Our DUDE in Europe: HOTEL DAVE: No. 18: CANNES Film Festival

Our buddy in Italy: HOTEL DAVE: No. 18: CANNES Film Festival Once (yawn) again; the Cannes Film Festival....in CANNES, South of France... (....) .... Once again?... -despite Johnny Depps pleas?... I didn't go... (....) ....Truth is?.... I got CANNED at the "Cafe UFFA", in Piacenza....with Mark Twain & F. Scott Fitzgerald.... Leastways?... That's what they SAID they were called (neither of them spoke English).... Plus?... THEY were buying the drinks!....:)

Our Dude in Europe: HOTEL DAVE: No. 17: Pictures of Lilly

Our man in Europe: HOTEL DAVE: No. 17: "Pictures of Lilly" Have U ever been to Cathay, my friend?.... U follow the whistling wind.... Right there!.... -on your horizon..... When U need rest?.... It will beckon U, yet, onward.... Temptation, after-all, is everything?.... Have U ever been to New Orleans? "Day got Pyramids. Day got Papillion!" -it butterflies in your head. .. And there's NO cure; it's WHO U are; smiles, surround.... Have U ever been to Byzantium?... Your Greek, black eyes, smoulder... Did I see U in Memphis?... A child of Elvis; softly, sadness, does your heart beguile... Your Sist'a, Minerva, carries Poetry in her sails... She sweeps Oceans with her breath... YOUR heart, too, troubles the Eastern skies... U tap your foot; thus! -the Song becomes U!... Have U ever been to Cathay, my friend?... Xanadu trembles in thoughts of U...

Our Man in Europe: HOTEL DAVE: No. 16: "Sympathy for the Devil".

Our Man in Europe: HOTEL DAVE: No !6: "Sympathy for the Devil". ...Only BAD luck...will save your Soul... It's, actually? -sometimes priceless... You get to Fool the Devil!... I got an E-mail from "his very Self", the other day... Unlike me? -he didn't ask for money; just sympathy... I replied, advising him to write to The Rolling Stones c/o Mick Jagger... As yet?... NO re-reply. c 2012/davedelacroix/Lord Borgo/HOTEL DAVE/Piacenza/Italy

Our man in Europe: HOTEL DAVE: No. 15: "Broken English".

Our Man in Europe: HOTEL DAVE: No 15: "...broken English" WOLFGANG, from (go figure), from Germany showed up at the HOTEL DAVE (€35 per nite) with money and a smile; definitely a "preferred" customer... ...Gave him the tour (of Piacenza). We had a blast... Last nite of his visit? Wolfgang: "Dave?", Me: "Wolfgang?", Wolfgang: "The DWIVERS here...", Me: "The ITALIAN drivers?", Wolfgang: "PWEESE don't inter-Wupt me!", Me: "Are nuts!", Wolfgang: "Ha!", Me: (I say nothing), Wolfgang: "But VHY Dave, on KLEINE STRASSES (small streets) do DEY DWIVE BIG Mercedez autos?", Me: "Wolfgang?", Wolfgang: "Ja?", Me: "It's a choice of Mercedez Benz, dude; or a SMART CAR!", Wolfgang: "ZE FOOLS!!!" c 2012/davedelacroix/got toothache. Dental plan? -Jim Beam.

Our man in Europe: HOTEL DAVE: No. 14: Witness.

Our man in Europe: HOTEL DAVE: No. 14: Witness IT'S OFFICIAL!...I have NO sense of Time. (alzheimers, I think?) Neither does my new girlfriend, Beatrice (or Consuella), aged 40-ish, medium height... We ARE very much in love, but? -neither of us know what day it is! ...Can we get a witness? c 2012/davedelacroix/lord boog-a-loo/piacenza/Italy.

Our Man in Europe: HOTEL DAVE, No 13: "There's a high wind to Jamaica!

Our DUDE in Europe: HOTEL DAVE: No 13: "There a high wind to Jamaica..." There's a high wind to Jamaica. Look at yourself, girl; You're sailing on the breeze. Sooo far you've come, and a long, long way to go (with heaven's blessing). Did U ever meet Elvis? No?... Me neither. But he's in your heart; your Soul, and, sometimes, your sad eyes. There's a high wind to Jamaica. ...Soon? -we gotta go. But until then? C'mon now! We savor the skies. c 2012/davedelacroix/Piacenza/Italy/for Angela.

Our Man in Europe/HOTEL DAVE/No. 12: "Have U ever been to America?"

Our Man in Europe/HOTEL DAVE No. 12: "Have U ever been to America?" Have U ever been to America? We're poor, but we DON'T close. Have U ever been to America? We DON'T look down our nose. (Plus? We DON'T charge €10.00 for a burrito OR €4.00 for salsa!) JEEZE!!! Have U ever been to America? The home of the Brave. No-one's actually free; look at me! Tell me what U see...! Your eyes, your nose, your suspicious smile; confound you, girl! Traveller? -who pass on by? Tell the kids we GOT to Be. c 2012/May/dave delacroix/Lord Borgo/Piacenza/Italy

Our Man in Europr/HOTEL DAVE/No. 11: "The sale of the Spitfire".

Our Man in Europe/HOTEL DAVE/No 11: "The sale of the Spitfire". ....sunny afternoon, Lady Bar, patio cafe, strada (via) Mazzini, Murretti brewskis, etc; cigarettes burnishing the "porta.ceneri"... Across the street? Business. One yuppie - really bad yellow tie (think Tom Brokaw in his teens); the other? Italian suited. €200 shoes. One? The seller. The other? The potential buyer. The SPITFIRE (Triumph, UK Auto-car/think, '55 Corvette) in Racing Car RED; born to boogie & a young guys Wet dream. Up for sale. Priceless? You betcha... Named after THAT which was piloted by "the Few". Founded in ledgend. From REAL History...who we DO salute so respectfully; defenders of old England from the murder in the skies. c 2012/dd/italy/"less we forget..."

