www.eastvillageradio.com Especially LaDecadance. "Melody Nelson hosts La Decadanse, an all french pop show featuring all things ye-ye, oldies, chanteuses, 70's party jams, 80's pop and everything in between... And of course, lots of Serge Gainsbourg!"

(travel, philosophy, Proust) while making it thoroughly enjoyable. You can easily find yourself re-reading entire sentences for how much punch they pack. He does it again in 'The Architecture of Happiness':

'We may need to have made an indelible mark on our lives, to have married the wrong person, pursued an unfulfilling career into middle age or lost a loved one before architecture can begin to have any perceptible impact on us, for when we speak of being 'moved' by a building, we allude to a bitter-sweet feeling of contrast between noble qualities written into a structure and the sadder wider reality within which we know them to exist. A lump rises in our throat at the sight of beauty from an implicit knowledge that the happiness it hints at is the exception'

He mixes theory of architecture with philosophy and is beautifully complimented by great pictures of the works he describes. We can all name our favourite author, and musician, but how many can name their favourite architect? Why are buildings and architects important in our lives? If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, how can we agree on a 'beautiful' work? Are we such simpletons that can actually be moved by brick and stones -or glass and steel?

and after with their home video. It's impossible not to be moved by it, or outraged by the lack of response to what happened -still. The main character is as resilient and likeable, with an amazing positive attitude in the face of this national tragedy. The soundtrack is very good, especially 'Amazing' by Black Kold Madina. troublethewaterfilm.com