the five biggest regrets of the dying

CINCO GRANDES ARREPENTIMIENTOS DE MORIBUNDOS

1. Ojalá hubiera tenido el coraje de hacer lo que realmente quería hacer y no lo que los otros esperaban que hiciera
2. Ojalá no hubiera trabajado tanto
3. Hubiera deseado tener el coraje de expresar lo que realmente sentía
4. Habría querido volver a tener contacto con mis amigos
5. Me hubiera gustado ser más feliz

Funny how bad Spanish makes me laugh

Here comes Community

This is not just Marks & Spencer – this is French Marks & Spencer

Store crosses Channel for first time in a decade to open flagship outlet on the Champs-Élysées
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/this-is-not-just-marks--spencer--this-is-french-marks--spencer-6267112.html

Academie Francaise online

It has taken the Academie Francaise 75 years to create a new dictionary but in the meantime, they have also finally gone interactive. Its 40 members, also known as "the immortals" ( soooo french) have decided it's high time they taught cyberspace proper french.... 
Here is the Indy's take on it:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/language-watchdog-goes-interactive-to-teach-french-to-the-french-2369176.html

Here is the website...

http://www.academie-francaise.fr/

languages lost

This article claims that we are losing one of our 6900 languages every fortnight.

http://www.economist.com/node/21528592

I love my Radio France Internationale app

http://www.english.rfi.fr/

News in the morning can be a little bit of a headache but not anymore. Since I discovered RFI, it has become music to my ears and I am now totally 'au courant' when it comes to French anything at all.... trop exciting

‘Si el mar era de leche’

‘Si el mar era de leche’

Canning House | 27th July 2011 | 19.30-21.30

Tickets: £12 / Members: £10

Gainsbourg the contrarian

click here for interview

UNA CANALLADA

 means : A despicable act

LE mot du monday

le goudron = TAR

El problema

El Problema (The Problem) - (Sun 3 July, 12.30pm, Rich Mix, Bethnal Green Road E1)

(Spain 2010. Dir: Jordi Ferrer & Pablo Vidal. Spanish with English subtitles. 53 mins. "No cert.")
This eye-opening documentary won the Amnesty International Prize at San Sebastian Film Festival 2010, and Best of Fest at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2010.
Few know of the plight of the Saharwari people. The ruthless effectiveness of the Moroccan authorities in preventing entry to this isolated territory, ensures that nobody speaks up and no image gets out. So what happens when someone tries to enter the territory with a video camera?
Followed by a Q&A with Danielle Smith, director of Sandblast Arts.

Phrase of the day is.....

Une belle grosse bouse-

a big fat turd

Used to describe the newly released Coldplay single. Ouch.

If you want to brush up on your spanish, try this....

http://www.notesinspanish.com/

los ojos de Julia

Guillermo de Toro is back to shock us with another one of his magic horrors. This time, the story centres around Julia, who is suffering from a degenerative eye condition whilst simultaneously trying to find the killer of her twin sister. Guillermo will find any excuse to spook us out with a strange lens.
Watch trailer :  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IGiYMSRe0g
 

Me llamo Eduardo...

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros have made it all the way over to London on their little magnetic carpets so here is one of their songs in Spanish. Get excited.

http://www.myspace.com/edwardsharpe/music/songs/Kisses-Over-Babylon-53189334

Chevolutions

Mon 28 Feb / 7.30 / Bar / FREE

 Rich Mix have teamed up with Faction Films to bring Chevolutions, an evening of films,  discussion and insight into the world of indpendent film making.The evening will include an introduction to Faction and how they work; showing a range of the work from the early days to the present, including some shorts from young filmmakers.  They will show clips from  TV documentaries and Special News reports as well as some virals to explore the continuing evolution of their work as the media landscape changes.

 

Films included in event:
The Joneses
Year Of The Beaver
Resestancia: Hip Hop in Colombia
Love For Sale
Divorce: Sharia Style
Chevolution

Things I wish I had

 The French movie channel on SKY..... which, according to them, "offers a window into french culture and lifestyle" but more importantly shows films with Romain Duris in them.

http://www.cinemoi.tv/

Gabriel Orozco at the Tate

Chessboards, lumps of plasticine, toilet paper in ribbons on the ceiling,  human skulls, empty shoeboxes, photographs of puddles and a billiard table await you if you feel like being slightly provoked or laugh and scoff at the whole thing. Open until April

Entente plus que cordiale

The French Institute in London is hosting British writers who want to talk about French their favourite French authors or just show off French language skills, or go to the bar if it all goes pear-shaped.