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adarkrainbow · 5 months

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BD reviews: The good, the okay and the bad

Today's review - L'origine des contes, by Philippe Bonifay

France has a deep and intimate history with fairytales. My blog mostly focuses on literature, and I already did a few jumps in the domain of cinema - but this French presence of fairytales also expands into the most French of all media... THE BD! La BD! Aka, "bande-dessinée". Yes, it is technically just the French translation of the English term "comic book" - but I do like to keep the original appelation BD because the European BD (especially the Franco-Belgian BD) and the American comic books, while similar by many ways, are also very different by many other aspects - different sale techniques, different formats, different materials, very different histories and rules...

So, I wanted to do a quick dive into a handful of fairytale-related BD (not all because there's a HUGE amount of fairytales BD). I'll cover here four in a row, more or less extensively, and I want to begin with a series I deem to be a bad one. "A l'origine des contes". "At the origin of fairytales". A series written by Philippe Bonifay and released in three volumes in 2013 - each volume with a different artist and focusing on a different fairytale (Pinocchio by Thibaud de Rochebrune ; Snow White by Fabrice Meddour ; and Bluebeard by Stephane Duval)

I have only read two of the volumes - not the Pinocchio one. Everybody keeps saying the Pinocchio tome ("tome" sounds in English like "tome of eldritch lore" or a "grimoire" but in French what English folks call "comic book volume", we call "un tome de bande-dessinée" so I'll use tome for simplification) is the best in terms of art and story, but the other two ones left me such a sour taste I don't know if I will even take a look at it or not.

This series offers and proposes a very simple concept. "What if there was an actual, historical, realistic origin to the fairytales we know today? What if there was a REAL, and darker, story behind these childhood classics?". Each volume has as a narrative frame a fictional version of the ones who wrote the fairytales (Perrault for Bluebeard, the Grimm brothers for Snow White etc...), and proceeds to present us a dark, harsh story between the tragedy and the horror tale, set in a defined country at a defined time period, and that supposedly "inspired" the fairytales. Of course, this is all fictional pretense, as the author clearly wasn't interested in getting the actual folkloric or historical roots of the fairytales, and merely wanted to invent a darker, realistic alternative to the classics and present them through his BD.

In itself, it isn't a bad thing - as in, the series clearly does not pretend to be actual historical document, it is very clearly all fictional, and we had a lot of "realistic and darker, time-period" retelling of fairytales. In concept it basically evoked to me Maguire's "Mirror, Mirror" (I have not read Maguire's book, but based on everything I heard about it, the rough concept seemed to be the same). "A l'origine des contes" keeps popping up when you go searching for "adult BD about fairytales" - and the cover and general presentation already prepares you for a violent, mature and dark story. Just the cover of the Snow-White one depicts an axe-wielding woman with bloody snow surrounding her, and her breasts half-out of her corset. This establishes the "adult" trend. But what I was NOT expecting was for this to be one of those "bad" adult series.

There was a wave of "edgy" adult BDs at the turn of the century, whose entire topic was to present some sort of serious, dark story, preferably of historical inspiration, while adding in it a lot of shocking gore and a lot of nude women and a lot of sex scenes, at the detriment of the actual historic elements. A perfect example of this would be Jodorowsky's "Borgia" BD, a 2000s series centered around the life of the Borgia family - or rather based on their dark legend as a clan of corrupted, murderous, incestuous, proto-mafioso who poisoned everybody, defiled religion and took control of Rome... And it decided to amplify the dark legend even more. Deaths and mutilations and incestuous sex and gratuitous sexual perversity and plague and religious fanaticism all thrown together with as a pseudo-plot the historical political and religious manipulations of Rodrigo Borgia, and the dysfunctions of his broken family. Compared to this, "Game of Thrones" looks tame.

However, despite "Borgia" being basically a "historical snuff movie", it had something that "A l'origine des contes" does not have. It is FUN. As in, weird, perverse, classic slasher-fun. It does everything in such extremes and with such outlandish extent and it amplifies everything so much it becomes almost a gory parody and you just laugh at it all - and while it is clearly all hyper-fictional, it does take inspiration from the actual rumors, legends and claims surrounding the Borgias, it is merely a twisted mirror of their ACTUAL dark myth. But "A l'origine des contes"? Despite being much tamer in terms of sex and gore than "Borgia", and thus being more palatable, it lacks any kind of fun or interest - precisely because it keeps itself "contained" and "grounded", the bad elements pop out more (like the gratuity of nudity, or the lack of need for X violent scene to happen), and by literaly removing all the magic of the fairytales but replacing it with nothing, it produces a dreary and frankly boring thing... But worse crime of all: there's almost no real basis or interesting link or true twisting mirror of the original fairytales!

