I heart Paris in the Springtime

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hi kids and welcome to Paris, I love this place, pretty buildings, doesn't feel overcrowded once you get away from all the tourist hordes and into the backstreets. I'm just waiting for the Pompidou centre to open before going there, a quick hop to the d'orsay for the Seurats and then up to Montmartre.

do you love Paris in the springtime?

― chris, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

bonjour tout le monde answers.

― chris, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I hate you.

― bitter, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Lock down your aerial, you're listening to the Seurats.

Normandy in Springtime is bettah HA!

― Tom, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

there are some slightly bad things starry, cocktails at the gorgeous bqr under E's house are about six quid a pop, and French keyboardsare all over the place, mind you, other than that......

― chris, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

hiya! r u seeing Mr McKenzie, cabbage? say hiya and BONGJOUR from me!

― katie, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I hear the Paris people are stinky.

― mike hanle y, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have only been to Paris in the summertime, but I did wuv it. I MUST RETOUR.

― Ally C, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

it makes my feet hurt, they ache like billy-ho I must say, sacre coeur was double good though, as was the d'orsay, the queue for the pompidou, less so

― chris, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Take photos! (And bring me some frogz legz0r)

― Sarah, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

some photos have been taken, unfortunately I usually forget that I have my camera with me :(

food will be bought on bouze crooz on Saturday, yippeeeee

― chris, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

and number 5 will like the fact that I photoed the marble bear

― chris, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Does anyone know Screamin' Jay Hawkins' version of I Love Paris In The Springtime? I like to think it's a straight attempt at singing like he's on Broadway, and of course he can't do that, thankfully. Anyway, this thread isn't about that.

I love Paris. The Pompidou is a wonderful building with as delightful a pool as I've ever see next door and loads of great art inside. Seurat is one of my most loathed artists, but there is lots of good stuff in the d'Orsay - and in the little Orangerie. I wasn't so taken with Montmartre. Notre Dame is magnificent, if you like Gothic, and I do.

― Martin Skidmore, Thursday, 11 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I love how even though it's about Paris he can't resist doing his Chinese imitation...

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 11 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Love goes home to Paris in the spring, apparently.

― electric sound of jim, Thursday, 11 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Boo, now I want to go to Paris.

― rosemary, Thursday, 11 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Love goes home to Paris in the spring, apparently.

Just sing it, Jim. I know you can. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 11 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

My update with regards to my sister... She just announced to me yesterday via phone that she and her parisian boyfriend will be wed within the month. She's traveling there directly after exams are over to get hitched. Then she'll come back for her last year of school. That way, when she graduates she'll already have her Green Card/work visa and she'll be able to move there. She's waiting until Spring '04 for a wedding, but she'll be Mrs. R*binet this time next month. She's 20. They've only dated for 9 months, but I'm trying to be supportive.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 21 April 2003 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

(For those who have been ILXing for a while, she's the sister with the eating disorder, shoplifting problem, depression, and so-on)

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 21 April 2003 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

This sounds very good news, Sarah. Only dating for nine months doesn't sound so bad - I got engaged to a girl back in 1978 after two weeks. And to be honest that was just formalising what we'd both known since about four or five days in. Well, I knew after that time - she said she knew after one day. We stayed together for 23 years, which isn't bad.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 21 April 2003 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

April in Paris. Is it as promised?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

Absolutely.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

Vivid, lively, so outright glorious it should be bottled and sold.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

I have been thinking about how fun it would be to move back to Paris recently...just because.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

what is it, exactly? the gardens?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

Moi aussi.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

http://hilton.org.uk/facade/paris-dame-tartine.jpg

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

http://hilton.org.uk/picture/photo/france/la_palette_s.jpeg

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

itp://www.undergroundparis.com/industrie2.jpg

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/users/3f12bb70_9b87/a215/__sr_/3a59.jpg?ph1CF3BB2ZP1CK.E

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

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― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

http://rds.yahoo.com/S=96062883/K=Cafe+de+l%27Industrie/v=2/SID=e/l=IVS/SIG=122ng74i0/EXP=1105042984/*-http%3A//www.undergroundparis.com/industrie2.jpg

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

http://www.phan-ngoc.com/fred/paris/img/vertgalant.jpg

Right behind Hank there is the place where Jacques de Molay was burned at the stake.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

what is it, exactly? the gardens?

it's the gardens, the tree-lined boulevards, the cool, still evenings, the unselfconscious devotion to leisure. I want to cry!

