The Site of Mister B.
Avis à tous mes élèves (surtout les anciens)
Avis à tous mes élèves (surtout les anciens)
Le "provider" de mon site a changé. Je vous épargne les détails. Mais l'interface n'est plus la même et cela complique ma tâche. D'où : mon site reste pour l'instant inchangé, pas mis à jour. Vous pouvez bien sûr utiliser les pages existantes comme moyen de révision, selon votre niveau.
Par ailleurs, il a été décidé que je n'aurai pas cette année de classes de lycée...ce n'est pas ma décision. De sorte que je laisse les pages Grade 10 et Grade 11 telles quelles. Vous pouvez les utiliser comme bon vous semble.
31/08 2021
MrB
BACK TO SCHOOL
QUOTE:
“You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.”
– Bill Watterson
consultez les docs pour votre classe grâce aux onglets ci-dessus
Les 3emes vont sur GRADE 9/3e, les 1eres vont sur Grade 11/1eres, les 2ndes vont sur Grade 10/2nde et les 5e vont sur 5e/Grade 7
des outils de travail dans "homework"
R.B.G.
je télécharge un PDF qui résume les enjeux et la situation suite au décès de Ruth Bader Ginsburg
New Bruce Springsteen Single!
Ceci est le site personnel de Monsieur Baslé (a.k.a."Mr.B."), professeur d'anglais au collège et au lycée Buffon.
R.I.P.
Diana Rigg 1938-2020
Saturday, June 12th
Quote of the Day:
“Everything is going to be fine in the end.
If it's not fine it's not the end.”
― Oscar Wilde
All the Best Songs of your Favorite Musicals in one Show!
Monday, May 17th
Quote of the Day:
One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.
John Steinbeck
MEET THE PRESS May 16th
Saturday, May 15th
Quotes of the Day:
by Robert Frost, one of my favorite poets ever
“We love the things we love for what they are.”
“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
CATS the musical!
4Oth Anniversary
Sunday, May 9th
Quote of the Day:
“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”
― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems
Saturday, May 8th
Quote of the Day:
“Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.”
― William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim
Monday, May 3rd
Quote of the Day:
“I had turned away from the picture and was going back to the world where events move, men change, light flickers, life flows in a clear stream, no matter whether over mud or over stones.”
― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
State of the Union Address
Watch a Show on Multicultural Great Britain
BORDER TALES
Thursday, April 8th
Movie Quote of the Day:
"I learned a long time ago that worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but it doesn't get you anywhere."
National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002)
— Van Wilder
Monday, April 5th
Quote of the Day:
“There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love.”
― W.H. Auden
The Railway Children
Saturday, April 3rd
Quote of the Day:
“Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself when apparent to the eyes ; and we find the burden of anxiety greater, by much, than the evil which we are anxious about : ...”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
KISS OF DEATH (1947)
a great film noir
Monday, March 29th
Movie Quote of the Day:
"You shut your mouth when you're talking to me!"
– Mrs. Kroeger in WEDDING CRASHERS
Wednesday, March 24th
Quote of the Day:
“In every class of society, gratitude is the rarest of all human virtues.”
― Wilkie Collins
Sunday, March 21st
Quote of the Day:
“If he was a wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would have comprehended that work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer
(1936 movie)
Saturday, March 20th
Thursday, March 18th
Quote of the Day:
“He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Wednesday, March 17th
Quote of the Day:
“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.”
― Abraham Lincoln
Monday, March 15th
Movie Quote of the Day:
“This is not ‘Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.”
— Walter Sobchak, The Big Lebowski
You can watch THE BIG LEBOWSKI on Amazon Prime
Sunday, March 14th
Movie Quote of the Day:
“Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.”
― Dr.Lecter, The Silence of the Lambs
Sunday Movie
GREAT EXPECTATIONS (1946)
directed by David Lean
Saturday, March 12th
Quote of the Day:
“A multitude of people and yet a solitude.”
