Manning Leonard Krull ([info]manningkrull) wrote,
@ 2008-03-27 20:16:00
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L'homme à tête de chou
In between errands today I hung out with (my friend Andrea and) Serge Gainsbourg.


Here's Serge's grave at the Cimitière du Montparnasse. Someone apparently left a cabbage in reference to the song/album L'homme à tête de chou. No relation to [info]petit_chou.



Serge's house, a couple streets below the river, due south of the Louvre. I don't think he was the one who decorated it like that. (It rained on us a bunch so my hair isn't as huge as usual. My apologies.)

Here is a wonderful song by Serge Gainsbourg back when he really had it goin' on.



And here are a million more on YouTube.

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[info]fashionista17
2008-03-27 07:27 pm UTC (link)
Your outfit is fab!

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[info]quba
2008-03-27 07:58 pm UTC (link)
Really? I thought his outfit looked kind of fag.

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[info]manningkrull
2008-03-27 08:16 pm UTC (link)
OH SNAP

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[info]calamityjon
2008-03-27 09:39 pm UTC (link)
Actually, the way you've been dressing lately has gotten me curious ... and I realize that this sounds like an insult, but is somebody else dressing you these days?

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[info]manningkrull
2008-03-27 09:46 pm UTC (link)
Hahaha, what a preposterous (but intriguing!) notion! Nah, not at all. I simply realized that for years I was saying, "I love wearing suits and ties. I'd wear a suit and tie every day if I could," and then one day it hit me that, oh yeah, I guess I can. Part of it is living over here; I can find nice clothes that are small enough for me and not terribly expensive, which was next to impossible in the United Snakes.

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[info]calamityjon
2008-03-27 09:48 pm UTC (link)
Dude, your roommates all be leaving bananas and nuts in yo' bed, I would not be soo-prized to hear you wake up in the morning and Lada's left a dry-cleaned and pressed ensemble hanging over your door.

But yeah, I guess it makes just a tetch more sense for you to be just dressing differently. I do not think things through all that clearly. Anyway, it looks good on you, really.

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[info]calamityjon
2008-03-27 09:49 pm UTC (link)
No, seriously, looks great. Great fit on that jacket.

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[info]calamityjon
2008-03-27 09:49 pm UTC (link)
Nice palette, too.

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[info]calamityjon
2008-03-27 09:49 pm UTC (link)
...

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[info]calamityjon
2008-03-27 09:50 pm UTC (link)
So when exactly IS 1978 coming around to pick you up?

Edited at 2008-03-27 09:50 pm UTC

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[info]manningkrull
2008-03-27 09:58 pm UTC (link)
With that scarf and jacket I was going more for 1778.

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[info]brahman_atman
2008-03-27 10:33 pm UTC (link)
I dunno. I get a righteous 70s glam vibe from your look. In a good way.

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[info]manningkrull
2008-03-27 08:16 pm UTC (link)
Thanks! I wish I had anything that went with that green jacket. It's the only green thing I own.

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[info]ravenface
2008-03-27 08:08 pm UTC (link)
I was turned on to Gainsbourg from those Mick Harvey tribute albums a few years back. Then I got the real stuff. I was surprised to hear how much of it had been sampled by other bands, like how many snippets I recognized without having known the original source, and how much I liked so very much of it. You have gone on a noble pilgrimage, rain be damned.

Since we're discussing your outfit, you look like the lead from La Maman et la putain

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[info]manningkrull
2008-03-27 08:52 pm UTC (link)
Mick Harvey tribute albums

Guh, what?! I got some Googling to do! ...And then right afterward I'll look up those albums on an internet search engine.

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[info]roninspoon
2008-03-27 08:13 pm UTC (link)
Is the knotted scarf something they make you where when you get a French Visa? Cause George Peppard wore one all the time too, but even when he was in America, and he was in the A-Team.

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[info]manningkrull
2008-03-27 08:51 pm UTC (link)
Scarves are indeed remarkably ubiquitous here, but not usually in the dandy-ish/homo-y style I've been rocking lately. This is a look I feel I can get away with in Paris but I think in Philly it would get me my teeth knocked in.

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[info]abinka
2008-03-27 08:18 pm UTC (link)


That's all I got.

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[info]manningkrull
2008-03-27 08:51 pm UTC (link)
wait what

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Once you go green you never go back
[info]abinka
2008-03-27 11:51 pm UTC (link)


I imagine a date with Serge Gainsbourg might be a bit like this. (He's a recurring character on Kids in the Hall.)