To give you an example of what I mean by that, I'll talk of the first volume I read: Bluebeard.

The so-called "real" story of Bluebeard is that there were in the Middle-Ages (well it's supposed to be the Middle-Ages but a recurring theme in this series is that clearly no historical research was made and the artist and author just threw whatever they wanted in there) beautiful twins - but one, after surviving the plague, became ugly. They grew up wanting to become great artists - but the ugly and deformed brother ended up drowning in his bitterness at being the "ugly, hidden one" while his lovely brother got all the praise and love. And the deformed twin growing madder and madder, he starts becoming murderous... You start thinking "Oh, I see, so this is what was hidden in that forbidden room, the murderous twin! And the one who killed wives wasn't Bluebeard by his evil double!". The latter is true: here, all of Bluebeard's wives were killed by his envious and mad twin. The first sentence howeve turns out massively wrong because of the final wife, of the blood-stained key, of Bluebeard's house/castle, we have no trace! In fact, the only two elements Bonifay kept from the original story were "A) A guy name Bluebeard B) has lots of wives that end up killed". And that's literaly it - nothing else from the original fairytale is taken, and in fact, if it wasn't for the iconic name of Bluebeard, you wouldn't even KNOW this was supposed to be a Bluebeard adaptation.

Many people pointed out that Bonifay clearly had here an inspiration and influence from Gothic tales or the fantastique genre - he pushed the original story of Perrault towards the grounds of "Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde", and "The Portrait of Dorian Gray"... But he pushed so far it basically ends up being its own story with barely any relationship to the original one. In fact, it feels VERY strongly as if Bonifay had an idea for a different BD, couldn't get published, and recycled it for his Fairytale series. This is just about a guy trying to escape his murderous shadow-twin, who keeps killing all of his wives, no matter how far he goes - because, and I rolled my eyes there and skipped the whole arc because come on ; because he even goes to THE DEEPEST PARTS OF AFRICA and marries there a girl from some random tribe, and I just skipped it all ahead... Oh yes the whole "artist" plot is also involved here, because the murdered wives are used by the mad twin brother for some sort of grandiose sculpture the brothers had planned since teenagehood. And if you want to know the reason why Bluebeard is called Bluebeard, it could have been interesting but it is delivered in such a silly way: the good-looking twin got a knife-wound on his chin that made it so that he had a hairless spot in his beard, and to cover it up he wore a beard-jewel with a sapphire on it, hence the "Bluebeard" nickname.

Overall my main grief was that, despite supposedly telling the "true story of Bluebeard", it offered us... something completely different, an entirely different and un-fairytale like story that seems to have been hastily stitched into the Bluebeard mythos. But I still decided to go on and check another tome of the series...

The Snow-White one. And... again, a disappointment and that's where I decided I wouldn't finish the trilogy.

It is too bad because there, at least the story clearly was a reflecton of "Snow-White", and there were some cool ideas in here. For example - a link formed between the dwarves and the "evil stepmother"! (She isn't queen here, Snow's father being... a count or marquis, or something, i can't recall well). I haven't seen a lot Snow White adaptations that decide to give something personal tying the dwarfs to the evil stepmother. Here, the evil stepmother used to be a scheming, ambitious circus-girl that ended up marrying Snow White's father pretending to be someone else (at least I think...), and ultimately, to get rid of her shameful past, set fire to the barn where her whole circus family was sleeping a few days before her wedding. And the dwarfs, as it turns out, were circus dwarfs who were part of the same team as the evil stepmother, and survived the fire, and still hold a grudge against her for killing their family. That's a neat and cool idea!

Similarly, the ending of the tale was also very interesting - to show how the tale is a "realistic" one that the Grimms "reinvented" into a magical one, in the historical story Snow White ends up actually dying, killed by her evil stepmother, and she only "survives in her glass coffin" because the dwarfs that had sheltered her grieve her and carry on her memory until their own death... That's a very cool and beautiful idea to oppose the sad reality of the death of a beloved young girl with the fairytale logic of "dead princesses come back to life thanks to their prince charming".

But unfortunately this comic still has so many flaws it becomes a dreary, bleak and even boring read. The tale is muddled, there's again gratuitous nudity (such as the evil stepmother getting undressed to "pay" the hunter she hired to kill Snow White) so blatantly un-needed (especially since the whole point of the stepmother's character was that she was tired of being used like a prostitute by the circus she came from), the framing device of the brothers Grimm commenting the tale they are reading is POSITIVELY USELESS (as in, they basically just do "Oh!" or "Ah!" or repeat what we just saw as readers - this felt like so much waste of ink and paper and space)... Oh yes, and there's also the problem of the defective print!

