#pascaline

[bitter69uk]

Heartfelt gratitude to everyone who attended the Lobotomy Room cinema club presentation of exploitation gem Beat Girl (1960) at Fontaine’s on 15 August! In my eyes, you are ALL espresso-drinkin’, finger-snappin’ beatniks and maladjusted juvenile delinquents! It was thrilling to see everyone completely entranced by the lunacy of this riotously enjoyable glimpse into London’s teenage jukebox jungle! And yes, Beat Girl IS the single greatest British rock’n’roll movie ever made. There! I said it! Who could resist: the ludicrous ersatz teenage “hepcat” dialogue (“straight from the fridge, dad!”) conjured from the imagination of some middle-aged scriptwriter? John Barry’s awesome, evocative pre-James Bond soundtrack? (Find it on Spotify). The impossibly sullen and electrifying performance of sex kitten starlet Gillian Hills (a sort of British Brigitte Bardot / Tuesday Weld hybrid) as bad girl anti-heroine Jennifer? (Jennifer is SO nihilistic and alienated she needs intensive therapy! In the drag racing and playing “chicken” on the train tracks scenes, she clearly doesn’t care whether she lives or dies!). The presence of British acting legends like Christopher Lee (as sleazeball burlesque club owner Kenny) and Oliver Reed (heartbreakingly young and cute, billed only as “plaid shirt”)? Special credit to Delphi Lawrence as haughty stripper Greta (nicknamed “the duchess” because “when she peels, she acts like she’s doing you a favour”). I love how Greta is perennially bitter and tipsy, wearing the same strapless dress and raging about Kenny (“He’s a bastard, but I love him!”). And remember: Beat Girl was rated “X” upon release. The version we watched contains the burlesque sequence with outrageously sexy Haitian exotic dancer Pascaline, which is often deleted in different markets (a friend of mine in the US recently watched Beat Girl and he didn’t see Pascaline!). All these decades later, Pascaline’s scorching number still feels raunchy. Keep your eyes peeled – I’ll announce the September selection soon! Pictured: a close-up of Jennifer’s winged eyeliner technique.

[lecoinducadre]

Animaux réalisé par Nathalie en 2023

Superposition de 2 sous-cartes sous un biseau 45° de différentes couleurs et un PP blanc. Des "toits" gris bordés d'un feston coloré recouvrent les sous-cartes en haut.

Baguette en carton.

[xykcta]

all my fo protags at the moment

[costumeloverz71]

Suzon (Virginie Ledoyen) Pink dress.. 8 Women (2022).. Costume by Pascaline Chavanne.

[boricuacherry-blog]

[brokenspeculation]

Mélusine, "l’ondoyante serpentiforme"

Trawling through my archive from a now declining social media site, I came across a picture I had posted of a 'face' which had appeared in my coffee that morning, on 29 January 2018. This pattern, resembling the face of a woman with swirling hair, manifested after a period of intensive reading around the image of Mélusine, "l’ondoyante serpentiforme", as Pascaline Mourier-Casile names her in her book, André Breton : explorateur de la mère-moire (1986). Only the day before, I had staged a photograph - with two globular flint geodes found in a north Hampshire field - of a book celebrating André Breton's extended prose poem, Arcane 17, named after the 17th card - The Star - in the Tarot's Major Arcana. As Alex Woodcock writes:

The Star symbolised hope and renewal. By associating this card with the medieval figure of the faery-siren Mélusine, Breton found an image through which he could channel his thoughts about everything from alchemy and politics to the future of humanity' (from Melusine As Alchemical Siren In André Breton’s Arcane 17 (1945), in Shima, Volume 12, No.2, September 2018 - link here).

The same day, 28 January, I had re-posted the image of a picture by Pascaline Mourier-Casile called Métamorphose: L'Oeuf de Meduse, revealing another aspect of uncanny aquatic women, with serpentine hair swirling similarly to what I perceived in my coffee.

Indeed, all this followed a visit with the author of the Melusine piece quoted above to Linkenholt church, just a couple of days before to admire the fossil sea urchins or echinoids, arranged around a nineteenth-century window. In folklore, these fossils are known variously as shepherd's crowns and fairy loaves. It was on the same trip that I found the flint geodes.

Although I perceived what I saw as part of a pattern at the time, it is only in hindsight - seeing now the 'time signatures' of this constellation of objects, events and images falling within a short period - that a fuller appreciation has emerged of their possible significance. As Walter Benjamin said,

A philosophy that does not include the possibility of soothsaying from coffee grounds ... cannot be a true philosophy

[neweramuseum]

NEM CLOUDS 132 - James Clarke selection

FEATURED ARTWORKS BY: Adrienne Parks, Héctor C Castrejón, Julia Badakhshan, Pascaline Duchatelle, Joe Kandiko, Leon Williams, Jamie Pennington and Bob Limacher.

