Showing posts with label Cult *. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cult *. Show all posts

Friday, April 17, 2009

Another Donnie Darko night.

En mettant la capuche de mon sweat-shirt American Apparel cet après-midi j'ai pensé à ce geste que Donnie Darko fait chaque fois qu'il s'apprête à accomplir son devoir de living receiver. Plus tard dans la journée, en me brossant les dents, je me suis dit qu'il fallait que je revoie le film... pour la n-ième fois.

À 19 heures 09 et 40 secondes (message details) j'ai reçu par erreur un SMS de G.; un mec de Craigslist que j'avais rencontré en décembre et plus jamais revu. J'ai répondu pour l'informer qu'il s'était trompé de destinataire (my ankle's just fine), et en quelques messages seulement, nous en sommes venus à la conclusion que lui et moi allions mater Donnie Darko ce soir, avec des bières. 

This is how we do in San Francisco! Craigslist remodèle les schémas relationnels. Si jamais vous cherchez un sujet pour votre mémoire de sociologie...

So Rich, So Pretty

So Rich, So Pretty de Mickey Avalon; lyrics glamour coke et vomi sec. Capture le parfum de la déliquescence des trust-fund kids de New York & Los Angeles. Click here pour la vidéo.
I like a girl with caked up makeup
In the sunshine smoking cigarettes to pass the time
Who wakes up to a bottle of wine on the nightstand
Bites and scratches the blinds
But I ain't found one quite right yet
So I step with pep to the park or supermarket
Her apartment best be messy
And Lisa don't mind when I call her Leslie 
She's gotta dress with class and Jean Paul Gaultier and a Hermes bag 
And four inch tips made of ostrich
Sharp enough to slit your wrists her lips spread gossip
Won't say sorry when she offends
She comes over to my place in her old man's Benz
In gold and silver and jewels of all colors
And she doesn't take them off when we're tearing up the covers

Come on and get it before I change my mind
Come on kid, don't waste my time
So rich, so pretty
The best piece of ass in the whole damn city
So rich, so pretty...

I like a girl who eats and brings it up
A sassy little frassy with bulimia
Her best friend's a plastic surgeon
And when her Beamer's in the shop she rolls the Benz
Manis and pedis on Sundays and Wednesdays
Money from mommy lovely in Versace
Costly sprees, it's on at Barney's
And I love to watch her go through fifty g's calmly
She gets naughty with her pilates body
And thinks it's really funny when her nose goes bloody
'cause the blow is so yummy and it keeps her tummy empty
And makes her act more friendly
Dance the night away

And she won't say nothing when she makes your man stray

I've had your kind before, Mickey
Go get my purse, Mickey
Lock the door, Mickey
You're just a midnight snack
Shhhh, don't talk back
You're just a boy Mickey
You're just a toy Mickey
You're just a boy Mickey

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Nectar de lyrics noirs

We could leave for a thousand years
And if I hurt you I'll make wine from your tears

___________________INXS - Never tear us apart


I hold an image of the ashtray girl 
Of cigarette burns on my chest 
I wrote a poem that described her world 
That put our friendship to a test 
And late at night Whilst on all fours 
She used to watch me kiss the floor

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Help me
You make me perfect
Help me become somebody else

 ____________________Nine Inch Nails - Closer

Friday, April 10, 2009

Le poème de Nabokov

Voilà un extrait de Lolita, 1955. Le poème qui suit devrait être enseigné à tous les petits enfants, à l'école primaire. Qui s'en offenserait? On m'a bien appris les Voyelles érotiques d'Arthur au CP.
Thursday. We are paying with hail and gale for the tropical beginning of the month. In a volume of the Young People's Encyclopedia, I found a map of the states that a child's pencil had started copying out on a sheet of lightweight paper, upon the other side of which, counter to the unfinished outline of Florida and the Gulf, there was a mimeographed list of names referring, evidently, to her class at the Ramsdale school. It is a poem I know already by heart.

