Category Archives: france

The Streets Of Paris

November 18, 2011 – 6:09 am

Thirteen years was a long time to stay away from Paris. The city had traded on the grime of the 20th Century for cleansed stones. The streets were avenues of luxury stores. I spent most of the morning searching for a beret. I had no success. Paris might be eternal, however it was not the […]

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Go Civic Go

October 1, 2011 – 2:27 am

In 1982 I drove a VW Golf GTI from Paris to Bruxelles Aeroport. My mission was to pick up Valdmar, a New York DJ. He was going to spin records at the Rex Club for the magazine Actuel. On the way I noticed Benzs and BMWs cruising at 180 KPH or 100 mph and decided […]

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Pauvre Con

May 17, 2011 – 7:24 am

America loves a good sex scandal. Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. Tiger Woods and his many gold companions. GW Bush and his alleged rape of a Texas woman and the accusation of a former stripper. The first shot herself and the latter vanished into the aether. America missed those scandals, since the Press gave GW […]

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PIERRE HENRY – Psyché Rock

February 26, 2011 – 12:15 pm

Super groovy Frenchie psychedelia and let’s not forget the best 27 minutes of music to ever come out of France Serge Gainsbourg’s THE BALLAD OF MELODY NELSEN Serge is accompanied on this lush lyric album by his British muse of youth, Jane Birken, as backing vocals along with Alan Parker on guitar, Brian Odgers on […]

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Why are Raincoats Yellow?

September 27, 2010 – 8:12 pm

And westerners ask my Arab women wear chadors. Common decency of course. And it’s fashion week in Paris.

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