arevik jr (under the rain)

He loves pasta with salmon, arithmetic and pokemons.

He'll try hard to make you laugh if he'll ever see you sad.

We both wish you a very

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

arev means "sun" in armenian, -ik is an ending for an affectionate nickname

Fête

Quelle soie aux baumes de temps
Où la Chimère s'exténue...

Mallarmé

Logiciel libre

L'art est si étrange. La survie est si étrange. Nous commençons par manger nos mères dans leur ventre. Puis dans leur lait. Nous dérobons leur langue à partir de leur regard. Nous sommes tous des voleurs. Nous inventons le sens en répondant à leurs sourires. S'instruire c'est sucer les os des cadavres, les trouer, souffler dans la mort de ceux qui nous précèdent. Vivre c'est parasiter les oeuvres, les ruines des oeuvres, le souvenir des oeuvres. Nous vivons entourés d'hallucinations qui trompent mal la carence ou l'absence. Nous sommes tous précaires ou désinchronisés. Nous commençons trop tôt. Nous mourons avant de mûrir. L'originaire est toujours invisible. Les vrais messages transitent dans les corps à l'insu de ceux qui les échangent.

Pascal Quignard

Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie,

A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly.

Ask me a riddle and I reply:

"Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie."

Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie,

A fish can't whistle and neither can I

Ask me a riddle and I reply:

"Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie."

Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie,

Why does a chicken, I don't know why.

Ask me a riddle and I reply:

"Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie"

Winnie-the-Pooh, as quoted by Benjamin Hoff in The Tao of Pooh, where the "Cottleston Pie principle" is explained. At its core: why does a chicken? - I don't know why!

3 days until the new year…

What do you want to do with your life?

Les capucines

Pierre-Joseph Redouté
Choix des Plus Belles Fleurs
Paris 1827-1833













These are for antonia
Chose your own

Yesterday

Yesterday was the day I woke up after a bad dream about trains, appointments in distant cities, railway stations like labyrinths and not enough money for the fare;

Yesterday was the day I had to wait four hours at the police station because of a stolen handbag containing passport, credits cards and mobile phone, plus a few make-up items and photos of the beloved ones;

Yesterday was the day I discovered Sylvia Plath.

Life is wonderful.

Words

Axes
After whose stroke the wood rings
And the echoes!
Echoes traveling
Off from the center like horses.

The sap
Wells like tears, like the
Water striving
To re-establish its mirror
Over the rock

That drops and turns
A white skull
Eaten by weedy greens.
Years later I
Encounter them on the road -

Words dry and riderless,
The indefatigable hoof-taps.
While
From the bottom of the pool, fixed stars
Govern a life.

Sylvia Plath

Lies nicht mehr - schau!
Schau nicht mehr - geh!

Paul Celan

scratch... scratch...

Musique: Louis-Claude d'Aquin (1694-1772), "Une jeune pucelle", in : Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Messe de Minuit sur des airs populaires français

My party piece:

I strike, then from the moment when the matchstick
conjures up its light, to when the brightness moves
beyond its means, and dies, I say the story
of my life -

dates and places, torches I carried,
a cast of names and faces, those
who showed me love, or came close,
the changes I made, the lessons I learnt -

then somehow still find time to stall and blush
before I'm bitten by the flame, and burnt.

A warning, though, to anyone nursing
an ounce of sadness, anyone alone:
don't try this on your own; it's dangerous,
madness.

Simon Armitage, from Book of Matches

Le cadeau est seul:
Il n'est touché ni par la générosité ni par la reconnaissance.
L'âme ne le contamine pas.

Roland Barthes, L'empire des signes

Où il est question de revenants...

siamese


maelstrom


the thief

ether elegia by johann fournier

*****

C'que t'es belle quand j'ai bu,
je regrette de n'avoir pas fait d'autres abus
tellement t'es belle quand j'bois.

Alexis HK

"The World card, very aptly, represents a successful conclusion, all aspects accounted for and taken in. Simply put, this card tells the Querent that the end to a long-term project is in sight, and that it will be accompanied by well-earned praise, celebration and success. With Saturn as its ruling planet, this card can also indicate that the Querent, now an expert in their subject, is likely to become a teacher or sought-after lecturer. And, finally, on a more mundane level, the World card indicates travel, not short business trips, but long, fantastic trips. Maybe a lecture tour, book signing, or just a trip around the world. This is a wonderful card of wholeness, perfection, satisfaction and happiness."

Good perspective - who knows?

Have a look into 2007

Noël

Boarding-school for disabled children, Nubarashen, Armenia

Que cette fête soit pout vous un moment de joie et de sérénité.