Sunday, March 3, 2013

Russian Fire

Mihail Korubin - Miho

 




“If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.”
Alexander Pushkin


To my Russian Viewer...you are an enigma of the highest kind.  

I am going to attempt a small post of gratitude for my Russian readers.  This is from a far west perspective.  It will probably seem very surface, but here it goes.  

My first feeling about the Russians comes from World War II history.  I believe that if it was not for the Russian spirit, fortitude and get the f*&%ing  job done- then we would all be living under the Nazi regime right now.  It was your warrior-living-in-the-coldest-snow-breeding-the-authentic-deep-souled- art-fight until-our-last-bit-of-blood-exists- souls that stopped the Nazi's from taking over the world.  It was you not the Allies who won the war....

The other part is just what I have learned from watching movies.  You have to love a people where passion and art are so inter-related we might not even know our name after either listening to the music or reading a great authors. That means that music strikes the deepest depths of the instinctual unconscious it overwhelms most people.  The most amazing part of this is that is manifest through the most sophisticated form known to man-extremely precise music and dance.  There are no words really to describe the deep dark recesses of the abyss that come to a person watching and listening to such art.  As it should be.  Here is a ode to you my Russian friends...I am sure you know it well...but happy spring and thanks you for reading Karmafire!!!