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LE LAPIN! LE LAPIN!</b><br><p>il semble que ces jours-ci j'aie vcu sous le signe du lapin. <br><p>tout a commenc avec Donni Darko. un film a priori inoffensif, ind amricain, dont j'attendais la sortie impatiemment aprs avoir vu jake gyllenhaal arpenter les planches du west end dans "this is our youth". cette pice de <a href="http://www.hollywood.com/celebs/bio/celeb/1672289">kenneth lonergan</a>, relatant l'histoire de trois adolescents de new-york dans les annes 80, est devenue le passage oblig de toute jeune personne  belle dentition ayant des vues sur un pied--terre  hollywood.<br>gyllenhaal avait rayonn d'nergie pure et brute, illustrant les incohrences et les peurs adolescentes de la manire la plus attachante, ses silences mme rduisant  nant les efforts laborieux des deux autres ttes d'affiche, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/entertainment/reviews/1879755.stm">Hayden Christensen, (anakyn skywalker), et anna paquin, (rescape du Piano)</a>; en brillant l'air de rien, gyllenhaal avait malgr lui pris dans ses feux ses co-stars, qui en taient rests figs comme des lapins.<br><p>depuis d'autres jeunes gens aux dents longues se sont essays  l'exercice: <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2002/05/08/btchas08.xml">matt damon, casey affleck et summer phoenix</a>, qui se sont fait descendre par la critique jugeant qu'ils taient trop ppres pour ces rles d'ados rvolts, et dernirement, <a href="http://www.londontheatre.co.uk/londontheatre/reviews/thisisouryouth02two.htm">colin hanks (fils) et kieran culkin (frre)</a>, ce dernier semblant faire l'unanimit de la critique.<br><p>gyllenhaal donc, revenant  l'offensive avec <a href="http://www.donniedarko.com/">donnie darko</a>, joue une fois de plus un adolescent un peu perturb, dont le meilleur ami lui annonce la fin du monde. tout irait pour le mieux dans le meilleur des mondes si son copain n'tait un lapin gant qui s'appelle Frank. ajoutez  cela une bande son commenant par "the killing moon" <a href="http://www.bunnymen.com/">d'echo & the bunnymen</a>, et vous comprendrez la naissance de mon obsession avec les lapins. donnie darko apprend galement que ce n'est pas pour rien que le lapin n'a pas t choisi comme meilleur ami de l'homme, mais je vous laisse le soin de dcouvrir pourquoi.<br><p>suivant la piste du lapin, je m'inquitai soudain du sort d'Echo, alias Ian McCullogh, et de ses Bunnymen. le ciel ne se fit pas attendre, et m'envoya sa rponse cruelle le lendemain, une nuit bleute o je me trouvai  regarder la tlvision  des heures indcentes. alors que je mettais un moratoire  mon zapping compulsif, la crmonie des Q awards (<a href="http://www.q4music.com/nav?page=q4music">du magazine musical du mme nom</a>) venait juste de rcompenser Coldplay pour leur dernier album.  chris martin, pas ingrat, est mont sur scne pour rendre hommage  echo&theB., achevant sa croisade personnelle pour la rintroduction de ces artistes dchus sur la scne musicale nationale. brave petit gars, <a href="http://www.q4music.com/nav?page=q4music.review.redirect&fixture_review=229590&resource=229590">a rush of blood to the head</a> me laisse un peu dubitative, mais il est toujours rafrachissant de voir un artiste comme martin rester fidle  ses premiers amours. lorsque mcCullogh est apparu, je me suis cependant demande si les efforts de martin n'taient pas purement et simplement un acte humanitaire: finis les lapins bouriffs, finie l'arrogance de la jeunesse dsabuse des annes 80, finie l'humour grinant et le romantisme entre les lignes. <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/mercury2002/story/0,12296,765789,00.html">the coral</a> ont remplac echo&theB. sur la longue liste des groupes essayant d'arracher Liverpool  son hritage industriel dcadent. <a href="http://www.qawards.co.uk/qawards/www/ontheday.html">ian McCullogh est devenu un gros champignon gonfl d'ennui</a> et de matins gris, de comprims aux couleurs fatigues et de bire de supermarch, ses yeux humides perdus dans le souvenir de nuits glorieuses, la frustration dans sa voix empte ne pouvant plus comprendre les sentiments et les mots d'une chanson trop souvent entonne.