Renaud

Mean Girls is one of my favorite movies. I know what some of you might say, but I love that movie. It’s funny, clever, and cute, and I love it.

I had a moment the other day that made me think of one of my favorite quotes from the movie.

Renaud (on par with George Brassens and Serge Gainsbourg), is an old-time French singer who has adapted his style with the times, rockified it enough that you still hear him on popular radio. He just came out with a cd from a spectacular show he did in Paris, which has been flying off the shelves, one of them sitting on my desk.

Denis and I were listening to the radio as we cleaned up after dinner, and one of his songs came on – one that I new already, and not because I had heard it on the radio. I looked at Denis and said, “Hey! I know this song!”

And something about that made me very proud. It was a culmination of several realizations, and in sum it hit me: Wow, I am in France, I live here right now. This is real.

This quote from Mean Girls is from a quick scene at the end of the movie when a song comes on at the Prom. Cady came from Africa where her parents were doing research, and she nearly destroyed her high school’s social scene in her difficulties adjusting from the Sahara to the suburb – but ended up figuring it all out and finding her real friends. The first two lines are from her two best friends, the last is from her.

- “I love this song!
- I hate this song!
- I know this song!”

I’m telling ya, it’s the small things in life.