Envying HER for "being stuck" near Nice, while I'm lingering for the Memorial Day weekend in decisively less Nice London.
Reluctantly I follow her recommendation and will spend Sunday with (French) friends in Edinburgh. It is well known that I despise and hate, hate, hate Scotland and the tribes up there, Europe's most deranged and ridiculed fuckwits allowed to fornicate under the Animal Rights Act. I shall subjugate myself to the hands and cuisine of the French couple who live and work for the EU liaison office up there. Scotland and the Soviet EUnion - what a match!
Tonight I was supposed to see Melissa Auf Der Maur, but gave the ticket away this morning; I can't be arsed, I need rest after this week. Monday is also chilling-out day; the shortened week will be hi-lighted on Friday, taking my familiar seat on the Eurostar, Paris-bound. So fed up with England I don't even know where to start. Come November 2nd, come quickly!
Discovered a cool band I dig: Marina and the Diamonds (CD "The Family Jewels")... check them out!
Current Music: MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS - I Am Not A Robot
Saturday, 28 May 2011
Saturday, 21 May 2011
(London) Weekend
Emily spends a long weekend (Fri-Tue) in Villefranche-sur-mer with sis, and making preparations for the life-changing Big Event July 2+3. So, while connected through MSN, phone, text and/or mail (mostly for getting reassurance of various details and items surrounding the Big Event that they have arranged for), I will have one of the last weekends reserved to myself.
This afternoon I will be with friends in Regent's Park - weather with its typical British caprioles and trademark unpredictability, naturelement. I'm getting so sick of Britons and their weather that I ache already for the day when our occasional weekend trips from Paris will become rare, and we instead will seek out places such as Brussels, Lyon, Geneva or Nice.
Ahead of July we have lined up (and got tickets for) a few more events, which include Marianne Faithfull, Sons & Daughters, Melissa auf der Maur and - a true gem - Elgar's birthplace in Worcestershire on June 2, included a concert of Chinese pianist Di Xao for the master's birthday celebration. June 18th we'll be in the Barbican for a performance of the Pina Bausch modern ballet performance. Seen them years ago in NY (SUNY, Westchester Co.), and they've only gotten better, I am told.
Signing off for the weekend,
This afternoon I will be with friends in Regent's Park - weather with its typical British caprioles and trademark unpredictability, naturelement. I'm getting so sick of Britons and their weather that I ache already for the day when our occasional weekend trips from Paris will become rare, and we instead will seek out places such as Brussels, Lyon, Geneva or Nice.
Ahead of July we have lined up (and got tickets for) a few more events, which include Marianne Faithfull, Sons & Daughters, Melissa auf der Maur and - a true gem - Elgar's birthplace in Worcestershire on June 2, included a concert of Chinese pianist Di Xao for the master's birthday celebration. June 18th we'll be in the Barbican for a performance of the Pina Bausch modern ballet performance. Seen them years ago in NY (SUNY, Westchester Co.), and they've only gotten better, I am told.
Signing off for the weekend,
Monday, 16 May 2011
IMF Boss Nabbed and Charged in NYC
I am gobsmacked over the arrest of IMF President Strauss-Kahn, also a Socialist candidate for the French presidency next year. While I applaud the quick action by NY police on a complaint of sexual assault against him - regardless of the person involved - , which allegedly had taken place earlier in the day in a midtown hotel, I am in disbelief that the 62-year old actually attacked a hotel chamber maid. It would be so insane that I rather smell a rat: a set-up, instigated and concocted in Paris.
We shall see. But for now I find the action, to drag Strauss-Kahn from an Air France plane in handcuffs and whisk him into a Manhattan police cell rather excessive. He was subjected to a microscopic search of his body, which he consented to, and his clothes were checked for DNA evidence. Apparently he left his $3,000 Sofitel suite in a haste, forgetting personal items in the hotel room, among them his mobile phone. It was his phone call to the Sofitel's front desk asking about his cell phone that tipped off NYC police of his whereabouts: in a 1st class seat of an Air France jet about to take off at JFK.
If proved guilty, Mr Strauss-Kahn deserves no sympathy; but for now the incredible accusation of attempted rape sounds just too difficult to believe.
Current Music: THE WHITE STRIPES - I Smell A Rat
We shall see. But for now I find the action, to drag Strauss-Kahn from an Air France plane in handcuffs and whisk him into a Manhattan police cell rather excessive. He was subjected to a microscopic search of his body, which he consented to, and his clothes were checked for DNA evidence. Apparently he left his $3,000 Sofitel suite in a haste, forgetting personal items in the hotel room, among them his mobile phone. It was his phone call to the Sofitel's front desk asking about his cell phone that tipped off NYC police of his whereabouts: in a 1st class seat of an Air France jet about to take off at JFK.
If proved guilty, Mr Strauss-Kahn deserves no sympathy; but for now the incredible accusation of attempted rape sounds just too difficult to believe.
