..de ne pas être universel à l'école des demoiselles
Jacques Dutronc (1943 - ...)
Les Playboys : http://youtu.be/OJrmwbdDDuQ
Le plus difficile : http://youtu.be/yMTGKx01GmY
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Saturday, May 26, 2012
What can you do when you have to be a man?
James Dean est mort à 24 ans dans un accident de voiture
Rebel Without a Cause (1955), Nicholas Ray
JIM
What can you do when you have to be a man?
FATHER
Well, now--
JIM
Just give me a direct answer!
(pause)
You going to stop me from going, Dad?
FATHER
You know I never stop you from
anything. Believe me--you're at a
wonderful age. In ten years you'll
look back on this and wish you were
a kid again.
JIM
Ten years? Now, Dad--I need an answer now!
Friday, May 25, 2012
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Please sir, tell me more about how I could have done better
“Criticism comes easier than craftmanship”
Zeuxis, painter (5th century BC)
Prisoner of my own by shimoda7 (deviantart)
Monday, May 21, 2012
Is the unexamined life not worth living..?
“Often I go into some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about why this should be so. Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines…you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That is not always comfortable, but it is always invigorating.”
Michael Crichton, Travels
Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, 1818
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Do androids dream of electric sheep?
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe, Hmm.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watch C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate.
All ...those moments will be lost, in time, like tears...in...rain. Time...to die."
Blade Runner (1982), Ridley Scott
Just Hank speaking about the Internet
Henry Rollins: What’s your latest obsession?
Hank Moody: Just the fact that people seem to be getting dumber and dumber. You know, I mean we have all this amazing technology and yet computers have turned into basically four figure wank machines. The internet was supposed to set us free, democratize us, but all it’s really given us is Howard Dean’s aborted candidacy and 24 hour a day access to kiddie porn. People…they don’t write anymore - they blog. Instead of talking, they text, no punctuation, no grammar: LOL this and LMFAO that. You know, it just seems to me it’s just a bunch of stupid people pseudo-communicating with a bunch of other stupid people at a proto-language that resembles more what cavemen used to speak than the King’s English.
Henry Rollins: Yet you’re part of the problem, I mean you’re out there blogging with the best of them.
Hank Moody: Hence my self-loathing.
Californication (2007), Season 1 - Episode 5 : LOL
Saturday, May 19, 2012
2012 World Press Photo Contest
1st Prize Portrait Singles:
Iranian-born Danish actress Mellica Mehraban,
Copenhagen, May 4, 2011. (Laerke Posselt)
Copenhagen, May 4, 2011. (Laerke Posselt)
Friday, May 18, 2012
Everything popular is wrong
“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.”
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Chapter 2
“To influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him. The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays.”
Ibid., Chapter 2
“Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”
Ibid., Chapter 3
“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
Ibid., Chapter 4
Damn! We're in a tight spot!
O Brother Where Art Thou? (2000), Joel & Ethan Coen
Soggy Bottom Boys - Man of constant sorrow
Don't fear failure !
Bruce Lee (1940 - 1993)
“Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”
Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts
Be water my friend
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
I'm claiming the right to be unhappy
"Don't you wish you were free, Lenina?"
"I don't know what you mean. I am free. Free to have the most wonderful time. Everybody's happy nowadays."
"I don't know what you mean. I am free. Free to have the most wonderful time. Everybody's happy nowadays."
[...]
"I'd rather be myself. Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly."
