Paree!

I'm a bad or at least inconsistent, blogger--but maybe I'll get better. Today I'm a bit sad because I'm moving out of the studio that I've rented for 3 years from terrific Stacey at Red Lipstick. We went out and had an impromptu dinner at Beast and a big long rag. I was chagrinned to remember, when Stacey treated me, that the occasion we were celebrating was my leaving the studio space.

Since the time I realized that I would not be able to maintain a separate studio I’ve been weirdly productive but today I finally had to put everything away and get it boxed up and ready for tomorrow's pickup. Then it all gets jammed into my jammed apartment. There's a lotta work to do...

Anyway! In Paris--where I spent a pretty great Xmas and New Year--well, bien sur, I saw several movies.


By far, my happiest movie-going experience during the almost 3 weeks there was going to see "Une heure près de toi"--One Hour with You de mon boyfriend, Ernst Lubitsch. There's nothing more fun than seeing Paramount Paris in Paris and giggling to Maurice Chevalier's puns in accented english, translated into apparently not very funny French. Since much of the dialogue is rhymed and sung, there was a bit of a problem keeping up with the sprit of the words. Even with my challenged french I could tell the subtitles were not very buoyant. There was one part that was nice. Jeanette and Maurice are singing "What a Little Thing Like a Wedding Ring Can Do" which was translated in the subtitles as something like:

Une bague sur la doigt,
Donnez-vous tous les droits...

At some point well into the film, an elderly couple struggled into the mostly empty cinema and to my chagrin practically sat on top of me (because I was dead center in the theater having nerdishly arrived to a 2pm show so early that the gates were still down around the ticket booth). After lengthy settling in with requisite bag crumpling, the vielle homme suddenly blurted out in a loud, American, I'm-kinda-deaf, voice: "This is a CRAZY, OLD MOVIE!!" And then he cracked up.

Right On, Mon Gar!!