having never read either, i oft confuse Celine and Colette, and forget one was male
― YouGov to see it (wins), Friday, 22 November 2019 23:26 (four years ago) link
"We listened to the crackling song of the frying pans, a tempest of rancid fat. In the great shapeless desert surrounding the city, the rot in which its false luxury ends, the city shows everyone who wants to look the garbage piles of its enormous posterior. There are factories one avoids when out for a stroll, which emit smells of all sorts, some of them hardly believable. The air roundabout couldn't possibly stink any worse. Nearby a little street carnival molders between two chimneys of unequal height, the wooden horses cost too much for the rickety dribbling children with nosefuls of fingers, who long for them and stand spellbound, sometimes for weeks on end, attracted and replied by their forlorn rundown look and the music. What efforts are made to keep the truth away from these places, but it comes back again and again, to grieve for everybody. Drinking is no help, red wine as thick as ink, nothing helps, the sky in those places never changes, it's a vast lake of suburban smoke, shutting them in."
― flappy bird, Saturday, 23 November 2019 05:48 (four years ago) link
RIP Michael J.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SxuAOgjnog
― 'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.), Saturday, 23 November 2019 10:47 (four years ago) link
That's nice, but it doesn't sound like Voyage au bout de la nuit at all.
xp
― pomenitul, Saturday, 23 November 2019 12:38 (four years ago) link
'rancid fat' for 'graillon' is nowhere near as colloquial and misses the fact that it's grilled; 'great shapeless desert' is a platitude next to the sheer inventiveness of 'grand abandon mou'; 'one', although technically correct, simply cannot capture the everyday familiarity and mild informality of 'on'; etc.
It's true that this translation sings, and wondrously so. Céline himself claimed that he was transcribing a 'petite musique', but the emphasis, to my mind, is on 'petite' ('la grande musique' being classical music): the Voyage is an epic that unceasingly undercuts its epic character, whereas this Journey comes across as opulent and smugly virtuosic in comparison – 'false luxury' ('le mensonge de son luxe') indeed.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 23 November 2019 12:52 (four years ago) link
More here on all matters Celine here:
Celine
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 23 November 2019 13:23 (four years ago) link
Last survivor of the Hindenburg disaster dies at age 90https://apnews.com/76ab386f0f184276a215ee1716dd4ae5
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 24 November 2019 22:34 (four years ago) link
According to Mark Harris, critic and all around insufferable bastard John Simon at the age of 94.
Last night the critic John Simon died. He was 94.— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) November 25, 2019
― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Monday, 25 November 2019 15:46 (four years ago) link
and it's about time
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 25 November 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
(wrote well on Bergman tho)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 25 November 2019 16:22 (four years ago) link
Architect (and Richard's son) Dion Neutra, at 93.
https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2019-11-25/dion-neutra-architect-dead
― nickn, Monday, 25 November 2019 22:14 (four years ago) link
Can't find an online obit as yet, but Facebook friends are reporting the sad news that the cartoonist Howard Cruse has died of cancer. This poster by Cruse was the first time I ever heard the verb 'to rim':
https://image.invaluable.com/housePhotos/Swann/65/644565/H0132-L173961529.jpg
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 26 November 2019 22:34 (four years ago) link
aw that's a bummer; he's one of this generation's greats and severely underrated.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 22:40 (four years ago) link
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-50570852
Gary Rhodes, British chef mainly responsible for the popularisation of Nouvelle Cuisine and owner of very rigid hair.
― So, your CV says you're a (checks notes) DJ and stand-up comedian (aldo), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 09:24 (four years ago) link
The Nigel Kennedy of sugar adverts, only 59, wonder what he died of.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 09:28 (four years ago) link
wow
― Wee Bloabby (NickB), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 09:30 (four years ago) link
let's be honest, his recipes weren't exactly colossal
― calzino, Wednesday, 27 November 2019 09:36 (four years ago) link
First Michelin Star at 26 - didn't know that.
