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dec17-21 Paris France
Today I woke up and walked around Ile de la Cite. I saw Conciergerie. I read about it last night. Its history it blood stained. It used to be a Palace but then it turned into a makeshift prison and during the reign of terror it housed 2700 of the guillotined prisoners.
I saw all the paintings and photographs and history of it. Bloody. very. I walked thru the cells and saw where the hair was cut off before going to the Guillotine.
http://www.monum.fr/m_conciergerie/fs_index.dml?lang=en
The dreaded Fouquier-Tinville was its prosecutor and even he was sentenced.
http://www.parisbestlodge.com/conciergerie.html
I saw Marie Antoinettes cell where she stayed for two months and in all the famous paintings its the same wallpaper and window that I saw, with the Fleur de lis. I hung out there and read my book for a long time. The wall paper was beat up.
Sigh so whenever I am in Miami ,longing to get away in my mind I know the room so well, I can daydream of all the prsoners getting drawn and quartered in the Place Greneve or guillotined in Place de la Concorde, until people stared complaining about the smell and blood and it was moved.
I was going to go to Saint Chappelle but instead I took a train all the way out to the French countryside to Chateau Compiegne. Sigh I really am living the life, reading my book on the train looking out at the French Country….sigh.. Life I want to always be exciting like this!
OH MY It used to be a royal palace for all the kings and emperors , even Napoleon. We saw all his rooms and everything was the best of the best even for now. Kind of more impressive than Versailles but I only saw a small part of Versailles.
I missed out on Petit Trianon while I was there at Versailles, I didnt know there was more to tour!
oOOOHHH I could go on and on about that place. I love reading about history. Maria Antoinette built a working farm on it after a whim complete with famous Sevres plates and cups of breasts and goats and to relax she would go and milk a cow or rise early and watch farmers she hired work, as if it were the country. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petit_hameau
http://www.a-castle-for-rent.com/versailles/trianons.htm
So here it is, where I went today and hung out in like I lived there, for a day.
http://www.musee-chateau-compiegne.fr/homes/home_id24350_u1l2.htm
Not only that but there was a classical music recital in the same royal hall with paintings and statues and Napoleon busts everywhere so we had a soundtrack and OOOHHHH it was so regal! I felt like a princess running thru a royal palace which it was. IT WAS HUGE room after room and everyone had a different theme. Lots of gold and parquet floors, I am sick of parquet floors , the Louvre too has it.
The tour I took of the Gandes Appartements was in French so I was like HUUUUUUHHH?
Compiegene was sooo awesome, it was worth it. There is another Chateau there that is a museum called Pierrefonds
http://www.cosmovisions.com/Pierrefonds.jpg
But I did not know what time the trains run and I was FAAARRR away from Paris!
On my way home I saw a fatal motorcycle accident aftermath, I took photos of all the blood , that is what photographers do; I got dirty looks but so what.
The streets of Paris are all full of people, gorgous people and then old bald ladies too. they eat alot of garbage and wear alot of leather boots and fur. Yuk? What happens when it rains? Their fur turns ghastly.
The hotel owner’s son asked me out again and I told him I had a boyfriend when he asked and he turned and said, AS YOU LIKE.
All I ate today was Cherries, avocado, dates , cacao bean, and thats it
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dec 18
I got a letter on my desk in my hotel room, ” I like u so much. I LU. BYE ” and some other stuff I forgot.
Today I am going to Musee D’Orsay and other mueums or Saint Chappelle to see 13th century stuff.
Back then Ile de la Cite was the center of it all. That is a little Island in the center of Paris . I could, or wherever I lead myself to.
I love it here. I love waking up and hearing people unload trucks and see people carrying boxes and stuff. The fruit stand should be open soon.
I was reading 1984 and its a smart book. Says thruout history there has always been the same exact structure of people. High Middle and Low… and the High wants to stay where they are and the middle want to be high and the low all they care about is day to day stuff.
Sometimes the Middle will fool the Low into thinking they are working for their cause and overthrow the high but then the high is there always anew and middle and low etc and it goes on and on.
Aldo that whoever controls the present controls the past thru words and history at the same time controlling the future.
