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
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
Listen Listen
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
Warch Watch
Nacho Vigalondo. Who he? This is brilliant. Especially after this. (via Why That’s Delightful)
Sep 30th
On Namesti Miru.
Sep 30th
8 Chopinova St.
Sep 30th
Sep 30th
Zizkov.
Sep 30th
Zizkov TV Tower, with David Cerny’s crawling babies.
Sep 30th
Sep 30th
Sep 30th
Sep 30th
What happens in there?
Sep 30th
Listen Listen
Cowboys International, Thrash. Talk about yer Proustian rush! I’d completely forgotten about...
Sep 30th
Listen Listen
The Zombies, This Will Be Our Year.
Sep 29th
Vltava River, Prague.
Sep 29th
Sep 29th
Kafka Museum
Sep 29th
Sep 29th
Prague Fall
Sep 29th
Wire, onstage at La Maroquinerie about 30 minutes ago. I...
Sep 27th
Listen Listen
The African Messengers, Highlife Picadilly.
Sep 27th
Paul Newman in Slap Shot, his most underrated film. If you...
Sep 27th

Cucina Napoletana

Not much food posting recently. We’ve been eating in most nights, with the odd trip to our...
Sep 27th

Billy

Being a clever bastard, I showed up halfway through Bragg’s set last night. I’d been in...
Sep 26th
Bragg at La Maroquinerie.
Sep 26th
Listen Listen
Billy Bragg, Cindy of 1000 Lives. From his excellent 1991 release Don’t Try This At Home,...
Sep 26th
Listen Listen
Mose Allison, Parchman Farm.
Sep 25th
Lykke Li, megaphone.
Sep 24th

Lykke Li

Went to see her last night at Nouveau Casino. Didn’t stay around for the encore. I enjoyed...
Sep 24th
Listen Listen
Erroll Garner, Lover.
Sep 24th
“It was in this context that, last Friday, Paulson announced...”
— The New Yorker.
Sep 22nd

Funny little fuckers, being fucking...

Hours can be wasted here. I won’t vouch for all of them, but it’s a good start.
Sep 22nd
Warch Watch
Lee Hazlewood puts it in perspective. (via A.V. Club)
Sep 22nd

Le Weekend

The last, beautiful weekend of the summer was mostly spent skirting around things. We meant to go to...
Sep 22nd
Parc de la Villette.
Sep 21st
Parc de la Villette.
Sep 21st
Sunday drummers in the Parc de la Villette.
Sep 21st
The little square on Rue des Rigoles.
Sep 21st
Listen Listen
Count Basie, Every Tub, 1938.
Sep 21st
Palais Royal.
Sep 20th
Palais Royal
Sep 20th
Palais Royal
Sep 20th
Palais Royal
Sep 20th
Listen Listen
Lambchop, The Daily Growl, 2002.
Sep 20th
Listen Listen
Eddie Kirk, The Hawg Pt. 1, 1963. Root, girl, root.
Sep 19th
Warch Watch
Original crawfish, 1958.
Sep 18th
The End of Publishing
Sep 18th
Listen Listen
Johnny Thunders and Patti Palladin, Crawfish, 1985.
Sep 18th
Bagnolet
Sep 17th
Neighbourhood organ grinder.
Sep 17th
Louvre gardens
Sep 17th

Scam day

Today, down at the bottom of Rue de Belleville, I saw a three-card monte game being played for real...
Sep 17th
View from Pont des Arts.
Sep 17th
Listen Listen
The Cinch, Once A Week, 2002. Sadly short-lived Vancouver band.
Sep 17th
Listen Listen
Ornette Coleman, Lonely Woman, 1959.
Sep 16th
“Now, let us discuss the Élites. There are two kinds of...”
— George Saunders, my hero, in...
Sep 15th
Listen Listen
Squeeze, Goodbye Girl, 1978.
Sep 15th
“Well, I wasn’t tempted ideologically,” he reasserts, in case...”
— John le Carré, in...
Sep 14th
Listen Listen
Sep 14th

