Le Festin

http://skinnyblackcladdink.multiply.com/music/item/193/Le_Festin

(in an attempt to keep the Robots off my back, i've made the song available only to members of my network. apologies to non-multiplyers, or whatever they're [we're] called, or to those who are but aren't in my network. er, and were hoping to get a freebie.)

more Camille here:

http://www.camille-lefil.com/

and just to fill this post out, here are le liques:

Le Festin
Performed by Camille
Written and Produced by
Michael Giacchino

French lyrics:

Les rêves des amoureux sont comm’(e) le bon vin
Ils donn(ent) de la joie ou bien du chagrin
Affaibli par la faim je suis
malheureux
Volant en chemin tout ce que je peux
Car rien n’est gratuit
dans la vie

L’espoir est un plat bien trop vite consommé
A sauter
les repas je suis habitué
Un voleur solitaire est triste à nourrir
A un
jeu si amer je n’peux réussir
Car rien n’est gratuit dans…

La vie…
Jamais on ne me dira
Que la course aux étoiles; ça n’est pas pour moi
Laissez moi vous émerveiller et prendre mon en vol
Nous allons en fin
nous régaler

La fêt(e) va enfin commencer
Sortez les bouteilles;
finis les ennuis
Je dresse la table, de ma nouvell(e) vie
Je suis
heureux à l’idée de ce nouveau destin
Une vie à me cacher et puis libre
enfin
Le festin est sur mon chemin

Une vie à me cacher et puis libre
enfin
Le festin est sur mon chemin

English
lyrics:

Dreams are to lovers as wine is to friends
Carried through
lifetimes, (and) spilled now and then
I am driven by hunger, so saddened to
be
Thieving in darkness; I know you’re not pleased
But nothing worth
eating is free

My hope is a banquet impatiently downed
Impossibly
full, now I’ll probably drown
Many thieves’ lives are lonely with one mouth
to feed
If giving means taking, I’ll never succeed
For nothing worth
stealing is…

Free at last; won’t be undersold
Surviving isn’t
living; won’t eat what I’m told
Let me free, I’ll astonish you; I’m planning
to fly
I won’t let this party just pass me by

The banquet is now
underway, so…
Bring out the bottles; a new tale has spun
In clearing
this table, my new life’s begun
I am nervous, excited; (oh) just read the
marquee!
A lifetime of hiding; I’m suddenly free!
My dinner is waiting
for me

A lifetime of hiding; I’m suddenly free!
My dinner is waiting

for me

note to self: learn French before some epochal moment in your life.

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i'd been meaning to post this, from Q:

Hi! I'd just like to let you know that Issue 3 of The Digest of Philippine Genre
Stories is out now at The Manila Book Fair at the World Trade Center Manila, Gil
Puyat Ave. cor. D. Macapagal Blvd., Aug. 29 to Sep. 2 at the Anvil Booth. It'll
be available at the regular distributors' outlets by late next week. Thanks!

Kenneth Yu
www.philippinegenrestories.blogspot.com

but now it's too late for that, ennit? so i'll just put this on and pretend i haven't been a lazy little blogger:

Hi guys.

Just wanted to update you about some stuff:

Met with Jade Bernas, publisher of Story Philippines, earlier today. He told me that Story Philippines has a new policy of not accepting reprints. In other words, if you guys plan to submit to Story Philippines as I've encouraged you to do, make sure that it's original, unpublished, and not a multiple or a simultaneous submission. They've become a bit stricter with their submission guidelines.

Secondly, Fully Booked has launched the 2nd Philippine Graphic Fiction Awards. I'm also encouraging you to join. Check out the PGS blog (http://www.philippinegenrestories.blogspot.com/) for the link to the site with the application form and contest rules/guidelines.

Thanks!