This isn't something exclusive to the copy I read - other reviewers online pointed it out. This tome got a big misprint issue resulting in the text of several speech bubbles being displaced onto other speech bubbles, or the dialogue of one page being interverted with the one of another page, making the story even more confusing and incomprehensible...

In conclusion: I do not recommend these comics, except if you are a fan of the artists who made each issue. But in terms of fairytale adaptations, or even of "dark fairytales", they're just... bad, and unrelated, and very poor. And I am sad THESE got promoted whenever there's talk of "adult fairytale BD".

#review #fairytale comics #bande dessinée #fairytale bd #comic books #dark fairytale #fairytale horror #bluebeard #snow white #french adaptations

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crysdrawsthings · 1 year

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So, this is my birthday and if anyone wants to make me a lil birthday gift, I would be most excited to answer any asks about my TES OCs!

List of them goes down below, have fun, I will also probably reblog a few ask games in a moment.

Elder Scrolls Online

- Lanaraume (Deer) - Altmer Dragonknight, Vestige. Big buff lady whose hobby is sticking her nose into every single life-threatening situation possible.

- Chemkhi-La and Chezarjo-Ma - Khajiit siblings from the family of traveling performers.

- Gives-Many-Hugs - the kindest and sweetest Argonian you can find in the Tamriel. Pacifist, healer, everyone's second best pen pal.

- Llaveyne Telvanni - Dunmer mushroom witch, old as dirt, staunchly against slavery, will rather eat glass then recognize Tribunal as anything else then annoying upstarts.

- Galla Illvia - Imperial Dragonknight and the moody teenager of the bunch.

- Philippe Roussel (and his of yet unnamed wife) - Breton-rised Orc working as an accountant and personal assistant to a passionate historian.

- Autaracu Alata - Meridian Purified Ayleid artist-turned-sorceress from the Galras Malatar. CEO of King Narilmor's secret fan club.

Oblivion + Morrowind

- Sheba - not the Hero Kvatch deserves or needs, but the one it will get. Altmer Mage with a penchant for unorthodox solutions to nonexistent problems. Anti-Talos before it was hip.

- Yeoba - Sheba's sister who might or might not have been Nerevarine. Ended up in prison because stealing everything not bolted down is generally frowned upon in society.

Skyrim

- Elanor - Altmer-shaped artificial vessel for the dragon soul, part-time natural disaster, full-time eldritch annoyance, officially employed as the Emissary in the Skyrim branch of Thalmor.

- Asgeld - ex-Stormcloak and genuinely a pretty good guy! Just a normal dude doing normal things and living through the drama caused by everyone around.

- Cassia Illvia (and Wraith) - Asgeld's half-sister (and her daedra), in the employment of Captain Valmir as his ambiguously evil henchman and loyal scribe.

- Unnamed Greybeard Acolyte - yet another generally good person, whose life was more or less indirectly ruined by Elanor existing. Very strongly opposed to her being trained and over the events of Dragon Crysis stood in opposition to the rise of the person, whom he saw only as the new Alduin. And was quite right.

#the elder scrolls #tes #eso #elder scrolls online #skyrim #oblivion #morrowind #hero of kvatch #last dragonborn #nerevarine #vestige #crysandthings #tes oc

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roleplayfinder · 1 year

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Hej!

I’m looking for someone who’d like to write as Erik, the Phantom of the Opera, against my Christine Daaé. I’m looking for a one on one, literate roleplay through Discord with someone 21+.

While I’m a big big biiig fan of the ALW musical (and absolutely crushed that it’s closing on Broadway—honestly, I don’t even want to think about it), it would be nice if my partner had some knowledge of other versions of the story. Leroux, Kay, Yeston & Kopit… You name it! I love adding bits and pieces from here and there to the characters and the storylines.

And on the subject of storylines, I have lots of ideas, but I’d also love to hear ideas from my partner too! I’m a fan of canon divergent AUs as well as complete AUs. Anything from Christine going back to the Opera instead of with Philippe after leaving the Bistro in the 1990’s miniseries… to actual Angel of Music/Eldritch Horror Erik.

Anyway, enough of my rambling, please heart this post and I’ll get back to you straight away!

#twenty-one and over #poto #poto roleplay #poto rp

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rpersearch · 1 year

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Hej!

I’m looking for someone who’d like to write as Erik, the Phantom of the Opera, against my Christine Daaé. I’m looking for a one on one, literate roleplay through Discord with someone 21+.

