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The Musée du Quai Branly.

Mar 31st

If the exhibit was short on anything it was short on actual...

Mar 31st

Josephine Baker cuts a rug in the Paris Métro.

Mar 31st

A Fritz Freleng short, unseen for 60-odd years due to, uh,...

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Part of a display of album covers built around Lee...

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Larry Rivers.

Mar 31st

Thousands of images, magazines, books, paintings, animation,...

Mar 31st

Went to the Musée du Quai Branly’s Siécle du Jazz...

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perpetua: Max Tundra “Which Song” Ultimately, different coloured fabrics sewn together would be...

Mar 31st

Marais.

Mar 31st

By Loulou, from the Covered Up exhibition. (via LezInfo, a...

Mar 28th

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mechamecha: Don’t ya know, to me they always look the same.

Mar 28th

From the IHT/NYT’s Paris notebook, Elaine Sciolino...

Mar 28th

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Dr. Octagon, I’m Destructive.

Mar 28th

Tasty!

1) The pastillas at the Moroccan place in the Marché des Enfants Rouges. Shredded chicken,...

Mar 27th

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Steve Spacek, Dollar. Sound financial advice.

Mar 27th

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alexbalk: The first track off of what is pretty much the perfect album. Of course there are better...

Mar 26th

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Louis Armstrong, Struttin’ With Some Barbecue. Currently suffering from lack of ability to do...

Mar 26th

This Better Be A Good Simpsons Episode

lowlife: Well, the Simpsons are older than Methuselah now. Makes sense: The Simpsons have been to...

Mar 26th

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Abbey Lincoln, Tender As A Rose.

Mar 25th

Just seen: Fantastic. Funny. Smart. Best gag; the quiet...

Mar 25th

Seen, for the second time. First was when I was in my teens...

Mar 24th

Paralléles, at 47 rue St-Honoré. Terrific alternative/indie...

Mar 24th

The Pompidou. Is it just me or has this place become almost...

Mar 24th

Gregory Crewdson at Galerie Daniel Templon. Beautiful,...

Mar 24th

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Beach Boys, How She Boogalooed It.

Mar 24th

“The 1968 CD is a little special in that only two songs in,...”
— Scott Miller on The Legendary...

Mar 23rd

Safe European Home

The process of settling in continues. Which is interesting (to me at least), because I thought I...

Mar 21st

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The Bangles, Going Down To Liverpool. Before it all went horribly mall, a beautiful cover of...

Mar 21st

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Harmonia, Veterano.

Mar 20th

Félix Fénéon.

Mar 20th

“Eugène Périchot, of Pailles, near Saint-Maxainte,...”
— From Novels in Three Lines, by...

Mar 20th

Seen, enjoyed: not quite as good as some of its fans would...

Mar 19th

Fresh roasted French infants, just how you like ‘em. ...

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Rue des Archives.

Mar 19th

Springtime in Paris.

Mar 17th

Springtime in Paris: Falafel-eaters in the Marais.

Mar 17th

Henri! Your store, apparently. You seem to be closed most of...

Mar 17th

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Booker T and the MGs, Outrage.

Mar 17th

Just watched this, as part of my attempt to see as many Max...

Mar 15th

“Valéry’s circle of contacts remains dazzling. He was...”
— The Ultimate French...

Mar 15th

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The Nerves, One Way Ticket.

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Astor Piazzolla, Tres minutes con la realidad. I bring this up because of Kiss Me, Stupid, stupid.

Mar 14th

Finally watched this the other day. It’s a Billy...

Mar 14th

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Johnny Thunders, You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory.

Mar 12th

Au Bascou.

Mar 11th

Faubourg St-Denis.

Mar 11th

The Porte St-Denis.

Mar 11th

Faubourg St-Denis.

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Faubourg St-Denis.

Mar 11th

Settling In (North)

Tuesdays are Y’s day off at her new job. So we tend to spend them doing practical stuff, in...

Mar 11th

Faubourg St-Denis.

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Sun Ra, The Perfect Man.

Mar 10th

Shopfront, Rue au Maire.

Mar 10th

Rue au Maire, Monday morning.

Mar 10th

Rue Volta. The old (once thought to date from the end of the...

Mar 10th

Downstairs.

Mar 10th

Immediate Vicinity

The new place is in the northern Marais, less trendy and more residential than the southern, full of...

Mar 10th

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Flying Burrito Brothers, Hot Burrito #1.

Mar 9th

Cliffside road, falling rocks, waterfalls. Good times.

Mar 8th

Ma-you-know-where.

Mar 8th

Funchal, Madeira.

Mar 8th

Madeira Final

I’ll just quickly wrap up the Madeira visit: It’s a Portuguese-owned island in the...

Mar 8th

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John’s Children, Smashed Blocked.

Mar 8th

“Aujourd’hui, j’ai fait l’amour avec ma...”
— From the French website Vie de...

Mar 7th

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Catherine Alfa, Comme Moi. Yoinked from Goldenfiddle. Who yoinked it from Blowupdoll.

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(via grimmertown) Richard and Linda Thompson. I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight is one of my...

Mar 7th

Jeanette Winterson on Shakespeare and Co.

Mar 7th

Madeira. (I’m almost done, I promise.)

Mar 7th

Hiking in the woods, Madeira.

Mar 7th

On our last night in Madeira, the hotel gave us their only...

Mar 7th

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John Coltrane, The Inchworm.

Mar 6th

Y on a bridge.

Mar 5th

Near the end of the levada.

Mar 5th

Levadas

The big thing on Madeira is hiking, since the island is volcanic and vertiginous and precipitous and...

Mar 5th

Looking down on Funchal from the levada.

Mar 5th

Madeira, at the end of the levada.

Mar 5th

Madeira.

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Madeira.

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Madeira.

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Madeira.

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Nilsson, Subterranean Homesick Blues. Lennon producing Nilsson doing Dylan. Studio snowstorm, brandy...

Mar 5th

Funchal, Madeira.

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Funchal, Madeira.

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Funchal, Madeira.

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Funchal, Madeira.

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Madeira.

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Madeira.

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Carnival, Madeira.

Mar 4th

Carnival float, Madeira.

Mar 4th

An eruption in the ocean (of emotion).

Mar 4th

Moved

We’re in the 3rd now. I’m glad I spent my first year or so in Belleville, and will miss...

Mar 4th

Funchal, Madeira, Shrove Tuesday.

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Funchal, Madeira, Shrove Tuesday.

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Funchal, Madeira, Shrove Tuesday.

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Funchal, Madeira, Shrove Tuesday.

Mar 3rd

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10 minutes of Lynne Ramsey’s film of Morvern Callar.

Mar 3rd

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Aphex Twin, Nannou. Off the Morvern Callar soundtrack. I’m re-reading the book. One of the...

Mar 3rd

Detail of a painting at the Lisbon Maritime Museum.

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Gram Parsons, Luxury Liner. I feel a country-rock period coming on.

Mar 2nd

Czupka Sr, telling bored Dutch strangers a joke about Lord...

Mar 1st

Solmar, a beautifully-kept 1950s Lisbon cervejaria....

Mar 1st

Interior of Solmar.

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