30 juillet 2004
Bum Huggers
L 'actualité du jour c est que demain c'est le départ en vacances, en vertu de quoi ce soir c'est la grande cérémonie de l'essayage des maillots, un rituel auquel je ne me livre que lorsque j y suis contraint... en l'occurence Romain va jouer au beach volley demain, un récapitulatif s'imposait.
Alors :
Short vert pomme à étoiles jaunes ?
Speedo, "deuxiéme peau" noir ?
ou tout simplement le short blanc à rayures couché de soleil sur Miami en trois couleurs ?
Certains dilemmes sont déchirants, mais j'ai de la chance le beach volley se joue en maillot prés du corps. Et Romain n'en a pas qui lui appartienne.
Cette été je serai à la plage en short.
29 juillet 2004
Quick - Vite Fait
Work is overwhelming those days, for a break some people do sport or go shopping, I personnaly enjoy diner with my roomate and best friend Romain.
Nevertheless and in spite of all the luxe that surrounds us during work hours we like to have some more simple experiences, that is why we eat pasta nearly everyday, for an extra Quick is a possible alternative.
Poor, us ? No. Prolétaires du Luxe, oui.
28 juillet 2004
Summer In Paris
C est officiel depuis ce week end, c'est l'été, d'ailleurs je me sens déjà un peu en vacances...
Les terrasses sont acceuillantes,
La mairie de Paris brille dans le soir,
...les squares sont ensoleillés...
et... Yey, c 'est fantastique, Paris Plage a vraiment commencé !!
C'est donc l'occasion d'une balade sur les bords de Seine avec Emilie, Bibia et Angeline.
Ces beaux pieds sont à Emilie
27 juillet 2004
Luc et Sylvain
I miss Toulouse these days, my childhood suddenly look so far away...now that holidays are coming. It s been already 4 years since I left home. Everything is so different now.
I talked with my brother on the phone yesterday and we argued like we haven t argued in years, I think it s becoming increasingly difficult for us to communicate. On the one hand we don t know each other that well and we ve never been really close, on the other hand we never said each other I love you that much. We spent most of our childhood fighting, maybe is it what make us feel like we have to make up for the time before... I was sad he talked this way to me last night, I really think he is unhappy with his life, but he is a grown boy now at 22 and I don t know how I could help him, I mean, he had his chances too...
I don t know if I did the right things for him before, but what I know is that now his life is really very difficult, globally is whole life up to now has been difficult so it is just getting worse. I think he would like and probably need to be more independant, but independance has a price, I know it too well for myself, the first year when I was living on my own I failed at school. The thing is, I had a second chance then, which is not the case for him, and it is unfair because now he is stuck and does not know what to do. It is terrible for me to think that he is the only one who can help himlself, I cannot think of anything that we haven t tried before.
I wish the coming times help him finding solutions and confidence, he is such a good guy, more litterate than most a people I know, I don t know anybody who reads more than he does actually... He said he would like to be a writter somehow and I would like him to succeed at it if it s what he is good at.
It is so easy for me to speak now that I am living my life away and that I solved most of the things that were making me unhappy...
Tonight was painful, it s difficult what I feel and his anger seemed so unfair and egoist to me, I was litterally screaming in the street on the phone and for him, in the first place I was really the one who was wrong. We were both so angry and at the same time we were acknowledging the fact that we love each other so much. I am so proud of my little brother, you know, I don t know how to express that, I am just proud of him because he is himself, for no particular reason other than that. And I don t care about how he is doing at school or whatever, what I want for him is to find some relief and a success that would give him the self confidence he needs so much. You are so much happier when you know that the ones in your family do not miss anything.
It is complicated but I think that it is only now that it really makes sense for the both of us, this word : Brothers.
26 juillet 2004
Golden Gate Palace
Ce week end en cherchant la rue Montgallet j ai trouvé le palais de la Porte Dorée, un mystére décallé, suspendu au bord du bois de Vincenne, ce batiment étonnant héberge dans ses sous sols les poissons tropicaux et les crocodiles de l'aquarium de Paris.
Dans un coin du palais, les gagnants d un concours d architecture voient leurs oeuvres exposées
25 juillet 2004
You Look Beautiful Like That - Leonard
New York Printemps 2004
Thomas, Peter, Mala, Sam, Caleb, Drew, Leonard et les autres, une sélection de portraits
Aujourd'hui : Leonard
Leonard c'est le feu sous la glace.
Cette semaine dans mes oreilles il y avait :
DIANA KRALL mais j en peux vraiment plus de son dernier album.
Arno : La vie est belle
24 juillet 2004
Modem
After a difficult beggining, my new internship finally becomes wonderful, the sales period is exhausting but I do, actually, learn a lot there.
I mean, I am ok with work, I can stay late, I agree to do whatever people want me to do, I have no shame, but there is a condition : at the end of the day I don't want to feel like I did ONLY the shitty part of the job. Cleaning tables, preparing meals for the clients, taking care of the dish washer and making coffee is ok ONLY if in exchange you are treated just as every other member of the team : projects are explained to you, you have responsability other than just taking care of the number of coke bottles in the closet or the late work and you are not ignored when there is a party somewhere - I hate this lie that people say " You know your work is SO important for us, it is really important that you are extra careful in doing it", when it is actually making up on late boring, dull, unuseful work, that will never be used again and that people did not bother to do before because it was actually not, that important.