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Chapter 6
Brave New World, 1932
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Dirty realism
Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994)
there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average
human being to supply any given army on any given day
and the best at murder are those who preach against it
and the best at hate are those who preach love
and the best at war finally are those who preach peace
those who preach god, need god
those who preach peace do not have peace
those who preach love do not have love
beware the preachers
beware the knowers
beware those who are always reading books
beware those who either detest poverty
or are proud of it
beware those quick to praise
for they need praise in return
beware those who are quick to censor
they are afraid of what they do not know
beware those who seek constant crowds for
they are nothing alone
beware the average man the average woman
beware their love, their love is average
seeks average
but there is genius in their hatred
there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you
to kill anybody
not wanting solitude
not understanding solitude
they will attempt to destroy anything
that differs from their own
not being able to create art
they will not understand art
they will consider their failure as creators
only as a failure of the world
not being able to love fully
they will believe your love incomplete
and then they will hate you
and their hatred will be perfect
like a shining diamond
like a knife
like a mountain
like a tiger
like hemlock
their finest art
Charles Bukowski, The Genius of the Crowd, 1966
Monday, May 14, 2012
No sympathy for the Devil
“In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”
Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Chapter 9
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), Terry Gilliam
Movie Soundtrack (compilation)
Rosebud
On the part of luck there is in life
The man who said "I'd rather be lucky than good" saw deeply into life.
People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck.
It's scary to think so much is out of one's control.
There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net,
and for a split second, it can either go forward or fall back.
With a little luck, it goes forward, and you win.
Or maybe it doesn't, and you lose.
People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck.
It's scary to think so much is out of one's control.
There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net,
and for a split second, it can either go forward or fall back.
With a little luck, it goes forward, and you win.
Or maybe it doesn't, and you lose.
Match Point (2005), Woody Allen
Dystopia is the shit
“Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?”
Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange (1971), Stanley Kubrick
Main theme (From Henry Purcell's Funeral of Queen Mary)
Fuck You Sally.
Then, all of a sudden, I got this idea.
“Look,” I said. “Here’s my idea. How would you like to get the hell out of here? Here’s my idea. I know this guy down in Greenwich Village that we can borrow his car for a couple weeks. He used to go to the same school I did and he still owes me ten bucks. What we could do is, tomorrow morning we could drive up to Massachusetts and Vermont, and all around there, see. It’s beautiful as hell up there. It really is.” I was getting excited as hell, the more I thought about it, and I sort of reached over and took old Sally’s goddam hand. What a goddamfool I was. “No kidding,” I said. “I have about a hundred and eighty bucks in the bank. I can take it out when it opens in the morning, and then I could go down and get this guy’s car. No kidding. We’ll stay in these cabin camps and stuff like that till the dough runs out. Then, when the dough runs out, I could get a job somewhere and we could live somewhere with a brook and all and, later on, we could get married or something. I could chop all our own wood in the wintertime and all. Honest to God, we could have a terrific time! Wuddaya say? C’mon! Wuddaya say? Will you do it with me? Please!”
“You can’t just do something like that Holden”, old Sally says. She sounded sore as hell.
“Why not? Why the hell not?”
J.D. Sallinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 17
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| Hopeless by vigilantlywaiting (deviantart) |
I don't want to die without a few scars
"It's only after you've lost everything," Tyler says, "that you're free to do anything"
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 8
"I just don't want to die without a few scars"
-
"At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe
we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves"
-
"At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe
we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves"
Ibid., Chapter 6
Pixies - Where is my mind
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to the soldier, war-mad in a stricken field and refusing quarter; and it came to Buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight.
Jack London, The Call of the Wild, Chapter 3
The paradox of choice
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| The imaginarium of Dr Parnassus (2009), Terry Gilliam |
TONY
You must make a choice...and...
actually, to be honest, I'd
strongly recommend this one.
LOUIS VUITTON WOMAN
But... Rudolph Valentino, James
Dean, Princess Di?... all these
people... they're dead.
TONY
Exactly. To be reborn, first you
must die. All of them have achieved
a kind of immortality. And we love
them all the more for it. They
won't get old or fat. They won't
get sick or feeble. They are beyond
fear. They are forever young. They
are gods. And you can join them.
LOUIS VUITTON WOMAN
(softening)
You're such a wonderful speaker.
Soundtrack - Parnassus Alone
Conquerors of the useless
A friend once told me :
the best journeys answer questions
that at the beginning you didn't even think to ask
180° South
Ugly Casanova - Heres to now
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