Friday, 21 November 2008

We still need you george...

my fav opening bit from the great George Carlin. Carlin launched into this tirade right at the start of one of its standups. buckle up for 3 mins of comedic genius:

"I’m a modern man, a man for the millennium. Digital and smoke free. A diversified multi-cultural, post-modern deconstruction that is anatomically and ecologically incorrect. I’ve been up linked and downloaded, I’ve been inputted and outsourced, I know the upside of downsizing, I know the downside of upgrading. I’m a high-tech low-life. A cutting edge, state-of-the-art bi-coastal multi-tasker and I can give you a gigabyte in a nanosecond!

I’m new wave, but I’m old school and my inner child is outward bound. I’m a hot-wired, heat seeking, warm-hearted cool customer, voice activated and bio-degradable. I interface with my database, my database is in cyberspace, so I’m interactive, I’m hyperactive and from time to time I’m radioactive.

Behind the eight ball, ahead of the curve, ridin the wave, dodgin the bullet and pushin the envelope. I’m on-point, on-task, on-message and off drugs. I’ve got no need for coke and speed. I've got no urge to binge and purge. I’m in-the-moment, on-the-edge, over-the-top and under-the-radar. A high-concept, low-profile, medium-range ballistic missionary. A street-wise smart bomb. A top-gun bottom feeder. I wear power ties, I tell power lies, I take power naps and run victory laps. I’m a totally ongoing big-foot, slam-dunk, rainmaker with a pro-active outreach. A raging workaholic. A working rageaholic. Out of rehab and in denial!

I’ve got a personal trainer, a personal shopper, a personal assistant and a personal agenda. You can’t shut me up. You can’t dumb me down because I’m tireless and I’m wireless, I’m an alpha male on beta-blockers.

I’m a non-believer and an over-achiever, laid-back but fashion-forward. Up-front, down-home, low-rent, high-maintenance. Super-sized, long-lasting, high-definition, fast-acting, oven-ready and built-to-last! I’m a hands-on, foot-loose, knee-jerk head case pretty maturely post-traumatic and I’ve got a love-child that sends me hate mail.

But, I’m feeling, I’m caring, I’m healing, I’m sharing-- a supportive, bonding, nurturing primary care-giver. My output is down, but my income is up. I took a short position on the long bond and my revenue stream has its own cash-flow. I read junk mail, I eat junk food, I buy junk bonds and I watch trash sports! I’m gender specific, capital intensive, user-friendly and lactose intolerant.

I like rough sex. I like tough love. I use the “F” word in my emails and the software on my hard-drive is hardcore--no soft porn.

I bought a microwave at a mini-mall; I bought a mini-van at a mega-store. I eat fast-food in the slow lane. I’m toll-free, bite-sized, ready-to-wear and I come in all sizes. A fully-equipped, factory-authorized, hospital-tested, clinically-proven, scientifically- formulated medical miracle. I’ve been pre-wash, pre-cooked, pre-heated, pre-screened, pre-approved, pre-packaged, post-dated, freeze-dried, double-wrapped, vacuum-packed and, I have an unlimited broadband capacity.

I’m a rude dude, but I’m the real deal. Lean and mean! Cocked, locked and ready-to-rock. Rough, tough and hard to bluff. I take it slow, I go with the flow, I ride with the tide. I’ve got glide in my stride. Drivin and movin, sailin and spinin, jiving and groovin, wailin and winnin. I don’t snooze, so I don’t lose. I keep the pedal to the metal and the rubber on the road. I party hearty and lunch time is crunch time. I’m hangin in, there ain’t no doubt and I’m hangin tough, over and out!"

Sunday, 9 November 2008

Obama and the War on Brains

Nick Kristof points right on where it hurts: before getting better, the world will have to get smarter. starting with its number one bully, the united states.

Barack Obama’s election is a milestone in more than his pigmentation. The second most remarkable thing about his election is that American voters have just picked a president who is an open, out-of-the-closet, practicing intellectual.

Maybe, just maybe, the result will be a step away from the anti-intellectualism that has long been a strain in American life. Smart and educated leadership is no panacea, but we’ve seen recently that the converse — a White House that scorns expertise and shrugs at nuance — doesn’t get very far either.

We can’t solve our educational challenges when, according to polls, Americans are approximately as likely to believe in flying saucers as in evolution, and when one-fifth of Americans believe that the sun orbits the Earth.

Almost half of young Americans said in a 2006 poll that it was not necessary to know the locations of countries where important news was made. That must be a relief to Sarah Palin, who, according to Fox News, didn’t realize that Africa was a continent rather than a country.

