{"id":3268,"date":"2014-01-01T06:15:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T14:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellejolin.com\/wordpress\/?p=3268"},"modified":"2013-12-31T16:05:50","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T00:05:50","slug":"i-hate-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=3268","title":{"rendered":"I hate poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Il pleure dans mon coeur
\nComme il pleut sur la ville ;
\nQuelle est cette langueur
\nQui p\u00e9n\u00e8tre mon coeur ?
\n–Verlaine<\/p>\n

Ebben? Ne andr\u00f2 lontana,
\nCome va l’eco della pia campana,
\nL\u00e0, fra la neve bianca;
\nL\u00e0, fra le nubi d’\u00f4r;
\nLadd\u00f3ve la speranza, la speranza
\n\u00c8 rimpianto, \u00e8 rimpianto, \u00e8 dolor!
\n–Catalani\/Ebben, ne andr\u00f2 lontana\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Poetry makes me feel like the weird bad guy in the film Diva who didn’t like anything. Beethoven, even. That analogy is completely meaningless to approxately 99.98% of the world’s population, but it’s really accurate if you just know what the fuck I’m talking about. <\/p>\n

So. <\/p>\n

Go and watch Diva and come back here. I’ll wait. Maybe I could find a clip, but really you should watch the film. It’s very French New Wave. Not New Wave like Godard’s Breathless, but like New Wave music. It’s the simple story of a boy who secretly records a diva who does not make recordings, and a big misunderstanding involving white slavery and the recording.<\/p>\n

Just watch it. It’s good. Here are a few teasers:<\/p>\n

the original trailer<\/a>
\nJules and Alma in his loft\/garage<\/a>
\nThe Zen of the art of buttering bread<\/a> <\/p>\n

The movie Diva has everything. A Catalani aria. A petit postier. Richard Boehringer in a bathtub. Kick ass lofts. Mobilettes. Bad guys. Hookers. A Vietnamese shoplifting teenager who skates. A wave machine. Everything.<\/p>\n

Poetry?<\/p>\n

Oh. Right. I couldn’t find a clip of the “j’aime pas” guy. <\/p>\n

J’aime pas la poesie.<\/p>\n

That’s what reminded me of Diva in the first place.<\/p>\n

Don’t think that I haven’t figured out that song lyrics are poetry set to music. I need the music, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Il pleure dans mon coeur Comme il pleut sur la ville ; Quelle est cette langueur Qui p\u00e9n\u00e8tre mon coeur ? –Verlaine Ebben? Ne andr\u00f2 lontana, Come va l’eco della pia campana, L\u00e0, fra la neve bianca; L\u00e0, fra le nubi d’\u00f4r; Ladd\u00f3ve la speranza, la speranza \u00c8 rimpianto, \u00e8 rimpianto, \u00e8 dolor! –Catalani\/Ebben, ne … Continue reading I hate poetry<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lr3R-QI","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7687,"url":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=7687","url_meta":{"origin":3268,"position":0},"title":"A weekend with no plans","author":"Michelle","date":"September 27, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"As I got ready to leave work Friday afternoon, I was suddenly quite excited to realize that I do not have any plans this weekend. 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