A jelly belly analogy

[cinepanorama]

I imagine that I will wake up one morning, and I'll be starving! My mind will be so clear and I won't have a cent in my pocket. Or a centime. Or a franc. I'll be swallowed up in the damp lake bed that is Paris. It has not dried up already. It is waiting for the rain that will fill it with teeming life (starting wtih algea the most necessary

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[boy_toy]

i stumbled onto your jounral through jake...although i'm positive i've come across it before. and there was a picture of my friend kate in one of your posts. at any rate, i enjoy what you write and i am also a francophile, to the max. i'm adding you.

[cinepanorama]

oh oh oh! zut alors!
I have a special weak spot for fellow francophiles. Tell me, you wouldn't happen to speak french would you? You and I, we could converse in french and devour bonbons dans un cafe. You also like philip glass? (with the koyaanisquatsi bit and all)

[boy_toy]

i listen or read in french better than i speak it. philip glass was my gateway drug to 20th century classical music, i've moved on but he still holds a special place in my heart.

[cinepanorama]

Yes grammatically I am incompetent when it comes to French. But i seize every opportunity to speak it. With philip glass, I appreciate all the arpeggios and repetitive patterns but it gets a bit tedious sometimes. In relation to 20th century classical music, I'm not very knowledgable but I really like Nino Rota, Henry Mancini, and Ennio Morricone (especially). And you? (if you prefer: aim: cestbizarre)

[boy_toy]

yes, philip glass gets tired after awhile (check out his string quartet that he wrote for the rerelease of bela lugosi's dracula, it's amazing) but i saw him perform his solo piano pieces in january and it was breathtaking. i know henry mancini a bit, but the others no...my favorites would be: igor stravinsky (rite of spring), olivier messiaen (quartet for the end of time), gyorgy ligeti (lux aeterna [a la 2001: a space oddysey]), and krzysztof penederecki (threnody for the victim of hiroshims, de natura sonoris). zbigniew preisner (the composer for krzystof kieslowski's decalogue and the three colors trilogy) is also very good.