How about some nice French songs? I made a selection with the last stuff that I found in the last weeks, most of them from a new music blog (and Brazilian) La Voix de Son Maître, that has many other cool stuff, specially Brazilian music from 60's, like Bossa Nova. The links that still working are:

- Charles Trenet - At His Best

- Claire Chevalier & Rosinha de Valença - Saveur Brèsil

- Edith Piaf - Sparrow Of Paris

- J'adore la Chanson Française Volume 1

- Jacques Dutronc - CD Collection

- Jean Ferrat - Je ne Suis Qu'un Cri

- Juliette Gréco - Juliette

- Juliette Gréco - La Femme

- Les Plus Belles Chansons Françaises: 1950

- Les Plus Belles Chansons Françaises: 1952

- Les Plus Belles Chansons Françaises: 1953

- Les Plus Belles Chansons Françaises: 1958

- Les Plus Belles Chansons Françaises: 1959

- Les Plus Belles Chansons Françaises: 1960

- Les Plus Belles Chansons Françaises: 1961

- Les Plus Belles Chansons Françaises: 1962

- Michel Legrand - Jazz in Paris: Paris Jazz Piano

- Patricia Kaas - Le Mot de Passe

- Serge Gainsbourg - Bonnie and Clyde

- Serge Gainsbourg - Melody Nelson

- Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot - Bonnie and Clyde

- Vicki Benet - O Toque Parisiense

One more suggestion is the album Les Girls, released in 1963 with songs of various female singers, like Jacqueline Boyer, Gloria Lasso, Christine Fontana, Annie Cordy and Michele Arnaud. (via Martin Klasch) However, if you speak French here it is a tip, also from P-E: Noel Regney Singers - Songs That Help You Learn French.

PS.: remember, if you like the songs, buy the albums to support the artists - some of them still doing good music.

Posted by Bibi at 11:01 PM in Music | Comments (17) ||

Now you can make your own German Expressionist Film party with the videos in public domain available at Archive, thanks to K-otic (be careful with the shoutbox pop-up). The last addition was Faust, the F. W. Murnau's masterpiece based on the popular German tale, immortalized by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. If you never watched it do it now! Download it from the Internet Archive or watch it on Google Video. it's wonderful, believe me.

For those that prefer read the book first (or after) watch the film, buy the book, or just go to the Project Gutenberg to download, or read on-line, the translation of Faust, or if your German is good enough, not like mine, try the original Faust: Der Tragödie erster Teil.

And what else? As I said before, other Murnau's classic available at Archive is Nosferatu, which is also available as torrent. More classics there: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Fritz Lang's M. They are also available at Google Video, as other German expressionist films: Caligari, Destiny, M and Nosferatu.

Related posts: Caligari on Internet Archive, Nosferatu: watch it!, Web of Murnau, The Golem (Der Golem) and Fritz Lang's M.

Many of the videos are no longer available, they were deleted from Internet Archive and Google Video.

Posted by Bibi at 07:15 PM in Books, Cinema, Video | Comments (4) ||

To celebrate the end of my French course - until August - here it is a gift to my readers that speak French: the audio book of L'étranger, read by Albert Camus in 1954. The files will be available for a seven days at You Send it (zip 1, zip 2 and zip 3), or Send me file (zip1, zip 2, zip 3 and zip 4), or at my eSnips folder as mp3 files (if you don't have a broadband connection). The book is fantastic and I highly recommend to you buy it, and the audio CDs of it too.

Update: sorry, but time is over. The files are no longer available on those links to download. However, the CDs are available in many places to buy, as Amazon.

Posted by Bibi at 02:18 PM in Audio, Literature | Comments (8) ||