― Madchen, Wednesday, 27 November 2019 09:56 (four years ago) link
Jonathan Miller has died
BREAKING: Theatre director, writer, broadcaster and actor Jonathan Miller died this morning aged 85 https://t.co/zxzzSKWOnI— Evening Standard (@standardnews) November 27, 2019
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Wednesday, 27 November 2019 11:45 (four years ago) link
don't pay much attention to the theatre but always enjoyed seeing him on television
― Wee Bloabby (NickB), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 11:54 (four years ago) link
I enjoyed his occasional documentary series, RIP JM
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 11:55 (four years ago) link
The Mortal Instruments actor Godfrey Gao dies on set aged 35
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 11:56 (four years ago) link
RIP Jonathan Miller, annoying as he could be.
― 'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 12:12 (four years ago) link
I thought he was in his 70's
― calzino, Wednesday, 27 November 2019 12:34 (four years ago) link
it means Alan Bennet is the last surviving member of Beyond The Fringe, and that was on stage during the Macmillan era
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 12:47 (four years ago) link
And now Clive James, blimey
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-50578512?ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=news_central&ns_campaign=bbc_breaking&ns_mchannel=social
― Alba, Wednesday, 27 November 2019 16:10 (four years ago) link
Miller was a mensch, James not so much
― FBPRieu (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 16:12 (four years ago) link
about fucking time tbh, he’d lingering in death’s doorway for the better part of 10 years
― A victim managed to capture evidence of the gimp (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 16:17 (four years ago) link
feel like you could have used some brexit catchphrases on Clive James before he finally got his act together: "just finally get death done for goodness sake" "you've got an oven ready deal with death sitting there unused!"
― calzino, Wednesday, 27 November 2019 16:23 (four years ago) link
I was just thinking about Clive James when I read the other obits "look at all the people he's outliving" etc.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 16:37 (four years ago) link
I’ll believe it when I see it re James tbh
― YouGov to see it (wins), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 17:05 (four years ago) link
*wins at the service with an axe and a crowbar, looking for his opportunity to jemmy open the coffin*
― mark s, Wednesday, 27 November 2019 17:12 (four years ago) link
clive jemmies
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
too late, he's already been buried. two steps ahead of you there, wins, guess you'll never know
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 17:15 (four years ago) link
can't believe he's actually dead, 9 years terminally ill is a good run tho
― #FBPIRA (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 17:15 (four years ago) link
If you read some of Clive James select wit and most hilarious humour to the cadaver and it can't conceal how funny and impressed it finds it, then it has failed the death test. Tell it to stop playing silly buggers.
― calzino, Wednesday, 27 November 2019 17:22 (four years ago) link
i've read his TV criticism and i'm pretty sure not even his corpse would raise a titter
― FBPRieu (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 17:28 (four years ago) link
Another architect, Raymond Kappe, about a week ago. Wasn't sure how well known he was so I didn't post earlier, but his obit is pretty impressive.
https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2019-11-23/raymond-kappe-dead-architect-sci-arc-director
― nickn, Wednesday, 27 November 2019 17:28 (four years ago) link
i wouldn't worry about well knowness on this thread, every cunt that's ever drawn a comic book usually turns up
― FBPRieu (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 17:31 (four years ago) link
the ray kappe house is amazing
― #FBPIRA (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 17:33 (four years ago) link
xp second lowest categorisation of celebrity on ilx iirc
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 17:44 (four years ago) link
― FBPRieu (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, November 27, 2019 9:31 AM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
this is so true.
― #FBPIRA (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 17:45 (four years ago) link
rip Clive James imo
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 18:12 (four years ago) link
agree
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 18:14 (four years ago) link
trying to think about notable australians whose deaths i would care about
the cast of kath and kimtom rogicthe guy with the kangaroo sanctuary
― #FBPIRA (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 18:18 (four years ago) link
i’ll be bummed when Baz Humphries drops off the twig
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 18:19 (four years ago) link
Another architect, Raymond Kappe, about a week ago. Wasn't sure how well known he was so I didn't post earlier, but his obit is pretty impressive.― nickn, Wednesday, November 27, 2019 12:28 PM (fifty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― nickn, Wednesday, November 27, 2019 12:28 PM (fifty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
did i tell you guys that i had a dream about interviewing IM Pei a few days before he died?
― treeship., Wednesday, 27 November 2019 18:20 (four years ago) link
i don't read that much into it, but it was pretty wild, i felt
like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our clives
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 27 November 2019 18:24 (four years ago) link
None can and will ever compare to Steve Irwin ;_;
― 'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 18:28 (four years ago) link