Monday, December 25, 2006

Between the Bars

Christmas - done and over with. Lots of alcohol, food and music. I'm writing from a big house in a small town near Paris.


Some salsa-dancing last night after the opening of the gifts - a first for miss YZ, "the alien." Today, three mini-Spidermen were spreading fear and (mostly) exhaustion among very drunk adults. Some of them insisted on discussing obscure French cinema - Patrick De'fucking'waere was mentioned repeatedly - and showing off their knowledge of kangaroos in the most broken English imaginable, for the benefit of the Australian girl. Quite the French experience. She was gracious, and it all ended in a good laugh.


Lots of Madeleine Peyroux albums were exchanged. Her cover of Between the Bars was played. Here's a live version of the original, by Elliot Smith.

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