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The Fairy/La Fée

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 that particular...

Contre la Gueule de Bois (Against the Hangover)

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 saunas. Faites...

Ways of Seeing: the Iconoclast John Berger at the Confluence of Art & Commerce

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 wanting to see behind...

Bono’s “A Dog Called Hope” – Written in Israel

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 “hope is...

5 Jours (+ 2) avec George Steiner

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 et le déclin de la...

Don van Vliet a.k.a. Captain Beefheart 1941-2010

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 because where I got it, you...

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To ride the unbalance* between:
1. excellence and a kind, singular and porous identity that contains some of the scruples, humor, humility, musicality & the beauty of a harsh and confusing, yet benign and rich reality – away from distractions.
2. the stupidity and blindness of complacency, violence, injustice, pretense, egos, short-term… wishful… and group “thinking,” and empty talk – in all of their surprising embodiments. And the false sense of fullness all of this provides.
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An appeal for a world NOT so caught up in anthropo/ego/euro/ethno/oculo/esthetico -CENTRISM.
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1. Beware of those who claim to be strong – they are often dangerous.
2. Unmask the hoax of “centrality” – ask an “EX-centric” for assistance?
3. Perceive the arrogance of normalcy: everybody, in one way or another, is handicapped… which brings us back to 1.
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*Not unrelated to “There is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever difficulties the enterprise may present, I should like never to be unfaithful either to the second or the first.” — Albert Camus