Portugal - Des surfeurs de l’extrême s’attaquent aux premières vagues géantes

(Lisbonne) Plusieurs surfeurs de l’extrême tentaient jeudi matin de dominer l’énorme houle à Praia do Norte, célèbre spot de Nazaré atteint par les premières vagues géantes de l’automne, dans le centre du Portugal.

- La Presse

 

Requiem for a Dream at 20: Aronofsky's nightmare still haunts

The auteur’s bold and brutal 2000 adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr’s cultish novel about addiction remains an indelible and shocking act of provocation.

I was 17, and just beginning university, when Requiem for a Dream descended on cinemas like an opaque, bruise-blue mist. Notwithstanding the no-under-18s restrictions stamped upon it by stern censors in the UK and elsewhere, I like to think I was the optimal age for it. Darren Aronofsky’s addiction drama may be cross-generational in its focus, but with its unremittingly punishing storytelling and frenzied, all-systems-go cinematic energy, it represents a very young person’s idea of how a very adult film looks, sounds and spasms. 

- The Guardian

 

William Bujold à la recherche de la perle rare

À 26 ans seulement, William Bujold est déjà un pionnier de l’élevage des huîtres au Québec. Premier à commercialiser ce mollusque dans les eaux de la Gaspésie, cet amoureux de la mer compte bien faire déguster l’huître au-delà des fameux mois en « bre ».

- Le Devoir

 

Men Love Sluts: How the Fear of Bigger Penises Fuels Slut-Shaming

Sexual due diligence, penis metrics, dick discernment, and how the sexual shaming of women hurts both sexes.

In 1996 I was eighteen years old and had been a stripper for two years already. I hung out with a group of drug dealers, pimps, professional athletes, and a crew of four other strippers I booked for private dances with some of my rich and famous friends, who I met in the private gentlemen’s club where I worked daily double shifts. I’d been living on my own since I was sixteen years old and pulling in no less than a thousand dollars a day. I was a troubled teenage dropout, a runaway, and one hell of a hustler.

- Medium

 

Japanese Artist Draws Every Meal He’s Eaten for Over 30 Years – Food Is Love

For decades chef Itsuo Kobayashi has been drawing his food diaries, creating a visual record of an enduring love.

- Flashbak

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Sacha Baron Cohen: This Time He’s Serious

Reviving his Borat character and playing the political activist Abbie Hoffman, the actor feels he “had to ring the alarm bell and say that democracy is in peril this year.”

Borat uses the flower bed in front of the Trump hotel at Columbus Circle as a men’s room.

Sacha Baron Cohen plays the cello and is planning to take some Zoom classes from the masters.

Borat keeps his teenage daughter in a cage. (“Is it nicer than Melania’s cage?” she wonders.) And when he takes her clothes shopping, he asks the saleswoman to direct them to the “No means Yes section.”

Sacha Baron Cohen, who once dreamed of being a chef, loves to cook for his family.

Borat buys a chocolate cake and asks the woman behind the counter to write on top, “Jews will not replace us” in icing — with a smiley face.

Sacha Baron Cohen is an observant Jew who speaks Hebrew and works with the Anti-Defamation League on “Stop Hate for Profit,” a campaign to stem the bile on social media.

- NY Times

 

Ces femmes par qui l’horreur arrive (ou s’achève)

La décennie des années 1970 fut particulièrement féconde en matière de cinéma d’horreur. Entre les diableries de The Exorcist et The Omen, financés à gros frais par Hollywood, des films à petit budget émergèrent de la scène indépendante, tels The Texas Chainsaw Massacre et Halloween, cumulant des recettes tout aussi énormes et confirmant un goût du public pour la peur faite film. L’époque était aux bouleversements, aux changements. La guerre du Vietnam s’enlisait et divisait, le désenchantement politique planait avec un scandale du Watergate en chantier, la seconde vague du féminisme déferlait : autant de sujets qui s’immiscèrent dans le cinéma d’horreur. Durant tout le mois d’octobre, la plateforme Criterion Channel revisite cette période clé du genre en proposant une sélection bigarrée de vingt-neuf films, dont plusieurs portés par des héroïnes bien de leur temps.

- Le Devoir

 

If You Can’t Go Out to the Disco, Bring the Disco to You

It’s exercise! It’s dance! It’s an excuse to throw on a pair of rayon flare pants! As weekends begin to feel somewhat meaningless in a quarantined world, with few faces to see and certainly no place to go, here at MessyNessyChic, we could all use something to look forward to. Nightlife as we know it might be cancelled, but all the more reason to get creative and set up your own family disco night at home. 

- Messy Nessy Chic

 

Italian islands become 'sex pilgrimage' sites

They're pristine, wild and extremely hot -- and not just because of the high temperature and the stunning volcanic landscape with constant little eruptions.

Stromboli and Filicudi, two beautiful islands in Sicily's Aeolian archipelago, are believed by some to have magical, aphrodisiac powers ideal for those seeking -- or desperately trying to recover -- the ecstasy of passionate nights.

- CNN

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Brooklyn in Kodachrome – 1970s New York City In Color

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Anthony Catalano passed away suddenly on March 1st, 2014. He was 54. Thanks to his surviving brother, John Catalano, we can see Anthony’s terrific photographs and Kodachromes of what life was like for the boys in the 1970s.

- Flashbak

 

Rimming Was Everywhere in the Middle Ages, but Not for the Reason You Think

In 1998, President Clinton announced to the world in his State of the Union address that he never had “sexual relations” with intern Monica Lewinsky. When pressed on the matter later that year he admitted that there had been an “improper physical relationship” with Ms. Lewinsky, but defended his position on the matter on the basis that while she had performed fellatio on him he had not reciprocated and thus had not “had sex” with her. Clinton’s hair-splitting argument prompted a national debate about what actually constitutes sex.

- The Daily Beast

 

Blue sky thinking: is it time to stop work taking over our lives?

Anthropologist James Suzman says now is the perfect time to rein in our unsustainable work habits. But is it possible?

Three encounters loom large in the anthropologist James Suzman’s memory of his brief but informative stint in the corporate world. The first was early on, when he told a colleague that he didn’t need to spend the half-million pounds allocated for a task because he could do it for free. His colleague was horrified. “If you don’t spend your budget,” he said, “they won’t think we’re doing anything!”

- The Guardian