibe-wise reminds me of my first time actually living in Poland when I was a teenager. It was in the town of Wisła and we woke up really early back than. Early Sunday morning is always the best morning.

It also reminds me about early roadtrip breakfasts when my family and I used to travel to Crimea by our old car, long before it has become occupied. It felt very hot and crowded during the day, since it was a black lada 112 (without no climate control whatsoever) and there was like 40°C outside, the fields on our way were burning. But the mornings were probably the most pleasurable parts of our trips.

Vasyl Zinkevich, Volodymyr Ivasyuk and Nazarii Yaremchuk, circa 1970

They look like a team from some animated series - the handsome one, the brainy one and the goofy one. I can't believe they still haven't received their own crazy tumbler fandom.

I'll be the first one to step onto that dangerous path😵‍💫

Imaginary pictures from an occult flea market.

"Chervona Ruta", 1971 So, I've been obsessing over this 1971 Ukrainian musical so much that I decided to reanimate my tumbler account and create this little video extract with English subtitles. I would love to share this with the Internet mostly because I find this movie absolutely legendary, for multiple reasons. The film's name is Chervona Ruta ("The Red Rue") and it was inspired by one of the most famous Ukrainian song of the same name written by an iconic composer Volodymyr Ivasiuk. "Why is he iconic?", you might ask. Well, first of all, he made such a huge impact on Ukrainian music like no other composer ever did. His songs were inspired by popular Western music and Ukrainian ethnic motives, primarily by Hutsul culture. Together with an ensemble "Smerichka", and some other really cool composers of the time, he played a tremendous role in saving Ukrainian culture in the time of Soviet oppression. Moreover, he always composed in Ukrainian, which was very sassy for that moment in Ukrainian history, for a lack of a better word. He wasn't a political activist, like many other Ukrainian creators of the time, who were repressed for their worldview, yet he did a lot only using his own tool - music. Soviets knew that his impact is huge so, as it is widely stated today, he was murdered by them.

However, his death can only be a subject of much more professional investigation, not a post on tumbler. So, let's go back to "The Red Rue". The song itself was a huge success at the time and became a hit sung all over the Soviet Union. The lyrics, inspired by the legend of the red rue, a flower which brings love and happiness to one who finds it, is probably the most widely known text in the modern Ukraine. So the film was kind of a spin-off for this song, which is a masterpiece on its own. The plot of the film is fairly simple: a miner and musician Boris (played by Vasyl Zinkevich) from Donetsk (by the way, the city has been occupied by Russians since 2014) meets a singer Oksana (played by Sofia Rotaru) from the Western Ukraine on his way to the Carpathian Mountains. The couple fall in love with each other, but get departed after arriving to Yaremche, a famous town in the Carpathian Mountains which remains a popular tourist attraction to this day. The music, however... You guys, the music is perfect. I honestly believe that there are no fitting words to describe the beauty of the music in the film. Every song is an absolute treat to one's ears, very well written and wonderfully performed by lead actors and different ensembles of the time, including Smerichka, Karpaty and Rosynka. Even Ivasyuk gets a cameo in the movie. If you are in anyway interested in Ukrainian culture, art or music, I highly recommend watching this film, as it is available on the Youtube. There are no English subtitles, but I assure you, all of the songs are understandable whichever language you speak, if one listens to them with their heart. And don't mind the quality - the equipment that the crew possessed was far from perfect and the version you see on the Youtube is one of the few versions which survived, as most of the copies of the film were destroyed after Ivasyuk's death. Still, it's a wonder, but it's watchable and gives off this perfect retro vibe. Here's the link to the musical - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av3FZVui6fQ&t=598s

Ciri from the Witcher

Ohhhh i f*cked up her shirt big time, but I like how I handled the face. I thought since I shared my Yennefer, maybe I could also share my Ciri

A short clip of Mimi Baez Fariña and Richard Fariña performing “Pack up Your Sorrows”

Ft. Pete Seeger