#paul minett

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music artists with your moon sign

your moon sign is your deepest emotional self which is why we tend to relate to music made by artists with our moon sign <3

aries moon: rihanna, sufjan stevens, whitney houston, selena gomez, melanie martinez, janet jackson, tupac, stevie wonder, ross lynch (the driver era)

taurus moon: childish gambino, jim morrison, mick jagger, elton john, dominic fike, steve lacy, kevin parker (tame impala)

gemini moon: florence welch, billy corgan (smashing pumpkins), billy idol, lykke li, art garfunkel, beabadoobee, joji

cancer moon: clairo, kurt cobain, taylor swift, jimi hendrix, aretha franklin, mac demarco, van morrison, paul simon, courtney love (hole)

leo moon: david bowie, lana del rey, marina diamandis, hayley williams, paul mccartney, sza

virgo moon: dolly parton, madonna, al green, fiona apple, lorde, tyler joseph, pete doherty, troye sivan, hope sandoval (mazzy star), dylan minette (wallows)

libra moon: ariana grande, harry styles, bruce springsteen, vanilla ice, missy elliot, sinéad o'connor (the cranberries), olivia rodrigo

scorpio moon: the weeknd, beyoncé, avril lavigne, alex turner (arctic monkeys), johnny cash, tyler the creator, snoop dogg, morrissey (the smiths)

sagittarius moon: adele, lenny kravitz, etta james, dave grohl, mozart, travis scott, hayley kiyoko, rod stewart, carole king, hozier

capricorn moon: frank ocean, freddie mercury (queen), amy winehouse, stevie nicks, billie holiday, jesse rutherford (the neighbourhood), phoebe bridgers, mitski

aquarius moon: billie eilish, joan jett, eminem, john lennon, tom petty, jeff buckley, neil young, linda rondstadt, girl in red, kate bush

pisces moon: michael jackson, prince, elvis presley, frank sinatra, ricky martin, kanye west, robert plant (led zeppelin), joni mitchell

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Croise tes cuisses sur ma tête

De façon à ce que ma langue,

Taisant toute sotte harangue,

Ne puisse plus que faire fête

À ton con ainsi qu’à ton cu

Dont je suis l’à-jamais vaincu

Comme de tout ton corps, du reste,

Et de ton âme mal céleste,

Et de ton esprit carnassier

Qui dévore en moi l’idéal

Et m’a fait le plus putassier

Du plus pur, du plus lilial

Que j’étais avant ta rencontre

Depuis des ans et puis des ans.

Là, dispose-toi bien et montre

Par quelques gestes complaisants

Qu’au fond t’aimes ton vieux bonhomme

Ou du moins le souffre faisant

Minette (avec boule de gomme)

Et feuille de rose, tout comme

Un plus jeune mieux séduisant

Sans doute mais moins bath en somme

Quant à la science et au faire.

Ô ton con ! qu’il sent bon ! J’y fouille

Tant de la gueule que du blaire

Et j’y fais le diable et j’y flaire

Et j’y farfouille et j’y bafouille

Et j’y renifle et oh ! j’y bave

Dans ton con à l’odeur cochonne

Que surplombe une motte flave

Et qu’un duvet roux environne

Qui mène au trou miraculeux

Où je farfouille, où je bafouille

Où je renifle et où je bave

Avec le soin méticuleux

Et l’âpre ferveur d’un esclave

Affranchi de tout préjugé.

La raie adorable que j’ai

Léchée amoroso depuis

Les reins en passant par le puits

Où je m’attarde en un long stage

Pour les dévotions d’usage,

Me conduit tout droit à la fente

Triomphante de mon infante.

Là, je dis un salamalec

Absolument ésotérique

Au clitoris rien moins que sec,

Si bien que ma tête d’en bas

Qu’exaspèrent tous ces ébats

S’épanche en blanche rhétorique,

Mais s’apaise dès ces prémisses.

Et je m’endors entre tes cuisses

Qu’à travers tout cet émoi tendre

La fatigue t’a fait détendre.

Paul Verlaine, Femmes, 1890

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Jacques Prévert est en vacances en famille à St Paul de Vence dans la villa qu'il loue. Nous le voyons torse nu assis près de sa fille Michèle ( dite Minette ) qui fait sa toilette dans une petite Baignoire installée sur la terrasse, 1951

Photo © Walter Carone

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Squash's Book Roundup 2023

Last year I read 67 books. This year my goal was 70, but I very quickly passed that, so in total I read 92 books this year. Honestly I have no idea how I did it, it just sort of happened. My other goal was to read an equal amount of fiction and nonfiction this year (usually fiction dominates), and I was successful in that as well. Another goal which I didn’t have at the outset but which kind of organically happened after the first month or so of reading was that I wanted to read mostly strange/experimental/transgressive/unusual fiction. My nonfiction choices were just whatever looked interesting or cool, but I also organically developed a goal of reading a wider spread of subjects/genres of nonfiction. A lot of the books I read this year were books I’d never heard of, but stumbled across at work. Also, finally more than 1/3 of what I read was published in the 21st century.

I’ll do superlatives and commentary at the end, so here is what I read in 2023:

-The Commitments by Roddy Doyle -A Simple Story: The Last Malambo by Leila Guerriero -The Hero With A Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell -Uzumaki by Junji Ito -Chroma by Derek Jarman -The Emerald Mile: The epic story of the fastest ride in history through the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko -Venus by Suzan-Lori Parks -The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington -Sacred Sex: Erotic writings from the religions of the world by Robert Bates -The Virginia State Colony For Epileptics And The Feebleminded by Molly McCully Brown -A Spy In The House Of Love by Anais Nin -The Sober Truth: Debunking the bad science behind 12-step programs and the rehab industry by Lance Dodes -The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima -The Aliens by Annie Baker -The Criminal Child And Other Essays by Jean Genet -Aimee and Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943 by Erica Fischer -The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov -The Mustache by Emmanuel Carriere -Maldoror by Comte de Lautreamont -Narrow Rooms by James Purdy -At Your Own Risk by Derek Jarman -Escape From Freedom by Erich Fromm -Countdown: A Subterranean Magazine #3 by Underground Press Syndicate Collective -Fabulosa! The story of Britain's secret gay language by Paul Baker -The Golden Spruce: A true story of myth, madness and greed by John Vaillant -Querelle de Roberval by Kevin Lambert -Fire The Bastards! by Jack Green -Closer by Dennis Cooper -The Woman In The Dunes by Kobo Abe -Opium: A Diary Of His Cure by Jean Cocteau -Worker-Student Action Committees France May '68 by Fredy Perlman and R. Gregoire -Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher -The Sound Of Waves by Yukio Mishima -One Day In My Life by Bobby Sands -Corydon by Andre Gide -Noopiming by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson -Man Alive: A true story of violence, forgiveness and becoming a man by Thomas Page McBee -The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art by Mark Rothko -Damage by Josephine Hart -Schoolgirl by Osamu Dazai -The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector -The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion and Rock n Roll by Simon Reynolds and Joy Press -The Traffic Power Structure by planka.nu -Bird Man: The many faces of Robert Straud by Jolene Babyak -Seven Dada Manifestos by Tristan Tzara