Perhaps John Kennedy was the last president who was unapologetic about his intellect and about luring the best minds to his cabinet. More recently, we’ve had some smart and well-educated presidents who scrambled to hide it. Richard Nixon was a self-loathing intellectual, and Bill Clinton camouflaged a fulgent brain behind folksy Arkansas aphorisms about hogs.

As for President Bush, he adopted anti-intellectualism as administration policy, repeatedly rejecting expertise (from Middle East experts, climate scientists and reproductive health specialists). Mr. Bush is smart in the sense of remembering facts and faces, yet I can’t think of anybody I’ve ever interviewed who appeared so uninterested in ideas.

At least since Adlai Stevenson’s campaigns for the presidency in the 1950s, it’s been a disadvantage in American politics to seem too learned. Thoughtfulness is portrayed as wimpishness, and careful deliberation is for sissies. The social critic William Burroughs once bluntly declared that “intellectuals are deviants in the U.S.”

(It doesn’t help that intellectuals are often as full of themselves as of ideas. After one of Stevenson’s high-brow speeches, an admirer yelled out something like, You’ll have the vote of every thinking American! Stevenson is said to have shouted back: That’s not enough. I need a majority!)

Yet times may be changing. How else do we explain the election in 2008 of an Ivy League-educated law professor who has favorite philosophers and poets?

Granted, Mr. Obama may have been protected from accusations of excessive intelligence by his race. That distracted everyone, and as a black man he didn’t fit the stereotype of a pointy-head ivory tower elitist. But it may also be that President Bush has discredited superficiality.

An intellectual is a person interested in ideas and comfortable with complexity. Intellectuals read the classics, even when no one is looking, because they appreciate the lessons of Sophocles and Shakespeare that the world abounds in uncertainties and contradictions, and — President Bush, lend me your ears — that leaders self-destruct when they become too rigid and too intoxicated with the fumes of moral clarity.

(Intellectuals are for real. In contrast, a pedant is a supercilious show-off who drops references to Sophocles and masks his shallowness by using words like “fulgent” and “supercilious.”)

Mr. Obama, unlike most politicians near a microphone, exults in complexity. He doesn’t condescend or oversimplify nearly as much as politicians often do, and he speaks in paragraphs rather than sound bites. Global Language Monitor, which follows linguistic issues, reports that in the final debate, Mr. Obama spoke at a ninth-grade reading level, while John McCain spoke at a seventh-grade level.

As Mr. Obama prepares to take office, I wish I could say that smart people have a great record in power. They don’t. Just think of Emperor Nero, who was one of the most intellectual of ancient rulers — and who also killed his brother, his mother and his pregnant wife; then castrated and married a slave boy who resembled his wife; probably set fire to Rome; and turned Christians into human torches to light his gardens.

James Garfield could simultaneously write Greek with one hand and Latin with the other, Thomas Jefferson was a dazzling scholar and inventor, and John Adams typically carried a book of poetry. Yet all were outclassed by George Washington, who was among the least intellectual of our early presidents.

Yet as Mr. Obama goes to Washington, I’m hopeful that his fertile mind will set a new tone for our country. Maybe someday soon our leaders no longer will have to shuffle in shame when they’re caught with brains in their heads.

-- by N. kristof in the NY times Op/Eds.

Tuesday, 4 November 2008

NYT comics today


Pat Oliphant a toujours un trait genial


doonesbury dit la verité toute bete:




quand a tony auth, il va a l essentiel:

Monday, 3 November 2008

the dies are cast, all bets are off.

Now go vote america, and dont fuck it up! the world can't take another 8 years being shit on!

si se puede!

Tuesday, 21 October 2008

mccain really is after obama's arse....

most awesome shot of this campaign, and its not even photoshopped!






this is not a fake...
http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/44003/original.jpg

Tuesday, 14 October 2008

blast from the past...?

the movie is from 1987...yet it is scarily up to date:


"The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms - greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge - has marked the upward surge of mankind, and greed - you mark my words - will not only save Teldar Paper but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA. Thank you."

gordon gekko in "wall street" (ranked #57 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.).

Monday, 13 October 2008

Paul Krugman Wins Economics Nobel

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/paul-krugman-wins-economics-nobel/?hp

Saturday, 11 October 2008

un de moins / a bit less trash on the face of the earth....

Jörg Haider se tue dans un accident de voiture... un de moins....
sur yahoo

Jörg Haider is dead, car crash. ... one down, many to go.
on the NY times web page

Wednesday, 1 October 2008

Injustice, n.f.: Manque de justice, d’équité.

copie d 'une news de yahoo.....ecoeurant.

