Monthly archive February, 2010

The sun for several hours

The sun came out this morning and suddenly the flat was lit up with the promise of spring and the end of this goddamn winter. And then several hours later the grey and the wind and the cold took over. Seriously, we’ve had enough! Give us back the sun and heat already! Currently listening to:...

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I Love You Philip Morris

Enorme. I can’t think of a more appropriate word to describe Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor’s latest film. Oh wait, maybe I can. Hilarious. Or Excessive (I mean that in a good way). Or, like the French say, terrible (which doesn’t mean it’s terrible, but the opposite. Go figure.) Yesterday was movie night for me...

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The Courage of Others

It’s a Tuesday night, a rainy and cold one at that, but over at the 11th arrondisement’s rue Oberkampf  it feels like a Friday night. Cafés and restaurants are filled to the brim with bored-looking, chain-smoking Parisians. It’s almost 21:30 but people are still spilling out of the metros and heading off to appointed meeting...

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