ORANGE PEELPierre Guyotat : Joyeux animaux de la misère
Pierre Guyotat __ January 17, 2016
Interview of Pierre Guyotat by Dominiq Jenvrey about Joyeux animaux de la misère (Joyous Animals of Misery, untranslated, Gallimard, 2014).
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SNOOPYThe Zamansky mystery
__ October 11, 2015
Coming home from the INA / GRM concert “Homage to Luc Ferrari”, suddenly I saw the lights of the Zamansky Tower flickering.
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KISS ME DEADLYReign in Blood
Erik Morse __ May 24, 2014
THE SECRET MARK THAT FRENCH PULP VILLAIN FANTÔMAS LEFT ON THE 20TH CENTURY
In 1911 the bourgeoning ‘industry’ behind French cinema was controlled by two powerful surnames: Pathé and Gaumont. Since the first exhibition of the Lumière Brothers’ cinematograph in 1895, rival inventors, filmmakers and producers had vied for control of the public’s imagination with this wonderful new device.[... more]
KISS ME DEADLYWOMANITY or The Kisses of the Lycaon pictus
Cécile Mainardi __ January 06, 2014
Even if well filmed, the kissing scene, in which the woman, kissed by force, is first recalcitrant then willing, and melts like vanilla ice-cream under the thawing effects of a kiss, does not hold water. We do not believe it. We do not believe it anymore. The woman is a muscle contracted by the man, his kiss her relaxant. The woman does not want such a man but she always wants a kiss, even if taken by force, even if stolen. [... more]
SNOOPYTurkish Delight
Alessandro Mercuri __ January 05, 2014
Parcourant le cosmos, l’orbite lunaire et les rives de la mer Égée, à quelques jours d’intervalle, au début de l’année 2010, trois événements troublants ont été rapportés par la presse. Ce qui devait arriver arriva. Une onde de stupeur se propagea à travers les salles de rédactions submergées par l’inquiétude ou la surprise. L’inattendu eut lieu dans une étoile, à la surface du Soleil, mais aussi en orbite et en Turquie.
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KISS ME DEADLYInfinity Minus One
Alessandro Mercuri __ January 05, 2014
Once upon a time, eons ago, towards the end of the 70s, in a distant galaxy, a father and his son lived upon a snowy planet named Krypton, a meringue of ice, frost and crystal. Jor-El was the father and Kal-El the newborn son. Their days were numbered. The sun of Krypton was about to perish. The explosion of the star was inevitable. [... more]
INVADERSHouston We Have No Problem
Barack Obama __ October 04, 2013
INVADERSMondo Kawaii @..@
Alessandro Mercuri __ June 11, 2013
They are called Cuddles, Giggles, Lumpy, Toothy, Nutty, Flaky, Flippy. There are also Petunia, Splendid and Disco Bear. They are onomatopoeias, squirrels, rabbits, raccoons, beavers, cubs. They frolic around gleefully in a childish nature to the sound of a childish music tinted with hysteria. They are adorable, naive and innocent, a little simple-minded, and pleased because the kingdom of heaven is theirs. [... more]
KISS ME DEADLYMandrake is Mandrake
Alessandro Mercuri __ April 29, 2013
Born under the pencil, the pen, the ink, and the etching, a torrent of magic appears in 1934 under the name of Mandrake the Magician. The character wears a classic and chic costume of music hall magician with a cape, a wand, a thin moustache and a top hat. Emanation from the soul of the writer, director, producer and comic strip author Lee Falk, Mandrake the Magician is published as comic strips in the daily press by the King Feature Syndicate, distribution union and exclusive property of the mogul, media tycoon: William Randolph Hearst.
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INVADERSIL.H.O.O.Q.
Alessandro Mercuri __ April 07, 2013
In Tunisia, on December 17, 2010, in the city of Sidi Bouzid, Mohamed Bouazizi, a street vendor selling fruits and vegetables...[... more]
ADDICTSNot now, not before . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Is French socialism conceptual art?
Alessandro Mercuri __ April 04, 2013
According to an urban legend (but is it really a legend?), in Italy, the Mafia once controlled some Antimafia Investigation Commissions. This is reminiscent of Epimenides' liar paradox as reported in the Epistle to Titus...
