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Out of Sight, Out of Mind

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....

Carnage – Polanski’s Film

by Pier Marton | Feb 9, 2012 | Antisemitism, Books, Death, Ego, Film, France, Humor, Jewish, Juif, Politics, Review, Shoah, Spectacle, STL, Theater, Wars, Women

At The Tivoli Theater in St. Louis for one more week… My review: “Civilization is what makes you sick.” – Paul Gauguin Some people profess to teach the humanities, others purport to have become specialists in civility, teaching and publishing on the topic, and one...

French Animation à la Française

by Pier Marton | Feb 8, 2012 | France, Humor, Spectacle

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George Carlin: Clean Language

by Pier Marton | Feb 8, 2012 | Books, Care, Eco, Humor, Ideas, Media, Now, Poet, Politics, Spectacle, Teach, Text

From Brain Droppings by George Carlin The Status Quo Always Sucks Some Favorite Redundancies added bonus exactly right closed fist future potential inner core money-back refund seeing the sights true fact revert back safe haven prior history young children time period...

Totally Awesome!

by Pier Marton | Feb 3, 2012 | Eco, Future Tech, Humor, Ideas, Now, Sounds, Spectacle, Time

No, nothing of this kind here. Just tired of hearing/seeing that expression used. So while we are at it, let’s get rid of: out this world awesome whatever fantastic amazing I’m like groovy far-out kind of totally really super great truly deep dude yeah wow fuck man...

Mike Kelley: 1954-2012 – On Top of The Game Of Art

by Pier Marton | Feb 2, 2012 | Art, Death, Objects, Poet, Politics, Spectacle

“Pay for Your Pleasure” (with the art of a murderer) From the Los Angeles Times: … But Fontana, who saw Kelley last week for dinner, said that Kelley’s art-world accomplishments had a price, as he had been actively struggling with what it means to succeed in a world...

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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