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

Incidentally

Today is our one-year anniversary of arriving in Paris.
Jul 31st
“Paris has become a hothouse for fresh thinking.”
— Wait, what? I thought the...
Jul 31st
Listen Listen
The Mamas and the Papas, Dedicated to the One I Love, 1967.
Jul 31st
Listen Listen
Johnny Hartman/John Coltrane, Lush Life, 1963.
Jul 30th

Third generation

It’s been a slow build, with a lot of stuff to get through, but I’m now a Generation...
Jul 29th

Learning not to love

So, on my second visit to Paris, looking into possibly living here, with a lot of stuff up in the...
Jul 29th
““Paris, and France, are definitely having an identity...”
— The New Zealand Herald. New...
Jul 29th
Listen Listen
Jackie DeShannon, Needles and Pins, 1963.
Jul 29th
Listen Listen
Pernice Brothers, Clear Spot, 1998.
Jul 28th
Jul 27th
La Saunerie.
Jul 27th
Jul 27th
Jul 27th
La Rochelle.
Jul 27th
Rosé in La Rochelle.
Jul 27th
Relatives and red wine.
Jul 27th
French kitty.
Jul 27th
House chicken.
Jul 27th
Relative.
Jul 27th
Relative.
Jul 27th
Tours Cathedral.
Jul 27th
The organ, Tours Cathedral.
Jul 27th
Tours Cathedral.
Jul 27th
The back of Tours Cathedral.
Jul 27th
Tours.
Jul 27th

The Midwest

Back from a quick trip to visit various Irish and English relatives in a tiny hamlet called La...
Jul 27th
The Loire.
Jul 27th

I am going away

pease water my pants.
Jul 24th
Pouchy.
Jul 24th
Jul 24th
Listen Listen
Bowie, Teenage Wildlife, 1980. Unbearably affected at first, but contains multitudes.
Jul 24th
In Love with Duras
Jul 24th
““I still can’t believe it. The person I knew was...”
— Guardian, The night Karadzic...
Jul 24th
Listen Listen
Holly and the Italians, Tell That Girl To Shut Up, 1980.
Jul 23rd
Warch Watch
Awww. As a little pre-teeny-bopper I bought the first, pre-Fleetwood Mac album by Buckingham/Nicks...
Jul 22nd
Listen Listen
The Techniques, You Don’t Care, 1967.
Jul 22nd
Warch Watch
Jul 21st
Listen Listen
Iggy and the Stooges, Tight Pants, 1972.
Jul 21st
Jul 20th
Jul 20th

China Gold

We went to see an exhibit of 35 contemporary Chinese artists at the Musée Maillol today. A timely...
Jul 20th
Jul 20th
Jul 20th
Jul 20th
Jul 20th
Cui Xiuwen, Angel No4, 2006 (Detail).
Jul 20th
Jul 20th
“Police officers found a fire extinguisher and squirted its...”
— Guardian, 17 July. I’ve...
Jul 20th
Listen Listen
The Byrds, Old John Robinson, 1967.
Jul 20th
Pessoa and Crowley
Jul 20th
Same old, same old.
Jul 19th

Abeyance

The city is shutting down for the summer. The weather is muddled. We’re in a dangling state,...
Jul 19th
Jul 19th
Listen Listen
Flying Locus (feat. Lil Wayne), Robo Tussin, 2008.
Jul 19th
Richard Avedon, Billy Mudd, Trucker, Alto, Texas, May 7,...
Jul 18th
Listen Listen
Honaloochie Boogie, Mott the Hoople, 1973.
Jul 18th

Them

I’m inordinately annoyed by the Patton Oswalt commencement speech that’s been rattling...
Jul 17th
Listen Listen
Minutemen, History Lesson Part II, 1984.
Jul 17th
Warch Watch
Zach Galifianakis, Tim and Eric, Absolut Vodka. Part 2 and the epic, flashbacks-and-meta part 3....
Jul 16th

Fighting words

First the Wall Street Journal prints Dinaw Mengetsu’s Why The Expats Left Paris, another of...
Jul 16th
Warch Watch
Buck Rogers, 1935. (via Why, That’s Delightful) All movies ever should be exactly like this.
Jul 16th
Listen Listen
Nick Lowe, Big Kick, Plain Scrap, 1979.
Jul 16th
Warch Watch
Okay. I am now fully on board with Drunk History. Parts 1,2 and 2.5 are available. (via Videogum.)
Jul 15th
Listen Listen
The Meters, Chicken Strut, 1970.
Jul 15th
Les Halles.
Jul 15th
Menilmontant.
Jul 15th
Rue de L’Hermitage.
Jul 15th

