Manicycle emptiness...(26/11)

Culture sucks down words, itemise loathing and feed yourself smiles, organise your safe tribal war, hurt maim kill and enslave the ghetto.

Motorcycle Emptiness...(13/9)

"...under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness, all we want from you are the kicks you've given us..." is the kind of "Motorcycle Emptiness" expressed by Manic Street Preachers. I got something similar today... to visit a cosmetic exhibition in Villepinte, I went to the fairground by motorcycle for the first time in France to test the speed on the highway. An experience quite different from riding on bicycle indeed. Surfing (and bumpering too...the road in Paris have such kind of character) on the highway was like emptying the soul. Speeding seems a way to reconfigure the inner part of the body, where you feel yourself. At the moment when the strong wind is all around you, there was a kind of hollowing-out effect where my soul does not really want to bother anything else. This kind of feeling is different from the one on a roller-coaster. In the amusement park, the kind of amusement is too artificial and cold. The effect is just so mindless and aimless. When you leave the park, you get actually nothing. The joy on a bike is something more. Instead of the strong force, it is the lightness of tranquility inside the body that gives me a relaxing mind. Adapting the "adverse" surrounding, I felt like insulated from the world just in a second. A way to meditate? Perhaps...

L'entrepot a 14eme...(1/6)

It's because of the Premiere Night of a French independant film "let the wind blow" that I had a chance to visit the cinema L'entrepot in the 14eme district in Paris. It's a renovated old fashioned cinema firstly established by Frédéric Mitterrand in 1975...The cinema is now equipped with the standard facilites for the screening of films. The most attractive thing of the cinema is that it contains a nice restaurant and a pub area just outside the screening room which is an optimal place for music performance or film discussion. This is a typical type of cinemas that exists in Paris for the independent or foreign films. At the moment, L'entrepot is playing a tribute to Claire Denis which one of her films "Nénette et Boni" is also screening at the cinema. I did recall the time when I saw the film at the Hong Kong Film Festival in 1997...it's been really long time...