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SNOOPYL'Infini n°122
∞ __ March 14, 2013
L'Infini n°122 - Spring 2013 - Éditions Gallimard
Publishing in the literary magazine L'Infini of a critical essay previously released in ParisLike, for the glory of the President of the French Republic, François Hollande: Monsieur Ces Maintenants. De l'art poétique hollandais – une rhétorique sous hypnose[... more]
SNOOPYRebel With a Cause
Camille Paglia __ February 18, 2013
On the release of her new book on art history entitled "Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars" (Random House, 2012), American author and social critic Camille Paglia has been interviewed by ParisLike about her intellectual journey, her views on free thought, activism and her critical approach to dogmatism.[... more]
KISS ME DEADLYDallas, City of Hate
Alessandro Mercuri __ February 18, 2013
Like a painting by Roman Opalka, some soap operas last a lifetime. The television series The Young and the Restless has thus been broadcast for forty years. In forty seasons, through springs, summers, falls and winters, a billion consumers (four times more women) have been able to watch more than ten thousand episodes—250 per year. [... more]
ADDICTSAix-voto
Alessandro Mercuri __ February 18, 2013
On the autumnal morning of Thursday the 4th of October, I decide to visit the Cathedral Saint-Sauveur, in Aix-en-Provence. As soon as I enter the place, I see a sign welcoming visitors:
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SNOOPYThe Assassination of Apollinaire
Alessandro Mercuri __ February 18, 2013
The first issue of the gazette Le Mercure Galant—or Le Mercure Galant containing many true stories, and everything that happened before the 1st of January 1672 until the departure of the King—was published on the 1st of January 1672. It was renamed Le Mercure de France in 1724.[... more]
ADDICTSCall to composers
Brunhild Ferrari __ February 03, 2013
CALL TO COMPOSERS
This is for artists who wish to rework some of Luc Ferrari’s sound archives or to use them in a new musical project.
Therefore PRESQUE RIEN Association proposes for the second edition to visit the track list and listen to the files made available on the web site lucferrari.org.
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ADDICTSA Tribute to Daniel Arasse
Alessandro Mercuri __ January 18, 2013
On a winter’s day, during a visit of the Ludwig Forum Museum in Aachen, I saw a fly standing motionless on the surface of a painting by Winfried Gaul. The fly was as real as the painting. Made up of a hairy body and a soul, wings and antennae, the insect had come to rest on Tag und Nacht (1966). [... more]
KISS ME DEADLYTAUTOLOGICAL GREETINGS of François Hollande
__ January 01, 2013
TAUTOLOGICAL GREETINGS
of the President of the French Republic
François Hollande, December 31, 2012
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KISS ME DEADLYKIM JONG-UN's Pyongyang Style
Johann Peeters __ December 12, 2012
After "Gangnam Style", the worldwide K-pop success of South Korean Park Jae-sang a.k.a. Psy, it's now time for North Korean Kim Jong-un, a.k.a "the King of the Morning Star", to plunge the Earth into a space torpor. The name of his orbital performance is "Pyongyang Style", launched less than 10 days before the so-called End of the World.
