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Dr COULARDEAU

The perambulating contemplator, or predator

About Me

I have been travelling so much in this life that I kind of long to get into another life in which I could just stay on the shoulder of the road and look at the show. Unluckily it does not seem to be possible. The latest trips were to Sri Lanka for three months to study eco-cultural tourism and development there, to Scotland to study poetry and politics and speak of poets and the war on Iraq in 2003, to Brest to study the diachrony of Pali the canonical language of Buddhism, and every week or so to Paris to teach who knows what in the universities there. The latest mental trips were in Stephen King, the Godfather, the Da Vinci Code, the cuckoo's nest over which one is flying, the salesman who is dying on stage and so many others like Strauss's Rosenkavalier or Monteverdi's Poppea, etc. And those are only some of last week's trips. That's what I can do in order to see the world joining both perambulating and contemplating. I have ants in my soul and cramps in my minds. So I have to run their legs and let the dark blood of unexpected confrontations flow in their veins, or arteries.And why not add one more thing. Sin is the most beautiful thing you can dream of, especially since some of these sins must be dreamed of and not performed if you don't want to be punished with obesity or cancer.Jacques

My Interests

Horror, fantastique literature, Shakespeare, Clive Barker, Whitman, Haendel and Purcell, Bach and Anne Rice, music starting in Greek antiquity, opera starting in the thirteenth century, skin as the recepient of the wind and beath of life.

I'd like to meet:

I'd like to meet Obadiah Shoher, the author of "Samson Blinded: A Machiavelian Perspective on the Middle East Conflict", present on http://www.samsonblinded.org. But a site is not enough, a book is too little. But you do the trip and meet him in what he has written. I just hope one day I may just hold his hand, shake it and kiss his soul. That's how I feel about all Jews and all Arabs. It is for me an old love affair between their sky and my soul, or their soul and my heart. I can't help it. I am a Semite-lover, just like others were black-lovers in the US a long time ago. God bless the Selmitic people! I'd like to meet people who do not know what limits and limitations are and who would consider frontiers and borders as the necessary suburbs of they daytime life and the battlefields of their nighttime life. I'd like to meet people who would emphasize intervals rather than notes, and who would love the diabolical tritone. I'd like to meet people for whom color and darkness would be the basic ingredients of their vision that would only include whiteness as a shade of grey if not of black. Could I ever meet Prokofief's three oranges on a bar counter?

Music:

All, absolutely all, from Japanese noise to operatic altos and countertenors

Movies:

All, absolutely all, from the good old black and white silent muties to today's popular blockbusters and intimate clandestine author's works of art that will never go beyond the twenty seat movie "theaters". Have you ever admired Clive Barker's Salomé?

Television:

I can do without that, except the Twilight Zone, Bonanza, Twin Peaks, and all these series that explore the backside of things.

Books:

All absolutely all provided they are in a language I can read, and I can read a few, and even if they are in a strange language, let me get them in English and that will do.

Heroes:

The Gods of the mind, the Goddesses of the soul, and the conviction that Buddha was right when he said that we need no Gods or Goddesses to understand the world.

My Blog

A film of tact and radio waves

That film is a gem of love and care for those who are too often rejected. It is teh best lesson we can receive about opening  our arms to others and softening our hearts to thise who are differen...
Posted by Dr COULARDEAU on Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:00:00 PST

Medieval Inventiveness

The Middle Ages probably are my favorite historical period because of the fact that you can see a new society emerging through the sheer efforts of the people who bring together religion, society...
Posted by Dr COULARDEAU on Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:59:00 PST

AGNES JAOUI, BETWEEN INTEREST AND SURPRISE

I HAVE SEEN TWO FILMS BY AGNÈS JAOUI THESE LAST EIGHT DAYS AND I CANNOT RESIST TELLING YOU WHAT I FELT AND EXPERIENCED WHEN WATCHING THEM. SORRY IT IS IN FRENCH.AGNES JAOUI  24 HEURES DE LA VIE ...
Posted by Dr COULARDEAU on Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:38:00 PST

SICK AND DEAD IN ONE MOVE

MICHAEL MOORE DEALING WITH SICKNESS, OR RATHER WITH THE SICKNESS INDUSTRY IS FOR SURE A SUBJECT WE COULD TALK ABOUT FOR DAYS, BUT LET'S STAY SHORT.MICHAEL MOORE  SICKOThis political documentary is a ...
Posted by Dr COULARDEAU on Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:41:00 PST

FIREFLY WITH SERENITY

I COULD TALK HOURS ABOUT THIS SERIES. SO BETTER SHUT UP AND LET THE REVIEW SPEAK ALL BY ITSELF.FIREFLY THE COMPLETE SERIESAt first it looks and sounds light and even amateurish, and then you understan...
Posted by Dr COULARDEAU on Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:12:00 PST

LOS ANGELES MELTING POT

THE GOALS, THE PLANS, THE HOPES OF YOUNG IMMIGRANT CHILDREN IN LOS ANGELES GO THROUGH EDUCATION THAT MAKES INTEGRATION POSSIBLE WHEREAS CREWS AND GANGS ONLY MAKE THE PAST ETERNAL AND THE PRESENT LETHA...
Posted by Dr COULARDEAU on Sun, 05 Oct 2008 04:40:00 PST

GOD OUR INVENTION

I CANNOT RESIST AND GIVE YOU THE EMAILS I HAVE EXCHANGED TODAY WITH X-MAN A MYSTERIOUS INTERNET-PAL OF MINE THAT I LIKE IN A WAY AND DISLIKE IN ANOTHER WAY BUT APPRECIATE ALWAYS.My exch...
Posted by Dr COULARDEAU on Sat, 04 Oct 2008 04:48:00 PST

INVASION = CORRUPTION = DECEPTION

I HESITATE... IS THAT FILM A FICTION FILM OR IS IT A POLITICAL DOCUMENTARY ON THE PRESENT FIASCO IN WHICH THIRTY YEARS OF MILITARY AND FINANCIAL ADVENTURE HAVE PUT US...? I WILL LEAN TOWARDS POLITICAL...
Posted by Dr COULARDEAU on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:36:00 PST

NOIR IS SUPPOSED TO BE NOIR

IT IS NEITHER NOIR NOR PSYCHOLOGICAL ENOUGH TO BE AN OUTSTANDING FILM. NOT NOIR ENOUGH. THE KILLER FAILS AND IS DEFEATED BY MORE THAN AN AMATEUR: THE TAXI-DRIVER DOES NOT EVEN KNOW HOW TO USE A GUN.NO...
Posted by Dr COULARDEAU on Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:31:00 PST

I am fondling the idea to become nostalgic

A good selection whose main attraction is the nostalgia it carries and conveys.COUNTRY BLUEGRASS & MOUNTAIN MUSICTurn nostalgic and get into that selection of 60 old-time country classics. Of cour...
Posted by Dr COULARDEAU on Sat, 27 Sep 2008 02:47:00 PST