"Romance"

I

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.
- One fine evening, you've had enough of beer and lemonade,
And the rowdy cafes with their dazzling lights!
- You go walking beneath the green lime trees of the promenade.

The lime trees smell good on fine evenings in June!
The air is so soft sometimes, you close your eyelids;
The wind, full of sounds, - the town's not far away -
Carries odours of vines, and odours of beer...

II

- Then you see a very tiny rag
Of dark blue, framed by a small branch,
Pierced by an unlucky star which is melting away
With soft little shivers, small, perfectly white...

June night! Seventeen! - You let yourself get drunk.
The sap is champagne and goes straight to your head...
You are wandering; you feel a kiss on your lips
Which quivers there like something small and alive...

III

Your mad heart goes Crusoeing through all the romances,
- When, under the light of a pale street lamp,
Passes a young girl with charming little airs,
In the shadow of her father's terrifying stiff collar...

And because you strike her as absurdly naif,
As she trots along in her little ankle boots,
She turns, wide awake, with a brisk movement...
And then cavatinas die on your lips...

IV

You're in love. Taken until the month of August.
You're in love - Your sonnets make Her laugh.
All your friends disappear, you are not quite the thing.
- Then your adored one, one evening, condescends to write to you...!

That evening,... - you go back again to the dazzling cafes,
You ask for beer or for lemonade...
- You are not really serious when you are seventeen
And there are green lime trees on the promenade...

Sept. 29, 70

Jack White & Loretta Lynn need to make more music together

Rock God and constant collaborator, Jack White produced and played on Loretta's 2004 album "Van Lear Rose," which won a whole bunch of Grammy's, critical acclaim & was Loretta's most successful crossover album. I highly recommend it if you like Jack White, but if you're mildly familiar with Loretta or just know her as a "coal miner's daughter" buy this album immediately and immerse yourself in the glory of southern rock and roll.

"Portland, Oregon" on Letterman


"Family Tree" on the Today Show



Some kid practicing the drums to my favorite song on the album "Have Mercy" from VLR


Fist City (1967)


Coal Miner's Daughter

"La Beauté"

La Beauté
Je suis belle, ô mortels! comme un rêve de pierre,
Et mon sein, où chacun s'est meurtri tour à tour,
Est fait pour inspirer au poète un amour
Eternel et muet ainsi que la matière.

Je trône dans l'azur comme un sphinx incompris;
J'unis un coeur de neige à la blancheur des cygnes;
Je hais le mouvement qui déplace les lignes,
Et jamais je ne pleure et jamais je ne ris.

Les poètes, devant mes grandes attitudes,
Que j'ai l'air d'emprunter aux plus fiers monuments,
Consumeront leurs jours en d'austères études;

Car j'ai, pour fasciner ces dociles amants,
De purs miroirs qui font toutes choses plus belles:
Mes yeux, mes larges yeux aux clartés éternelles!

— Charles Baudelaire


Beauty
I am fair, O mortals! like a dream carved in stone,
And my breast where each one in turn has bruised himself
Is made to inspire in the poet a love
As eternal and silent as matter.

On a throne in the sky, a mysterious sphinx,
I join a heart of snow to the whiteness of swans;
I hate movement for it displaces lines,
And never do I weep and never do I laugh.

Poets, before my grandiose poses,
Which I seem to assume from the proudest statues,
Will consume their lives in austere study;

For I have, to enchant those submissive lovers,
Pure mirrors that make all things more beautiful:
My eyes, my large, wide eyes of eternal brightness!

— William Aggeler, The Flowers of Evil (Fresno, CA: Academy Library Guild, 1954)

"The Enemy"

L'Ennemi
Ma jeunesse ne fut qu'un ténébreux orage,
Traversé çà et là par de brillants soleils;
Le tonnerre et la pluie ont fait un tel ravage,
Qu'il reste en mon jardin bien peu de fruits vermeils.

Voilà que j'ai touché l'automne des idées,
Et qu'il faut employer la pelle et les râteaux
Pour rassembler à neuf les terres inondées,
Où l'eau creuse des trous grands comme des tombeaux.

Et qui sait si les fleurs nouvelles que je rêve
Trouveront dans ce sol lavé comme une grève
Le mystique aliment qui ferait leur vigueur?

— Ô douleur! ô douleur! Le Temps mange la vie,
Et l'obscur Ennemi qui nous ronge le coeur
Du sang que nous perdons croît et se fortifie!

— Charles Baudelaire


The Enemy
My youth has been nothing but a tenebrous storm,
Pierced now and then by rays of brilliant sunshine;
Thunder and rain have wrought so much havoc
That very few ripe fruits remain in my garden.

I have already reached the autumn of the mind,
And I must set to work with the spade and the rake
To gather back the inundated soil
In which the rain digs holes as big as graves.

And who knows whether the new flowers I dream of
Will find in this earth washed bare like the strand,
The mystic aliment that would give them vigor?


Alas! Alas! Time eats away our lives,
And the hidden Enemy who gnaws at our hearts
Grows by drawing strength from the blood we lose!

— William Aggeler, The Flowers of Evil (Fresno, CA: Academy Library Guild, 1954)

"Nous avons fait la nuit..."

Nous avons fait la nuit...