Kenneth Yu
http://www.philippinegenrestories.blogspot.com/.

right. now that's sorted.

rats, Bird and the city of lights

Ratatouille (2007) - how could i not love this movie?

i think it wouldn't be too far off the mark to trace my affection for rats all the way back to Don Bluth's The Secret of NIMH (and Robert C. O'Brien's Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH)--or maybe his An American Tail (technically not about rats, but, anyway, rodents); Brad Bird had previously pitched two-for-two in my book (with The Iron Giant and The Incredibles) making this, duh, three-for-three; i'm no foodie, but i've enjoyed cooking shows all my life (remember Wok with Yan? then there's Keith Floyd, and now Jamie Oliver and Anthony Bourdain and, of course, Nigella Lawson, among others--nevermind that they are personality-driven as much as food-oriented shows for the moment); the romantic in me still romanticizes Paris and i've been thinking of learning French lately; the music is simply lovely, and i think listening to Elvis Costello's My Flame Burns Blue these past few days may have primed me for the soundtrack; anyway, the point of all that is, yeah, this movie seems practically tailor-made--specially prepared--to suit my tastes.

i envy people who can write for children like that; i try (with rather questionable results, as with Troll's Doll), but i simply can't seem to do it properly; or, at least, not in a way that i find personally satisfying, nevermind what other people may think. now i've got half a mind to drop my current project in 'studied incomprehensibility' (about 13k+ words in) and go for something a little less pretentious and self-involved; something more fanciful, less deliberately, carefully 'adult'. maybe something with rats.

i think it would do me good. can't help but loathe myself for having allowed myself to progressively transmogrify into an utter tool these past couple years, ever since i 'gave it all up for art' and 'seriously' began writing (flashes of--gasp--Keanu Reeves hanging up 'Ted' Theodore Logan--or was it Ted 'Theodore' Logan?--for Don John and the Off-Broadway Prince of Denmark); maybe the change of pace will complete what i'd hoped to get started by going on blogger-hiatus ('a-ha! so that's why, was it?'): namely a kind of 'spiritual restoration'--as cheezy as that may sound--an attempt to shed all the accumulated fluff and bring it all back to zen in darkness.

anyhoo, where was i? ah, yes: i was going to upload Camille's vocal performance of the lovely Michael Giacchino theme for Ratatouille, "Le Festin", then link to it here, but multiply seems to have gone wonky at the moment. i haven't received any word from the Goodly Law-abiding Administrators of Multiply, so i doubt the Robots have dismantled the site for good. will try again later.

on that note (my, this post certainly is riddled with sequential puns, ennit?), this seems an opportune moment to plug E. Cross Saltire's brandspanking new blog, The Theoretical Chef:

http://bangusbelly.blogspot.com/

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and now, something for Mabel:

(lifted from creative loafing, here:

http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=261051)

i haven't worn 'dress white'--or my hair, come to think of it, it's actually gotten much worse, not to mention salt-and-peppery--like that in a while, and, really, i'd rather be Remy the rat...but (SPOILER ALERT!!!) the dweeb gets the girl (SPOILER ENDS), so why complain?

just finished: Three Roads to Quantum Gravity, Lee Smolin; The Heart of the Dog, Mikhail Bulgakov (an earlier translation, i think, of The Dog's Heart, which, comparing the two in the library, i found more to my taste).

currently reading: The Problem with Physics, Lee Smolin; The Character of Physical Law, Richard Feynman; Balthazar, Lawrence Durrell (peppered with a second reading of Justine); On the Road, Jack Kerouac (not the scroll, fyi). i also borrowed Gun, with Occasional Music, Jonathan Lethem, from the library, and i've read one chapter, but i don't think i'll be going back to it soon. immensely enjoyed excerpts of Glen Duncan's I, Lucifer at a bookstore this afternoon (now why hadn't I given that a go before?), and will most likely pull a copy out of the library next time i swing by.

on the spinner: Picaresque and The Crane Wife, The Decemberists (thanks to Brottish, over on multiply, which i still can't seem to link to at the moment); What's Cooking? A Musical Tour of Tasty Tunes (New and Classic Food Favorites inspired by Ratatouille), Fred Mollin and the Blue Sea Band. and some older stuff: Elvis Costello's My Flame Burns Blue; select tracks from the Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels soundtrack; It Won't Be Soon Before Long, Maroon 5.

on the spinner, video: Moonlighting, Season 3.