And, on the subject of storylines, I have lots of ideas, but I’d also love to hear ideas from my partner too! I’m a fan of canon divergent AUs as well as complete AUs. Anything from Christine going back to the Opera instead of with Philippe after leaving the Bistro in the 1990’s miniseries… to actual Angel of Music/Eldritch Horror Erik.

Anyway, enough of my rambling, please heart this post and I’ll get back to you straight away!

#21+ rp #phantom of the opera #phantom of the opera roleplay #phantom of the opera rp

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capenafuerte · 1 year

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Andrew Eldritch (of The Sisters of Mercy) without sunglasses with flowers. That’s something you don’t see everyday. Philippe Carly, Photographer https://www.instagram.com/p/CopQS6mrRxx/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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vampireprincess1959 · 3 years

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1984

#philippe carly #andrew eldritch #the sisters of mercy #80s music #80s #80s goth #gothic rock #post punk #gothic music #gothgoth #trad goth #goth #gothic #music #tsom

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battlestarbones · 6 years

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The Washington Capitals as Things That Are Not Human Men

With help from @backstrom

Alex Ovechkin: Love and Entropy wrapped in human(?) skin Nicklas Backstrom: An Eldritch Monstrosity Barely Contained By A Flesh Prison It Would Like Desperately To Escape In Order To End The World Braden Holtby: An Angel just waiting for the right moment to escape this earthly form (and his crease) and fist fight God. TJ Oshie: Timothy Jimothy is one of Santa’s elves don’t fight me look at that face. I don’t care that they put him in a Santa hat in those team photos. Jay Beagle: Look you already know the answer here don’t fight it. Tom Wilson: Cerberus. I mean it’s just a big puppy dog, but would you fight it? I hope the answer is no, for your own safety. Andre Burakovsky: Imagine you’re just an innocent sunbeam trying to make his way to earth and then BOOM you’re a person? Shocking! John Carlson: The Physical Manifestation Of The Concept Of Cuddling Brooks Orpik: That’s a gremlin. If you disagree you’re in the wrong neighborhood buddy. Dmitry Orlov: A catapault. One of those nice big ones from LotR. Nathan Walker: Drop Bear. Australian, looks cuddly, but may prove more deadly than previously expected. Approach with caution. Matt Niskanen: his face holds an unidentified sinister energy and I can’t look at him directly for very long. or is he just uglie? Philipp Grubauer: Have you ever seen his mouth? That boy is some kind of fish disguised as a goalie. I love fish. Evgeny Kuznetsov: I just saw a picture of his Movember mustache last night so he’s cancelled until further notice. Lars Eller: you all already know this. (hint, it’s a kind of really big dog.) Christian Djoos: (why is there no fucking juice box emoji. I mean I know I’m a niche market but get on that fellows) Tyler Graovac and Brett Connolly: they’re both dead rn bye boys Alex Chiasson: i kno almost nothing abt this man except that his last name is misleadingly spelled or i just can’t pronounce anything for shit anyway im afraid of his dead eyes please stop looking at me mr. chiasson Madison Bowey: Probably a demigod of some kind. Like a demigod of being beautiful have y’all seen his hair? Devante Smith-Pelly: I know nothing about where he came from or what he is or where he’s going but I kinda dig it Jakub Vrana: Hermes in disguise because he’s a speedy boy Aaron Ness: he’s scratched from this post just like Barrold keeps scratching him from games Taylor Chorney: which one of you fucking assholes made me have to read the phrase “Sound the Chorn Horn” with my own two eyes I’m fucking coming for you bitch and I’m gonna sound the “Chorn Horn” at your fucking funeral

#my post #im sorry y'all because im Not Funny #but this post needed out of my drafts #caps #washington capitals #ovi #backstrom #honestly y'all this post is mostly about ovi and backy and holtby getting ready to fight God #i need to fucking go to sleep but i don't want to stop listening to the bangin' Atomic Blonde playlist

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rollingstonemag · 7 years

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Un nouvel article a été publié sur http://www.rollingstone.fr/benoit-hamon-un-candidat-dans-rolling-stone/

Benoît Hamon, son interview dans Rolling Stone

Benoît Hamon, grand gagnant de la primaire socialiste, s’était confié, il y a quelques semaines, à Rolling Stone et nous a dévoilé sa culture rock. Amateur de cold-wave dans sa jeunesse brestoise, il nous livre son patrimoine rock où Status Quo côtoie Cure, U2, The Sisters Of Mercy et Téléphone. Nous vous proposons l’intégralité de son interview

