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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?