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Recording : extract from 25th Hour, Spile Lee, Monty Brogan Monologue

2009-05-18T13:29:00.000-07:00

25th Hour, Spike Lee, Monty Brogan monologue

2009-05-18T13:18:00.000-07:00

Fuck me? Fuck you! Fuck you and this whole city and everyone in it.
Fuck the panhandlers, grubbing for money, and smiling at me behind my back.
Fuck squeegee men dirtying up the clean windshield of my car. Get a fucking job!
Fuck the Sikhs and the Pakistanis bombing down the avenues in decrepit cabs, curry steaming out their pores and stinking up my day. Terrorists in fucking training. Slow the fuck down!
Fuck the Chelsea boys with their waxed chests and pumped up biceps. Going down on each other in my parks and on my piers, jingling their dicks on my Channel 35.
Fuck the Korean grocers with their pyramids of overpriced fruit and their tulips and roses wrapped in plastic. Ten years in the country, still no speaky English?
Fuck the Russians in Brighton Beach. Mobster thugs sitting in cafés, sipping tea in little glasses, sugar cubes between their teeth. Wheelin’ and dealin’ and schemin’. Go back where you fucking came from!
Fuck the black-hatted Chassidim, strolling up and down 47th street in their dirty gabardine with their dandruff. Selling South African apartheid diamonds!
Fuck the Wall Street brokers. Self-styled masters of the universe. Michael Douglas, Gordon Gecko wannabe mother fuckers, figuring out new ways to rob hard working people blind. Send those Enron assholes to jail for fucking life! You think Bush and Cheney didn’t know about that shit? Give me a fucking break! Tyco! Imclone! Adelphia! Worldcom!
Fuck the Puerto Ricans. 20 to a car, swelling up the welfare rolls, worst fuckin’ parade in the city. And don’t even get me started on the Dom-in-i-cans, because they make the Puerto Ricans look good.
Fuck the Bensonhurst Italians with their pomaded hair, their nylon warm-up suits, and their St. Anthony medallions. Swinging their, Jason Giambi, Louisville slugger, baseball bats, trying to audition for the Sopranos.
Fuck the Upper East Side wives with their Hermés scarves and their fifty-dollar Balducci artichokes. Overfed faces getting pulled and lifted and stretched, all taut and shiny. You’re not fooling anybody, sweetheart!
Fuck the uptown brothers. They never pass the ball, they don’t want to play defense, they take fives steps on every lay-up to the hoop. And then they want to turn around and blame everything on the white man. Slavery ended one hundred and thirty seven years ago. Move the fuck on!
Fuck the corrupt cops with their anus violating plungers and their 41 shots, standing behind a blue wall of silence. You betray our trust!
Fuck the priests who put their hands down some innocent child’s pants. Fuck the church that protects them, delivering us into evil. And while you’re at it, fuck JC! He got off easy! A day on the cross, a weekend in hell, and all the hallelujahs of the legioned angels for eternity! Try seven years in fuckin Otisville, Jay!
Fuck Osama Bin Laden, Alqueda, and backward-ass, cave-dwelling, fundamentalist assholes everywhere. On the names of innocent thousands murdered, I pray you spend the rest of eternity with your seventy-two whores roasting in a jet-fueled fire in hell. You towel headed camel jockeys can kiss my royal, Irish ass!
Fuck Jacob Elinski, whining malcontent.
Fuck Francis Xavier Slaughtery, my best friend, judging me while he stares at my girlfriend’s ass.
Fuck Naturel Rivera. I gave her my trust and she stabbed me in the back. Sold me up the river. Fucking bitch.
Fuck my father with his endless grief, standing behind that bar. Sipping on club soda, selling whiskey to firemen and cheering the Bronx Bombers.
Fuck this whole city and everyone in it. From the row houses of Astoria to the penthouses on Park Avenue. From the projects in the Bronx to the lofts in Soho. From the tenements in Alphabet City to the brownstones in Park slope to the split levels in Staten Island. Let an earthquake crumble it. Let the fires rage. Let it burn to fuckin ash then let the waters rise and submerge this whole, rat-infested place.

