#auteur suede

[altamontpt]

The Auteurs - New Wave (1993)

New Wave faz 40 anos este ano. É uma idade bonita, que assenta bem num disco charmoso. Foi o primeiro de quatro álbuns dos The Auteurs. Se não os conhece, give them a go!

Foi uma estreia, como tantas outras. Foi uma banda, como tantas mais. Nunca tiveram o sucesso que mereciam, por isso faz todo o sentido recordar os The Auteurs e o seu New Wave inicial. Como tantas e tantas bandas ao longo dos tempos, os The Auteurs tiveram uma vida curta e sem grande proveito em termos de estrelato. No entanto, os quinze minutos de fama não lhes faltaram, mas foi quase e apenas…

[britpop-band-tourney]

Hello everyone!

welcome to the Britpop/Cool Cymru band tournament!

NOT TAKING SUBMISSIONS- SORRY!- however if you want to submit propaganda/fun facts/songs to use then that’s fine!

You will have a week to vote, there will be no propaganda about the band for round 1, just 3 of their most popular songs. User suggested propaganda is welcome and will be added in the next rounds!

I am allowing britpop adjacent artists (ie S*M*A*S*H, Bis, Daisy Chainsaw, etc) to get a larger amount of bands- as if I cut out genres like new wave of new wave, post britpop, teen-c pop, post madchester, and grebo i think this tournament would have considerably less bands! If you don’t like the idea of them being in the tournament then that is justified basis to vote the out

Feel free to judge bands on their overall discography or exclusively their britpop records.

All matchups are completely random.

ARTISTS IN THE TOURNAMENT (START COUNT: 88)

ROUND ONE MATCHUPS

Echobelly VS Teenage Fanclub

Rialto VS S*M*A*S*H

Space VS Stereophonics

Shampoo VS Gorkys Zygotic Mynci

Placebo VS Ocean Colour Scene

Reef VS Elastica

Gene VS Cecil/Voy

Skunk Anise VS Silver Sun

Blur VS Bis

Nilon Bombers VS Powder

Northern Uproar VS Pimlico

Gay Dad VS 60ft Dolls

The Stone Roses VS The Verve

Thurman VS Ash

Oasis VS Pulp

Salad VS These Animal Men

Ride VS The Lightning Seeds

Me Me Me VS Jocasta

Super Furry Animals VS Mansun

The Divine Comedy VS Heavy Stereo

Republica VS Bennet

Cast VS McAlmont & Butler

Kula Shaker VS Manic Street Preachers

Marion VS Geneva

The Boo Radleys VS David Devant & His Spirit Wife

Lush VS Kenickie

The Bluetones VS The Seahorses

James VS Longpigs

Catatonia VS Denim

Feeder VS Suede

Saint Etienne VS The Charlatans

Speedy VS Whiteout

The Supernaturals VS The La’s

Sleeper VS Dodgy

Supergrass VS Cornershop

Kinky Machine VS Menswe@r

Hurricane #1 VS Shed Seven

Paul Weller VS Babybird

Daisy Chainsaw VS Delicatessen

Strangelove VS The Auteurs

Black Grape VS Embrace

Travis VS Theaudience

My Life Story VS The Beautiful South

Edwin Collins VS Babylon Zoo

[all-rock-and-roll-is-homosexual]

OH NO i was pretty sure i was going to get *at least* one suede song, let me try again: 4, 8, 12, 14 maybe???? 😱 - @brltpop

Well you got one this time!

4. She Still Leads Me On - Suede

8. Lenny Valentino - the Auteurs

12. Taxloss - Mansun

14. Stay Beautiful - Manic Street Preachers

[lebrisereve]

1999 /// MUSIC

Underworld - Beaucoup Fish

April March - Chrominance Decoder

Departure Lounge - Out Of Here

Arab Strap - Elephant Shoe

Beck - Midnite Vultures

Le Tigre - Le Tigre

Charles Douglas - The Lives of Charles Douglas

Stereolab – Cobra And Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night

Death In Vegas - The Contino Sessions

The Chemical Brothers - Surrender

THE HERBALISER /// VERY MERCENARY

Mellow - Another Mellow Winter

Les Rythmes Digitales - Darkdancer

Mogwai - Come on Die Young

The Magnetic Fields - 69 Songs of Love

Pavement - Terror Twilight

The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin

Dominique A - Remué

Plaid - Restproof Clockwork

Jim O'Rourke - Eureka

Blur – 13

Gus Gus – This Is Normal

Make Up – Save Yourself

Papa M – Live From A Shark Cage

The Ladybug Transistor - The Albermarle Sound

Migala - Asi Duele Un Verano

Spearmint - A Week Away

Sigur Ros - Ágætis byrjun

Tricky - Juxtapose

Birdie - Some Dusty

Super Furry Animals - Guerrilla

Smog - Knock Knock

Bonnie Prince Billy - Now I See a Darkness

The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Bring it All Back Home Again

