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monday 30 october 2006

the plane is still on the ground

THE HOLE

i arrived home

who filled the hole?

brainlegs

mazen kerbaj
in
BYE BYE AMSTERDAM

a fabulous adventure

monday 30 october
6.10 AM
in
Schiphol airport

the brain is working
to make the legs work

ONLY

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last
day
in
amsterdam

verb-reverb

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the eternal question

what are you doing here?

beer and cigarettes

that's all what the brain asks for

face to face

a very beautiful back

is turning its back to me

joy on the paper

what is the measurment?

a party in amsterdam

waiting for the tramway

you look
pretty
on
ugly

under pressure by my notebook

trumpet+friends

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words
are
useless

THE MAN

tuesday 24 october

my head is vacuuming

paris program/list

railway blues

sunday 22 october 2006

THE TRAIN PASSES

and i do not know if i'm inside or outside

some action

at 1, they threw me out of the "coffee shop". so i changed the ambiance.

A FIGHT IN DUTCH

they are all drunk
and funny

"guys, guys, we are trying to drink a beer here".

they stayed for about an hour barking, and i didn't see one drop of blood!

no voice

it is 11.45 and i am smoking my first amsterdamian cigarette

they are in front of me. they're chating but i do not hear them.

they seem to be shouting though.

and even if the music is awful, it is played on a respectable volume.
are the cigarettes out here so strong that they turn you deaf?

"they surely turn you idiot" said our hero to himself when, getting out of the place, he finally noticed that the 2 young girls are dumb!

it is 11.30 PM

outside transparent

outside white

AND INSIDE GREEN

october 20 2006

11 PM

beirut
paris

paris
amsterdam

and now in the train to central amsterdam

message to evan

thursday 26th of october
in amsterdam's cold


"i miss you"


"when are you coming back?"

a kiss and more

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grendizer always

scoop
the life of the grendizer trio

ADVENTURES IN THE BACKSTAGE

"do you think people will come?"

grendizer trio

tonight
grendizer trio
plays with
JULY'S WAR
with
raed yassin
and mazen kerbaj

"it's 5 PM"
"ask for the bill"

blue draft

film masri tawil

wednesday 11 october
at the UNESCO palace
rises (but under the president picture):

THE YAACOUBIAN BUILDING
the first screening in Lebanon of the first egyptian porn movie (but soft porn)

so we rised with it to the balcony
and rised in it
adel imam
and nour el sharif

but unfortunately
the egyptian cinema didn;t rise

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you

you in the torino



are beautiful!

i cannot anymore

serious stuff

insides-outsides (to mr. henri michaux)

ideas


and


people

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i have to empty my head

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i don't feel like

erratum

i did a mistake in the dates of the concert in paris. please check the link in the previous post again.

i also added two new blogs in the links section:
irtijal - sharif sehnaoui blog about music
lucyd - georges karam pictures of music

NEWS FROM MY HANDS AND MY LUNGS

some news in disorder:

1- handwork:

the warblog finally found a publisher for the french version. the publisher is l'association and the book should be out in january or february 2007.
i should look for publishers in other languages, but with my legendary lazyness, i am waiting for the publishers to find it themselves.

the video-animation project (passing time / a family tree) is in editing phase. i will try to record the music during my residency at STEIM in amsterdam. ideally, it should finnish around november. i am not sure where it will be showed/published yet.

the blog is continuing (as you can see!) with the drawings of my notebooks. it is updated more or less regularely (let's say 3 times a week). the good news is that we are finally alone. i went on the statistic site lately and it shows that the visits dropped to 200 per day (v/s 5000 during the war).
i think i still can do better.

2- lungwork:

there is two concerts in the upcoming weeks in beirut
first one is a trio with charbel haber and raed yassin, and the second is the grendizer trio playing the july's war project.

and 2 concerts in europe
first in duo with sharif sehnaoui in paris
second in STEIM amsterdam, in solo and with guests (sehnaoui, michel waisvisz and MTBA)

more infos about the concerts

3- and the rest

2 links (1, 2) to some photos from our gigs in stockholm
a link to a nice article about the blog

night alarm

we go to sleep?

ok

prayer

my lord, i thank you for creating the lebanese soil


but where you forced to crete the lebanese people?

god?
do you hear me?

/ after

before /

de prague

coffee

with makram

and with cigarettes

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the face

of emptiness

is a human being

another kiss

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come to me

the waiting



the idea didn't show up

ways

smoke

day
after
day
i am
smoking
myself

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