Well, it was about a trip I took with my old French boyfriend Yves (who is now my best buddy). Anyway, we had a miserable time together. I wanted to go to the Impressionist museum, and he was the one that said, "Monet, could suck his dick". He was not fond of the Orsay museum for whatever reason. It was also miserable weather and the trains were on strike. We broke up a week later.
Oh yes, we visited his parents who were not keen on me: American and Jewish. And he told them I was "bisexual". Why would he say that to his 80 year old old fashioned French parents?
Now, I make him sound like a terrible person. I adore him now-but was a terrible boyfriend.
-- Jill Sobule, March 08, 2010 in an email to me.
“October in Paris”
October in Paris
The skies are all gray
Walk all alone on the Champs-Elysées
It just reminds me of our German Tanks
Rolling through the arches
October in Paris
It's not a great night
Everyone's pissy
The trains are on strike
It must have been better in twenty-five
Josephine Baker and Absente
You're absent in my life
There's nothing I can do about it
The more I travel,
The more I unravel
You're absent in my life
It's raining in Paris
The red traffic lights
Stream like mascara
defusing the sky
It just reminds me
How much I dislike
Monet's Water Lilies
And it's so pathetic
When someone name drops
Puts famous dead artists
And Paris in song
Please forgive me for
All I've done wrong
Today my self-worth is absent
You're absent in my life
There's nothing I can do about it
The more I travel
The more I unravel
You're absent...
You're gone...
You left me in the storm...
You're absent in my life
This song was on her Valentine CD called "Be Mine... Please" (2000).
Agathe Rigault: For seeing it every day, I have always known that Paris wasn't so romantic. The train strike reminds me of another song, a French one in which a English man tells how he comes to Paris but since the whole city is on strike, he can't do anything.
ReplyDeleteI love museums all museums! How can people not like museums?
ReplyDeleteI grew up in New Orleans. It was a very romantic city with a hint of Paris always in the air. Lots of Jewish and Americans! So see Jill you should of just visited the big easy! Yves, could have been a grump and no one would care!
You would have probably had three dates in the same night and 1 out of 3 would certainly be a museum buff! Sort of a New Orleans things...when one poops out there is always another waiting! I know that sounds bad but it is just fun times with people hence the big easy. You don't have to make a commitment or sleep with folks here to have fun so the bi-sexual thing is a non-issue! Not to mention that being bi-sexual in New Orleans is considered chic...even then!
Yves, note to self...don't be a dweeb!