![]() I took home pamphlets and tried to invoke god for wish-granting. This sort of thing to a seven year old is pure brain candy. The walls are covered with solemn Byzantine icons lit by candles while ghostly incense smoke floats between praying old women. The Very Serious long-bearded priests don all-black, from their tall imposing hats to their floor length robes. If you’ve never been to a Russian Orthodox church, you’re missing out on some prime spookiness. Soon I realized I preferred to spend time by myself, not making me the best candidate for schoolyard popularity.Įveryone in my family is an Atheist but growing up I was taken to many old churches for their artistic and historical value. ![]() With my parents’ busy schedules I was often left home alone to rummage through my mother’s numerous art books and my father’s hefty collection of science fiction. I grew up surrounded by literature and read things like Spartacus and Dandelion Wine. They took time to expose me to theaters and museums since a very early age, despite the social state of ’80s Russia and our modest finances. I’ll narrow this down to just a couple of things, though I have much to thank them for. For there were several components and so I present you a partial list of What Made Me Weird. It’s different for everyone – Nadya, for instance, was inspired in part by Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation video’s military look and overall stompiness. For many of us there is an event, a circumstance or a series of both that altered us in a specific way, making us strange, odd, whatever you want to call it enough to seek lives less ordinary.
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