<br>a m'a rendue triste. il y avait-il des lapins plus heureux ailleurs sur terre? <br><p>en australie? le film <a href="http://www.rabbitprooffence.com.au/">rabbit-proof fence</a> m'apporterait peut-tre une rponse. bien que la critique soit excellente, je doutais que l'histoire vridique de la <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/05/20/1021801652478.html">"gnration vole"</a>, (politique de dracinement d'enfants aborignes) soit l'occasion de dbordements de joie. qu'importe!  l'heure devant le cinma, dtermine  acheter mon billet, me voil rejete par un changement d'horaire, la sance prvue  quatre heures tant annule. tant pis! ma qute de lapins ne s'arrterait pas l! un autre cinma, deux heures plus tard, et me voil dans la salle obscure. "tu es sre que nous sommes dans la bonne salle? le film aurait d commencer il y a une demi-heure! -ben oui! regarde! salle 2, c'est la salle 2, non?!" <br>un homme portant une chemise au got douteux entre, et s'adressant  l'auditoire, commence un discours sur la communication, pub et affiche de james bond. "Hein? c'est quoi a? merde! on n'est pas dans la bonne salle! - puisque je te dis que c'est la salle 2, on a vrifi!". l'intrus achve son discours "et sans plus attendre, je vous laisse regarder <a href="http://www.8-mile.com/">8 mile</a>!". "Putain! le film d'eminem! c'est le film d'eminem!" je jubile, essayant d'expliquer mais ne pouvant dire autre chose que "c'est le film d'eminem!". il faut dire que le fait que "le film d'eminem" ne sorte en angleterre qu'en janvier prochain, et que je me retrouve par le plus parfait des hasards dans une projection prive pour voir un film dont on dit qu'il a apport <a href="http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,837040,00.html">rdemption  marshall mathers de l'autre ct de l'atlantique</a>, me remplit d'une joie sans nom.<br>pass les fous-rire du premier quart d'heure, dus au dcalage entre la perspective de voir les grands espaces sauvages du bush australien et la vue du rappeur chantant devant un miroir de chiottes minables et trs urbaines, je me suis laisse entrane par l'histoire de 8 mile: eminem joue le rle d'un jeune homme sans futur  Detroit, dont les seules joies sont ses vires avec ses potes et sa passion pour les mots bien rouls. les "combats" ou joutes verbales, o s'opposent les meilleurs rappeurs de la ville alternent une routine blafarde, entre un boulot  l'usine et une mre, incarne par kim basinger, ne sachant faire face  ses responsabilits. clich? c'est sans compter sur le fait que le film est drle, attachant, et que Mathers sait mettre le dernier des sceptiques sur le cul avec sa capacit  transformer le plus banal des incidents en rap virtuose. la version parodique de "sweet home alabama" est un grand moment, o l'on imagine un eminem reconverti en rock singer. enfin, le combat final fera jubiler toute personne ayant dj saut et pitin avec un sourire bat dans un champ ou une salle aux murs dgoulinants de sueur.<br>je m'inquite seulement  la perspective de la sortie du film en france, o l'alternative semble tre un cran rempli de sous-titres, (tentant de soutenir le rythme avec lequel eminem dgomme ses pointes), ou un eminem chang en <a href="http://www.topkool.com/series_tv/doubleurs/doubleursA-C.htm">jacques balutin.</a><br><p>et les lapins dans tout a? outre le fait je me sois retrouve comme alice au pays des merveilles suivant le lapin blanc dans un lieu enchant et trange, (ici en l'occurrence, une petite after-film dans une crypte avec alcool a gogo), je suis venue  la conclusion que le fil d'ariane n'tait pas rompu. <br>marchant dans la nuit brumeuse sous la pleine lune, courant aprs le renard rapparu de nulle part, assise par terre dans la cuisine, fixant la machine  laver et remarquant  peine qu'une lessive encore mouille se trouvait l depuis au moins cinq jours, je me suis rpte: "c'est tout de mme incroyable!! incroyable que le surnom d'Eminem dans 8 mile soit 'rabbit'!"<br><br> <!-- Begin YACCS Code (part 2) --> <script language="javascript">get_comment_link(85267067)</script> <noscript><a href = "http://rateyourmusic.com/yaccs/commentsn?blog_id=90000018401&blog_entry_id=85267067">Add a comment</a></noscript> <!