Wednesday 30 June 2010

Sunday 27 June 2010

Georges Perec, On the difficulty of imagining an ideal city.

I wouldn't like to live in America but sometimes I would
I'd love to live on the Boulevard St Germain but sometimes I wouldn't
I wouldn't like to live on a coral reef but sometimes I would
I wouldn't like to live in a dungeon but sometimes I would
I wouldn't like to live in the East but sometimes I would
I love living in France but sometimes I don't
I'd love to live in Greenland but not for too long
I'd like to live to a hundred but sometimes I wouldn't
I wouldn't like to live in Issoudun but sometimes I would
I wouldn't like to live on a junk but sometimes I would
I wouldn't like to live in a ksar but sometimes I would
I'd have loved to go in a lunar module but it's a bit late
I wouldn't like to live in a monastery but sometimes I would
I wouldn't like to live at the Hotel Negresco but sometimes I would
I wouldn't like to live in the open air but sometimes I would
I love living in Paris but sometimes I don't
I wouldn't like to live in Quebec but sometimes I would
I wouldn't like to live by my own resources but sometimes I would
I wouldn't like to live in a submarine but sometimes I would
I wouldn't like to live in a tower but sometimes I would
I wouldn't like to live with Ursula Andress but sometimes I would
I wouldn't like to live in a village but sometimes I would
I wouldn't like to live in a wigwam but sometimes I would
I'd love to live in Xanadu but not for ever
I wouldn't like to live in the Yonne but sometimes I would
I wouldn't like us all to live in Zanzibar but sometimes I would

Sunday 20 June 2010

Ne Me Quitte Pas.

Jacques Brel (1959)

Marlene Dietrich (1963)

Rod McKuen (1965)

Shirley Bassey (1967)

Tom Jones (1968)

Scott Walker (1981)

Emiliana Torrelini (2001)

Cyndi Lauper (2004)

Barbra Streisand (2009)


Wednesday 9 June 2010

Pie.


George Barber.



Song of Solomon.

By night on my bed I

sought him whom my soul

loveth: I sought him, but I

found him not.


I will rise now, and go

about the city in the streets,

and in the broad ways I will

seek him whom my soul

loveth: I sought him, but I

found him not.

Diva.

Friday 4 June 2010

Excellent Women.

'You know I'm not used to wine, particularly in the middle of the day,' I said, 'but it's rather pleasant to be unlike oneself occasionally.'

'I don't agree. They've moved me to a new office and I don't like it at all. Different pigeons come to the windows.'

Barbara Pym (1952)

Learning from Las Vegas.