― Charles Dickens , A Tale of Two Cities
FULL AUDIOBOOK : LISTEN TO DICKENS'S A TALE OF TWO CITIES
Wednesday, March 10th
Quote of the Day:
“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde
Sunday Movie:
TREASURE ISLAND
Saturday, March 6th
Quote of the Day:
I become the stars and the moon. I become the lover and the beloved. I become thevictor and the vanquished. I become the master and the slave. I become the singer and the song. I become the knower and the known. I keep on dancing then it is the eternal
dance or creation. The creator and creation merge into one wholeness of joy. I keep on dancing...and dancing...and dancing. Until there is only...the dance.”
― Michael Jackson
Patrick Dupond, much-loved ballet star, dies at 61
Thursday, March 4th
Quote of the Day:
“I suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald, Save Me the Waltz
Wednesday, March 3rd
Quote of the Day:
“Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new film, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.”
― Jim Jarmusch
Monday, March 1st
Sunday, February 28th
Quote of the Day:
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein
Friday, February 26th
Movie Quote of the Day:
“We find it's always better to fire people on a Friday. Studies have statistically shown that there's less chance of an incident if you do it at the end of the week.”
in Office Space (1999)
Thursday, February 25th
Quote of the Day:
“Love is like a faucet: it turns on and off.”
― Billie Holiday
Nouvelle-Orléans (1947)
Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Woody Herman
Wednesday, February 24th
Movie Quote of the Day:
“Wouldn't it be great if I was crazy? Then the world would be okay.”
- James Cole, in TWELVE MONKEYS
Tuesday, Februrary 23rd
Quote of the Day:
“I must choose between despair and Energy──I choose the latter.”
― John Keats, Letters of John Keats
Monday, February 22nd
Quote of the Day:
“Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.”
― Stephen King, The Green Mile
La Ligne Verte est disponible sur Netflix
regarder le film (avec abonnement)
Saturday, February 20th
Quote of the Day:
“I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all. ”
― Abraham Lincoln
Full Concert: The Music of Miles Davis
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
Friday, February 19th
Movie Quote of the Day:
"It's the unspoken truth of humanity, that you crave subjugation. The bright lure of freedom diminishes your life's joy in a mad scramble for power, for identity. You were made to be ruled. "
LOKI
(in The Avengers, 2012)
Thursday, February 18th
Quote of the Day:
The Rock cries out to us today, you may stand upon me,
But do not hide your face.
-Maya Angelou
Read the full poem
Wednesday, February 17th
Quotes of the Day:
“It is not my conscience, Not my mind, that is diseased, but the world I have to live in.”
“In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Family Reunion
Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing
A brilliant and hilarious version of my favorite Shakespeare comedy
Tuesday, February 16th
Quote of the Day:
“If men only felt about death as they do about sleep, all terrors would cease. . . Men sleep contentedly, assured that they will wake the following morning. They should feel the same about their lives.”
― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come
Watch the movie SOMEWHERE IN TIME
Somewhere in Time is one of my all-time favorite movies. Not the greatest movie ever made, not the most brilliant directing, no, but never mind. It's one of those movies that "talk" to you (or me, for that matter).
It's based on Richard Matheson' s story, and Matheson is one of the greatest sci-fi writers of the 20th century.
(extra: Christopher Plummer is also in this movie!)
le lien est un lien sur mon drive, vous pouvez télécharger le film
Monday, February 15th
Movie Quote of the Day:
"I don't want to survive, I want to live!"
—Wall-E
Sunday, February 14th
Quote of the Day:
“This cold and solitude are friends of mine.”
― Henry David Thoreau
Saturday, February 13th
Quote of the Day:
“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Friday, February 12th
Poem of the Day:
I'M NOBODY! WHO ARE YOU?
by Emily Dickinson.
I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us - don't tell!
They'd advertise - you know!
How dreary to be somebody!
How public like a frog
To tell one's name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
Wednesday, February 10th
Quote of the Day:
I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.” And when they wake up in the summer, Kitty, they dress themselves all in green, and dance about–whenever the wind blows.
Lewis Carol, “Through the Looking Glass”
Tuesday, February 9th
Quote of the Day:
“You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Superbowl LV - Halftime Show - The Weeknd
Monday, February 8th
Below, some SUPERBOWL funny commercials!
