Of course, not all you need is love music, not everybody loves somebody else’s songs, and even in “the most romantic city in the world”, there are other things to sing about, but some “Love-Songs” from Paris a day may help keep trouble away.
Renaud Favier – February, 14th (Paris Time), 2013 – Café du matin à Paris
PS : Valentine (oldschool) sample from Paris
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Tagged amour, Aristocats, Claude François, Cookie Dingler, France, French, Happy Valentine, humour, Jacques Dutronc, jazz, Jeanne Mas, love, Macumba, music, Niagara, oldschool, Paris, Rita Mitsouko, romantic, sense of humor, Valentine Day, vintage, Walt Disney
There will be a lot of happiness and laughter, this Year of the Snake.
Lots of beauty, poetry, and some mystery.
Lots of good morning coffees.
And lots of lovely evening goodies.
There may be some fighting.
There will be some sad, dead endings, as usual.
But we shall eat good food.
![serpent-appareil-dentaire[1]](http://bestcoffeeinparis.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/serpent-appareil-dentaire1.jpg?w=450&h=450)
As well as some junk food.
There will be some talking, useful or not.
There will be some walking, like it or not.
There will be lots of paperwork, because that’s the way it is, nowadays.
And there might be love, which would make life complicated, but enjoyable.
Some great love.
Some less great love.
Some strange love.
Some explicit love.
Whatever love works.
Anyway, here we are, now, so let’s come and play, 2013 Snaky !
And Happy Chinese New Year !
Read more (in French) here : http://renaudfavier.com/2013/02/09/le-serpent-petit-dragon-sans-ailes-ou-vieux-freudien-mechant-bonne-annee-du-serpent/
Renaud Favier – February, 10th (China time), 2013 – Café du matin à Paris
Yes, François Hollande made a speech at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, and French Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Marine le Pen applauded (or not). Yes we (French) can (talk to other French European representatives) ! Does real world listen ?
More (in French, sorry) : http://renaudfavier.com/2013/02/06/leurope-leurope-leurope-et-leurope-et-les-europeens-dans-tout-ca/
Renaud Favier – February, 6th, 2013 – Café du matin à Paris
Ps : but not everybody (and the Brits are not “everybody”) can speak French (neither understand the French …) and not everybody believes in French mirages, French miracles, French visions, or French oracles …
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My goodness, are the French starting a mess in old, continental Europe again ? Read more about it here : http://renaudfavier.com/2013/01/18/mali-algerie-somalie-tour-de-france-et-autres-nouvelles-de-paris-no-french-comment/
Renaud Favier – January 26th, 2013 - http://bonneannee2013.wordpress.com/
Bonus : it pretty much looks like it, doen’t it ?
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Of course, it’s not as glamorous as a Queen’s Jubilee, and The Economist, French citizens from French speaking London and other France, Germany, and/or Euroland bashers may smile at “la souris accouchée par la montagne franco-germanique”.
Let’s read a bit more about it anyway : http://renaudfavier.com/2013/01/20/la-cinquantaine-cest-un-bel-age-en-tout-cas-cest-de-circonstance-pour-celebrer-le-traite-de-lelysee/
Renaud Favier – January 20th, 2013 - http://bonneannee2013.wordpress.com/
Bonus : some may like more glamorous (and British) Jubilees.
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Tagged Angela Merkel, cinema, entente cordiale, Euro, Euroland, Europe, François Hollande, France, Germany, glamour, humour, James Bond, movie, sense of humour, So British, Traité de l'Elysée
European Fat cats eat too much without thinking about the future of their children. They drink what they should export instead of thinking about whatever paradox that doesn’t work. And they seem pretty serious about sinking with their privileges.
Professional politicians are still doing good, year after year.
Ecologist and other social (democrat ?) activists have learnt fast (fast cats ?)
Banksters have been among the best adapted to the Euro environment.
Well known Euro artists are attempting good enough (though they are nothing compared to English singing or playing global stars, not to mention soccer players with German cars or tennis retirees with Swiss chalets and accounts) but they sometimes lack talent and/or don’t train and work enough.
