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
Harry Nilsson, City Life, 1969.
Aug 31st
(via Guardian)
Aug 30th

Click

Aaaaand…the city’s back on again. Just two days ago the streets were empty and the...
Aug 30th
Listen Listen
Colin Blunstone, Smokey Day, 1971.
Aug 29th
“Mad Men continues to shed its audience at an alarming rate....”
— The New York Post. Ngahhh!...
Aug 28th
Aug 28th
Aug 28th
Aug 28th
Listen Listen
Kinks, End of the Season, 1967.
Aug 28th
Warch Watch
Those Filthy French, Part Seven: These commercials have been icking me out in French movie theatres...
Aug 27th
Warch Watch
Fuck, yeah. I do pretty much every single thing mentioned except for the useful ones. Story,...
Aug 27th
Listen Listen
Barbara Lewis, Hello Stranger, 1963.
Aug 27th
Aw jeez, now I’m hungry and want the lacquered duck...
Aug 26th
Gourmet Magazine does Belleville
Aug 26th
“The ministry has also launched a hard-hitting advertising...”
— Bonjour Binge Drinking,...
Aug 26th
Listen Listen
Aug 26th
“It’s premature to say that it was a valid threat or...”
— CBS Denver. It’s not so...
Aug 25th
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Aug 25th
Aug 25th

Fall

Summer is over. I’m okay with that. Went downtown, walked around, sat in a café and read the...
Aug 25th
The end of the Tuileries fair.
Aug 25th
Mary Lou Pavlovic, “Kiss”, 2008. (via Bookforum)
Aug 24th

Travel guilt

Still thinking about our trip to Ibiza, maybe because it’s been rainy and cold in Paris this...
Aug 24th
Warch Watch
Hans Teeuwen.
Aug 24th
Warch Watch
“Often I’ve been compared to Mozart,” jokes the Dutch comic Hans Teeuwen. And why...
Aug 24th
Listen Listen
Scott Walker, Nite Flights, 1978.
Aug 24th

Bachelor Days

Y is off to Vancouver — great place, you should visit it some time — for a couple of...
Aug 23rd
Listen Listen
Chi-Lites, Too Good To Be Forgotten, 1974.
Aug 23rd
Listen Listen
Tom Ze, O Riso e a Faca, 1973.
Aug 22nd
Listen Listen
Desmond Dekker and the Aces, Beautiful and Dangerous, 1967.
Aug 21st
Warch Watch
Aug 20th
Listen Listen
Older Guys, Flying Burrito Brothers, 1970.
Aug 20th
Bagnolet.
Aug 19th
Rue St-Blaise, Charonne.
Aug 19th
Listen Listen
Randy Newman, Uncle Bob’s Midnight Blues, 1970.
Aug 19th
William Tecumseh Sherman.
Aug 18th
Listen Listen
Wire, Outdoor Miner, 1978.
Aug 18th

Reading:

Aside from spending part of one evening reading bottom-rung English women’s magazines left in...
Aug 18th
Warch Watch
Wire, The 15th, live on German TV in 1979. The whole concert is up on Youtube, and it’s...
Aug 18th
Tonight, from the top of Parc Belleville.
Aug 17th
Aug 17th
Listen Listen
Brian Eno, Spider and I, 1977.
Aug 17th

It's cool

in Paris at the moment, so temperate and liveable it’s hard to remember the sweaty, desperate,...
Aug 16th
Listen Listen
Curtis Mayfield, Billy Jack, 1975.
Aug 16th
Listen Listen
Boogie Down Bronx, Man Parrish, 1984.
Aug 15th
Aug 15th
Heading for Es Vedra.
Aug 15th
Igesias Sant Miquel
Aug 15th
Countryside.
Aug 15th
Seaside paella.
Aug 15th
Outside Eivissa.
Aug 15th

Holiday Report

So Ibiza, chosen as a holiday destination because it was cheap, close and easy to arrange quickly,...
Aug 15th
Aug 14th
Back from Ibiza.
Aug 14th
One last thing…
Aug 5th

Closing Up Shop

I’m off to the Balearics for a while. Pray for me.
Aug 5th
Listen Listen
Paddy McAloon, I’m 49, 2003.
Aug 5th

Wasn't me.

Killer herpes decimates young French oysters
Aug 4th
“While the French have gained a much deserved reputation for...”
— Hmm. Maybe a reason I like it...
Aug 4th
Listen Listen
Esso Trinidad Steel Band, I Want You Back, 1971.
Aug 4th

Headhunting Two

“The man reportedly beheaded his girlfriend, a teacher in her mid-to-late 20s, in the village...
Aug 3rd
Salle du Cerf et du Loup, Musée de la Chasse et de la...
Aug 3rd
Salle du Cerf et du Loup, Musée de la Chasse et de la...
Aug 3rd
Random polar bear, Salon des Oiseaux, Musée de la Chasse et...
Aug 3rd
Salle des Trophées, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature.
Aug 3rd
Salle des Trophées, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature.
Aug 3rd
Salle des Trophées, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature.
Aug 3rd
Fox station, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature.
Aug 3rd
Arquebuses, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature.
Aug 3rd
Salon Bleu, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature.
Aug 3rd
Garden, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature.
Aug 3rd
Antichambre, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature.
Aug 3rd

Hunting Preserve

Today, entirely by accident, we came across the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, a private...
Aug 3rd
Courtyard of the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature.
Aug 3rd
Aug 3rd
Aug 3rd
Aug 3rd
Listen Listen
Sly and the Family Stone, Just Like a Baby, 1971
Aug 3rd
“Like many megalomaniacs, Karadzic fancied himself a poet....”
— Jaysus, he’s covering...
Aug 2nd
Aug 2nd

Hot

It was so brutally hot here for a few days that I wasn’t able to do much more than sit naked...
Aug 2nd
Listen Listen
Au Revoir Simone, And Sleep Al Mar, 2004.
Aug 2nd
“In March 2007, New York’s first Canadian-themed...”
— The New York Observer. As a...
Aug 1st

Canada makes the headlines

Severed feet, taser deaths, and now this: the only news about my home country that ever gets past...
Aug 1st
Listen Listen
Marvin Gaye, Funky Space Reincarnation, 1978.
Aug 1st
The Dreamweavers (that’s me in the corner, losing my...
Jul 31st