by Pier Marton | May 8, 2012 | Dance, Film, France, Humor, Idées, Poet, Review, STL, Theater, Women
The film’s website with its US screenings (but it is on Netflix too now). My short review: The Fairy/La Fée As Wallace Stevens has eloquently bemoaned, “reality is a cliché,” and The College of Pataphysics in France has for years attempted to remedy...
by Pier Marton | May 7, 2012 | Care, France, Health, Humor, Sci/Nat, Women
Le Monde, Blogs: La soupe miso avec des oeufs Les Oméga 3: Vous en trouverez dans les algues, l’huile de chanvre, le lin, les poissons gras, les noix et les légumes verts. Le Kombucha Faites l’amour ou des câlins. Faites vous masser. Les hammams ou les...
by Pier Marton | Apr 26, 2012 | Art, Highlights, History, Humor, Ideas, KeyFilm, KeyText, Media, Politics, Teach, Women
The 1972 classic BBC four hour series – 40 years ago, still with a punch – Impossible to purchase, except in book form which is like trying to ingest the freeze-dried ingredients for a soup… This is a sound and visual event, a must see for anyone...
by Pier Marton | Apr 18, 2012 | Health, History, Humor, Jewish, Media, Middle-East, Music, Native, Poet, Politics, Quotes, Time, Travel, Wars
From Haaretz U2’s front man Bono surprised Israeli passers-by earlier this month with his sudden visit to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. On Wednesday, BuzzFeed published the note Bono left behind at Jerusalem’s King David Hotel, which consists of a poem about how...
by Pier Marton | Apr 9, 2012 | Art, Books, Death, France, Health, History, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Idées, Jewish, Judaism, Juif, Middle-East, Podcasts(F), Poet, Politics, Quotes, Sci/Nat, Shoah, Time, Wars
” Extraordinary Fellow” Churchill College, Cambridge Beaucoup plus terre à terre en Français? – More grounded in French? Les différences entre l’Anglais et le Français, les differentes parties du cerveau d’après Koestler, le XXeme siècle...
by Pier Marton | Mar 29, 2012 | Art, Care, Death, Doc, Eco, Highlights, Humor, Music, Poet, Quotes, Sci/Nat, Sound, Theater, Women
A few quotes: I don’t think there’s any way you can *know* music. The minute you *know* it, you stop playing, and the minute a person stops playing, the music isn’t playing anymore. I don’t want to sell my music. I’d like to give it away...