TRANSCRIPTIONS

2009-01-23T07:23:00.000-08:00

David Cronenberg and the Cinema of the Extreme

David Cronenberg : « I think film should be seductive and, and involving and intriguing »

Prfsr : « I think that masses doses videodrome signal will automatically create a new outgrowth of the human brain. Wich will produce and control hallucination, to the point that it will change human reality »

D.C. : « And so, it is much a suprise to me as maybe to other people that some of my films are considered to be very assertive and very confrontational »

Prof : « After all there is nothing real outside our perception of reality, is there. You can see that, don't you ? »

D.C. : « My imagerie is really very much like the use of metaphor and litterature. It's a way of comparing things and suggesting possibilities that might not otherwised have been imagined? »

Alex Cox : « What Cronenberg does, and what Georges Romero in his bests films does, is he creates a world which … you think you know that work cause you've seen in horror film before. So the genious is to create a new world you haven't seen before. That's like a dream because in a dream you can go into a place that you think it's familiar, and all of a sudden »

D.C. : « That's one think to have someone pushed of a subway platform and you can imagine what will happen. You don't have to show that »

« Videodrome is death. »

D.C. : « But when you're creating absolutly new unimagined imagerie, you have to show. There is really no other choice, it's really, it's a very functional thing »

Alex Cox : « You don't know what's gonna happen, and that's the most surprising thing is you don t know how it's gonna end. And that's very rare because normally films are predictable, you do know how it's gonna end. So it's very surprising, and it become like a dream too because in a dream you never know how you dream is gonna (...) out »

« ...Boy, ...boy »

D.C. : « We wanna beggin to think about making a movie. I've done underground films (...) was doing a movie, they would have an audience (...) was eating pop-corns, that was the difference. It was a completelly natural thing for me to go to psychosis horror form. »

« ... believe man is an animal, that thinks to much, to much brain and other guts. It was (...) came up (...) Here, a combination of aphrodisiac (...) disease (...) hopefully in (...) world (...) one beautyfull mind this... orgy ... crazy

D.C. : « It seems like a brilliant career strategy (...) because it was one of the few places that you could make a low budget film and have been successfull and have be noticed »

D.C. : « All the other (genre)... taken by hollywood. At that time no hollywood studio would make a horror film. Maybe the all man was Gregory (Pack) ,you know maybe. But something like Shivers, never. »

Georges Romero : «I was growing up with horror film, that was the (…) and then (…) stop short of the punchline if you will »

D.C. : « Most horror films at the time were basically costumed dramas if you didn't have a vampire you certainly had capes you know with a...mechanic things and you had castles if you could afford them. But for me, it was never question, it was gonna be modern, it was gonna be a contemporary thing »

George Romero : « It's really part of the job of the (...) to (...) your cage and create an environment that is not the environment that you're in, it's not the world, it's meant to cheat that world out. Particulary for using (...) form crisis (...) »

- « What are they doing ? Why they come here ? »

- « (...) memory, what i use to do. »

Naked Lunch

« When I started writing Naked Lunch people (laugh of their) opinions. Disgusting they said, pornographic, unamerican, trash, unpublishable. Well, it came out in ninety-fifty-nine and it found an audience. Town meetings, book burnings, and an inquiry by the States Supreme Court. The book made quite a little impression. Now thirty years later Hollywood, in his infinite wisdom, has turned it into a movie. Thirty feet tall, in living color. Cover your eyes America, run for your lives » « You (...) » «You just gonna have to leave town. » « Tourist class i'm afraid. » « ...you finish, you're doing weird stuff. » « I thought I was too, but I guess I'm not. »

Viggo Mortensen's Naked Fight Scene

« In the case of V.Mortensen he look so slavic. I guess that's why... »

« Well, that's what I thought when I was doing History of Violence, where do these chick bomb come from.You know because that's not necessary Danish but also that's getting closer to Russia when you're in Danmark. And so, when I read the role of Nikolai, this so perfect for Viggo, you know. I didn't know that he wanna do it but I thought that he had to do it »

« Well, I could see why he might have some misgiving ... about doing this. It is a very physical rôle ... difficult rôle ... have a scene that many people have talk about,.. an incredibly violent battle scene that must taking of ... »

