The Little Cabin Boy

As I wrote the last time I was foolish enough to do this, "I have, provisionally at least, *finished* my song translation... and have no intention of doing any more for the foreseeable future" :-D

( A narrative ballad )

Watch on YouTube

Original lyrics: https://meddiator.ru/rasskaz-podvypivshego-bombardira.html

( Translations )

Smekhov on Dreamwidth

While testing some tips on the Dreamwidth search function, I discovered that there are two Smekhov-mentions on Dreamwidth that are *not* from my own journal :-p

(Plus the entertaining one that goes simply AAA! CMEXOB! :-D
In which somebody stumbles across his (hosted on a Ukrainian URL at https://smekhov.net.ua/ and hence no longer extant) website, and is ecstatic about it :-D Admittedly this was pretty much my own reaction to discovering the existence of the currently just-about-still-functioning version https://www.smekhov.narod.ru/ -- which does not, however, appear to contain a mirror of the specific pages mentioned in any of the Dreamwidth articles that link to the other site...)

The other entries were Idols of My Youth from kavery (with comments along the lines of YouTube fandom :-), and 12 Months of Tango from ahka, a review of the joint show he did with his actress/singer daughter Allika, and which I've heard the two of them talk about in an interview -- in which, yes, the mutual pride and affection was very evident (and the tendency to be embarrassed by the other's praise; that is one family who will clearly never be at a loss for an appropriate quotation!) But I'm delighted to hear that this evidently showed up in the performance itself.