My Trip to Paris

Annoyingly I had been writing pages and pages about all this during my time in Paris. It was intersting. Instead this Paris going to have to be all one post and I will probably only remember the basics which are usually the dull parts. Although you could argue no part of this trip was dull.

I had written my notes in France but since dropping my computer on Saturday, I no longer have a hard drive. So I no longer have my photos, my music, and well, my life. *throws head back in horror*

But basically last week was a blast. I got commissioned by a magazine to interview Francois Sagat, so rather than do it on the phone I figured I'd bunk off for the day and take off to Paris to meet him...in the flesh. Grrr...

I was like a giddy kid. I had first class transport there and then got lost on the Metro for about an hour. It is possibly the most baffling transport system in the world. Numbers AND colours? What's that about??

After an hour in Le Centre Pompidou I went to Les Arts Et Metiers. I was there an hour early so I could have a drink and be slightly more at ease for the interview. But I needn't have worried too much, I sat outside the bar and he just bounded over. I say bounded, as he was short and he just kinded of rolled over with all this positive energy.

I'm aware how wanky that last sentence sounded but my old boss' line always rings in my head before an interview, "Never interview a hero as you will always be disappointed." So it was nice to know this was not going to be one of those times. I could tell as he looked both ways and then ushered me across the road that it was going to be everything I had hoped.

Well this time it was far from disappointment. We talked about sex, the tattoo on his head, his porn career, Carla Bruni, modelling, what it's like getting pissed on, music, actresses, gay men and their divas and of course Britney, Lindsay and Madonna.

He would ask me questions and finish sentences with, in a deep French accent, 'Don't you think?' We high fived across the table as we both realised we had never had a real relationship.

Once it has been printed I will post more of it...