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...
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,...
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...
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...
by Pier Marton | Feb 7, 2013 | France, Humor, Music, Women
Le site Chloé Lacan via Chanson Boum with Hélène Azéra EmailMoreRedditTweetShare on...
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,...