Kevin Rowland - My Beauty

Dot Allison – Afterglow

Aphex Twin - Windowlicker

…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead – Madonna

The Herbaliser - Very Mercenary

Hefner - The Fidelity Wars

Rinoçérose - Installation Sonore

AND OTHERS

Wheat – Hope And Adams

Kevin Rowland – My Beauty

The Charlatans – Us And Us Only

Beth Orton – Central Reservation

Suede – Head Music

Olivia Tremor Control – Black Foliage

Tindersicks – Simple Pleasure

Low – Secret Name

Add N To X – Avant Hard

Ian Brown – Golden Greats

Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci – Spanish Dance Troupe

The Auteurs – How I Learned To Love The Bootboys

Campag Velocet - Bon Chic Bon Genre

Lali Puna - Tridecoder

Wilco - Summerteeth

Moby - Play

The Beta Band - The 3 eps

Archive - Take my Head

Helena Noguerra - Projet Bikini

Mr Oizo - Analog Worms Attack

Alex Gopher - You, My Baby and I

Squarepusher - Music is rotted one note

Mos Def - Black on Both Sides

Quannum - Spectrum

Merz - Merz

Daniel Johnston - Rejected Unknown

DEATH IN VEGAS /// THE CONTINO SESSIONS

[mondoradiowmse]

11/15/23 Mondo Radio Playlist

Here's the playlist for this week's edition of Mondo Radio, which you can download or stream here. This episode: "Up All Night", featuring classic Britpop and more. If you enjoy it, be sure to also follow the show on Facebook and Twitter!

Artist - Song - Album

Blur - She's So High - Leisure

Blur - Sing - Leisure

The Boo Radleys - Losing It (Song For Abigail) - Everything's Alright Forever

The Boo Radleys - Memory Babe - Everything's Alright Forever

Suede - So Young - Suede

Suede - The Drowners - Suede

The Auteurs - Show Girl - New Wave

The Auteurs - Idiot Brother - New Wave

Radiohead - Lewis (Mistreated) - My Iron Lung

Ash - Gone The Dream - 1977

Fumio Miyashita - U.F.O In Shinjuku - Journey To Space

Pulp - Mis-Shapes - Different Class

Pulp - Bar Italia - Different Class

Denim - Here Is My Song For Europe - Back In Denim

Denim - I'm Against The Eighties - Back In Denim

Space - Me & You Vs The World - Spiders

Supergrass - Mansize Rooster - I Should Coco

Super Furry Animals - Something 4 The Weekend - Fuzzy Logic

Elastica - 2:1 - Trainspotting (Music From The Motion Picture)

Sleeper - Atomic - Trainspotting (Music From The Motion Picture)

Lush - 500 (Shake Baby Shake) - Ciao!: Best Of Lush

Lush - Ciao! - Ciao!: Best Of Lush

Cornershop - Good To Be On The Road Back Home - When I Was Born For The 7th Time

Cornershop - Sleep On The Left Side - When I Was Born For The 7th Time

The Beta Band - Dry The Rain - The Three E.P.'s

Supernaturals - You're My Best Friend - Essential Interpretations

The Verve - Stormy Clouds - A Northern Soul

Ocean Colour Scene - Robin Hood (Live: Royal Albert Hall Feb '97) - Songs For The Front Row: The Best Of Ocean Colour Scene

Oasis - Take Me Away - Supersonic (Single)

James - She's A Star - James: The Best Of

Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go - Everything Must Go

[dendre]

Reggel a Luke Haines Is Dead tripla cd első cd-jét hallgattam, és azt gondoltam, hogy Luke Haines bármilyen mizantrópnak is állítja be magát, az egyik legnagyobb szívű dalszerző, aki mestere műfajának, csodálatos dalok hosszú sorához lehet fordulni, neki köszönhetően. 

Aztán délben váratlanul kiderült, hogy Budapesten, koncertszínpadon lehet látni Bernard Butlert, alig egy hét múlva. A Suede és az Auteurs naná, hogy nálam is kéz-a-kézben járt egymással 1993-94 folyamán. Vagyis én a zenéjükkel. 

A Suede aztán a második lemez után már jóval kevésbé érdekelt. Butleres voltam, nincs mese. Ő a zseni, aki nélkül a másik zseni, Anderson már kicsit kevés. Persze ezt a nézetet korrigáltam később, de 1996-ban üres lufinak tartottam a Coming Upot és hát a Dog Man Star után még ma is képtelen lennék végighallgatni, klasszikus ég és föld különbség. Merthogy a Dog Man Star az tényleg valami egészen más valami.

Nem szeretem a gitárszólókat, becsületemre mondom, mennyire nem, és nem szeretem különösebben a pátoszos előadást, vagy legalábbis idővel egyre kevésbé tolerálom. A Dog Man Staron azonban Butler végigszólózza a lemezt, az Asphalt Worldöt meg ugye pláne. Anderson a teátrális éneklés magasiskoláját mutatja be az albumon. Nem kéne, hogy szeressem, de az egyik legnagyobb kedvencem. Nyilvánvaló, hogy a debütálásnál is mennyivel jobbak lettek ekkorra, minden sokkal mélyebb, tisztább, erősebb. Jaj, de sokkal. 

