Analogs of Vysotsky - IV

[Robert Orr]

The analogs can never be exact here, but going beyond the music, as people seem to be doing, one serious contender for the Vysotsky mantle is clearly Mark Steyn.

I mean, music, fine journalism, storytelling, it's all there, plus a court battle against emerging Lysenkoism in American science.

On a topical note, recently he raised an interesting current comparison:  "... regarding the Sochi Olympics and Putin, because you know, at the end of their vast pipeline that is leaking, at least there are going to be some games. Now there is no one there, and the hotels are horrible, but they’re going to have some games.  [But] at the end of the Obamacare pipeline, there isn’t actually any health care. So I actually think their pipeline is less leaky than our pipeline. ......There is an actual ski jump, and an ice rink, and a two man luge run at the end of the rotten, corrupt Putin pipeline. At the end of the Obamacare pipeline, as people are discovering, the doctor you’ve been going to for years, the hospital you’ve been going to for years, are not part of the so-called network. ...... you may owe the Russian president something of an apology for lumping him in with Obamacare. I think that may be, you may have done the impossible, and slandered Russian corruption."

What's not to like?


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I'm not touting for Bob Marley in the Vysotsky stakes -- that would be the ultimate exercise in comparing apples to grapes -- but I have to take issue with any claim that he wasn't a storyteller. (Mind you, I've been a fan for decades but didn't know what he was saying half the time, until the Internet came to my rescue.) I'm sure there are better examples than this, but it's the only one that comes right now to my frazzled brain: 

I remember when we used to sit / In the government yard in Trenchtown, / And then Georgie would make the fire light, / I say, logwood burning through the night. / Then we would cook cornmeal porridge / Of which I'll share with you. / My feet is my only carriage / And so I've got to push on through.

I think Vysotsky would get this.

Best to all
Liv

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