torpedo the ark

Françoise Hardy (1944 - 2024) Photo: Vittoriano Rastelli (1966)     The French singer-songwriter Françoise Hardy has died and all over the ...

  Torpedo the Ark: images from posts published on  28 December (2013-2021)   Sometimes, it's interesting to look back and see what one w...

Three Cool Cats: CC, Room 8, and Henri, le Chat Noir     Opening Remarks     Some cats have so captured human affection that they've sec...

Jane Birkin (Dec 1946 - July 2023)     I'm very sad to note that - 32 years after the death of Serge Gainsbourg - Jane Birkin has died. ...

Photo of Jane Birkin by Tony Frank used for the sleeve of  Serge Gainsbourg's Histoire de Melody Nelson (1971)     As long-time readers...

  Claude Lalanne's L'Homme à tête de chou , as featured on  the cover of  Serge Gainsbourg's 1976 album of the same title      ...

Andy Warhol: Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century (1980)  Top row: Franz Kafka, Gertrude Stein, Martin Buber, Albert Einstein and...

Alien Ant Farm lead vocalist Dryden Mitchell and Bubbles lookalike in the video  for their 2001 version of Michael Jackson's 'Smooth...

Yves Montand and Edith Piaf in Étoile sans lumière   (dir. Marcel Blistène, 1946)    Tu t'en vas à la dérive / Sur la rivière du souveni...

Jacques Prévert: Je ne suis pas un con!     I.    One of the idiomatic expressions that I hate most is: It takes one to know one .    Used b...

Les filles sucettes :  Barbie Gaye, Millie Small, and France Gall I.    My Boy Lollipop is a somewhat irritating song first recorded in 195...

    The French phrase chronique scandaleuse was one that captured my youthful imagination back in the Blind Cupid days and whilst plans for...

Juliette Gréco by Erwin Blumenfeld (1951)     Juliette Gréco - the face (and voice) of chic postwar Paris and muse to numerous Left-Bank poe...

I. We are, of course, far removed in time from the Paris that enchanted so many writers and artists in that period between 1871 ...