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LISTENING TO: a recap of the year... 1. Kesha - Your Love Is My Drug 2. Panic! at the Disco - London Beckoned Songs About Money Written By Machines 2a. Copeland - She Changes Your Mind 2b. Weezer - (If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To 3. Timbaland & She Wants Revenge - Time 3a. Jason Mraz - You & I Both (Live & Acoustic) 4. Diamond Rio - You're Gone 4a. AM - Self Preservation 5. Unbunny - In A Way 6. Chronic Future - Static on the Radio 6a. Marc Robillard - So Much More 7. Amber Pacific - The Good Life 7a. Bleu - I Won't Go Hollywood 8. The Fratellis - Moriarty's Last Stand   9. Keri Hilson & Kanye West - Knock You Down 9a. Travie McCoy & Bruno Mars - Billionaire 10. SUB-LIST 11. Rogers & Hammerstein's The Sound of Music - Do-Re-Mi 12. The Dave Clark 5 - Catch Us If You Can   13. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama 14. Camelia Jordana - Non Non Non 15. Orson - No Tomorrow   16. Lady Gaga & ...

LISTENING TO: Ingrid Michaelson feat. Dan Romer - You and I (but we've got our love to pay the bills) So, here we are, our last official night in Paris (although technically it's already Tuesday here, but we aren't going to count that). Our flight leaves in about 8 hours, which is nice, if you don't think about the 4AM wake-up-call and all that, but it also gives one time to reflect on the odd things about Paris. But first, before we get to that, lets recap the last bit of the trip here, kay? Good. Where we were, anyhow? Oh yes. Sunday, free day extraordinaire. By a lucky coincidence, Anna was still on the search for a specific gargoyle at Notre Dame, so we went back there, and waited, confused, in the exceptionally long line to get in. And then, when we got inside, realized we were in a Catholic cathedral. On a Sunday morning. The mass at Notre Dame could convince anyone to become religious. The acoustics were mind-blowing. I can't even describe it......

LISTENING TO: Led Zeppelin - Communication Breakdown Well, I`m glad to have gotten this experience while I`m here... the French keyboard. Shoot me now, please haha this thing is so screwed up, I just took a picture of it to show that I`m not crazy or stupid; below (in italics) is how this would appear if the keyboard was back home... LISTENING TOM Lzd Weppelin ) Co,,unicqtion Breqkdozn Azll Iù, glqd to hqe gotten this experience zhile Iù, here::: the French keyboqrd: Shoot ,e noz; pleqse hqhq this thing is so screzed up; I just took q picture of it to shoz thqt Iù, not crqwy or stupidm beloz °in itqlics+ is hoz this zould qppeqr if the keyboqrd zqs bqck ho,e::: Yeah, that`s how slowly this is going. I came down to the hotel`s computer to start typing up my artist`s statement for my presentation tomorrow when the maid came into the room and found myself having a little culture shock - is there any real reason why there isn`t some sort of universal keyboard setup (Dad, that q...

LISTENING TO : K'naan - If Rap Gets Jealous (feat. Kirk Hammett) The Eiffel Tower last night was RIDICULOUS. First of all, it was like all of France was there... we had to wait twice for the metro to get there because there was no way any of one of us could get on, especially a group of seven of us. It was an entertaining wait, however, because of the rugby game between Clermont and Perpignan - the fans in the station were outrageous... the only thing I could compare it to was being in Pittsburgh freshman year sitting with a bunch of drunk Steelers fans at the hotel bar after they lost to the Giants. Once we got there, groups of people were just filing into the street walking to the tower, so we just followed the masses, basically. We were going to try to ride up to the lowest portion of the Tower, but we would had to have waited there all day... so, I started to do what any good Warped Tour/Bamboozle fan would do... and started (very slowly, with many "pardon's...

LISTENING TO: FeFe Dobson - I Want You Today we got up early again to make our way down to Montmartre for Annie's tour, which was also really cool. We made it up to the Pentacoste, which is the highest point in the city (so of course, they built a church there), and it was probably one of my favorite places so far, even if it was crawling with gypsies to the point it was actually kind of scary. Everyone else was kind of really disappointed in the art/architecture of the building, but I really liked it. It was a really late Gothic period church - there was a lot of broad and dark carvings, the stained glass was really the only illumination inside (like, almost on fire kind of color). We weren't allowed to take photos, unfortunately, but it was really quite beautiful (at least in my opinion). From there, we made our way to the Cathedral of the Arts, where the stained glass was basically cubism gone crazy, and then from there down past the Dali exhibit and the front of the ce...

LISTENING TO: V V Brown - Shark in the Water So Thursday it is then [: For a weather forecast that predicted 0% rain, it decided to rain literally five steps out the door of our hotel. Which was fine for me, since I like walking in the rain, but everyone else got screwed by the street vendor whose umbrella sign read 4 euros, when in actually he jacked the price to 15 (I bought a scarf/babooshka for 5. I felt like I was channeling Grandma :D). The lovely walk in the rain brought us to the Institute la monde d'Arab, which is a gorgeous museum whose outside is made up of panels that let more or less light in depending on how the sun hits that portion of the building. Unfortunately for us, the museum is under construction/refurbishing, so all of the exhibits were closed with the exception of the gift shop and their artist display area. We got to watch a mosaic builder and a dress maker and a whole bunch of other artists - it was really quite amazing. From there we went to see...

LISTENING TO: Lady Gaga & Beyonce - Telephone Now... where was I? ...Tuesday. Alright. Tuesday was our day to spend at Versailles, which is one of the places I was looking forward to the most. I have to say, though, it was a good thing I'm not claustrophobic, if only because the amount of people also visiting Versailles was insane. The train ride over was a lot of fun, until we met up with a tour group of about fifty elementary school kids, including the blonde version of Harry Potter (he was absolutely adorable!). When we finally got to Versailles, there were so many people trying to get inside (whether on tours or free, like us) and take pictures, that you were lucky if someone didn't push you out of the way. With that said, however, Versailles is beautiful. The hall of mirrors was absolutely gorgeous, and all of the paintings and architecture and decor were simply perfect. Like the Louvre, you also don't realize how very big it is until you walk outside. Versai...