Par Philippe Langlest

Depuis déjà plusieurs mois, il y a de la friture sur la ligne PS, entre les pros-Valls et les frondeurs qui rejettent ouvertement la politique mise en place par le Premier ministre. Proche de Michel Rocard au début des années 1990, il se rapproche de Martine Aubry dans les années 2000 puis fini par se rallier à François Hollande en 2011. Incarnant la gauche du PS, il est nommé ministre délégué chargé de l’Économie sociale et solidaire en mai 2012 sous le gouvernement Ayrault. Avec Manuel Valls, il prend du grade et hérite du poste de ministre de l’Education nationale où il restera 147 jours. Plus vraiment sur la même longueur d’onde, il est débarqué du gouvernement fin août 2014. Aujourd’hui, libre comme l’air, le Breton est redevenu député. Boudé par l’Elysée et peu apprécié par Matignon, il compte bien faire entendre sa voix aux primaires socialistes début 2017.

Fils d’un père ingénieur des Arsenaux de Brest, le petit Benoît se martèle les tympans sur le boogie-rock de Status Quo. Il a 13 ans. Dans sa chambre d’adolescent, punaisée de poster d’AC-DC et de Motörhead, l’album Overkill lui souffle dans les bronches. Ses goûts musicaux s’affirment au lycée, il change de braquet et découvre la new-wave anglaise avec Depeche Mode. Attiré par un son plus dark, il est séduit par la cold-wave de The Cure puis passe de Joy Division aux riffs noir corbeau des Sisters Of Mercy. Au début des années 80, le rock made in France reprend des couleurs. Ses groupes préférés savent cracher du riff : ils ont pour noms Téléphone, Starshooter, Bijou.

7 juillet 2016. Installé dans un modeste bureau à l’Assemblée Nationale, il nous reçoit chaleureusement les bras chargés de 33-tours. Allure de jeune homme et coupe de douilles à la Ian Curtis, le député frondeur desserre la cravate.

Adolescent, comment avez-vous fait votre éducation musicale ?

A la maison, mes parents écoutaient religieusement Joe Dassin. Il ne se passait pas une semaine sans que la voix du grand Joe résonne dans les enceintes (sourire). Bien qu’à 12 ans, je n’écoutais pas vraiment sa musique dans ma chambre. J’ai commencé à me mettre au rock avec les Anglais de Status Quo, mon groupe fétiche à cette époque. Pour moi, il n’y avait pas mieux : ils avaient des putains de bonnes chansons qui faisaient battre du pied, un son de guitares qui allait bien et ce look total jean délavé, que je trouvais très tendance à l’époque (rires).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7-z4Dz5ZU4

Avec quel album découvrez-vous le groupe Status Quo ?

En achetant mon premier 45 tours, « Whatever You Want ». Pendant des semaines, le single a tourné sur ma platine : ce refrain ne me lâchait pas (Hamon fredonne NDLR). Entre-temps, j’avais bien entendu acheté l’album du même nom. Ce groupe avait la réputation de tenir la scène. J’en ai eu la confirmation en me procurant leur disque Live, enregistré à Glasgow en 1976. Le son du disque est volcanique et les guitares de Parfitt/Rossi sont remontées comme des coucous, enquillant à la chaine leurs meilleurs titres, avec entre autres « Caroline », « Down Down » et l’incontournable « Whatever You Want ».

De 12 à 14 ans, j’étais à fond dans le hard-rock. J’avais un gros poster d’AC-DC dans ma chambre.

A part Status Quo, vous vous intéressiez à d’autres groupes de rock ?

De 12 à 14 ans, j’étais à fond dans le hard-rock. J’avais un gros poster d’AC-DC dans ma chambre. Let The Be Rock et Highway To Hell squattaient ma platine. Les riffs d’Angus Young ont accompagné mes années de collège. Pour me décrasser les oreilles, j’utilisais assez souvent l’artillerie lourde de Motörhead avec les albums Overkill ou Ace Of Spades. J’éprouvais aussi une vraie sympathie pour les seconds couteaux du heavy-metal comme le groupe Saxon. Ils venaient d’un bled du côté de Sheffield ; de solides gaillards qui avaient fait un peu tous les métiers avant de se lancer dans le heavy-metal. Je me souviens encore de ces longues intros de guitares et ces solos qui surgissaient de tous les coins de l’album Wheels Of Steel. Un morceau de Saxon sans solo, c’était impensable, ça n’existait pas en fait !

Pas de Beatles ? de Stones ?