-- End YACCS Code (part 2) --> </p>     <font class="author">posted by lsdb - |</font> 	<font class="time"><a href="2002_11_01_blogmeblogmoi_archive.html#85267067">12:40 PM</a></font> 	<hr size="1">              <br><br><font class="date">Friday, November 22, 2002</font>      	<a name="84918642">&nbsp;</a>     <p>Q: WHAT WOULD JESUS DRIVE?<br>A: A PLAYMOBIL CAR<br><p>how extraordinary. while i was writing a post on biodiesel on wednesday, ITV news suddenly beamed in my direction and the Son of God looked me in the eye: <br>- "what d'you think i would drive?" he said, cheap neon xmas lights flashing behind him. <br>- hi jeez! howdy? i am writing that thing about biodiesel...<br>-WHAT WOULD I DRIVE? he repeated at the top of his voice as if i was deaf. a ford sierra? a white van?" he then walked off through a screen of smoke, while i desperately tried to decipher the writings on the back of his leather jacket. in silver studs they suddenly shone: WWJD.<br><p>WWJD? flashback to a surfing trip in portugal where one of these kiwi surfing chicks drawing sunsets in their travel diary proudly flashed her WWJD bracelet before us. "what's that?" we asked naively, thinking it was maybe some new kind of friendship bracelet. rolling her eyes up she sighed, "WWJD, What-Would-Jesus-Do!! bought it in ZA, these bracelets are so much fun!".<br><p><p>so the sacred letters were back: WWJD, with a D for drive.<br>trevor mcdonald's correspondent attempted to get some answers off a young ecclesiastic who suddenly came to the realisation that the path to enlightenment was filled with yet more questions "uhm, ... what car? uhm... i... i don't know, i don't know!" he said in despair. fortunately, the Evangelical Environmental Network know. "Love your neighbor as yourself" and stop driving your 2.6 picker trucks (pledge and buy and $5.00 bumper sticker, as seen on TV).  jesus don't like no picker trucks, sir. jesus walks! jesus rides his bicycle! i see you coming, you think jesus can't drive no car! f'course he can drive jesus! you just don't see him cos he drives invisible cars for people just like YOU not to see him! ha ha!<br><p>well. for once american religious groups are devoting their energy to something other than encouraging <a href="http://www.reapteam.org/ch_2ndv.htm">secondary virginity</a>, selling <a href="http://www.revivalsoy.com/index.html">milkshakes to improve vaginal moisture</a>, wishing ariel sharon were tougher on palestinians to speed up their <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,820465,00.html">masterplan to convert jews to christianity</a>,   <a href="http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/7027/quotes.html">contributing to the republican platform</a>, blaming <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/14/Falwell.apology/">the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians</a> for the sept 11th attacks, we should celebrate.<br><p>any natural born blogger will have noticed that the News at Ten report showed a glimpse of a whatwouldjesusdrive website, i therefore had to go and find it, religious sites are "so much fun".<br><a href="http://www.whatwouldjesusdrive.com">whatwouldjesusdrive.com</a> is fun indeed. like hell did these folks improve their communication strategy! dog action on playmobil man in hospital bed, that's what i call a revamp of image!<br>ach nein! only some geek got there early, clever bastard, registering the name under what we all assumed was bound to be a .com extension (televangelists' fault).<br>then chatting yesterday to <a href="http://www.blogjam.com">mr blogjam</a>, who's usually the first to be told about such disgusting practices, (if he doesn't <a href="http://www.blogjam.com/old/000793.html">initiate them himself</a>), i learned that what i assumed to be a billion light years old story was only pretty recent indeed, so that i was relieved to know i could shove off with my unfounded guilt of getting old and fat and being always behind (like <a href="http://www.daypop.com">daypop</a> has been down for weeeeeeeeeeeeeks you half geek! get a life! ok, i am still getting old and fat)<br><p>i am left with the feeling i have seen the instigator of whatwouldjesusdrive.com before, his writings being terribly familiar, oh god help me! did i meet him in a previous life? someone help.