Padls' Journals

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Cancion

Es cuando dibujo

Que me siento feliz

Mi cabeza se pone roja

Y mi molesta mi nariz

My real name

Merry Stone

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(Ishi Ukiuki)

The poll of the day

Sometimes, do you really think that, in some extend, it might, or better said, could be something, or not ?

1) Yes absolutely, but time is harsh.

2) No, no way, who are you anyway ?

3) Let's dance tango !

Poetry (or not)

What do you think about the Sun ?

In my opinion

Sun is a luminescent onion
Look at him and you will cry
He disappears and you feel sad
At night he travels over seas
To wake you up with frying whistles
And when at last Sun is chewed, swallowed and no more,
New words are failed on the shore

(In Padls : "My worst Poetries" 1981-2007)

Eight Random Facts and Eight tagged (great) people

The game as I understood it : list eight facts. Tag eight persons. Ask these eight persons to list eight facts and tag eight persons. A kind of elaborate chainmail.

Â« Fact you, man, fact everybody in the world ! Â»

(Young Bact)

Fact 1 : How weather manipulates me but not the same way as before (because Iâ�™ve changed and because weather changed, so nobody really knows exactly what really happened)

In April we were sunbashed and sunburnt, in May we had snow, in June we had plain good weather (thanks to our new Government) until I started to work.

Since my first day of work it hasnâ�™t stopped raining. Weâ�™re in august and it rains. Things were getting quite dry last years so thatâ�™s quite good, but we didnâ�™t ask for so much.

I like rain; it makes me remember my past years (nothing else to do when it rains but doing nothing). It reminds me that, before, rain made me feel nostalgic. Now Iâ�™m just euphoric or pissed off when Iâ�™m under the rain, it must be what growing up means.

Fact 2 : Friends

The only week of quite good weather we had was when we went southward to the Alpes. One pure week (in French-slang a very great week is a â�œpureâ� week) with my love and my friends. We were seventeen in one big house and it was just but so good. Canyoning, cigarettes, parties, food, walks on the top of the mountains (freezing and exhausting), wine and beer and Chartreuse and cheese, Via ferrata, and bicycle : everything to be happy. So we were.

About bike, I rode with a friend on the top of the col de la Madeleine (those who follows the Tour de France know what Iâ�™m talking about) it was o.k. until we got attacked by icy rain, and then just ice, and then lightings, and wind. We spent one hour like that before arriving at the top. It was like the mountain didnâ�™t want us. We were very proud of us when we arrived. Then we ran away.

Fact 3 : Children

Two of my friends, a crazy bearded teacher and his crazy not-bearded-at-all loved girlfriend teacher as well, brought their son to spend the week with us. A very good-mooded 9-months person, always smiling, always trying to tell something nice to everybody (especially to the BBQâ�™s fire)â�¦ Unfortunately he wasnâ�™t able to move himself, so he was particularly bad at soccer. We tried to put him as a goalkeeper but it was even worse. We were very angry at him.

Fact 4 : Music

We listened to good music. I definitively understood that I canâ�™t bear 80â�™s music, especially new-wave. Ah no, geez, Iâ�™m starting to choke againâ�¦

My ears have been carved by Pink Floyd. I started to listened The Wall, and then the Dark Side of the Moon. And when I discovered Meddle and Ummagumma (Careful with that axe, Eugene!) it was like as if I discovered an entire new world. Iâ�™ve never recovered.

Fact 5 : Comics

Comics is the 9^th art and my favourite one. I discovered drawing at 7 and did my first comic book the year after. Comics just changed my way of seeing and understanding the world. I mean : I stopped trying to understand anything at all. The big revolution came when I was 10 or 11 with the first strips of â�œLe GÃ©nie des Alpagesâ� by Fâ�™murr, 7^th album. Everything was weird : there were sheep, and a dog, and a tennis ball, and Lewis Carrollâ�™s Alice. And everybody disappeared and reappeared without order. Iâ�™ve never stopped trying to copy this kind of nonsense stories.