There is no past or no future, they do not alternately exist and are not real so basically whoever writes about the past, liek propaganda, controls the future.
Also Big Brother is not nice at all. He hates the individual and the Party is god. Scary. Sad. Depressing book.
I am reading a GREAT one now by F. Scott Fitzgerald. About Beauty and rich guys in NYC. Totally my kind of book and weird too.
All the shops in Paris have the best gifts, things I have never seen before and I wish I could buy everything. I mean it. Everything here is so pretty.
Even the bookstores carry crazy photo books to look at that I never seen. I thought Barnes and Nobles back home carries every book. Wrong.
Things I need to get, a deck of cards and cool plates. Someday. Not now though.
I am horny for my friend back home.
I just want to lie naked in bed with a fruit face, lol, my face is sooo soft and flawless right now, sometimes when I walk I have to touch it, I can’t believe how smooth it got. I look really pretty to myself which sounds vain but I feel it inside and its real vanity, not fake. I feel powerful.
I want to go back home tomorrow and then after a few days on Christmas we go to London together.I will post all my Paris photographs here and then study London. I want to see the Bloody Tower./
18
My last day here and I am sad, very sad. I am walking the streets suicdal, I love it here but I know, I have to go. SOB.
I love you so much, please make all my wishes and desires come true!
I am so sad, I need love.
the seine
Today all the Museums are closed, bummer, but I did get to see The PICASSO museum. 300 paintings is alot to see with the audio guide and I was exhausted and the place, a 17th century townhouse, was crowded with art students.
Yes, I admit it, he was phenomenal! Absolutely. I mean when you see his paintings in books they look childish, but in real life they are incredible. I saw so many paintings that are unseen and noone knows about. I saw his women and his friends in the paintings, I saw violins out of cubist nightmares and I saw exotic places and symbols and heart and love. Oh, and lots of big hands.
Statues, metal, paper, wall sized, pea sized, influences, notebooks, letters, artifacts and photos, too much , very valuable stuff!
I ALSO went to Saint Chappelle and its 13th century. But no, Its 13th century MONEY. Oh, I cannot even explain it, way prettier and rare than Notre Dame. Its all Stained glass of the entire bible. I took lots of photos. Ancient. I was looking at Medieval cookbook recipe books in the gift shoppe.
http://gallery.actsofvolition.com/files/original/photo39822.jpg
It was so nice and ancient and it was about to fall apart , it had winding staircases too. So old, very very old.
Besides the stained glass there were panels depicted all these saints getting decapitated or monks with parts of their head cut off still ^praying, or people sticking knives in Jesus, or people getting shot with arrows. Really, very morbid, another set was of animal sacrifce with lambs and stuff getting cut up or boiled or set in fire screaming and one where a man is about to slice up his son and a cherub stops him. It is just like the 13th century huh?
But I was looking at books and I loved the way the men dressed, with tights!
I also took photos of people today after seeing the DOISNEAU exhibit at Hotel De Ville. Crowded again. This guy is a MASTER photographer , taking photos of Parisians during the 30’s up to 70’s. I learned all I can. The guy was a HUMANISTE photogrpaher, all of people. He had the knack, talent of taking things and setting them up with the background.
Like he had one of Notredames gargoyles eating the Eiffel tower in the background or of a statues of three muses lined up so they were grabbing each others breasts, or a policeman walking by a doorway of a big mouth with teeth, so it looked like it was gonna eat the cop. All this just walking around Paris. And he was cute too.
One whole set is people looking at the Mona Lisa with awe, another is he is hiding inside an art store and there is a painting of a womans ass bending over and he takes pictures of all the faces staring at it from outside, from old men smiling to old women snarling.
Here is my fave , note the Hotel De Ville in the background is actually where the exhibit was!
http://monsieurphoto.free.fr/Doisneau/Images/Doisneau02.jpg
Speaking of Doisneau, Picasso and big hands look at this
http://monsieurphoto.free.fr/Doisneau/Images/Doisneau04.jpg
The photo I saw of Picasso at the Doisneau exhibit was one where he was looking at Vogue magazine and drawing on the women. I heard Picasso drew on everything.