<br><p>in the meantime, you can check the <a href="http://www.whatwouldjesusdrive.org">.org</a> site, with nice pix of jeez with diffuse glow.<br><br> <!-- Begin YACCS Code (part 2) --> <script language="javascript">get_comment_link(84918642)</script> <noscript><a href = "http://rateyourmusic.com/yaccs/commentsn?blog_id=90000018401&blog_entry_id=84918642">Add a comment</a></noscript> <!-- End YACCS Code (part 2) --> </p>     <font class="author">posted by lsdb - |</font> 	<font class="time"><a href="2002_11_01_blogmeblogmoi_archive.html#84918642">3:33 AM</a></font> 	<hr size="1">              <br><br><font class="date">Wednesday, November 13, 2002</font>      	<a name="84482677">&nbsp;</a>     <p><img src="http://lsdb.mugly.com/warovercard.jpg" align="left" border="1"><br><p>Less than 6 weeks to Xmas, and already we are running around to get our loved ones memorable presents. as unfashionable as they were only a few years ago, it seems that gas-masks are going to be the must-be items of the winter. don't rush just yet, as Tony Blair hinted frantic last minute shopping sprees were <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-10-477730,00.html">unnecessary</a>. in a culture where the superfluous has taken over the necessary, it is unlikely Tony will be listened to. so with our <a href="http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cache:cdyIy_KMnQEC:www.fashionwindows.com/runway_shows/raf_simons/MS031.asp+raf+simons&hl=en&ie=UTF-8">Raf Simons</a> combats on, one last <a href="http://xbox.gamezone.com/">XBox</a> training session, we are punching in the dark getting ready for our very own Xmas war. <br><p><b>WAR AGAINST SADDAM</B><br>the Iraqi parliament has surprisingly rejected the UN resolution (i suspect the Iraqi parliament is just a big hall of mirrors, where each  reflection of saddam is adjusted to precisely fall on a parliament seat. hence the impression MPs all look the same and talk the same), but Saddam saved the day, and <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-480037,00.html">will let inspectors in</a>.  but the possibility of a war is still present. so there we are, trying to be <a href="http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cache:S1TniQyjYB8C:news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/events/crisis_in_the_gulf/decision_makers_and_diplomacy/newsid_216000/216341.stm+%22shoulder+to+shoulder%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8">shoulder to shoulder with the US</a>, while they are stepping on our toes to get a better view of what lies ahead for them in a post-saddam iraq. let's face it: we all heard about that terrible rumour that war was only motivated by greed for the world's second biggest oil reserves. <br>a war against evil? the press was recently asking the real question "saddam is bad but is he mad?".  the excellent <a href="http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=2611&sectionID=15">Panorama documentary on Saddam</a> broadcast on BBC1 last week gave a partial answer: apart from the fact that Saddam has got dozens of body-doubles that he sends round to be shot at by revolutionaries or <a href="http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cache:sOMnBK8PACUJ:politics.guardian.co.uk/redbox/comment/0,9408,836705,00.html+saddam+documentary+haider&hl=en&ie=UTF-8">to welcome a beaming Joerg Haider</a> (what did he go to saddam for? advice?), that he scares to death (literally) his entourage, that he crushed in the most horrible fashion the opposition, who naively believed that <a href="http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:CBKA-dk2H9EC:www.alternet.org/story.html%3FStoryID%3D14067+iraqi+rebels+gulf+deaths+veterans&hl=en&ie=UTF-8">america's dedication to the Gulf cause would extend to supporting them</a>, Saddam is... ahem... yes, barking mad. especially with his back to the wall warned specialists. with nothing left to lose, there is no controlling him. an encouraging message to motivate our troops.<br><p><b>MORAL WAR?