Fact 6 : Family

Sometimes itâ�™s hard to choose between family and friends. Not hard : but you have to be very organized. Theyâ�™re too many. Tighten up the links between us is something I want to. Unfortunately Iâ�™m quite individualist and shy so itâ�™s not so easy for me to do. Thatâ�™s bizarre because I love being with them, so I canâ�™t understand why I donâ�™t try to see them more often. Maybe because Iâ�™m sure theyâ�™re will still be there when Iâ�™m come back ? Actually I changed, I came aware that, as when we were 17 friends in a house in the Alpes, someone had to make the effort to make people go in the same place at the same time.

Fact 7 : Laziness

I have 4 little brothers and Iâ�™m the eldest of my 38-or-maybe-more cousins : I learned very soon to avoid responsibility.

I like working hard and doing nothing at all, I donâ�™t like staying in the middle (Iâ�™m writing this at work and I feel Iâ�™m about to be in a big rush soon)

What saves me from laziness is enthusiasm for what I do and â�“ of course â�“ culpability.

Fact 8 : Future

Iâ�™ve always been eager to see what will happen next. I know I wonâ�™t live abroad, at least not a long time. When Iâ�™ve been to Peru I thought I wanted to live there but knew it wasnâ�™t possible. When I lived in Washington DC I knew Iâ�™d never live there (mainly because of my shitty job but not only) and Iâ�™ve been back to Paris. The morality is that I have spent the greatest time of my life in Peru and that makes me feel nostalgic, whereas I spent a not-so-good time in Washington and Iâ�™m very happy to be here. In few words : to live happy => go to Washington and come back.

I also want to live two years in New York and two in Roma, my favourite towns abroad.

And thatâ�™s it. As said somebody, the best way to love your country is to live abroad. Somebody was completely wrong but it sounds wise isnâ�™t it ?

Joie

124 Featured Buzznet Originals later :

http://www.buzznet.com/groups/buzznetoriginals/forum/topics/42731/

Yepee !

Future projects :

1- I've been working in a NGO for three days and I hope I'll last until december. The NGO welcomes and helps asylum seekers until they obtain the status of refugee or until they're kicked out of France. My job will be something about management : to set up the indicators that will allow us to overview the NGO's activities and financing.

2- I've been asked to write some columns for the radio : I'll talk about the last published comics I've loved. Of course I will also talk about the last comics I've hated.

3- If everything goes well, I'll draw some strips next year for a Student Art Magazine : one strip per week for the webzine and other drawings for the quarterly paper magazine. I'm preparing something with fun, fun, fun and nonsense. I'll post it soon.

4- Tira Linea, fanzine published in Lima, has finished with my 26 pages comic Cuento de Navidad, the last part has been published few months ago. Last night we talked a long time about Southamerica, especially about Peru. Three years and half I'm gone. I miss this country. I have to plan a trip back.

5- Keep training. I still have a lot of stories to tell and draw.

But first : get out and drink, friends must not wait.

For he's a jolly good fellow

Jb is featured !

http://www.buzznet.com/groups/buzznetoriginals/forum/topics/41931/

For he's a jolly good fellow

For he's a jolly good fe-eee-llooooooow

And so say all of us !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgbAEHOxucY

Andalucia

Andalousie, je me souviens,

"Un Vaso de Tinto Vino, Por Favor!"

Best pictures of Andalucia ever taken are on http://erwann-andalousie.buzznet.com

Starring : Erwann, Spanicolatin, Padls

Especial Guest-Star : Sandra Fello Ugarte

Pictures & Films : Erwann & Spanicolatin

Driving : Padls

San Sebastian, Salamanca, Toledo, Cordoba, Sevilla, Ronda, Torremolinos, Granada, Tabernas, Toledo, Segovia, San Sebastian.

3080 km. 33 hrs of road. 8 nights. 21 bars. And far more Tapas.

Padls All Over the World ! (P.A.O.W !)

Friendship is Grand

JB is grander

Thanks

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