Sunday, February 7th
Quote of the Day:
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
― Robert Frost
Enjoy a Magnificent Film! yes, it's old... yes, it's silent...
Saturday, February 6th
Christopher
Plummer
Dies
at age 91
He was one of the greatest "voices" of cinema
So many wonderful parts...
Friday, February 5th
Quote of the Day:
“As I, my real self, grew older, I entered more and more into the substance of my dreams. One may dream, and even in the midst of the dream be aware that he is dreaming, and if the dream be bad, comfort himself with the thought that it is only a dream. This is a common experience with all of us. And so it was that I, the modern, often entered into my dreaming, and in the consequent strange dual personality was both actor and spectator. And right often have I, the modern, been perturbed and vexed by the foolishness, illogic, obtuseness, and general all-round stupendous stupidity of myself, the primitive.”
― Jack London
Thursday, February 4th
Quote of the Day:
"My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat - or in film's case 'run on' - manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing."
Andy Warhol
Wednesday, February 3rd
Quote of the Day:
"Keep your face toward the sunshine--and shadows will fall behind you."
- Walt Whitman
GYM CLASS!
Monday, February 1st
Quote of the Day:
“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Sunday, January 31st
Quote of the Day:
“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
― Virginia Woolf
Saturday, January 30th
Quote of the Day:
"All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do."
- Leo Tolstoy, The Law of Love and the Law of Violence (1908)
Watch a Classic Western with Gregory Peck
THE BRAVADOS
Friday, January 29th
Poem of the Day:
“Dark is a way and light is a place,
Heaven that never was
Nor will be ever is always true
"Poem on His Birthday”
― Dylan Thomas
Thursday, January 28th
Quote of the Day:
“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
3rd Eye Blind 2011 Concert in San Francisco
Wednesday, January 27th
Movie Quote of the Day:
Alvy Singer: "I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable."
from ANNIE HALL (1977)
Watch a Classic Movie : PARIS BLUES (1961)
Tuesday, January 26th
Quote of the Day:
“When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.”
― Mark Twain
Monday, January 25th
Quote of the Day:
“Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Sunday, January 24th
Quote of the Day:
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
— Anaïs Nin
Michael Jackson & Friends
LIVE AT MSG, 2001 - 30th Anniversary Celebration
Saturday, January 23rd
Quote of the Day:
"Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education."
- Bertrand Russell
Tod Browning's DRACULA (1931)
Sweet End of the Week
Friday, January 22nd
"There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem."
-Gore Vidal
Thursday, January 21st
Quote of the Day:
“Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.”
― Charles Bukowski
Biden Inaugurated as the 46th President
Presidential Inauguration & Poetry
Maya Angelou / Bill Clinton 1993
Wednesday, January 20th
Poem of the Day:
by Langston Hughes
LET AMERICA BE AMERICA AGAIN
Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free.
(America never was America to me.)
Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed--
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above.
(It never was America to me.)
Read the full poem HERE
Tuesday, January 19th
“Come back!" the Caterpillar called after her. "I've something important to say."
This sounded promising, certainly. Alice turned and came back again.
"Keep your temper," said the Caterpillar.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
Monday, January 18th
Quote of the Day:
“Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.”
― John Muir, The Mountains of California
John Muir was perhaps this country's most famous and influential naturalist. If it weren't for John Muir and his writings, we probably would not have Yosemite National Park as we know it today. He was also involved in the creation of the Grand Canyon, Kings Canyon, Petrified Forest, and Mt. Rainier National Parks
Sunday, January 17th
Movie Quote of the Day:
“Every man dies, but not every man really lives.”
–William Wallace
from BRAVEHEART (directed by Mel Gibson)
Saturday, January 16th
Poem of the Day:
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Robert Frost
David Bowie - 50 Birthday Concert (1997) - Madison Square Garden
Friday, January 15th
Quote of the Day:
"The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does."
Maurice Barrès
Thursday, January 14th
Quote of the Day:
“Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such”
― Henry Miller
Wednesday, January 13th
Quote of the Day:
“We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.”