Non, je suis complètement passé à côté. J’ai écouté les Beatles sur le tard et les Stones n’ont jamais été mon truc. J’aime la gouaille de Jagger sur certains albums comme Tattoo You mais ça s’arrête là.

Après le heavy-metal de Saxon, vous changez de cap et vous passez de la new wave à la cold wave…

Au lycée à Brest, j’ai changé de look et surtout de style musical. Mes copains étaient des fans hardcore des Smiths. Ils achetaient tout ce que faisaient Morrissey et sa bande. A cette époque, la tendance était très Manchester à Brest. Cette même année, je suis tombé sur Unknown Pleasures de Joy Division et la voix glacée et glaciale de Ian Curtis. J’écoutais aussi Depeche Mode mais c’est surtout la période cold wave de The Cure qui m’a attiré avec l’album Seventeen Seconds. Mélodiquement, j’ai toujours trouvé que The Cure était au-dessus du lot et que Robert Smith reste l’un des meilleurs songwriters anglais encore en activité. Pourtant, j’avais un sentiment très ambivalent sur eux. J’adorais leur musique mais j’avais du mal à encadrer leurs gueules. Je dois avouer que le côté androgyne maquillé de Robert Smith me gavait un peu. Même si à cette époque, j’avais un look un peu dark qui se résumait à porter un imper marine très long qui traînait un peu sur mes bottes (rires).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVvoQIdD80U

Par la suite, vous devenez fan de The Sisters Of Mercy. Comment vous initiez-vous à leur musique ?

La musique, c’est souvent une histoire de potes, on me passait souvent des lives en K7. Et à un moment donné, je suis tombé sur The Sisters Of Mercy. Leur musique dégageait une grande puissance, c’était un mélange entre le gothique et la dark wave. Mais derrière cet épais rideau noir, il y avait de bonnes mélodies comme Mary Ann ou Alice. Je me rappelle que la formation d’Andrew Eldritch changeait souvent de personnel, suite au caractère versatile du taulier. En fait, si vous observez le line-up du groupe sur toute leur carrière, il y a plus de contrats précaires que de CDI (sourire).

Il y a un album en particulier que vous recommandez ?

Je conseillerais le premier First and Last And Always, sorti en 85. C’est une tuerie, avec Eldritch et Wayne Hussey à la guitare, futur leader The Mission. J’ai passé de nombreuses soirées à Brest à écouter à fond « Marian » et « Black Planet ». Leur musique me donnait envie de bouger, de larguer les amarres sur le dance floor brestois.

A ce propos, quand vous sortiez à Brest pour écouter de la bonne musique, c’était où votre QG ?

On allait tous au Mélo. Cette boite était le point de rendez-vous pour tous les amateurs de cold-wave. C’était le club rock incontournable de la ville. Au moins, là-bas on savait qu’on n’allait pas se retrouver encerclé par Michel Sardou ou François Valéry, la programmation musicale affichait clairement les couleurs.

Vous étiez quel genre de client, plutôt à rester tranquillement au bar ? Ou à pogoter sur la piste de danse ?

Je ne refusais jamais un petit pogo. Par exemple, quand le DJ envoyait « This Is Love Song » de PIL, je filais inexorablement me dégourdir les jambes.

Il y avait aussi Starshooter que j’aimais bien. Musicalement, leurs chansons sonnaient entre le punk et la new-wave ; entre les Damned et B-52’s pour les initiés.

Quel est votre premier vrai choc musical ?

Probablement le premier live de Cure qui sort en 1984. Ce disque avec aux commandes le trio Smith, Gallup, Tolhurt avait été enregistré entre Londres et Oxford. Je l’ai écouté des centaines de fois ! Le vinyle est rayé de partout. A l’intérieur, il y a le meilleur de Cure en live : de « Charlotte Sometimes » qui est d’une beauté magnifique, à l’hypnotique « A Forest » ou encore « Killing An Arab », un authentique bijou signé Robert Smith.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdbLqOXmJ04

En 2010, vous avez rencontré les membres du groupe anglais Gang Of Four dont le leader Jon King a été adhérent au Labour Party. Qu’est-ce qui vous plait dans leur musique ?

On s’était rencontrés pour le magazine Vox Pop. Pour moi, Gang Of Four, c’était tout d’abord du bon post punk. Par exemple, dans l’album Songs Of The Free qui paraît en 1982, il y a tout le discours des années Thatcher. Leurs chansons ont de l’épaisseur et restituent bien ce qu’a été l’Angleterre des luttes. Il y a plein d’artistes anglais qui ont su résister et qui ont mené des batailles exemplaires contre le cynisme des tories et les excès du libéralisme, comme Jon King de Gang Of Four en musique ou encore Ken Loach au cinéma.

