Tennessee Williams:
The Night of the Iguana
How calmly does the orange branch
Observe the sky begin to blanch
Without a cry, without a prayer,
With no betrayal of despair.
Sometime while night obscures the tree
The zenith of its life will be
Gone past forever, and from thence
A second history will commence.
A chronicle no longer gold,
A bargaining with mist and mould,
And finally the broken stem
The plummeting to earth; and then
An intercourse not well designed
For beings of a golden kind
Whose native green must arch above
The earth's obscene, corrupting love.
And still the ripe fruit and the branch
Observe the sky begin to blanch
Without a cry, without a prayer,
With no betrayal of despair.
Select a second place to dwell,
Not only in that golden tree
But in the frightened heart of me?
Coups de vent sur la côte bretonne où de forts pétroliers sont à craindre.
Michel Colucci,
dit Coluche
RTBF.be Vidéo: Vidéo de 05/05 - Les dégats de la marée noire en Louisiane vus d'hélicoptère
"Vue aérienne de Grand Isle en Louisiane, touchée par la marée noire le 22 mai 2010 "
La folle: Que cherchent-ils? Ils ont perdu quelque chose? -
- Pierre: Ils cherchent du pétrole. -
- La folle: Curieux! Qu'est-ce qu'ils veulent en faire? -
- Pierre: Ce qu'on fait avec du pétrole. De la misère. De la guerre. De la laideur. Un monde misérable.
La Folle de Chaillot (1945)
Jean Giraudoux
On dit que l'argent n'a pas d'odeur : le pétrole est là pour le démentir.
Pierre Mac Orlan
Le pétrole me paraît très nettement être l'odeur la plus parfaite du désespoir humain, si le désespoir humain a une odeur.
Pierre Mac Orlan
Extrait de Chansons pour accordéon
Son House - Downhearted Blues
Mmmm, mmmmm.
Got up this mornin, feelin sick and bad,
I's thinkin bout the good time, that I once have had.
I said, I got up this mornin, and I said I's feelin so sick and bad,
Yeah, I's just thinkin bout the good times, chil'ren, that I, I once have had.
Mmm, did you ever love, when they didn't love you?
You know there wasn't satisfaction, didn't care what in the world you do.
I said'd you ever love, I said, when they did not love you?
Yeah, didn't look like there'd be satisfaction, didn't care what in this old world you do.
Mmm, I tell her come here little girl, why don't you sit down on my knee?
I just wanna tell you how you have been treatin me.
I said, run here little girl, I said sit right down here on my knee,
You know, I just wanna tell you just how you've been treatin me.
You know, that's a shame, ole dirty shame,
I'm so sorry the day, honey, I ever knowed your name.
I said, you know that's a shame, I said, it's a low down, ole dirty shame,
Oh, the way you been treatin me, is a low down, ole dirty shame.
You know, love, love is a worried old heart desease,
Look like the very one you be lovin, is so hard to please.
I said, love, I said, is a worried old heart desease,
Look like the very one you be lovin, is so confound hard to please.
You know, I go into my room, I sat down and cried,
I didn't have no blues, but I wasn't satisfied.
Yes, I went in my room, and I said, and I sat down and I cried,
Yes, I didn't have no blues, but I just wasn't satisfied.
You know, did you ever get up in the mornin, with the blues three different ways?
You had two mind to leave here, and you didn't have but one such stay.
Did you ever get up in the mornin, wth the blues three different ways?
Got up this mornin, feelin sick and bad,
I's thinkin bout the good time, that I once have had.
I said, I got up this mornin, and I said I's feelin so sick and bad,
Yeah, I's just thinkin bout the good times, chil'ren, that I, I once have had.
Mmm, did you ever love, when they didn't love you?
You know there wasn't satisfaction, didn't care what in the world you do.
I said'd you ever love, I said, when they did not love you?
Yeah, didn't look like there'd be satisfaction, didn't care what in this old world you do.
Mmm, I tell her come here little girl, why don't you sit down on my knee?
I just wanna tell you how you have been treatin me.
I said, run here little girl, I said sit right down here on my knee,
You know, I just wanna tell you just how you've been treatin me.