XPOST - I used a live about a block from that statue.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

http://seattlebonvivant.typepad.com/photos/seattle_bon_vivants_mishm/paris_087_edited.jpg

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

I heart Paris in November, because that's when I was there. There aren't as many pesky tourists like myself around and the weather isn't too bad.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

Michael - we can both move to Paris, you subsidize my expenses and I'll...put you in my will. And I promise not to leave you anything explicitly British.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

i used to give my ex-bf such a hard time everytime he started a story off with "when i was in paris, france...". it was really cyoot.

― ai lien m. draheim (kold_krush), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

It was very cold this November (by SF standards).

http://www.laduree.fr/images_univers/univers.gif

I'll subsidize your expenses how! I'll take the explicitly British as long as I don't have to live there.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

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― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

oh that place is like 2 doors down from this horrible english pub my horrible ex worked at

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

FROG AND PRINCESS

― .adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

The old couple that work in that bookshop are nice (but weird).

― .adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

yes, frog pubs. blegh

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

I have a few friends that worked in the other one (near Les Halles?).

― .adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

I like it, if only because I saw Man U win TEH EUROPEAN CUP in it.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

oh really? what year? because the horrible ex mostly worked at that one.

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

1999

― .adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

GOING TO 'PUBS' IN FRANCE IS TEH STOOPID! I actually rooted for them on that occasion 'cause Bayern Munchen are DIE FRIDOLINS, BOCHES, KRAUTS!!!

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

Michael, you need a racist belt.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

Besides, I wanted to watch the game with my countrymen, the people you so readily dismiss.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

But something less obvious than the 'South' thing. I want a Breton independence belt excoriating English tourists or something.

Mancunians?

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

GOING TO 'PUBS' IN FRANCE IS TEH STOOPID!

i lived there for six months, and didnt speak much french. it was nice to have native english speakers around

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

Mancunians?

Yes, like my forebears.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

This thread is making me very nostalgic.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

You know, like when Solskjaer bundled it in during the last minute...

― .adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

http://www.zaputa.com/Blackadderweb/assets/castimages/BA4/Stephen%20Fry.jpg

'She's not Welsh, is she?"

phil-two,

I did excatly the opposite and learned Froggish.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

but you're white. nobody there wanted to bother speaking french to a chink like me

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

English tourists in Paris vs American tourists in Paris

― .adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

;)

― .adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

Ugh, you know what's worse than go to pubs in Paris? Going to TGI Fridays.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

What do you MEAN? Best cocktails EVER!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

Not that I've ever had one, I don't think.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

anyways, paris sucks

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

speaking french to a chink like me

Place d'Italie is full of chinks/gooks/good markets and restaurants. I miss the cheap little Vietnamese places in Paris. :(

American tourists but only by a small fraction, though the better kind of British tourist is lovely. When I missed speaking English, I hung out with the Oirish 'cause they weren't as stupid and arrogant as the Americans nor as spiteful and unhappy as the English.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

That's...possibly a fair assessment.

anyway

Well if you've been to cities but you've had enough
Have you been to Paris, France?
And if you doubt that Paris was made for love
Give Paris one more chance
The home of Piaf and Chevalier
Must have done something right to get passion this way
If you don't think Paris was made for love
Give Paris one more chance

Well now I'm calling it arrogant, calling it cruel
(Give Paris one more chance)
And also trop civilisé et mon dieu, c'est trop cool**
(Give Paris one more chance)
But if you don't think Paris was made for love
Maybe your heart needs a telegram from up above
If you don't think Paris was made for love
Well give Paris one more chance

Well now there's some things I don't like and some things I do
But give Paris one more chance
I can see why Paris would be ugly for you
But give Paris one more chance
The home of Piaf and Trennet too
Must have done something right
Must have something for you
If you don't think Paris was made for love
Give Paris one more chance

Now hear the boys singing Beegees songs under the skies
(Give Paris one more chance)
And on the steps of Montmartre they harmonise
(Give Paris one more chance)
Because if you don't think Paris was made for love
Maybe your heart needs a telegram from up above
If you don't think Paris was made for love
Give Paris one more chance

Let's wrap it up..