Quelques mots sur le groupe U2 ?

Au début des 80’s, j’étais très fan. L’album « War » est sans aucun doute l’un de leurs meilleurs. Il faut se rappeler qu’en 1983, il existait une grosse tension entre les autorités britanniques, l’Irlande du Nord et l’IRA. Quand Bono écrit la chanson « Sunday Bloody Sunday », son texte s’inscrit dans le cours de l’Histoire. Aujourd’hui, le groupe enchaine les disques et les tournées mais je ne retrouve plus la même fièvre dans leurs nouvelles compositions.

Si je vous dis rock français, ça vous évoque quoi ?

Téléphone !!! Le premier album de Téléphone est exceptionnel. Les titres comme « Hygiaphone », « Sur La Route », « Métro (C’est Trop) », « Anna » ou « Flipper » étaient monstrueux d’efficacité. J’aimais les guitares de Bertignac mais je préférais le charisme naturel d’Aubert. En plus, Kolinka à la batterie, c’était un peu le Stewart Copeland version Téléphone. J’ai eu l’occasion de les voir en concert à Brest. En live, ils dominaient de très haut la scène rock hexagonale de cette époque. Il fallait être très costaud pour rivaliser avec eux. Bijou avait un truc différent, leur répertoire avait une sonorité sixities qu’on ne retrouvait pas chez les autres. Sur l’album Jamais Domptés, il y a des titres très percutant comme « Rock à la Radio » ou « Pas Comme Vous ». Il y avait aussi Starshooter que j’aimais bien. Musicalement, leurs chansons sonnaient entre le punk et la new-wave ; entre les Damned et B-52’s pour les initiés. Le quatuor lyonnais avait une patate d’enfer, ça jouait vite et fort ! En mai 1981, Starshoot a sorti son single « Quel Bel Avenir » avec ce couplet annonçant la couleur : « Dans les eighties, j’y suis né, y-avait des roses au mois de Mai…». Plus tard, il y a eu Noir Désir avec « Tostaky » notamment qui, soit-dit en passant, reste encore aujourd’hui, comme l’un des plus beaux cuirassés du rock français. Et puis, dans un autre registre, il y a eu Miossec …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPy7fhvBG6A

Comment découvrez-vous les chansons du brestois ?

Miossec n’est pas de Brest mais d’Ouessant. J’ai découvert son univers artistique avec l’album « Boire » ou figure la chanson « Brest ». Chez lui, il y a comme une langue instinctive de cette ville. L’émotion qui se dégage de son texte est un peu moche, il faut le dire, mais je trouve ça d’une beauté magistrale. Dans cette forme de pudeur qu’ont les Bretons, il est excellent. Je suis également très fan d’une reprise d’un morceau de Joe Dassin « Salut Les amoureux » où Miossec me file la chair de poule à chaque fois que je l’écoute.

Vous avez écouté « Mammifères », son dernier album ?

Non, pas encore.

En 2012, vous tweetiez le morceau « Beautiful Day » de U2, dès le premier tour des Présidentielles. Et aujourd’hui ?

J’avais oublié ça… Là c’est difficile. Quatre ans plus tard, je m’excuserais peut-être… Non, on avait le droit d’y croire et je n’ai pas envie de m’abandonner au désespoir. Donc, j’irais chercher des choses légères, plus insouciantes. Je n’ai pas envie d’être dans la gravité, je tweeterais un truc un peu féminin, doux, entre jazz et blues, genre Melody Gardot ou Alela Diane.

[La musique] c’est un vrai sujet car dans les meetings, il va falloir qu’on sorte un truc un truc joyeux, positif. J’ai bien aimé l’album de Jain avec notamment le titre « Come » que je trouve très fédérateur.

En tant que futur probable candidat à la primaire socialiste, quel morceau choisiriez-vous pour lancer votre campagne ?

C’est un vrai sujet car dans les meetings, il va falloir qu’on sorte un truc un truc joyeux, positif. J’ai bien aimé l’album de Jain avec notamment le titre « Come » que je trouve très fédérateur. C’est une jeune chanteuse qui fait du reggae blanc que j’ai découvert sur France Inter lorsqu’elle a fait une reprise très convaincante de « Mercedes Benz » de Janis Joplin.

Si vous n’aviez pas été homme politique, vous seriez-vous vu dans la peau d’une rock star, si oui laquelle ?

