Our Town
Our little village of 4,000 inhabitants never ceases to amaze me. While reading through the movie theatre's January listing of upcoming movies I was surprised to read that the director of a French feature length film will be available after the showing to discuss his work.
The English language selections at the theatre this month are Fast Food Nation and Casino Royale.
The other night, at the village New Year fete, I met a world reknowned musician who had just spent three months in San Francisco working on a project, and was taking off today for Los Angeles to do something with the L.A. Opera. He and his wife live in Paris most of the year. They said they would be happy if I would take the flock to graze on their pasture that surrounds their farmhouse here.
Our little area is a cultural mecca. Surprisingly, that's what I thought it would be like in France . . . I just didn't know we'd find culture in the boonies.
posted by Libby @ 2:13 PM
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Your calling a settlement of 4000 inhabitants a "village" never ceases to amaze me--here in Slovenia that qualifies as a large town or small city.
I live in a village of ca. 25 ihabitants. Hmm, culture--well, on May 1 we have a big bonfire and party in a nearby field. And at midnight on New Year's Eve there's an amateur fireworks display (which I don't attend since I'm at home cuddling and comforting the dogs, who don't appreciate the noise). And for Mardi Gras the locals dress in costumes, traipse from house to house with an accordion and drum, and get progressively drunker as the day wears on, culminating in a dance with live music at the village hall, where they can get really really stinking slobbery drunk.
Film? No movie theaters, but hey, there's a famous film director who lives in the next village over--Jan Cvitkovic (Bread and Milk, Gravehopping). My border collie bit his shoes last year when he was helping tile my bathroom.
So I don't know if all that exactly qualifies as culture, but there's never a dull moment here in the boonies.
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