Ubuntu: I am because we are

I wanted to address the culture of the emptiness as we seem to be drowning recently lower and lower. How somebody like Kim Kardashian as nice as she may be, could attract such following is a mystery to me. I don't get it. I call it "la culture du vide" it doesn't translate so well in english. I'm a very eclectic person. I like all sort of movies, actions or repertoire, i like all sort of music, house in my base but also french singer, classical, but i can't see a human being in the way as a mass product. The marketing of somebody own being is something i don't get.To sell it's own intimacy for money or fame ?! like in those reality show is a very weird concept for me. Sophistication and elegance are not fashionable anymore, vulgarity is in. It's strange i find that the new generation of porn actors are becoming more educated and refined if I think of Sasha Grey and Stoya for instance but the new generation of famous people is becoming more common and trashy. The natural is gone. Botox, plastic surgery, photoshop are in. People live like their life is happening on pictures and not in real life. Virtual reality is becoming global. Authencity is gone and fakeness is the new fave. The culture of the mass is becoming global. A young man almost killed himself in the search of the perfect selfie how fucked up is that ? It's the dictatorship of the image, la dictature de l'image. To live exposed. I couldn't live like that. My privacy is something very precious to me, being able to live incognito is priceless. Par eux mais sans eux. Because of them but without them. I wish to draw attention not with my exterior self but with my soul. Not with what I have but with who I am. Quietly. 
That's why I like to put more than me on my Members of the Tribe page. I don't want it to be about me but others too. 
I read today on a post:
Ubuntu: it's a word in the Xhosa culture (african tribe) that means:
I am because we are. So beautiful

First styles up !

We began with the love serie what else. All coming either black or white.

Here's to the crazy ones

I

I rejected the fault of my mal de vivre for a long time on my parents. They were the one who put me on earth so I'm there responsability. I didn't ask to be here and I don't know what I'm suppose to do with my time on this planet. Je vais dans la vie comme une pute sans trottoir. I go in life like a whore without a sidewalk. Was the general idea. I remember once I bumped into a friend of mine. I was 

wearing a mariniere those blue and white stripes sweater typical of the French . When the friend asked me how I was doing I answered: I'm drifting showing my sailor tshirt. He looked at me and said: since I know you you've always been drifting. 

'Important ce n'est pas la chute c'est l'atterissage. The importance is not the fall it's the landing. 

You have to find where you belong within yourself. So close yet so far. 

The music was my soul companion some  few people I recognized like my own, that I use to refer as the members of the tribe and all kinds of artificial paradise which kept me alive. 

The artificial paradise are gone but the music and friends are still there. And Members of the Tribe is taking it's first step in the world. It takes one person to create a movement the love movement. So here's to the crazy ones ! 

Meaning of life

I passed most of my life feeling disconnected from the world around me. I was the main character of my movie and the people around were extras with very few exceptions. I wished that somehow we could start again from scratch. I dreamed of chaos and explosions and destructions, the only way in my head for a new beginning. Natural born killers was my cult movie along with clockwork orange... I had no respect for the world I was living in. When people asked me what I was doing for a living I use to answer: I live it keeps me busy. Or how old I was: I'm centuries old. I felt like an old soul watching the same movie for the thousand times, bored watching it. I was passing time dancing, listening to music or 

Waking up when it was dark: wake up its dark outside! Living in reverse mode. Not giving a fuck about anything, reputation was at the bottom of my list. Par eux mais sans Eux. Living through them but without them. I often asked myself why am I here ? What am I suppose to do with this life I never asked for...

I read that life begins at 40 up to then we are just doing research. In Judaism we say that maturity begins at 40 and I agree. I just figure out now what I really want to do with the life that's been offered to me. I want to have a positive impact and to be part of the construction of a better world and help in a pacifist way the destruction of the old system.

Like a say: I come with pure intentions. 

I'm not angry anymore I'm at peace for the first time in my life. 

Music

Members of the Tribe is obsess with house music. Why is that ?

Don't know. All I can say is that house speaks to my soul in an unexplainable way. I remember when I use to dance all night 14 hours a night all week I was reaching for god in the dance floor it was him who was talking to me through the dj through the music and I was responding with my body. La quête de l'absolu. Sometimes I almost felt like I was creating the music. The music was coming out from me in total synchronicity. I loved hearing the bass so strong that you could feel it in your bones in your blood in your heart beating with the beat of house. 

Not a lot of people understands house music it's a spiritual thing. 

My arms raised to the sky, my fingers in the shape of v for victory saying to the dj I hear you I'm with you. Mental connection through music, the dj playing, me dancing like my life depended on it. 

The enjoyment of total freedom. 

