Quick—what won Best Foreign Film at this year’s Academy Awards? If you recalled Departures, from Japan, take a bow. Like most foreign film winners, the movie was pretty much forgotten two minutes after host Hugh Jackman signed off. Where quality is concerned, Foreign Film ties with Best Song in the race to the bottom of [...]
Stephane Pompougnac Living on the Edge >>>> Download Living on the Edge <<<< artist: Stephane Pompougnac album: Living on the Edge Tracklist: 1 Pour Faire Le Portrait Dun Oiseau (Texte Dit Par Yves Montand) mp3 2 Clumsy featuring Michael Stipe mp3 3 Double Beat mp3 4 Morenito featuring Clementine (Orignial version) mp3 5 Living on the Edge mp3 6 Loulou de Pomeranie mp3 7 Pnc
A peppy song to get the morning going because my coffee isn't doing it and I'm meeting up for my long ride out of Paris this morning. Today it's the southern route out of town. The Plasticines are a Paris band that really doesn't sound like a French band in any way. At the moment they're getting a fair amount of attention in the UK media. If you are familiar with the old Yves Montand "Bicyclette"...
Btms^ for Tuesday October 13. Drink Forecast for Today (df 4 2day): Cabo Wabo Tequila 2 toast 2 rocker Sammy Hagar, born 2 day in 1947. Complimentary Sip & Sample Wines this week at all The Barns, weekdays from 5 to 7 p.m., and Saturday from 3 to 6 p.m. - Ketu Bay Sauvignon Blanc 2008 Marlborough - Cookoothama [...]
triskaidekaphobia \tris-ky-dek-uh-FOH-bee-uh\, noun: Fear or a phobia concerning the number 13. Triskaidekaphobia is from Greek treiskaideka, triskaideka , thirteen (treis, three + kai, and + deka, ten) + phobos, fear. Some famous triskaidekaphobes: Napoleon Herbert Hoover Mark Twain Richard Wagner Franklin Roosevelt Facebook crush A crush on a FB friend is characterized by the unexplainable urge...
Nero became emperor of Rome in 54. French astronomer Charles Messier discovered the Whirlpool Galaxy in 1773. Ankara replaced Istanbul as the capital of Turkey in 1923. And in 1962, the Pacific Northwest was slammed with a cyclone with wind speeds as high as 288 km/hr. Forty-six people were killed and damage came to about $230 million (1962 value). Born today: Lillie Langtry (1853-1929), Yves Montand...
French cinema seems to be highly associated with independent cinema and foreign films, at least in the minds of most American citizens. Some of it certainly comes from a place of Francophobia, but much of it is because a lot of French filmmakers have been before their time and they tell stories of such light [...]
Y’know how when you’re a kid, you pretend you are a character in one of your favorite movies? For someone in my age bracket, it might have been John Wayne, or Clint Eastwood or someone of that stripe. I always think back to the movies that I loved as a kid when I watch Henri-George Clouzot’s The Wages of Fear . I missed out on some good play-days because I didn’t manage to see...
“Autumn Leaves” is one of the most re recorded songs. Originally this charming French melody sounded in 1945, then it was introduced by Yves Montand for the film Les Portes de la Nuit, in 1946. The music of “Les feuilles mortes” (literally “The Dead Leaves”) was written by Joseph Kosma and lyrics by the [...]
I was well into adulthood the first time I visited Paris, so growing up, my idea of what is "French" was more than a little simplistic * . My parents favorite music: Yves Montand, Edith Piaf and Jacques Brel, subtitled movies with neverending dialogs (I didn't get it until being introduced to Eric Rohmer's films), fabulous desserts and Nina Ricci perfumes. Why Nina Ricci? I'm not entirely...
.. Souviens-toi Ça parlait De la Picardie Invited by Eurostar, food bloggers were invited to take a 'little break' to encourage us to visit nearby European cities such as Paris, Brussels and Lille for the reasonable price of £59 return . Lille is probably the least known of this trio. Lille is situated in the North-West corner of France. The coal and mining industry there, like in the...
By Jenifer Butler With a shop near every neighborhood, video stores have been the most convenient way to get movies for years. The next generation it seems will be getting their movies from movie downloads, avoiding any trips to the store. Here are some examples of movies you can acquire through a movie download site. The Baron of Arizona: Cost has territory rights as land grabbing miscreant who virtually...
If you go to Paris in your imagination or in person, Permanent Parisians: An Illustrated Guide to the Cemeteries of Paris by Judi Culbertson & Tom Randall (1986+) is a handy book to bring along. I've used it three times while walking around the great Cimetière du Père-Lachaise, which was created by Napoleon I in 1804 and "houses" all sorts of people (or in some cases the...
Stephane Pompougnac Living on the Edge >>>> Download Living on the Edge <<<< artist: Stephane Pompougnac album: Living on the Edge Tracklist: 1 Pour Faire Le Portrait Dun Oiseau (Texte Dit Par Yves Montand) mp3 2 Clumsy featuring Michael Stipe mp3 3 Double Beat mp3 4 Morenito featuring Clementine (Orignial version) mp3 5 Living on the Edge mp3 6 Loulou de Pomeranie mp3 7 Pnc Aux Portes mp3 8 Fog mp3...