You know, that's a shame, ole dirty shame,
I'm so sorry the day, honey, I ever knowed your name.
I said, you know that's a shame, I said, it's a low down, ole dirty shame,
Oh, the way you been treatin me, is a low down, ole dirty shame.
You know, love, love is a worried old heart desease,
Look like the very one you be lovin, is so hard to please.
I said, love, I said, is a worried old heart desease,
Look like the very one you be lovin, is so confound hard to please.
You know, I go into my room, I sat down and cried,
I didn't have no blues, but I wasn't satisfied.
Yes, I went in my room, and I said, and I sat down and I cried,
Yes, I didn't have no blues, but I just wasn't satisfied.
You know, did you ever get up in the mornin, with the blues three different ways?
You had two mind to leave here, and you didn't have but one such stay.
Did you ever get up in the mornin, wth the blues three different ways?
Dirty water cannot be washed
- African proverb
“When the elephant falls down, the mice and butchers take over”
African proverb
Le crocodile n’est fort que dans l’eau
proverbe africain
Tant que les lions n’auront pas leurs propres historiens, les histoires de chasse continueront de glorifier le chasseur
Proverbe africain
Trois longs mois pour établir que le pétrole de l'Erika était cancérigène. On tremble rétrospectivement pour les ministres qui, inconscients du danger, ont serré la main des nettoyeurs bénévoles.
Mille et une pensées (2005)
Philippe Bouvard
Je respire l'odeur humaine, aggravée de fleur morte et de pétrole, qui offense le jardin.
La Maison de Claudine (1922)
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
"The Bald Cypress swamp ("Cypress Lake") on the campus of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette on July 4th, 2008, highlighting nesting green herons; alligators; bald cypresses (Taxodium distichum) with pneumatophores and Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides); red-eared sliders (turtles) with the epizoic green alga Basicladia crassa (Cladophoraceae, Cladophorales); sunfish; a mockingbird; common lichens, mosses, ferns, and other plants and animals of southwestern Louisiana. Filmed by Suzanne Fredericq."
"All the things you are", Music written by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein. Duke Ellington (piano), Jimmy Woode (bass), Sam Woodyard (drums).
Moon Lake Casino Trailer from Stephen Hodde on Vimeo.
"Moon Lake Casino is a short film about several of playwright Tennessee Williams' most mysterious characters. The film imagines these four souls hanging out at a Mississippi Delta speak-easy, caught in an alcohol-fueled purgatory, anxious to confront their maker about their early demise.
starring Tuc Watkins, Hank Stratton, Joseph Eid, & Avery Clyde
A 6 Train Films Production
A Jason Kennedy Film
Edited by Raymond Weddle
Music and Sound Design by Stephen Hodde
Based on the play by Charles E. Drew, Jr. "
Cré-moé, cré-moé pas, quéqu' part en Alaska
Y a un phoque qui s'ennuie en maudit
Sa blonde est partie gagner sa vie
Dans un cirque aux Etats-Unis
Le phoque est tout seul, il r'garde le soleil
Qui descend doucement sur le glacier
Il pense aux Etats en pleurant tout bas
C'est comme ça quand ta blonde t'a lâché
Ça vaut pas la peine
De laisser ceux qu'on aime
Pour aller faire tourner
Des ballons sur son nez
Ça fait rire les enfants
Ça dure jamais longtemps
Ça fait plus rire personne
Quand les enfants sont grands
Quand le phoque s'ennuie, il r'garde son poil qui brille
Comme les rues de New York après la pluie
Il rêve à Chicago, à Marilyn Monroe
Il voudrait voir sa blonde faire un show
C'est rien qu'une histoire, j'peux pas m'en faire accroire
Mais des fois j'ai l'impression qu'c'est moi
Qui est assis sur la glace les deux mains dans la face
Mon amour est partie puis j'm'ennuie
Ça vaut pas la peine
De laisser ceux qu'on aime
Pour aller faire tourner
Des ballons sur son nez
Ça fait rire les enfants
Ça dure jamais longtemps
Ça fait plus rire personne
Quand les enfants sont grands
Jacques Marchais - La complainte
Gilles Vigneault
Numerical Art by Jacqueline Waechter 2010
A Tribute to Tennessee Williams.
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