James G Paris

Your leader, Maximus Humilis (beheaded). Europhile of the Gaulish persuasion. All opinions homemade while crawling thru X-muck and mire. Read Riffs now.

[James G Paris @Parigoat37]

My feeling precisely

[Pol Niuman @Joshuacagose]

La noche…

📸 Daido Moriyama

NYC (1971)

[James G Paris @Parigoat37]

When Pasolini refers to 'lifestyles' here he means cultural differences across Italy, bedrocks of a living, divergent culture, which TV and everything after slowly but surely erase. (My take, fwiw.)

The clip w/ English subs is hard to find. Dailymotion has inclusive montages, originals and w/ French subs. From the same period as Lettres Luthériennes and Écrits corsaires (1976). (I don't read italian yet.)

The proof of the pudding is that we no longer produce engaged intellectuals of Pasolini's stature. It's a very touching clip even without the sound as you watch a man making every effort to express himself clearly. And that disappearance in the dunes....!

"Le fascisme peut revenir sur la scène à condition qu’il s’appelle anti-fascisme." A pregnant phrase for our time.

[Juan Branco ✊ @anatolium]

Le véritable fasciste ne porte pas des chemises noires, il vend le progrès.

La société de consommation achève ce que le fascisme n’a pas atteint : effacer les cultures, uniformiser les vies et détruire les pays sans que personne ne s’en rende compte.

Le fascisme n’a pas été battu: il a été remplacé.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

[James G Paris @Parigoat37]

@Dav_Kaiser Fishy DEI will be sending agents to the scene pronto.

[James G Paris @Parigoat37]

I've gone away for a while to (re)learn how to think for myself. I'm going back there now.

[James G Paris @Parigoat37]

@CorbeauDlicieux Le besoin le plus pressant de la France actuellement est une nouvelle Jeanne d'Arc. Les hommes qui écrivent des essais sont acceptables, mais le pays répondra à une femme qui dirige et inspire.

This country needs a new Jeanne d'Arc.

[Amelie Labrande @LouiseLabrande]

"I usually solve problems by letting them devour me."
-Franz Kafka

[James G Paris @Parigoat37]

And so during that extra night you are going to stop being a little bitch and read what I sent you months ago all the way through. No dabbling, bro. You asked and I sent 49-59 pages and I never hear a word except on the level of 'interesting'. Should take an hour or so of your time.

[Charlotte Lee @cljack]

before you waste a lot of time in therapy trying to understand men, consider that Napoleon got volunteers to man a battery position with an almost 100% casualty rate by simply renaming it "the battery of not being a little bitch"

[James G Paris @Parigoat37]

No new wild or arty takes from me. Off-line as much as possible. Working the garden (or it's working me). Heading out into the French hills this afternoon. Old roses have wild shaman stances.

[Damon Zumbroegel @DamonZumbroegel]

A cozy nook to read a book.
125 year old brick walls, and a window full of Himalayas.
It really isn’t that difficult to make something well……the first time.

[James G Paris @Parigoat37]

A real woman, yes ? Not an ideal.

[James G Paris @Parigoat37]

Something about the cool mininal-maximalism of Valloton that always grabs me. He shd be better known. Maybe he is.

[claudioborlotto @Claudioborlotto]

Félix Vallotton - Crouching Woman Offering Milk to a Cat , 1919

[James G Paris @Parigoat37]

@dracomantis I paced the streets of Besançon, thinking of Julian's speech to the court. I had only notes w excerpts w me.

[James G Paris @Parigoat37]

@AnaKrivolapova @scabbyscribe56 @Howlingmutant0 The best blast of Sexual Tourism on the page in a good while, for me at any rate. Invigorating, hardly disgusting. Loved the enormous hand at the end.

[James G Paris @Parigoat37]

@wokeandwoofing Sounds omni-fab. When do we meet to divvy up the proceeds ?

[Mark W. @DurhamWASP]

“I’d like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God’s a workman. I don’t think there’s anything better than a workman.”

Laurence Olivier [born 22nd May 1907] on the set of A Bridge Too Far [1977]

[Anthologie de la répartie @Antho_Repartie]

Dans un cocktail mondain, le très maigre George Bernard Shaw lance à G.K. Chesterton :

- Si j’étais aussi gros que vous, je me pendrais.

- S’il me venait l’idée de me pendre, je vous choisirais pour corde.

[James G Paris @Parigoat37]

@Claudioborlotto Have you been? I'd make the trip for any number of reasons but i wonder if rooms full of Valloton might be a bit chilly. But one big one might be a knockout.