Агата Кристи

Could someone tell me a little about this group? Someone sent me a few MP3s from Импулс and it sounded like a Chad and Jeremy revival band or something.

haha

You're not seriously saying there is a group, band, or other form of music-creating collective, called "Агата Кристи", are you?

Yes. It's like acoustic guitar pop music. This one song called В первий раз на целину sounds like something you'd hear during a movie's closing credits.

Good Lord, what a strange world this is, when a succession of circumstances can lead a Russian accoustic-guitar band to name themselves after a dead English writer of upper-middle class detective novels!

I already found it ammusing that her books were so popular over there (I knew one lass in Yaroslavl who owned the complete works!), but this is even funnier.

:)

http://www.agata.ru:8080/

The site is in Russian. It seems that you read Russian well, Mike

Reading Russian is child's play. It's writing and speaking it that aren't. :cry: Monkey see, monkey can't.

Just the opposite joke:
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- Чукча, что ты делаешь?
- Роман пишу.
- А разве ты умеешь читать?
- Чукча не читатель, чукча писатель.
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Disclaimer:
Please, real chukchas (:lol:) on this forum, don't be offended.
Russian jokes tend to be so politically uncorrect.
:tongue:

I heard this one in a slightly different form...

A Chukchen comes to the MGU and tells the literature professor he wants to learn how to be a writer.
So the professor asks him: "Did you read Tolstoy?"
The Chukchen shakes his head.
"Dostoyevski?"
Again, the Chukchen shakes his head.
"Chekhov?"
"No, you misunderstand me. Chukchen wants to be writer, not reader."

So I think this is really positive thinking when you whant to be a writer and not a mere reader.

:) Most authors these days seem to have followed this philosophy of never reading literature. At least it seems that way when reading their books...

Quote:

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Всё ненужное на слом!
Соберём металлолом!

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Exactly :)
Anyway, they got to be printed and got some money for this.