Very watched (loved or hated, who cares as long as Paris talks ?) Depardieu is fat, too, but it is not the same Euro-Money Cat story. Not all people looking like fatcats, or even really being fatcats too some extent, are real Euro Fat Cats, the kind that kill their parents, f… their friends, never paid (more) taxes (than politicians), have been living in Ireland (like the unknown but screaming self-called writer Houellebecq), Patagonia (like maybe you know who, but I never remember the name of that other French screamer with a beard sometimes, sometimes not) or elsewhere like Gstaad (by the way, how is Johnny doing these days ?), Geneva (Montecarlo is not appopriate for French) or anywhere not too far, but not too close either, from La Bastille (byzeway, where is Yannick these days ?) and have a nice Monday whatever end of other worlds (in French : “la faim dans le monde des autres”).
One should not listen to Sardou or other French screamers like old politicians doing show-business or real business when growing still older, neither young show-business or other social activists doing politics when growing old enough to drive a car, being appointed ministers of unserious issues nobody cares about in France like culture, women, justice, digital economy, housing or nature, or cook a chili con carne themselves, when they sing or talk or scream about Frenchonomics (meaning in normal XXIst century globish “economics that may work sur un malentendu with a lot of so French sens de l’humour”) , “égalité” (meaning in English “what is yours should be mine”) or other Euro-issues (meaningless nowadays), if one is not a French masochist. But reading, and thinking, may held avoid sinking into the ridiculous like Titanic or France, as the French (even ministers and other politicians) say when they haven’t smoked too much cannabis, and think when they are sober (which happens more than Xmas, when normal years used to be normal).
But anyway, who cares today about what and where French European Fat Cats will eat and drink tomorrow, if any (or for Xmas, if any) ?
Renaud Favier – December, 17th, 2012 – Café du matin à Paris
But let’s Xmas anyway : http://joyeuxnoel2012.wordpress.com/
And Go 2013 (give it a try at least) : http://bonneannee2013.wordpress.com/
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Tagged Beer, Bourgeois, café, cat, Chabada, change, coffee, crisis, Cyrano, Depardieu, economy, Euro, Europe, fat cat, French Paradox, French wine, Frenchonomics, Fun, humour, Molière, Paris, Politics, revolution, RF, Sports, Tartuffe, wine
Good news is, U can do something. Like drinking a couple of pints of hard black coffee (or Guinesse Beer, for that matter, if the place where U are right now is a pub, not a café,but don’t pour milk or sugar in that case). Or, U can click & surf here.
Let’s Xmas : http://joyeuxnoel2012.wordpress.com/les-bonus-de-noel-2012/
Go 2013 (give it a try at least) : http://bonneannee2013.wordpress.com/
Renaud Favier – December, 16th, 2012 – Café du matin à Paris
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Tagged As simple as that, Bee, Best Wishes, black coffee, café, Café noir, coffee, Dr House, Fun, Guiness, Happy New Year, humour, Let them talk, Merry Christmas, Pub, RF, Xmas
Few people, even French or French bashing people, will remember November 2012 in France. Not that it was not a good month, for French kids or old folks fascinated by old French politicians or old French activists. But now, Toot Toot Goodbye …
November 27th : What ?
November 26th : Toot !
November 25th : What ?
November 24th : Toot !
November 23rd : Where ?
November 22nd : When ?
November 21st : Toot !
November 20th : Who ?
November 19th : Toot !
November 18th : Who ?
November 17th : Where ? Who ? How ?
Renaud Favier – November, 27th, 2012 – Café du matin à Paris
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Tagged Aéroport, écologie, écologisme, Brenda Lee, Christmas Tree, cinema, Droite, EELV, François Fillon, France, French Politics, Gauche, humour, Jean-François Copé, joke, Larzac, manifestation, Merry Christmas, militantisme, movie, music, musique, Nantes, NDDL, Nicolas Sarkozy, Notre Dame des Landes, oldschool, Paris, parti socialiste, Politics, Renaud, Ridicule, song, The Economist, Toot Toot Tootsie GoodBye, UMP, Walt Disney, Xmas
President Obama 2012 Thanksgiving is less “far reaching” than JFK’s Rice University “Moon Speech”, but the man and turkeys have a very good sense of humor, and the “Second Chance Speech” may be more relevant for many people nowadays.
Byzeway, if you like coffee and the “What else” concept, drink different now and then : http://www.thanksgivingcoffee.com/ is not only an option foir a cup, but a just option for a good, decent cup.