Well if you've been to cities but you've had enough
Have you been to Paris, France?
And if you doubt that Paris was made for love
Give Paris one more chance
The home of Piaf and Charles Aznavour
Must have done something right
And will do something more
If you don't think Paris was made for love
Give Paris one more chance
Alright
Give Paris one more chance

― .adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

that was for phil

― .adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

the cool, still evenings

not cold, then?

that first picture of the Pompidou - I was like, are there floods in Springtime?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

NOT cold. potentially rainy, but also potentially VERY warm.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

i miss paris :-(

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 22:40 (twenty years ago)

:-(

― .adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v483/Hereward/3fb5.jpg

Ma belle in the Luxembourg.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v483/Hereward/817c.jpg

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v483/Hereward/3a59.jpg

This got lost above.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)

I like DC -> I will like Paris

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

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I lived here once.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

http://photov.wanadoo.fr/1/c/tbf/user=wophoto;uri=RQ5pjTFdjzZdlAZAJoG/n4p45stn0Q1NBSHJopmt2yUWZzAWtYUgFXNbQ4YFKWWax27De5/R8gU=

I lived here once.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

Que c'est étrange.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 22:58 (twenty years ago)

http://photov.wanadoo.fr/1/c/tbf/user=wophoto;uri=RQ5pjTFdjzZdlAZAJoG/n4p45stn0Q1NCDrcmUwqTbmkSzDycxMiHYeLgH57L6x7/QLuWDDOrRE=

and here...

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

http://photov.wanadoo.fr/1/c/tbf/user=wophoto;uri=RQ5pjTFdjzZdlAZAJoG/n4p45stn0Q1NPqxJsRRvj8spVisCd1OYP+9gsyDJyTAwELwXi6LQ130=

and here...

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:02 (twenty years ago)

My old street
http://www.vex.net/~emily/paris/pictures/hotel.jpg

― .adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:05 (twenty years ago)

Actually I lived in the third building from the left in that picture, just after the hotel.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

Quelle rue?

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

Rue De Nesle, just off of the Rue Dauphine.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

Very fun.

Here?

http://photov.wanadoo.fr/1/c/tbf/user=wophoto;uri=RQ5pjTFdjzZdlAZAJoG/n4p45stn0Q1NuwRKgnrwBEedv0iogAsPpi76dN7XB9c53+jcwBR6ukI=

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:12 (twenty years ago)

Looks like it! I can't tell from that angle. There was a semi-functioning jazz club on the ground floor and a small theatre over the street.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:15 (twenty years ago)

I did absolutely nothing but read, walk and watch movies. It was bliss!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:16 (twenty years ago)

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I also lived here on the rue Jacques-Callot which was the setting for Zola's novel 'Thérèse Raquin' under it's old name, le passage du Pont Neuf.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:16 (twenty years ago)

hm what happenned to my post. anyhow, i lived next door to here, where i got breakfast every morning, except saturday of course:

http://www.metropoleparis.com/2004/907/life907d.jpg

and it was a block away from l'as du felafel which is famous for being lenny kravitz's favorite felafel. they have signs and photos to prove it

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

on rue des rosiers in the marais

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:19 (twenty years ago)

I can spend hours reading this

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/2707310549.08.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Phil, is that on Rue des Rosiers? My friend, Miles, and I used to go there on Sundays.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:20 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, didn't see your clarification. That place is great.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

yeah, oh sunday afternoons were crazy. all the jewish teens would stand and pose and rev their motorbike/scooters.

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:22 (twenty years ago)

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They used to have a bench outside.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)

I miss Chez Marianne on the Rue des Rosiers. That is where I discovered my great love for mezze.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

i love how that street is jewish on the east side and gay on the west end. which was perfect for me seeing that most of my crushes are closeted jewboys.