Je dois confesser que j’ai eu la chance de faire des meetings devant des milliers de personnes. Mais je pense qu’il y a quelque chose de plus incroyable encore, c’est de faire bouger les gens sur de la musique. Le 29 septembre 2007, j’étais au concert de Police au Stade de France et j’avoue que j’aurais adoré me retrouvé ce soir-là, sur scène, dans la peau des trois musiciens du groupe. Il y avait une vraie communion entre le public et eux, c’était magique.

Retrouvez cet interview de Benoît Hamon dans vos kiosques ou en ligne

#arnaud montebourg #benoit hamon #françois hollande #parti socialiste #politique #primaires

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Happily Married | Philippe, the Eldritch TV Host

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I'm happily married to a dotting Eldritch father and mother to a sweet baby!

Philippe belongs to @dimaofficial

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Hands | Philippe the Eldritch

More self-indulgence that I worked on the side.

Philippe and bottom sketches done by @dimaofficial

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salty-rey · 1 year

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Powers | Domestic Eldritch Life

Don't ya hate it when your baby decides to defy gravity?

Philippe belongs to @dimaofficial

Me and my homie having a blast with domestic life ideas. ( ^ w ^ ) / ♡♡♡

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Photos | Philippe

And they were pen pals.

Just a silly comic to get me back into the groove of drawing!

Philippe @dimaofficial

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Toe Beans | Flustered

When you're learning more about your Eldtrich partner.

The sketches below were done by the homie Dima!

Philippe @dimaofficial

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#philippe the eldritch #philippe the tv host #philippe #self insert #self indulgent #self indulgence #original comic #original characters #original character #me with my friend's character #digital drawing #digital illustration #digital comic #digital art #clip studio paint #duplitone #retro supply #my art

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Crys and her TES OCs

Finally making sort of an informative post to keep track of relevant links and show to people so they can get their bearings on how one yellow elf is different from the other.

Elder Scrolls Online

- Lanaraume (Deer) - Altmer Dragonknight, Vestige. Big buff lady whose hobby is sticking her nose into every single life-threatening situation possible - tagged as Deer the Altmer (tag to be replaced!)

- Chemkhi-La and Chezarjo-Ma - Khajiit siblings from the family of traveling performers - tagged as Oh Lawd They Coming (tag to be replaced!)

- Gives-Many-Hugs - the kindest and sweetest Argonian you can find in the Tamriel. Pacifist, healer, everyone’s second best pen pal - tagged as Hands and Hugs (old version!) and Hugs and Pals (new version!)

- Llaveyne Telvanni - Dunmer mushroom witch, old as dirt, staunchly against slavery, will rather eat glass then recognize Tribunal as anything else then annoying upstarts - tagged as Mushroom Grandma

- Galla Illvia - Imperial Dragonknight and the moody teenager of the bunch.

- Philippe Roussel (and his of yet unnamed wife) - Breton-rised Orc working as an accountant and personal assistant to a passionate historian.

- Autaracu Alata - Meridian Purified Ayleid artist-turned-sorceress from the Galras Malatar. CEO of King Narilmor’s secret fan club - tagged as Au the Little Light

Oblivion + Morrowind

- Sheba - not the Hero Kvatch deserves or needs, but the one it will get. Altmer Mage with a penchant for unorthodox solutions to nonexistent problems. Anti-Talos before it was hip - tagged as Auntie Sheba

- Yeoba - Sheba’s sister who might or might not have been Nerevarine. Ended up in prison because stealing everything not bolted down is generally frowned upon in society - tagged as Yeoba the Memevarine

Skyrim

- Elanor - Altmer-shaped artificial vessel for the dragon soul, part-time natural disaster, full-time eldritch annoyance, officially employed as the Emissary in the Skyrim branch of Thalmor - tagged as Emissary Elanor (shitty at her job)

- Asgeld - ex-Stormcloak and genuinely a pretty good guy! Just a normal dude doing normal things and living through the drama caused by everyone around - tagged as We Are Wraith AU (to be replaced with Worsties from the Rift)

- Cassia Illvia (and Wraith) - Asgeld’s half-sister (and her daedra), in the employment of Captain Valmir as his ambiguously evil henchman and loyal scribe - tagged as We Are Wraith AU (to be replaced with Worsties from the Rift)

- Einar - yet another generally good person, whose life was more or less indirectly ruined by Elanor existing. Very strongly opposed to her being trained and over the events of Dragon Crysis stood in opposition to the rise of the person, whom he saw only as the new Alduin. And was quite right.

#tes #the elder scrolls #eso #elder scrolls online #oblivion #skyrim #morrowind #now to figure out how to change all the old tags #and i do wonder how much stuff i haven't even tagged properly #anyway #will be doing better #crysandthings #tes oc

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