És akkor tudod, hogy ez egy befejezetlen lemez. A két főhős a készítés közben veszett össze, Butler kiszállt, mielőtt megkeverték, maszeterelték volna. Ez egy nem olyan lemez, amilyennek bárki is szánta. Senki szándékát nem tükrözi. Anderson, a producer és a zenésztársak befejezték valahogy, de Butler nélkül ők is a sötétben tapogatóztak, csináltak valamit, ami biztosan lehetett volna jobb, sokkal jobb. Vannak rajta elég félresikerült pillanatok, bár nem sok. De ez egy tökéletlen lemez, amivel együtt tudja azt képviselni, ami nagyon kevés lemez (műalkotás) sajátja. Úgy, így csak tökéletlenül jó. 

Elképzelni, hogy milyen lehet(ett volna) a Smile, ez volt a zenebuzik elsőszámú álma 2004-ig. Utána az álom szertefoszlott. Itt elképzelni azt, hogy Butler ott van a keverésnél, a döntéseknél, hogy még tovább csiszolják, hogy még kevésbé törjön rajta a fény. Elképzelni, hogy Butler negyed óráig játssza az Asphalt Worldöt koncerten. Vagy bármelyik számot innen, mert azt a sok egymásra vagdosott sáv miatt nyilván csak legalább három Butler tudta volna eljátszani élőben.

Amikor Anderson elmesélte a történetet, hogy a szakítás után egyszer látta Butlert, amikor előtte kelt át egy zebrán. Egymásra néztek, ők meg azon gondolkozott, hogy fék vagy gáz. Jó, nyugi, kibékültek, csináltak egy még kevésbé perfekt, már szikrát vesztett állapotban készült békelemezt 2005-ben. Turnéztak, láttam egy koncertet, jó volt, nagyon jó volt látni őket együtt. 

És most sem lesz semmi komoly relevancia, nem hiszem. Sam Lee nem igazán fog meg, Butler bizonyára úgy volt vele, hogy miniturné, megnézem Prágát és Budapestet. De Butlert megnézni itthon, hát ezt azért egész nap nem nagyon tudtam feldolgozni. 

Hát, hogy gitározik már ebben a Heroine-ban is?! Atyaég!

[emlab]

ZMF Verite (Ziricote) with Auteur Suede pads

[pear-pies]

Melody Maker - April 10, 1993

[a-room-of-my-own]

Pour raconter ce qui est arrivé à sa fille, Asa préfère montrer l’album où elle l’a prise en photo, chaque mois, à partir de ses 14 ans. «Voilà l’époque où Johanna s’est mise à couper ses cheveux très court, à mettre un bandage de poitrine pour l’aplatir», commence-t-elle. Les clichés se succèdent, le sourire disparaît, le visage s’émacie: «Elle est tombée malade, l’anorexie. À l’hôpital, j’ai remarqué qu’elle suivait des comptes transgenres sur les réseaux sociaux. Elle m’a annoncé qu’elle souffrait de dysphorie de genre, qu’elle ne supportait plus son corps… Elle a décidé de devenir Kasper, un garçon.»

Son visage alors apparaît plus affirmé, cheveux teints, air viril. Et puis, à 19 ans, Johanna réapparaît en fille, lueur énigmatique dans le regard: «C’est un voyage qui a duré deux longues années, s’émeut Asa. Ma fille a changé de genre, d’identité, mais elle a ensuite eu l’immense courage d’avouer son erreur. Je suis très fière d’elle.»

Ce «voyage», comme le dit Asa, de nombreux adolescents suédois l’ont fait. Le pays a été le premier au monde, en 1972, à reconnaître la dysphorie de genre, ce mal-être provoqué par l’inadéquation entre son sexe biologique et son identité de genre, et à donner la possibilité d’officialiser cette transition à l’état-civil. Le premier, aussi, à offrir des soins pour conforter les transgenres dans leur démarche: devenir un homme quand ils sont nés femmes, ou l’inverse.

Tous les traitements sont pris en charge dans des cliniques publiques, dès 16 ans: bloqueurs de puberté pour les plus jeunes, injections de testostérone ou d’œstrogènes, opération de la poitrine, orthophonistes pour changer sa voix, épilation, greffe de barbe, etc. À partir de 18 ans, l’administration autorise enfin l’opération des parties génitales, créant un pénis à partir du clitoris ou avec de la peau, modelant un vagin par inversion de la verge ou avec un morceau d’intestin.

«Retour en arrière»

D’où l’incrédulité provoquée en mars 2021 par la décision du prestigieux hôpital Karolinska. Ce pionnier de la dysphorie, dépendant de l’institut qui décerne le prix Nobel de médecine, refuse désormais le traitement hormonal aux nouveaux patients mineurs, sauf dans le cadre d’une étude clinique. Il invoque le principe de précaution et s’appuie sur une compilation d’études montrant qu’il n’y a pas de preuves de l’efficacité de ces traitements, pourtant irréversibles, pour le bien-être des patients. La prise à vie de ces hormones pourrait aussi favoriser les maladies cardiovasculaires, certains cancers, l’ostéoporose, les thromboses. Les 100 jeunes déjà suivis à Stockholm, et non concernés par cette nouvelle politique, devront d’ailleurs signer un document les informant de ces risques.

