Another sleepless night watching Dexter

Please help I need to sleep... a friend got me started on DEXTER and during the first 20 minutes or so of the first episode I did not get it. Why will people be so caught up in a story with the hero being a serial killer, frankly I did not see the point. Two weeks later, I am down to the 3rd season and has been losing a lot of sleeps. Between 3 to 4 episodes a night and the hours spent in my home recording studio, generally past midnight. I am like a walking zombie.

Truly I still find the series kind of disturbing. Why would people wish that a serial killer not get caught? What make us accept the crimes he commit? Is it the code? Since only the criminals are punished by his blade. Do we still believe in the justice system? Why is it so easy for the writer to change our perception of good and evil?
I honestly don't know but tonight I have friends coming over for dinner and when they leave which should be late, I certainly will watch at least one or two episodes of Dexter and prolong the night.

Madness live accoustic @ Art' cade

Madness live accoustique à Art' Cade, Ste Croix Volvestre.

Madness, madness, craziness, foolishness...
Oh Lord such a sadness
Yo haitian man
first black man
to have fought
and won the pride
of our blackness
don't let madness
take you into the road
of oppression
and destruction...

For my people

Monument in Savannah celebrates Haiti's role in American revolution

When the world look at Haiti today, what comes to mind generally is the nepotism, the poverty, the coup d'etat, the tonton macoutes and so on...in short the image of a failed state.
If I lament this state of reality, I also feel we as a people have been cheated of our true place in history and our contribution to the world.

In fact very few people are aware of the efforts the young nation made to help the freedom fighters of South America. The other day, someone asked me if it was true that Haiti fought for its independence and was the first black republic.
Finally the role our ancestors played in the important battle of Savannah during the American revolution has been recognized...

My Ayibobo Japan Tour 2009

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I just returned from my first tour to Japan titled "Ayibobo Japan". It was also my first visit of this country that has always fascinated me since the day I first read James Clavell's "Shogun", this reading would lead me to books by Yoshikawa Eiji and films by Kurosawa...

I did not have enough free time however to explore the country as I would have loved to, but was still able to visit the beautiful "Imperial Villa" in Kyoto a definite example of the Japanese's art de vivre and one of the most beautiful Japanese garden....

In terms of history, I was touched the most by "Nijojo" or Nijo Castle, it was the shogun palace in Kyoto the imperial city, this place saw the affirmation of the Tokugawa clan as shogun and the resignation of Yoshinobu the last Tokugawa shogun. About a year ago, I had read the almost day to day account of those last days of the shogunate in the "Last Shogun" by Shiba Ryotaro and this made the visit of the castle even more vivid...

The temple of the temple at Nara just defied words...

This little film is not a tourist film it is more about my tour, the people I met and the way I experience Japan. It is not a professional film, the camera's work and editing is definitely amateurish, which is a shame that I have to admitt since years ago I studied "Television Production" but for years I did not touch a camera (neither was I the one always filming since I was on stage) and this is my first try at Imovie editing on my macbook.

So I hope you will be tolerant and enjoy the film.
Peace
Karlex

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Remembering 9/11

8 years ago, I was seating on the terrace of a bar in Paris, enjoying my last day of vacation I was due to leave the day after. I went inside to use the men's room as I walked back I noticed everyone had their eyes fixed on the Tv screen, so I looked up and saw that awfull image that we all remember, at first I tought it was a movie, even tough it looked like the news. But my mind was simply refusing to register and accept this could be real...
I remember walking back to the terrace, nothing had changed nobody outside seemed to know what was going on, the air was still carefree... As I sat back my friends noticing how stunned I looked wanted to know what had happened to me... Very soon the mood changed on the terrace, in the metro that we took everyone look somber. For my generation, it was the first time we had the feeling that the sky had fallen over our heads. the numbers 911 took on new meaning and will never be anonymous again
The next day I stayed all day at the airport, and was taken by bus to an hotel untill the planes could fly again. Nobody complained, our world had changed but we were alive and thankful and grieving for those that were lost or had lost a dear one, grieving that other human beings could have perpetuated such horrors.
8 years later, that action is still claiming lives but we most of us have gone back to our carefree lives saved the nostalgia that our best years may be behind us...
May the departed find peace...
May the living find peace...

Sharing a great track with you

As an artist, I feel the need sometimes to talk also about other's work especially those that have inspired me.

Today I want to share with you, this track from the great Tony Allen, it's part of an album that was produced by Doctor L a superb french producer, with whom I hope to work one day.

Enjoy and do not hesitate to leave your comments

Peace