Paris Retouched Some More - April 2007

picture by harold schellinx

I travelled with Pati from her hometown to Montreuil near Paris. I arived together with the pope in Vigevano. But I never got to see him. You had to pay 70 Euro to see him in concert. He didnot sell all the tickets. Spring was blasting like summer. It was pleasure to cycle around town through empty streets.

Streets were full of cars when we started hitchhiking and arived in Marseille just in time to do our concert in front of five people. Luckily I could put them all to sleep. Then we crossed the Central Massive the next day. Pati saw her hospital and I recorded the first view of the Eifel tower. We arived at Pigalle before all the others.

Saturday without a gig, we went to have a rest at Père Lachaise to spend the day with the death and the tourists. I recorded two east european girls taking gothic pictures of each other. There is a pair of them on every graveyard. Pati found Eric Piaff and Max Ernst, and I spend half an hour to find the grave of Stendhal, only to run into Prousts grave.

The picture shows Madame P. at La Générale. The background projection stems from a collection of recycled traffic instruction diagrammes, heavenly consumed by wheather and is the property of Mr. Houzier. These and other treasures he safeguards in a heavy barricaded room in his house.

Pati and I left eachother on a sunny day.