Je t'aime

French President's hot flame, Carla Bruni, is said to be working on a new album of love songs set to be released next year. There is even talk that he is planning a proposal. A young artist/beauty/sex symbol in the president’s Elysée Palace? A revolution! Us Golgos think those French women have power - remember Simone De Beauvoir - a lone woman amongst roguish men - intellects with ego. Somehow she carried her beauty and her femininity across centuries. Hurray!

Sweeney Todd

Tim Burton's take on the old tale (starting in the mid 19th century) is both terrifying and enthralling. Benjamin Barker aka Sweeney Todd seems to be an early archetype of the serial killer - his weapon, a simple razor. Although the musical element of the movie seems alarming at first (how will we ever spend 2 hours amongst singing birds), it grows into a deep way to tell a story of inner conflict and utter disgust with the world outside. Think: inner monologues are expressed through song,stream of consciousness type thinking is yelled aloud: "There's a hole in the world like a great black pit and the vermin of the world inhabit it and its morals aren't worth what a pit can spit and it goes by the name of London. At the top of the hole sit the privileged few. Making mock of the vermin in the lonely zoo turning beauty to filth and greed..." We are turning our heads at dark corners and shivering in our shoes. Too much blood and gore to sleep soundly tonight.

Literary Anthropology

The reader will always interpret the text. This in itself coincides with the development of self-identity. As we read, we review our past, our present and imagine it in the context of experience. We Golgos think everyone is a collector of themselves. Memories are as much a form of information as texts are - they coexist.