Word: lithuaniaã
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...Shivvers ’10 on drums, Or Gadish ’10 as the rhythm guitarist, Camacho rocking the lead guitar, Ramirez as bassist, and Balcetis as lead singer. They met as freshmen and dominated Battle of the Bands in 2006 with their song “Respect Lithuania??, which they sang again at the Battle of the Bands this year, in the dark, wood-paneled setting of the Queen’s Head...
...This ambitious endeavor is admirably achieved. Gavelis’ writing is a paragon of surrealist creativity and an intensely interesting read, filled with effortlessly intelligent prose and a wryly macabre voice. What’s at stake in “Vilnius Poker” is the namesake city, Lithuania??s capital, which is first introduced through the eyes of the most fractured player at the table, Vytautas Vargalas. Vargalas, a labor camp survivor turned librarian, serves as a paradigm for post-Soviet interstice. He sees life through a lens of feverish paranoia, which makes his observations abundantly...
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