All about Water

I am dipping into a book written by Erik Orsenna : L’Avenir de l’Eau. This writer – researcher – academian travelled all over the world to hold an inquiry about water. He encountered scientists, peasants, religious, engineers, doctors various kind of people living or working on every continent and telling their story about water. It’s fascinating. Here some extracts to follow …

“One day, you decided to know a little more about life. You read again Bible, you read Koran. You skim through Indian mythologies. You realize, stunned that every genesis is similar: once upon a time …water. You question scientists: they state you are made with water. So, you say to yourself, it’s time to unveil the mystery...

...Inside water lives the constant desire to reshape the world. We owe water to most of our landscapes...

...We owe water to life (every life on earth) and in the same time our own life. So it comes this remember nestled in our deepest memory from this double debt, this sensation of belonging to water. This muzzy, diffused but constant sensation that Hungarian psychoanalyst Fedor Ferenczi named “oceanic feeling”. Human embryo floats for nine month in a sea-like liquid.” 

H2O A destructive relationship

"Oxygen-hydrogen couple isn’t joined as it appears. To be more accurate (and inquisitive), Oxygen is attracted by these little fickle and negative pets named electrons. Hydrogen is disturbed by this attraction; its tendency is much more oriented to positive elements. And yet everybody knows that a couple in a shaky state means a danger for other couples.
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And then, for example, water falling on salt causes a divorce between two of its components. Sodium and chlorine tempt to struggle. But how could they resist when separation’s power of the water is 80 time stronger than attraction force that joint both. Little by little, unavoidably sodium and chlorine move apart.
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A thin 10 millimetres’ rain can dissolve 100 kilogram’s of sand by square kilometre.
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Due to this power, alchemists jumps to woolly conclusions. But they were right considering water as the universal dissolvent, as the perfect mixes agent. Because once these elements dissociated, it can recompose something else.
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Water tears apart to divorce up to a better marriage."

Deepest despair under water

Raging rivers in Bangladesh create arable islands of silt, called chars, then slowly scrape away at their shorelines until eventually they disappear. More than 60 percent of Bangladeshis work in the agriculture sector.

"I heard this. An old man was still standing at the end of an island. We asked him what he was doing.
- I watch my land
- There is nothing but water …
- May be my land will come back. Water engulfs it, may be she will give it back to me. With water, we never know.

Still waiting, the man pays the tax on his land…

- If I don’t pay the tax and if the land comes out again, government will give the land to another one, I will loose it, really."

I will think of this man next time I'll pay my taxes.

How to acceed to duty free out of airports

You get up to a supermarket-city in the heart of Pyrenees moutains totally duty free : perfumes, alcools, cigarettes, gaz ... and you give a smile to the custom officer before coming back down to the valley. This little state is named : Andorra.

How to breath out from the city in winter

I needed this so much : sun, large landscade, snow, great slope to slide down skiing. And you too, if you are under a grey's winter sky, get this light on your face ...

Soft Machine

Robert Wyatt was the lead singer and the drummer of an experimental band named Soft Machine. He was a crazy man with a very strange and desperate voice.

You have to listen to Soft Machine - Third - album. A masterpiece.

Recently the verb "Wyatting", named obviously after Robert Wyatt, appeared in some blogs and music magazines to describe the practice of playing weird tracks on a pub jukebox to annoy the other pub goers...

Later Robert Wyatt fork off with his own band to carry on his experimentations. The band is named Matching Mole as the french translation of Soft Machine.

He become paraplegic after a four level jumping outside the windows (smoking party) and write in 1974 a tears out album : Rock Bottom, another masterpiece between jazz, progressive and ambient.

The song above : Shipbuilding is a single from the 80's.

How to float like a feather

Today I need a Radiohead song - "Creep". This one is heart-rending, by the lyrics, by this wonderful distorded guitar when it tear up that's what was beginning as a ballad. Tom York sing as a Jim Morrison. Wonderful.

My favorite thing is when we can join a band playing in studio. And last year Radiohead gave us this gift with the complete "In Rainbow" album played in studio. It seems very simple, without effects : pure delighful music with Weird Fishes.

Nb. Jonny Greenwood is playing with a very special keyboard named Ondes Martenot. This is an instrument created by a french man in 1918! Something like a synthetiser's ancestor. There is a keyboard and a ribbon just below for the glissanti effect.

How to have a fulfilled live

Ok, I like riding horses, I like trains, explosions. I would like to break the balls of an idiot. I am bad when I speak spanish. I am getting sick to be right all the time. I yet jumped in a deep canyon. I would like to drive a vehicule from the future with a lady who eats apples. I would like to die young in an fullhardy and vain crazy adventure.

Chuck Vs Cancellation

Because this serie had been almost cancelled after 2 seasons, Fans used every means to call up producers to go on. And then there was this trailer... a work of art
(in series world I mean).

I must admit. This serie "Chuck" is a guilty pleasure.

It's very immature: Yes!

It's a return to teenage: Yes!

But it's so gooooood.