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~aventures du louchette flâneurse: 48ème~

Friday, January 1st, 2010

Woke before dawn and watched the sun come up on a new decade, from a window I will soon sadly relinquish. Made coffee for my honey, who bravely accompanied me to Passy, a wealthy area of south-west Paris that was once a commune, as I begin to wrap up the research that brought me here. [...]

~aventures du louchette flâneurse: 46ème~

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

A nighttime pilgrimage to the Tour Eiffel, by which I mean a five+ mile, three hour stroll through le Marais, past Notre Dame, and along the Seine. Heaven.
When we arrived at the foot of the tower, it began to practice for the first ever rainbow-hued 400 LED light show on New Years Eve. Some things, [...]

~aventures du louchette flâneurse: 44ème~

Monday, December 28th, 2009

Edit, edit, edit all day, then, a date night. Alfonso surprised me with a trip to tiny art house cinema Studio 28 on the Butte Montmartre. The theater opened in 1928 as Paris’ first avant-garde cinema, and showed Louis Bunel’s L’Age d’Or not long after. The lobby displays the foot prints (not shoes, like Graumans, [...]

~aventures du louchette flâneurse: deyrolle~

Sunday, December 6th, 2009

A trip to Deyrolle, cabinet of curiosities which I am delighted to report has risen from the ashes of the 2008 fire that threatened it’s demise. Some of the rough-around-the-edges charm is gone, but in it’s place is a more polished, self-aware magnificence. Which I ’spose means Deyrolle grew up.

Began the day with a trip [...]

~first we take manhattan, then we take berlin~

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

I’m guided by a signal in the heavens/I’m guided by those birthmarks on my skin/
I’m guided by the beauty of our weapons/First we take Manhattan then we take Berlin.
~ Leonard Cohen

cafe honoring Austrian playwright Joseph Roth, who lived next door. (click to expand)
Its utterly sock-knocking to be back in a proper international landscape after so [...]

~my homunculus~

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Today while on the bike at the gym a German TV station presented a movie I had never seen: Bühne frei für Marika. A Yma Sumac/Lucille Ball type–by which I mean an actress attempting to convey a sort of “other” sensuality that argued with her inclination towards physical comedy–was dressed as a silver-clad, ponytailed space [...]

~i totally ♥ suisse~

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

On Saturday we took an adventure by train to Aarberger, to the annual brocante (flea market). This is part of my Explore Your Own Country initiative, prompted by a general lack of traveling elsewhere. Next up is a journey to hike the Creux du Van.
Most of the pictures below are from the train or [...]

~cádiz & seville~

Monday, December 29th, 2008

Our hosts in Andalusia were an old friend of Alfonso and his wife, who is native to Cadiz, of the town Sanlucar de Barrameda. Upon our arrival we were thus treated to a party of adults and kids, a reunion of sorts for the high school girlfriends of our host and their menfolk and children.
Much [...]

~le pâle squelette joue des castagnettes~

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

Le pâle squelette/De mes amourettes/Joue des castagnettes…
(The pale skeleton/Of my little loves/Plays castanets…)
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~pathé tuschinski~

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

The comparison was already floating through my mind, of Amsterdam with San Francisco. The cafes, the bohos, the acceptance of people as they are–and a certain air of self-acceptance that comes from living in a Mecca of so-called tolerance.
And, so I had read, Amsterdam even has it’s own refurbished Deco movie house, Pathé Tuschinski.

Then [...]

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