paris post script ... voila ! voile ! well sort of ... for the first time in my life, i bought a piece of fabric ... in the bastille street market

indulgence deferred ... virtue rewarded

last night i realized it wouldn't be possible to drink beer all week in this weather

so i filled the empty bottle with tap water and put it back in the fridge

and this afternoon it tastes just as satisfying as leffe ...

which might be a convincing demonstration of the placebo effect

NB this may be the first time in nearly 64 years that i've adhered to the notion of deferred gratification

... if only because i've learned that accelerated regression has a terminal velocity

futbol ... hombres !!!

never mind kicking the ball, i am kicking myself for never previously encountering this photographer ... Rafael Sanz Lobato ... hombre !!!

sorolla ...

julio romero de torres ... lived in cordoba ... very popular in his lifetime ... postcards were made ... etc, etc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_Romero_de_Torres

i once heard the old ken russell smirking because a young television executive had dismissed his work as "not filmic enough"

you could start by watching the debussy fillum, if only for the music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsdAIYmSHAg

via lucy in ponty ... face to face with humanity in the land of my fathers

the manics ...    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwwtOd3pMlk

so ... vincent, ( and don ... )

if you were to make your way to the musee d'orsay nowadays, you could hardly see this picture for the moving throng of international visitors

but they are not pilgrims

they pause for a few seconds to take a quick picture

hundreds in turn will stand besides the painting with two fingers raised besides their ears

not many encounter the painting itself, or know, or care ...

and so i wept, but only for a few seconds

http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let777/letter.html#n-9

etc, etc ...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Gogh%2C_Vincent_van_-_Irises_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

and here's a letter to vincent from paul gauguin ...

http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let675/letter.html

official update ... second grandson is being named "NOA"