l.e.s. francophile

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Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:07:30 -0500

hortenseg: (L-R) Rock star Grace Slick w. her mother Virginia...

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:03:00 -0500

(L-R) Rock star Grace Slick w. her mother Virginia Wing.

Taken by John Olson for Life Magazine, 1970.

Sometimes I wonder what parents think of their rock star kid’s lyrics. This picture gives me a general idea.

“Yes, Grace. The white knight is talking backwards. That’s very nice, dear. Though if you’re going to talk about pills, I don’t think it’s fair to say ‘the ones that mother gives you don’t do anything at all.’ I gave you Children’s Tylenol when you had the flu and it lowered your fever considerably.”

Grace Slick auto reblog.

I met Zac Efron tonight ...

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:02:33 -0500

… and I wish I could report back on whether he’s gay or straight, but I got NO read on it.

Other than that, as I had previously thought, he ain’t cute.

Andrew Solomon's prescience was proven this week.

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:51:07 -0500

Absence does not so much make the heart grow fonder as give the heart time to make integrate what it has not previously absorbed, time to make sense of what happened too quickly to have any meaning in the instant. This is always true. If it is in absence that people forget each other, it is also in the quiet pause of absence that, minds running in symmetry, people come to know each other; there is sometimes as much intimacy in the span of continents as in the shared hours before dawn.

This is a quote from A Stone Boat by Solomon. It could also desribe what was proven to be true, for me, this week.

Francis - Coeur de Pirate

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:39:47 -0500

Francis - Coeur de Pirate

Francis, by Coeur de Pirate

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:51:49 -0500

Francis tu as tant de choses à dire, mais le tout reste enfermé
et quand tu ne sais plus quoi dire, tu te mets à pleurer
mais ça ton public le voit pas.
Tu l’incites à rêver pendent que toi tu le regardes

Francis les mots restent bien coincés devant cette fille qui ne demande
pas mieux que de se faire aimer.
Mais toi tu ne sais pas comment t’y prendre,
ta gorge se resserre et ton cœur bat de plus belle
alors que tes yeux sont sur elle

Mais moi je ne t’oublierai pas, et je compte sur toi pour venir en aide.
À ceux qui ressentent pour toi ce que tu écris dans ces chansons pour elle

Francis je m’en vais bientôt et je pense très fort à toi
pendant que mes doigts au piano jouent tout ce que je te dois

Et rappelle-toi que tue peux avoir le monde à tes pieds
si tu te laisses pas abattre par ceux qui te laissent de côté.

Mais moi je ne t’oublierai pas, et je compte sur toi pour venir en aide.
À ceux qui ressentent pour toi ce que tu écris dans ces chansons pour elle

tatcha: UNZIPPED.NET: Christopher Fawcett Collage via YVY I...

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:26:59 -0500

tatcha:

UNZIPPED.NET: Christopher Fawcett Collage

via YVY

I met this guy at the Almodovar screening yesterday. Had no idea he was famous.

J’oublie, je bois, je bois l’oubli … mais...

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:16:26 -0500

J’oublie, je bois, je bois l’oubli … mais qu’est ce qu’il m’arrive? Je dors au bord de mon lit … oh comme je regrette …

Through tears:

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:51:35 -0500

If you give love, and you share it … you get it back, and if you are lucky, like I am, you get it when you need it.

whiteleatherpalace: Apparently you can fuck up my...

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:25:27 -0500

whiteleatherpalace:

Apparently you can fuck up my name

I’m all for the Frenchified spelling, “Mathieu,” but this is all sorts of screwed up.

Jim Henson's The Storyteller is on Netflix OnDemand.

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:30:07 -0500

Jim Henson's The Storyteller is on Netflix OnDemand.:

Oh, life is so sweet sometimes. I have been waiting for this for YEARS.

I was not much one for fantasizing over jocks in high school...

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:53:30 -0500

I was not much one for fantasizing over jocks in high school (besides my one longtime crush on a friendly classmate who went on to play lacrosse for Colgate). But this picture of Jon Hamm has me revising that policy …

boredintheburbs: brooklynmutt: paris Tout simplement,...

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:58:59 -0500

boredintheburbs:

brooklynmutt:

paris

Tout simplement, magnifique.

The reality of the situation sets in:

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:40:03 -0500

24 hours later, I realize that yes, I did get “handsy” with General Colin Powell.

Hey, he smiled through the conversation. Further proof that the man is the only decent aspect of the Bush administration; he let me paw at him. Funny, when I was speaking with him, I kept on thinking about how I could cry in a second thinking about how they threw him under the bus, pushing him into the UN General Assembly to make the case for war on Iraq, when they knew they fed him lies. Now, in the harsh light of cocktail hour, I could cry thinking about the fact that if I am remembered by Mr. Powell, it will be as the chatty gay who got handsy on him in the basement of the Crosby Hotel. Sigh.

An email from me to Emily.

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:35:15 -0500

Oh and yes I chatted with Colin Powell for like 10 minutes. Me and Mer. It was amazing. I was tipsy and handsy. I think he found the handsiness kind of endearing. At least I would LIKE to think that. He talked about Vietnam and family. We talked about how our family basically is Vietman. Kidding! We didn’t. (Kindof.)

Tell you more later.

(Photo of me and General Powell is forthcoming.)

Scene: Iman is next to me, looking 25, and wearing a MJ-esque Balmain peaked-shoulder blazer

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:50:21 -0500

Me: Hi, Iman. My name is Matthew.
Iman: Hi, Matthew!
Me: I just wanted to say that I adore your jacket. It is divine and I am a little bit jealous of you.
Iman: Thanks, I love it. You're so kind.
Me: Well, you do look great in it. Almost - almost - as good as Michael Jackson looked in a similar one in This Is It.
Iman: Well!
Iman's gay friend: When were you born, like 1988?
Me: 1984!

The Yankees parade is taking place outside my office today.

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:59:56 -0500

It looks like Queens vomited on the streets of Manhattan. Yuck.

mcgrory: Carroll Street Subway Station, Brooklyn, taken...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:18:14 -0500

mcgrory:

Carroll Street Subway Station, Brooklyn, taken yesterday

This is my stop. I knew it at first glance.

I got this Ralph Lauren hunter green wool shawl-collar jumper...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:58:13 -0500

I got this Ralph Lauren hunter green wool shawl-collar jumper sweater with elbow patches about 2 years ago, and it has become my favorite wintertime sweater. I am, seriously, in love with it, and I wear it with everything from jeans to sweats (which, like, duh, never except at home). But I love it and can’t get enough.

Today, my intern wore this sweater to work, which is cool. I complimented him on it and on how new it looked - what excellent condition the wool is in, etc. And he told me that he just bought it, at a RL outlet, for … $15.

When ~~I bought it~~ my mother bought it for me 2 years ago, it was $300. My disdain was, shall we say, unfortunately obvious.

Street Etiquette

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:23:17 -0500

Street Etiquette:

I think I just found my newest obsession. The curators of this site are a-do-rah-bluh with a capital RAH.