During the day on July 22nd Ashley and I went back to Notre Dame and explored the inside. I was heckled by gypsies until I acted like I was Deaf and then they acted like I had some sort of disease and left me alone for good.
In the evening after shopping Ashley and I met up with David and he took us to the France Slam at Culture Rapide. Our host? Pilote le Hot.
Culture Rapide- The France Slam
http://www.culturerapide.com/index2
Hosted by: Pilote le Hot
http://www.zorpia.com/SullenMisty/album/1103094/album/page=all/
It was what every Spoken Word artist would wish to achieve; I great host, audience, and venue in Paris France! Even though I didn’t understand all the poetry and my interpreter’s limited in expressing the play on words and metaphors of the French language I enjoyed listening to the melody of sound. Not all the poets recited in French. One man sang a song in Spanish and David read his Valentine’s day massacre poem in English (British English hehe.)
I had such a great experience. I love you poets everywhere! Keep exposing your heart so that we all may hear the historic traditions of story telling!
After I got off stage, I passed out copies of the CD Steph and I made to the audience and put some at the bar. The host tells everyone that the CDs are not free and require a kiss as payment. Three guys line up ready to pay.
Eek! At first I tell them “don’t worry about it.” But payment was demanded and so I made out with em! What cuties anyways and that is how I learned the history of French kissing.
I ended up getting one of the poet’s number and made fantastic memories later on in the trip.