Being an intern in france, you are "paid" a minimum, sometimes you are lucky, and you can pay your rent with this money, sometimes you are not and well, it s just too bad for you. But still, you are lucky because SO MANY people of your age and with similar interest or resume are looking for one too. The deal is that you work for free in exchange of the experience that will pay off later as another line on your resume.
This internship is I think the 5th or the 6th I am doing in the fashion industry and up to now, I've always been lucky : interesting structures and companies, managed by people nice enough for me to feel good each time, challenging myself, teaching me tons of things and helping me just being better at work.
Internship changed my life because at some point, school not being fantastic, I though that I did not like to work at all and I forgot that you could be happy to wake up in the morning in the days others than saturday and sunday.
Two years ago I was feeling really down when I started this amazing internship in a company I really did not know at the time. I signed for one month and in the end, did more, so much more that I was feeling like home. I have to admit that I did not have any great task to accomplish, but a modest one of which I was totally responsible : someone was confident in me, I had a position and I was useful doing what I was doing. Wasn't it great ? And I made friends too !
Well, this intership I am doing now, is turning like that too, I like very much the team I am working with right now and there are plenty of things to do. I really whish it keeps on being that cool.
23 juillet 2004
Hansel und Gretel
J'ai toujours beaucoup aimé le sucre et bien que les bonbons aient été banni dans ma jeunesse par une mére infirmiére et que j ai été élevé dans le culte de la sainte brosse à dent.
Pipi, les dents et au lit, un refrain destiné à me garantir une nuit sereine et une croissance sans carries.
Mais hélas, Haribo et ses produits gélatineux, acides, colorés, chimiques, trés sucrés aux merveilleux gout et aux textures surprenantes ont eu raison de tous ces sages conseil. Et le résultat ne tarda pas : les carries étaient là.
Sans parler du véritable culte que j'ai longtemps voué à Chupa Chups, idole sur batonnet dont les packaging métalliques et encore une fois multicolores ont suscité autour de moi une certaine stupéfaction - à une époque j' en collectionnais même les emballages, que je découpais et mettais ensuite entre les pages de mon dictionnaire d'anglais pour les aplatir.
On ne s'étonnera donc pas que ma derniére visite chez le dentiste, soit consacré à un arrachage de dent, un moment que j' appréhendais beaucoup mais qui fut presque une partie de plaisir grâce à ma dentiste, une personne fantastique qui m' a appelé au lendemain de l'extraction pour s'assurer que ma visite chez elle n'avait pas été trop désagréable et que je ne souffrait pas trop, du jamais vu pour moi, des dentistes avec un service aprés vente, c'est génial.
En rentrant j ai pris la ligne 3 qui c est considérablement modernisée si je ne m'abuse...
Mais tout ça ne m'a pas calmé, c'est avec délectation que j'ai diné le soir en désirable compagnie chez Hansel et Gretel, un tout nouveau -petit - restaurant dans le quartier de la Butte aux Cailles, quartier dans lequel nous buvons un verre en terrasse avant d aller manger.
Des sucres d'orges partout, de jolies couleurs sur les murs et une toute petite carte pleine de bonnes choses comme le foie gras sur tranche de pain d' épice aux noix, la farandole de charcuterie et ses bretzel ou la tarte à l'oignon et sa salade, le tout pour à peine plus de 6 euros par plat.
Une trouvaille résolument fooding, qui se mange donc presque sans dents.
Pour digérer une petite balade dans le 13eme en marchant vers Villejuif, les tours sont magiques dans la nuit. Les personnages que l'on voit dans les vitrines y seraient parfaitement à l'aise.
21 juillet 2004
Tout A Neuf
On my way back home after work between Republique and le Marais where I stay with Romain, there is more to see than it seems in the first place. Old shops, a public garden, a sculpted balcony and many, many Hotels...
In the evening between deep though I consider open, after I ve been attacked without warning by one of them, against all biting bugs and particulary against mosquitos. I won the first battle but the fight will be long. And now, I have blood on my hands too.
20 juillet 2004
Giuseppe Carves Wood
Dimanche, longue balade dans le quartier, de l Ile de la Cité à Beaubourg en passant par la place des Vosges et l'Hotel de Sully et l' Eglise Saint Gervais.
Mais ne faisons pas durer le suspens plus longtemps car tout le monde est trés excité :
Coming SOON : Paris Plage.
Ici vu depuis le Pont Marie, tout juste en travaux.
Sur le chemin on croise Loic, en vélo et en route pour acheter un cheesecake rue des Rosiers, tout à côté de la rue Pavée, dans laquelle se trouve Mona Lisait, un bouquiniste au large choix et aux prix bas chez qui nous n avons cependant pas trouvé notre bonheur : un dictionnaire des termes techniques de la maroquinerie.
Pas plus de chance à la librairie de l' Hotel Sully, pourtant spécialisée dans les arts décoratifs.
Suprise au fond de l' Hotel de Sully, une petite porte méne directement au coeur de la place des Vosges.
Rue du Parc Royal, un café bien dans son jus, photos de Fernandel incluses.
Un passage devant l' Hotel accueillant le musée de la Chasse et de la Nature sur le chemin de Beaubourg pour voir la belle exposition de Giuseppe Penonne.
On finit la journée devant un Perrier chez Ariane, où l' on croise le toujours souriant Thierry et la jolie Stéphanie.
