Apr 7th, 2006
New Domain Name
I just set up a new domain name for this site:
It was the best I could do. Anything good involving travel or travelogue was pretty much taken.
I’ve adjusted the title bar up top to reflect the new name.
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Apr 5th, 2006
101 Uses For An iPod
One of the things that I like to do when planning for a trip is to seek out shops that pertain to my areas of interest. For example I am a great fan of comic books so, when in another city or country, I will find a local comic shop to visit and then I will write down it’s location in my little Moleskine
About a week ago I stumbled on to a solution to this problem. It came to me while perusing this site, which has chopped up subway maps for various cities for storing on an iPod. I realized I could do something like this for the various stores and restaurants I had made note of.
So I went to Mappy.com and entered the addresses of the places I was interested in, made a screen capture of the map, took it into Photoshop and sized it down to fit on my iPod screen. The resulting map looks something like this:
I then load this into iPhoto and sync it with my iPod. And voila, ready to roll.
I know this probably seem terribly anal, but as should be obvious from this blog, I like to use the tools and technology available to me. You should see the detailed itineraries I make for the trip. Now those are anal.
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Mar 31st, 2006
We’ll Always Have Paris
We’ll Always Have Paris
I just finished reading this book yesterday and really enjoyed it. It covers the sexual underside of Parisian history through out the last 100 years, but hangs it on the framework of the author’s first year in Paris and the impending birth of his first child. They are strange bed fellows to be sure and while both strands of the book work independently, they don’t really work together. But that’s ok, because as I said they are both interesting and entertaining in and of themselves.
I got a number of good movie recommendations from the book, and immediately added them to my Netflix queue.
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Mar 28th, 2006
A Single Girl
Virginie Ledoyen
I’ll warn you right up front that this movie is not for everyone. There’s not much plot and nothing major really happens, it is rather, what French films do so well and American films don’t, a slice of life drama.
The action centers around a young woman who just found out she is pregnant, is starting a new job, and is breaking up with her boyfriend all on the same day. A lot of the film takes place in real time as she goes about her new job as a room service waitress at a posh hotel, and chronicles her interactions with her coworkers and the hotel guests, most of whom are insane.
If you like quite and thoughtful films, this is a good one with good performances all around. If, however you are just looking for mindless action, look elsewhere.
Virginie Ledoyen also starred in another fun French film that I would recommend called 8 Women
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Mar 27th, 2006
Movie Suggestions
I’m going to add a new category to the left sidebar for movies about Paris.
The first one I’m going to recommend is Amélie
It’s a charming heart-warming movie you can’t help but enjoy. As a reviewer for The Stranger noted: You don’t have to be an asshole to not like this film, but it helps (or something like that, I’m quoting from memory).
Update: These have been moved onto the country/city resource pages.
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