-The Journalist by Harry Mathews -Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber -Moscow To The End Of The Line by Venedikt Erofeev -Morvern Callar by Alan Warner -The Poetics Of Space by Gaston Bachelard -A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White -The Coming Insurrection by The Invisible Committee -Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson -Notes From The Sick Room by Steve Finbow -Artaud The Momo by Antonin Artaud -Doctor Rat by William Kotzwinkle -Recollections Of A Part-Time Lady by Minette -trans girl suicide museum by Hannah Baer -The 99% Invisible City by Roman Mars -Sweet Days Of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy -Breath: The new science of a lost art by James Nestor -What We See When We Read by Peter Mendelsund -The Cardiff Tapes (1972) by Garth Evans -The Ark Sakura by Kobo Abe -Mad Like Artaud by Sylvere Lotringer -The Story Of The Eye by Georges Bataille -Little Blue Encyclopedia (For Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante -Blood And Guts In High School by Kathy Acker -Summer Fun by Jeanne Thornton -Splendid's by Jean Genet -VAS: An Opera In Flatland by Steve Tomasula -Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want To Come: One introvert's year of saying yes by Jessica Pan -Whores For Gloria by William T. Vollmann -The Notebooks by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Larry Walsh (editor) -L'Astragale by Albertine Sarrazin -The Decay Of Lying and other essays by Oscar Wilde -The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot -Open Throat by Henry Hoke -Prisoner Of Love by Jean Genet -The Fifth Wound by Aurora Mattia -The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx -My Friend Anna: The true story of a fake heiress by Rachel DeLoache Williams -Mammother by Zachary Schomburg -Building The Commune: Radical democracy in Venezuela by George Cicarello-Maher -Blackouts by Justin Torres -Cheapjack by Philip Allingham -Near To The Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector -The Trayvon Generation by Elizabeth Alexander -Skye Papers by Jamika Ajalon -Exercises In Style by Raymon Queneau -Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein -The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson

~Some number factoids~ I read 46 fiction and 46 nonfiction. One book, The Fifth Wound by Aurora Mattia, is fictionalized/embellished autobiography, so it could go half in each category if we wanted to do that, but I put it in the fiction category. I tried to read as large a variety of nonfiction subjects/genres as I could. A lot of the nonfiction I read has overlapping subjects, so I’ve chosen to sort by the one that seems the most overarching. By subject, I read: 5 art history/criticism, 5 biographies, 1 black studies, 1 drug memoir, 2 essay collections, 2 history, 2 Latin American studies, 4 literary criticism, 1 music history, 2 mythology/religion, 1 nature, 4 political science, 2 psychology, 5 queer studies, 2 science, 1 sociology, 1 travel, 2 true crime, 3 urban planning. I also read more queer books in general (fiction and nonfiction) than I have in years, coming in at 20 books.

The rest of my commentary and thoughts under a cut because it's fairly long

Here’s a photo of all the books I read that I own a physical copy of (minus Closer by Dennis Cooper which a friend is borrowing):

~Superlatives and Thoughts~

I read so many books this year I’m going to do a runner-up for each superlative category.

Favorite book: This is such a hard question this year. I think I gave out more five-star ratings on Goodreads this year than I ever have before. The books that got 5 stars from me this year were A Simple Story: The Last Malambo by Leila Guerriero, Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher, The Emerald Mile by Kevin Fedarko, The Mustache by Emmanuel Carriere, The Passion According to GH by Clarice Lispector, trans girl suicide museum by Hannah Baer, The Fifth Wound by Aurora Mattia, Mammother by Zachary Schomburg, and Blackouts by Justin Torres. But I think my favorite book of the year was The Fifth Wound by Aurora Mattia. It is an embellished, fictionalized biography of the author’s life, chronicling a breakup that occurred just before she began her transition, and then a variety of emotional events afterward and her renewal of a connection with that person after a number of years had passed. The writing style is beautiful, extremely decadent, and sits in a sort of venn diagram of poetry, theory, fantasy and biography. My coworker who recommended this book to me said no one she’d recommended it to had finished it because they found it so weird. I read the first 14 pages very slowly because I didn’t exactly know what the book was doing, but I quickly fell completely in love with the imagery and the formatting style and the literary and religious references that have been worked into the book both as touchstones for biography and as vehicles for fantasy. There is a video I remember first seeing years ago, in which a beautiful pinkish corn snake slithers along a hoop that is part of a hanging mobile made of driftwood and macrame and white beads and prism crystals. This was the image that was in the back of my head the entire time I was reading The Fifth Wound, because it matched the decadence and the strangeness and the crystalline beauty of the language and visuals in the book. It is a pretty intense book, absolutely packed with images and emotion and ideas and preserved vignettes where reality and fantasy and theory overlap. It’s one of those books that’s hard to describe because it’s so full. It’s dense not in that the words or ideas are hard to understand, but in that it’s overflowing with imagery and feelings, and it feels like an overflowing treasure chest. Runner-up:The Mustache by Emmanuel Carriere. However, this book wins for a different superlative, so I’ve written more about it there.

Least favorite book: Querelle de Roberval by Kevin Lambert. I wrote a whole long review of it. In summary, Lambert’s book takes its name from Querelle de Brest, a novel by Jean Genet, and is apparently meant to be an homage to Genet’s work. Unfortunately, Lambert seems to misunderstand or ignore all the important aspects of Genet’s work that make it so compelling, and instead twists certain motifs Genet uses as symbols of love or transcendence into meaningless or negative connotations. He also attempts to use Genet’s mechanic of inserting the author into the narrative and allowing the author to have questionable or conflicting morals in order to emphasize certain aspects of the characters or narrative, except he does so too late in the game and ends up just completely undermining everything he writes. This book made me feel insulted on behalf of Jean Genet and all the philosophical thought he put into his work. Runner-up: What We See When We Read by Peter Mendelsund. This graphic designer claims that when people read they don’t actually imagine what characters look like and can’t conjure up an image in their head when asked something like “What does Jane Eyre look like to you?” Unfortunately, there’s nothing scientific in the book to back this up and it’s mostly “I” statements, so it’s more like “What Peter Mendelsund Sees (Or Doesn’t See) When He Reads”. It’s written in what seems to be an attempt to mimic Marshall McLuhan’s style in The Medium Is The Massage, but it isn’t done very well. I spent most of my time reading this book thinking This does not reflect my experience when I read novels so I think really it’s just a bad book written by someone who maybe has some level of aphantasia or maybe is a visual but not literary person, and who assumes everyone else experiences the same thing when they read. (Another runner-up would be The Hero With A Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell, but I think that’s a given because it’s an awful piece of revisionist, racist trash, so I won’t write a whole thing about it. I can if someone wants me to.)