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:27 (twenty years ago)

errrrrm...

― .adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:27 (twenty years ago)

le dictionnaire historique..that's what the homeless guys sell on the metro!!

i don't have any pictures of where i lived.

phil's use of "jewboys" bugs me.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:28 (twenty years ago)

errrrrm...

Stop it adam. You're married.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:30 (twenty years ago)

Not meaning to be flip, but some of my Jewish friends call each other "Jewboy".

― .adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:30 (twenty years ago)

oh you're usually pretty easily bugged though. is it that offensive?

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:30 (twenty years ago)

http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/2707310549/171-9377502-7209833

That street name dictionary was b-day present a zillion years ago.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

From the Devil's Dictionary:

HEBREW, n. A male Jew, as distinguished from the Shebrew, an altogether superior creation.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:33 (twenty years ago)

At least mine is.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:34 (twenty years ago)

All of this is subjective.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:35 (twenty years ago)

In the Jardin des Plantes, if you walk about halfway down the length of the park and turn to the left, there's a park bench that's almost completely shaded by an overhanging branch. It's nice to sit there and daydream or watch schoolchildren on excursions.

― youn, Thursday, 6 January 2005 01:43 (twenty years ago)

But that was five years ago. I also like the Degas pastels at the Musee d'Orsay. The room they're in is all dark because they don't want the colors to fade.

― youn, Thursday, 6 January 2005 01:45 (twenty years ago)

i'm not easily bugged!

i just get the same vaguely queasy reaction to "i get crushes on jewboys" as i do to momus's "i really like the asian women."

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 6 January 2005 03:05 (twenty years ago)

although i guess if curly black hair and six o'clock shadows turns you on, then there's no debate.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 6 January 2005 03:18 (twenty years ago)

I spent three weeks here:

http://www.hostelz.com/pics/DSCF0084.jpg

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 6 January 2005 03:25 (twenty years ago)

is that the mije? i spent a week there too

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 6 January 2005 03:27 (twenty years ago)

I was going to ask if there was a book about the street names of Paris!

phil: yeah, it is.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 6 January 2005 03:29 (twenty years ago)

Is that a nunnery, Rosemary?

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 6 January 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

Well, I did stay with mostly girls.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 6 January 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

That must have been tough.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 6 January 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

I heart Paris in her video tape!

― CC72, Thursday, 6 January 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

http://www.examiner.com/article/index.cfm/i/010505c_scoop

"Well, that's what she gets

Paris Hilton's jaw reportedly hit the floor when she crashed a party in Malibu on Saturday night and walked in to find guests huddled around a big-screen television watching a copy of her infamous sex tape."

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 6 January 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

look at all these guys talking about paris

anyone in paris, these days?

― RJG, Friday, 13 April 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

I'm in Barcelona, not Paris, but has anyone seen "Paris, je t'aime" - the absolute chimera of a film starring and directed by everyone? It made me fall in love with Paris again.

― danzig, Friday, 13 April 2007 17:59 (eighteen years ago)

haven't seen it but heard it was not good

you live in barcelona?

― RJG, Friday, 13 April 2007 18:04 (eighteen years ago)

It's wildly uneven and at times quite disappointing - esp Gus Van Sant and Wes Craven's parts, as well as a few of the French ones, also the film makes it seem like every second person in Paris is American - but because the shorts kept coming at you like shots of adrenalin, and because there were some genuinely great and wacky moments, it was a heady movie experience.

And yes, for the time being, I'm living in Barcelona.

― danzig, Friday, 13 April 2007 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

going to paris in early april .... anyone out there? favorite restaurants? can't-miss sights on a short three-day trip? (the next four days we'll be in prague)

we're staying in a hotel in the latin quarter near the sorbonne

any advice appreciated, merci!

― dmr, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 03:34 (seventeen years ago)

It's been said before, but: catacombs.

― W4LTER, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 03:37 (seventeen years ago)

I'm in Paris.

― admrl, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 23:06 (seventeen years ago)

i'm not easily bugged!

i just get the same vaguely queasy reaction to "i get crushes on jewboys" as i do to momus's "i really like the asian women."

-- Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, January 5, 2005 7:05 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Link

Haha, you should meet my parents.

oh yeah Paris is supersympa.

― felicity, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 23:15 (seventeen years ago)

seven years pass...

Piggybacking a stay in Paris in late April as my wife has s work conference, it's going to be so great, I love this city.

Can anybody advise, I plan to visit/photograph as many of the lovely passages in central Paris as I can, but are they all worth visiting?

― MaresNest, Saturday, 28 March 2015 13:33 (ten years ago)

four years pass...

rough

Notre Dame, Paris, is on fire and it feels like the end of the world. pic.twitter.com/qYYk7ewipq
— Shiv Malik (@shivmalik) April 15, 2019

― ... and the crowd said DESELECT THEM (||||||||), Monday, 15 April 2019 17:22 (six years ago)

#NotreDame Paris incendie https://t.co/3i36tym1nk
— Mathieu Bertolo (@MathieuBertolo) April 15, 2019

― ... and the crowd said DESELECT THEM (||||||||), Monday, 15 April 2019 17:23 (six years ago)

Fuck, looks like it's a goner.

― Dan Worsley, Monday, 15 April 2019 17:30 (six years ago)

astonishing.

― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Monday, 15 April 2019 17:31 (six years ago)

Shit, hope they got everyone out.

― Matt DC, Monday, 15 April 2019 17:34 (six years ago)

The spire was undergoing renovation so I wouldn't be surprised if it spread from there. It's tragic that such a thing could happen in spite of the painstaking precautions they no doubt took.

― pomenitul, Monday, 15 April 2019 17:35 (six years ago)

oh my god

― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Monday, 15 April 2019 17:37 (six years ago)

they've been doing work on the roof for a few weeks so this is probably connected to this.

I mean, a huge stone building is not just going to burn down. but the roof looks like it'll be gone. most of the top of the church, including the big spire, is only from the mid 19th century.

― L'assie (Euler), Monday, 15 April 2019 17:38 (six years ago)

The building can and will probably be restored but there are a lot of irreplaceable artefacts in there. Hopefully it is just the roof and it looks worse than it is, but it looks extremely bad.

― Matt DC, Monday, 15 April 2019 17:40 (six years ago)

christ

― fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Monday, 15 April 2019 17:41 (six years ago)

Macron is supposed to speak on national tv in 20 minutes, maybe he's behind this

― L'assie (Euler), Monday, 15 April 2019 17:41 (six years ago)

Another glaring attempt at deflecting attention from the indefatigable gilets jaunes.

― pomenitul, Monday, 15 April 2019 17:45 (six years ago)

Bitter joshing aside, he reportedly decided to postpone his speech.

― pomenitul, Monday, 15 April 2019 17:47 (six years ago)

yes it's been postponed

― L'assie (Euler), Monday, 15 April 2019 17:47 (six years ago)

The entire framework is doomed, apparently. One side is from the 19th, the other from the 13th century. Fuck.

― pomenitul, Monday, 15 April 2019 18:00 (six years ago)

this is sickening

― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 15 April 2019 18:00 (six years ago)

It sometimes feels like there are more roofing/restoration projects that end in fires than not :-/

― StanM, Monday, 15 April 2019 18:00 (six years ago)

Indeed, Glasgow School of Art... twice.

― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Monday, 15 April 2019 18:03 (six years ago)

tv is reporting that yes the whole thing may collapse

― L'assie (Euler), Monday, 15 April 2019 18:04 (six years ago)

do we know for a fact that varg was not in the area?

― Br. Des Shadows (NickB), Monday, 15 April 2019 18:04 (six years ago)

He does live in France.

― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Monday, 15 April 2019 18:05 (six years ago)

You mean Louis Cachet.

― pomenitul, Monday, 15 April 2019 18:05 (six years ago)

god, these pics from CNN https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/15/world/notre-dame-cathedral-fire/index.html

https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/190415133935-04-notre-dame-fire-0415-exlarge-169.jpg

― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Monday, 15 April 2019 18:08 (six years ago)

it seems the spire has already collapsed

― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 15 April 2019 18:09 (six years ago)

yes, the flèche came down about 15 minutes ago.