DFW

Here’s the NYT story on David Foster Wallace’s suicide. Still no explanation, not that...
Sep 14th
Writer David Foster Wallace found dead - Los...
Sep 13th
Listen Listen
Nick Lowe, I Trained Her To Love Me, 2007.
Sep 13th
Sep 12th
Dudes, abiding.
Sep 12th
Sep 12th
Off Rue de Bagnolet.
Sep 12th
Rue de Bagnolet.
Sep 12th
Sep 12th
Shooting a film on Rue de Ménilmontant.
Sep 12th
Warch Watch
Nick Lowe’s been putting out a Philip Roth-like string of low-key late-period classics in the...
Sep 12th
Listen Listen
Roxy Music, Mother of Pearl, 1973.
Sep 12th
Fame.
Sep 11th
(via Photo Basement.)
Sep 11th
Listen Listen
Robert Wyatt, At Last I Am Free, 1980. Crippled alcoholic sings Chic, results gorgeous and...
Sep 11th
Warch Watch
Mission of Burma, 1983.
Sep 10th
Warch Watch
Replacements in 1981.
Sep 10th
Warch Watch
Bodega! A little masterpiece, from “the gap between the glamorous life promised by advertising...
Sep 10th
Warch Watch
Another Videogum thing. I’ll stop now.
Sep 10th
“The last thing anyone needs is another pop culture blogger...”
— Gabe Videogum Delahaye,...
Sep 10th
“Daniel lay back on the sofa in his parents’ Sheffield...”
— John Crace smacks the Booker...
Sep 10th
Listen Listen
GZA, 0% Finance, 2008.
Sep 10th
Warch Watch
Man, I’m glad I just temporarily quit posting on the U.S. presidential campaign because it is...
Sep 9th

Teflon Twat

Be ashamed of your gender, vagina-havers. Nothing seems to be sticking to this woman. The election...
Sep 9th

Winning the French

There’s a small, bereft bar in the ground floor of our building that I’ve only been in...
Sep 9th
Listen Listen
Scotty, Clean Race, 1971.
Sep 9th
Sep 8th
Sep 8th
Sep 8th
Sep 8th
Summer’s back.
Sep 8th
“Half of Americans now say Iraq had weapons of mass...”
— Latest U.S. presidential...
Sep 8th
Listen Listen
Young Marble Giants, Credit In The Straight World, 1979.
Sep 8th
Listen Listen
Tussle, Night of the Hunter, 2008.
Sep 7th
“Sa-rah! Pa-lin!” came the chant at a Colorado Springs...”
— A.P., “McCain-Palin...
Sep 6th
Listen Listen
Ronnie Lane, Winning With Women, 1980.
Sep 6th
Sep 5th
Listen Listen
Neil Young, On the Beach, 1974. Hands down my favourite NY record.
Sep 5th
Warch Watch
A much-needed post-RNC cleanser. Animated squid tale, set in Santorini, I think. (via Why...
Sep 4th

Reasons to be cheerful, part 2

The Muslim, unmarried French minister of justice has confirmed rumours that she is pregnant, but...
Sep 4th
“According to the newspaper Journal du Dimanche, the French...”
— The International Herald...
Sep 4th
Listen Listen
Magazine, A Song From Under The Floorboards, 1980.
Sep 4th
Sarah Palin addresses the RNC.
Sep 3rd

Turn your Tumblr into a playlist!

cvxn: travors: adamgotterer says: John and I just launched Tumbltape. It’s similar to...
Sep 3rd
Listen Listen
Lloyd Cole, Mr. Malcontent, 1987.
Sep 3rd

Rrrrrent

or buy or steal or die for The Last Detail, a ’70s movie that does what ’70s movies are...
Sep 2nd
Warch Watch
Learning French can be fun! (via Goldenfiddle)
Sep 2nd

Damned Yankees

A correspondent writes, after being asked how he’s enjoying the U.S. presidential campaign so...
Sep 2nd
Listen Listen
French Kicks, Basement D.C., 2006.
Sep 2nd
dearyouloveme: noahkalina: Kate Stewart - Rehabilitation
Sep 2nd

Baby Boom!

should be the headline in tomorrow’s NY Post.
Sep 1st
Sep 1st
Sep 1st
Sep 1st
Sep 1st
Sep 1st

OK Then

“Meanwhile Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, nominated as Mr McCain’s running mate, said in a...
Sep 1st
I didn’t realize what I was photographing at the time.
Sep 1st
Sep 1st
Selling corn in Belleville. These ladies show up in late...
Sep 1st
Warch Watch
Neu! Too Short!
Sep 1st
Warch Watch
Faust, live. I love German music hippies. Especially starting about 3:36 into this vid.
Sep 1st
Listen Listen
Undertones, Wednesday Week, 1980.
Sep 1st
Sep 1st