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Serbs vs Superstars

August 11, 2009

Digging through new Serbian folklore again. After twittering with Eniac couple of days ago about the alleged Nirvana album sticker that says “forbidden for dogs and Serbs” (mentioned here on the blog before), I found out that this is not the lone case of such hear-say urban legend, but that there are many other bands [...]

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Sami the Chimp Story: Running Away From the Belgrade Zoo

November 19, 2008

Visitors to the Belgrade Zoo are sure to find an unusual monument next to the monkey cages. That’s the monument dedicated to Sami, a chimp who managed to escape from the Zoo in the second part of the eighties, not once but twice. After those escapes, he became famous and a Belgrade zoo favorite, making his way into various city urban legends.
Here’s what I managed to find about him and his escapes on the net.

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Vesna Vukelic Vendi – The NSFW of Turbo Folk

November 12, 2008

Vendi is too big of a legend not to be mentioned on a site like this. If you from time to time stumble across the wastelands of Serbian internet, you are bound to bump into this queen of Serb virals – her picture and video exploits are being sent around the net on a daily basis. But who is she really?

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How Not To Kill Tito: Nikola Kavaja Story

November 12, 2008

His fail-proof plan to eliminate Tito by hijacking a 727 jet in the USA and than subtly crashing it into the communist party headquarters in Belgrade was never implemented because he said he didn’t know where the building was exactly located.

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This Blog Forbidden for Stupid People

November 6, 2008

Austrian store manager puts up unusual sign- besides the regular “Everybody welcome” – “no Slovenians + Croatians” was added by hand. Exactly how stupid is that?

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Multitasking in Belgrade public transport

October 30, 2008

Belgrade bus driver with unprecedented skills – the guy can drive a bus full of people while solving a crossword puzzle at the same time – on his steering wheel. Luckily there was a passenger brave enough to record a video of this miracle man.

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Urban avengers in the streets of Belgrade

October 10, 2008

Parking is a big problem in Belgrade. In the longest Belgrade street (some say the longest street in Balkans), 8 km long Bulevar Revolucije (aka Bulevar Kralja Aleksandra) this problem gave birth to an unusual habit – a driver just stops in the middle right lane, turns all four blinkers on and goes out to [...]

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Saban Bajramovic – a legend leaves us

June 9, 2008

post by Bganon
Saban Bajramovic was perhaps the greatest living musical legend in the Balkans. Those that knew their music compared him to traditional great Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. He himself liked to be known as the Serbian Nat King Cole. Of this man and his life nothing is simple and frankly, his life very much [...]

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Belgrade Phantom trailer

March 4, 2008

Belgrade Phantom, (sr: Beogradski fantom), the movie we talked about long time ago on the Belgrade blog, is finaly finished, and if I am to judge a book by it’s covers, that is – a movie by it’s trailer, I’d say we have ourselves a real winner:

If you want to know about the event that [...]

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Dushan and Dushan

December 4, 2007

Legends of Serbian TV and radio waves, these two young guys, Dusan Saponja and Dusan Cavic have for some time now managed to find the most unbelievable things in Belgrade and Serbia and bring them to the public eye by putting them on tape. Most episodes from various shows they have been creating [...]

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Zombietown

November 29, 2007

“Humans against killing… sounds like junkies against dope”
Miomir Grujic Fleka (1954-2003)
Zombietown is how Miomir Grujic Fleka called Belgrade back in the nineties. Fleka was a DJ at B92 during the Milosevic rule. Biography on the Maniac shop website describes him best, so I am just going to translate a part of it:

Fleka was the creator [...]

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Belgrade folklore

November 23, 2007

An old Belgrade folklore story goes that one time in dark ages, back in 1992 Johnny Depp came to Belgrade and played at a concert together with Partibrejkers and Nemanja Kusturica back when Nemanja was still Emir. The good dwarfs of Youtube digged deep and hard and found a video to confirm this ancient legend:
See [...]

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Urban Belgrade myths: Belgrade phantom (Beogradski fantom)

December 3, 2006

Belgrade Phantom (Serbian: Beogradski Fantom) is a nickname of the guy who night after night repeatedly managed to run away in a white Porsche from the cops who were driving their Zastava’s in the late seventies. His real name was Vlada Vasiljevic, a small time crook apparently very good in stealing cars and with particular [...]

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