Happy Bastille Day!

The Tour de France is starting back up today, moving into the mountains - always fun. This year's race looks likely to come down to an Englishman (from Kenya) vs. a Columbian, with an American, Spaniard and Italian in serious contention - well - it's an international sport. So here, to celebrate it, is a group of Germans:



And to wish our French friends a happy Bastille Day, here are some nice Canadian boys:



And finally, a very French performance of the Marsiellaise:

Happy Bastille Day!

Is there anything more French that women, bread and art?





Maybe the roofs of Paris?



Happy Bastille Day!

Musical Makeup Post

Since I haven't had any music up in a couple weeks - in honor of the last post, specifically Herzog and Bruno S. - here's Damon and Naomi with Ghost, and "I Dreamed of the Caucusus":



And - since I also missed Bastille Day - what can be more French than Anna Karina singing Serge Gainsbourg's "Roller Girl"?