</b><br>as for him being bad, well, the answer is: aren't we all a bit naughty? (only yesterday, i was myself told i had a "naughty face" by a spaniard who could not speak english. whatever that meant). <br>is america on a crusade to right the world's wrongs? maybe. but once the Iraqi job is done, what a task lies ahead! didn't we hear that <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20021114_524.html">north korea was developing a vast nuclear program</a> when we all know that oops, they do not have a nuclear energy policy?<br>third world countries will tell you, the biggest task will probably be to sack most of the UN security council's permanent members for not respecting the rules they strive to see respected. take chemical and biological weapons. take Russia, who gassed chechen rebels and its own citizens with some "anaesthetics" during the theatre siege. Russia's use of a toxic chemical agent in what is considered a law enforcement situation is <a href="http://pubs.acs.org/cen/topstory/8044/8044notw1.html<br>">most arguably</a> not a violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention, of which <a href="http://www.dfat.gov.au/media/releases/foreign/1997/fa135_97.html">Russia is a signatory</a>.<br><p>take ahem...erica. <a href="http://www.fas.org">the federation of american scientists</a> declared on monday that they were setting up a monitoring network to control violations of the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention, as the US government is <a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-un-biological-ban1111nov11,0,7948348.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines">opposing stringent inspections of its own program</a>. now, does that remind you of something? how about a surreal Xmas, where an ultimatum would be imposed on the US to let inspectors examine their military program? <br>are permanent members of the commission above international law because of their great wisdom? do <a href="http://www.corpust.com/bushisms.cfm">these words</a> give you any indication that the US government is a wise one? is bush bad, mad or stupid? if madness is known in most legal systems to be an exemption from responsibility, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1827093.stm">ignorance</a> never is.<br><p><b>WAR AND OIL</b><br>so. if we're not fighting for the good of humankind, what are we fighting for? oil. <br>when you consider that two thirds of oil reserves lie in the middle-east, the most volatile region in the world, you think "fair enough". after all, we weren't happy bunnies when fuel protesters brought the country to a halt last winter, so what would we do if most of our oil supplies were cut off, making prices rocket? we should acknowledge that the US are footing most of the bill of protecting access to reserves in the region, ensuring a relative stability of prices. with bin laden's plans to remap the oil market and charge as little as <a href="http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cache:WPxrVmdegyEC:www.news24.com/News24/USAttack/More/0,1113,2-1195-1204_1086729,00.html+bin+laden+%24144+barrel&hl=en&ie=UTF-8">$144 a barrel of crude oil</a> (five times the current price), we might start to think that after all, a little Xmas action would do no harm.<br>so, how great will the world be once Saddam is six feet under? <br><a href="http://www.observer.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,825099,00.html">"The successful prosecution of the war would be good for the economy" </a>as Larry Lindsey, President Bush's economic adviser, recently said. ay! there's the rub! for what dreams may come, once we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause. it is not without reason that Russia and France have so long used the ghost of veto at the UN. let's face it, they did not oppose US intervention out of altruism for the iraqi people. europe's humanitarianism is a fine idea, but it is much more likely that europe were mainly worried that they would see their dreams vanish with the US carving up iraq for their own oil companies, leaving other UN permanent members out in the cold. the chief exec of <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,822224,00.html">BP himself expressed his fears on the subject</a>. as one of new labour's favourite industrial figure, he is not what you could call an anti-capitalist protester. <br>the Iraqi National Congress spokesman, Zaab Sethna, recently confirmed  that <a href="http://www.observer.