― L'assie (Euler), Monday, 15 April 2019 18:09 (six years ago)

There is yet hope for the rest of the building (and the artworks therein). Much depends on the vault, apparently.

― pomenitul, Monday, 15 April 2019 18:11 (six years ago)

Do they not have drop planes or helicopters like in the American West?

― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 15 April 2019 18:13 (six years ago)

Here is the spire collapsing

The moment #NotreDame’s spire fell pic.twitter.com/XUcr6Iob0b
— Patrick Galey (@patrickgaley) April 15, 2019

god this is sad

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 15 April 2019 18:13 (six years ago)

the pictures and videos are magnificent tbh

― fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Monday, 15 April 2019 18:14 (six years ago)

An arsonist's wet dream, to be sure.

― pomenitul, Monday, 15 April 2019 18:17 (six years ago)

So upsetting.

― suzy, Monday, 15 April 2019 18:20 (six years ago)

I don't know if it's comforting or overwhelming to think the world is already on fire and then have something so important visibly be on fire.

― Yerac, Monday, 15 April 2019 18:21 (six years ago)

the second one

― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 15 April 2019 18:25 (six years ago)

I can smell the smoke now.

― L'assie (Euler), Monday, 15 April 2019 18:28 (six years ago)

This is so horrific. I’ve been to Paris several times and saw the outside but didn’t go in - I always assumed it would be there to go back to. And now it’s probably gone forever if they can’t stop the fire soon.

― gyac, Monday, 15 April 2019 18:30 (six years ago)

My company has an office not too far away at Place de la Madeleine and I feel just awful for all my friends there, and for all of France.

― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Monday, 15 April 2019 18:31 (six years ago)

they're now moving out the art that they can, and covering up the ones they can't, to protect from smoke damage

― L'assie (Euler), Monday, 15 April 2019 18:31 (six years ago)

Not an eyeroll big enough

We are closely monitoring the fire at the #NotreDame Cathedral in Paris, France pic.twitter.com/APUe57lbSo
— NYPDCounterterrorism (@NYPDCT) April 15, 2019

― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Monday, 15 April 2019 18:33 (six years ago)

🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

― pomenitul, Monday, 15 April 2019 18:38 (six years ago)

the firefighters are concentrating on keeping the walls cool, to prevent collapse

― L'assie (Euler), Monday, 15 April 2019 18:43 (six years ago)

this fucking sucks

― call all destroyer, Monday, 15 April 2019 18:49 (six years ago)

last night i was reading a novel in which notre dame was destroyed, and was a little freaked out when i heard

now i'm just sad

― mookieproof, Monday, 15 April 2019 19:07 (six years ago)

one of my residents just told me that she and her husband had planned to go there for christmas eve this year

― gbx, Monday, 15 April 2019 19:14 (six years ago)

Do they not have drop planes or helicopters like in the American West?

Apparently the reason they haven't done this is because the cathedral risks collapsing under the weight of the drop.

― pomenitul, Monday, 15 April 2019 19:17 (six years ago)

I saw that. Also I was reminding that dumping cold water on hot rocks = disaster

― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 15 April 2019 19:19 (six years ago)

This thread does a great job explaining the issues surrounding extinguishing the fire here.

After my last tweet, I got a couple DMs asking firefighting related questions about the #NotreDameFire.

I -like most of you- are watching from a world away. But if you’re interested in some profession specific things I’d note/be concerned of, you can follow this thread. pic.twitter.com/golMnbYsDK
— Gregg Favre (@GreggFavre) April 15, 2019

― Dan Worsley, Monday, 15 April 2019 19:20 (six years ago)

The idea of those extraordinary rose windows being gone is something I can't even comprehend.

― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Monday, 15 April 2019 19:23 (six years ago)

Much has already been lost forever, like the Buddhas of Bamyan or the mausoleums of Timbuktu. Or the Hanging Gardens of Babylon…

― pomenitul, Monday, 15 April 2019 19:28 (six years ago)

Have been dwelling on the Bamiyan buddhas alongside this, catastrophe can be natural or manufactured and it can strike anywhere and ring out for long centuries. I don't long for the return of the temple cult but would I wail and weep at the western wall? I might.

― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Monday, 15 April 2019 19:30 (six years ago)

Or the National Museum of Brazil.

― ☮ (peace, man), Monday, 15 April 2019 19:31 (six years ago)

A priest from Notre Dame Cathedral reports that all the art work and the holy relics contained in the cathedral has been saved.
— Medievalists.net (@Medievalists) April 15, 2019

― ShariVari, Monday, 15 April 2019 19:40 (six years ago)

amazing if true, but also unless you count stained glass windows etc as art i guess?

― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 15 April 2019 19:43 (six years ago)

bbc just offered an on-screen quote of a statement by macron by translating the actual name of the church as "Our Lady Of Paris" thx bbc, helpful

― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 15 April 2019 19:43 (six years ago)

the building itself is art

― Trϵϵship, Monday, 15 April 2019 19:46 (six years ago)

right, that was my point.

anchor people just flailing now, filling time, no idea what to say, feel slightly sorry for them. at least sky is finding people for their anchor to interview, on the bbc it's just babbling about craftsmanship and quality like they're describing a new handbag. tho lol the interviewee on sky just said it would take many "francs" to reconstruct. no doubt, no doubt

― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 15 April 2019 19:50 (six years ago)

They’re evacuating the Île de la Cité

― L'assie (Euler), Monday, 15 April 2019 19:50 (six years ago)

The pompiers are not sure they can keep the fire from the north bell tower

― L'assie (Euler), Monday, 15 April 2019 19:58 (six years ago)

Current concern is that the back of the cathedral is about to collapse

― L'assie (Euler), Monday, 15 April 2019 19:59 (six years ago)

Pompiers now say they think they’ve saved the building, though it’s still far from certain.

― L'assie (Euler), Monday, 15 April 2019 20:53 (six years ago)

Fingers crossed.

― pomenitul, Monday, 15 April 2019 20:58 (six years ago)

t/s "les pompiers" vs. "los bomberos"

― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Monday, 15 April 2019 21:02 (six years ago)

bomberxs

― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Monday, 15 April 2019 21:09 (six years ago)

Seeing as 'pompier' can also mean a blowjob or describe an artist with a penchant for overblown kitsch, 'bombero' doesn't stand a chance.

― pomenitul, Monday, 15 April 2019 21:10 (six years ago)

(The former because of, well, pumping, the latter because of pompousness.)

― pomenitul, Monday, 15 April 2019 21:10 (six years ago)

Les Pompiers and Los Bomberos are both such wonderfully self contained words.

Los Bomberos in Chile are all volunteer and unpaid which seems completely ridiculous.

― Yerac, Monday, 15 April 2019 21:15 (six years ago)

Such an incredible building to enter. Literally breathtaking. This is a many-decades-long project if it's possible at all. Absolutely Tragic.

― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Monday, 15 April 2019 21:16 (six years ago)

well, i never got there... just last night watched Agnes Varda in a rowboat along the Seine.

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 April 2019 22:08 (six years ago)

"The North and South rosettes are probably lost. Judging by the images, the large rosette should be intact, as well as the organ."

Inside #NotreDame. Only a small part of the vault collapsed. Interior seems relatively untouched. Alleluia! pic.twitter.com/uI47wQ6WaB
— Axel Reinaud (@areinaud) April 15, 2019

― Dan S, Monday, 15 April 2019 22:57 (six years ago)

Guardian saying the north rose window survived.

― lukas, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 08:02 (six years ago)

Post a controversial opinion:the spire should never have been replaced back in whenever. The building was glorious without it (it was glorious with it obviously but not because of the spire).

