Thursday, August 30, 2007

Francoise Hardy deux There is a cartoon up on the WFMU Blog WFMU's Beware of the Blog: Francoise Hardy A one page mini biography of the French singer Francoise Hardy: "Francoise you're too tall and too thin". This is their post so you'll have to follow the link to see it. Its been up a week, I didn't notice it earlier. I guess I havn't been checking my TFotO blog roll often enough. The cartoon is by Ivan Brunetti, who has a publisher page up with an archive of his other work h i g h w a t e r - Ivan Brunetti. I thought it was very funny. So I showed it to Tran, who is the person who told me about Francoise. I always hope that Tran and I see humor in the same things, and that we don't come to the point where we both just throw our hands up and declare we can't understand each other at all. This will not happen. Earlier I found that Tran was aware that Francoise Hardy has written some books on astrology L'astrologie universelle : le zodiaque comme vous ne l'avez jamais vu and Les rythmes du zodiaque. In the panel where our cartoon Francoise is reading from a stack of books, at least one of them is on astrology. Some of this apparently has been translated into Vietnamese. I also want to mention the passing of Hilly Kristal, the long time owner of the New York music club CGBG The Curator of Punk | MetaFilter. He lived to be much older than Tony Wilson Hilly Kristal, a Rock Midwife, Is Dead at 75 - New York Times. It was about a year ago that he finally had to sell CBGBs. I suppose some would have saved it and kept it as an institution of rock. That would only make it into a museum. Closing a post that started on Francoise Hardy with Hilly Kristal is fitting because Iggy Pop was a friend to Hilly and CGBGs, and Iggy Pop, for her 2000 album Clair Obscur (also a poem by Jean Cocteau), has done a duet with Francoise Hardy. 11:39:14 PM    comment [];trackback [];

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