Cet arbitrage a profondément choqué les transgenres suédois et les associations qui les représentent. Pour RFSL Ungdomar, qui s’adresse aux adolescents, c’est «un retour en arrière». «De nombreuses familles sont désespérées, car elles voient leurs enfants souffrir et elles savent qu’elles n’auront pas de traitement», ajoute Ann-Christine Ruuth, présidente de Transammans.

La Suède, cependant, n’est pas le seul pays à revoir sa politique de soins. Au Royaume-Uni, la jeune Keira Bell, opérée de la poitrine et traitée aux hormones, a gagné fin 2020 son procès contre la clinique de Londres qui avait donné son feu vert trop rapidement, estime-t-elle, pour une transition qu’elle regrette aujourd’hui. Depuis, les traitements y sont soumis à une décision judiciaire pour les 16-18 ans, et refusés aux plus jeunes. En juin 2020, c’est la Finlande qui a changé ses recommandations en donnant la priorité à la thérapie psychologique.

Surdiagnostic

Ce qui alarme les praticiens, c’est l’emballement des courbes. De phénomène rarissime, touchant quelques individus dès la petite enfance, la dysphorie de genre est devenue une pathologie de masse, apparaissant avec l’adolescence. «En 2001, seules 12 personnes de moins de 25 ans avaient été diagnostiquées… en 2018, c’était 1859, constate Sven Roman, psychiatre pour enfants, qui travaille comme consultant dans toute la Suède. Tous les ados sont touchés, mais surtout les filles de 13 à 17 ans qui veulent devenir des garçons: entre 2008 et 2018, l’augmentation dans cette tranche est de 1500 %. En Suède, il y a maintenant plus de filles que de garçons qui reçoivent de la testostérone!»

Le constat est le même pour les opérations chirurgicales. Selon le professeur Mikael Landén, auteur d’une thèse sur le transsexualisme, en moyenne 12 personnes par an seulement demandaient un changement de sexe dans les années 1972-1992… Aujourd’hui, elles sont plus de 2000.

«Nous sommes devenus plus visibles, et cela amène plus de gens à réfléchir sur leur identité, à faire leur coming out», explique Jêran Rostam, nullement déconcerté par cette inflation. Mais pour Sven Roman, sa cause est tout autre: il y a surdiagnostic. «Tous les adolescents ont des soucis d’identité, de recherche de soi, sans être pour autant atteints de dysphorie, martèle-t-il… Leur problème disparaît le plus souvent au début de l’âge adulte avec la possibilité de devenir homosexuel, ou pas.»

Autre indice inquiétant: ces jeunes patients souffrent souvent d’autres troubles psychiatriques comme l’autisme, la dépression, l’anxiété. Ces pathologies, qui pourraient expliquer une supposée dysphorie de genre, peuvent être traitées sans prise d’hormone, ni chirurgie. Mais cette réalité est parfois mal acceptée par les patients, si sûrs d’eux-mêmes qu’ils refusent de se soumettre à une évaluation complète de leur santé mentale.

L’âge de la maturité

Pour Johanna comme pour d’autres adolescents, la dysphorie de genre apporte une réponse concrète, rapide, à de vraies angoisses. D’ailleurs, ils ne la découvrent pas dans le cabinet d’un médecin, mais plutôt sur les réseaux sociaux. «Je dévorais les vidéos des youtubeurs trans, qui sont très populaires en Suède, se souvient Johanna. Pour eux, si on est sur leur chaîne, c’est déjà un signe qu’on est trans. Je les voyais super heureux d’avoir fait leur transition et je voulais être comme eux.»

Quant au système de santé, il est bien loin de raisonner les indécis: selon Peter Salmi, enquêteur de la sécurité sociale suédoise, 70 à 80% des personnes entrant en clinique obtiennent le diagnostic de dysphorie de genre. «Au premier rendez-vous on m’a dit: “Félicitations! Vous avez fait votre coming out, c’est courageux, quel traitement vous voulez faire?”, poursuit Johanna. Heureusement, je consultais aussi un psychologue indépendant une fois par semaine. Avec lui, on parlait de tout et j’ai compris peu à peu que cette détestation de mon corps, ma dysphorie, était une conséquence de mon anorexie, et pas l’inverse. Quand je l’ai réalisé, je me suis effondrée en larmes, et j’ai tué Kasper.»

Pour RFSL Ungdomar, cependant, des cas comme celui de Johanna ne doivent pas faire oublier ces centaines de trans qui vivent plus heureux grâce à leur traitement. L’association était ainsi favorable à une proposition de loi, en 2018, qui abaissait l’âge du changement de genre à 12 ans et celui des interventions chirurgicales à 15 ans, sans consentement parental. «Ce qui m’agace le plus, c’est cette image qu’on donne des jeunes comme incapables de prendre une décision, ou de se connaître eux-mêmes», lâche Jêran Rostam.

