Julian West

Nombreuse en citoyens, superbe en bâtiments;
Et j'en crois merveilleux les divertissements.
Ils ont en ce pays de quoi se contenter.
I found a lost bicycle in Grangetown, Cardiff (photo). If it is yours, call me and tell me where and when you lost it, and what picture is on the handbell.
Some ways to contact me... e-mail: julianATjulianwestDOTca

current snailmail: 19 Westbrooke Court, Cumberland Close, Bristol BR1 6XE

Mobile number in the UK (but I am away until June!): +44.789.690.5019

From May 5-9 and May 20-25, I will be in France; my mobile number there is: +33.6.32.43.55.02
From May 9-19 I will be in Canada, and from May 26-30 in the USA; my mobile is: +1.617.909.3191

My page on facebook: www.facebook.com/julian.west
Paris is a nice place to live. I've been going out often in the evenings, for instance to the Opera Bastille (1/30, 2/21, 3/03, 3/12, 3/22, 3/23, 3/24, 4/13, 4/21, 5/04, 5/10, 5/15, 5/25, 6/17, 6/20, 6/23, 6/28), the Bastille Amphitheatre (2/17, 2/18, 2/19, 3/14), the Opera Garnier (2/01, 3/17, 5/03, 6/08, 6/21, 6/27, 6/28), the Opera-Comique (3/04, 3/06, 3/07, 3/08, 3/09, 4/27, 6/28), the Comedie-Francaise (5/12), the Theatre des Champs-Elysees (3/21, 5/07, 5/11, 5/18), the Theatre Athenee (3/26, 4/08), the Theatre du Chatelet (3/27, 5/31), the Theatre Dejazet (4/10, 4/11), the Theatre du Nord-Ouest (5/06, 5/10), the Maison de la Poesie (5/06) and the Cartoucherie (4/12, 5/05, 5/13).
Several people encouraged me to chronicle the various performances I attended in 2009 and so far in 2010, so I'm working on that.
Some people think that this is rather a lot of opera. If you don't yet realize that you like opera, check out my list of operas you will like.
I have been running a lot. I've mapped some of my longer runs using MapMyRun.com:
$ 4/26 "X-75"
S 5/02 Bobigny
S 5/09 "X-93"
$ 5/17 Vincennes
$ 5/24 first run in hot weather
 $ 6/14 Homage to Chesterton
M 6/15 East of Eastbourne
W 6/24 "X-92" (more of a walk than a run)
S 6/27 another hot afternoon.
F 7/03 Chariots of Fire
 F 7/24 Hansel & Gretel
$ 7/26 Die Forelle
M 7/27 Heidi, actually part of this longer run/walk
Þ 8/27 Lewes to Newhaven
S 9/19 Two-hour benchmark
S 11/08
S 11/1530 k
I have been posting photos on facebook. Here are the public links, so that even without a facebook account(!?!) you can see my neighbourhood in winter, my neighbourhood in spring, some displays and some student murals at the Ecole Polytechnique, and my friend Adam Charlesworth standing beside a famous tower.
I am the fourth person to translate George Perec's novel La Disparition into English. As my translation isn't published, I can't link to it here, although I may add a short extract later. In the meantime, here are some rather silly translations of pop songs I did for fun.