Category: Culture

Chanson Du Jour: Les Passants

George Brassens – Les Passants

Je veux dédier ce poème
A toutes les femmes qu’on aime
Pendant quelques instants secrets
A celles qu’on connait à peine
Qu’un destin différent entraîne
Et qu’on ne retrouve jamais

A celle qu’on voit apparaître
Une seconde à sa fenêtre
Et qui, preste, s’évanouit
Mais dont la svelte silhouette
Est si gracieuse et fluette
Qu’on en demeure épanoui

A la compagne de voyage
Dont les yeux, charmant paysage
Font paraître court le chemin
Qu’on est seul, peut-être, à comprendre
Et qu’on laisse pourtant descendre
Sans avoir effleuré sa main

A la fine et souple valseuse
Qui vous sembla triste et nerveuse
Par une nuit de carnaval
Qui voulu rester inconnue
Et qui n’est jamais revenue
Tournoyer dans un autre bal

A celles qui sont déjà prises
Et qui, vivant des heures grises
Près d’un être trop différent
Vous ont, inutile folie,
Laissé voir la mélancolie
D’un avenir désespérant

Chères images aperçues
Espérances d’un jour déçues
Vous serez dans l’oubli demain
Pour peu que le bonheur survienne
Il est rare qu’on se souvienne
Des épisodes du chemin

Mais si l’on a manqué sa vie
On songe avec un peu d’envie
A tous ces bonheurs entrevus
Aux baisers qu’on n’osa pas prendre
Aux cœurs qui doivent vous attendre
Aux yeux qu’on n’a jamais revus

Alors, aux soirs de lassitude
Tout en peuplant sa solitude
Des fantômes du souvenir
On pleure les lêvres absentes
De toutes ces belles passantes
Que l’on n’a pas su retenir

Tim Dup’s new release MÉLANCOLIE HEUREUX

Heard a snippit of Tim Dup’s first album (released 10/27/2017) on Instagram. Tim Dup is the real deal.

Trump, Weinstein and ‘pestering’ predators: Your time’s up

By Michael Stevenson

I read today that a Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll found that 91 percent of women (in the U.S.) called workplace sexual harassment a problem, along with 81 percent of men.

This must change, and I am not going to write that I am a husband and father to a young woman, because if I were father to a male hedgehog, I would still demand that women should be able to work and live their lives without being sexually harassed.

It is disgusting that in Donald Trump, America elected a president who boasted of assaulting women.

Actress Emma Thompson recently spoke out about predators Harvey Weinstein and Trump: “I didn’t know about these things, but they don’t surprise me at all, and they’re endemic to the system,” Thompson, said during an interview with BBC Newsnight.

“What I find sort of extraordinary is that this man is at the top of a very particular iceberg, you know he’s — I don’t think you can describe him as a ‘sex addict,’ he’s a predator. But what he’s, as it were, at the top of the ladder of is a system of harassment, and belittling, and bullying, and interference, and what my mother would have referred to in the old days as ‘pestering.’”

“‘Is he pestering you?’ That’s the word we used to use in the olden days, if you recall. This has been part of our world, women’s world, since time immemorial. So what we need to start talking about is the crisis in masculinity, the crisis of extreme masculinity, which is this sort of behavior, and the fact that it is not only OK, but it also is represented by the most powerful man in the world at the moment,” Thompson added, seemingly referencing Donald Trump.
Bravo to that, Emma!

Not only Hollywood actresses, but thousands of women around the globe are now speaking out about sexual harassment and they are holding accountable the reputation of employers and entire industries.

What a great lesson it would be to hold accountable the most powerful predator in the United States – Donald Trump? He has been ‘pestering’ for too long. His time is up.