Czupka Cakis

2009

December 22
November 39
October 55
September 72
August 67
July 67
June 59
May 88
April 85
March 118
February 42
January 118

2008

December 55
November 69
October 90
September 122
August 89
July 123
June 140
May 116
April 53
March 95
February 82
January 39
Listen Listen
Flying Lotus, Parisian Goldfish.
Oct 30th

Hibernation

This is a lull time in Paris, a space between the bustle of early fall and the rentrée, and the...
Oct 30th
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Coleman Hawkins, Sophisticated Lady (Paris, December 21, 1949).
Oct 28th
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Budokan, Queen’s English. An instant classic from a Victoria, B.C. band (featuring ex-members...
Oct 27th
grimmertown: cameronr: Authentic. I had to pay for a...
Oct 26th
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Gene Clark, The French Girl
Oct 26th
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Mott The Hoople, Where Do You All Come From.
Oct 25th
Alasdair Gray, today.
Oct 25th

Time Lapse

It’s bizarre, seeing people after a 20-year lapse. That’s been happening to me more and...
Oct 25th
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Lord Kitchener, If You’re Not White You’re Black.
Oct 24th
The door to our apartment building has been tagged. It feels...
Oct 23rd
Hamilton “Lance” Leithauser.
Oct 23rd

Walkmen

One of the less pleasant effects of the smoking ban in clubs is that you can end up where we were...
Oct 23rd
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The Walkmen, In The New Year.
Oct 23rd

Reading:

I love the breadth of books you see people reading in Paris. The other day a middle-aged man got on...
Oct 22nd
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Bowie, Move On.
Oct 22nd
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Max Tundra, Number Our Days. Scritti Politti fans, rejoice.
Oct 21st
Oct 20th
Koons, Versailles.
Oct 20th
Oct 20th
Versailles garden.
Oct 20th

Versailles

Yesterday, Y, Yoshimi and Patrick and I went out to Versailles. First time for me and Y, one of many...
Oct 20th
Today we went to Versailles. More on that later.
Oct 19th
Oct 19th
Oct 19th
Listen Listen
Richard and Linda Thompson, I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight.
Oct 19th
Pictures For Sad Children
Oct 18th
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Roots Manuva, Do Nah Bodda Mi.
Oct 18th
Alasdair Gray, photo by Eamonn McCabe.
Oct 17th

Alasdair Gray!

“23 OCT 6pm One of Scotland’s most acclaimed writers, Alasdair Gray, will read the...
Oct 17th
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The Walkmen, I Lost You. Just got tickets to see them at La Maroquinerie next week.
Oct 17th
Warch Watch
Peter Nalitch, Guitar. Thanks to Rendit for bringing this up. It has changéd my life.
Oct 16th
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Tiger, Yuh Dead Now.
Oct 16th
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The Clash, The Call Up.
Oct 15th
“After 16 years in the wilderness, Ortega won...”
— Daniel Ortega is showing some...
Oct 15th
“I’m scared of Obama - from what I have read and his...”
— A biochemist… (via the...
Oct 14th
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Bob Dylan, Dear Landlord.
Oct 14th
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Delroy Wilson, Dancing Mood.
Oct 13th
Paris intellectuals make case for porn
Oct 12th
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The Clientele, I Had To Say This. October Sunday music.
Oct 12th
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The Ventures, Telstar. Mad Men hangover, natch.
Oct 11th
La Part des Anges, Montmartre.
Oct 11th
Grand Action Cinema.
Oct 11th
Manga Café, Pantheon.
Oct 11th
Manga Café.
Oct 11th

La Part des Anges

For the first time, this return to Paris felt a little less than satisfying. Maybe it was...
Oct 11th
Paris, Jardin des Plantes.
Oct 11th
Paris, yesterday.
Oct 11th
Prague, Botanical Garden.
Oct 11th
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Vetiver, Houses. From this year’s growing-on-me cover album, an Elyse Weinberg song (nope,...
Oct 10th
I was just in Village Voice Books on Rue Princesse and the...
Oct 9th
A novel before the rock, pt. 1.
Oct 9th

Wire 2

I posted something brief and incoherent about the Wire show we saw a couple of weeks ago, but I just...
Oct 9th
A novel before the rock, pt.2.
Oct 9th
by Andrew Brandou.
Oct 9th
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Eddie Purrell, The Spoiler. Currently trying to digest the 28-CD complete Stax singles collection.
Oct 9th

Is There A Word

for the syndrome where as soon as you recommend something you’ve been privately enjoying for a...
Oct 8th
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Teenage Fanclub, Discolite.
Oct 8th
Oct 7th
Oct 7th

Nashledanou

My expectations were low, since at least two friends who’d recently visited Prague came away...
Oct 7th
Goodbye Prague.
Oct 7th
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The Band and Bob Dylan, Ruben Remus. I am starting to listen to all my old man music these days.
Oct 7th
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Thelonius Monk, North of the Sunset.
Oct 5th
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Harry Nilsson, Simon Smith and His Amazing Dancing Bear. They feed us, don’t they?
Oct 4th
Oct 3rd
Museum of Communism.
Oct 3rd
Interrogation Room, Museum of Communism.
Oct 3rd
Still in Prague.
Oct 3rd
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Cowboys International, Here Comes a Saturday. One more from these fellas, you betcha! (I did track...
Oct 3rd
Oct 2nd
I am now, after walking in the woods on Petrin Hill, a big...
Oct 2nd
Dripstone wall, Valdstejnsky Palace gardens
Oct 2nd
Oct 2nd
Courtyard Rabbits, Museum Kampa.
Oct 2nd
Lamp-post base on the Legii Bridge.
Oct 2nd
Vtlava River, from Most Legii.
Oct 2nd
Oct 2nd
At the Museum Kampa.
Oct 2nd
Vltava River, outside the Museum Kampa.
Oct 2nd
Hey look, a museum of medieval torture instruments!
Oct 2nd
Listen Listen
The Flamin’ Groovies, I Can’t Hide.
Oct 2nd
cvxn: Excellent flautists all, I’m sure.
Oct 1st
Warch Watch
She keeps on giving, doesn’t she? I am now giving serious thought to the theory that McCain...
Oct 1st
Oct 1st
Jan Hus.
Oct 1st
Oct 1st
Golem, in the Klementinum.
Oct 1st
The Klementinum.
Oct 1st
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Dillard & Clark, Out On The Side.
Oct 1st
Warch Watch
cajunboy: Watch as Sarah Palin, a former college journalism major, can’t name a single newspaper...
Sep 30th