vendredi 10 juillet 2009
Chant à la lune
J’aimerais plonger dans tes yeux pour voir ton monde,
Me glisser sous ta peau pour couler dans tes veines,
Et me fondre dans l’étreinte de ton corps si soyeux,
O toi mon amour, que je ne connais pas.
Si triste au fond de ce cœur tourmenté, abimé
Si seule dans les rues d’une ville qui dort,
Je te cherche, t’attend et t’espère,
Afin d’apaiser et te confier,
Mon âme et amour que je te réserve.
vendredi 19 juin 2009
jeudi 11 juin 2009
Diary entry
June 11th, 2009
I passed my clarinet exam 2nd year with mention very good tonight and I am very glad to step forward to year 3! Sometimes, I wish time could fly... so I would become a really good clarinetist soon.
I'm enjoying this instrument a lot, it is warm and clever :)
Viva la musica!

Music, Alphonse Mucha
samedi 30 mai 2009
Citations humeur (Déception)
Opportunité. Occasion favorable pour saisir une déception.
(Ambrose Bierce)
Le fou court après les plaisirs de la vie et trouve la déception ; le sage évite les maux.
(Arthur Schopenhauer)
Le rôle de la douleur, des déceptions et des idées noires n'est pas de nous aigrir, de nous faire perdre notre valeur et notre dignité, mais de nous mûrir et de nous purifier.
(Hermann Hesse)
mardi 19 mai 2009
Citations humeur (Contradiction)
Ce qu'on nomme passion n'est autre chose qu'un désir irrité par la contradiction.
(Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais)
Tout être humain a le droit d'être en contradiction avec lui même.
(Amélie Nothomb)
Un expert, c'est une opinion. Deux experts, c'est la contradiction. Trois experts, c'est la confusion.
(Anonyme)

(Iván Navarro, Eternal Contradiction, Installation, 2008)
dimanche 10 mai 2009
Portrait Japonais (2007)
si j'étais un plat ce matin
je serais une frite solitaire au fond d'un cornet
ayant traîné sur le trottoir
toute une nuit de pluie
si j'étais une boisson
je serais un vieux thé aux herbes
sans sucre & amer
sous prétexte de stimuler l'activité cérébrale
si j'étais un livre
je serais l'Insupportable légèreté de l'être de Milan Kundera
la gorge serrée & les yeux humides
se rendant compte que la vie & ses éléments en soi ne tiennent à rien
& qu'à chaque instant on est mis à l'épreuve
si j'étais un compositeur
je serais W.A. Mozart
génial, fou & généreux
sans ressentir à aucun moment
le doute d'une création complètement médiocre
si j'étais une fiction
je serais Ingrid Bergman dans Casablanca
pour être embrassée dans un coin sombre d'une ville lointaine
par l'homme le plus sexy du siècle
si j'étais un objet
je serais une cape d'invisibilité
pour passer inaperçue les jours de fêtes
& pour entendre les conversations en coulisses
si j'étais un parfum
je serais l'odeur vieille chaussette
des chats endormis depuis trop longtemps
chaud & salé en même temps
si j'étais un concept
je serais l'absurde dans l'échange passionnel
d'une rencontre d'un soir
teintée d'alcool et de fumée
si j'étais une ville
je serais un mélange entre le chaos & l'agitation de Rome ou de Pékin
l'ordre & le froid de Vienne
&la chaleur et beauté toute simple d'un petit coin perdu
loin des grandes villes aux facettes multiples
si j'étais une maxime
je serais cette phrase de ma mère:
Try to make the best of it
& enfin si j'étais moi
je serais la caresse dans le cou
dans l'étreinte au réveil
sans ressentir l'angoisse du temps qui passe.
mercredi 6 mai 2009
Musik - reflections (3).
Dvořák: 0'57- 1'50, 9th Symphony, final movement.
I came close to Dvořák this winter, in a performance of his opera Russalka.
I fell under the charm of a fairy tale. Costumes and scenery were very well set, with weeping willows embracing a world between water and earth. A love story, of course.
However, Dvořák’s music made impression on me. As a violinist he composed with special dedication to the string section. Flowing melodies of violins & violas, relying on strong celli and bass, leading into an inspiration of harmonies, joining each other to celebrate the highest spot out of which a new idea’s developed, often introduced by woodwinds, playing with lightning ambitions.
These 53 seconds of Dvořák’s 9th (amongst other moments of this symohony and other pieces by him), are one of these culminating points (as the final, of course, the whole movement is). Powerfully announced by the strings, followed by a victorious brass section the music's taking off in a rhythmical crescendo, galloping to the highest peak, like a ride across the open air. Fast, strong and determined.
Herbert von Karajan conducting the Wiener Philharmoniker
Devendra Banhart - At The Hop
Put me in your suitcase, let me help you pack
Because you're never coming back, no you're never coming back
Cook me in your breakfast and put me on your little plate
Because you know I taste great, yeah you know I taste great
Well at the hop it's greaseball heaven
With candypants and archie too
So put me in your dry dreams or put me in your little wet
If you haven't yet, no if you haven't yet
Light me with your candle, watch the flames grow high
You know it never hurts to try, you know it never hurts to try
So I won't stop all of my pretending that you'll come home
You'll be coming home, someday soon
So put me in your blue skies or put me in your little gray
There's gotta be someway, there's gotta be someway
Put me in your tongue tie, make it hard to say
That you're not gonna stay, that you're not gonna stay
Wrap me in your marrow and stuff me in your little bones
And I'll sing a mending moan, a song to bring you home
lundi 4 mai 2009
jeudi 30 avril 2009
Float Tanks
It is a pleasant activity to think about our time on earth, its beauty and its surprising adventures, hopes and wishes, desires and passions…warming up ones heart, like a sweet symbiosis, an engagement to life.
Other times, your thinking is being such a weight that all you would want to, was to switch it off. All of a sudden you get overwhelmed with emotion, leading to the darker characters that inhabit us, our own inner demons, trying to tumble us down. I was imagining some kind of thinking-reset-machine you could use to appease them. Something like the pensine of Dumbledore in Harry Potter but enrolled into an overall process.
I am very thankful to the person who gave, one late night in a smoky karaoke bar in Brooklyn, a name to my concept:
Float Tanks. The idea: the possibility to put oneself on standby and get thoughts sorted out. The execution: A 48-hour-thoughts-resting-escape of the everyday turning machine. In these Float Tanks, time would be suspended; it would be a place where you don’t get to experience your being on earth. A black whole without movement or consciousness, and you would draw new energy of the possibility to pause and not turn along with the world around you.
Developing further on, I thought, Float Tanks should be sophisticated and modern, which is to say digital. So maybe they could also analyze and calculate decisions and choices one needs to make…
Even though I realize the improbability to have it executed, I’m holding onto this delightful idea, the possibility to leave the world for a short while and come back, peaceful.
Regards
De la chimie.
Des substances secrètes qui réagissent au regard d'autres substances. Si l'une de ces connexion se fait on est catapulté à mille lieux d'ici, ça vous envahit & vous entraîne vers des désirs profonds, vous vous sentez comme habité d'une énergie inexpliquée.