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,825099,00.html">negociations had taken place between the INC and US oil multinationals</a>. INC leader, Ahmed Chalabi, did not hide that he would reward US war efforts: "American companies will have a big shot at Iraqi oil."<br>the French company <a href="http://www.google.fr/search?q=cache:3T29S2kO9YAC:biz.yahoo.com/ifc/iq/+Nahr+Umar+total&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8">TotalFinaElf is both negotiating with the US and iraq </a>on the development of the Nahr Umar field.<br>as for Russia, with Zarubezhneft winning its $90bn contract after Baghdad took it away from TotalFinaElf because of French support for sanctions, and Lukoil holding a $20bn contract to drill the West Qurna oilfield, it has <a href="http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:pL7D16h9XcsC:english.pravda.ru/hotspots/2001/03/05/2839.html+iraqi+oil+Zarubezhneft&hl=en&ie=UTF-8">everything to lose</a> if contracts were to be declared null and void by the post-saddam government. <br>to add to the list of potential losers to a US intervention: the OPEC. Larry Lindsey predicts <a href="http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:Wo18IUt0AJgC:abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/dailynews/TheNote_Sep17.html+Larry+Lindsey+predicts+%22When+there+is+a+regime+change+in+Iraq,+you+could+add+three+to+five+million+barrels+%5Bper+day%5D+of+production+to+world+supply&hl=en&ie=UTF-8">"When there is a regime change in Iraq, you could add three to 3 to 5 million barrels [per day] of production to world supply."</a> if this is true, each US citizen, who consumes 2.5 times as much oil as a British one, will be swimming in the black stuff by next xmas.<br>but no evaluation of the cost of war and long-term presence in the middle-east can be made, and there is no guarantee that the West will have indefinite access to these reserves. even with his <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1271112.stm">alaska back-up</a>, (pillage of the wild-life reserve for a predicted 1% of total global production), Bush will have a lot to answer for before his children for his fanatical fossil fuels policy. at the Johannesburg summit, the US fought the <a href="http://europa.eu.int/comm/trade/csc/wssd/energy.htm">EU initiative of a 15% target for renewable energies by 2010</a>, when it is predicted by the most optimistic petro-geologists that the world's <a href="http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:NJo4kvsVsuIC:csf.colorado.edu/forums/longwaves/sep00/msg00005.html+oil+production+to+peak+2040&hl=en&ie=UTF-8">oil production will peak by 2040</a> (meaning that half of existing and potential reserves will have been used up). <br><p>what will the financial, environmental and human cost be then? <br><br> <!-- Begin YACCS Code (part 2) --> <script language="javascript">get_comment_link(84482677)</script> <noscript><a href = "http://rateyourmusic.com/yaccs/commentsn?blog_id=90000018401&blog_entry_id=84482677">Add a comment</a></noscript> <!-- End YACCS Code (part 2) --> </p>     <font class="author">posted by lsdb - |</font> 	<font class="time"><a href="2002_11_01_blogmeblogmoi_archive.html#84482677">10:33 AM</a></font> 	<hr size="1">              <br><br><font class="date">Monday, November 04, 2002</font>      	<a name="84009391">&nbsp;</a>     <p><b>LE RENARD ET LES BOUCHONS</b><br><p>a m'aura pris quelques temps  la voir cette histoire, mais tandis que je parlais de <a href="http://www.blogmeblogmoi.blogspot.com/2002_10_01_blogmeblogmoi_archive.html#82793146">renard</a>, <a href="http://valtran.free.fr"> Cramoisi</a> a crit cette petite histoire de <a href="http://valtran.free.fr/index.php?p=276">bouchons</a>. je me dis parfois que les blogs francophones ont du bon.<br><br> <!-- Begin YACCS Code (part 2) --> <script language="javascript">get_comment_link(84009391)</script> <noscript><a href = "http://rateyourmusic.com/yaccs/commentsn?blog_id=90000018401&blog_entry_id=84009391">Add a comment</a></noscript> <!-- End YACCS Code (part 2) --> </p>     <font class="author">posted by lsdb - |</font> 	<font class="time"><a 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