Most surprising/unexpected book: The Mustache by Emmanuel Carriere. This book absolutely wins for most surprising. However, I don’t want to say too much about it because the biggest surprise is the end. It was the most shocking, most unexpected and bizarre endings to a novel I’ve read in a long time, and I absolutely loved it. It was weird from the start and it just kept getting weirder. The unnamed narrator decides, as a joke, to shave off the moustache he’s had for his entire adult life. When his wife doesn’t react, he assumes that she’s escalating their already-established tradition of little pranks between each other. But then their mutual friends say nothing about the change, and neither do his coworkers, and he starts spiral into confusion and paranoia. I don’t want to spoil anything else because this book absolutely blew me away with its weirdness and its existential dread and anyone who likes weird books should read it. Runner-up: Morvern Callar by Alan Warner. I don’t even know what compelled me to open this book at work, but I’m glad I did. The book opens on Christmas, where the main character, Morvern, discovers her boyfriend dead by suicide on the kitchen floor of their flat. Instead of calling the police or her family, she takes a shower, gets her things and leaves for work. Her narrative style is strange, simultaneously very detached and extremely emotional, but emotional in an abstract way, in which descriptions and words come out stilted or strangely constructed. The book becomes a narrative of Morvern’s attempts to find solitude and happiness, from the wilderness of Scotland to late night raves and beaches in an unnamed Mediterranean city. The entire book is scaffolded by a built-in playlist. Morvern’s narrative is punctuated throughout by accounts of exactly what she’s listening to on her Walkman. The narrative style and the playlist and the bizarre behavior of the main character were not at all what I was expecting when I opened the book, but I read the entire book in about 3 hours and I was captivated the whole time. If you like the Trainspotting series of books, I would recommend this one for sure.

Most fun book: The Emerald Mile by Kevin Fedarko. This book was amazing. It was like reading an adventure novel and a thriller and a book on conservationism all wrapped into one and it was clearly very passionately written and it was a blast. I picked it up because I was pricing it at work and I read the captions on one of the photo inserts, which intrigued me, so I read the first page, and then I couldn’t stop. The two main narratives in the book are the history of the Grand Canyon (more specifically the damming of the Colorado River) and the story of a Grand Canyon river guide called Kenton Grua, who decided with two of his river guide friends to break the world record for fastest boat ride down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. The book is thoroughly researched, and reaches back to the first written record of the canyon, then charts the history of the canyon and the river up to 1983 when Grua made his attempt to race down the river, and then the aftermath and what has happened to everyone in the years since. All of the historical figures as well as the “current” figures of 1983 come to life, and are passionately portrayed. It’s a genuine adventure of a book, and I highly recommend it. Runner-up: Summer Fun by Jeanne Thornton. It asks “What if Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys was actually a trans woman?” Actually, that’s not quite it. It asks “What if a trans woman living in poverty in southwest America believed to an almost spiritual level that Brian Wilson was a trans woman?” The main character and narrator, Gala, is convinced that the lead singer of her favorite band, the Get Happies, (a fictional but fairly obvious parallel to the Beach Boys) is a trans woman. Half the book is her writing out her version of the singer’s life history, and the other half is her life working at a hostel in Truth Or Consequences, New Mexico, where she meets a woman who forces her out of her comfort zone and encourages her to face certain aspects of her self and identity and her connection with others. It’s a weird novel, and definitely not for everyone, but it’s fun. I was reading it on the train home and I was so into it that I missed my stop and had to get off at the next station and wait 20 minutes for the train going back the other way.

Book that taught me the most: Breath: The new science of a lost art by James Nestor. In it, Nestor explores why humans as a general population are so bad at breathing properly. He interviews scientists and alternative/traditional health experts, archaeologists, historians and religious scholars. He uses himself as a guinea pig to experiment with different breathing techniques from ancient meditation styles to essentially overdosing on oxygen in a lab-controlled environment to literally plugging his nose shut to only mouth-breathe for two weeks (and then vice-versa with nose breathing). It was interesting to see a bunch of different theories a laid out together regarding what kind of breathing is best, as well as various theories on the history of human physiology and why breathing is hard. Some of it is scientific, some pseudoscience, some just ancient meditation techniques, but he takes a crack at them all. What was kind of cool is that he tries every theory and experiment with equal enthusiasm and doesn’t really seem to favor any one method. Since he’s experimenting on himself, a lot of it is about the effects the experiments had on him specifically and his experiences with different types of breathing. His major emphasis/takeaway is that focusing on breathing and learning to change the ways in which we breathe will be beneficial in the long run (and that we should all breath through our noses more). While I don’t think changing how you breathe is a cure-all (some of the pseudoscience he looks at in this book claims so) I certainly agree that learning how to breath better is a positive goal. Runner-up: The Sober Truth by Lance Dodes. I say runner-up because a lot of the content of the book is things that I had sort of vague assumptions about based on my knowledge of addiction and AA and mental illness in general. But Dodes put into words and illustrated with numbers and anecdotes and case studies what I just kind of had a vague feeling about. It was cool to see AA so thoroughly debunked by an actual psychiatrist and in such a methodical way, since my skepticism about it has mostly been based on the experiences of people I know in real life, anecdotes I’ve read online, or musicians/writers/etc I’m a fan of that went through it and were negatively affected.

Most interesting/thought provoking book: Mammother by Zachary Schomburg. The biggest reason this book was so interesting is because the little world in which it exists is so strange and yet so utterly complete. In a town called Pie Time (where birds don’t exist and the main form of work is at the beer-and-cigarettes factory) a young boy called Mano who has been living his childhood as a girl decides that he is now a man and that it’s time for him to grow up. As this happens, the town is struck by an affliction called God’s Finger. People die seemingly out of nowhere, from a hole in their chest, and some object comes out of the hole. Mano collects the things that come out of these holes, and literally holds them in order to love them, but the more he collects, the bigger he becomes as he adds objects to his body. A capitalist business called XO shows up, trying to convince the people of Pie Time that they can protect themselves from God’s Finger with a number of enterprises, and starts to slowly take over the town. But Mano doesn’t believe death is something that should be run from. This book is so pretty, and the symbolism/metaphors, even when obvious, feel as though they belong organically in the world. A quote on the back of the book says it is “as nearly complete a world as can be”, and I think that’s a very accurate description. The story is interesting, the characters are compelling, and the magical realist world in which the story exists is fascinating. Runner up: trans girl suicide museum by Hannah Baer. This is a series of essays taken (for the most part) from Baer’s blog posts. They span a chunk of time in which she writes her thoughts and musings on her experience transition and transgender existence in general. It is mostly a series of pieces reflecting on “early” stages of transition. But I thought it was really cool to see an intellectual and somewhat philosophical take on transition, written by someone who has only been publicly out for a few years, and therefore is looking at certain experiences with a fresh gaze. As the title suggests, a lot of the book is a bit sad, but it’s not all doom and gloom. A lot of the emphasis is on the important of community when it comes to the experience of starting to transition and the first few years, and the importance of community on the trans experience in general. I really liked reading Hannah Baer’s thoughts as a queer intellectual who was writing about this stuff as she experienced it (or not too long after) rather than writing about the experience of early transition years and years down the line. It meant the writing was very sharp and the emotion was clear and not clouded by nostalgia.

