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I still like Jodie Foster. I still see her movies. We just saw her new movie called The Brave One. It was directed by Neil Jordan. The cinematography was excellent, the story compelling, and the acting was very tight.
I have a problem with revenge stories though. No matter how apparently justified revenge violence might seem, [...]

Thursday, September 13th, Jean-Jacques and I were packing, arranging, preparing for our move/garage sale. I got a call from Armelle LeRoux, I thought of her in terms of being in CA. She and Misty were on a road trip to bring Misty to her 8 month ceramics residency. Armelle went along for the [...]

This is the Japanese word for chatter and a new form of performance art, loosely speaking. Check out this link to see more.
It is a multimedia sound, image, and performance. When we get set up in Toulouse and set up our salon of misfits I’d like to do something similar.
You start with Powerpoint, [...]

This video has beautiful pictures and it’s lounge-y soundtrack is not abrasive as the drum and bass soundtrack or as predictable as a Claude Nougaro soundtrack, enjoy it.

Okay, one more video of Toulouse. This one shows it in its magnificence (can you say that or spell it that way?) The music is Claude Nougaro, a famous Toulousian.

This video about Toulouse is shorter and much more palatable than the 8 minute marathon of modern Toulouse and broke down Toulouse. It is very poignant for us as it spans 3 chapters in our lives. The music in the background is Survivor “Eye of the Tiger”. When we sold our house [...]