mardi 28 avril 2009
Laundromat considerations.
It has been a fight, an endless struggle against human malice and egoism, and eventually, a test to determine the capacity to assert oneself. The easiest and simplest thing, doing the laundry, has turned into a competition where winners get to put on clean clothes.
In general people fancy to do their laundry on Sundays, which has become the nightmare of laundromats in person. On Sundays you meet all sorts of people in these places, and if you don't get there before 9 or after 7, there's little chance you'll make your way through an empty machine, and who's not out of service. All sorts of people, but mainly mothers and their offspring’s, filling and emptying to fill again, one machine after the other one. Everything's planned and prepared and kids are there to ensure the availability of 5 monopolized machines for at least half of the day.
So I get to think, why is it they need to perform this whole ritual every Sunday? Most of them are housewives, so they would have plenty of time to do this on a weekday. But worse, why is it that housewives with 5 children have to plan an excursion every weekend to get the wash done? It can't be for financial reasons, because when you think about it: 3 euro’s 50 per machine times 4 or 5 a week... by the end of the year they could already have bought a washing machine and a dryer.
I came to the conclusion that they liked it, maybe, far away from crabby husbands sitting home all weekend, women found their way to shorten the time they would have to spend together by escaping to the Laundromat.
As for me, I drew the conclusion not to go there on Sundays anymore. So I go on Tuesdays now. It is the perfect day, nobody's there and you get to experience other Laundromat creatures like drunkards trying to get their money changed in the coin-operated machine.
lundi 20 avril 2009
Musik - reflections (2).
dimanche 19 avril 2009
samedi 18 avril 2009
vendredi 17 avril 2009
Musik - reflections.
It really is music I always get back to, the music itself and the music of life. Melody and rhythm playing in a subtle interaction with each other, like colour and perspective in a painting, light and frame in a picture, shape and material of a sculpture, adventure and unexpected in life........
Music can terribly make you suffer too-
I have recently discovered Britten's Death in Venice
It was terrifying. I wanted to cry and scream at the same time; it was painful and it was going to be my longest journey through musical suffering. I ran out as soon as it was done to catch air and try not to get overwhelmed, of course I did. I felt morose, the world seamed to weigh with all of its heavy unhappiness on my shoulders. In deaf rhythms of the city's night I went home incapable to absorb any more sound. Deep inside I longed for lightness & stability.
J'ai découvert une partition dure, au sens "éprouvant" et je rentre comme assommée, vidée...avec une envie grandissime d'écouter Mozart ou Chopin pour retrouver espoir et envie en même temps d'être incapable de passer à autre chose avant d'avoir digéré ce roc. (À propos de Death in Venice, La Monnaie, January 2009)

jeudi 16 avril 2009
Quotes - Citations
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The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
(Oscar Wilde)
Always do sober
what you said
you'd do drunk.
That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
(Ernest Hemingway)
Si l'amour est un gâteau,
je crois que je n'ai eu droit qu'à la croûte.
(Les Blérots de R.A.V.E.L)
(Bertolt Brecht)
…prime numbers are like life.
They are very logical
but you could never work out the rules,
even if you spent all your time
thinking about them.
(Mark Haddon)
On n'oublie rien de rien, on s'habitue, c'est tout.
(Jacques Brel)
Il y a deux moyens
d'oublier les tracas de la vie:
la musique et les chats.
(Albert Schweitzer)
La relativité. (Albert Einstein)
Placez votre main sur un poêle une minute
et ça vous semble durer une heure.
Asseyez vous auprès d'une jolie fille une heure
et ça vous semble durer une minute.
La vie mesdames & messieurs les jurés ???
Un gigantesque terrain d'aventures secrètes
& sensuelles dans l'univers ici bas
(Olivier Laage).
**
Vous êtes sur terre, c'est sans remède.
(Samuel Beckett)
It's for sure I'm gonna love you
All the way…
(Frank Sinatra)
mardi 14 avril 2009
9 AM
9AM
*
Drôle de réveil café collé
Drôles de sentiments
Drôles d'envies
Drôle de toi
Drôles de vous
Drôles de pas envies
Drôles de pensées sucrées
*
Wine & Chocolate
@
9am in the morning.







