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

[Johnny Blaze]

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

Great movie although I don't know which version I like the best...but the French plantation and hanging out with the playboy models is so boring. The rest is good. Although, I am a Full Metal Jacket guy....I mean, come on Vietnamese hookers.

I did want to read the book because of this movie and I do have it on audiobook.

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.

Caravaggio is my favorite painter. He used hookers as models. He even dueled a guy and killed him by cutting off his dick.

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

As long as I can keep banging asian women I will try to live....

 

[Blixen]

He even dueled a guy and killed him by cutting off his dick.

I knew he was on the run for the killing, but never knew those specifics - damn. Learn something new every day on ampreviews.

 

[Imaseoulman]

Yeah, not for nothing that old Benjamin Franklin felt at home in the French Royal Court - the salty rogue.

Indeed Ben F was an exception to the rule back then! I can only assume he would have been pleased to see his face every time there’s a transfer of Benjamins in this hobby!

 

[cher_cheri]

Adams was scandalized that Franklin would stay up past 10, when they were both in Paris. Good think Adams didn't get himself on any currency.