Other thoughts/commentary on books I don’t have superlatives for:

I’m glad my first (full) book read in 2023 was A Simple Story: The Last Malambo by Leila Guierrero. It’s a small, compact gem of a book that follows the winner of an Argentinian dance competition. The Malambo is a traditional dance, and the competition is very fierce, and once someone wins, they can never compete again. The author follows the runner-up of the previous year, who has come to compete again. It paints a vivid picture of the history of the dance, the culture of the competition, and the character of the dancer the author has chosen to follow. It’s very narrowly focused, which makes it really compelling.

The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington could have easily won for most fun or most interesting book. Carrington was a surrealist writer and painter (and was in a relationship with Max Ernst until she was institutionalized and he was deported by the Nazis). In The Hearing Trumpet, an elderly woman called Marian is forced by her family to go live in an old ladies’ home. The first strange thing about the place is that all of the little cabins each woman lives in is shaped like some odd object, like an iron, or ice cream, or a rabbit. The other old women at the institution are a mixed bag, and the warden of the place is hostile. Marian starts to suspect that there are secrets, and even witchcraft involved, and she and a few of the other ladies start to try and unravel the occult mysteries hidden in the grounds of the home. The whole book is fun and strange, and the ending is an extremely entertaining display of feminist occult surrealism.

Sacred Sex: Erotica writings from the religions of the world by Robert Bates was a book I had to read for research for my debunking of Withdrawn Traces. It was really very interesting, but it was also hilarious to read because maybe 5% of any of the texts included were actually erotic. It should have been called “romantic writings from the religions of the world” because so little of the writing had anything to do with sex, even in a more metaphorical sense.

Every time I read Yukio Mishima I’m reminded how much I love his style. The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea almost usurped The Temple of the Golden Pavilion as my favorite Mishima novel. I’m fascinated with the way that Mishima uses his characters to explore the circumstance of having very intense feelings or reactions towards something and simultaneously wanting to experience that, while also wanting to have complete control and not feel them at all. There’s a scene in this novel where Noboru and his friends brutally kill and dissect a cat; it’s an intense and vividly rendered scene, made all the more intense by Noboru desperately conflicted between feeling affected by the killing and wanting to force himself to feel nothing. The amazing subtle theme running through the book is the difference between Noboru’s intense emotions and his desire/struggle to control them and subdue them versus Ryuji’s more subtle emotion that grows through the book despite his natural reserve. I love endings like the one in this book, where it “cuts to black” and you don’t actually see the final act, it’s simply implied.

In 2016 or 2017, I ran lights for a showcase for the drama department at UPS (I can’t remember now what it was) that included a bunch of scenes from various plays. I remember a segment from Hir by Taylor Mac, and a scene from The Aliens by Annie Baker. In the scene that I saw, one of the characters describes how when he was a boy, he couldn’t stop saying the word ladder, and the monologue culminates in a full paragraph that is just the word “ladder.” I can’t remember who was acting in the one that I saw at UPS, but that monologue blew me away, the way that one word repeated 127 conveyed so much. This year a collection of Annie Baker’s plays came in at work so I sat down and read the whole play and it was just incredible. I’d love to see the full play live, it’s absolutely captivating.

Narrow Rooms by James Purdy was a total diamond in the rough. It takes place in Appalachia, in perhaps the 1950s although it’s somewhat hard to tell. It follows the strange gay entanglement between four adult men in their 20s, who have known each other all their lives. It traces threads of bizarre codependency, and the lines crossed between love and hate. The main character, Sidney, has just returned home after serving a sentence for manslaughter. On his return, he finds that an old lover has been rendered disabled in an accident, and that an old school rival/object of obsession has been waiting for him. This rival, nicknamed “The Renderer” because of an old family occupation, has been watching Sidney all their lives. Both of them hate the other, but know that they’re destined to meet in some way. Caught in the middle of their strange relationship are Gareth, Sidney’s now-disabled former lover, and Brian, a young man who thinks he’s in love with The Renderer. The writing style took me some time to get used to, as it is written as though by someone who has taught themselves, or has only had basic classes on fiction writing. But the plot itself is so strange and the characters are so stilted in their own internality that it actually fits really well. Like The Mustache, this book had one of the strangest, most intensely visceral and shocking endings I’ve read in a while. It was also “one that got away.” I read it at work, then put it on my staff picks shelf, and only realized after someone else bought it that I should have kept it for myself.

The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector blew my mind. I really don’t want to spoil any of it, but I highly encourage anyone who hasn’t read it to do. The build in tension is perfect and last 30 pages are just incredible. Lispector’s style is so unique and so beautiful and tosses out huge existential questions like it’s nothing, and I love her work so much.

Moscow To The End Of The Line by Venedikt Erofeev was another really unexpected book. It’s extremely Russian (obviously) and really fun until suddenly it isn’t. The main character, a drunkard, gets on a train from Moscow to Petushki, the town at the end of the line (hence the title), in order to see his lover. On the way, he befriends the other people in his train car and they all steadily get drunker and drunker, until he falls asleep and misses his stop. Very Russian, somewhat strange, and I was surprised that it was written in the late 60s and not the 30s.

Dr. Rat by William Kotzwinkle was what I expected. Weird in a goofy way, a bit silly even when it’s serious, and rather heavy-handed satire. The titular Dr Rat is a rat who has spent his whole life in a laboratory and has gone insane. The other animals who are being tested on want to escape, but he’s convinced that all the testing is for the good of science and wants to thwart their rebellion. Unfortunately, all the other animals who are victims of human cruelty/callousness/invasion/deforestation/etc around the world are also planning to rebel, connection with each other through a sort of psychic television network. It’s a very heavy-handed environmentalist/anti-animal cruelty metaphor and general societal satire, but it’s silly and fun too.

Confessions Of A Part-Time Lady by Minette is a self-published, nearly impossible to find book that came into my work. It’s self-printed and bound, and was published in the 70s. It is the autobiographical narrative of a trans woman who did drag and burlesque and theatre work all across the midwest, as well as New York and San Francisco, from the 1930s up to the late 60s. It was originally a series of interviews by the two editors, who published it in narrative form, and it includes photos from Minette’s personal collection. It’s an amazing story, and a glimpse into a really unique time period of gender performance and queer life. She even mentions Sylvia Rivera, specifically when talking about gay activism. She talks about how the original group of the Gay Liberation Front was an eclectic mix of all sorts of people of all sexualities and genders and expressions. Then when the Gay Activists Alliance “took over”, they started pushing out people who were queer in a more transgressive or unusual way and there was more encouragement on being more heteronormative. She mentions Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson, saying “I remember Sylvia Rivera who founded STAR – Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries. She was always trying to say things – the same kinds of things Marsha P Johnson says in a sweeter way – and they treated her like garbage. If that’s what ‘order’ is, haven’t we had enough?”

Whores For Gloria by William T Vollmann was exactly as amazing as I thought it would be. I love Vollmann’s style, because you can tell that even though the characters he’s writing about are characters, they’re absolutely based on people that he met or saw or spoke to in real life. The main character, Jimmy, is searching for his former lover, Gloria, who has either died or left him (it is unclear for most of the novel). He begins to use tokens bought from sex workers (hair, clothes, etc) to attempt to conjure her into reality, and when that doesn’t work, he pays them to tell him stories from their lives, and through their lives he tries to conjure Gloria. This novel’s ending had extremely similar vibes to the ending of Moscow To The End Of The Line.

