Most of us add nothing to their lives. It is our life that lives us, it is not us living our life. We do everything we can for prolonging our lifespan, but extremely little, if anything at all, for improving our capacity to live.

We’re colonized by our sorrows and hopes, fears and ambitions; they will rule us and put us to work: less talk, more action. We look efficient – hectic doings, speedy thoughts, but our deeds and reasonings are essentially truth-value-free, essentially inconclusive, essentially inessential. Our children and our parents came into this world, they’re passed by, they pass by, hard to say which one is which, hard to say if they were born at all, hard to say whether they’re males or females, lonely or popular, dead or alive. Am I my brother’s keeper?

PS: The usual Monday-canvas. This one is called “Wannabe”. I had no day and no night because of this one. Still not sure whether it was worth it.

PS2: Check this absolutely wonderful Merz song. So full of heart, yet un-pathetic, so technical, yet so tender.

Have a bright week all.

You are what you can’t do. Look at your left hand, look at your inelegance, look at your weakness, vulnerability, helplessness, emotional handicaps and disqualification, look at your unbelief, look at your distrust, look at your off-tune singing, look at your ignorance and your clumsy dancing, look at your brain fade, torpor and inertia, look at your failures, mistakes and omissions, look at your regrets, look at those you disappointed, look at that dinner you didn’t cook, look at the word you didn’t say, and look at the kiss you never shared. You’re so heavy with all these, your name couldn’t be other than You.

PS: One of the most recent sketches at the left. Not a favorite, but I lost all the others in an unfortunate hard disk formatting procedure.

PS2: Still interested in Lykke Li’s (French-ed) music. She is however less original than one might think after a first listening. But then again, she worked at her own uniqueness in a way that I tend – not to necessarily like – but to enjoy. I noticed her once on TV, long before her full album was launched, and she did get my attention. She can get yours as well with her myspace.

Human being is a vague being. Utterly obscure and exhaustively illogical. A master of tergiversation and inaccuracy. If God created the earth and the sky, the humans came up with the fog.

The humans are very committed to their both innate and cultivated negligence. Several slip-ups, a blind fury and a blind date can make anyone’s day. With or without Freud, the humans are however inclined to fail, forget and fumble on purpose.

This mean very much more than the fact that we have a good deal of evasiveness instinct. More importantly, trickery and nebulosity is a necessary condition of our self-defense mechanisms. It’s just as much in our blood as it is in our culture(s). If the Swiss-made engines would have ruled the world, we would have been all sentenced to death. The day we’ll stop failing, the world will stop turning.

PS: New canvas above: “Sega”. We’re lucky enough to be seeing him taking the plane to India once for all.

PS2: A propos de taking off’s, Milos Forman’s Taking off (1971) is something to be seen at least twice.