Tokyo 2010
Jan 31, 2011
Jan 14, 2011
Sous Le Soleil Exactement
Beirut 2007
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The Photographer
...there's a guy with a red dress blowing pipes on the roof & a midget with a "cabbage head" signing up for skydiving in the basement. See colors vacuum-ing the porcupine playgrounds of Tyrol...
Dec 27, 2010
Dec 22, 2010
I Am Your Ambulance
"Let's move on to a slightly more complex situation. Suppose an Italian tourist in a Mexican restaurant asks for a little of burro to go with his bread. This man is in trouble. In his language burro means butter, but in the waiter's spanish it means donkey. The problem is not that both tourist & waiter cannot conjure up a valid mental image of burro. In fact, the problem is precisely that they can, and do."
The Quest for Modern Fiction Carroll B. Johnson
Dec 15, 2010
Nov 19, 2010
FRANZ FERDINAND
The EX-YOUGOSLAVIA >> doesn't belong to the USA
(the post title isn't really a musical reference for once)
What did they do there ? How much bitterness, division, hunger, conflict did they provoke ? How many victims, life casualties are they responsible for ? A lot of benefits... not for Europe really, nor for the Middle East or Russia, not for Africa or Asia, etc.
I don't even want to elaborate on what they did in Japan half a century ago, South America, Irak or Afghanistan more recently. Barely 300 millions people not even willing to look around for the trouble they provoked with their own system, most of them blaming their elected policies makers equivocally.
This kind of global interventionism & "facon de faire" that the European Union & its citizens aren't always tuned with.
Not to mention that it hasn't ever been so easy to blame the German or the Chinese for some global economical unrest. It seems that this nation built on a so-called melting pot has forgotten since a while what PEACE means.
SERBIA , KOSOVO, BOSNIA... if not part of the E.U. are in Europe, not in North America.
(This photo was taken 6 years ago in Sarajevo)
Oct 31, 2010
Sep 5, 2010
Future Reflections
592 days after the Siemens mountains (AFRICA), there was
"A MONKEY GAZING AT THE SEA (of clouds) "
in China...
&
Jun 20, 2010
Mar 31, 2010
Feb 18, 2010
Jan 21, 2010
Jun 15, 2008
The Head On The Door
Un-vacation in the USA through spring: people+friends > Concerned of course + eventually committed. Active hope & talks for sure (...)
Hard to narrate. I'd rather appreciate "postphotographs" than any demise.
Words to favor images.
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania 2008
How Soon Is Now ?
YES & fortunately there are some foreigners (outiders ?...) invigorating some cool breeze in the "dumpy" local air. Raymond might ask : "what's new about it ?"
>The DEAD SCIENCE of the living well matching a blue rectangle with yellow stars on it & indefinitely numbered new bank notes ; it's not Mark but my name sounds german sometimes, and I've learnt to appreciate the value of his counterfeit pronunciations.
Still lot of good food & decent beverages on the shelves + the usual beggars sidewalking outside (all type accepted) ; Notice that the detuned accordion has been replaced by encore of jingle-jumblings for some spare change (dogfood eventually).
>The WORD : a few locals still like to have one, especially regarding what's wrong with you or better abroad. The new generation propel its preemptive MEA CULPA in-as-much the "baguette"'s corrupted recipes rules baked tasteless scent of identity.
PARIS, not in TEXAS, I swear (!!!) but in France and more than ever in the Union, the bright E.U......
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PARIS is quite sunny this summer 2008 & you can mess with it. PARIS, but again : not in Texas. Plus PARIS stands as well for a famous character (maybe not only one) from some dark old tale (a blockbuster) of our cherished western culture.
Internet and Telecom, etc, are still a nasty affair here in the land of french chips and "camenbert" !!! Now that De Gaulle and Staline, Gandhi or even Benahzir Butto are gone, you can't pretend for any "Libération", or expect some (slo) "Révolution" or even "Révélation". Some trENDs sound like : "Be like THEM instead of them" but there are at least, some sizeable limits of those pretentious overlooks.
Remenbrance of Paris, Crescida, or even Hector... Not that I like to complain but you can't say that around here the play isn't so (un)fair and recently I found myself spending much of my free time going to the movies and ZABRISKIE POINT was one of them.
Remenbrance of Paris, Crescida, or even Hector... Not that I like to complain but you can't say that around here the play isn't so (un)fair and recently I found myself spending much of my free time going to the movies and ZABRISKIE POINT was one of them.
About two local famous characters... let's prompt some "differences", not "differents" :
MANU CHAO's flow in spanish comes with a Love-or-leave-it french accent, NICOLAS SARKOZY barely speak english but it's still more reasonnable than when he does in french.
MC is kind of not tall enought for basket ball but he enjoys soccer even with a "Maradona playing a stubborn Zidane". NS isn't so small and while he's attired with a dream team & a couple of girls, he's said to be (cap)ABLE to run run for the BALL.
MC is kind of not tall enought for basket ball but he enjoys soccer even with a "Maradona playing a stubborn Zidane". NS isn't so small and while he's attired with a dream team & a couple of girls, he's said to be (cap)ABLE to run run for the BALL.
If you assume that only one of them has fueled MONEY in the engine of his committed entertaining parade, the other one still plays with it. No international upscale (de)parts them.
MC likes the radio & reliable sneakers so he can step from stage to ERR wherever the blinds take him. NS has been breed and trained btw the telly and jet-set approved suit(e)s, now he's consequently ironing his italian favorite night dress (with the remote).
NS tends to believe in democracy, or at least what its people elude as a french principle. MC seems to be confident with the principle until NS doesn't put him to sing the national anthem in english.
NS considers fascism as an old italian concept for history class. Although MC is probably fine with not so young italian women when it's all about little red "hooks" and bongos parades along the Elysean fields with or without the pope.
NICOLAS SARKOZY pretends to love the USA but he won't apply for a green card or even rush into charity auctions for a new Louisiana purchase. MC prefer Latin America but he hasn't figured out yet why they speak french in DC and they don't (really) in Mexico City.
NS's super wife is not titled Katrina, & El Nino of MC is possibly an instrumental for smoked nannies & young mums.
NICOLAS SARKOZY talks to the mass which is after all very conventional, & MANU CHAO may as well sing at the mosque (but please not in Bagdad or Tel Aviv..!)
If the showman is out, the entertainer isn't definitely in.
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