[Dear readers here and there, sorry to use my blog to write this, but I need to. I’ll write on music, translate my exhib posts into ENG and other stuff to come up]
ONGOING editing from Dec 2016
On Les Inrocks FB, I can't like or comment, only share
since George Michael's death...
Blocked by Les Inrocks editor for challenging him
30 December 2016
Warning: As
I’m writing this prosaic missive, I’m on a red wine drip... expect the unexpected!
Although I swear solemnly that I will tell the truth, the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth! ... There might be spelling mistakes, grammar
incoherence, English suck-ness... Life! (I know I’m fasting, but on wine, red
wine – not true, I did a propa fasting, breaking it was a bit of nimp’).
Dear Carole Boinet,
“They sentenced me
to twenty years of boredom; For trying to change the system from within; I'm
coming now, I'm coming to reward them; First we take Manhattan, then we take
Berlin” Leonard Cohen - First We Take Manhattan on I’m Your Man’s album. Wikipedia goes: “Cohen explained himself in a backstage interview: "I think it
means exactly what it says. It is a terrorist song. I think it's a response to
terrorism. There's something about terrorism that I've always admired. The fact
that there are no alibis or no compromises. That position is always very
attractive. I don't like it when it's manifested on the physical plane – I
don't really enjoy the terrorist activities – but Psychic Terrorism. I remember
there was a great poem by Irving Layton that I once read, I'll give you a
paraphrase of it. It was 'well, you guys blow up an occasional airline and kill
a few children here and there', he says. 'But our terrorists, Jesus, Freud, Marx, Einstein. The whole world is still
quaking.'"
[Surveillance, coincidence or big love from Pierre Siankowski to me? 28 Aug 2017, he mentions that song: https://www.facebook.com/lesinrocks/videos/10155141018001843/]
[Oh shit man, my nose’s bleeding. I don’t do nose bleed
usually, I do pick my nose and I got nails, nothing dramatic, just my fingers
are all red now and so is my keyboard].
First there was harassment. @ Les Inrocks. Then, I went silent about it. Ashamed or afraid.
Afraid and ashamed. I always had a big mouth though but as all big mouth on
earth, sometimes you go quiet!
25 years later, following Leonard Cohen’s move to another ethereal place you twitted on I’m
Your Fan, a Les Inrocks compilation of artists
singing Cohen, on which I admin’
participated. I twitted back on it. You went silent...
What are you afraid of? What are you ashamed of? Working for a magazine that pays you to be a
feminist?
[Oh shit now, my hearing therapist just called. I missed
my appointment. I thought it was tomo. A month without hearing aids and all I
do is missing my opportunity. No puedo believe it!. Next week he said. A few
more days to live on a scuba diving mode...
I need to treat myself. Desperately in need of a pair of Louboutin. I already got a brand new
super cheap Mark Ryden’s book...
Louboutin is far too overrated, but still, there’s a 10 times and half cheaper
pair of boots in a second hand shop (don’t I know where to get my brand new
ancient?). A bit over size (it’s a 37), but they look brand new and red on
sole... WANT absolutely]
Salted peanuts to break my fast. I am slightly fucking it
up! Fasting is not dieting BTW! Just in case your friend got confused!
In reference to my trekking W1 (I never in my life needed to diet and I certainly don’t suffer from anorexia, so she knows).
In reference to my trekking W1 (I never in my life needed to diet and I certainly don’t suffer from anorexia, so she knows).
Anyway,
Feminism.
Have Les Inrocks
hired you and your other female pals to dust off their sexism and misogyny
reputation? In other words are you all some sort of robots à la Bryan Forbes’ The
Stepford Wives?