AP - Lundi 29 septembre, 14h03

PARIS - Le conseiller général UMP des Hauts-de-Seine, Jean Sarkozy, a été relaxé lundi par le tribunal correctionnel de Paris qui le jugeait pour "délit de fuite". En revanche, le plaignant a été condamné à verser 2.000 euros de dommages et intérêts au fils cadet du président de la république pour "procédure abusive".

"Je savais que la justice était inégale, mais de là à se faire condamner à 2.000 euros pour procédure abusive, c'est surréaliste!", a réagi M'Hamed Bellouti, très abattu. "Je savais qu'il était au-dessus des lois, Jean Sarkozy, mais à ce point... C'est inquiétant pour la Justice et pour la République", a-t-il ajouté, expliquant qu'il réfléchissait à faire appel.

"On n'a jamais fait dire autre chose que de dire que c'est un dossier vide", a souligné pour sa part Me Thierry Herzog, l'avocat de la famille Sarkozy. "La justice a fait ce qu'elle devait faire, la justice est la même pour tous", a-t-il ajouté en estimant qu'on "ne peut pas accuser de manière téméraire".

Le 10 octobre 2005, M. Bellouti se faisait emboutir sa voiture place de la Concorde par un scooter qui prenait la fuite. Il notait l'immatriculation du deux-roues, avant de contacter son assureur qui écrivait alors à son propriétaire en janvier 2006. Sans nouvelle de sa part un mois plus tard, il portait plainte, mais celle-ci sera égarée. M. Bellouti a dit n'avoir appris que par la suite l'identité du conducteur.

Au moment des faits, "j'étais vraisemblablement en train de suivre des cours", a expliqué Jean Sarkozy lors de son procès en juin. Il a toujours nié son implication dans cet accident. Le plaignant ne demandait que le remboursement des 260 euros de dégâts et 4.000 euros de dommages et intérêts pour préjudice moral.

Le parquet avait estimé que le délit n'était pas constitué et requis la relaxe de Jean Sarkozy, âgé de 22 ans. AP




Monday, 29 September 2008

Rencontre avec...

Ce weekend c etait le salon du livre ici, et a ma grande surprise, Janry etait programmé, donc le grand gamin que je suis s'est mis dans la file d attente et a eu sa dedicace, youpi!

Spip, par le maitre!


et un joli fantasio sur ma copie de "Machine Qui Reve"

Je sais pas si vous avez deja eu l occasion de rencontrer en vrais des gens qui vous on fait rever toute leur vie, mais ca fait archi bizarre, se rendre compte que ben finalement ils sont tres tres tres humains....meme si ce !"#%& de janry a un coup de feutre d'extraterrestre, rogntudju!

Monday, 22 September 2008

Saturday, 20 September 2008

rubrique cinoche, au rayon a voir d'urgence.

Lilya 4 ever
Lukas Moodysson
2002

Lilja 4 ever n est pas un film. C est un cocktail molotov mental. Le realisateur, lukas moodysson, est le pendant suedois des freres dardennes ou de ken loach (en plus religieux).

Lilja 4 ever, c est une histoire, celle de lilja, petite russe dans un pays post ussr qui n a plus rien a offrir sinon des reve de fuite vers l etranger. Ce reve, c est aussi celui de sa maman a lilja. Mais la ou le cauchemar commence pour la gamine, c est qu'elle ne fait pas parti du reve de sa mere, qui prend la fuite vers un hypotetique reve americain.

Premier abandon, premiere lacheté d un monde d adulte jamais en retard d une souffrance.

Lilja 4 ever, c est l histoire de l innocence des momes, malgres tout. malgres la colle qu on se met dans le nez pour rever, malgres l egoisme des adultes, malgres leur crasse. une innoncence jamais perdue, jusque a la fin.

Moodysson n est pas tendre avec notre societe et montre crudement de quoi nous sommme (oui, nous) responsable. de l horreur du monde version post sovietique a la descente au enfer du passage a l ouest via la filiere du traffic d'humain. Dans cette fable moderne le petit chaperon rouge est entouré de loups plus affamés les un que les autres, et le happy end attendra.

Lilya 4 ever est a voir, de toute urgence. c est une merveille cinematographique, et un monument d'art au service du social.

putain, quelle claque. Pas eu autant mal apres un film depuis rosetta.
19/20

PS: je recommande enormement les autres films de mr moodysson: Fucking Åmal ( en anglais: show me love ...allez comprendre) et Tillsammans (plus litteralement cette fois ci: Together.). J ai pas encore vu ses films plus recents, mais ca devrait pas tarder.

