We’re back in action after a short but sweet sweet break on Lake Geneva. Only two more weeks left at PAF, and in France, and the whole European continent. So it’s ALL GO now!
another sneaky sneak still shot
Meanwhile, news to report:
Most importantly and just in case you missed it, Michael Jackson is dead. The world is a different place. The news was transmitted to this isolated corner of the universe very late one night just minutes after we sung Happy Birthday to Jake in three different languages, simultaneously. The next day an MJ marathon sorted those who thought they didn’t give a shit about the news (but then realised it was kinda a big deal) from those who’ve known since they were knee high to a grass hopper that this inevitable news would rock their world. That night, plans for what started out as a book release party for The Swedish Dance History turned into a birthday party/MJ dance tribute/power to the Iranian people/JP&TN concert. It was a current events event to be proud of.
We realised how much in lalaland we’ve been as soon as we arrived in Paris. That night, with a newfound wisdom from wine and cheese partying, we decided that paying for metro tickets simply wasn’t necessary ALL the time. So we jumped the barriers, squeezed through the second jumper-prevention barriers, hopped on the train and woke up to find that we had reached the end of the line on the wrong train, on the wrong last train of the night. C’est PAS BON! Anyway it was quite an adventure/initiation rite back into the big smoke. The big hot sweaty stinky but nevertheless alluring smoke.
And then arrived in Montreux (Suisse) and realised how much we absolutely definitely have to live nearby water. Just seeing the lake was like waking up after a very long dreamy sleep. MON DIEU! Don’t even get me started. Swimming was bliss. You could just keep going and going all the way back across the lake to France.
To help our friend Valentina learn the drums we’ve formed a band that specialises in composing and recording per song, plus making a music video for it, all in a few hours. Here are the first two. Check them out, they’re beautiful. The first is shot in front of the incroyable tree that is blooming right outside our window. The second with some of the first films ever made (courtesy of Thomas Edison).
At the end of next week we head back to Paris for a few days before hopping a plane to San Fraaaancisco. Oh the painful thought of leaving PAF and this continent, and the joyful thought of seeing friends and family on the next continent. Such is life.
On Saturday July 25th, 5pm at Au Vaisseau (20eme arrondissement) JP&TN will be performing in the Paris section of Le Placard Headphone Festival, a three month long non-stop music festival where live performances are transmitted to audiences via headphones, “playing with concentration, intimacy,time warp, and teleportation.” So come get jiggy.
New album art has been coming together beautifully all the way from Morocco and Minnesota. Can’t wait to reveal it, but gotta.
2000 more photos of objects to take, 4500 objects to categorise according to taxonomies such as: promiscuous objects, colonised objects, objects that forget, objects that could kill, objects that produce by destroying…and more. New object to add to the list is the Crescent, Hana’s trusty bike now happily property of PAF. It will go under objects that don’t give up.
Yesterday we had a pre-bastille-“artistes”-meet-locals-day, starting with a musical, dance, choral performance and bellini cocktails and ending with us heading down to the local football field for an open air disco and fireworks, finally coming home for a little nightcap of tiramisu. It was mindboggling for us to be “out on the town” past dark, absolutely crucial to dance dance dance and a real treat for all. Vivre la vie!
Champ tours the New World 