How many of you gals @ Les Inrocks are doing as well as JD Beauvallet (Editor for Les Inrocks, TV progs @ Arte etc.); Christophe Conte (music journalist @ Les
Inrocks; music reviewer for France Culture and France 4 TV; music
presenter @ Radio Nova; as of September 2017,
cultural presenter @ Europe1; since leaving Les Inrocks in summer 2018, he's been busy @Liberation); Pierre Siankowski (ex music
journalist @ Les Inrocks, ex Editor @ Canal+,
now Editor @ Les Inrocks/Radio Nova +
a publishing outlet); David Doucet
(journalist @ Les Inrocks since 2011 and editor since 2015), Frédéric Bonnaud (ex film critic for Les
Inrocks, ex film critic for France Inter
and Canal +, ex daily presenter on France
Inter, ex reviewer on Europe1, ex editor for Les Inrocks, now Director @ La Cinémathèque);
Joseph Ghosn; Sylvain Bourmeau, Samuel Blumenfeld (ex film critic @ Les
Inrocks, film editor @ Le Monde)
etc.
[My neighbour’s cat has just showed up and decided to sit
on my laps (for hours, purring like crazy, curing my cat’s phobia), so I’ll be
watching Levon Grigoryan’s Memories of Sayat Nova on Sergei Paradjanov’s The Colour Of Pomegranates DVD.]
2 January 2017
If I am well informed all these white guys mentioned
above have started their journalist’ career @ Les Inrocks. Some grew bigger
within the mag and worked elsewhere at the same time, some left it for another respected
position.
How many women have grown to a key position @ Les Inrocks when starting for the mag /
how many women worked for other media productions while @ Les Inrocks? Or had a
better position when leaving Les Inrocks?
How many women @ Les Inrocks have a Wikipedia page? (If
you don’t have your Wikipedia page, you are fucking up your life!) – On les Inrocks Wiki page, it
is quite obvious, how women are nonexistent!
You gals do exist on their FB page though... ephemeral,
in a burying way!
[Since Pierre Siankowski’s friendship with ‘homophobic
& racist’ Meklat in Feb 2017,
names are no longer visible when advertising for an article on FB // Les
Inrocks pretend not knowing about Meklat’s racist, homophobic
and sexist twits... and this is my letter addressed to ex minister Christiane Taubira questioning her
support to Les Inrocks...
29 Aug 2017, Siankowski
openly denies knowing those insulting twits saying to Sonia Devilliers on France
Inter he can’t possibly be always on Twitter,
otherwise it would be like surveillance (flicage)...
OK, but on 27 Sept 2016, wasn’t Carole Boinet responding to my twit on Jarvis Cocker about
me meeting with
the artist on 25 Sept 2016?
me posting on Jarvis Cocker on 25.9.2016
on his Gallery Of Everything exhibition
Carole Boinet posting on Jarvis Cocker on 27.9.2016
a quote from an interview mentioning
his exhibition at Gallery Of Everything
RT or liked by now padlocked Emmanuel Tellier
Is it surveillance or will Siankowski call it
coincidence?
And how about ex Inrock Agathe Auproux writing an article for them on George Michael’s
death in Dec 2016 from my twit? Surveillance or coincidence?
How about Siankowski
intervention with ex-Inrock
journalists that he sacked, or didn’t prevent from making them redundant:
Ex Inrock @ 7.29 pm, 16 feb 2017 https://twitter.com/ThomasBurgel/status/832310845950550019
Conversation ends 16 feb 2017 @ 7.45pm
https://twitter.com/opinelmusic/status/832314947459760128
But 15 hours later, Siankowski implies these two journalists were bad writers https://twitter.com/siankowski/status/832530123308093440
reason they were sacked. Thomas Burgel
was a journalist for over 10 years @ Les Inrocks I believe]
Pre- Feb 2017,
Siankowski spent a lot of time on Twitter and was following over 10K people...
3 January 2017
At the end of the summer / early fall 2016,
I had a few drinks in a garden party. London.
In the 90’s, I was Ed
Lewis’ cinema assistant @ The Riverside Studios (my
first and half feminist’s boss). Someone who knew Ed recognised me and reminded
me of an anecdote regarding Les Inrocks!