Tuesday, 16 September 2008

Oliver Stone nous fait son W

j avais bien aimé son nixon (un peut long quand meme), donc je suis vraiment curieux de voir comment il va nous raconter la vie du couillon de Pennsilvannia Ave. Vue la sacro sainte horreur qu'oliver a du montage (cf any given sunday, le film le plus long / chiant du monde) , attendont nous a a machin de six heures qui fera passer les dix commandements pour un clip.
http://www.wthefilm.com/

FRA, chumbawamba, patati patata

Aujourd hui dans ma jolie petite ville a moi on est de manif contre la F.R.A. Qu'es a quó? ben c est notre edwige a nous (regardez la ) , notre brave gouvernement "modéré" (comprendre: l'UMP local) ayant decidé d ecouter tout ce qu on avais a dire.

On vit une epoque formidable. Les banques font 600 Milliards de deficit avant de mettre la clefs sous la porte... mais on fait pas confiance a dupont au point qu il faut tous surveiller, on sais jamais que notre ame de salaud de gauchiste se reveille.


tient en parlant de liberté d expression, courrez acheter/voler/telecharger le dernier chumbawamba, "the boy bands have won", c est une merveille comme d'hab est les textes sont les plus jolis molotov verbaux de cette année.

no pasaran,
Dr Flo

Friday, 12 September 2008

Retour Bourin aux 80s

Pas honte de dire que j'aime vachement le dernier metallica, qui assume pleinement son role de "pan dans ta gueule", avec le titre cretin (death magnetics), les lyrics pas franchement indispensables et, bien sur, des riffs assassins pendant 80 minutes. Ca fait du bien, ca defoule, le pied.

Le clip du single "the day that never comes", realisé par Thomas Vinterberg, est dispo ici.
Metallica, Death Magnetic, dans les bacs aujourdhui, sur bittorrent depuis une semaine.

Thursday, 11 September 2008

le Onze Septembre...

Pour nous en suède, le onze septembre c'est aussi le synonyme de l assassinat d'Anna Lindh. Cinq ans deja.
Pour ceux qui comprennent le viking:
http://gp.se/gp/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=361&a=444394

Pour en savoir plus sur Anna lindh:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Lindh
ou
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Lindh

ca commence toujours par les bibliotheques

La liste de bouquin bannie par la gouverneur de l'Alaska (sarah Palin) en dit long sur la vue qu'ell se fait du monde:

  • Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  • A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
  • Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
  • As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
  • Blubber by Judy Blume
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  • Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
  • Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Carrie by Stephen King
  • Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
  • Christine by Stephen King
  • Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Cujo by Stephen King
  • Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen
  • Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite
  • Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
  • Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
  • Decameron by Boccaccio
  • East of Eden by John Steinbeck
  • Fallen Angels by Walter Myers
  • Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland
  • Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
  • Forever by Judy Blume
  • Grendel by John Champlin Gardner
  • Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
  • Have to Go by Robert Munsch
  • Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
  • How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
  • Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
  • Impressions edited by Jack Booth
  • In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
  • It's Okay if You Don't Love Me by Norma Klein
  • James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
  • Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
  • Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
  • Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
  • Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  • Love is One of the Choices by Norma Klein
  • Lysistrata by Aristophanes
  • More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
  • My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
  • My House by Nikki Giovanni
  • My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara
  • Night Chills by Dean Koontz
  • Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  • On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
  • One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  • One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Ordinary People by Judith Guest
  • Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Collective
  • Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
  • Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl
  • Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz
  • Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
  • Separate Peace by John Knowles
  • Silas Marner by George Eliot
  • Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
  • Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
  • The Bastard by John Jakes
  • The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
  • The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
  • The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  • The Devil's Alternative by Frederick Forsyth
  • The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs
  • The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  • The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
  • The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
  • The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder
  • The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
  • The Living Bible by William C. Bower
  • The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
  • The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman
  • The Pigman by Paul Zindel
  • The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders
  • The Shining by Stephen King
  • The Witches by Roald Dahl
  • The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder
  • Then Again, Maybe I Won't by Judy Blume
  • To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
  • Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster
  • Editorial Staff
  • Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween Symbols by Edna Barth
Ca calme hein? La seule bonne nouvelle: apparement on peut encore lire Fluide Glacial a Anchorage.

Wednesday, 10 September 2008

Mercredi Dix Septembre 2008

Voila, mon petit debut sur mon encore plus petit bout de blog. on se retrouve bientot pour plein de ralerie en tout genre...


sortez couvert et envoyez vos (bonne) idées au partis socialiste. faite une photocopie avant, on sais jamais, des fois qu'il les garde.


Dr Flo