A few nights ago Julien and I were back in the bowels of Paris which is the metro, snaking our way back to familiar territory: rue Oberkampf, to watch a concert. Pinback doesn’t have a new album out but for some reason they are touring. And thank god they’re touring – I was surprised that...
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Rain, Clay, Music
It’s cold and raining, so the usual trip to the park is out. Lila started to get that crazed look on her face, that look that precedes mayhem, destruction and meltdown, so I busted out the secret weapon I’d been hiding since I bought it yesterday on our whirlwind trip to Toys’R'Us — Play-Doh. It’s...
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Keep you apart, deep in my heart, separate from the rest
Elliott Smith, please come back. I need more songs from you. But well, I’m already very grateful for the ones you left behind. I’ve been listening to Elliott Smith a lot again lately. I wanted to put up the video of Between the Bars here, but Everything Reminds Me Of Her is so simple and...
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Go and find a place to let it all out
Jesus, Philip Selway’s solo album is doing my head in. I never even knew there was a voice lurking within that bald guy behind the drumkit, often overshadowed by Thom Yorke’s manic dancing. But then again, I should’ve known that every damn member of Radiohead is a genius. I once read this article where the...
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Mountains beyond mountains
This morning the doorbell rang. It was Julien, tired and unshaven, but it was my Julien! I didn’t even know he had caught a flight back home. Miraculously, the sun is out as well and the temperatures have risen. It feels like summer again. So I leave you with my favourite song from the newest...
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Angry Stormy Suffocating
I am wrapped up in angry, stormy and negative thoughts these days. It’s been almost two months that I’ve been alone with the baby, in a city where I have no relatives to whom I can hand her over to for a few hours of rest. I know I should think about my husband who...
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Spare me this life from this monstrosity
Damn, I want this drummer for my band! Mamaaaa… Mama? Yoohoo, Mama! Currently listening to: Eluvium Similes
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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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A solid soul and the blood I bleed
Last week my friend Jessi and I met face-to-face after 10 years of “knowing” each other. It never fails to amaze me how the internet brings people together, how it forms friendships, and how you can get to know utterly cool people after a few exchanges. We had a brilliant time; she is a brilliant...
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Spanish Fly
Love the band, love the album, love the song, love the video… Kala obsessed! Currently listening to: Ten Kens Ten Kens
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A puzzling delay
It’s been two years and four months since this happened. This morning I roll out of bed and see an sms message from Doctor Doom: Borrowed cd of Nada Surf from library. The Weight is a Gift. Loved it! Again, just to make my point, it’s been two years and four months since I told...
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