[bagnabraghe]

Pedretti compì 27 traversate per trasportare armi e uomini nel tratto di mare prospiciente il fronte italo-francese

Ventimiglia (IM): una vista sino alla Costa Azzurra Dopo lo sbarco alleato del 30 agosto 1944 sulla Costa Azzurra, il comandante [n.d.r.: di un Distaccamento della V^ Brigata d’Assalto Garibaldi “Luigi Nuvoloni” della II^ Divisione “Felice Cascione”] Stefano Leo Carabalona, [n.d.r.: che di lì a breve sarebbe diventato comandante della Missione Militare della citata Brigata presso il Comando…

[adrianomaini]

Pedretti compì 27 traversate per trasportare armi e uomini nel tratto di mare prospiciente il fronte italo-francese

Ventimiglia (IM): una vista sino alla Costa Azzurra Dopo lo sbarco alleato del 30 agosto 1944 sulla Costa Azzurra, il comandante [n.d.r.: di un Distaccamento della V^ Brigata d’Assalto Garibaldi “Luigi Nuvoloni” della II^ Divisione “Felice Cascione”] Stefano Leo Carabalona, [n.d.r.: che di lì a breve sarebbe diventato comandante della Missione Militare della citata Brigata presso il Comando…

[newshuntermag]

Nana Ama McBrown Reacts To Criticisms About Her Age

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[ithisatanytime]

(italo disco forever and more)

[lecoinducadre]

Les montgolfières réalisé par Muriel en 2024

Image sur une cartonnette dépassante blanche fixée sur 2 fils de nylon verticaux qui "suspendent" l'image au milieu d'une superposition de 4 cartonnettes pliées verticalement et ouvertes en décalé pour rappeler la forme de la montgolfière orange, bleu, blanc et orange foncé. Le fond est blanc. Hausses blanches en haut et en bas.

Baguette en carton bleue.

[aforcedelire]

Gris comme le cœur des indifférents, Pascaline Nolot

Lyra et sa mère attendent dans un couloir d’hôpital que la grand-mère de Lyra vienne les chercher. La mère est victime de violences conjugales, et cette fois, Lyra l’a trouvée en très très mauvaise posture. Pendant qu’elles attendent, Lyra se remémore le passé, les différentes fois où elle a entendu son père frapper sa mère, toutes les fois où il s’est comporté comme un connard, où il les a maltraités, ses frères, sa mère et elle, verbalement et physiquement.

Gris comme le cœur des indifférents est un roman certes court, mais poignant, percutant et nécéssaire sur les violences conjugales et comment elles sont vécues au sein de la famille. J’ai apprécié le fait qu’on suit les pensées de Lyra de façon labyrinthique, elle fait des détours entre le passé et le présent, et on assiste de façon impuissante à la violence qui règne chez elle. La fin m’a brisé le cœur, je ne m’attendais pas du tout à ce retournement de situation !

C’est un roman pour les ados, mais je dirais pas avant au moins 14/15 ans (certains passages peuvent être choquants pour les plus jeunes).

// Roman lu dans le cadre du challenge #petitmoispetiteslectures2023 organisé par @ lesouffledesmots //

27/02/2023

[xykcta]

quick sketch because i miss her

[boricuacherry-blog]

"The first time I met him was in America in 1979 and when we went backstage when he saw me, he said, "Gosh you're ugly.'" She was in the States with her father and went to see Marley perform in Los Angeles. She had managed to secure a backstage pass to meet the musician who was unfortunately not impressed with her.

"The affair wasn't hidden, but it wasn't public either," says Jamaican guitarist Junior Marvin, who accompanied Marley in The Wailers.

Bongo suggested that the singer perform in Libreville in early 1980.

Marley and the Wailers were ecstatic. For years they had been singing about pan-Africanism, declaring their love for their ancestors' continent, calling for unity - the cover of their album Survival, which was released in October 1979, was a patchwork of the continent's flags - but paradoxically, none of these Jamaicans from the slums of Kingston had ever set foot in Africa.

After being invited to play in Gabon, the Wailers did not stop to ask themselves any questions. Even when they learned that they would be performing during the birthday celebrations of Omar Bongo - who they weren't sure whether he was the "king" or president, and didn't care - they still didn't ask any questions.

Marley was Bongo's first great love. It was not the case for Marley, however, loving an "African princess" gave him a better understanding of a continent he had long sung about but hadn't really known.

[mutinelle]

Gris comme le cœur des indifférents - Pascaline Nolot

♦Éditeur : Scrinéo ♦Nombre de pages : 93 ♦Date de parution : 2 mars 2023 ♦Prix : Papier : 14,90€; Numérique : 6,99€ ♦Acheter : Amazon Résumé : Un roman bouleversant, à propos des violences faites aux femmes. La veille, Lyra, quinze ans, a entendu son père frapper sa mère. Pour les deux femmes, hélas, il s’agissait d’un jour ordinaire. Ou presque. Aujourd’hui, il n’y a plus de coups, plus de cris.…