Dans l’autre camp, Sven Roman rappelle que le lobe frontal du cerveau, où se forme la capacité d’évaluer les risques, où se jouent les intentions, finit d’évoluer vers 25 ans: «C’est à cet âge que l’on est assez mûr pour prendre une décision aussi lourde qu’un changement de genre. C’est d’ailleurs à cet âge que la loi suédoise autorise la stérilisation, pas avant .»

Remise en question et «tabou»

Le débat partage la Suède, mais il a aussi pris un tour un peu plus heurté - et plus personnel. En octobre 2019, un documentaire choc de la télévision suédoise révélait que l’hôpital Karolinska pratiquait l’ablation des seins sur des filles de 14 ans. Le cas de Jennifer Ring a également ému le pays: cette femme de 32 ans s’est pendue après avoir effectué une transition de genre dans ce même établissement, alors que d’autres cliniques lui avaient refusé les traitements en raison de ses signes de schizophrénie. Plus récemment, l’actrice et écrivain trans Aleksa Lundberg a aussi exprimé des doutes sur sa transition.

Est-on allé trop loin? La peur de ne pas être assez inclusif ou, pire, de passer pour transphobe, a pris le pas chez certains sur l’analyse scientifique et la prudente considération de l’avenir de ces jeunes. «Aujourd’hui, en Suède, il est tabou de remettre en cause l’identité de quelqu’un», conclut Johanna. Sven Roman, lui, dénonce ces œillères qui faussent le jugement de certains spécialistes: «Ils ne sont intéressés que par une pathologie, comme le désordre bipolaire, ou la dysphorie, et leur attribuent tous les symptômes qu’ils voient. Cela peut être très dangereux pour les patients.» Contrainte de réagir à la décision unilatérale de l’hôpital Karolinska, qu’ont commencé à suivre d’autres établissements, la sécurité sociale suédoise s’est donnée jusqu’à la fin de l’année pour établir un nouveau protocole de soin

[ladyonfire28]

Adèle Haenel: "And the fight against racism, is that a black thing?" (March 1, 2016)

Her raw talent and her unique personality are shaking up French cinema. With two Césars in her pocket, the actress from Les Combattants became an icon of auteur cinema in Les Ogres and soon with the Dardenne brothers. Interview with a thoughtful and shady feminist.

The first vision we have of Adèle Haenel when we enter the hotel room, where she has just been photographed, is that of a tall girl in denim and worn-out suede boots looking for cotton to remove her make-up. She says that it's too much, that it's not her, that we have to take it all away - this sticky femininity - and right away.

She announces her color: strong, fierce, temperamental, a little prickly, when, during the interview, she frowns and throws your questions back to you - always with great relevance. She is beautiful and abrupt, her adolescent brusqueness (even though she is 27 years old), gives the impression of robustness: a sportswoman with the shoulders of a swimmer but the face of a femme fatale from the inter-war period, green eyes and a pulpy mouth. This is an unprecedented combination in French cinema, which tends to be dominated by young first-time coquettes looking for contracts with luxury brands. We have never seen Adèle H. at the front row of fashion shows, her appearances on the red carpet - the playground of her fellow female cast members - did not stick in our memories, and that's good.

We've been keeping an eye on her since Water Lilies (2007), by Céline Sciamma, to whom she declared her love at a César Award ceremony. She won two of them, hands down: for Suzanne, and then, last year, for Les Combattants, an emblematic film that created a new image of a virile heroine in French cinema. Adèle Haenel, an icon of auteur cinema, was thrown at the heart of the system: she is the most coveted actress of the moment and has just finished in Liège The Unknown Girl, by the Dardenne brothers, who will inevitably be screened again at the next Cannes Film Festival.

You have to hear her talk about cinema, with her eyes fixed and uninterrupted flow, to understand how incandescent this girl is. In Les Ogres, a choral film by Léa Fehner that talks about the daily life of an itinerant theater that performs Chekhov, she plays Mona, actress and pregnant. The diary of this tribe that travels from city to city, a tent on their back, also draws a universal portrait of actors, truculent monsters full of love and violence.

Madame Figaro - Since the success of Les Combattants, you intrigue people...

Adèle Haenel. - I can see that the demand is stronger, but I'm not chasing after advertising and I don't intend to invade the public space. I think we have to remain discreet. Notoriety hasn't changed anything in my life and it certainly won't change my desire to make films following the same line.

What is that line ?

I make a film to carry a message. I can feel when a director has something to say. I feel something, a desire, a vibration. There is a thread, an intuition, a truth that imposes itself on me. I know what I have to do, I can feel it. It is both mystical and very rational. What is interesting is to come out of a navel-gazing, to rise up, to talk about people, to talk about the world. I like the idea that everything fits together collectively: feelings, economics, politics. A film is a common story, and I want to be part of that dialogue. A film must be in direct resonance with its time: cinema is today. I do things for now, and it's not up to me, to us, to decide whether a film is going to stay, whether it's made for eternity. I feel extremely responsible.

You feel very inhabited when you talk about cinema...

I have many other reasons to live, but, yes, I am deeply interested in the representation of things. How does cinema fit into society? Who is it for? Cinema is obviously a political act. For example, even the latest Star Wars is political. I was really relieved to see so many women and different skin colors: it means that everyone can be a hero and that feels good.

