ded_maxim | a decidedly suspicious plate of jellied meats

Колин Мелой, который пишет песни, поёт и играет на гитаре в великолепной группе The Decemberists, занимается замечательно абсурдным историческим ревизионизмом на предмет того, откуда есть пошло название группы, а также откуда там взялось лишнее 'e':

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It is little known that in 1826, several years before the aforementioned proto-communists hit the global stage, a small group of travelling musicians from the Ukraine chose the name the Decemberists (from the Russian "Dekaberisty," an uncommon pronunciation of the more traditional "Dekabristy," and one that implies, in translation, the inclusion of an extra "e") for their music cum theatre troupe and began touring the burgs of Tsarist Russia. It just so happened on a particularly cold December evening, on the troup's last stop-over in St. Petersburg before a much needed respite among the banyas of Finland, they played before a seething group of proletariat in a then-unnamed square on Nevsky Prospekt. Sergei Petrovich Ivanov, the rakish lead player, had spent most of the day prior back at his rooms at the Petersburg Inn, nurturing his weak constitution after a particularly ambitious lunch by the Winter Palace that consisted of Shaverma, Pelmene, and a decidedly suspicious plate of jellied meats. As a consequence, his performance was hampered by an unruly digestive track that, in the span of a belch, transformed the plainly poetic line "Pies, to undressed lurkers of the girl, all overgrow the plate," to "Rise, you oppressed workers of the world, and overthrow the state." The audience, already in an agitated state of tedium because of the inadequecies of the Tsarist government, the sub-zero temperatures, and that afternoon's rather liberal interpretation of Shakespeare's "King Lear," in which the Fool was played by a cocker spaniel who was trained to bark in response to the actors' lines while a stage hand held up cards that "translated" the mongrel's yapping, took Mr. Ivanov's misspoken words to heart and staged a coup d'etat immediately following the troupe's performance. Borrowing their name from the uprising's instigators (though, tragically misspelling it by adding the extra "e"), these revolutionaries were immediately put down and packed off to Siberia, while their namesake's careers forever floundered.

Группу The Decemberists слушать нужно непременно. Помимо совершенно убойных текстов, местами напоминающих обэриутов, оно и в музыкальном плане чрезвычайно интересно: некая помесь Робина Хичкока, Belle and Sebastian и Энио Морриконе.