Prisoner Of Love by Jean Genet was a lot to take in. It was weird reading it at this moment in time, and completely unplanned. It’s just that I have only a few more books to read before I’ve made my way through all Genet’s works that have been translated into English, and it was next on the list. Most of the book focuses on Genet’s time spent in Palestine in the 70s and his short return in the 80s. He also discusses the time he spent with the Black Panthers in the US, although it’s not the main subject of the book. Viewing Palestine from the point of view of Genet’s weird philosophical and moral worldview was really interesting, because what he chooses to spend time looking at or talking about is probably not what most would focus on, and because even his most political discussions are tinged with the uniquely Genet-style spirituality (if you can call it that? I don’t know what to call it) that is so much the exact opposite of objective. It’s definitely not a book about Palestine I would recommend reading without also having a grasp of Genet’s style of looking at the world and his various obsessions and preoccupations, because they really do inform a lot of his commentary. It was also written 15 years after his first trip to Palestine, partly from memory and partly from journal entries/notes, which gives it a sort of weirdly dreamlike quality much like his novels.

Blackouts by Justin Torres was so amazing! It blends real life and fiction together so well that I didn’t even realize that most of the people he references in the novel are real historical figures until he mentioned Ben Reitman, who I recognized as the Chicago King Of The Hobos and Emma Goldman’s lover. The book follows an unnamed narrator who has come to a hotel or apartment in the southwest in order to care for a dying elderly man called Juan Gay. Juan has a book called Sex Variants, a study of homosexuality from the 1940s which has been censored and blacked out. Back and forth, the narrator and Juan trade stories. The narrator tells his life story up until the present, including his first meeting with Juan in a mental hospital as a teenager. In turn, Juan tells the story of the Sex Variants book and its creator, Jan Gay (Ben Reitman’s real life daughter). The book explores the reliability of narrative, the power of collecting and documenting life stories, and of removing or changing things in order to create new or different narratives.

Again, Clarice Lispector rocking my world! Generally I can read a 200-ish page novel in somewhere between 2 and 4 hours depending on the content/writing style. Near To The Wild Heart took me 9 hours to read because I kept wanting to stop and reread entire paragraphs because they were so interesting or pretty or philosophical. The story focuses on Joana, whose strange way of looking at the world and going through life makes everyone sort of wary of her. This book is so layered I don’t really know how to describe it. So much of it is philosophical or existential musings through the vehicle of Joana. Unsurprisingly, it’s a beautiful book and I highly recommend it.

I’m just going to copy/paste my Goodreads review for Skye Papers by Jamika Ajalon: This book had so much potential that just…fell short. I could tell that it was written for an American audience but the way the reader/Skye is “taught” certain British terms and/or slang felt a bit patronizing. The characters were fleshed out and interesting and I liked them a lot but the plot crumbled quickly in the last half of the book Things sped up to a degree that felt strange and unnatural, the book’s pacing was inconsistent throughout. Perhaps that was deliberate considering the reveal at the climax, but if it was, it should have been utilized better. If the inconsistent pacing wasn’t deliberate, then it just made the book feel strange to read. There were moments were I felt like there should have been more fleshing out of certain character relationships. Even with the reveal at the end and the explanation of Pieces’ erratic/avoidant behavior, I wish there had been more fleshing out of the relationship or friendship between her and Skye at the beginning, when Skye first arrives in London. Characters who seemed cool/interesting got glossed over and instead there was a lot more dwelling on Skye walking around or busking or just hanging out. I could have gone without the last 30 or so pages after the big reveal, where Skye went back through everything that happened with the knowledge she (and the reader) had gained. It dragged on and on and at that point I felt like the whole story was so contrived that I just wasn’t interested anymore. A friend who read this book before I did said she thought it was an experimental novel that just hadn’t gone far enough, and I completely agree with her. I think if the style with the film script interludes went further, into printed visuals or more weirdness with the interludes, more experimental style with the main story, or something, it would have been really good. It just didn’t push hard enough.

The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson was a fun little true crime novel about a young flautist who broke into a small English natural history museum in 2009 and stole hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of preserved rare bird skins dating back to the 19th century. He was a salmon fly-tying enthusiast and prodigy, and old Victorian fly designs used feathers of rare birds. The book first goes through the heist and the judicial proceedings, then examines the niche culture of Victorian fly-tying enthusiasts and obsessives, and then chronicles the author’s attempts to track down some of the missing birds. It was a quick, easy read, but fun and an unusual subject and I quite enjoyed it.

In 2024 I don’t plan on trying to surpass or even reach this year’s number. I’m going to start off the year reading The Recognitions by William Gaddis, then I’m going to re-read a number of books that I come across at work or in conversation and think Huh, I should reread that one of these days. So far, the books I am currently planning to reread: Sometimes A Great Notion by Ken Kesey, As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, The People Of Paper by Salvador Plascencia, Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, The Mustache by Emmanuel Carriere, McGlue by Otessa Moshfegh, Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neil, Acid Snow by Larry Mitchell, and Nightwood by Djuna Barnes.

[psalm22-6]

Making this post of my projects and my commonly used tags so that I can pin it; see below the cut for more (although some of these tags might not be currently populated with much content since I have a ton of things in my queue for the next year) 

My translations (movie content, 1862 articles, just all of them)

My general research interests (plus this tag for things I’m still looking into)

The Real Misérables

A Study of Les Misérables

Cham’s Les Misérables

Brick Things

Articles, cartoons, and other content from 1862 reacting to Les Misérables

The brick: the beautiful manuscript, the digressions, the experience

Brick annotations, notes, and meta

Illustrations from various editions of our beloved book

A look at the many many different editions of Les Misérables which exist

Ephemera relating to the book and its various adaptations

Content inspired by Les Misérables (but not direct adaptations)

Notes about translations/translating

Fans through the ages

Les Misérables’s particular influence in America in general

Lee’s Misérables in particular

Les Misérables in education

Les Misérables IRL: people relating hard to Les Misérables

Les Misérables Adjacent Stuff

Victor Hugo: the man, the myth, etc.