Current Music: THE WHITE STRIPES - I Smell A Rat
Saturday, 14 May 2011
(London) Weekend + some sad shite
We'll be off to Somerset House (Ai Wei Wei), the Tate (more Wei Wei), The Barbican and finally the Trader Vic's (food, drinks and music and company) today. Interrupted by a Starbucks Happy Hour because we love their Frappuccino and it's half price. Not that we want to be thrifty, but to drink twice as many as usual.
We will miss this atrocity against culture and good taste: the Eurovision "Song" Contest.
I just don't get it: in a frenzy of self-flagellation and masochism, Europeans will watch the Eurovision tonight, a pathetic and shitty event that - despite its redundancy - still puts the EU to shame! For, the Eurovision allows people more democratic rights than the EU and the eurozone. (Elected) European leaders and (unelected) commissioners & their underlings, must feel shame and embarrassment that the world's shittiest entitity, the Eurovision fan community - exercises more profoundly civil rights than citizens of the EU will ever enjoy. Sad shit, that!
Current Music: LAND OF TALK - Summer Special
We will miss this atrocity against culture and good taste: the Eurovision "Song" Contest.
I just don't get it: in a frenzy of self-flagellation and masochism, Europeans will watch the Eurovision tonight, a pathetic and shitty event that - despite its redundancy - still puts the EU to shame! For, the Eurovision allows people more democratic rights than the EU and the eurozone. (Elected) European leaders and (unelected) commissioners & their underlings, must feel shame and embarrassment that the world's shittiest entitity, the Eurovision fan community - exercises more profoundly civil rights than citizens of the EU will ever enjoy. Sad shit, that!
Current Music: LAND OF TALK - Summer Special
Wednesday, 11 May 2011
LSE and its Arab patrons
During an acerbic exchange at the LSE yesterday a Muslim thug - guest in this country - hissed at a forum participant:"I'd rather be called a Nazi then a Jew!" To which I retorted that 1) he hasn't achieved yet the status as a decent human being on the ladder of evolution to be taken seriously, and 2) that I haven't found yet a weapon worthwhile to try on him and kill him. Tossing the Arab wanker into a swelter of liquid iron might be a suitable option.
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Eurozone Clown: JC Juncker
Jean-Claude Juncker is to the eurozone what Comical Ali was to Saddam Hussein's regime:
a buffonesque, tragic pawn in the service of an unelected junta, posing as a spokesman with an oratory filled with lies, half-truths, grotesquely delusional and in denial of reality. The eurozone is bound to implode but the captain from tiny Luxembourg (it fits on a stamp) presses on, reinvoking the image of the Titanic when its skipper boasted, "we just pushed an iceberg aside."
"There is no crisis in Greece," the pompous Juncker blarred into microphones in 2009; a few years earlier he signed off on a presentation from the Greek government, full of book-keeping tricks and shady maneuvres at best, but outright misrepresentations and deceit in reality, in order to "qualify" the Hellens for the eurozone. In 2010 the vicious cycle of tax & spend exploded with the realization that Greece is virtually bankrupt. "Bankruptcy in the eurozone is an impossibility," lectured the representative from one of the smallest countries in the world last year. Only to be succeeded by massive downgrades of Greece by leading rating agencies - last time was yesterday. Fact is that government bonds issued in Athens are of junk bond status.
"Restructuring of Greek sovereign debt is ruled out," Juncker meowed in Brussels 2 months ago; just as Greece leaving the eurozone, according to the EU's Comical Ali.
And so the world laughs heads off while glancing at the EU, and a defiant Juncker, with most of his limps hacked off, tumbles up and down the continent and challenges financial markets with his daft "Pull my finger" mimics.
a buffonesque, tragic pawn in the service of an unelected junta, posing as a spokesman with an oratory filled with lies, half-truths, grotesquely delusional and in denial of reality. The eurozone is bound to implode but the captain from tiny Luxembourg (it fits on a stamp) presses on, reinvoking the image of the Titanic when its skipper boasted, "we just pushed an iceberg aside."
"There is no crisis in Greece," the pompous Juncker blarred into microphones in 2009; a few years earlier he signed off on a presentation from the Greek government, full of book-keeping tricks and shady maneuvres at best, but outright misrepresentations and deceit in reality, in order to "qualify" the Hellens for the eurozone. In 2010 the vicious cycle of tax & spend exploded with the realization that Greece is virtually bankrupt. "Bankruptcy in the eurozone is an impossibility," lectured the representative from one of the smallest countries in the world last year. Only to be succeeded by massive downgrades of Greece by leading rating agencies - last time was yesterday. Fact is that government bonds issued in Athens are of junk bond status.
"Restructuring of Greek sovereign debt is ruled out," Juncker meowed in Brussels 2 months ago; just as Greece leaving the eurozone, according to the EU's Comical Ali.
And so the world laughs heads off while glancing at the EU, and a defiant Juncker, with most of his limps hacked off, tumbles up and down the continent and challenges financial markets with his daft "Pull my finger" mimics.
Monday, 9 May 2011
Where It's At
OK, the concert was disappointing and I left after an hour. The Howling Bells are better on CD than live... lesson taken.
