Le Train Bleu - One of My Really Magical Early Experiences

Le Train Bleu Restaurant at Gare de Lyon

Le Train Bleu Restaurant in Paris for me represents one of the most exciting times of living in Europe for the first time as an adolescent.

It's name derives from the Blue Train that, between 1922 and 1938, transported the rich and famous in great style to the French Riviera - traveling between Calais through Paris to La Cote d'Azure. To the new freedoms 'la plage' (the beach) had to offer.

In Paris waiting to catch the train, I climbed stairs to Le Train Bleu restaurent ...


... and entered the still fin de siecle Baroque revival splendor of the restaurant ...




Seated, I watched the platform of the station below and saw the train being prepared for our journey ...



During the meal, I remember tasting the most beautiful looking drink I'd ever seen - an all cloudy and rosy pink standard from the original menu called an 'Eugenie', named after the French Empress and consisting of gin and pineapple and I guess other ingredients my inexperience didn't let me identify.

Today, I looked over the current menu of the restaurant online ...






Seriously yum! And I love the period ring of the names of the last two courses: The Indulgences and The Indiscretions!

After we finished our dinner, I remember the people who took me traveling paying the bill - and I asked to have it as a memento - and amazingly I still do ...


Finally, we were in the train and overnight headed south - to stay with French cousins at Cap d'Antibes ...

My cousin Jean-Louis and his mother Jacqueline


My cousin Jean-Louis and his wife Marie-Claire

Jacqueline at her Riviera home in Cap d'Antibes

The magic of the Riviera experience in the 1920s captured the imagination of so many people.

In 1924, Serge de Diaghilev commissioned a ballet for the Ballet Russe based on this new beach scene. It was called 'Le Train Bleu' ...

Original Ballet Russe Production of 'Le Train Bleu (1924)

... with a stage curtain by Picasso ...


... a libretto by Jean Cocteau, choreography by Bronislava Nijinska (Vaslav Nijinsky's sister), music by Darius Milhaud and costumes by Coco Chanel.

It's an athletic romp - not ballet in any way that's usually thought of. The beginning segment from the Paris Opera Ballet's workshop version is full of hot hot guys in bathing costumes doing cartwheels and other pretty watchable stuff.

Others were also interested in Le Train Bleu experience, such as Agatha Christie ...


As you can see from the menu, the prices are not mind-boggling - so if you're ever in Paris ... see you there!

The Annotated Dillon (aka Preston Parker)

No further comment needed!

And the unannotated version ...


... for your collection!

Don't I think of it all!

Marcus Mojo - One of the Best Butts in the Business

Marcus Mojo (no punning comments thank you!) has gotta have one of the best butts round - big and firm and hunky and lightly covered with blond fur - 'who could ask for anything more'.

And the 'invitation' see-and-cum me shot works for me too ...


... as does this bit of bed humping, which of course is just done to show us his buns in action, contracting and releasing ...

Marcus's mojo is not in the same kinda Olympic league (I'm allowed to do puns!).



But, hey, no gagging - and when you cum to think of it, that's pretty special too - in a whole new way!

As the video, from which this still comes, ...


... shows - with two positions to prove the non-gagging point ...

Okay! One final squiz at that big solid muscle butt ...


... just in case you've forgotten it already ... as if!

Susan Boyle - The Inspiration!

Maybe I'm the last person in the known universe not to have heard about the gratifyingly quirky and true-to-herself Susan Boyle ...


... who at nearly 48 and unemployed auditioned this year for 'Britain's Got Talent' in Glasgow.

So if, like me, you missed it, here's the pre-performance interviewing stuff ...

... and the performance itself ...

Susan's joy in singing and her sweetness and optimism is the inspiration!

If this didn't move you - even a little bit - check for a pulse!

By the way, one of the You Tube postings on Susan's audition has (to date) registered over 47 million hits!!!

Cole - Prime Cut!

You may remember I did a post on Cole - one of the certifiably hottest guys on the planet!


You might even remember his dick ...




... and the J O shots ...




... and close-ups of his cum ..



The face might jog your memory ...


... and this video ...

But maybe you missed that post - in which case this will be a whole new experience.

Lucky you!

A Question of Isadora

Isadora Duncan c1914

Not sure whether to tempt fate with one more post on dance ... but then I remembered that Spanish saying 'Vivir con miedo, es como vivir a medias' ('a life lived in fear is a life only half lived')!

So why not!

And I'm after the answer to a niggling question.

So here goes.

From dancer friends, I thought the only footage of Isadora Duncan (1878-1927) dancing was a tiny fragment of her at an outdoor party in the 1920s, doing a few (abandoned) steps and taking the applause of those present.

... with one section, slightly clearer, repeated here ...

But then I found, on a French site, what was described as Isadora dancing at the Acropolis in Athens in the 1920s. Now, she'd been there at that time ...



... and she was free-spirited enough to dress 'scantily' (with respect to the time) ...


But when I looked at this new footage, I was just not sure if it's really her ...

Anyone know anything about this little film?

By the way, there is some footage of Isadora with her Russian husband Serguei Yesenin, traveling on board ship somewhere - which gives the tiniest glimpse of her personality ...

PS My fav photo of Isadora is one taken by Raymond Duncan in 1903 on the Lido in Venice ...

Isadora Duncan on the Lido in Venice in 1903

... where she seems so easy and natural and care-free!

Denis Matvienko - Ballerino at the Bolshoi

After posting on Angel Corella and getting various suggestions about other good dancers around at the moment, of course I did some of my own googling ... and came across Denis Matvienko, a ballerino at the Bolshoi Theatre. Funny - I hadn't noticed the term 'ballerino' sneak into usage - bit it seems to have.

As well as being able to create the right degree of Arabian exoticism for the role, Denis has a great jump and a lovely high floating 'ballon' ...


... quite amazing extensions ...



... a terrific sense of line and sculptural placement of the body in the space of the stage ...


... and - well, you know what this shot is all about ...


Being cute and blond and wearing nothing but pink silk harem pants and a feather is all good.

In the last sequence of the video I've put together, perhaps the menage around the stage needs a bit more 'ornamentation' - a double 'tour en l'air' would be good!

Picky picky picky!