Our Man in Europe/HOTEL DAVE: no 11: "Spannish Moss".

Our Man in Europe/Dave Delacroix....at THE HOTEL DAVE: No. 11: "Spannish Moss".


Johnny Depp?
Busy guy.

Jim Jamusch?
(Is that a Polish name?)
Hanging with Tom Waits.

Nick Nolte?
Family man.

Jan-Michael Vincent?
Down in Alabam.

Gary (the Busey?...but, incidentally, a kick butt drummer)
fell in love with a gal called Harley
Davidson.

Me?
The damn "Longbord'?"
It's gettin kind'a crusry;

but I gotta pen, paper and a bottle of. "Jack"
some beer chasers

and the "Sun's commin' up".



c 2012/davedelacroix/May?/Italy/Thanx to TOM WAITS/U owe me a beer/Did U ever meet a Woman called  Sinead McMurphy?...or RILEY?... .....ME neither. Must'a bin 2 OTHER fellas...

Our Man in Europe/HOTEL DAVE/No 10: "She circles the Moon"

Our Man in Europe/HOTEL DAVE/No 10: "She Circles the Moon..."


She circles the moon.
Her wings?
...are NOT ornate.
Her Heart is THUNDER.
Actually? She's Circe & the Devil
both!

Her voice?
A Siren's scream;
that will take U
to emptiness.

Her Goodness?
A harvest.
Her Soul?
A nest.

She circles the Moon;
"Same again, Dave?"
she says.

The rest?
U can guess.


c 2012/May/davedelacroix/LORD BORGO/Piacenza; composed @ Lady bar, via Mazzina:  "The House of Chan."

Our Man in Europe: HOTEL DAVE: No 9: "No regrets"

Our Man in Europe: HOTEL DAVE: No. 9:  "No regrets."


TROTSKY, Flavio...and my  3 Ex-wives
came by the HOTEL DAVE the other nite.
(Pretty late)

Mucho "yakking"
and Vino.

My neighbors? -due to my Lifestyle
Now?
Are reasonably alienated.

My 3 Ex-wives?
Beautiful as ever.

We?
(Trotsky, Flavio & my 3 Ex-wives)

...Write TWO new songs:

"Bring me the Head of a Chicken Burrito"

And?...

"YING & frickin' YANG!"

.....
.....

When  we got tired of  "composition"?
We put on Edth Piaff,,,on the laptop-jukebox.

and "cranked" it on up.

EVEN my neighbors, who, "alas"
were getting NO sleep?...

Cried.



c 2012/davedelacroix/May/Piacenza/Italy/If U visit? Remember the Food Parcels....:)

Our Man in Europe: HOTEL DAVE (€35 per nite): No 8: "Gone with the Wind."

Our Man in Europe, Dave Delacroix: HOTEL DAVE: No 8: "Gone with the Wind""


Has anyone seen...my old friend
St. Paolo?
Seems so long ago
We broke the bread.

Has anyone SEEN
my old friend Francesca?
She flies like the swallows
that circle in the sky.

Has anyone seen my old friend
Stefano?
Last seen? Lost in a bottle
of broken dreams.

Has anyone seen
the World that was promised?
-lilting in Progress
and gone with the wind.


...Meantime? At the local Cafe, via Mazzini, Piacenza?
the "ragazzi" gather, corks are popped, glasses are "chinked"
and Signori Fabio
launches into a Verdi aria

with gusto!...:)


c 2012/davedelacroix/please address me as LORD BORGO/Is it Wednesday or Monday?/All suggestions are gratefully welcome/Met some gal from Bulgaria...Hubba-hubba; but old enough to be my grand-daughter.... Still? Ya gotta smile....:)

Our Man in Europe: HOTEL DAVE: No. 7: A Murder of Crows

Our Man in Europe; HOTEL DAVE: No 7:  "A MUD-AH... O' CROWS!"


OK....Am lookin' like a Shaggy Dog.

There are TWO ways we can go with this:

Go "Rasta"?

Or Skinhead...?

And...?

I "strive" to take the path of Least resistance.

BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!


c 2012. davedelacroix/Lord Borgo/Piacenza/Italy, of course/East of Eden.

Our Man in Europe: HOTEL DAVE: take 6: "Eagle in a Cage"

HOTEL DAVE:  "Eagle in a Cage"


...Watched the above entitled Movie on my laptop; 'Bout Napoleon in exile on St. Helena... Fabulous cast. Ralph Richardson, as always; beyond excellence. Billie Whitelaw; predictably superb. And U see just WHY John Geilgud is CALLED John Geilgud...?
Phenomenal.
The young(er) supporting cast... amongst such Thespian "illuminati", rally, predictably.
A work (the film), also predictably;
Hollywood & the "masses" passed on by.

ART rarely conveys such strategic moments of World History...so succinctly.
This work does just that....and bleeds,
like an "eagle in a cage".

Yesterday was the 1st of May. "May Day".
 In Italy? A public holiday. All the shops were closed.
Couldn't buy Smokes. The only 2 business's open?
The Pakistani Inter-net Cafe...and the HOTEL DAVE.
It rained ALL day.

The next day? (I think it's Sheffield Wednesday)
The sun came out.


c2012/May/Piacenza/davedelacroix/Lord Borgo...Our Man in Europe/Hotel Dave (€35 per nite)