Archive for April, 2008

Jacking with Ben & Jerry
April 30, 2008

Paris Paris was not on the menu like it has been the last of the couple of weeks tonight. Instead it was off to a Nike house dance masterclass at the Opus café. I’ve been shaking my arse in various styles the last couple of years from break-dancing, hip hop, electric [...]

Friday flavour with some rock ‘n roll birdies
April 26, 2008

The sun was sky high and so was I this Friday. I hit the streets of the Marais to check out some galleries, soak up the sun and oogle at the Über fashionable lot of the third First stop was Espace Claude-Berri with the Gilles Barbier’s exhibition. A hum-drum of paintings and sculptures [...]

Something old, something new
April 22, 2008

I’m a sucker for old movies, especially any of Hitchcocks’s. So I jumped at the opportunity of seeing Vertigo on a big screen. The crackling sounds and various scratches/blobs on the film just added to the “movie experience” charm. Spotting the split second Hitchcock appearance in the movie is always something [...]

Behind closed doors
April 20, 2008

If I had had the time I would have done individual posts with all the “khookie” things I got up to this week. But to be honest this is not a blog about the Paris social scene (I know plenty of blogs who do it much better than me) and I tend to be pretty [...]

A tin of stuffed tomatoes & an earful…
April 14, 2008

Normally on a Monday night you’ll find me tucking into a homemade TV dinner and watching some awfully dubbed American TV series.
Not this Monday night though, instead I was tucking into various canapés at the showcase. It was the opening night for the “Figuration Narrative” exhibition at the Grand Palais. And for the occasion Fréderick [...]