Its been awhile, I know. The reason for the abstinence is that I am in a phase of deep confusion about my future. Even as imminent as tomorrow.
Today is Good Friday and I decided to not do anything but observe a day of absolute non-thinking. I watched a movie my mom gave me last week when I visited her in Germany. The movie is called "statskij sovetnik" and its a Russian new classic. One author has been emerging as an absolute best-selling-hero-creating author and I love him. His name is Boris Akunin and he writes fictional novels about Erast Fandorin. Erast is what I consider the new Russian hero. Even a country that has a mandate to forget the last 70-75 years of its life because these years are commonly considered a mistake needs a hero. Now, this hero cannot be a hero from the future or the recent past. He has to be a hero from an era before the country took a wrong term. Well, meet Erast Fandorin. Erast is blue blooded well educated council on foreign affairs. There are half a dozen books written about his adventures. He solves impossible crimes with gentlemen-like elegance without destroying his hair and makes a Russian feel great about his heritage (well if you can erase the 70 years of Soviet time from your mind)
Nevertheless, rumor is that Elijah Wood will be playing handsome and young Fandorin and Paul Verhoeven will be directing the play "Azazel". Should be fun.
