Sunday, January 19, 2025
Stromae - Multitude, le film (Full concert)
Lucifer is a good door opener, a key in one word
BYRON
& BLAKE – DIVINE TERNARY TRIAD
https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/byron-blake-divine-ternary-triad-2e23517251c0
Lord Byron – why on earth do we keep that
obsolete title? – sees in Cain a
picaresque discontented unfaithful rebellious chap who lets Lucifer take him on
a great trip to other dimensions of this world where he discovers that only humanity
is doomed to die, each individual, one after the other because his mother disobeyed
God and let the snake court her and seduce her into picking a fruit – probably a
fig rather than an apple – from the Tree of Knowledge declared out of human scope
by God.
That’s the whole dilemma of Prometheus, or
later Dr. Faustus, or in-between of the poor Daniel who will end up with the
lions, playing cat and NOT mouse with them. Cain is rebellious and Byron, with
this long trip beyond death and the earth's surface into the cosmos, supports
and encourages his rebellion. He also exonerates his killing his brother Abel
as being an accident resulting from Abel’s subservience and obstinacy.
Blake protested at the time and evoked Abel’s
ghost to support what Blake believes deeply: there exists a higher all-powerful
order in this human cosmic and ethical adventure called life and man is supposed
to abide by its orders and commands. There cannot be any rebellion. Let
yourself be carried by this enormous power that may lead you to full communion
within and with this cosmic energy. Submit to the vision of the beyond of this
narrow material and human life which is doomed and has been deemed to end up in
death. Life is mortal.
2025 • Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com
10
Pages
Doctrine
of God, * Original
Sin, *
Incest
in myth, * Tyranny, ** Historical
Adam and Eve, * Cain
and Abel
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Poupinou s'est démis de la vie
POUPINOU
AND PICMUCHE
https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/poupinou-and-picmuche-39bde9241a37
I
knew them from 1976 to 1995 when I finally migrated to our Central Mountains
and Auvergne. They were a tremendous experience. They were able to make music
speak and laugh and they moved Carmen, the opera, of course, dumb ass! Picmuche
and Poupinou were for me the perfect extraterrestrial neighborly pair if not a
couple of clowns. Now that Gilles Defacques is gone, are they still going to
wait for the coming of some God? Probably because clowns always stick to their
antics. And they have, had, and will always have plenty of tricks in their
pockets, and if not in their pockets probably in their shoes, socks, but beware
the hats: they always hide some deadly weapons of general laughter there,
laughing louse that is ready to jump onto you just like fleas on a famished
dog.
Oui! cette fois, Poupinou n'a pas triché et il ne
sera jamais plus avec nous, si ce n'est en mémoire et en phantasme. Mais il
nous fera toujours rire.
2025
• Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com
11
Pages
Burlesque, * Clown, * Bakhtin
carnival and the grotesque body, * Picturesque, * Circus
Sunday, January 05, 2025
Gangsters et Singes ont la peau-lisse au derrière
FROM
FARCE TO DRAMA, CHASED BY THE POLICE
https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/magic-blood-crime-farcical-tragedy-f737f6229aac
3RD
ROUND
KNOCKED
OUT
KAPUTT
This third round is centered on crime and the
police.
1- Benoit Poelvoorde, Dany Boon, Rien
à Déclarer. Customs officers are playing carnival.
2- Jeremy Brett, David Burke, Sherlock
Holmes, a series and a handful of films.
3- Basil Rathbone, Tribute to Sherlock
Holmes with four films, Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapons, The
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Woman in Green, and Dressed to
Kill.
4- Stephen King's Dark Tower, The
Gunslinger, the full omnibus edition of the comic book.
The series with Jeremy Brett and David Burke
is probably not a masterpiece but they tried to keep the proper environment for
the stories that take place at the end of the 19th century and the
beginning of the 20th century. The acting is good though it becomes slightly
routine-minded towards the end.
The four films with Basil Rathbone are from
just before WW2 to just after it. No color, no real special effects, and small
budgets. One is mediocre war propaganda. The others are banal with no real plot
or suspense. Maybe the fourth one might be slightly in Holmes’ line.
Plus a small magazine with some simple data
about Sir Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, the various stories written for the character,
and the various films. But today that’s a little bit meager with the Internet.
Google Sherlock Holmes and you’ll see the myriad of pages you will get. So, it
is a little bit disappointing.
I kept Stephen King for the end because the
comic book is absolutely phenomenal and marvelous. Creative art, multi-layer
narrator, piled up universes revealing what humanity is doing to the cosmos.
Nothing good at all. The art is by far outstanding. We could discuss a lot the
idea that in this phantasmagorical universe, the principle you can achieve nothing
good if you do not sacrifice a human being before getting on the road is
barbaric, and feudal, but deeply ingrained in all religions in this world, apart
from Theravada Buddhism.
So, enjoy these series, films, and comic books in the weeks leading to Twelfth Night, Mardi Gras, and the Carnival.