Useful references

Napoleon

Napoleon III

Cham

Historical fashion

French Revolution content

Caricatures (from the 1800s mainly)  

Sewers

Nuns

Waterloo

Adaptation Specific Things

Les Misérables, drame — The play adapted by Charles Hugo 

Les Misérables (1909) — The Edison Manufacturing Company film and the Vitagraph Studios film, both believed to be lost

Les Misérables (1912) — The French silent film directed by Albert  Capellani and starring Henry Krauss

Les Misérables (1917) — The American silent film directed by Frank Lloyd, produced by William Fox and starring William Farnum 

Les Misérables (1925) — The French silent film directed by Henri Fescourt and starring Gabriel Gabrio, Jean Toulout, and Sandra Milowanoff

Les Misérables (1934) — The French film directed by Raymond Bernard and starring Harry Baur

Les Misérables (1935) — The American film directed by Richard Boleslawski and starring Fredric March and Charles Laughton 

Les Misérables (1952) — The American film directed by Lewis Milestone and staring Michael Rennie

Les Misérables (1958) — A French, Italian, and East German collaboration directed by Jean-Paul Le Chanois and starring Jean Gabin

Les Misérables (1972) — The French TV miniseries directed by Marcel Bluwal and starring Georges Géret

Les Misérables (1978) — The British TV movie directed by Glenn Jordan and starring Richard Jordan and Anthony Perkins

Les Misérables (1982) — The French film directed by Robert Hossein and starring Lino Ventura

Les Misérables, the musical (1985) — Composed by Claude-Michel Schönberg, and the libretto by Alain Boublil

Les Misérables (1998) — The film directed by Bille August and starring Liam Neeson

Les Misérables (2000) — The French TV mini-series starring Gérard Depardieu and John Malkovich

Shoujo Cosette (2007) — The 52-episode Japanese animated TV series

Les Misérables (2012) — The film adaptation of the musical, directed by Tom Hooper and starring Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe 

Les Misérables (2018) — The BBC miniseries by Andrew Davies and starring Dominic West 

Other adaptations (films, books, others)

Other stage adaptations (the many many stage version which have existed) 

Lost media

Film stills

Vintage Advertisements 

General Fandom things

Fanart 

Things that have made me laugh

The Les Misérables Modern AU world

Marisette 

Barricade day

Barricades con

Character Specific Tags: Most characters can be found based on their singular names (Cosette, Marius, Enjolras, Javert, etc.) The exceptions are the following...

Jean Valjean

Jean Prouvaire

Myriel

Simplice

Gillenormad

Momes

Petit Gervais

Patron-Minette

Les amis generally

[jesuisgourde]

this year i have unintentionally read more queer nonfiction literature than i've read probably since i was in high school

so far this year i've read: -chroma by derek jarman -aimee & jaguar by erica fischer -at your own risk by derek jarman -fabulosa! by paul baker -man alive by thomas page mcbee -recollections of a part-time lady by minette -trans girl suicide museum by hannah baer

[franckdoutrery]

Choses entendues

- Non, pas encore ! Il doit démarrer seulement dans une dizaine de minutes, à 11h59 selon mon billet. Donc j’ai le temps de m’installer. Non, c’est pas le Thalys, c’est l’Eurostar. Tu sais bien que pour Londres, c’est l’Eurostar. Qu’est-ce que j’irais faire à Paris ? C’est Londres the place to be, tu le sais bien. De la friture sur la ligne ? Qu’est-ce que tu me racontes ? D’ailleurs avec les portables, y a plus de ligne. On dirait que t’es pas encore bien réveillé ? T’as encore picolé hier soir ? Bon, si c’est comme ça, je te laisse. On se rappelle ?!

- Oui, Minou, c’est moi. Je te dérange pas ? Le train vient de démarrer là. Non, ça s’est bien passé au contrôle. Ils sont sévères mais c’est pour notre sécurité. Du monde ? M’en parle pas ! Plus un siège de libre. Et ils sont tous là avec leur ordinateur, leur tablette, leur iPhone, les écouteurs sur les oreilles. Non, tu penses, ils m’entendent pas. Trop occupés avec leurs smart toys. C’est le genre connecté, tu vois. Oui, je voulais te dire : pour le chat. Non, pas le ChatGPT, le chat ! Minette si tu veux. Maximum 70 gr de croquettes par jour. Et renouveler l’eau tous les matins. Oui, moi aussi ! Bisous, bisous !

- Salut Roger, comment tu vas ? Tant mieux, moi aussi, merci ! Je t’appelle pour le C.A. Oui, le Conseil d’administration de la semaine prochaine. Tu sais qu’il y aura Duchemin cette fois. Lui-même ! Et lui, quand il vient, c’est pas pour les jetons de présence, tu sais. Faudra bien préparer la comptabilité. Demande à Paul, il connaît toutes les ficelles. Surtout la partie cash flow. Faut pas que nos créanciers doutent de la solvabilité de la boîte. Oui, je sais ! L’autofinancement est sauf, mais faut voir avec Paul ce qu’on pourra distribuer comme dividendes aux actionnaires. Oui, la City est un peu nerveuse en ce moment. Je te fais confiance ! Mais je te répète : ce Duchemin est une teigne. Tu t’en occupes ? Merci d’avance et bise à ta femme. 

- Hi Phil ! What’s the matter ? You mean Bojo himself ? You must be kidding ! Are you sure ? Those old boys of Parliament are going mad. Yes, I think so ! Did you read the FT this morning ? I tell you, Phil, you’ll have to work like crazy to get that task finished. I don’t bother about that, but you should. Thanks for calling. See you ! Bye !

- Lui-même ! Ah, c’est toi, Yvan ? J’avais pas reconnu ta voix. On vient juste de sortir de l’Eurotunnel. Tu as essayé de m’atteindre avant ? Oui, ça c’est l’avantage des portables. Non, juste quelques jours à Londres. Un petit trip pépère, tu vois. Quelques balades au centre, peut-être le long de la Tamise, Tate modern, Tower Bridge, ce genre. Oui, j’te le fais pas dire, on a du bol. En plus on promet une bonne météo. C’est ça ! Merci ! De ton côté aussi, amuse-toi bien. Tchao !

- Allo George ! Dis donc, t’en as mis du temps pour décrocher. J’espère que je ne te réveille pas. Au petit coin ? Oui, je préfère ça. Tu ne devineras jamais pourquoi je t’appelle. Non ! Non ! Non plus ! Là tu chauffes. Pas encore ! J’te donne une indication : chuis dans l’Eurostar. Toujours pas ? Tu donnes ta langue au chat ? Alors, t’es bien assis ? Ecoute ça : j’ai un nouvel iPhone ! J’te jure : l’iPhone 12. Tu t’imagines ? Tu es le premier que j’appelle avec. Oui, encore plus plat que le précédent. Plus léger aussi. Ton Androïd ? Ça n’a rien à voir ! Attends ! Attends ! Te fâche pas ! Je t’envoie tout de suite une photo que je viens de faire du compartiment. Hop, c’est parti ! Tu verras la définition. Tu m’en diras des nouvelles ! En plus j’ai l’enregistrement vidéo HD. Avec mode ralenti et accéléré. Qu’est-ce que tu veux de plus ? Tu m’entends bien là ? Moi je t’entends 5 sur 5. Non, c’est pas parce que t’as un Androïd. Moi je file à plus de 200 à l’heure et on discute malgré tout comme si on était à la même table au café de la Grand-Place. Fabuleux, non ? J’te dis pas le contraire. Le Samsung Galaxy, le HTC One et d’autres, c’est pas mal, mais l’iPhone 12 c’est quand même le top ! Bon, il faut que je te laisse là parce qu’on arrive bientôt. En plus, faut que je le recharge un peu tant qu’on a du courant. 

