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Music(a)/Musique Indigenous Tradition Indigène/Avant-Garde/Tradicíon Indígena

by Pier Marton | Mar 24, 2012 | Art, Care, Dance, France, Future Tech, Hispanic, Humor, Music, Mystery, Native, Now, Poet, Quotes, Spectacle, Theater, Time, Travel

PLUS ÇA CHANGE, PLUS C’EST LA MÊME CHOSE. – Alphonse Karr The more things change, the more they stay the same/Cuanto más cambia algo, más se parece a lo mismo. A small sampling/des petits exemples/pequeños ejemplos: Los Gaiteros De San Jacinto (Colombia), Alejandro...

Footnote: DNA Methylation, Cancer and the Cedars’ Deep Connection

by Pier Marton | Mar 23, 2012 | Death, Film, Health, History, Humor, Ideas, Jewish, Judaism, KeyText, Middle-East, Mystery, Sci/Nat, Software, Time

Prof. Haim/Howard Cedar and his son, Yossef/Joseph Cedar, the filmmaker (by Nir Hasson in Haaretz) “There’s no connection between the father and the son in ‘Footnote’ and the relationship between us. I think there’s something special in our relationship. Each of us...

Meditation (Without Magic/Sans Magie)

by Pier Marton | Mar 21, 2012 | Asia, Books, Care, Death, Ego, Exp, France, Health, Humor, Ideas, Idées, Mystery, Now, Quotes, Time

To meditate has meaning only if you have the same attitude towards it as you have towards going to the toilet in the morning. You don’t do it to get enlightened. You do it because it is natural, like when you wake up, you go to the toilet, you brush your teeth, you...

Le Mystère Picasso/The Mystery of Picasso (extr.)

by Pier Marton | Mar 6, 2012 | Art, Doc, Film, France, Hispanic, Humor, Mystery, Poet, Teach, Theater, Time

Entire Film Was HERE – Entier Était ICI NOW IT IS HERE De Wiki: Le Mystère Picasso est un film documentaire d’Henri-Georges Clouzot réalisé en 1955. Le réalisateur a filmé Picasso en train de peindre sur des surfaces de verre. Les œuvres présentes dans le film ont été...

The Turin Horse/A Torinói Ló

by Pier Marton | Feb 16, 2012 | Art, Cam, Death, Film, Food, Magyar, Mystery, Now, Review, STL

At Webster University Feb. 17, 18 & 19 – 7:30 p.m. My review: Highly celebrated by Jonathan Rosenbaum and Susan Sontag, cinema’s current Homo Hungaricus, Béla Tarr is famous for the rarely screened films “Sátántangó” and “Werckmeister Harmonies.” Jancsó’s long...

EVERYTHING depends on YOU…

by Pier Marton | Feb 10, 2012 | Asia, Books, Care, Death, Ego, France, Health, Hispanic, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Mystery, Poet, Racism, Software, Spectacle, Teach

… the good and the bad. You are in charge, even if you are dying. To be remembered till the end… – Samuel Beckett ” Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” “I can’t go on, I will go on.” – Don Miguel “Don’t Take Anything Personally....

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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