It is said that in the movies women are taking over...

It's an evergreen content. They make a big deal out of it, but if you look at the numbers, it's not so true: women are still in the minority. I can't be satisfied with that.

Do you feel the prevailing machismo that is associated with cinema?

I'm not going to waste my time and energy educating these people.

Is it easier to succeed in this job when you are a man?

Your question is a strange one. Either we point out superficial phenomena - the decision-makers are men, they have the money and therefore the power - or we debate a broader question: in what world are we evolving? And there, it's always the same thing.  The world is cut in two: on the one hand, there is the man, the virile, all linked to superior qualities, and on the other hand, the lower part, the woman, the secret, the moods. Of course, all our representation is linked to this division. I often ask myself the following question: in a fair world, without discrimination, what is art? Art today is in dialogue with its time, so it does not abolish anything but is involved in the fight.

As we can't classify you, you have been labeled as virile...

I'd like someone to explain to me why people should always be defined. To be a woman, you would have to be a feminine woman, right? For me, it's redundant. I don't maintain any posture, I am myself. But the way people look at me doesn't bother me: make up your mind, there's no problem.

However, you embody a renewal at the antipodes of actresses on their first red carpets...

I don't know which ones you are talking about, but I will never be against other propositions from women. After all, they also are undoubtedly dealing with their inner truth. But then again, I don't want to comment on something that escapes me completely: the gaze of others. I realize that everything is complicated for actresses who are so solicited that they end up participating, willingly or unwillingly, in a kind of general cacophony.

Are you one of those ogresses that Léa Fehner describes in her film?

I've just eaten about twenty-five croissants, isn't that a clue? In Léa's film, there is an energy close to the one in Les Combattants: action as a solution to an era in crisis. Here, it's laughter and gluttony facing a personal anxiety and an era that values suffering. I think we need to wake people up, to make them understand that fatality is a terrible and disarming discourse. We are told that the planet is warming up, that people are being massacred, that entire populations are on the move. I am not saying that we are not powerless against this, but feeling concerned and responsible is already a first step towards action.

Are actors monsters?

I don't know and I don't care. I'm not here to tell people: I'm like this, I'm like that, I'm better than you. I don't have to deal with that. Why me? I don't know.

Yes, why you and not someone else? Actor, it's an elective profession...

What is an actor? Their hypersensitivity should not be overestimated. The key is courage. That's the most difficult thing, courage and sincerity: not hiding, committing yourself with what you have, with your face and your body, with everything, with no escape. We often say: "To be an actor is to be someone else" but above all, you have to accept being yourself. It's not the most well-balanced job on earth, but a healthy actor would be weird, wouldn't it?

Precisely, you are sometimes compared to... Depardieu.

There are worse critics. What I like about him is his poetic sensitivity, which is not fake at all. You can sense his love of texts. And then, come on, what an incredible freedom of acting!

Can you play everything?

I don't know. What I do know is that the feeling of comfort is dangerous. It would turn us into a small factory. As soon as I start a film, I don't sleep anymore. The first scenes are hell.

Is shooting naked a problem?

It annoys me. In all films, there's this double injunction from society or the audience: we actresses are asked to get naked but to feel guilty about it! But no guys, I'm not going to feel guilty so you can be fully satisfied that I hold this assigned place of the whore and the well-bred girl! The commitment I make when I make a movie is much bigger than that.

Your feminist side...

I don't have a feminist side, I'm a feminist simply because I want to exist.

Today, not all women are feminists…

So feminism is a girl thing, then? And the fight against racism is a black thing? It's not a power struggle or lobbying, it's not Pepsi against Coke. No, it's a fundamental question about humanity.

[deliciousscaloppine]

There is a new Qinghe Harem Stories chapter on Ao3

Based on the mixtape prompt given to me by @january-summers, it’s supposed to be Nie Mingjue & Nie Zonghui if I am correct, but it’s going to take some time for the mixtape to end up in Nie Mingjue’s hands - so the mixtape is a whole subplot now. Read it here.

And under this cut:

One Cat Eared Ruffian vs. One Nie Zonghui

Nie Zonghui sighed wistfully, and passed by the second young master's bedroom window once more. He stood there for a moment watching two shadows pass behind it, chattering excitedly about some “awesome fit” and carried on with his head bent low and his heart in tatters.

Yes, he had commited himself to pure love, but was he pure enough man to withstand it? Fickle hope for something a little more ground daily his resolve.

If this carried on, if he didn't find again the golden opportunity to express his emotions, he might as well pack his things and leave for a remote outpost. Preferably in the cold mountains, where the chilly winds and the pliant snow could extinguish the flames of his passion.

Nie Zonghui sighed and kicked a tiny pebble out of his way.

“Ouch! My head!” Someone yowled.

“Who goes there?” Zonghui called, taking his blade in hand.

A suspicious person wearing cat ears tumbled down the roof. Nie Zonghui prepared himself for battle.

“Who are you? What are you doing in Unclean Realm? And why are you wearing cat ears?”

Xue Yang jumped up, unseathing his sword. “Oh, I see how it is, you hit a man, you maim him and now you assault him too. I demand compensation.”