― Henry James, The Middle Years
If you don't have the patience, if you're too lazy...at least, listen to one of the greatest novels of the 20th Century...
Tuesday, January 12th
Quote of the Day:
“There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.”
William James
A new application for your phone:
Visit the Met (the most wonderful Art Museum in the World!)
Monday, January 11th
Poem of the Day:
by Langston Hughes
“Frosting
Freedom
Is just frosting
On somebody else’s
Cake–
And so must be
Till we
Learn how to
Bake.”
– The Panther & the Lash, 1926
Sunday, January 10th
Not getting any younger....
Guns'n Roses Concert in Paris 1992
Saturday, January 9th
Poem of the Day:
have you ever cut your finger while cooking? read below, for this is what if feels like!
Cut
What a thrill -
My thumb instead of an onion.
The top quite gone
Except for a sort of hinge
Of skin,
A flap like a hat,
Dead white.
Then that red plush.
SYLVIA PLATH
read the full poem
Enjoy Today's Show
Ruthless
Friday, January 8th
Quote of the Day:
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
― Anais Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
Thursday, January 7th
Quotes of the Day:
“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
― Winston S. Churchill
“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”
― Thomas Jefferson
“It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.”
― Tom Stoppard, Jumpers
What a Treat!
thanks to my students!
thanks to :
Hajar, Laurélie, Arame,
Emma, Maël & Marc !
Tuesday, January 5th
Quote of the Day:
“And metaphors like cats behind your smile,
Each one wound up to purr,
each one a pride,
Each one a fine gold beast you've hid inside (...)”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
Monday, January 4th
Quote of the Day:
“Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up, and after a while you don't have the strength to fight it.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
Sunday, January 3rd
Quote of the Day:
“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”
― Jim Morrison
Saturday, January 2nd
Quote of the Day:
“The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.”
― Frank Lloyd Wright
(MrB's footnote: FLW was one of the greatest architects of the 20th Century)
Friday, January 1st
Quote of the Day:
“It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
Today's Show
Legally Blonde : the Musical
Thursday, December 31st
Poem of the Day:
Waking In Winter
I can taste the tin of the sky —- the real tin thing.
Winter dawn is the color of metal,
The trees stiffen into place like burnt nerves.
Sylvia Plath
(click here to read the full poem)
New York City Nostalgia
Wednesday, December 30th
Quote of the Day:
“We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald , This Side of Paradise
Tuesday, December 29th
Poem of the Day:
“Faith” is a fine invention
For Gentlemen who see!
But Microscopes are prudent
In an Emergency!
Emily Dickinson
Monday, December 28th
Your Show
Hetty Feather
Sunday, December 27th
Poem of the Day:
If I Could Tell You
by W.H. Auden
Time will say nothing but I told you so,
Time only knows the price we have to pay;
If I could tell you I would let you know.
If we should weep when clowns put on their show,
If we should stumble when musicians play,
Time will say nothing but I told you so.
There are no fortunes to be told, although,
Because I love you more than I can say,
If I could tell you I would let you know.
The winds must come from somewhere when they blow,
There must be reasons why the leaves decay;
Time will say nothing but I told you so.
Perhaps the roses really want to grow,
The vision seriously intends to stay;
If I could tell you I would let you know.
Suppose all the lions get up and go,
And all the brooks and soldiers run away;
Will Time say nothing but I told you so?
If I could tell you I would let you know.
The Show of the Day
Dick Whittington
Saturday, December 26th
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of
The War of the Worlds
Friday, December 25th
Wednesday, December 23rd
Poem of the Day
by Paul KANE
THE KOAN
I am the mask I wear and know as little
about the wearer as the puppet the puppeteer.
The life I live isn’t mine, it lives through me
and I through it dance and strut on my strings
in counterfeit. If you told me about myself
I would not believe you, for how can I be other
than what I have known? When I die, who I am
will step out into the light to try another life,
while I--having passed away--will know all
and nothing. In the dark, I am riddled by doubt.
Tuesday, December 22nd
Quote of the Day:
“Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.”
