Armenians everywhere :o)

Hello Cilicians !
Paris’ still alive, and don’t worry : even if blogger’s betraying me, I won’t have tons to write ! I wanted to illustrate but blogger never want. TANT PIS ! I prefer to show pics (even if with links) and maybe when I have patience and time enough I’ll write more

January & February have been full, as foreseen, and Armenian subjects have also abounded for me, noticeably thanks to my France-Arménie missions.
France-Arménie is the magazine I sometimes work for, and “sometimes” can be more often than usual. The web-site is really cheap, but at least you'll see what it looks like http://www.france-armenie.fr/

In chronological order here’s the titles :

Commemorations for Hrant Dink in January, and amongst them, a rather surprising one, but all for the best, hosted by Paris’ Town Hall the 26th of January : conference of the new chief redactor of Agos Aris Nalçi, Pr Baskin Oran, and the great Fethiye Cetin advocate of H. Dink's family, organised by Armenians and Turkish associations, reunited to honor Hrant Dink’s murder anniversary. Beyond it, reunited with his fight for truth and human rights in Turkey.
Was rather strange to go there at the beginning, but in fact all went so respectfully and clearly that I really get more encouraged about future, with still a long path to do, and big difficulties to solve.
More pics here : http://good-times.webshots.com/album/562594232ZvqGmC


Meeting Robert Guédiguian, French, MARSEILLAIS, film maker, for 2 reasons :
*his new film that we’ll be launch in april “Lady Jane” a human and good thriller,
*and the book that a cinema journalist wrote about him (the first one) “Conversations avec Robert Guédiguian”
Prolific speaker, with the Marseille accent, very simple and sympathic person, even if desillusioned he's looking for hope to keep ! He isn’t able to smile for portrait-photos, so you have to capture him naturally.
One of the photo I like best, is with the big poster of an ancient film of him “A l’attaque!” in a little library near Odeon where he presented the book with its author Isabelle Danel, a cinema journalist (meaning : let’s go, encouraging “cri de guerre” as we say, of “war word cried” to sheer up the troups).
Pics are here : http://good-times.webshots.com/album/562594997nsyLHE


Good food in jazzy mood with the Stared Chief Alain Alexanian, missionned by the oldest jazz club of Paris “Duc des Lombards”; http://www.ducdeslombards.com/
This mythic jazz club has been recently renewed by a jazz-fan President of a big French society of tourism (Pierre et Vacances, Gérard Brémond), who save the club that would have, if not, been bought for becoming a brasserie…
Turned around music, and the scene, it is now also a place where you can taste and enjoy fine food http://www.ducdeslombards.com/scripts/restaurant.php
Refinement of pleasures…
I met the chief Alexanian, the best speaker of food and of how to make food in this place firstly devoted to music. Undone thing in the world until now, this combination is a real challenge due to the power of sincere and beautiful dreams. Alexanian is a militant of the fine but healthy and “bio” food, and Brémond has been able to decide in 2 days to buy the jazz club he adored, when he learnt his miserable fate.
One of my favourite photos is Alexanian speaking on scene during the inauguration of the club, he talks with his hands... and you'd nearly think he's singing !
Photos here http://good-times.webshots.com/album/562594736rbMlEt

All this makes me feel all the most happy with my Armenian origins, this is what fit me the most with those roots : it's making meet with such a variety of life’s little worlds, not quite sure that I’d have experienced all this if not Armenian rooted… ;o)
It's like adoring one music, and discovering after that, that its author is armenian (classic example with the valse from Masquerade of A. Khatchadurian).

Guetsé Tornado-Life & ARMENIA !