PS that's awesome that you saw all that Serge related stuff. I'm a big fan.

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BUT I GET IT!
[info]calamityjon
2008-03-27 09:39 pm UTC (link)
HAHA! Manning never watched television ever.

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[info]petit_chou
2008-03-27 10:17 pm UTC (link)
I am le dying.

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[info]internat
2008-03-27 08:22 pm UTC (link)
That very last photo is particularly badass. For some reason you remind me of Amadeus in that picture.

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[info]manningkrull
2008-03-27 10:16 pm UTC (link)
You know Mozart was crazy because his hair was crazy like that before the invention of hairspray.

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[info]fashionista17
2008-03-27 10:43 pm UTC (link)
FYI, the styling product of choice back then was beef tallow. People used to go so long without washing their hair, it would go rancid. Additionally, it was not unusual for creatures to set up house in the crazy coiffed hair.

And I was going to find you my favorite 1700's hairstyle picture of a lady with a boat in her hair, but my google search turned up nothing.

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[info]manningkrull
2008-03-27 11:07 pm UTC (link)
beef tallow

Gahhhhhh.....

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[info]petit_chou
2008-03-27 08:26 pm UTC (link)
I get great pleasure out of being mentioned in the same post as Serge Gainsbourg.

Also, it's funny to me t imagine you're not wearing a shirt under that scarf and velvet jacket. Which is green, non? Snappy!

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[info]manningkrull
2008-03-27 10:01 pm UTC (link)
It might've been a great pleasure Serge Gainsbourg too, if you were about ten years younger.

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[info]dawaioser
2008-03-27 08:47 pm UTC (link)
That lucky b-tard. I want someone to leave me a cabbage Meyers lemon tree and a basket full of strawberries on my grave site.


- Love that scarf on you.

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[info]manningkrull
2008-03-27 09:15 pm UTC (link)
Love that scarf on you.

I used to have this problem that almost all of my clothes came from the guys' section at H&M. Now I have this problem that almost all of my clothes came from the women's section at H&M.

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[info]anti_pyrine
2008-03-27 09:50 pm UTC (link)
Yesterday my boyfriend and I walked to the local cemetery and talked about where we want to be buried. I was deciding between next to Jean Cocteau, Tristan Tzara or Serge Gainsbourg.

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[info]manningkrull
2008-03-27 10:03 pm UTC (link)
Serge is looking a little crowded, but if it means anything to ya, Baudelaire has plenty of breathing room on either side. And a giant bat up above.

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[info]anti_pyrine
2008-03-27 10:45 pm UTC (link)
How creepy.

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[info]nikkisioux
2008-03-27 10:18 pm UTC (link)
Serge's fans decorated his house that way. Then the neighbors painted over it, and Charlotte Gainsbourg was pissed! So I guess the fans re-painted it.

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[info]brahman_atman
2008-03-27 10:31 pm UTC (link)
Two things, Mandingo:

First, hold your head high against CalamityJon's challenge to your sartorial awakening. By the end of this year, when my finances will be in much better shape, I'll be wearing suits for both work and pleasure. Listen to Whimsy, ignore Jon! :)

Second, your YouTube clip of Serge inspired me to track down a French song I've always meant to own: "Verlaine", by Charles Trenet. Thanks for the nudge.

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[info]abinka
2008-03-27 11:55 pm UTC (link)
I agree to always listen to Whimsy. ALWAYS.

I bought my first pair of leather shoes this week (Italian!) at Daffy's and thought of Manning and Whimsy.

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[info]willowfinn
2008-03-28 01:55 am UTC (link)
Mm, Serge is very troubled and poignant, I like that in a Frenchman. However, I must confess that I am a Jacques Brel girl first and foremost.



-swoons- I could watch that over and over again for hours. In fact, sometimes, I do.

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[info]willowfinn
2008-03-28 01:58 am UTC (link)
If you care to have subtitles, clic ici.

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[info]manningkrull
2008-03-30 01:23 am UTC (link)
Whoa, watching that was an experience that was almost too intense for me.

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[info]willowfinn
2008-04-01 03:22 am UTC (link)
Speaking of intense...

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Hmm
[info]dragonfly452
2008-03-28 09:02 pm UTC (link)
The second picture is pretty interesting. I'm a big fan of grafitti art.

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