Bastille weekend

On Sunday, Bastille Eve, we found The Worst Place In Paris, by accident. A friend of Y’s had...
Jul 15th
Jul 15th
Listen Listen
Von Sudenfed, Rhinohead, 2007.
Jul 14th

Reading:

Mentioning that I’m going to read a book in this blog seems to be a jinx. Love and Longing in...
Jul 13th
Listen Listen
The Who, My Generation (Instrumental), 1965.
Jul 13th
“We know that we’re all here tonight because The Who...”
— Sean Penn, appearing at a VH1...
Jul 13th
Listen Listen
Dear Nora & Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, Hot Boyz, 2005.
Jul 12th
Rue Dénoyez.
Jul 11th
Rue Dénoyez.
Jul 11th
A wall off Rue Ramponeau.
Jul 11th
Warch Watch
Michal Svironi, The Woman Who Breathed Too Much. I met this woman in a Vietnamese restaurant last...
Jul 11th
Listen Listen
The Go-Betweens, Spring Rain, 1985.
Jul 11th
Top 10 Paris Picture Houses
Jul 11th
“Of the 99 reported anti-Semitic acts in Paris in 2007 - down...”
— Youth Violence Churns Paris...
Jul 10th
Listen Listen
Marshall Crenshaw, Favourite Waste of Time.
Jul 10th

The Good Old Days

“Before 1779, the nuns who ran the foundling hospital in Paris were obliged by law to take the...
Jul 9th
Listen Listen
Ratatat, Flynn, 2008.
Jul 9th
Warch Watch
Fela Kuti, 1971, filmed by Ginger Baker. Torrid.
Jul 8th
Place des Vosges.
Jul 8th
Warch Watch
Hula-tastic. Frankmusik’s “In Step.” To quote Hipster Runoff: “Love the tug...
Jul 8th
Listen Listen
Felix Da Housecat, Tweak, 2007.
Jul 8th
amilniazi: Or happy to fuck a midget. chuckmore: I’ve...
Jul 7th

Ham roast, with pineapple slice and...

I wish John Barrymore was still alive. Just watched Twentieth Century, and there’s a moment on...
Jul 7th

If you're looking for the new Paris

then wandering around the Left Bank and spending 7E on a cup of coffee at Café de Flore probably...
Jul 7th

Servicey: Paris Web Sites

I recently collected a bunch of my helpful Paris sites together for a friend who’s studying...
Jul 7th
Listen Listen
Busta Rhymes, Ill Vibe, 1996.
Jul 7th
Listen Listen
Los Campesinos!, My Year In Lists,2008.
Jul 6th
While I’m at it: Pinkerton’s Batman Origin...
Jul 5th
An oldie but a goodie that for some reason I was just...
Jul 5th
Notre Dame.
Jul 5th
Listen Listen
The Feelies, Raised Eyebrows, 1980.
Jul 5th
Serra at the Tuileries.
Jul 4th
Tuileries fair.
Jul 4th
Tuileries fair.
Jul 4th

Summer and a half

Ingrid Betancourt might not be a strong contender for the Presidency of Colombia, but she’d be...
Jul 4th
Tuileries.
Jul 4th
Marais vans.
Jul 4th
Marais, salon éphémère.
Jul 4th
Listen Listen
Beach House, Gila, 2008.
Jul 4th
Sushiya.
Jul 3rd

Sushiya

There’s a kind of Japanese restaurant that exists only in France: the ubiquitous...
Jul 3rd
Listen Listen
Electric Light Orchestra, Turn to Stone, 1977. This came up on my iPod yesterday while I was walking...
Jul 3rd
The fair is back at the Tuileries.
Jul 2nd
Mick Mallon, some time ago.
Jul 2nd

Congratulations:

To my father, Mick Mallon, who became a Member of the Order of Canada yesterday. And to Henry...
Jul 2nd

Felker

This, by Kurt Andersen in New York Magazine (which starts off with the line “The main reason...
Jul 2nd
“At the 1988 Republican National Convention, when George H.W....”
— You Don’t Know Me: A ...
Jul 2nd
Listen Listen
Essex Green, Don’t Know Why (You Stay), 2006.
Jul 2nd
cajunboy: via: aemmea
Jul 2nd
Buttes-Chaumont.
Jul 1st
Buttes-Chaumont.
Jul 1st
R.I.P. Clay Felker.
Jul 1st
Le Palais du Vin, Rue de Belleville.
Jul 1st
Listen Listen
Jarvis Cocker, I Just Came To Tell You That I’m Going, 2006. Jarvis does Serge. Cocker is the...
Jul 1st
From Badaude, a rare English-language Paris blog that...
Jul 1st