« Well, You know, it's, yeah, Viggo does the fight scene, Viggo plays completely naked and he was just (...) but was relatively simple discussion that we had. He said as we started to work the choreography for he scene, he said ... I'm gonna have to play this naked and i said great that was sort of it »

« He made that decision ? »

« Yeah, you know it was written. You know the guys are in the steam bath and two bad guys come in with knifes and there's a fight »

« It would have been hard to do all thing in a tall anyway ? »

« ...it would have been quite so. And basically would have been a betrayal of the level of reality that we had established before... On the other hand, you know it really was based on the trust that Viggo and I established working History of violence .I show my actors everything I have monitor everywhere for the crew to look at. Everybody know what's going on. Not all directors do that »

David Cronenberg: Viggo Mortensen's Naked Fight Scene

2009-01-23T02:31:00.000-08:00

David Cronenberg and the Cinema of the Extreme

2008-11-24T22:04:00.000-08:00

Naked Lunch

2008-11-24T21:59:00.000-08:00

My mistakes

2008-11-03T11:51:00.000-08:00

I had those comments, thank's all.

tttphan a dit...: "The first think" => thing
(I think you wrote it too fast ^^)
tttphan a dit...: Hi Yann !

I have to make corrections so...

"the twenty eigth" : there is just a switch between the "t" and the "h"

"I enjoy outdoor to" : if you want to say that you like outdoor activities like our teacher, the "o" is missing "I enjoy outdoor too"

"isn'nt" => isn't
ImacVok a dit...: youhhouu yann !

I was born => was borned
The Université de Montréal => Montréal university
Virginie a dit...: Hello Yann,

I've found some mistakes:

- "My email adress is ..." : there is two "d" in address.

-"It was really interesting for discover cinema, audiovisual..." : I think it's not "interesting for" but "interesting to".
Vincent a dit...: Hi Yann !

I found some mistakes.

"until I obtain my Baccalaureat S". I think "I obtained" (Past tense) is more correct.

"for two years at the university Paul Valery" => "for two years at Paul Valery University"

Corrections

2008-11-03T11:09:00.000-08:00

I saw these mistakes:

On Aurore's blog :

On "Strange story about a psychologist !" post :
"in different locations in the city" --> "In differents locations"
"after an hour of cry and scream"-->"After an hour of cries an screams"

On Alexis's blog :

On "Inside Weta Digital" post :
"divided into weta workshop"-->"divided into weta workshops"
"I’ve discover it"-->"I've discovered it"
"I didn’t found"--> "I didn't find"

On "Making-of - Advert BBC" ppost :
"It’s a making-of of an advert"-->"It's a making of an advert"

On " Video, Quentin Tarantino, How he makes movies" post :
"who explain how he makes movies" -> "who explains how he makes movies"

Yoann's blog :

It was very hard because there is a lot of things to read. But the blog is OK, i didn't find any mistakes.

Alexander's blog is OK

Arnaud's blog is OK too

I'm not sure of all those corrections...

"English ( ), do you speaking it ? "

2008-10-28T12:02:00.000-07:00

Assignement : C.E.O

2008-10-27T13:44:00.000-07:00

Find stuffs about C.E.O

The first thing i found is this text about how to become a C.E.O. Found thanks to "become CEO" wrote on google. This is the fifth result.

How to Become CEO: The Rules for Rising to the Top of Any Organization

by Jeffrey J Fox

Always Take the Job That Offers the Most Money

After you have decided what you want to do--whether it is banking, advertising, manufacturing, or something else--go to work for the company that offers you the most money. If you have not decided what kind of career or industry is for you, then take the job that offers the most money. If you are in a corporation, always take the transfer, promotion, or assignment that pays the most money.

There are several important reasons why you go for the money. First, all of your benefits, perquisites, bonuses, and subsequent raises will be based on your salary. Corporations give all extra compensation in percentages. Therefore, a 10 percent raise on a $22,000 salary is $2000 better than the same raise on a $20,000 salary.

Second, the higher paid you are, the more visible to top management you will be.