[abdou-lorenzo]

Croise tes cuisses sur ma tête

De façon à ce que ma langue,

Taisant toute sotte harangue,

Ne puisse plus que faire fête

À ton con ainsi qu’à ton cu

Dont je suis l’à-jamais vaincu

Comme de tout ton corps, du reste,

Et de ton âme mal céleste,

Et de ton esprit carnassier

Qui dévore en moi l’idéal

Et m’a fait le plus putassier

Du plus pur, du plus lilial

Que j’étais avant ta rencontre

Depuis des ans et puis des ans.

Là, dispose-toi bien et montre

Par quelques gestes complaisants

Qu’au fond t’aimes ton vieux bonhomme

Ou du moins le souffre faisant

Minette (avec boule de gomme)

Et feuille de rose, tout comme

Un plus jeune mieux séduisant

Sans doute mais moins bath en somme

Quant à la science et au faire.

Ô ton con ! qu’il sent bon ! J’y fouille

Tant de la gueule que du blaire

Et j’y fais le diable et j’y flaire

Et j’y farfouille et j’y bafouille

Et j’y renifle et oh ! j’y bave

Dans ton con à l’odeur cochonne

Que surplombe une motte flave

Et qu’un duvet roux environne

Qui mène au trou miraculeux

Où je farfouille, où je bafouille

Où je renifle et où je bave

Avec le soin méticuleux

Et l’âpre ferveur d’un esclave

Affranchi de tout préjugé.

La raie adorable que j’ai

Léchée amoroso depuis

Les reins en passant par le puits

Où je m’attarde en un long stage

Pour les dévotions d’usage,

Me conduit tout droit à la fente

Triomphante de mon infante.

Là, je dis un salamalec

Absolument ésotérique

Au clitoris rien moins que sec,

Si bien que ma tête d’en bas

Qu’exaspèrent tous ces ébats

S’épanche en blanche rhétorique,

Mais s’apaise dès ces prémisses.

Et je m’endors entre tes cuisses

Qu’à travers tout cet émoi tendre

La fatigue t’a fait détendre.......🥀🪶♥️

Paul Verlaine, Femmes

[444names]

Names generated from French forenames, excluding the letter "H"

Adienck Aganie Alanne Aleille Aliel Alien Alient Alille Alémy Alémyritte Amariervé Amildel Amues Amélisan Ancine Anden Andid Andranis Andrisa Angert Anianin Anlodille Anloé Annine Anonne Anuel Arannie Ariciane Arient Arise Arlexavine Arnadidid Audilin Audrin Aulettelyne Aulianfrard Aulianick Aurier Aurionieria Auroge Aurole Aurégin...

Benjanpien Benne Beria Berie Berinick Bernaul Berre Berrette Berrey Bette Brine Brite Brunoît Béance Béanck Calippe Carin Clain Clane Clanne Clarion Claudette Claul Clauliquel Claume Cléme Clémick Clémil Clémirèse Colaine Colaurey Colis Corgaël Cyrie Cyris Céane Cécie Céciellille Cécilleine Cédriamick Célore Danevirgeor Danfrane Danice Danmice Danne Danon Danpaurée Danuelydine Davidiaméli Davie Davin Davinne Dellette Dette Didine Domannie Dylairgervé Dylaul Dylaule Dylaumenne Dylvaniene Emannie Emarien Ematrie Emmane Emmançoine Emmarc Emmartia Emmatra Emmaxime Emmaxise Eniené Entie Fabel Fabernadine Fabie Fabielyne Fabrine Fabriniste Fabrunonisa Flode Flore Florgette Flory Flouistelle Flouistor Floéme Floïc Frandid Frane Franes Franie Frannistie Frant Frégine Frélic Gabie Gabris Galeinicele Georaymone George Georgilise Georice Gerre Gette Gillen Ginck Ginel Giste Gistine Gistinne Gitte Grélililine Grémed Guenri Guette Guilion Géliquel Gélène Gérie Gérômen Irent Irgert Irginne Jacque Jacquel Jacquen Jandrie Jannieu Jeance Jeande Jeandine Jeandrione Jeane Jeanicene Jeanine Jeanise Jeanlora Jeann Jeannel Jeanniam Jeannicole Jeanpaud Jeanpie Jeanpien Jeant Jeançoine Jeançoiste Jonden Josébaptine Joséveste Julia Julic Julient Julinès Julivièle Juste Justitine Jériennie Jérolette Jérès Kevinès Laine Landiel Landre Lanne Lançoine Larale Larle Larolaette Laude Laume Laureille Laurie Linette Lippe Lodine Loraptise Loril Loémy Lucamain Lucamicel Lucamile Lucatrigite Lucia Lucienée Lucile Lucille Lucilles Lucine Lucis Lynessa Lémene Lémili Léricore Lérômenrice Madid Magnèse Magnèser Maine Mandrine Mandrégine Manne Mannie Manuellette Marano Marant Mararolaude Marce Margine Marguelle Marice Maricel Marick Marierna Marigilippe Marin Marionie Marle Marolaul Maron Maronadriel Marorgerrey Martrigin Martrine Masca Matte Mauliste Maximenric Maxis Maxisaber Micale Micel Mickarite Mickaëlle Mieclaine Mielyne Mientois Milden Mildette Milin Mille Millenny Mince Minette Mirey Monie Monine Murenzo Myrie Mélielyne Mélien Mélistiamed Mélivie Mélouile Nadette Nadidine Nadinier Naris Nienrie Nique Niquel Niève Nièvel Nièvestitte Noniel Ocelles Océanloéme Océlode Odettel Odilbernade Odine Olaude Olauline Olenne Olexanue Pascam Pascard Paste Patte Paude Paudrey Paule Paulia Paulianloé Paulie Paulis Paurie Pauromarce Paurédre Pielle Pierion Quelia Queliondria Quelle Quenzo Quené Quessarce Ranevine Ranlouil Rannick Rançoine Raymon Rencisèle Renne Rentiami Rinne Robermane Robette Rogeor Rogerma Roges Rolart Rolas Rolauranne Rolenjamick Rolippe Romie Ronne Roren Roricie Rédérin Régillaul Régissa Régorent Rélas Réline Rémie Rémirey Saberna Sabette Sabienzo Sabrine Samard Samicel Sandri Sandréline Sanlore Santine Saria Saromaxime Sicellette Sicory Simen Simondrée Simoniquel Solanne Solaudetine Solaul Soniste Sonne Stine Stinevina Stitine Suzane Sylane Sylanic Sylvaine Sylvin Sylvine Sylvirguis Sébastinne Vaine Valie Valémic Vançois Vidile Vient Vinevièver Vièlen Vièvette Wille Xandran Xavidieu Xavièle Yance Yandra Yandrené Yandrélor Yanfra Yanick Yanie Yançoise Yverreille Yvert Élaurée Élienoéme Éline Élippe Éliquel Élodid Élorené Éloément Élène Émili Éraymona Ériert Érène Étand Évestin Évette

[jeanetjeannepatin]

Mercredi 22 février 2023 à 19H, nouvelle émission de la Petite Boutique Fantasque. Nous n’avons pas eu souvent l’occasion de fêter un anniversaire. Mais vingt ans de la parution de Calin_minette de vs_price, qui nous est si proche, ne pouvait être ignoré. 2003 – 2023 ! Vingt ans. ! Quelle peut être notre écoute actuelle de cette musique ? Qu’est-ce qu’elle nous dit de l’ambiance musicale de l’époque ? Ce sont des réflexions qui ont agité la conception de cette émission.

