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Saturday afternoon.
I’m feeling a bit dizzy, not sure what I should do. I’m a bit bored. I know I made a promise, I said I would go see the exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo. The one about the guys who walked on the moon. I’ve never really been interested in that stuff, but I promised… And that place is one of my favorites in Paris, so alright, I’ll turn the TV off and get dressed. Yeah I know it’s already 4 p.m. What can I say? I’m a lazy girl.
Whenever you go to that museum, you have to spend an hour watching the skateboarders before even considering going to an exhibition. This is kind of a live exhibition, the same every week-end. The best scenery you’ll find here in Paris. There’s the Eiffel Tower in the background, not so far, and the Seine, and you’re sitting on a huge stone monument, white, smooth. And at your feet, dozens of skateboarders sliding amongst the statues keeping their stiff poses no matter what.
If you stay here long enough, sitting on the stone steps, you might have time to notice a few things. At first, it will just seem a huge mess to you. Young guys everywhere, jumping, falling, bragging, trying again and again the tricks they’ve been dreaming of. Noisy weird ballet.
After a while, you will notice the way they do their laces, both feet on their board, with just one knee bent, still sliding. You will smile when a hot mum in her forties will get there with her 8-year-old kid and his board. How mommy doesn’t look once at her son while he’s doing his best to impress her. She’s too busy with a cute teenage skater.
And as usual, staring at them from the stairs, young girls, whispering and laughing, blushing whenever a guy comes a bit closer.
As I watch them all, trying for the hundredth time to land properly on the white marble floor, I feel I’ve just had my perfect introduction to the exhibition A Man on the Moon.
K.
Tags : apollo, lune, palais de tokyo
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