BUT!
BUT!
Event
I'll be at the Scala (no, not that one in Milan) near King's Cross tonight for a musical treat: the band from Down Under, The Howling Bells.
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Katrina's Goldeneye Impression:
Monday morning, back at work... and things have changed: mood's up within the Tories, LibDems reduced to irrelevance and the AV thrashed for good. Eventually the coalition will turn to dust - long before the planned dissolution in 2014 - and the bloody Scots can soon crawl to Brussels for handouts and bail-outs, rather than to burden the English. All's well in the - still - Queendom of Britain. And I am stirred rather than shaken.
Monday morning, back at work... and things have changed: mood's up within the Tories, LibDems reduced to irrelevance and the AV thrashed for good. Eventually the coalition will turn to dust - long before the planned dissolution in 2014 - and the bloody Scots can soon crawl to Brussels for handouts and bail-outs, rather than to burden the English. All's well in the - still - Queendom of Britain. And I am stirred rather than shaken.
Saturday, 7 May 2011
End of vac time
Je suis dans le train pour Londres!
Tempus fugit, when ya have fun...
Nothing, absolutely nothing beats the Côte d'Azur; except California and Western Cape (SA).
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Nothing, absolutely nothing beats the Côte d'Azur; except California and Western Cape (SA).
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Friday, 6 May 2011
(UK) Election Aftermath: Rejoice!
Time to rejoice!
The absurdity of the LibDem-inspired push to introduce the dubious proportional vote system in Britain convinced Britons to give it a resounding defeat: this is not Europe, with its dysfunctional and undemocratic knack for coalitions. Best news for England is that of the victory of the SNP in Scotland: referendum, independence and becoming the EU's latest basket place are now the future prospects for the tribal reservation up north. No more economic aid from England's taxpayers to the tune of £14 billion a year.
After introduction of an austerity programme to reverse the disastrous policies of 12 years of Labour, the Conservatives held up nicely in the election. The electorate also made clear that the LibDems are an exotic, albeit unnecessary political force in England, and reduced their voting share from 24 to 15 per cent.
And finally, Labour supporters must wonder how to shelve their comical chieftain Milliband. The speech-impaired clown would be better suited as a main actor in a movie dealing with speech therapy, rather than in the serious business of the Commons. Oh yay!
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The absurdity of the LibDem-inspired push to introduce the dubious proportional vote system in Britain convinced Britons to give it a resounding defeat: this is not Europe, with its dysfunctional and undemocratic knack for coalitions. Best news for England is that of the victory of the SNP in Scotland: referendum, independence and becoming the EU's latest basket place are now the future prospects for the tribal reservation up north. No more economic aid from England's taxpayers to the tune of £14 billion a year.
After introduction of an austerity programme to reverse the disastrous policies of 12 years of Labour, the Conservatives held up nicely in the election. The electorate also made clear that the LibDems are an exotic, albeit unnecessary political force in England, and reduced their voting share from 24 to 15 per cent.
And finally, Labour supporters must wonder how to shelve their comical chieftain Milliband. The speech-impaired clown would be better suited as a main actor in a movie dealing with speech therapy, rather than in the serious business of the Commons. Oh yay!
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Thursday, 5 May 2011
Obama's right on Osama
I agree that graphic images of ObL should not be released: to satisfy the lust for sensationalism and to dispel the madness of pathological idiots who sense a conspiracy that ObL might still be alive - and who subscribe to the delusional idea that the US Government had a hand in the 9-11 atrocities - is far outweighed by the mandate of ethics, civility and decency. We are not like "them," who kill, behead and maime victims in front of rolling cameras.
A reminder for the peeps in England: vote NO on AV!
We see in Europe the familiar trademark unproductive and absurd fall-out from the desperate need to build coalitions, which diminish the accountability of parties and robs the electorate to swiftly oust a one-party government when things go wrong. "First-past-the-post" is a magnificent tool of democracy worthwhile to keep.
A reminder for the peeps in England: vote NO on AV!
We see in Europe the familiar trademark unproductive and absurd fall-out from the desperate need to build coalitions, which diminish the accountability of parties and robs the electorate to swiftly oust a one-party government when things go wrong. "First-past-the-post" is a magnificent tool of democracy worthwhile to keep.
Monday, 2 May 2011
The fuck is dead
OBL no more; one can only feel utter satisfaction, wholesome and undiluted pleasure and jubilation over the violent death of the world's biggest cretin and coward. It would have been futile to try such psychopath in a court of law, and no other punishment but a brutal death could have fit the evil this creepy fuck committed in the name of Allah. Salute to the US troops who executed the justified operation, and to a nation led by George W Bush and Barack Hussein Obama that never grew fatigue in its poise to finish off the desert rat. It will now be easier to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 9-11 atrocities.
How best to dispose of such piece of shit? The Americans had a quick solution for that too: dump it into the sea and feed the sharks.
It is not without a powerful symbolism that the cowardly hiding rodent's death was announced on Holocaust Memorial Day.
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