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Often think it's not even the difficulty of translation with Brel that prevents UK pop people from getting him, more a question of the maturity of the songs. Brits, weaned on rock and pop culture often seem to live in an emotionally stunted world that stops at about 30 years old.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

Ne me quitte pas is the worst most bombastic, melodramatic song of of an immense poet... Why is it people love these gushing dirges ( cf Hallelujah ) for the emotionally incontinent? & yeah, you have to be a francophone to get Brel Tough titties for the monoglots, coz you're really missing out.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

I've been on opium (and paracetamol) for 4 weeks now. And it's great! They really should make it into sweets. Like coughdrops. Carry it around in a tubes for those times when life gets a bit too much.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

There's doc on ARTE tonight on British SOE operations in France during the War; and it's given me much desire to watch David Hare's Plenty, which I think is a great and film. And I think Streep is great in it. And the idea that life can only be lived, for certain people, intensely: c'est pas banal.

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On est bien peu de choses... www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ICF...

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IN

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The work always exceeds the author's intention. The very end you can feel the radicalism, the grandeur of Germinal escaping Zola. 10am and crying like a baby. That death. One of the most affecting in world literature. What a fucking incredible book.

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Watching Woody Allen's famous first date movie

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

The Dambusters, with Zelensky as Kenneth Moore

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Inspired by a post of edith who I follow This classical composition so fine and pleasing Mod French intimist cinema ( not for export ) Is like this... Only the fastidiousness organisation is in the narrative In time and not space But same classical impulse

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After Vietnam they say they couldn't live transmit images of war and atrocity on daily news because humanity in democratic states would not stand by and watch such suffering. That doesn't seem to apply to Gaza, coz they're Arabs so they don't really matter.

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Le New York Times Travel a passé 36 heures en ville. Ça commence par « Marseille is like a siren’s song » et se finit par « it’s Marseille, baby » (et ça recommande pizza Charly). www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

the real question The Substance poses is not about beauty, consumerism, feminism, consumerism is how much we have, at a certain age, in common with our younger selves very little it would seem much less than we like to think

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

dream last night chased by donald trump in his suit, hair etc on the other side of road while i tried to conceal a frozen chicken under my coat prevailing feeling does any of this matter

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