Last night I went to the concert of Dionysos in Lille (about 21pm) with friends of mine. For those who still don't know this rock band – not frenchies are half-allowed to -, I must admit that if you listen to them (myspace or anything else), you won't immediately understand why I'm so fucking happy of what I saw yesterday.

But in a few words : This was madness... this was Dionysos !

Actually, first I thought only tracks like « Song for Jedi » or « Old Child » would be headbangable, but I was wrong. They were so deranged, thrilled... aggressive ! Especially the famous singer, Mathias Malzieu. A beast ! He didn't only slammed, he WALKED over the public. Then, slammed again, 'til he reached the end. Then ! He climbed up to the bleachers, over the wire netting. And kept on : he went to the end of the end of the end of the Zénith (huge concert hall) and shouted his song in his loudhailer... before coming back to the stage by the same way.

Violins, trumpets, amazing guitars, incredible DJ, the sound was perfect, although they had some little sound problems or fansboys and girls (but most boys – so fucking handsome yet so fucking fool) who couldn't help hurting everything which was in front of them to reach the unbelievable hand of Mathias. Kids.
I just succeeded : [link]



Anyway, today I woke to the rain of blood ( find the quote ) up to go & see Lille Art Fair, an European exhibition of contemporary art. It's especially for *Lenw that I go over there, he was with the Suty Studios. I immediately looked for his stuff, after noticed some pretty pics, found his staff, who told me they had to remove his work, which was here only for the private view and the first days (damn). We spoke a bit, I told I knew him – so you can trust me Lënw, I tried ^^ [link]

Besides, I found beautiful things but mostly bad ones (you understand, there was no Lënw ^^). There was a smell of... non-originality. No difference between most of them. Popart and Dadaism influence everywhere, extreme minimalism without cogitation, « contemporary art » for noobs and nerds from the hype in lack of feeling. I feel indeed pessimist about what people can find in such « art ». Do 70% of them go there only to say they did or to take the children out (and if dogs were allowed, I'm sure it would be 90%) ? Crap, man.

Anyway, here are some I found really interessant (I hadn't any pen to remember the others -_-) :

Jani (from Galerie Capazza)
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Frederico Granell (from Galerie Nivet Carzon)
[link]
And of course ^^ Lënw
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² : k. so easy googling...

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Beyond Good and Evil

"I did that," says my memory. "I could not have done that," says my pride, and remains inexorable. Eventually — the memory yields." Aphorism 68
"Anyone who despises himself will still respect himself as a despiser." Aphorism 78