La Leçon

About

Me. Living in NY, now finished with my Masters in French Lit. and looking for a job/purpose, but also preoccupied with life, love, art and everything else I happen to be fall upon or under. it's gonna be random because I love Godard, France Gall, goat cheese, creativity, Mad Men, walking barefoot in the grass, pan's flute, 60's music, Nouvelle vague, hand on hand action, blooming period, expressionism, Art deco, the color green, Delta blues on a rainy night, Marianne Faithfull, hogging the covers, random dancing, yelling at the TV, epicurian pleasures, Scotch, Improv, eggplants, Surrealism, feeling like I'm in a Woody Allen movie, experimental cooking, passionate hair-grabbing, passionate air-guitar playing, snowstorms, riping clothes off, pointless arguments, heavy novels, salt-water hair, french yé-yé, Kierkegaard, locking eyes, running, watching paint dry,kissing, Moe from the Simpsons, twirling, the word cahoots, futurism, quoting movies, cartoons of ducks, board games, shoes that ultimately hurt my feet but look Grwahawwwh, not that many TV shows, feet sinking into sand, having cocktails at inappropriate hours, touching suede, Christopher Guest's brain, brushing my teeth but not my hair, dancing in the shower but not singing in it, afternoon delights, zombie movies, glitter art, being too much, artists & muse couples, reading while walking, Shiraz, impromptu musicals, and making collages. So this is my life, collage-style...
and please be forgiving, I'm used to french, english is only my second language...

lilynath at gmail dot com to chat me up and please do I like that.

I'm also spilling over at French-moi for all things à la française...

and I tweet too :twitter.com/lilyna

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Plays: 22

Sparrow - Simon and Garfunkel

2009.11.04 3:06pm ∞

Good boy!

2009.11.04 1:19pm ∞

RIP Grandma Pauline - you were loved and will be missed. Now go hug grandpa :)

and yes, I do take my love of crazy prints from her. That and the cooking gene.

2009.11.04 10:55am ∞

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Plays: 368

lickystickypickyme:

Eric Clapton - Tears in heaven

time can break your heart, have you beggin’ …please……

2009.11.04 8:15am ∞

:(

My grandma passed yesterday evening at 91 yrs old. She would have been 92 today :(

We knew it was coming for a long time, but I don’t think it makes it easier.

To make matters worst my family began to fight and yell and tore each other apart right there in her room 2 minutes later. Oh, and my mom announced the passing to me via e-mail. I won’t hold it too much against her, she lost her mom, but I think it’s tactless.

It’s at time like these that it feel eerily weird to live in another country. I could really go for a hug from mom now.

2009.11.04 8:14am ∞

Yay! ... Nay!

Good news found a lift for Montreal with my little sister

Bad news its with my sis so I guess Katy Perry and Britney Spears blasting for 7h

Good news I should be in time in Montreal for improv & drag queen show with my friends!

Bad news I have to stay at my mom’s so she’ll wait for me at 2 am, smell my hair and tell me I shouldn’t smoke

Good news Poutine Poutine Poutine Poutine Maple Syrup Poutine

Bad news I’m already overbooked for the week and…don’t laugh but I just know I’ll miss my dog so much.

Still, happy to be going even under bad circumstances. But you know what? I’m sure I’ll be looking forward to heading back to NY in no time. Home is here now.

2009.11.03 6:59pm ∞

I like where this night is heading

LASAGNA! WINE! already in PJs!

2009.11.03 5:36pm ∞

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Plays: 198

ebk:

french-moi:

Anna Karina - Jamais je ne t’ai dit que je t’aimerais toujours

( from Jean-Luc Godard’s Pierrot Le Fou )

my favorite film.

Me too…well up there. I go back and forth between this, Contempt and Masculin/Feminin. But it’s definitely from Godard’s 60 era!

2009.11.03 3:22pm ∞

Movies to watch this week...

If you weren’t allllll the way on the other side of the globe I’d make tons of snacks and invite myself.

Wait let me check expedia or travel dot something, maybe I will

marychrist:

The Lost Boys

Back To The Future

2009.11.03 3:05pm ∞

It's the little things

I was having a bad day ( yes, again. I know I’m usually a beacon of positive energy but whatever, I’m stressed, crying ( family drama & imminent relative’s death ) nd I have been having I-want-to-die migraines for 3 days )

So I was feeling a tiny bit better ( headache-wise ) so I decided to hit the gym in my building. It was completely empty, which for me is a sign to “do stuff I look ridiculous doing” like jump rope, do complicated machine contraption-things, play with big balloons etc.

Well, the gym mix started playing “RRRRRiiiico Suave” and I caught a glimpse of myself all dishevelled, doing reverse sit up hanging from my feet with a very “important concentration” face. This…is so out of character, and I started cracking up, loudly, and it was the best thing.

Also, I might have danced.

If I discover the front desk has installed cameras in the gym I might move.

2009.11.03 3:02pm ∞