A cinq heures cinquante-cinq
awake with open eyes
a drift upon the night
and miles away from land
five fifty five
five fifty five
a cinq heures cinquante-cinq
ante meridien
too late to end it now
too early to start again
five fifty five
five fifty five
soon the morning will arrive
can i begin another day
whilst this old day is still alive
refusing to be put away
five [...]
Archive for the 'french' Category
BBC Radio’s In Our Time is a pretty erudite podcast, lots of university dons sitting around talking. On the subway this morning, I was listening to The Trial of Madame Bovary, in which Flaubert’s novel was prosecuted by the French government for promoting immorality:
In January 1857 a man called Ernest Pinard stood up in a [...]
Madonna Sex Book video
Posted in Isabella Rossellini, Madonna, Naomi Campbell, chanson, french, sex, video on Mar 25th, 2007
from Unscathed Corpse:
[Many of the photos in the book Sex are from film frames. Madonna had photographer Steven Meisel shoot many of the sessions with regular photography, but these same sessions were also shot as a movie with various film techniques by fashion photographer Fabian Baron, mostly on super 8 mm. Baron used the footage [...]