Renaud Favier – November, 22nd, 2012 – Café du matin à Paris
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Tagged America, Barack Obama, café, Café de Paris, Café merci, Christmas, Cobbler, coffee, Drink different, France, funny, God Bless America, good joke, green, Guatemala, humour, joke, Merry Christmas, Paris, Politics, Second chance, sens of humor, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving turkey, think different, Turkey, White House, Whitehouse, Wild Turkey, Xmas
You know you should not ever trust what you read on the front page of The Economist about France, or continental Europe, for that matter …
Never.
Really never.
Never, ever.
Definitely.
That being said, every rule has its exception …
But better read a (free) “Café du matin à Paris” in French every day to know what is really happening, or not, in Frogland these days ( http://renaudfavier.com/ ) and/or click on the hereafter pictures for a shortview (backwards, which seems more appropriate for France) on recent events (or non-events).
November 16th : the French Senate aborted a project of tax on Palm Oil. Nobody would have cared, had Nutella not seized he opportunity to launch a 50/50 lobbbying-advertising campaign.
November 15th : something smells in Corsica (a murder, as usual), but as nobody knows nothing, and nobody would talk if anybody knew, and nobody saw or heard nothing of course, nobody really cares, all the less, since France has a lot of stinking cheeses everywhere.
November 14th : first big press conference by the French President, François Hollande, at Palais de l’Elysée. Many French citizens listen to the President, more twit, write and talk about what he said (or not).
November 13th : the French, especially the Parisians, try to be nice with everybody, as it is THE day of kindness worldwide and they know a day lasts only 24 hours. So do the Germans, however hard it may be, in certain cases.
November 12th : THE week of the Beaujolais Nouveau begins, the French worldwide start talking and thinking about it rather than about anything else, though noboby can drink it before Thursday, as a matter of French principle and French tradition.
November 11th : The French talk about dead soldiers including Charles de Gaulle (it used to be a great general of theirs, before it became the major Air France Airport) and all wars they lost without losing their sense of humour and of “Grandeur”.
November 10th : The French discuss about litterature and season’s French “prix littéraires” like Goncourt and Renaudot …
November 9th : the French are happy, that Xi Jinping, the new World Leader (based in Beijing), drinks red wine and hope he will not drink Chinese beverages only in the years to come and they will be able to export some of their wines to China.
November 8th : the French hope, that somebody will be able to help for Europe’s, and specially France’s socialist economic recovey.
November 7th : the French are happy that President Obama was re-elected in America, as they alread know him, the Washington airport and the twitter account for their questions.
November 6th : the French consider French communities management to foster competitiveness.
November 5th : Super happiness among Paris politicians not on trip abroad (like President Hollande) and journalists not on season’s holiday, the über-expected Gallois report on Gallic (garlic ?) competitiveness is officially delivered to Prime Minister Ayrault and widely spread on the internet.
November 4th : some French are reading about real competitiveness.
November 3nd : France is getting damn serious about competitiveness.
Real serious : playing hard, working hard !
November 2nd : a prayer for France, its taxpayers, and its creditors, all equally dead.
November 1st : France is THE romantic country and will remain so forever, and death can nothing against l’amour, toujours …
October 31st : the French celebrate Halloween, like everybody else in the real world, but don’t tell them, the believe they have invented it (too).
October 30th : the French socialist politicians are having fun inside (France) whereas there Perfects Storms are outside (France), everywhere in the economy and around New-York and Haïti as far as heavy rains are concerned.
October 29th : the French managed to sink their own boat (again) in their own harbour (again) and the Napoleon Bonaparte (not again !) is at bay 3 meters away from the pier in Marseille Vieux Port. Please don’t pay attention.
October 28th : the French go for winter time. Every is happy to be allowed to sleep one hour more, and the trade unions warn the (ir)relevant minister that this should happen every night, otherwise they’ll go on strike.
October 27th : the French discuss among themselves about drugs and how it could improve their international competitiveness, after Lance Armstrong was denied his “Tour de France” victories.
October 26th : the French brainstorm with partners on business intelligence and practice new French economic diplomacy to try and improve their external trade huge deficit (second only to Britain, as often enough).
October 25th : France is waiting for Louis Gallois’ report en French competitiveness and its whereabouts. Severe haircuts are expected from the French minister of finance, Pierre Moscovici, though some people have their doubts.
Some French are not just waiting, but working, and writing too.
Renaud Favier – November, 16th, 2012 – Café du matin à Paris
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