I bought a lot of Cherries, mangos, oranges , dates and avocados. All I ate today. Oh like 6 cacao beans with two medjool dates.
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dec 20
As in France I am wide awake 5 am, this time in Coral Gables, fLAT, OPEN, TROPICAL, WARM CLEAN AND PASTEL, coral, actually.
Good to be home, even though I miss the fruit over in Europe.
Now I got used to the french keyboard I am having problems .Today I will post all my Paris photographs. This was my second trip this year.
Here is some photos from before I went to Paris
Me in Chateau Compiegne, France
am not finished, by far, I have to edit and crop all the photos but here is the address to them ..I may be done in a few days
http://www.flickr.com/photos/suvine/sets/72157594429765013/detail/
I finally got a new myspace up again. I hope it wont ever be deleted, I will use my blogs just for poetry on there so its no big deal. YAY.
Its private until I get it up.
http://www.myspace.com/suvine
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I love the red eye feature but it makes my eyes look black, Its ok, like.
My friend really liked this fountain, took a bunch of photos of it, and it was really hard for me to get into it, you know , after being in Paris , and seeing fountains a billion years old with sphinxes and goddesses as high as the sky. Lol, already I am a French snob after two weeks of it!
I went to a horseshow last night at the racetrack with Lippizaner horses, they did all these neat tricks like a long time ago they were trained to do all these lethal kicks in battles and they showed off some kicks and did all this dancing stuff to music. Horses ridden by Santa Claus hat looking blondes.I approve of trained animals, they are happier than non trained, just like children. These horses are treated like gold.
I went with my friend and we saw Apocalypto which was awesome. Heads rolled for sure.
Me and my friend would get along one minute, then the next he would say I am opposite or in one of my moods, and all I want to do is argue.
Then soon we would get along, hug , kiss and laugh and discuss things then suddenly ..I was the devil again and he would start screaming at me like he was gonna spank me or I was scared he would crash his car and he even threatened to break my camera and leave me at the racetrack…unless I stop disagreeing.
I felt at moments like I was injured a little bit in my heart, like ice in my mouth, almost wincing as if I was gonna get hit by daddy , speaking out in my defense, fiercely courageous anyways. A little malaise, I had a little headache, but it could have been because I was dehydrated.
. Well of course I was piqued with him, and distant and a little aloof.
He would not listen to anything I had to say even when I wanted to teach him about my discoveries , telling me to just listen to him or to look around and be quiet. But would go on and on about stuff himself , saying he is teaching me things that are important..and I had to listen and hear everything he had to say or else I was argumentative, just trying to be against him.
I think if we are all just ourselves noone can blame us for anything. I love him and thats the way people are, I guess. I gotta get use to it, The qualities that pique me are the same ones that attract me to him.
I want us to be ourselves . I have no complaints, just observations.
Reminds me I was talking to a fruitarian who told me last year he had a lot of ACID in his system from fighting German fruitarians online and it made him age. He felt he didn’t look as good. ( I was like Who cares what other people say on fruitarian message boards!) It got me scared because if he is correct, I felt acid last night. I wonder if anger eats away at your beauty. Come on, it totally does.
When we go to London together I will try as hard as possible to let him be him and let him do all the talking and agree with everything he says. even if its stupid. I will be the complacent YES DEAR, NOTHING I HAVE TO SAY IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY, GO AHEAD< TEACH ME.
But Honestly, if that is true, then really, then I would be disrespecting him by treating him like that, like I would be doing him a disservice by aggreeing with everything he says, it would make him tyrranical to the rest of the world . I am simply a small minute microcosm of other people , the rest of the world..and the rest of the world is not gonna lay flat for him and be a doormat and he needs a real person who treats him as a mirror.
I am proud of him anyways, he is eating healthier because of me and he is looking alot better than he used to. I will take years off his life, I am positive.
We fasted last night during Apocalypto.
Right now I am eating a Honeydew melon and had dates for breakfast.
I am positive about my friend, I think we will have a better time next time and be happy and respectful. He is fun to be with when we get along.
When I get married ,it will be in a place like this to a man who wants to marry me more than anything. Without me settling for less.
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