― Vladimir Nabokov
The Show of the Day
The Railway Children
Thanks to Peter Jackson,
go back in time to The Beatles’ intimate recording sessions...
Monday, December 21st
Poem of the Day:
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Come, come thou bleak December wind,
And blow the dry leaves from the tree!
Flash, like a Love-thought, thro' me, Death
And take a Life that wearies me.
Saturday, December 19th
Poem of the Day:
“The Day is Done
The day is done, and the darkness
Falls from the wings of Night,
As a feather is wafted downward
From an eagle in his flight.
I see the lights of the village
Gleam through the rain and the mist,
And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me
That my soul cannot resist:
A feeling of sadness and longing,
That is not akin to pain,
And resembles sorrow only
As the mist resembles the rain.
Come, read to me some poem,
Some simple and heartfelt lay,
That shall soothe this restless feeling,
And banish the thoughts of day.
Not from the grand old masters,
Not from the bards sublime,
Whose distant footsteps echo
Through the corridors of Time.
For, like strains of martial music,
Their mighty thoughts suggest
Life's endless toil and endeavor;
And to-night I long for rest.
Read from some humbler poet,
Whose songs gushed from his heart,
As showers from the clouds of summer,
Or tears from the eyelids start;
Who, through long days of labor,
And nights devoid of ease,
Still heard in his soul the music
Of wonderful melodies.
Such songs have power to quiet
The restless pulse of care,
And come like the benediction
That follows after prayer.
Then read from the treasured volume
The poem of thy choice,
And lend to the rhyme of the poet
The beauty of thy voice.
And the night shall be filled with music,
And the cares, that infest the day,
Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs,
And as silently steal away.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems
Thursday, December 17th
Poem of the Day:
“Surgeons must be very careful
When they take the knife!
Underneath their fine incisions
Stirs the Culprit—Life!”
― Emily Dickinson
Wednesday, December 16th
Quote of the Day:
“Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tuesday, December 15th
Many Thanks to : Angela, Axel, Jasmine, Safiyatou,
Jean-Guillaume, Charlotte & Sidonie for their
thoughtful presents!
Grazie Mille
Francesca!
Quote of the Day:
“[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”
― Jim Henson
John Le Carre dead: Legendary writer dies aged 89
John Le Carre - most famous for his work “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy” and “The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" - has died aged 89
Monday, December 14th
Quote of the Day:
“We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to one another.”
― John le Carré
Sunday, December 13th
Quote of the Day:
“A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book."
Letters of Note
― E.B. White
For this Sunday, two shows, two styles,
two moods, two generations?...
Billie Eilish's Concert
Saturday, December 12th
Quote of the Day:
“Must I observe you? Must I stand
& crouch
Under your testy humour?
By the gods,
You shall digest the venom of
your spleen,
Though it do split you, for, from this
day forth, I'll use you for my mirth, yea,
for my laughter, when you are waspish.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
Friday, December 11th
Quote of the Day:
“The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.”
-- Vladimir Nabokov
The Falcon &
The Winter Soldier
Loki
Picture Below
Many thanks to Eléonore and Zoé for their masterpiece...
Avis Aux Lycéens:
je sais bien que l'organisation des cours par demi-groupes est très pénible (certains diraient "mortelle" mais l'on crierait au mauvais goût) pour vous, mais il faut absolument venir dans ma salle de classe à jour dans ses connaissances, dans la consultation des divers supports et dans les tâches données, sinon c'est se jeter à l'eau en se disant que l'on apprendra à nager ultérieurement...
Sinon, ici, c'est la page d'accueil...il faut aller sur l'onglet Secondes ou Premières pour accéder auxdits cours
MrB
Thursday, December 10th
Quote of the Day:
“I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose!”
― Oscar Wilde
Wednesday, December 9th
Poem for Tonight:
“there’s nothing to
discuss
there’s nothing to
remember
there’s nothing to
forget
it’s sad
and
it’s not
sad
seems the
most sensible
thing
a person can
do
is
sit
with drink in
hand
as the walls
wave
their goodbye
smiles
one comes through
it
all
with a certain
amount of
efficiency and
bravery
then
leaves
some accept
the possibility of
God
to help them
get
through
others
take it
staight on
and to these
I drink
tonight.”
― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
Tuesday, December 8th
Quote of the Day:
“It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.”
― Paul Auster, Oracle Night
Sunday, December 6th
Poem of the Day:
“We look before and after,
And pine for what is not;
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that tell
Of saddest thought.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Complete Poems
Saturday, December 5th
Quote of the Day:
“If we seek solace in the prisons of the distant past
Security in human systems we're told will always always last
Emotions are the sail and blind faith is the mast
Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast."
(History Will Teach Us Nothing)”
― Sting, Nothing Like the Sun
A Musical for a Rainy Weekend!
42nd Street
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Friday, December 4th
Poem of the Day:
“Stephen kissed me in the spring,
Robin in the fall,
But Colin only looked at me
And never kissed at all.
Stephen’s kiss was lost in jest,
Robin’s lost in play,
But the kiss in Colin’s eyes
Haunts me night and day.”
― Sara Teasdale, The Collected Poems
Thursday, December 3rd
Quote of the Day:
“One can fight evil but against stupidity one is helpless.”
― Henry Miller, Sextet: Six Essays
Wednesday, December 2nd
Movie Quote of the Day:
"Just keep swimming."
Finding Nemo
Tuesday, December 1st
Quote of the Day:
“The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.”
– W.H. Auden
Monday, November 30th
Quote of the Day:
“In a mad world, only the mad are sane.”
― Akira Kurosawa
Sunday, November 29th
Quote of the Day:
“When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just -- his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Saturday, November 28th
Quote of the Day:
"I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit."
John Steinbeck
Thanks, Mr Steinbeck!!! ;-) :-p
Enjoy one of my favorite musicals in the whole world!
An American In Paris
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Friday, November 27th
Thursday, November 26th
Quote of the Day:
“I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.”
― Jon Stewart
Wednesday, November 25th
Quote of the Day:
“I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there's somebody nobody knows about.”
― Alfred Hitchcock
Shakespeare
ALL 154 SONNETS BY A STELLAR CAST OF ACTORS
Tuesday, November 24th
Quote of the Day:
“Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.”
― Orson Welles
treats for MrB!
many thanks to EMMA!
Monday, November 23rd
Quote of the Day:
The most important Manhattan Projects of the future will be vast government-sponsored inquiries into what the politicians and the participating scientist will call 'the problem of happiness' - in other words, the problem of making people love their servitude ... The love of servitude cannot be established except as the result of a deep, personal revolution in human minds and bodies.”
― Aldous Huxley
Sunday, November 22nd
Nursery Rhyme of the Day:
A wise old owl lived in an oak
The more he saw the less he spoke
The less he spoke the more he heard.
Why can't we all be like that wise old bird?
A Neat Story
About
The Cutest Owl
(watch the video below)
Saturday, November 21st
Quote of the Day:
You never too old to be young.
- Snow White (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
Below : artwork from Sophie and Marie-Alizée (on the left, the "elf-life" character is me...)
Enjoy Great Songs this Weekend!
WEST END UNPLUGGED Vol.2
Friday, November 20th
Quote of the Day:
“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.”
― Toni Morrison
Thursday, November 19th
Quote of the Day:
"Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different."
–Stephen King
Wednesday, November 18th
Quote of the Day:
“Some lose all mind and become soul,insane.
some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual.
some lose both and become accepted”
― Charles Bukowski
Mr B addresses his High School Students
Tuesday, November 17th
Quote of the Day:
“The wind I hear it sighing, with autumn's saddest sound; withered leaves all thick are lying, as spring-flowers on the ground. This dark night has won me to wander far away; old feelings gather fast upon me.”
― Emily Brontë
MACBETH
starring Patrick Stewart
Monday, November 16th
Poem of the Day:
Youth’s Agitations
WHEN I shall be divorced, some ten years hence,
From this poor present self which I am now;
When youth has done its tedious vain expense
Of passions that for ever ebb and flow;
Shall I not joy youth’s heats are left behind,
And breathe more happy in an even clime?
