Went to the Louvre today
Yesterday was Notre Dame
Yeah, so yesterday I was walking and walking and then there was this kickass church and I was like "hey let's take pictures of the flying buttresses" and I did and we kept on walking and it started raining so I took a picture of the gargoyles spouting water and it was trés cold so we went round to enter the church like "SANCTUARY" and lo and behold, it was Notre Dame. I felt like the gypsy at the beginning of the Hunchback kid's movie falling onto the steps (which were nonexistent) and begging for SANCTUARY.
So, we went round and it was hilarious since the confession booths there are like sound- and bullet-proof glass rooms that are set up more like a conference room than the standard stifling screen between the priest and confessor. I just pictured the father taking notes like "yes, now tell me more about these feelings you've been having towards other men, sir."
Mass started which was vaguely awkward with all the tourists walking along the little separate shrines for the saints and then the legit Catholics hanging around in the pews. The ceiling was super high and the stain-glass and architecture were truly amazing though. When we left, we went to maybe five gift shops before getting me a Sorbonne University sweatshirt that was available in all of the stores.
Today, we went to the Louvre. It was cool as hell, the Mona Lisa was bigger than I was expecting, yet I still wasn't super psyched to see it. Fucking swear the douche-y Parisian nonchalance is rubbing off. Anyways, I saw this fucking sixteen-looking year old smoking while walking with who looked like his mom. Everyone smokes in Paris. It's actually amusing to see all the butts on the floor. Continuing with the Louvre. I saw one too many attractive guys there. And since it was a famous museum, not all of them were French. But I think a lot of them were. And I remember passing by an older gentleman who let me say aged incredibly well. I should just bring everyone a Frenchman. I also think it's unfair that there is such thing as proper etiquette that prevents me from just snapping pictures of these attractive people.
Hokay after the Louvre we went to a theater called la Pagode because it was a pagoda brought from Japan by a really rich guy for his short-lived marriage. The theater we went to was the special Japanese theater, which was recommended on some travel guide website. It was super-ornate and we just picked whatever movie was playing there. It was called L'Oueversdfefjasalks or something. What I got from it was, it was a romantic-comedy about a guy who is hired to break up couples. You can gues what comes next when he is hired by some famous woman's father to break up her and her fiancee. He pretends to be her bodyguard and despite his usual Casanova ways, falls ~helplessly in love with her.~ Okay, plot is whatever. It had its moments. But the main actress that played the famous woman was ugly a shiet. In fact, the main lead guy wasn't that good looking either. I had seen overall more attractive people on the street than the two of them.
Let me go back to the Louvre for a second. I put in my earphones and started listening, and I sat down in front of this pretty huge painting of Jesus on the cross. This Jesus had short hair so when I first saw it out of the corner of my eye, I was wondering what was going. When I finally saw it, I was like "oh shit, Jesus, I didn't notice it was you, bro, you look totally different with that haircut." Anyways, I was chilling with Jesus when the trumpets of Strong Baby start playing. I hear GD being a dork but as soon as Seungri starts speaking in English I start cracking the hell up. I was thinking of some stupid fic I read and of Marcia's last post referencing this and at the same time, picturing other people watching me thinking I'm laughing at half-dead Jesus which just cracks me up more. And then I Juliette came up and I tried doing the hand part of the dance with between my legs where I was letting my hands hang. It was all very amusing.
HM. This post is long. I wonder if anyone will read the whole thing. Reminds me of how I tend to never completely finish anyone's posts. Stupid links.
Yeah, so yesterday I was walking and walking and then there was this kickass church and I was like "hey let's take pictures of the flying buttresses" and I did and we kept on walking and it started raining so I took a picture of the gargoyles spouting water and it was trés cold so we went round to enter the church like "SANCTUARY" and lo and behold, it was Notre Dame. I felt like the gypsy at the beginning of the Hunchback kid's movie falling onto the steps (which were nonexistent) and begging for SANCTUARY.
So, we went round and it was hilarious since the confession booths there are like sound- and bullet-proof glass rooms that are set up more like a conference room than the standard stifling screen between the priest and confessor. I just pictured the father taking notes like "yes, now tell me more about these feelings you've been having towards other men, sir."
Mass started which was vaguely awkward with all the tourists walking along the little separate shrines for the saints and then the legit Catholics hanging around in the pews. The ceiling was super high and the stain-glass and architecture were truly amazing though. When we left, we went to maybe five gift shops before getting me a Sorbonne University sweatshirt that was available in all of the stores.
Today, we went to the Louvre. It was cool as hell, the Mona Lisa was bigger than I was expecting, yet I still wasn't super psyched to see it. Fucking swear the douche-y Parisian nonchalance is rubbing off. Anyways, I saw this fucking sixteen-looking year old smoking while walking with who looked like his mom. Everyone smokes in Paris. It's actually amusing to see all the butts on the floor. Continuing with the Louvre. I saw one too many attractive guys there. And since it was a famous museum, not all of them were French. But I think a lot of them were. And I remember passing by an older gentleman who let me say aged incredibly well. I should just bring everyone a Frenchman. I also think it's unfair that there is such thing as proper etiquette that prevents me from just snapping pictures of these attractive people.
Hokay after the Louvre we went to a theater called la Pagode because it was a pagoda brought from Japan by a really rich guy for his short-lived marriage. The theater we went to was the special Japanese theater, which was recommended on some travel guide website. It was super-ornate and we just picked whatever movie was playing there. It was called L'Oueversdfefjasalks or something. What I got from it was, it was a romantic-comedy about a guy who is hired to break up couples. You can gues what comes next when he is hired by some famous woman's father to break up her and her fiancee. He pretends to be her bodyguard and despite his usual Casanova ways, falls ~helplessly in love with her.~ Okay, plot is whatever. It had its moments. But the main actress that played the famous woman was ugly a shiet. In fact, the main lead guy wasn't that good looking either. I had seen overall more attractive people on the street than the two of them.
Let me go back to the Louvre for a second. I put in my earphones and started listening, and I sat down in front of this pretty huge painting of Jesus on the cross. This Jesus had short hair so when I first saw it out of the corner of my eye, I was wondering what was going. When I finally saw it, I was like "oh shit, Jesus, I didn't notice it was you, bro, you look totally different with that haircut." Anyways, I was chilling with Jesus when the trumpets of Strong Baby start playing. I hear GD being a dork but as soon as Seungri starts speaking in English I start cracking the hell up. I was thinking of some stupid fic I read and of Marcia's last post referencing this and at the same time, picturing other people watching me thinking I'm laughing at half-dead Jesus which just cracks me up more. And then I Juliette came up and I tried doing the hand part of the dance with between my legs where I was letting my hands hang. It was all very amusing.
HM. This post is long. I wonder if anyone will read the whole thing. Reminds me of how I tend to never completely finish anyone's posts. Stupid links.