Papa est en haut - Gad El Maleh - [Festival Juste pour rire, just for laugh - 15 & 16 juillet 2007 à Montréal]

Que dire du nouveau show de Gad El Maleh?

Intéressant, mais pas renversant. Globalement, ca résume bien mon sentiment à son égard.
C'est vrai que c'est sympa, avec plusieurs nouvelles situations: la relation homme-femme, l'amour, les enfants (un peu). L'incomprehension entre les sexes donnent matiere a faire. Si on y rajoute la "localisation" de son spéctacle au Quebec et donc quelques bonnes vannes sur les quebecois, et quelques bonnes remarques aussi! (j'ai adoré le recyclage de lettres, de l'humouris' à iciT! ;)

Mais sinon, je reste un peu sur ma faim, j'ai pas aimé l'enchainement de blagues vers la fin (impression d'un blague-test pour voir laquelle percute le plus), ou les references un peu trop recurrentes par rapport à son ancien spéctacle. Je veux bien garder un fil directeur avec L'autre c'est moi, mais ca en fait un peu trop à la longue. En tout cas attendez vous à entendre parler du DVD, du blond etc...

J'ai un peu l'impression que c'est soit un:
- l'autre c'est moi, version 1.5 remasterisée
- papa est en haut, version beta.

Je penche pour la version beta de papa est en haut. Il doit y avoir un bon 70% de choses originales, mais je crois qu'il y a encore du travail avant l'olympia. Peauffiner les blagues, les chutes etc..et rajouter de la nouveauté! Quoiqu'il en soit, apres ses trois derniers spéctacles, sans sentir le rechauffé, celui-la ne parait pas du meme niveau!

Mais quoiqu'il en soit, c'est un énorme plaisir de le voir sur scène, il maitrise son corps (j'adooore le voir danser!), son espace (et courir!), ses instruments (bouteil d'eau, guitare, piano) et son public (belles interactions, n'est-ce pas l'electricien!)

Et vous, l'avez vous vu? Qu'en pensez-vous? Que pensez-vous de Gad en général?

Et voici un tout petit appercu visuel...
...ca dure juste quelques minutes, desolé, mais par respect pour l'auteur, on en reste là. Allez le voir!
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Life Advice... all about sunscreen indeed!

Here is a very widespread piece of advice, but if you haven't heard about the "wear sunscreen" thing, then have a look at the following...

Originaly it was: "Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young" by Mary Schmich in 97.

Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of '97 (99)... wear sunscreen.
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be IT.
The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.
I will dispense this advice now.
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded. But trust me, in 20 years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.
You are NOT as fat as you imagine.
Don't worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Sing.
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.
Floss.
Don't waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself.
Remember compliments you receive, forget the insults; if you succeed in doing this, tell me how.
Keep your old love letters, throw away your old bank statements.
Stretch.
Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don't.
Get plenty of calcium.
Be kind to your knees, you'll miss them when they're gone.
Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't, maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't, maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself, either. Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else's. Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it's the greatest instrument you'll ever own.
Dance. Even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room.
Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.
Do NOT read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly.
Get to know your parents, you never know when they'll be gone for good.
Be nice to your siblings; they are your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.
Understand that friends come and go, but for the precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography in lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young.
Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard; live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.
Travel.
Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you'll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.
Respect your elders.
Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund, maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse; but you never know when either one might run out.
Don't mess too much with your hair, or by the time you're 40, it will look 85.
Be careful whose advice you buy, but, be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.
But trust me on the sunscreen.

I really like this 10 years old piece of advice...should think about those words more often!

And by the way, here is a little parodie! ;)

Finally, here is a poem: Desiderata by Max Ehrmann, certainly the source of the 97's column: http://hobbes.ncsa.uiuc.edu/desiderata.html

http://www.lifemagick.net/manifesting/desiderata-in-life/

ID in UK, Professor A C Grayling in John Stewart Mill and Actual Liberty says no....

I just wanted to comment about the justification of no ID that was made in this lecture: John Stewart Mill and Actual Liberty by Professor A C Grayling and reported by Thomas Papworth in his blog: http://liberalpolemic.blogspot.com/2007/03/mill-liberty-and-id-cards.html. He do so by using the comparison with the 2nd world war: perhaps they were even more than 300 000 soldiers on the other side of the channel, perhaps you had many bombs a day, but you knew mainly who were your ennemy (beside the spies etc...which by the way are still in function nowaday; )

In the case of terror, the ennemy is AMONG us. I dont want to say that as a abad catch phrase for a movie, but for me, it's true that it far more difficult today than before to know who is the ennemy. That's the purpose of the ID.

Then, Thomas say that there is bombs only few days a year. Ok. But then is worth not doing anything?

Finally, i have one question for you thomas: do you think that terrorists will stop if all the western governements stop fighting them? Personnaly i think that it is a yes anser on the long run...