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Deren came to visit a couple of days after my birthday, sometimes in March. This was taken at the Parc de la Villette, a very awesome complex of museums, grass, and amusements. In the summer they show free movies. The museums were closed and the weather was a bit too gray for us to picnic outside, so we picnic-ed inside the cafe at the Geode, where they show 3-D movies.

For my birthday, we went to the Social Club to see Yo Majesty. They only did 5 songs or so, but it was still really good, they're more angry than I imagined, but it was cooler than seeing an electro-dj anytime of the week. March has been cold and rainy. I am only here for two more months and if it stays this way through april I'm going to be the most miserable person to deal with. Paris has been really good though, and I've been trying to figure out what I'm going to do for my last days in Paris, it's kind of a tough call. Probably pastries everyday (including flan in every flavor), but I think what would make it perfect is just hanging out in the evening on the Pont des Arts, looking at the Seine, and drinking two euro wine from Nicholas. I'm going to be really sad to leave.

The Eros exhibit at the Bibliotheque Francois Mitterand is on its last day today, so we went yesterday. There were many pornographic engravings that were unexpected, some of the phallus drawings from the 19th century can be likened to the sketches from "Superbad". The Japanese woodblock prints were great but also pretty funny, for example the size of the penises were bigger than the man's face in the drawing and also of course the image of the old gross man and the young woman in the kimono..not so hot. They also had these really cool prints from Britan that had fairly boring scenes but when lit up erotic images were shown, for example in a haystack..behind a door...Magali's favorite was the sex in different countries, which basically showed people havings sex in a canoe...sex on the a rock/forest-y area...not that i am really immature or something, but you'd think more people would be laughing during this exhibit? How can you look at a drawing of a "King Phallus" from the Victorian Era and not smile just a little?

GHETTOBLASTER #4: PERCEE P, ROC RAIDA, FRAGGLE ROCK?

- 2 weeks ago, I went to a cute but too small exhibit at the MUSEE ARTS DECORATIFS, entitled "Toy Comix". They had 20 artists create short comics based on their favorite toys, as well as create some amazing installations, such as the one above. There was also a very cool stamp collecton done by this guy. Pretty much in love.

-"CELLAR DOOR" at Palais de Tokyo. by LORIS GRÉAUD. first time an artist under 30 has taken over the entire space, a bit weird at times and scary, but awesome. He had neon lights flashing everywhere, along with bits of a strange dialogue/story I didn't quite pull together. Also, tons of sound as well as a huge forest bathed in a weird pink light, and surprise, paint ball!

So, I don't know. I guess I've just been going places and doing things, and those were my favorite things so far. We did go to the Geletin Group opening at the Museum of Modern Art, but while it was quite cool, some of it smelled bad and a fake handicapped man spilled wine on my nicest trench, so it was not the greatest experience (by fake handicapped man, I mean hat he fell out of his wheelchair, we helped him up, and then he proceeded to get up and grab a glass of wine to spill all over my friend and I).

Last night was the GhettoBlaster party! Who knew that Batofar was actually a boat. We got there just in time for Percee P of Stones Throw, who was pretty damn good but nothing beat the dance party when Roc Raida of X-ecutioners started djing. The boat was actually rocking at some points, which was awkward but really it's kind of cool just so someday you can say you were jamming to Roc Raida on a boat in Paris. At some point he played Wild Wild West, which everyone seemed to be really excited for (????)

HOUSE SHOES - "hey, y'all, y'all remember fraggle rock? thas what I told my moms I wanted to be, this goes out to my moms, we haven't talked in 9 years, but this goes out to my moms, yeah, fraggle rock."