“The only thing you are in position to demand is a vegan meal plan during your incarceration!” Nie Zonghui said, exchanging blows with the cat-eared ruffian.

“How did you know I was vegan!” Xue Yang asked staring him hard across their crossed blades. His eyes alight with madness.

“A vegan always knows another vegan.” Nie Zonghui grunted breaking their blade lock.

Xue Yang backed up, twirling three or four times, in various directions.

“Wait, why are you doing that?” Nie Zonghui asked. “If you think you are going to confuse me-”

Unfortunately for Xue Yang an inconveniently placed sword stand* intercepted his twirling orbit, and he promptly found himself on the floor again. It was most certainly not Xue Yang's day.

Nie Zonghui was upon him, before he could very well stand, lifting him up from the scruff of his neck.

“Go ahead! Kill me. I'll enjoy it.” Xue Yang spat.

Nie Zonghui wiped his face and said, “I am not honorless. I would never kill a fellow vegan.”

“Man, I don't even believe you are a real vegan. Isn't that suede you are wearing?”

“It's suedette actually. It's more water repellent this way”

“But it's so soft.” Xue Yang said caressing the soft material enveloping Nie Zonghui's stone hard chest. “I can't believe it's polyester. Mmmm, so soft and velvety” He continued, rubbing his cheek on it.

“Don't do this.” Nie Zonghui said. “It's been sometime since I...well since I-”

“Mmmmmm” Xue Yang said, considering. “Perhaps we can settle this a different way?”

“What do you mean?” Nie Zonghui asked hopeful.

“I couldn't help but find out that you have a little love problem.”

“That's none of your business.”

“For thirty tael it could be my business. You see I am a purveyor of rare things. Funky powders, illegal facelifts, specialty talismans...You know things that help people express feelings, achieve goals...In other words score some. You look like you haven't scored in some time now, am I right, or am I right?”

Nie Zonghui shuffled closer to him warily. “Do you...do you do talismanic music compilations?”

“Do I do talismanic music compilations he asks. Of course I do. It's my most legal side hustle.”

“What do you have? Do you have any Barry White? Any Etta James?”

“...No man! I have normal things. Don't you listen to contemporary music? Love Under The Red Maples! I Met A Washerwoman Once And She Was Prettier Than All The Emperor's Sidechicks.”

“I don't know. These are a little too out there. Don't you have anything classic?”

“I have Woman Cries Under the Willow, I Asked Her Why and She Told Me Smoke Appeared Over Qishan. I have Spring Stroll, Love In the Camelia Grove, Love On A Bench By the Camelia Grove. Love on A Bench by the Camelia Grove Explicit. And my personal favorite, I Want To Grow Old With You Buying Potatoes At The Farmers' Market For A Reduced Price.”

“Okay, just put ten songs in there. Maybe start with that I Want To Grow Old With You.”

Xue Yang tsk'ed. “Is this about who I think it is?”

“That's condifential.”

“Come on, this is about sweetlips, no? I've seen how you look at him. You want to take him to the Camelia Grove. You want to put him on that bench, and do with him everything detailed in the explicit version?”

“What?! No! How dare you speak like that about the second young master?!”

“Relax, I have a boyfriend and he is great. You guys pale by comparison. You guys are tame. Just let me take care of it, let me choose the songs. I am going to make you a mixtape that is fire! I am going to make you a mixtape that is bomb!”

“Respectful!” Nie Zonghui stressed. “I want it to be nice.”

“I got you. I got you. His panties are going to drop. His bussy is going to pop open for you my man. Thirty tael.” Xue Yang said outstretching his hand.

“Thirty tael! Are you crazy! That's an insane price for an mixtape. I can get one for this pebble I threw on you.”

“You are a tough man, driving a tough bargain, huh? Okay, I'll do it for candy, what do you have on you?”

“I don't have any drugs.”

“I mean regular candy. What do you have, do you have a lemon drop? A loli?”

Nie Zonghui patted himself down. “I have two cough drops.”

“Give it here.” Xue Yang said, snapping them out of his hands. “I am going to go get it made, you just wait for me in your rooms.”

“Oh, my rooms are right over ther-”

“I know where your rooms are, I know where everyone's rooms are.”

.......................

The auteur’s notes: *There is a contest on the Ao3 Qinghe Harem Stories, find all mentions of sword stands and win a fabulous prize - a chapter with the pairing of your choosing.

[dustedmagazine]

Luke Haines and Peter Buck — Beat Poetry for Survivalists (Omnivore)

Two titans of the 1990s hook up for an enjoyable album of odd, whimsical yet muscular power pop. Luke Haines, an uneasy contemporary of Pulp, Oasis and Suede (his biography is subtitled Britpop and My Part In Its Downfall), helmed the cultish, cello-led Auteurs through three rather wonderful albums, New Wave, Now I’m a Cowboy and After Murder Park, before turning his attention to Black Box Recorder. Peter Buck, well he’s fucking Peter Buck, mostly of R.E.M., but also the Minus Five, the Baseball Projects and occasional gigs with Robyn Hitchcock. The two met, apparently when Buck decided to buy one of Haines’ paintings of Lou Reed, but it seems like something that had to happen. Both work life and eccentricity into well-worn jangly pop forms. Both are good at what they do.

