Mission Statement: to do very little, for very few, for not very long. Disappointing the easily pleased since 1819. Not as good as it used to be from Day One. History is Bunk - PT Barnum. Artificially Intelligent before it was fashionable. Fat camp for the mind! Nothing lasts, but nothing is lost. The Shock of the Old! Often bettered, never imitated. "Wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein" - Pauly Shore.
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This just in!
After requests from literally hundreds (Enis and Agina Hundred, Mons Veneris, AK) two extra albums featuring two of the songs from this award-winning curatorial initiative are offered to you, the lousy freeloading grifter, at no extra cost! Using your skill and judgement, locate the embedded StealthLink©!
Some of my novel-in-progress is set on the French Riviera, so I curated this soundtrack to help me get in "le mood"!
ReplyDeleteThose songs in full:
Theme from M. Hulot's Holiday
Juste Quelqu'un De Bien - Enzo
La Madrague _ Brigitte Bardot
Les Copains D'Abord - Georges Brassens
La Vie En Rose - Zaz
La Javanaise - Serge Gainsbourg
La Mer - Laura Fygi
Hors Saison - Francis Cabrel
When The World Was Young - Eartha Kitt
Sex, sex, sex - that's all you ever think about. Fancy writing a story about a coat's assurance.
DeleteSex, you say? Well, I'm old enough to know what's what. And too old to do anything about it.
DeleteBlancmange Fanny! Yikes . . . formless, squidgy and no resistance - might as well be custard.
DeleteTo aid in your endeavor, try the esteemed French accordionist, Richard Galliano, and his song, Waltz for Nicky: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=rt0XO2Opa1c&list=OLAK5uy_n4otxD27XxgUN64u3-UC2dATf_BiwwmAg
ReplyDeleteYes, this is lovely. Reminds me of les Guinguettes in Paris, Sunday lunches by the river. I'm eternally grateful I lived a Parisian life before tiktok or facebook.
DeleteA good friend of my parents, a semi-brilliant Lebanese physicist who grew up in Paris and married a passing brillag and beautiful French-Lebanese French professor, once told me "France, she is a woman" while smoking a Gauloise and nodding sagely. At 14 I was properly impressed, not least by the Gauloise, and thoroughly confused, per usual.
DeleteUnless it was a Gitanes Mais ... *bof*
Deletenever old enuff fa sex
ReplyDeleteGood grief.
DeleteCOR!
ReplyDelete"Prince Rainier III transformed Monaco from a sleepy Riviera enclave to a global symbol of prestige, culture, and economic dynamism, all while shagging Grace Kelly." (wikipedia)
DeleteLa Côte d'Azur est très surfaite (piège à touristes), en plus c'est plein de fachos dans le coin avec bien sûr BB en moins maintenant. Je conseillerais plutôt la côte Atlantique où on peut surfer tout au moins dans les Landes.
ReplyDeleteJ from Europe.
The Riviera has long been more myth than substance. You'd have to go back to the 'twenties to see a real place. I lived in Aix-en-Provence for a while, in the 'nineties, and the few forays I made to the Riviera were more than disappointing. If you're rich, you can get in, that's the ticket. But what you get into is pretty horrible; competitive, uptight, vulgar, insensitive, corrupt. The dream is still beautiful, the idea of the Golden Coast, and you're better off with that.
DeleteAnd as for tourism, it's changed in nature from being a genuine, if shallow, desire to see the world into a desire to be seen in front of it. Here's Wonderful Me! Look at Wonderful Me! Look at my food! Smartphones have set people at an unbridgeable distance from a world they weren't part of anyway. Unless you can live without a phone, you can't live.
Quel m'as-tu-vu !
DeleteI almost live without a mobile phone, except for when I drive a car (which I do surprisingly little of, for a Californian). I also exist on social media, but not enough to take photos of my food. I lived as a teen for a year in Marseille, and I would return to almost anywhere in the south of France for an extended stay. Aix-en-Provence is a place I would move to, given any plausible excuse.
DeleteD in California
If I ever leave Seville, Aix is where I am headed.
DeleteA smart man once said "Unless you can live without a phone, you can't live" (FT3 above). I wish more people could do just that. I still use a dumb phone for text and the occasional call. My smartphone is rarely used, last time was to show a ticket to a gig about two weeks ago.
DeleteI have taken a photo of a QR code-ticket displayed on my computer, and then taken my camera to a gig. (I got a camera-with-WiFi when I was employed and occasionally needed to take a photo for work. I felt that this fulfilled my job responsibilities without giving my superiors and subordinates a "digital leash" that they could yank to get me.)
DeleteD in California
Votre dernière collection de trente minutes música est ravissante !
ReplyDeleteThere's so much I wanted to include, but it's good to set a limit. Thirty minutes is a pretty good duration for most things, when you think about it!
DeleteNo doubt you could have included 30 other fabulous tunes. However this was nice because it required editing your choices and then putting together something that flowed, and/or evoked an emotion, or is just fun, or reminds someone of southern France, or any number of other things. I like things that tick one or more of my internal boxes. A vague and highly variable measure for sure. However, bottom line - for me- this deliverable evoked great memories of times past spent in France. Wonderful. Love the fact that locals plays a part in your novel in progress. Sending positive energy your way as you edge towards completion.
ReplyDelete¡Muchachas graniolas, compadore!
DeleteI prefer muesli.
Deletemerci!
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