Choices

Hi,
My name is Jean-Pierre FRIGO, the owner of "Café Voltaire" in Turku.
I would just like to write about people, books, musics and films I remember today as "key-stuff":

People:
- Miles Davis, Jean-Paul Sartre, Louis Malle, Pierre Bourdieu, Simone de Beauvoir, Emmanuel Todd, Julia Kristeva, Sofi Oksanen, Mika Waltari, Patrick Modiano, Françoise Sagan, Machiavel, my grand-mother (!), Gunther Walraff (examplary!), Alain Tanner, Claude Goretta, Vassily Grossman, Heinrich Böll… and Voltaire!!! (more coming… but that's all for today…)

Books:
- "D'un Château l'autre" (LF Céline), "A la Recherche du temps perdu" (M Proust), "Puhdistus" (S Oksanen), "Yksityismiehen juna" (M Waltari), "L'élégance du Hérisson" (Muriel Barbery), "Portrait de groupe avec dame" (H Böll), "Le Mur" (JP Sartre), "Les Belles Images" (S d Beauvoir), "Jours tranquilles à Clichy" (H Miller)……… "Je me souviens" (G Perec)……………

Musics:
- "Backseat Betty" (Miles Davis), "Freight Train" (John Coltrane), "Body and Soul" (C Hawkins), "To Erlinda" (Michel Petrucciani), "Don't explain" (H Merryl), "Misty" (par DD Bridwater / "Live in Paris"), "Swift shifting" (C Baker), "Yellow tango" (Dick Twardzik), "Dat Dere" (Eldar), "Ghosty Heads" (R Lee Jones), "Gnosiennes" (E Satie), "Triple concerto" (Beethoven), "Ebony concerto" (Stravinsky)…

Films:
- "La Salamandre" (A Tanner), "Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie" (L Bunuel), "Le Fantôme de la Liberté" (L Bunuel), "Little Big Man (A Penn), "Amarcord" (Fellini), "Festen" (T Vinterberg), "Bird" (C Eastwood), "L'invitation" (C Goretta), "Kauas pilvet karkkaavat" (A Kaurismäki), "Arvotommat" (M Kaurismäki), "My dinner with André" (L Malle), "Deep End" (Skolimowski), "A bout de souffle" (JP Godard), etc………

What else? More to come (!) tomorrow………

JPF