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Washington & Hollywood Join Hands

by Pier Marton | May 1, 2013 | Death, Humor, Media, Middle-East, Politics, Spectacle, Theater, US, Wars

… to state in unison that they can’t do much more than smile and laugh… now that the NRA has once more won and that Guantanamo will remain indefinitely open. War relief, comic relief? What is on: the joke is ON, the show is ON, the spectacle goes ON… and dissent is...

Michel Gondry + Boris Vian = Ze Big Union

by Pier Marton | Apr 24, 2013 | Books, Film, France, Humor, Idées, Music, Poet, Spectacle

With the release in France of a second film version of L’Écume des Jours – Mood Indigo – by Gondry (cf. below for the 1968 version) the marriage of two French zany authors is a done deal! Boris Vian (writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor...

Deux Grands Zéros à Moi: MERDRE de TÉLÉ!

by Pier Marton | Mar 19, 2013 | Art, Ego, France, Highlights, Humor, Media, Music, Poet, Politics, Video

Jean-Christophe Averty, Satrape du Collège de Pataphysique (Pataphysics)* – et premier artiste-vidéo – et Alfred Jarry, créateur de la science des solutions imaginaires, se rencontrent électroniquement parlant en 1965. *dont les cahiers ont été composés des écrits...

Lautréamont / Isidore Ducasse

by Pier Marton | Mar 4, 2013 | France, Highlights, Hispanic, Humor, Idées, Poet, Wars

Besides his translated warning, God grant that the reader, emboldened and having become at present as fierce as what he is reading, find, without loss of bearings, his way, his wild and treacherous passage through the desolate swamps of these sombre, poison-soaked...

Chloé Lacan, Espiègle et Grivoise

by Pier Marton | Feb 7, 2013 | France, Humor, Music, Women

Le site Chloé Lacan via Chanson Boum with Hélène Azéra Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit TweetShare on...

Amazing Grace in Budapest

by Pier Marton | Jan 10, 2013 | Care, Humor, Magyar, Music, Spectacle, Theater

Bolyki Balázs, frónt ember (a Bolyki Soul & Gospel Kórus) Amazing grace! How sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now am found, Was blind but now I see. Shout, shout for glory, Shout, shout aloud for glory; Brother, sister, mourner,...

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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