Cette émission autour de calin_minette est articulée autour d’un entretien avec vs_price et d’une conversation téléphonique avec Paul Merritt co-responsable du label londonien Expanding records qui a publié ce disque. Pour plonger totalement dans l’ambiance nous écouterons deux extraits de calin-minette, ainsi qu’un morceau de Benge (Benjamin Edwards, l’autre co-fondateur d’Expanding records) publié dans la compilation The condition of musak 5 et un de Stendec (formé de Paul Merrit et de Benge) Avro publié dans la compilation The condition of musak 3

Cette émission a été enregistrée et montée au studio de RadioRadioToulouse et diffusée en hertzien, Toulouse : 106.8 Mhz ou en streaming http://62.210.215.26:8000/xstream et pour tout le reste du temps sur les podcasts de mixcloud.

Programmation musicale : 1) Bretelle (vs_price) 2) Avro (Stendec) 3) Baud (Benge) 4) Matic 02 (vs_price) + entretien avec vs_price + entretien téléphonique avec Paul Merritt avec la complicité linguistique de Perlette

Pour ceux qui auraient piscine indienne, ou toute autre obligation, il y a une possibilité de rattrapage avec les podcasts de la PBF : https://www.mixcloud.com/RadioRadioToulouse/vingt-ans-de-calin_minette-la-petite-boutique-fantasque/

Sus aux Béotiens !

Photographie de la box où a été redistribuée en 2021 l’album calin_minette de vs_price. (photographie Vincent)

Discographie de vs_price chez Expanding : https://www.discogs.com/.../186188-VS_Price-CalinMinette https://www.discogs.com/.../430098-VS_Price-Birthday-026 https://www.discogs.com/.../692302-Various-Expanding-Live... https://www.discogs.com/.../689459-Various-The-Condition... https://www.discogs.com/.../1012345-VS_Price-Songs06txt

[killerscartv]

Time After Time (Full TV Series) 1993 - 1995

Kenny is a criminal trying to go straight but with all of his friends and family trying to drag him back to his old life, will he prove the doubters wrong and impress his new probation officer gillian or be stuck in his old life with his girlfriend donna, best friend jake and his criminal family in this great british comedy.

Starring Brian Conley, Samantha Beckinsale, Kate Williams (from Love Thy Neighbor), Richard Graham, Georgia Allen, Neil McCaul, Deddie Davies, David Shane. Writers - Paul Minett and Brian Leveson. Director & Producer - John Kaye Cooper.

[zippyzephy-archive]

Sometimes a boop from his familiar might be all a small wizard needs to feel a little better.

[frenchtwistagain]

Bilan 2021

2021 fut une année meh, pour des cause évidentes. CINEMA Je suis un peu retournée au cinéma. J’ai vu Kaamelot, Dune (adoré l’esthétique) et West Side Story. MUSIQUE  Les concerts on repris tardivement. Je n’ai vu que Les Vulves Assassines, mais c’était LE concert à voir :)

CULTURE Je suis allée aux expos Chanel et Vivian Maier. J’ai vu Laurent Sciamma et Guillaume Meurice en spectacle. Je suis aussi allée voir le Cabaret de Poussières. GASTRONOMIE Je suis allée prendre le tea-time au Riz, j’ai découvert une délicate nourriture très goûtue chez Mosuké, et dégusté un bon repas gastronomique en me baladant dans Paris à bord du Bistronome. J’ai découvert le café Contresort, continué d’aller chez Furaha, Burger Theory etc...

VOYAGES Nada cette année. J’avais des plans qui sont tombés à l’eau à cause du Covid. J’ai donc seulement passé une semaine dans le Loir et Cher et passé l’Ascenscion à Berck. ça fait quand même du bien de souffler ! SPORTS Je marche, et je continue le pôle ! On a repris les cours en studio dès juin. AUTRES J’ai entrepris une thérapie, j’ai pu compter sur des ami.e.s, j’ai évolué dans le cadre de mon emploi, j’ai deux piercings et un tattoo de plus... R.I.P. Hubert Auriol, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Larry King, Dustin Diamond, Larry Flint, Tonton David, Patrick Dupond, Bertrand Tavernier, Patrick Juvet, Prince Philip, DMX, Alber Elbaz, Minette, Jean-Yves Lafesse, Joey Jordison, Jean-François Stévenin, Lee Scratch Perry, Sarah Harding, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Juju, James Michael Tyler, Virgil Abloh, Yolande Menon, et Lili-Rose.

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Alain Chamfort Pianiste de formation classique Alain Le Govic, tout juste 17 ans , a déjà plusieurs petits groupes et un ou deux 45 tours à son actif quand Jacques Dutronc, qui explose avec "Et moi, et moi, et moi», lui propose  en 1966 de l'accompagner en tournée. Les parents d'Alain acceptent à une condition qu'il passe son bac ! C'est l’époque des blousons achetés à Londres, des boots à talons cubain, popularisées par les Beatles et des costumes fités. Dutronc qui le surnomme "l'institutrice anglaise", le prend sous son aile.  En 1972, il rejoint le label de Claude François qui lui choisit Chamfort comme nom de scène. La (courte) période chanteur à minettes en costume étincelants à larges revers, cheveux longs et col pelles à tarte démarre. Après plusieurs tubes, dont l'inoubliable "L’Amour en France", Alain Chamfort se sent en porte à faux et Claude François supporte difficilement le succès de son poulain, très beau garçon de surcroît.  Chamfort signe chez CBS, et impose d'avoir une liberté artistique totale. Débute le chapitre Gainsbourg qui lui écrit en 1977 les textes de "Rock'n"Roses" produit aux USA par les futurs membres du groupe Toto et en 1979 "Manureva", hommage au navigateur Alain Colas disparu en mer l'année précédente. Sur la pochette signée Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Alain apparaît, sobre, raffiné, élégant, cravate dénouée en chemise blanche, les mains dans les poches. Les années 80 sont marquées par l'album devenu culte "Amour année zéro" ou Alain toujours photographié par Mondino, assume son image d'homme élégant, en tuxedo noir gants blancs et chemise à jabot. Dans les années 90 Sa garde-robe s'enrichit de costumes plus colorés, avec des créateurs comme Paul Smith, Agnès B, Kenzo il ose même les motifs écossais et les carreaux. Éternellement mince, préférant désormais les Stan Smith, les jeans bruts, et les cols roulés portés sous une veste, il est devenu l'un des compositeurs iconiques de la nouvelle génération qui revisite régulièrement ces titres. Dandy et musicien, d'ailleurs son nouvel album "Symphonique Dandy" le revendique ! #daniellevychemisier #alainchamfort #icone #àlafrançaise Merci @ze_french_do_it_better pour ce texte. (à Daniel Lévy) https://www.instagram.com/p/CXtk5fksrVI/?utm_medium=tumblr

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