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ADDICTSEverybody loves Vladi
Johann Peeters __ December 03, 2012
SNOOPYPerles de culture
Alessandro Mercuri __ November 15, 2012
ADDICTSNight of the Living Dead
Alessandro Mercuri __ November 05, 2012
During the Age of Pisces, according to tradition around the middle or the end of the 10th century – almost one century before the First Crusades – two Italian monks by the names of Arcano and Egidio made the pilgrimage to the Holy Land. By night, by day, on foot, on a mule’s back and in a boat, they returned to Italy, the home of Christianity, with relics of the Holy Sepulchre in their bags. [... more]
SNOOPYFrench Cucul
Alessandro Mercuri __ October 14, 2012
SNOOPYMonsieur Ces Maintenants
Alessandro Mercuri __ September 18, 2012
ORANGE PEELMental Metal
Johann Peeters __ July 01, 2012
Supreme Death, a pioneering, underground and avant-garde Heavy Metal band, is back after more than 25 years of silence and legal battles. Less known by the general public than bands such as Iron Maiden or Metallica, Supreme Death was founded in 1968 in New-Zealand...[... more]
ADDICTSToxic Dream
Alessandro Mercuri __ June 08, 2012
Sans titre, 2010, plastic, 36 x 40 x 36 cm
About "L’IRREMPLAÇABLE EXPÉRIENCE DE L’EXPLOSION DE SMOBY"
(The irreplaceable experience of Smoby’s explosion)
SCULPTURE BY ANITA MOLINERO
A pink fingered dawn rises over a landscape of rust and ruins. The action takes place in the northwest of Paris. Beyond the blind walls, old warehouses, peripheral industrial remains, at the Galerie Édouard Manet at Gennevilliers, Anita Molinero prepares an exhibition where the new sculptures of the series entitled « L’irremplaçable expérience de l’explosion de Smoby » will be shown.[... more]
ADDICTSThe myth of the hands of clay
Jean Levi __ May 03, 2012
"The Terracotta Army is a FAKE"
Interview with JEAN LEVI
sinologist, translator, writer, research director at CNRS
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Interview with JEAN LEVI
sinologist, translator, writer, research director at CNRS
[... more] ADDICTSDIAL B FOR BRIGITTE
Alessandro Mercuri __ April 06, 2012
(...) Hi Brigitte, Christian de Spa here. Um, I’m calling to ask you to call me back… I have a few things to explain to you and something to ask you but, uhh, it will be easier to tell you if you call me back. Try calling me back between 3 and 6. That’s it, thanks and speak to you later.[... more]
INVADERSFIDEL CASTRO, MY ASSOCIATE - The extraordinary adventures of a Breton privateer in the Caribbean
Alessandro Mercuri __ March 29, 2012
On April 17th, 1961, on the stroke of midnight on a black moon night, the CIA launched a secret military operation: the Bay of Pigs landing. The invasion aimed at overthrowing the Cuban government of Fidel Castro was a resounding failure.
On October 28, 1492, at the opposite point from the Bay of Pigs, another landing took place in the Bay of Bariay. Christopher Columbus landed in Cuba… thinking he had reached Japan. Thus, at dawn, he naturally sent two conquistadors to explore the island of the rising sun and of the sugar canes in search of the Great Khan, or more precisely of the Muromachi Shoguns who ruled the island from Kyoto to Guantanamo.[... more]
KISS ME DEADLYKINO-PORNO-PRAVDA, a pornographer behind the camera
Alessandro Mercuri __ February 20, 2012
THERE IS NO SEXUAL RAPPORT
A film by Raphaël Siboni with HPG
79 min / 2011 / X-rated
“After having put forward this which has the advantage of opening up to you my perspective, my project, I start again from something which concerns this point which is of the order of this surprise to which is signaled the effect of retrogression by which I have tried to define the junction between truth and knowledge and that I stated in the following terms that there is no sexual rapport in the speaking being.”
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SNOOPYL'émission de littérature / The Literary Radio Show by Dominiq Jenvrey
__ February 10, 2012
ParisLike is pleased to announce the launch of Dominiq Jenvrey’s "L'émission de littérature" website.
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SNOOPYWhen Arthur Rimbaud meets John Rambo
__ February 07, 2012
SNOOPYThe Black Herald - Issue #2
__ January 01, 2012
ADDICTSeRikm @ Ircam
__ December 21, 2011
CONVERSATION WITH ERIKM :
Meeting with turntablist and his instruments
With the participation of Joan Aguila
IRCAM__ June 22, 2011
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Meeting with turntablist and his instruments
With the participation of Joan Aguila
IRCAM__ June 22, 2011
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SNOOPYThe adventures of Jesús Maria Veronica in Holyhood
Alessandro Mercuri __ November 30, 2011
Winter 1531, Mexico City,
Mexico On top of Mount Tepeyac, the Virgin Mary, “dazzling with light” and as white as snow, appears to an Aztec Indian,[... more]
KISS ME DEADLYMad(e) in France - Land of Madness by Luc Moullet
Alessandro Mercuri __ November 29, 2011
In The Cinema according to Luc, Luc Moullet explains the following about his latest movie, Land of Madness (La terre de la folie, 2009): “Madness often leads to murder. I recount how my cousin had killed the ranger, the mayor and his wife, because the ranger had moved his goat 10 meters. Well, three people died."
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ORANGE PEELGlass Fur
Alessandro Mercuri __ November 29, 2011
