Montag, November 30, 2009
At 16th of October we´ve raised our glasses to celebrate the 155th Birthday of Oscar Wilde. Today we remember that he passed 109 years ago. “And now I am dying beyond my means“. This last word is accredited. Today I dare to retell a wonderful story which is Oscar-like, but has not immaculate credits
“You’ve touched [...]
Freitag, November 27, 2009
Today I like “Eulen nach Athen tragen”. Perhaps you know and understand, what it means, perhaps you will translate this wonderful sophisticated German proverb into something like “selling coal to Newcastle” or “bringing sand to the beach” or “selling refrigerators to eskimos.
Jimi Hendrix was ranked as best elektro guitarist of all times (Time Magazin)
“Voodoo Child” [...]
Samstag, November 21, 2009
For PAROL Mae West is an absolute godsend, something like an open Fort Knox filled with golden words and a paramount for a homage. Was Hollywood ever before her and after her more subversive and witty-cheeky? The Americans appointed Mae West to the “Statue of Libido”. Do you know, if anybody else is more cited [...]
Freitag, November 20, 2009
German movies in the United States and United Kingdom are something exotic you don´t really exspect to see in your neighbourhood cinema, perhaps in channel 99. So you will probably not have the opportunity to enjoy this funny movie about a serious subject, the never ending time of lab for educated young people who do [...]
Freitag, November 20, 2009
“Education to poetry. One can print on T-shirts each with a line of the great poems of the world and challenge the weares to look for each other and to find together that their groups will add up to a full poem. ”
From: Botho Strauss´ new book “About Sojourn”. Translation by PAROL. We are responsible [...]
Sonntag, November 15, 2009
Unbelievable that Jean Gabin already passed away 33 years ago. I was a student. I have loved his face a lot, the face of the young Jean Gabin, the face of the old man. His mere presence was enormous. Jean Gabin has played in more than 100 films, only two I will mention now, “The [...]
Dienstag, November 10, 2009
Recently at 20th October we could celebrate the birthday of Arthur Rimbaud
Arthur Rimbaud is living! The number of lovers and followers is legion, here only few: Bob Dylan, Klaus Hoffman, Henry Miller, Patti Smith, Jim Morrison, Wladimir Wyssotzki, Georg Heym, Klaus Mann, Georg Trakl, Tomas Bernhardt, the Symbolists, the Surrealists, the Beat Poets. Easy to [...]
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After only two months in the blogosphere we have tasted blood. Primarily we have thougt that this blog should be an additionals platform and stage for our PARL scarves – and for the divas & heros who has spoken, sung and written immortal evergreen words. Now our goal is much more ambitious, nothing less than [...]
Guillaume Apollinaire (* 26.8.1880) was one of th most important and inventive poets in France at the beginning of the 20th century. He survived the First World War and was a victim of the terrible Spanish flu. In the prudery of the early sixties Apollinaire´s Les exploits d’un jeune Don Juan was part of the [...]
Samstag, November 7, 2009
November is the month of the French heros in our PAROL Olympus. Today we can remember and celebrate the birthday of Albert Camus, in the next days we will remember the poets Guillaume Apollinaire and Arthur Rimbaud and the fine actor Jean Gabin who have met their maker in November.
Albert Camus is surely one of [...]
