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Jean C

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About Me

Born in The Big Apple. Been living in France since '71. Hopeless but happy romantic. Multiple artist: painter, sculptor, musician (primarily tropical piano), writer (books that I have problems even giving away), poolshooter, chess player and collagist. The collages in "My Pics" are just pieces of paper - NOT PAINT - taken mainly from supermarket junkmail. Closer inspection will reveal not brushstrokes, but cabbages, shrimp, pizza, etc. My "success profile" is somewhere between Van Gogh and the Big Lebowsky (my day will come when it's gone). Usually not considered a good dresser - even by the guys, so my only decent clothes are gifts from girlfriends. Hate housework except sewing and cooking, don't mow my lawn or wash my car. Don't particularly care for people bagging that formatted off-the-shelf and in-yer-face coolness or who look like toothpaste advertisements. Dislike traveling, battery operated junk and telephones. LOVE TO GOOF, especially cracking the king goofola when a friend has just taken a drink of something and then seeing how far the spray goes accross the room.

My Interests

All of the seventeen arts except syncrhonized underwater floral arrangement and origami. Sports on TV. Psychology, goophilosophy, billiards of all sorts. Singing "Mustang Sally" at karaokis, shopping for frozen pizza. Looking at clouds.

I'd like to meet:

Eddie Mitchell, Prince, Ray Anderson, Leonardo Da Vinci, Boris Vian, my father and mother again, Richard Brautigan, Franklyn Ajaye, Charles Bukowski, Robert Crumb

Music:

The Slickaphonics, Chopin, Th. Monk, Prince, Maceo Parker, Albita Rodriguez, Rare Earth, Willie Colon, 4 Etoiles, Papa Wemba, Pépé Kallé, Slaï, Eddy Miath, Gus Mahler, Busta Rhymes, The Goats, The Nylons, Amos Lee, Tracy Chapman, Clapton, 712 others.

Movies:

"Made in Heaven", "Dead On Arrival", "Brazil", "The Big Lebowsky", "Eraserhead", "Ghost", "Smoke", "Chicken Run", "Barfly", "Enfermé Dehors", "Chacun cherche son chat", "Secrets and Lies", "Little Miss Sunshine". Works of Altman, Loach, Lynch, Clapisch, Jacques Tati, Cassavetes, Julavski, Nick Park, Monty Python, Coen bros. and basically anything that speaks of humor or love with intelligence, feeling and/or tolerance.

Television:

Yes, but to each his own crap.

Books:

"Sombrero Fallout" (R. Brautigan), "Vercoquin et le plancton" (B. Vian), "Edmond Ganglion et Fils" and "L'Etourdissement" (J. Egloff), "Confederacy of Dunces" (J.K.Toole), "Wilt" (T.Sharpe), "The Republic" (Plato/Aristotle), "The Medium Is The Message" (M. McLuhan), "XY" (E. Badinter), "The Psychology of Women" (K. Horney), "Joy of Cooking (Rombecker), "Lord of the Rings" (Tolkein), All of Gary Larson, etc.

Heroes:

Nelson Mandela, M.L.King, M. Moore, my parents, Abbé Pierre, M. Gandhi

My Blog

The pissing duchess

 A client (nice guy) comes over with a bunch of terra cotta fragments. "Think you can fix this up?" he asks. "Sure, no problem," I answer. I lay the pieces out on the garden table. It’s obv...
Posted by Jean C on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:58:00 PST

vanity

Another excerpt from "Tholing The Thwarting Throngs", a book that not any publishers want and that I can't sell.         & nbsp;    &nbs...
Posted by Jean C on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 05:25:00 PST

"The Stick Man"

Just got back from a walk in the fields with my girlfriend's dog, Maya, who inspired this short story.                  &...
Posted by Jean C on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 07:06:00 PST

A MAJOR MOVE

   THAT DOES IT!!! I'm cleaning this house! Today is Tuesday...   Well, it was really time to do some housework - "redefining" my habitat in view of some dear friends' week-end visit. S...
Posted by Jean C on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 10:53:00 PST

Thanks, girls

   Taking a break from in-depth emergency housework that hasn't been done for years, because I can't hold back any longer with this longstanding feeling about women. This is nothing personal...
Posted by Jean C on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:02:00 PST

Jus' Poams

           " Pane" Laying back in unquiet silence, Searching to distract the eye, Low-calorie food for the mind, My gaze has caught a fly Bumping into ...
Posted by Jean C on Sun, 23 Jul 2006 04:36:00 PST