POUR QUE LES CHOSES SOIENT BIEN CLAIRES : JE SUIS UN ANTI-BUSH DE LA PREMIERE HEURE, ET UN ANTI-SARKO MOTIVE.
Producer (Ensuran Prod., ESP Music), composer-song writer, lyrics writer, and bass player @ Aint No Dub
(also sing a bit sometimes, on "Will You Come" for instance).
I have written here, a number of poems. That is something named "a journey to my space". I wrote my journey to my space. I have published poetry in French, but this stuff is my first attempt to write a book in English and French at the same time. It's a weird adventure crossing the moving borderline of virtuality and reality. I stopped, and completed the Book 1. This day is December 9, 2006. You can still read this in the blog space, there are a number of them (browse the blog archives "older" link). It has taken me very intensively. It's is a real journey, not a virtual one.
This day is January 30, 2006. After a while without publishing, but still writing, I am back for sharing with those who want to. This "Journey to my space, Book 2", is under construction. I am writing. Look out, subscribe to my blog.
May 16, 2007. I wrote the last poem of the book, it's called "Amorous Dialogues", and will be the entry for the Poegasm final contest this upcoming week-end. If you like it by the way, you will be welcome for an encouraging vote :-)
"A Journey to My Space - Un voyage dans mon espace" will be published and available on amazone.com and other stores this summer.
You can also visit my poetry web site, where you will find the whole collection of "Journey to My Space", in English, and in French. Click on this link:
Bertrand Damien
Who am I?
I was an accident (a happy one though, because I'm here to tell...) that my mother wanted to keep whatever happens and she paid it a costly price. My progenitor was a French Minister, married and looking for beautiful young women. Incidentely, I have half brothers and sisters that I don't know. Just know that one of them is a famous painter, a pop art pope living in NY where he was with Andy Warhol.
Born in Paris, I grew up in south of France, with my father in heart who took me and mom when I was 2. And gave me also 2 other brothers.
I studied a bit, university of Philosophy in Toulouse, though not really paying attention and much time to it because I was too much in my punk years, playing music, recording vynils, touring on stage, running radio shows, setting up art gallery, and creating my first enterprise to find a way to fill up a fridge.
At some point I decided it was too hard to live of music then, so I decided to make some money on creative technology ideas of my own, to give a chance to come back to music later, with some bucks in the pocket. Which I did. Created 3 enterprises, then recruited by some big US corp (Intel), then back to entrepreneurial things. I was even a recognized expert, a pioneer in VoIP, an often awarded speaker at worldwide conferences, a Director of strategic marketing consulting and etc. And finally I met success at some point with a startup created in 99, in which I was a player amongst others. Enough to say "ciao the telecoms" when we were bought by some giant, and I came back to what I always wanted to do. Music.
In fact, I've spent the past 15-20 years travelling throughout the world, visiting about 60 countries or more, meeting people, discovering different cultures, and so forth.
Few lessons I've learnt.
First, we're all the same human kind.
Second, a consequence of First, fools and dirty bad people exist everywhere, but true great people are also all around us.
Third, there is no culture superior to another, there are just different contexts and experiences.
Fourth, poverty is the source of 50% of the pain in the world.
Fifth, money and power dominations are the mirrored images of poverty that provide the 50 remaining percents of pain.
