freds mess: 02/08

jeudi 21 février 2008

the white room [part two]

you will never get closer to the white room than this

mercredi 13 février 2008

Bernard Pivot always submitted his version of Proust's questionnaire at the end of his TV programme. Just for info, Proust's version was in fact imagined by Antoinette Faure who was at school with Proust. The questionnaire was made famous by the fact that Proust answered it. It's here

what is your favorite word love

what word do you hate kill

what is your favorite drug sex and acid

which sound do you like the best ? my children laughing

which sound do you hate a smoker coughing his lungs out

favorite swear word fucking bollocks

which man or woman to illustrate a new bank note Jesus... zenith of marketing

the job you would least want to do a man of religion... too many lies, too much hypocrisy

plant, tree, animal that you would like to be your reincarnation an Ent

if god exists, what would you like to hear him say to you after your death and you thought that i never existed...

... but you were right...

Antoinette Faure's questionnaire

Your favourite virtue / patience
Your favourite qualities in a man / brotherhood
Your favourite qualities in a woman / understanding
Your chief characteristic / patience
What you appreciate the most in your friends / trust
Your main fault / a short concentration span + i say yes
Your favourite occupation /cooking with a bottle of white wine and loud opera + cold showers in the middle of hot summer nights
Your idea of happiness / no worries
Your idea of misery /not being able to die
If not yourself, who would you be? / Bruce Wayne
Where would you like to live? / in space
Your favourite colour and flower / green for hope + sunflowers for happiness
Your favorite bird / cuckoo
Your favourite prose authors / Dumas + Hornby
Your favourite poets / Prévert and Jim Caroll
Your favourite heroes in fiction / Chicot of the Queen Margot trilogy and Spider man
Your favourite heroines in fiction / Pandora
Your favourite painters and composers / Cornelia Parker and Delibes
Your favourite heroes in real life / Ghandi and TANK MAN [5-6-89 Tiananmen square]
Your favourite heroines in real life / Ellen Mac Arthur
What characters in history do you most dislike / George W Bush
Your heroines in World history / Anne Frank
Your favourite food and drink / soft boiled egg and white wine
Your favourite names. / Clara + Hugo
What I hate the most / hypocrisy and stinginess
World history characters I hate the most / from king Herod to Chaiman Mao, there are hundreds of mad bloodthirsty fanatics who thrive and have thrived on the illumination of power.
The military event I admire the most / the defeat of Sauron
The reform I admire the most / free condoms
The natural talent I'd like to be gifted with / a beautiful voice
How I wish to die / accomplished, therefore happy
What is your present state of mind / better and better
For what fault have you most toleration? / exess
Your favourite motto / "a day without laughter, is a day wasted" Thank you Charles Chaplin

sickness

i have a sore throat

each time i swallow it feels like barbed wire scraping down my throat

but what i like, what i love

is in the middle of the night,

the shivers that creep all of a sudden into your body

hot cold hot cold

heat but you shiver

you sweat but you're cold

you search for warmth

curl up into a feotal position

a hot bath

very hot

this condition strangely ignores heat

and as you slide into the hot water

you feel this incredible tingling inside you

the cold rushing around

looking to escape

a complete state of confusion in your body

take a deep breath and for a moment

this incredible comfort embraces you

and like heroin i've been told

and takes you away

mardi 12 février 2008

one of those days

there are days like this,

when you want tranquility,

when you want peace,

when urban cohabitation is a complication unless you're left alone

when all you need is silence to be in your thoughts,

your music to be in your cocoon and that you don't bother anybody else but you

days like these are so simple to live, and yet the sightest slip brings theses delicate walls tumbling down.

FUCK

why do i have to endure the pretention of others, their obnoxionus presence

the agressive way seeing life, and their untolerable way of imposing their views.

it's all a load of fucking bollocks.

today i want peace

i don't want to fucking work

i don't want to do silly animated fucking logos that say nothing, mean nothing

i don't want to do silly advert pages

i don't want to make any amendments to other adverts

i don't want to face the same old faces again and again and again

the ME ME ME ME ME fucking sentences,

the I KNEW THAT ALL THE WAY reflex

and all the usless no end debates...

.... hang

.... over

i'm not in a bad mood

i swear i'm not

i feel good,

really i do.

i could just feel better if it weren't for the others

jeudi 7 février 2008

pathetic journalism

excerpt of an interview published in 20 minutes...

this shows the beneath the carpet level of journalism in this country.

selling the president & his new wife brings gold at the moment.

3 books are to be published on her subject.

one of them written by two authors who admit never having met her,

is purely based on gossip and trash media.

they are interviewed in the daily, and so i offer you a taste of useless bullshit.

Quels sont vos pronostics sur ce mariage?

Sera-t-elle encore aux côtés du Président dans un an?

Elle restera avec Nicolas Sarkozy pendant toute la durée de son mandat car, en se mariant, elle a signé un papier qui l’engage à tenir son rôle de première dame. Or, selon un ex, elle envisage sa vie comme un podium. Pour elle, aucun faux pas n’est donc possible. Après l’échec de son deuxième album, elle aurait pu entamer une longue traversée du désert. Mais non, elle est devenue la femme du Président de la République!