Review: XOXO’s Belle Mariniere Marin Rides Me to the Isle of Cythera

[Blixen]

Title: Review: XOXO’s Belle Mariniere Marin Rides Me to the Isle of Cythera
Date: Nov 30, 2023
Phone: 929 988-2399
City: New York
State: NY
Location: Port Authority
House Fee & Tip (if applicable) 3.4+.2
Nationality: Japanese
Age Estimate: 27
Physical Description: Tall-ish, slim body, pretty face, small but lovely boobs

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Recommendation: Yes

 

[MongerHard]

I have no idea what the fuck I just read. Felt like a middle school history lesson.

 

[Imaseoulman]

Great review. This really raises the bar for the whore-review-writing genre! But seriously, I completely agree that we should strive to find beauty where we can find it! It’s not easy and takes active imagination.

 

[Blixen]

I have no idea what the fuck I just read. Felt like a middle school history lesson.

Come on, first-year college, no?

 

[cher_cheri]

I liked the review even though I've never been a Watteau fan.

 

[Blixen]

I liked the review even though I've never been a Watteau fan.

More in the Chardin camp?

 

[Blixen]

I liked the review even though I've never been a Watteau fan.

Btw, the review includes the unnecessary ‘t’ in ancien(t) regime. That of course was spellcheck, but it was too late to correct. I thought, damn, our resident Francophile cher cheri will catch that immediately!

 

[cher_cheri]

Btw, the review includes the unnecessary ‘t’ in ancien(t) regime. That of course was spellcheck, but it was too late to correct. I thought, damn, our resident Francophile cher cheri will catch that immediately!

Eh, I'll take that as a legit translation. French painting pretty much sucked donkey balls for the whole 18th century and the first half of the 19th. The Fragonard room at the Frick always makes me feel physically ill.
In any case, this review was, for me, an extremely helpful addition to the info in @cheapmints review.

 

[BrettKavanaugh]

Is this what it's like to read MY reviews?

Bookmarked for later.....

But I'm not nearly THIS esoteric. And I curse more.

Full confession, had to google Cythera, though somehow I figured it was in the vicinity of the Aegean....but ya gotta be careful to allusions to the Greek Isles in these parts. Might give some blokes the wrong impression. That is, the subset of blokes who both a)want to go there, b) actually know where Cythera is but c) don't read the whole review.

 

[Blixen]

Eh, I'll take that as a legit translation. French painting pretty much sucked donkey balls for the whole 18th century and the first half of the 19th. The Fragonard room at the Frick always makes me feel physically ill.
In any case, this review was, for me, an extremely helpful addition to the info in @cheapmints review.

That’s a singular take on French painting. De LaTour? One of the great masters of the Baroque.
David, Ingres, Delacroix, Gericault… the list goes on. It’s true that most people nowadays respond more to Impressionism and post-Impressionism, but that Academy-trained painting was magnificent.

In my opinion of course; in the end we all like what we like.

 

[Blixen]

Is this what it's like to read MY reviews?

Bookmarked for later.....

But I'm not nearly THIS esoteric. And I curse more.

Full confession, had to google Cythera, though somehow I figured it was in the vicinity of the Aegean....but ya gotta be careful to allusions to the Greek Isles in these parts. Might give some blokes the wrong impression. That is, the subset of blokes who both a)want to go there, b) actually know where Cythera is but c) don't read the whole review.

No, I admit I’m probably the resident eccentric here, the proverbial uncle at the Thanksgiving table who makes everyone roll their eyes.
Perhaps I’m the Joseph Conrad of amp reviews, whose dense meandering prose is more respected than actually read.
But since they keep paying me, I can’t afford to stop…

 

[Johnny Blaze]

I keep reading it as Cytherea.

PS I tried to read Heart of Darkness but could never finish it.

 

[Blixen]

I keep reading it as Cytherea.

PS I tried to read Heart of Darkness but could never finish it.

It’s funny - for the longest time, I’d fall asleep before the ending of Coppola’s Apocalypse Now.
Can’t be a coincidence.

 

[cher_cheri]

That’s a singular take on French painting. De LaTour? One of the great masters of the Baroque.
David, Ingres, Delacroix, Gericault… the list goes on. It’s true that most people nowadays respond more to Impressionism and post-Impressionism, but that Academy-trained painting was magnificent.

In my opinion of course; in the end we all like what we like.

De LaTour is before my specified time period and I'm a big fan. The candle light thing may be a touch of a gimmick, but it works. David, Ingres and Delacroix each have some great paintings (who doesn't like a nice odalisque?), and they were all technically terrific painters. But they were constrained by the deeply backward-looking style of the period and many of their paintings are just dull as a result. And I blame the Academy.

 

[cher_cheri]

I don't recall ever finding Conrad that dense, but I read through his books decades ago and never returned to them. Pretty good for a guy who had English as a second language.

 

[Blixen]

De LaTour is before my specified time period and I'm a big fan. The candle light thing may be a touch of a gimmick, but it works. David, Ingres and Delacroix each have some great paintings (who doesn't like a nice odalisque?), and they were all technically terrific painters. But they were constrained by the deeply backward-looking style of the period and many of their paintings are just dull as a result. And I blame the Academy.

Quite right, De La Tour preceded the periods you disdain. I’m glad we share a liking for his work.

But as for the Academy, David literally personified it during the Revolution, but Delacroix and Gericault were balls-to-the-wall Romantics whose torrid paint inspired anti-Academy dudes like Courbet and later, Manet. It’s hard to lump these guys together.
Raft of the Medusa was a shocker to the neo-Classisist Academy fans for its dramatic realism and lack of polish.

 

[cher_cheri]

This reminds me I need to drag myself over to the Met to see Olympia, probably one the two most famous hooker paintings in the world.

 

[Imaseoulman]

Speaking of Fragonard, when I viewed “The Bolt” at the Louvre and noticed it was painted in the 1770’s, it was a stark realization that Americans at the time would have been shocked (living in a still highly puritanical worldview), but the French (at least Parisians) largely appreciated the beauty of it. Very good example of how outlook matters - some can chose to be outraged and offended while others chose to appreciate the beauty and pleasure:

 

[Blixen]

Speaking of Fragonard, when I viewed “The Bolt” at the Louvre and noticed it was painted in the 1770’s, it was a stark realization that Americans at the time would have been shocked (living in a still highly puritanical worldview), but the French (at least Parisians) largely appreciated the beauty of it. Very good example of how outlook matters - some can chose to be outraged and offended while others chose to appreciate the beauty and pleasure:
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Yeah, not for nothing that old Benjamin Franklin felt at home in the French Royal Court - the salty rogue.

 

[Sintax]

I keep reading it as Cytherea.

PS I tried to read Heart of Darkness but could never finish it.

If you’re ever on the fence about killing yourself, try reading Conrad. That will get you over the line.