Last week Miles visited and we took the train to Nantes (about 2 hours west of Paris) and saw Animal Collective (his birthday present). I was incredibly impressed with his ability to stay mostly awake for the entire day and stick it out til 1 am. I went to sleep at about 8pm the first night I was in Paris.
I'm too lazy to go into detail about the whole week, because it was mostly more of the same site-seeing stuff I've already told you all about. I will however list the things that were new for both of us...
- Musee d'Orsay-mostly 18th-19th century European art...very pretty, too much impressionism, however.
- Eiffel Tower-we went up it! And it was freezing cold and mostly unpleasant, but something you have to do!
- Musee d'Erotisme-we went at like 1 am (this museum boasts itself as the ONLY museum in Paris open til 2 am) so it was mostly empty and full of primitive looking erotic art that was really from the 20th century.
- the Sexodrome-stay away from the creepy private rooms on the second floor, unless you're in the market for that sort of thing.
Miles got burned by hot chocolate, then received free beer and was offered to have his H&M eurotrash shirt dry cleaned by the restaurant, we declined this offer but took the free beer and dessert. Yum.
This week I went to the Fleche d'Or again and saw Ben Lee and some other french acts...I don't remember what they were called but one group was like hip-hop/jazz/folk if thats possible, then the next act was a really awesome chick who sang...Tricia says she was kind of like Bjork.
Here she is:
Also went to a bunch of open mics to see Tricia and Devin play...Its really interesting to hear the song choices of a lot of these Parisian musicians. Among the odder selections were Creep (on two separate occasions), Umbrella, and Like a Prayer. All acoustic.
The rockstars themselves:
This weekend we're going to Rouen/Giverny...More churches! And Monet's home-hopefully the weather stays awesome for that!
xopeace
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