― Ned Trifle X, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 08:13 (six years ago)

#Breaking: Newly released pictures from inside the cathédrale Notre-Dame de #Paris. #NotreDame in #France, from this morning showing the extensive damage and the, the Rose window was spared from the fire! pic.twitter.com/jeGhM0g0VQ
— Sotiri Dimpinoudis ❁‏ (@sotiridi) April 16, 2019

a miracle

― gyac, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 10:46 (six years ago)

welled right up at the phrase "the long now":

The fire department in Paris followed a protocol: Save the people, save the art, save the altar, save what furniture you can, then focus on the structure, in that order. They know what can be rebuilt and what can't.
— Michael ... .-.. .- ...- .. - -.-. .... (@_theek_) April 15, 2019

― mark s, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 10:49 (six years ago)

i mean ffs

Versailles oaks. They're ready. pic.twitter.com/QvE7LGUSW7
— Michael ... .-.. .- ...- .. - -.-. .... (@_theek_) April 15, 2019

― mark s, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 10:49 (six years ago)

Yeah, basically it seems it's "only" the roof that has to be rebuilt(and the spire obviously, but it was "recent" so not a big deal to replace).
I will go check how things look after work today (I work a few minutes away but was already home when it started to burn last night).

― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 10:50 (six years ago)

xxp I had not read this and have had to step away for a minute

― gyac, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 10:54 (six years ago)

already received spam asking for donations to rebuild

it featured the university of notre dame (in south bend, indiana) logo

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 14:07 (six years ago)

go irish

― L'assie (Euler), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 14:12 (six years ago)

Always respond to "go irish" with "thank you" bc i am awkward

― Fictitious Business Name: (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 14:27 (six years ago)

I respond with "beat buckeyes" because of that one game in 96 but I get it

― L'assie (Euler), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 14:31 (six years ago)

maybe it was a charitable fund to repair paul ryan

― Fictitious Business Name: (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 14:42 (six years ago)

worst football club in the world sorry https://t.co/k7xUmhPAT7
— manutd23 (@manutd24) April 16, 2019

― ... and the crowd said DESELECT THEM (||||||||), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 16:54 (six years ago)

My brother's best friend is suffering from severe Catholic guilt because, when they were both 17, they went busking in Paris and he stole a candle from Notre Dame as a present for his mother. In a very real sense, it was that candle started this fire.

― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 17:11 (six years ago)

In a quick scroll through facebook this a.m. I had a great time unfollowing/unfriending ppl posting variations of the "how dare you be sad about a RELIGIOUS BUILDING when there is so much suffering in the world happening to PEOPLE" strawman. Like jfc the ashes arent even cool yet.

― One Eye Open, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 17:19 (six years ago)

haha yes one of my kids' teachers took this line today in class.

I'm gonna go check out the cathedral tomorrow afternoon. my oldest visited the scene today (well, from a distance, since things are going to be blocked off for a while). she said it...looked bad

― L'assie (Euler), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 17:21 (six years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/4SJ5SZT.jpg

― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 17:21 (six years ago)

I just went there. A lot of people, obviously, especially since some parts are closed.
Frankly, from the front it’s as if nothing happened and from the other sides, if you try to think the roof is under construction... or is flat (!) well, the rest looks in good shape.
We’ve been lucky in a way.

― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 17:33 (six years ago)

lol I went to look at the smoldering pentagon on 9/12, I was 12, why did we do that

― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 17:43 (six years ago)

those aren't oak trees in that tweet

― Je55e, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 19:30 (six years ago)

yeah it was deleted

― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 19:45 (six years ago)

I once jumped like two hours' worth of queue at the Vatican so I hope they've got their insurance in order.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 19:53 (six years ago)

Sorry, didn’t mean to shit on an uplifting Tweet. I thought it was kinda funny trying pawn those slender delicate trees off as hearty oaks.

― Je55e, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 00:09 (six years ago)

I walked by the cathedral a little bit ago and it looks less different than I’d expected. Just missing the roof really. It might look weirder from the back but I was too lazy to go that far.

― L'assie (Euler), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 13:06 (six years ago)

Which is to say: it doesn’t look burned.

― L'assie (Euler), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 13:06 (six years ago)

lol yes i shd probably have double-checked as i already know i am a massive nitwit when it comes to identifying trees (lol my dad was a professional botanist, i just left such tasks to him) and i even very briefly paused to think "are those oaks? versailles oaks it says here legit i guess" *MASH SUBMIT BUTTON*

the long-game prepping of trees for use in buildings *is* something (some) architects are well aware of so it's not entirely implausible

― mark s, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 14:03 (six years ago)

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