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The Voice of Invasion Trends of the Galaxy Dear Readers, Friends and Those Who Simply Care! What’S in Your Head? Zombie, Zombie, Zombie British Invasion № 8, 18.04.2011 The Voice of Invasion Trends of the Galaxy Dear readers, friends and those who simply care! What’s in your head? Zombie, Zombie, Zombie. We are sorry that you had to wait so long for our new issue (well, yes, we hope that you waited). It What does the expression “work of art” mean to took so much strength to recover from that long you? You probably imagine paintings, sculptures winter! But we are here to impress, inspire, enlight- or music written by Beethoven (if it’s possible to en and scare you. imagine music). But the proverb “Other times, other This spring was quite weird and even sad. The trag- manners” is certainly true even for the masterpieces. edy in Japan sent the whole world into mourning. Some people are born to be geniuses, they can create magnificent things. That’s the way it should be. But it is It was so astonishing and unbelievable that such even more interesting when a person makes his life a real things can happen. Of course natural disasters have piece of art. We remember that Lord Byron lived the life been forever. But times change…We got used to the of a romantic hero despite his rank and status. We’re not comfortable and full existence until once all that we going to compare, but modern time heroes are in some built, took care of and liked turned into debris and way the same. One of them is Rick Genest, a male mod- ruins, into nothing. But that’s the way of life, and el. He was brave enough to tattoo his entire body, and it we hardly can do anything about it. was not an attempt to get into the Guinness Book of Since the whole world became a mess, our new World Records. issue isn’t dedicated to any particular theme. It’s He just wanted to just about the variety of life. You can make yourself turn himself into a a work of art, you can find the place where you zombie, because belong and it may be the circles of glamour or intel- zombies have al- ways been his fa- ligentsia , and you may take a deep sigh for all the vorite creatures. humanity (the excerpts from Radiohead newspaper People may call perfectly correlates with our mood). him a freak or lu- The sigh is probably the main metaphor of all that is natic, but fashion happening in our lives. We see terrible things. Some designers either of us believe that we can do something about it; disapproved of it some believe that we can’t. But all of us are human or flatly liked it. beings who understand what mercy is. But the only Rick Genest has been discovered by Nicola Formichetti, thing that we are able to produce is a universal sigh the creative director for Thierry Mugler, and since that for the whole world. moment this strange zombie-boy turned into a fashion model and legend. He was featured in the new Thierry Mugler Autumn/Winter men’s collection, and then Lady Gaga hired Genest to appear in her “Born This Way” video. What makes Genest unique is, of course, his appearance. It’s truly inspiring how he made himself a complete statement, a story to tell (...to scare children). Maybe it was just a stubborn act of nihilism, but we’d like to think that it was the greatest renunciation of everything trivial and normal. Even renunciation of his own human form. ■ Julia Krasilnikova ■ Julia Krasilnikova A tea party with the Urban Dictionary *sigh*-(n) a symbolic word used in online conversations to express frustration -I tried to impress them by reciting Chaucer from memory. But I just forgot that they were punks... *sigh* -My friends are boring. The weather is terrible. I don’t even have any superpowers. *sigh* http://www.urbandictionary.com ■ Julia Krasilnikova It may seem quite depressing at first sight, but Cultural Pearl it is like a mixture of all the ghosts in your head, all the deep fears coming outside and mak- ing explosions in the sky, all the thoughts What are you sighing about? that you have late at night – and at the same time it is the lozenge of the variety of life. After the long-expected release of the album There is no other way to find out whether I am right King of Limbs on 18th February (a day ear- or not, except to read it yourself. So «Open your lier than it was expected), the famous alterna- mouth wide/The universal sigh» tive band Radiohead turned out to have one more pleasant surprise for all devoted fans. P.S. The fans from Mos- cow and Novosibirsk are On the last days of March a mysterious newspa- going to get the free cop- per began to spread in different cities all over the ies of the newspaper as world. This ink-and-paper handout was called the problem connected “The Universal Sigh” and was created by Radio- with the Russian customs head and a well-known artist, short story writer office will be solved. and a good friend of the band Stanley Donwood. The question ■ Masha Barulina is what are they sighing about? OK, “British Invasion” likes to prove everything with we can say good examples. That is why we would like to pub- lots of com- lish several excerpts from “The Universal Sigh”. mon things, that are usu- Frozen ally really Everything was normal and as it should be until plain to speak about. So, let me share my own im- one day I woke up and there was something wrong. pression that I have after reading this fantastic (hard- I didn’t know what it was, but it was a kind of ly can describe it in a different way) newspaper. persistent thing that I couldn’t quite ignore. Some- I downloaded the PDF file a few days after I first saw thing was cold and it was like a place where some- the news about it. I was not sure about the feelings one had poked me with an icicle. A splinter of winter. I had after listening Radiohead’s new album. So I The days passed like they do and I just got cold- put King of Limbs on my media player to gain an er. The cold spread until I was like a sculpture of appropriate atmosphere to read and began at last. ice. I didn’t sneeze any more, and I couldn’t cry The first thought that came to my mind was «amaz- and if I tried to come it was like a tendril of porce- ing». And it is really amazing, guys, really inspiring. lain. I was a solid man. You could throw rocks at The newspaper consists of several stories, some po- me and it didn’t hurt at all. I just splintered a little. etry and marvelous pictures. If you have once read Perhaps fortunately, no-one noticed and everything car- Stanley Donwood’s stories and liked the style of them, ried on being normal and as it should be, all around me. you will certainly fall in love with The Universal Sigh. But I was frozen. Out of it, in it, out Haunt of it. Walk up a long ago road covered with moss into Desire company, lack self-es- the woods. There is snow forecast. I want to lose teem and want to prove self. myself in a blizzard. No snow here though. Just Feel the disappointment and unhappiness what distant traffic and birds speaking to one another. was present in childhood cannot understand what is Sit on a dead tree. Grey sky. Grey feathers wrong. Irritable and dissatisfied. Friendly and open, spread across the moss. A beak: bloody flesh still yet feel that nothing is rift. Restless, dislike routine, attached. Red against pale green. A siren, far off. need simulation and have trouble getting up in the All around the crows shout about me. morning. React badly to shock and have intense fears, Snagged by brambles. Whipped by thorns. especially of being in a crowd, and dislike going out. I dread other humans. Tiny flakes fall. Cold Spend hours frantically sorting things out, dead skin. Push through spiny undergrowth. A but tend not to accomplish much irrita- muddy plateau. Frozen ruts. The sound of traf- ble, nervous, restless and hard to please. fic and aeroplanes. Hard to think. Leaning against Restless, hopeless, morose and have a morbid imagi- barbed wire. Two flocks of birds, above the bypass. nation. No matter how ill, deny that anything is wrong An unattended fire dying. A circle of hot grey ash. and refuse to see a doctor. Prefer to be left alone. A bird dips then plummets. A cold east wind. Fit and healthy, strong, energetic mind and body Into the woods. A snowy path. Walk into an abandoned lively and entertaining when ill, become violent and quarry. Caves everywhere. Warm air what smells of obstinate. May hit, bite or kick. Illness characterized blood drifts out and I’m too scared to go very far in. by restless, agitated behavior, with extreme sensi- tivity to light, noise, movement or being touched. Set high goals driving ambition leads to worka- holism. An excessive sense of duty, always feel as if haven’t done as well as should. Sensitive to oth- ers’ opinions and easily hurt. May become despair- ing. Can lead to clinical depression and suicide. Very materialistic. See life as a struggle for financial security.
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