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

Baloñey-os

Well, you can add me to the list of people who don’t much care for the Roberto Bolaño cult. I...
Dec 30th
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Alva Noto, U_06.
Dec 30th
“LVMH, the biggest luxe conglomerate, has just cancelled a...”
— Bremner, Times Online. This...
Dec 30th
(via rendit) Adios, Freddie.
Dec 30th
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Stush, Dollar Sign. From the excellent comp An England Story: 25 Years of the MC in the UK.
Dec 28th
A sunny, chill day in the Tuileries.
Dec 27th
Dec 27th
Warch Watch
Rest in Slinky Peace, Eartha.
Dec 26th
Christmas Day 2008, Rue de Belleville, Paris.
Dec 25th
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The Caravelles, You Don’t Have To Be a Baby To Cry.
Dec 25th

Merry

Christmas. Pinter.
Dec 25th
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Studio, Origin.
Dec 23rd
Dec 23rd

Minor-Key Christmas

I just realized a few days ago that Christmas is this week, which is a sign of a) how out of it I am...
Dec 23rd
Hot wine on the Champs.
Dec 23rd
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Dec 21st
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Coleman Hawkins, Bah-U-Bah.
Dec 19th
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Neil Michael Hagerty, Whiplash in the Park.
Dec 18th
“Discrimination in France remains a taboo subject for...”
— Guardian. Living in the...
Dec 17th
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Method Man, All I Need. Y thinks this is the most romantic song ever.
Dec 17th
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Robert Wyatt, Grass. An Ivor Cutler song. Go and feel your lumps.
Dec 16th
“In front of the tastefully decorated Christmas trees outside...”
— Paris nude models protest.
Dec 16th
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The Records, Teenarama. Wise words of warning for aging lotharios.
Dec 15th
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grimmertown: The Only Ones “The Whole Of The Law” (from The Only Ones 1978) One of my...
Dec 13th
Warch Watch
Redd Kross, 1982, Santa Monica Pier.
Dec 13th
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Yo La Tengo, Barnaby, Hardly Working. From 1990’s Fakebook, still one of my top ten records,...
Dec 13th
Warch Watch
Anton Karas plays zither. One of the 19 billion things that makes The Third Man a great movie. I...
Dec 12th
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Magazine, Because You’re Frightened.
Dec 11th
I saw one of their trucks on my roadtrip to Lisbon with...
Dec 11th
evilcity: newspeedwayboogie: David Lee Roth’s vocal...
Dec 11th
Warch Watch
Smart move.
Dec 10th
“A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the...”
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg...
Dec 10th
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Redd Kross, Citadel.
Dec 10th
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Flying Lotus, Spicey Sammich.
Dec 9th
Warch Watch
grimmertown: towerofsleep: BOGGLING MY MIND. How do you find time to discover all these records,...
Dec 9th

Recent Paris Fooding

Inspired by a recent purchase of the 2009 Le Fooding guide — which, judging from its...
Dec 9th
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Aksak Maboule, The Mooche.
Dec 7th
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Kool and the Gang, Electric Frog Pt 1. Farty synth! And funk flute?
Dec 6th
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Fleetwood Mac, I Walk a Thin Line. Tusk, I cannot stop listening to you at the moment.
Dec 5th
St-Séverin: the sacred bones of the virgin Saint Ursula! Or...
Dec 5th
St-Séverin.
Dec 5th
Hôtel de Ville.
Dec 5th

Ambulatory Valium

One of the sobering thoughts I kept in mind when moving to Paris was “the winters there are...
Dec 5th
“Type A: Reserved and prone to worry, sensitive...”
— The Guardian today, talking...
Dec 4th
Rue Castiglione.
Dec 4th
Tuileries.
Dec 4th
Dec 4th
Ya know.
Dec 4th
Charlemagne.
Dec 4th
St-Séverin.
Dec 4th
Rue Galande.
Dec 4th
“Last year, 65,000 people, many with university degrees, sat...”
— Charles Bremner, talking about...
Dec 4th
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Can, Hunters and Collectors.
Dec 4th
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Ken Boothe, Artibella. Articulate.
Dec 3rd
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The Records, Starry Eyes.
Dec 1st