Musically, Beat Poetry for Survivalists weds chugging freak beat rhythms to spiraling, psychedelic guitars, with an occasional penny whistle, harmonica or glockenspiel thrown in for variety. Catchy little melodies wrap themselves in bluster; strings of verbiage coalesce cleverly around the ear-worm-y choruses. Haines sings in a weathered, mutter-y manner, breaking from speak-singing into song-singing at intervals to follow the curve of the song. Buck builds fun-house castles of guitar sound out of wah wah and fuzz, chiming and slashing and vamping in fanciful patterns that never drift out of control.

Yet as in its touchstones—Robyn Hitchcock for sure, and to a lesser extent Bowie—the music’s lyrics are important. They are very clever, odd and intermittently a bit too pleased with themselves. Look at me stick the rhyme, some of them seem to say. The craft is right there on the surface, working on its own account and not always for the song. The good songs (“Jack Parsons” “Bobby’s Wild Years”) are fascinating in the way that unpredictable images fit into the contours of melody. The less impressive ones (“Apocalypse Beach” “French Glam Man Band”) seem like strings of unrelated words with bits of guitars in between.

If you like Nuggets-y garage pop, if you enjoyed either the Minus Five or the Auteurs, if you’re a sucker for fuzz guitar and end-times imagery, you’ll find plenty to entertain you. The songs are good. Both musicians are pros. The execution is offhandedly excellent, like they’re not even trying but nailing it anyway. But you never get the sense that these songs matter all that much to either principal. It’s a parlor trick, a juggling act that they could do all day without dropping anything, but the stakes don’t seem to be very high.

Jennifer Kelly

[officialbrettanderson]

From David Rose’s “Gig Diaries”

SUEDE, The Auteurs, Windsor Old Trout, Wednesday 10 June 1992

[galfridus1]

tagged by @thisisaverycreativeurl

1.) a song you like with a color in the title

Back To Black, Amy Winehouse

2.) a song you like with a number in the title

1967, The Auteurs

3.) a song that reminds you of summertime

Five Years Time, Noah And The Whale

4.) a song that reminds you of someone you’d rather forget about

Asphalt World, Suede

5.) a song that needs to be played LOUD

Poker Face, Lady Gaga

6.) a song that makes you want to dance

Remedy, Little Boots

7.) a song to drive to

I agree with Mads: Castle On The Hill, Ed Sheeran

8.) a song about drugs or alcohol

Sorted For E’s & Wizz, Pulp

9.) a song that makes you happy

I Think I’m In Love, Spiritualized

10.) a song that makes you sad

Fast Car, Tracy Chapman

tagging: @penumbrcge @creepyinsaneuniverseuniverse @lemaskadra @maryjanewinchester

[mondoradiowmse]

12/14/22 Mondo Radio Playlist

Here's the playlist for this week's edition of Mondo Radio, which you can download or stream here. This episode: "Good Times Are Growing", featuring classic Britpop and more. If you enjoy it, remember to also follow the show on Facebook and Twitter!

Artist - Song - Album

Blur - She's So High - Leisure

Blur - Sing - Leisure

The Boo Radleys - Losing It (Song For Abigail) - Everything's Alright Forever

The Boo Radleys - Memory Babe - Everything's Alright Forever

Suede - So Young - Suede

Suede - The Drowners - Suede

The Auteurs - Show Girl - New Wave

The Auteurs - Idiot Brother - New Wave

Radiohead - Lewis (Mistreated) - My Iron Lung

Ash - Gone The Dream - 1977

Itchy Fingers - Yuppieville Rodeo - Quark

Pulp - Mis-Shapes - Different Class

Pulp - Bar Italia - Different Class

Denim - Here Is My Song For Europe - Back In Denim

Denim - I'm Against The Eighties - Back In Denim

Space - Me & You Vs The World - Spiders

Supergrass - Mansize Rooster - I Should Coco

Super Furry Animals - Something 4 The Weekend - Fuzzy Logic

Elastica - 2:1 - Trainspotting (Music From The Motion Picture)

Sleeper - Atomic - Trainspotting (Music From The Motion Picture)

Lush - 500 (Shake Baby Shake) - Ciao!: Best Of Lush

Lush - Ciao! - Ciao!: Best Of Lush

Cornershop - Good To Be On The Road Back Home - When I Was Born For The 7th Time

Cornershop - Sleep On The Left Side - When I Was Born For The 7th Time

The Beta Band - Dry The Rain - The Three E.P.'s

Supernaturals - You're My Best Friend - Essential Interpretations

The Verve - Stormy Clouds - A Northern Soul

Ocean Colour Scene - Robin Hood (Live: Royal Albert Hall Feb '97) - Songs For The Front Row: The Best Of Ocean Colour Scene

Oasis - Take Me Away - Supersonic (Single)

James - She's A Star - James: The Best Of

Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go - Everything Must Go

[emlab]

ZMF Aeolus (Ziricote) with Auteur Suede pads