In the August 2016’ section I start off my prose with “Mid-late 90’s : Je rencontre Lydie Barbarian...” So, mid 90’s I went to
Lydie Barbarian’s, a music journalist for Libération at the time (and still
friend with Les Inrocks) and she asked where I worked: part-time @ Riverside, part-time
at a university and bits and pieces of journalism here and there. A few days
later when I came to work with Ed Lewis, he asked if I ever knew Les Inrocks.
Said yes, paused I worked for them and asked why?
Someone in Les Inrocks cinema department wanted to write a piece on him (it was
a time when London had many independent / repertoire cinemas)... Since I was
not in the office, he said he was not sure. Ed was a shy and humble man. He was
not a limelight seeker. So, he called a few peeps in the media-film industry as
to ask for Les Inrocks’ credence. He was told they were misogynists. Sometime
later, I went to a film private view with Ed and got introduced to film
bookers, journalists... some top heads, well respected men. Very politely, I
was asked how it was @ Les Inrocks. Very politely I replied I had to leave
them. Was I alone? Ah funny question I thought... Yes and then a woman got
employed as well but worked a lot from home. I remember freaking when they
smiled. Ed eventually reassured me. Everybody had heard who Les Inrocks were! (They
were not smiling as laughing at me but as being comforted at their belief)
Up to his suicide in 2003, Ed never knew I was sexually harassed there (I
had never told anyone, not even my best / super friends). He never accepted to
appear in Les Inrocks, but apparently someone wrote a piece on him or Riverside
Studios (96, 97, 98?).
At the garden party, someone remembered my discomfort
upon meeting me at the film preview. I might be “loud” but I mostly OD on invisible
shyness.
Carole
Boinet, do you think it’s a coincidence Les Inrocks contacted
Ed, or did Lydie Barbarian grass me up? Did you know that I got also harassed
in that university by a lecturer from Brighton (where Jean-Daniel Beauvallet
has lived since mid 90’s)? – I won my case and don’t need to fuss about it!
Since I’m on Lydie
Barbarian, I found the photo that ended up in a postcard that she didn’t
credit, whose negative she cut and whose title she changed. I called it Un Chien Barbare, she renamed it The Hair of a Dog.
© Sybille Castelain
Un Chien Barbare, 1996
Original photo of Lydie Barbarian with her dog
in Choumert Road, Peckam Rye.
The postcard she made my photo of is titled
The Hair of a Dog
She and then husband Damian O'Neill
of That Petrol Emotion / Undertones
were wishing Happy New Year to music peeps.
(on the side is the name of printer, not mine)
(on the side is the name of printer, not mine)
When I posted on Lydie Barbarian and Jean-Danie Beauvallet in August 2016, (see
the orange link above), I thought it was weird Les Inrocks posted two weeks
later on The Dove in Hammersmith. Well, The Riverside
Studios (being refurbished till 2018) is based in Hammersmith, I lived in
Hammersmith or nearby from 1993 till 2004 and Lydie lived (still does?) in
Choumert Road, Pekham Rye... where funnily enough the Frere James writer lives.
(Of course, for a long time, I thought the writer behind the James Brother for Les Inrocks was
either Jean-Daniel Beauvallet or Fleur Burlet. But, it’s so so so badly written
that now I think it’s Jean-Daniel’s son Ben or Nadege Alezine (I also observe
twits and FB threads: JD mentioned something to his son and his hood in
Peckham)).
Really Carole
Boinet... coincidences or trolling me? Or as Pierre
Siankowski puts it to Sonia Devillers on France Inter... (flicage)
surveillance? Quite honestly, I find the term both hypocrite and paranoid. We
all are voyeurs!
4 January 2017
Last night, I sent an email to you Carole and David Doucet, to let you know of my
write-up. Silence. It looks like Doucet blocked me... I never wrote to him on
my Yahoo!