Ah no! for then I shall begin to find
A thousand virtues in this hated time.
Then I shall wish its agitations back,
And all its thwarting currents of desire;
Then I shall praise the heat which then I lack,
And call this hurrying fever, generous fire,
And sigh that one thing only has been lent
To youth and age in common—discontent.
Matthew Arnold (1852)
Sunday, November 15th
Movie Quotes of the Day:
“Every man dies, not every man really lives.”
– Braveheart
“All those moments will be lost in time… like tears in rain.”
– Blade Runner
“Now you’re looking for the secret, but you won’t find it, because of course you’re not really looking. You don’t really want to know. You want to be fooled.”
– The Prestige
Saturday, November 14th
Quotes of the Day:
“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. ”
― William S. Burroughs
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
― C. S. Lewis
Enjoy a Show this Weekend!
WEST END UNPLUGGED
Friday, November 13th
Quote of the Day:
“They're like children, really. Only children are far more logical which makes it difficult sometimes with them. But these people are illogical, they want to be reassured by your telling them what they want to believe. Then they're quite happy again for a bit.”
― Agatha Christie, By the Pricking of My Thumbs
Wednesday, November 11th
Poem of the Day:
Champs d’Honneur
BY ERNEST M. HEMINGWAY
Soldiers never do die well;
Crosses mark the places—
Wooden crosses where they fell,
Stuck above their faces.
Soldiers pitch and cough and twitch—
All the world roars red and black;
Soldiers smother in a ditch,
Choking through the whole attack
Enjoy A Shakespeare Play
RICHARD II
Deborah Warner’s staging of Richard II with Fiona Shaw as the king stirred up a significant critical controversy when it was presented in 1995 at the National Theatre, and then later in Salzburg and Paris. Among those who recognised its originality and strengths was the critic Paul Taylor who praised the ‘gripping, lucidly felt production’ and Fiona Shaw’s ‘dazzlingly disconcerting… deliberately uncomfortable, compelling performance.’ For the screen version, Deborah Warner and production designer Hildegard Bechtler re-imagined Richard II as an innovative drama that was shot over a fortnight using film techniques. Playing alongside Fiona Shaw is a distinguished cast including Donald Sinden (Duke of York), Richard Bremmer (Henry Bolingbroke), Julian Rhind-Tutt (Duke of Aumerle), Kevin McKidd (Harry Percy) and Paola Dionisotti (Duchess of York).
To All My Students :
I am not on strike!
Tuesday, November 10th
Poem of the Day:
The Genius Of The Crowd
there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average
human being to supply any given army on any given day
and the best at murder are those who preach against it
and the best at hate are those who preach love
and the best at war finally are those who preach peace
those who preach god, need god
those who preach peace do not have peace
those who preach peace do not have love
beware the preachers
beware the knowers
beware those who are always reading books
beware those who either detest poverty
or are proud of it
beware those quick to praise
for they need praise in return
beware those who are quick to censor
they are afraid of what they do not know
beware those who seek constant crowds for
they are nothing alone
beware the average man the average woman
beware their love, their love is average
seeks average
but there is genius in their hatred
there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you
to kill anybody
not wanting solitude
not understanding solitude
they will attempt to destroy anything
that differs from their own
not being able to create art
they will not understand art
they will consider their failure as creators
only as a failure of the world
not being able to love fully
they will believe your love incomplete
and then they will hate you
and their hatred will be perfect
like a shining diamond
like a knife
like a mountain
like a tiger
like hemlock
their finest art”
― Charles Bukowski
Monday, November 9th
Quote of the Day:
“A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.”
― William James
If you're a fan of David Bowie, watch the trailer below : "Stardust"
Sunday, November 8th
Quotes of the Day:
“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”
― George Washington
“In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.”
― Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
“Rumour is a pipe
Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures
And of so easy and so plain a stop
That the blunt monster with uncounted heads,
The still-discordant wavering multitude,
Can play upon it.”
― William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2
President Elect Joe Biden Addresses the Nation