and that was part of the problem. I wish I could find a doctor who would prescribe what I WANT only a small change to a different type of the same thing. As it is I HAVE NO DOCTOR. (No psychiatrist, only a GP outside whose catchment area I actually live). Thank you London Borough of Evil for messing up my life in yet one more aspect. I am housed by one borough yet live in another. I would rather live in the (more innercity) borough I am housed by. At least inner cities are funky and full of life. As for drugs they are never more than a bus ride away so it's just as druggy here. I don't happen to know the local dealers as I never bothered getting introductions to any bar two. One who seemed to have forgotten me last time and another who sells crap. I don't care about drugs now anyhow. I'm spending my money on foreign DVDs and a book. The DVDs I bought were I Have Loved You So Long (French, starring Kirsten Scott Thomas); The Lives of Others (German ~ about the East German secret police and with the same female lead who played Ulrike Meinhof in The Baader Meinhof Complex and Michael Jackson This Is It this last one was on offer for £3 or I wouldn't have bothered and frankly although I do like Michael Jackson I think for even that money they could have done better. The first two were on a two for £10 deal and it took so long to find the Kirsten (or Kristen) Scott Thomas film to make up the deal.Tomorrow morning I take the tube into town to pay for a book I have already ordered over the phone from Waterstones. There is no Waterstones, the nation's biggest bookseller by far, anywhere close to me and I'm not saying anything about the locals. I tried WH Smith, which sells magazines and stationery as well as a selection of the most obvious titles in each genre and the man rather ridiculously said of Piaf: la verité (which means Piaf: the Truth) "it's not a book we stock on our shelves". The fact that WH Smith do not stock French language titles is painfully obvious. Can you order it specially? No. So I rang this other shop who took the ISBN and said yes for £25 and a 3-week wait you can have it. I have a thing about Edith Piaf after watching that film about her La Vie En Rose.
Now I have to go else I will get cut off; my computer is still in hospital.
Here is a high quality pop video of Edith Piaf singing la vie en rose...
Milord
thank you Buggerlugz for this one... this and la vie en rose sont les deux chansons that have been going round my head...
De rien mon ami, de rien.
ReplyDeleteCa me fait tant de plaisir de t'imaginer a chanter la Piaf, tout en dansant comme un fou, surtout vers le fin de Milord ou ca va . . PA dam, Pa Dam, PA DAM!!! . . . :-)
So pleased that you feel better. Even more so that you dont care about drugs any more. That's great.
I think Edith Piaf is worth having a thing about . . . An extraordinary woman. Have you considered hiring a laptop? Just a thought. Take care.
a bientot
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Aaaah, i remember my nanna (well she still does, now 85) playing Edith in the kitchen while she cooked. I love her, and nana mouskouri... do you know her? try WHITE ROSE OF ATHENS, its gorgeous! you can find it on my ipod between Rancid and Manic Street Preachers!!
ReplyDeleteive missed reading about you. I'm hopefully back... albeit with baby on my lap typing onehanded! you are well? or well as one can be?
YAY how pretty. Eye love your links.
ReplyDeleteI love Kirsten Scott Thomas. Watch out for her French movie "Leaving" very powerful, and Sarahs Key (a holocaust movie). Even though they might be a tad depressing sometimes movies like that make me think 'hey, my miserable life ain't so bad!'
ReplyDeleteI also love that she is over 50 and still gorgeous, interesting and intelligent, and so not Hollywood. I generally hate Hollywood blockbusters, but will watch every foreign festival type movie I can find.
All the best hope your movie watching brings you much joy and escapism!
Kiwigirl xx
Sorry I've not been around m'dear, you know why. Glad you're feeling better. Just wanted thank you for your comments re my Dad. If you're serious about leaving your remains to science you should know that there are circumstances where they will not be accepted 1.If they don't have enough storage space 2.If your remains are subject to a post mortem or donate any of your organs 3. If you die because of anything infectious. Also your remains will be cremated after 3 years, so think carefully about it. Me and hubby have decided to bequeath our remains because of what my Dad has done but there's no guarantee they will be used.
ReplyDeleteBuggerlugz: I don't think I can afford to hire one but it is a nice thought I am trying to use my time more constructively without a computer at home but time still gets wasted!
ReplyDeleteNaomi: I remember Nana M from the 80s! I'm as OK as can be expected... not amazing, but OK
Eyelick: I'm glad someone does!
Kiwigirl: I look at the Hollywood DVDs now and go "ukh", now that I've found the foreign films section I never knew anything about... I've watched pretty much all 5 German ones but there are loads of French ones on sale I haven't seen. I prefer French films to be about relationships and German films to be about Secret Police, terrorists etc. Which is good because that's what my collection entails. I got some by a director called Werner Herzog in a set but I've only seen one, about a man who goes to America called Szyblo or something
Akelamalu: I am serious; I just hope I would fit the criteria when I die!