So let’s pretend Ben
Beauvallet, son of, is the writer for Les Freres James on Les Inrocks. After reading my dispute with Resonance FM on 3 April 2016 with Punk and Denmark Street
activist, by some complete coincidence, he published a French text on punk and... Denmark Street a
few days later! How many people in UK alone have bothered about Denmark Street
English Heritage?
Ben Beauvallet who (at less than 25 y.o) is according to
LinkedIn label manager for music label P.I.A.S since
June 2015 (of course not thanks to daddy).The very
label that has blocked my Youtube radio programme for copyright reason...
really? Which artist is on P.I.A.S? That label who seemed to have some trouble
sending me Ghostpoet album in March 2015...
But we are ever so happy that Benji enjoys good meat he can scoop on spoon! “No need of forks and knife, the pork could
scoop on spoon... + dear wine”, ending with “reasonable price for four: £54
for meat, £34 for wine + starter + dessert. The restaurant is called “Where to
eat for free when you are the son of and you can’t write decent prose coz you
are a zik label manager thx to daddy” – Not very catchy but apparently cheap!
He just arrived in London? He’s not sure about British food? C’mon sweety, LDN
is a few miles away from Brighton where you have been bre(a)d... isn’t mummy
English, Santander Bank manager? You are not sure about eating well in UK?
Sweetie Darling, you are only fooling yourself here!
Talking about meat Carole... I don’t care who eats what
and who wears what. I do prefer vegetarians or vegans but I’m no moralist, although
I’m Leo and I know I’m always right (even when I’m wrong, I’ll prove you’re
wrong). I) I do eat organic red meat once a month II) I do wear leather shoes.
I wish I was a teetotaller though, but I just do my best without having the
need to advertise myself on pix. What bothers me are people going on and on
about the shit they eat and being hypocrite about what they wear! Les Inrocks
pathetic writer Fleur Burlet on Instagram is like a
Nazi eater (she seems to celebrate her catches), she poses on fur one month and
the next she interviews faux-fur creator...
10 January 2017
Fleur
Burlet... How funny we share the same tastes... Samples: in April 2014, I write on Pick Me Up
exhib @ Somerset House mentioning Edward Carvahlo Monaghan and Lynnie Zulu – in May 2015, she mentions that
exhibition and two of her favs are Edward and Lynnie! In their decades of
existence preaching London and UK, have Les Inrocks written about Pick Me Up or
Somerset?
June 2014, I write on Derek Ridgers, she interviews him in Nov 2015! (TBH,
Les Inrocks had already mentioned him); My first mention on Philip Treacy (also with Nick Knight and David Lachapelle) was in Nov 2013, my last one in Oct 2014, hers was in Nov 2015 saying he studied @ Central St Martin when he didn’t! Alex McQueen did! There are so many
more examples. Have Les Inrocks front covered any of them in their publication?
And there is that strange footage I have been shown of la Burlet looking at me
at a PV in a very “frightened” way. How could she know who I was? In her
correspondence (post footage), she doesn’t know me, she doesn’t read me but
according to her I am harassing her and too aggressive. I showed our emails to
a few people... looks like she is been manipulated! JD wrote those emails?!
Following my conclusion on 7 January on perhaps me being
a threat, surprisingly Les Inrocks are beating up the scores. I thought it was
a big fake, but then again, some people seem to come up with hilarious
conclusions:
On 10 Jan, Les Inrocks publish their good results,
comments say either they are bad or they have become a gossip mag
another one says politician left wing Melenchon
looks as good as the mag... maybe not!
The media supporting them: Quotidien / Bangumi on a very regular basis + Clique for their "progress"
CONCLUSION
7 January 2017 (David Bowie – almost -
birth date)
This conclusion was planned at the very beginning of
this... piss! (Yeah am on wine drip)! But am publishing now even though I’m not
finished with my whole vomit on Les
Inrocks and Pierre Siankowski
and “his boyfriend” Jean-Daniel
Beauvallet!
So Carole Boinet...
soon Laura Snapes (and Jenny Stevens) will be your colleagues?
