TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Thursday, March 27, 2008

4:16 PM
Posted by jodi rose

The French are fabulous, I'm collectively in love with them all!
OK, maybe some more than others...

Think it's some variant of Patty Hearst syndrome.

Sophie told me in the kitchen last week 'it's about having as much pleasure as possible'; and Bertrand said at dinner one night 'I want to always live in my dreams'. The lecture/performance tonight has been amended from the original plan, but it's all an improvisation. I love having all this energy around, and of course, yes the cute boys are nice eye candy. It's the closest I've been to an actually bohemian lifestyle in a long while. Behind it all, of course, is a philosophy of strong ideas, and strong art - looking forward to the discussion tonight. Balance of anarchy and mayhem, with an extremely hard work ethic and art/life philosophy which I totally admire and respect. We're gonna play and make crazy art on a bridge together one day, they seem keen for Lisbon, stay tuned...

Tonight is the french australian integrations plan, with various pavlova.

Here are a few samples of the gorgeous emails I've had lately.

"Remember, we met in Berlin some 6 or 7 years ago
... i was performing some fruit massacre with a friend.
I was at your presentation on February 8, but I had to
leave early... how long will you be in Berlin for?

Respect to your beautiful, focussed bridges work!"

Ohmigod those boys were fabulous, they totally rocked with the fruit. At 24 stunden neukolln, the very first time I was here. Is that 6 years?
We ended up in the bar at tacheles house that night, looking over the city through the bombed out hole in the wall.

and this one:

"I'll be playing in Berlin with my sound project "les molaires de l'iceberg" (http://www. myspace. com/lesmolairesdelest) at Wendel on the 2nd of april at Rinus's invitation. I'll be staying a few days afterwards and would like to seize the opportunity to record a couple of radio shows there with several artists. I would love if you'd be part of it... what do you think?"

Ace. Have set up 2 radio shows in Paris already, and working on a few low key artistic sound presentations (not calling them performance anymore after my laptop broke, I think at the first one above).

Bring on the French bridges!!!!

That's enough of this maelstrom for now. Writing myself into a new life.