Third, the more money you are paid, the more contribution will be expected of you. This means you will be given more responsibility, tasks, and problems to solve. And a chance to perform is an invitation to success.

Fourth, if two people are candidates for a promotion to a job that pays $50,000, and one person makes $30,000 and the other $40,000 the higher paid person always gets the job. The higher paid person gets the job regardless of talent, contribution, or anything else. Corporations usually take the easy way out, and it is easier to promote the higher paid than the lower.*

Finally, in business, money is the scoreboard. The more you make, the better you're doing. Simple.

*Promoting the higher paid is the path of no resistance in most organizations. Someone approved the higher paid person's compensation. Others concurred. To leapfrog the higher paid diminishes the sponsor of the higher paid. And the sponsors of the higher paid are, themselves, even higher paid. Promoting the higher paid endorses the wisdom of upper management.

Excerpted from How to Become Ceo : The Rules for Rising to the Top of Any Organization by Jeffrey J. Fox. Copyright © 1998. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved

http://www.powerhomebiz.com/News/aceo.htm

The Linguist

2008-10-27T13:20:00.000-07:00

Transcription :

Hello, this is Steve Kauffman here, talk about something a little different today. (...)language. We are here at thelinguist.blogs.com.

Today I went for a haircut. My barber talks a lot. Sometimes he even stops cutting just to talk, which I find mildly annoying. On the other hand I am always entertained for 30 minutes while he cuts my hair. He does a good job and charges me 18 dollars, which is not the cheapest, but not the most expensive, haircut in Vancouver.

He told me that he came to Canada as a 16 year old, 20 years ago. He went to hair dressing school and then worked for a chain of hair salons for 5 years, in different locations in the city. He got to know the personalities of different kinds of clients. He didn't like working in the heavily Chinese district of Richmond because, in his words, the customers would arrive late and expect to be served right away. If they were not served immediately, they assumed that the customer who was being served in their place had paid extra. He did not like the pressure of that situation.
He eventually opened his own shop in North Vancouver. He said that he made sure to learn about all the subjects that his clients were interested in, from fly fishing to the stock market. He knew that if customers liked him, they would come back.
After 20 years in Canada, dealing with English speaking Canadian clients, his English is just terrible. His pronunciation, use of words, structure, you name it, are all quite poor. When he talked about a leading politician and his wife, "he" and "she" were regularly used wrong. I had trouble understanding whom he was talking about. People who are not used to Chinese accents must have trouble understanding him. His English is poor even by the standards of his native Hong Kong.
So what is the conclusion ? He doesn't represent everyone but just being immersed in the language and talking the language will not necessarily improve you. You need to want to improve. You need to have a deliberate program of improvement. You need to listen.
On the other hand, my barber was successful at building up a customer base, and did not seem to feel inhibited in any way by his poor English. He was a communicator, although a better talker than a listener. I have not suggested to him that he join The Linguist.

Recording

2008-10-20T22:33:00.001-07:00

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Introduction

2008-10-13T12:48:00.000-07:00

I'm Yann Nivet

My email address is yann.nivet@hotmail.fr

I was born in Pau on September, the twenty eight, nineteen-eighty-seven.

I was raised in Perpignan, in the south of France, near Spain. I went to school there until I obtain my Baccalaureat S.

Then I left Perpignan to continue my studies in Montpellier. I studied cinema for two years at the university Paul Valery. It was really interesting to discover cinema, audiovisual .... and above all to party.

After those two years, I wanted to discover more things. So, I decided to spend one year in Montreal, in Canada thanks to a students exchange. I continued my cinema studies in Quebec at The Université de Montréal. I've also travelled a little In Quebec and USA. It was really fun, because Quebec is a really interesting country, and for my studies it was really great to discover new works methods and all the quebecoise cinema.

But all those studies were maily theoreticals and now I want to discover more things and to practice.

That's why i'm at the Imac school.

I really enjoy cinema and photography, even if my practice isn't really good. I like live music. I enjoy outdoor too : I like particularly climbing and snowboarding.

There isn'nt really a particular job that i want do, but my objectives are to work in audiovisual world. Because it's fascinating and there's a lot of possibilities.