Surely Laura
Snapes is praising Pierre Siankowski!
On 28 Nov 2018, Laura Snapes showed her love again for JDBeauvallet when he left Les Inrocks...
On 28 Nov 2018, Laura Snapes showed her love again for JDBeauvallet when he left Les Inrocks...
The Faiseuses
des Inrocks in LDN, the dusty gal of sexism? The rehabilitation of the mag’s
fascism! And yet Laura celebrates their combat via Pierre Siankowski “edito”...
I got literally sick reading her f-c-. The 25 years old or less (potentially a
baby of mine I would have had to suffocate – am no big on babies or kids) - who
“sucks” his dick... the very w-nk-r that got rid of me on twitter and Les Inrocks
FB page (people told me it’s an honour coz I’m a threat to them... still it’s a
gas chamber!) coz am jeopardising his credibility.
On the night Laura posted his w-nk, I couldn’t sleep much!
I mean... I supported Laura Snapes on her ordeal with Mark Kozelek,
there was no emotional investment on my part for the future, no thinking
forward, no “I-hope-she’s-going-to-follow-me-back-on-Twitter”! I gave no fuck.
Kozelek was defo a f—ker with her, not with me though!
So... at 4Am I was researching Mark’s postcards and
photos (which I won’t publish but “journalist” Laura has got now) and the first
thing I found in my archive was an “Inrocks archive”
[When I worked for Les Inrocks, I took over sexual
harasser Emmanuel Tellier (who became a full time
journalist) on subscription. He totally fucked up with subscribers.
I managed to get all sorted eventually... but what a
mess... thousands of French Francs involved!]
Over my time @ Les Inrocks, I received many presents and nice
letters from subscribers. So when I was researching, in my attic, for Kozelek’s postcards and pix, I came
across a pile of presents and letters and poems... from subscribers...
letter from an Inrock subscriber in 1991 after its
L'Immature and Leonard Cohen CD publication
(L'Immature was an Inrock's offshoot,
a literary review, see photos below)
(L'Immature was an Inrock's offshoot,
a literary review, see photos below)
A poem he wrote a year before giving it to me
Anyhow (as Mark would say), the most crucial thing is
that one day, weeks/days before going to print (at les Inrocks), Christian Fevret was worried. He went
to California to interview Leonard Cohen.
Cohen lived in a Buddhist centre. 1991. There was this unforgettable moment of
philosophical question... that Fevret asked... I was typing some popus. JD Beauvallet, Tellier and “photographer” Monfourny were in the room... the most crucial question in
journalism... Fevret wondered! I learnt. So much in a few seconds... Fevret
went back to his desk to quadruple checked his interview, the others laughed in
his back. I couldn’t move and nobody noticed! Great lesson. When number 30
(Leonard Cohen front cover) arrived, Christian asked me to send 10 issues to
Leonard and gave me his address (in his Buddhist centre or private home in
California... I cannot recall, I programmed myself to silence).
On 25 September 2016, I dared twit I was on a Jarvis Cocker guest list... Pierre Siankowski then. twitted on Leonard Cohen! He got an email from him.
Waouh! Competition?
If Fevret didn’t torture himself on his interview and
translation for that number 30, if I had fucked up with Cohen secret address
(yes, many people I “knew” wanted it), then Monsieur “Oh, so long, Marianne; It's time that we began to laugh; And cry and
cry and laugh about it all again” wouldn’t have kept in touch! Siankowski boy has nothing to brag
about but harvest the past...
L'immature first issue May-July 1991,
a Les Inrocks' baby-Editions Independentes
Directors: Christian Fevret / Arnaud Deverre
"Don't go home with your hard-on, It will only drive you insane..."
More to come... unless Les Inrocks decides to talk to me with good manners!
[Now, Les Inrocks have blocked me from commenting on their
FB page as mentioned in George Michael
post; I’m also blocked from Pierre Siankowski Twits...
Some people say that they will block my blog... Attacking women for saying some
truth is still all the rage!]
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