Category Archives: france

Scandal Delon a l’Elysees

May 14, 2013 – 7:19 pm

In reality most movie stars are pale shadows of their on-screen characters. The portraitures of murderers, criminals, and assassins are formulated by acting skills instead of life experiences. Alain Delon is not one of those film poseurs. The French leading man spent 11 months in military prison for discipline problems. His connections to the Corsican [...]

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Fast Healer by Mark Kamins

April 24, 2013 – 9:43 pm

The headlights reflected off the rain-scarred streets. I saw her eyes,twisted, bloodshot red, dazed, as she looked at me. She didn’t see the gunshot wound. It wasn’t the first and I know it wouldn’t be the last. I had fucked up. It’s fucking hard trying to make a quick peso, a fast G, in the [...]

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Brigitte Bardot you bet I would

January 28, 2013 – 8:26 pm

And I would have loved to drive that car. Probably more than Brigitte Bardot. But driving both? Someone had to have done it.

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HISTOIRE DE MELODIE NELSON by Serge Gainsbourg

January 27, 2013 – 2:50 pm

Music sucks in Pattaya. Old farangs sing HOTEL CALIFORNIA and bar girls dance to boy band love ballads, while Thai bands play dinosaur rock for drunken tourists. Nothing’s wrong with a bad reprise of SMOKE ON THE WATER, except I once hung out in nightclubs and bars in which music meant more than a tune [...]

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Hate/Love l’Histoire de Melody Nelson

January 27, 2013 – 2:38 pm

I have always considered L’HISTOIRE DE MELODY NELSON as one of the most provocative pop LPs of the 70s. Serge Gainsbourg’s opera musically melanged JG Ballard’s CRASH and LOLITA into an opera of sexual authenticity. The accompanying video is a gem with Jane Birkin playing Melody to the hilt. I was thinking about her and [...]

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