Nous avons fait la nuit, je tiens ta main, je veille
Je te soutiens de toutes mes forces
Je grave sur un roc l’étoile de tes forces
Sillons profonds où la bonté de ton corps germera
Je me répète ta voix cachée, ta voix publique
Je ris encore de l’orgueilleuse
Que tu traites comme une mendiante
Des fous que tu respectes, des simples où tu te baignes
Et dans ma tête qui se met doucement d’accord avec
la tienne, avec la nuit
Je m’émerveille de l’inconnue que tu deviens
Une inconnue semblable à toi, semblable à tout ce que j’aime
Qui est toujours nouveau

-Paul Eluard

"The Absence"

The Absence
I speak to you across cities

I speak to you across plains

My mouth is upon your pillow

Both faces of the walls come meeting

My voice discovering you

I speak to you of eternity

O cities memories of cities

Cities wrapped in our desires

Cities come early cities come lately

Cities strong and cities secret

Plundered of their master's builders

All their thinkers all their ghosts

Fields pattern of emerald

Bright living surviving

The harvest of the sky over our earth

Feeds my voice I dream and weep

I laugh and dream among the flames

Among the clusters of the sun

And over my body your body spreads

The sheet of it's bright mirror.

Paul Eluard

please take a moment to Rock the F out to - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

I've loved Yeah Yeah Yeahs since they blew on to the scene about 6 years ago. I was utterly obsessed in college and then took a break after a disappointing appearance at Coachella 4 years ago, but this year's was stellar and I have been listening to Zero, Runaway & Heads Will Roll like it's my job. Ladies & germs please enjoy!

Zero (live on Letterman)


Heads Will Roll


Runaway


Gold Lion (Live)


Modern Romance


Rich


Y Control

Maps (Live)

trailer trash redux - Brothers Bloom

I gave Brother’s Bloom a shout out last August when it was originally supposed to come out, but feel even more to now that it’s opening in limited release tomorrow and wide on the 29th. It’s written and directed by Rian Johnson who also did, the modern day film noir inspired Brick. I adore Adrien, Rachel and Mark so this film is high on my list of flicks to check out this summer. Peep the trailer [again] below, and hopefully it peeks your interest or you can watch the opening sequence of the movie thanks to Hulu.

Trailer


Opening Sequence

trailer trash - Breaking Upwards

I just heard about Breaking Upwards from a co-worker who caught it at SXSW this year. This charming and heart wrenchcing independent film that "follows a young New York couple who, after four years together, have grown stifled. Desperate to escape their ennui, but fearful of life apart, they decide to intricately strategize their own break up. "

Though the film hasn't found major distribution yet, it's playing at Film Festivals around the country and I can't wait to catch it at one of them, or whenever it finally makes it to theaters or DVD. In the meantime, I guess I'll just have to watch THE greatest rom-com of all time.

i can't stop thinking about...

CHEESEBURGERS!

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Craveable critters...

They're milk chocolate!
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"Was it really upsetting for you that you didn't have more scenes with Chewbacca in 'Star Wars'?"

Between Two Ferns With Zach Galifianakis from Between Two Ferns

I want to climb into those clouds

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please take a moment to rock out to - Gossip

Maybe I’m feeling a little too maudlin, but I just want to rock out and burst into tears (mainly of joy, & a little bit for heartbreak’s sake) over this song. The Gossip have slowly but surely gaining indie cred for a few years now, and I hope more people check them out, because I CANNOT STOP LISTENING TO HEAVY CROSS.

Heavy Cross


Listen Up

[on a sidenote this song seems eery personification of a previous relationship…but aren’t most]


Jealous Girls


Standing In The Way of Control


Don’t Make Waves


Careless Whisper Cover

[I never thought I'd say this, but this could be better than the original]

Positively scrumptious...

Checkout One Burger
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What I'm getting my mom next year for Mother's Day...

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Going to the Westin, and I'm gonna get ma-a-arried...

While I was tempted to full embody Vince Vaughn's character in Wedding Crashers (sorry Owen I'm more like Babaganoush) I took a snap of the staff at The Westin Coral Gables preparing for some wedding. When I scoped how it turned out later, I was actually pretty glad I didn't because it was all kinds of trashy and I've been nicer Sorority Formals...& yes I'm referring to the one in Key West where all hell broke lose 4 years ago.

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Don’t call it a comeback…

Because it was more like one giant sad disaster in St. Lucia this past weekend, when Amy Winehouse took the stage for the first time in 8 months and it was pretty horrendous as you can see below. Though I've prophecized her death, I'm really hoping she gets her poop together and turns her life around, because her voice is epic, and 'Back to Black' is still one of my favorite albums of all time.

5 Months Earlier

Who cut the cheese?

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5 Months Later...

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X-Men Origins: Wolverine Review

I'll keep this short and sweet since I inundated you fine readers repeatedly last week with a whole lotta Liev Love. The title [of this new franchise within in a franchse] alone "X:Men Origins" lets you know what you're walking into. I'll be honest the opening credit sequence and Ryan Reynolds (who's only in the movie for 15 minutes at the most) were THE best part of the first hour of this insanely huge summer blockbuster. But the minute Taylor Kitsch entered into the plot as the undeniably badass Remy LeBeau aka Gambit (aka 1 of the coolest/most underrated X-MEN,) the movie set itself on the right track. By the end of the film I was kind of sad it was over (mainly because I wanted to see more of Liev, Taylor and Hugh.) Apparently there's already another one of these movies in development starring RR, (but I think it should be about Gambit,)

My rating: 8.5/10

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Yo mama!
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