      Angel, Grace 
      Austin, Floyd 
      Beale, Jack 
      Beale, Mary 
      Buck, Daniel 
      Byron, Marguerite 
      Campbell, Alice 
      Carmine, Rose 
      Chatfield, Phyllis 
      Clarke, Gordon 
      Cowan, John 
      Cowan, Marion 
      Duncan, Walter 
      Falter, Ted 
      Fantasia, Stella 
      Flashman, Irving 
      Fox, George 
      Glave, Mabel 
      Goodale, Donald 
      Gre
en, Lucinda 
      Hamilton, Mary Rose 
      Haze, Dolores 
     
Honeck, Rosaline 
      Knight, Kenneth 
      McCoo, Virginia 
      McCrystal, Vivian 
      McFate, Aubrey 
      Miranda, Anthony 
      Miranda, Viola 
      Rosato, Emil 
      Schlenker, Lena 
      Scott, Donald 
      Sheridan, Agnes 
      Sherva, Oleg 
      Smith, Hazel 
      Talbot, Edgar 
      Talbot, Edwin 
      Wain, Lull 
      Williams, Ralph 
      Windmuller, Louise

     A poem, a poem, forsooth! So strange and sweet was it to discover this "Haze, Dolores" (she!) in its special bower of names, with its bodyguard of roses--a fairy princess between her two maids of honor. I am trying to analyze the spine-thrill of delight it gives me, this name among all those others. What is it that excites me almost to tears (hot, opalescent, thick tears that poets and lovers shed)? What is it? The tender anonymity of this name with its formal veil ("Dolores") and that abstract transposition of first name and surname, which is like a pair of new pale gloves or a mask? Is "mask" the keyword? Is it because there is always delight in the semitranslucent mystery, the flowing charshaf, through which the flesh and the eye you alone are elected to know smile in passing at you alone? Or is it because I can imagine so well the rest of the colorful classroom around my dolorous and hazy darling: Grace and her ripe pimples; Ginny and her lagging leg; Gordon, the haggard masturbator; Duncan, the foul-smelling clown; nail-biting Agnes; Viola, of the blackheads and the bouncing bust; pretty Rosaline; dark Mary Rose; adorable Stella, who has let strangers touch her; Ralph, who bullies and steals; Irving, for whom I am sorry. And there she is there, lost in the middle, gnawing a pencil, detested by teachers, all the boys' eyes on her hair and neck, my Lolita.

Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Croule donc, société !

Voici un second extrait de  À rebours. J'aime l'oxymore "rayonnant, tel un abject soleil". J'aime aussi l'usage décadent du verbe éjaculer, habillé du champ lexical du profane, et la référence à la Genèse, lorsque Dieu dit au serpent: "Tu marcheras sur ton ventre et tu mangeras de la terre". 
C'était le grand bagne de l'Amérique transporté sur notre continent ; c'était enfin, l'immense, la profonde, l'incommensurable goujaterie du financier et du parvenu, rayonnant, tel qu'un abject soleil, sur la ville idolâtre qui éjaculait, à plat ventre, d'impurs cantiques devant le tabernacle impie des banques !
Eh ! croule donc, société ! meurs donc, vieux monde ! s'écria Des Esseintes...
À Rebours, Huysmans

Friday, February 13, 2009

À rebours

J'ai décidé de poster régulièrement des citations tirées du livre de Joris-Karl Huysmans dont s'inspire l'adresse de ce blog. Le livre ne parle de rien en particulier, sinon de l'ennui de Des Esseintes, esthète excentrique. La beauté du roman est dans son écriture riche, sombre et décadente. 

Baudelaire était allé, plus loin ; il était descendu jusqu'au fond de l'inépuisable mine, s'était engagé à travers de galeries abandonnées ou inconnues, avait abouti à ces districts de l'âme où se ramifient les végétations monstrueuses de la pensée.
Là, près de ces confins où séjournent les aberrations et les maladies, le tétanos mystique, la fièvre chaude de la luxure, les typhoïdes et le vomitos du crime, il avait trouvé, couvant sous la morne cloche de l'ennui, l'effrayent retour d'âge des sentiments et des idées.