Sunday, January 17, 2010

Robert Desnos & I Both LOVE Sleep...

Every artistic movement should have a dormouse at its center.

French Surrealism got that.

Other art movements missed out.



What a lovely short poem this is!



PHILLY BOY MAKES GOOD...Man Ray is inspired by Desnos to make this short film...

The Starfish



J'ai rêvé tellement fort de toi,
J'ai tellement marché, tellement parlé,
Tellement aimé ton ombre,
Qu'il ne me reste plus rien de toi,
Il me reste d'être l'ombre parmi les ombres
D'être cent fois plus ombre que l'ombre
D'être l'ombre qui viendra et reviendra
dans ta vie ensoleillée.




Bjork will stress that she wrote this song for her friend Nelly Hooper and NOT Madonna.

But Madonna ended up recording it.

I knew Bjork had written it even before anybody told me. The sense of English and the vocal phrasing. I think it suggests Desno's metholodology nicely, although the surrealist painters being referenced here are not from his clique.

And, inside...we're all still...wet

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