Shut up I'm dancing. 

pettiness

I always hated people who think little, act little, the pettiness of their life and mind. People who lust in mediocrity, who actually enjoys their shit and most of all the shit of others. The envious, the jealous, the fakes. People whose own lives are so mediocre that they live through the lives of others by pushing it down to feel superior. 
"The dirty little miserable details that build people's life. The dirty little miserable details that build their miserable existence. So happy to get confused with the ground. They stay there happily and self-satisfied. And they spit their insignificance on others for everyone to be as pitiful as them."*
I have no patience for those and no pity. Some I can tell right away, I don't even pay attention, some abuse my kindness and my good nature for a while until there is no other choice for me but to leave them behind. 

* exert from a book in progress Mémoire d'une jeune fille dérangée.

Balance or equilibrium

Sometimes when i've been really good and disciplined for a while, i have to hold myself with all my will not to let it go all at once. Control I'm slowly learning about control. I never had control before. I was flattering myself to have none. No control no limits but my own. Don't do what I wouldn't do, that said it all. Total freedom. Up up up in the sky. That's where i liked to be. If they thought i would come down for them they were deeply mistaken. Accrochée aux étoiles. 

But now thime changed. I have my mind on earth and for the first time in my life i can truly say i feel at home. The idea is to arrive at a point of balance where im standing at the Edgar but im not falling. Equilibrium

13 sentences

Honour your courage

admire your spirit

praise your humanity

respect your heart

embrace your dreams

sing your song

allow your wishes

feel your values

hear your soul

walk your path

live your life

sweeten your dreams

tighten your sleep

Partnership announced

Exciting news !

Members has a new partner and I'm quite excited in the name of Juan Enrique Hinojosa. Owner of the legendary store Juan & Juanita for the ones who live or lived in Montreal or shopped in it you know what I'm talking about. Better 2 heads than one don't you think ? With the spring and the earth renewal Members of the Tribe blossoms in a new beginning. The partnership starts now and the dream team is on. 

From hell and back

I use to have the impression that I was an angel kicked out of heaven fighting to find its way back or that there has been a mistake, that I was sent to the wrong planet and that they would notice their fault and take me back home. I had no connection to the world around me, people were like indigenous, nobody to talk to. I remember once this italian guy in a club looked at me and said: finally somebody alive and that was one of the most beautiful compliment somebody ever said to me. I was in technicolor and they were black and white I was in 4 dimensions and they were 2 dimensional I was asking for everything and more they were asking for nothing. I was an ogress and they were Insignificant. 
I was feeling like Atlas the weight of the world on my shoulders. Disenchantment. Desolation. 
I don't feel that way anymore. I learned humility. I know that I am exactly where I'm suppose to be. It was a long road from hell and back feels good to be back. It's easy to sit back and watch the world go by like a passive observer it takes courage to take responsabity and position. I use to pass time, not anymore. I use to live like a spoiled child. Not anymore. 
It's Action times baby let's do something about it ? It takes only one person to create a movement. The love movement. 

9 series

The styles are all finalized. Very happy with the end results. Now the website ! I added one serie so there is 9 total. I forgot to represent Africa !! 

Error resolved. 

Dare to fly

Life is not a business to manage but a mystery to be lived. Osho

Ordinary people chasing stars. Why settle for the ordinary when you could reach for the infinite ? 
Got my first example of style today. I like it a lot. Working on the final styles tomorrow. I always love the idea of elevating my every day with a spiritual attitude. I always wonder why i was on earth what was my purpose. I felt something but no indication. That feeling is in me since a very young age. Stranger on a strange land. I guess the concept is to make your own connection. Osho says that whenever you feel disconnected to go outside and look at the stars. Some days i have a strong connection with the universe. I feel like im exactly where im suppose to be in the time, space and mental state. Those moments i can feel the energy coming out of me and creating positive vibrations. Osho said, when talking of courag, that the seed could stay underneath the 
earth, quiet secure warm, but it decided to grow and 
by growing it reveals itself to the ground above and the sun and by doing so it becomes a flower. That why i like the video of Nick Askew: no place to hide. Time to stop hiding and being scared of who we are. Expand push the door and dare to fly. Only then can you truly share and spread peace and love.

House music

Why do i like house music so much ? I like all sorts of music but my heart always go back to house. For me house is a spiritual thing. It is not just music. It goes deeper. It comes from the soul. People who truly love house or make house are my people. They feel like i feel. 

I discovered house music when i put my foot at Business first time coming to Montreal from Quebec city where acid house ruled. House has soul and sex appeal which are linked to each others i guess because both speak about life the celebration of  life. I love house also it has a positive vibe a happy vibe, celebration, rejoice, that type of message. Also house unite under a same sound, gays and straight, all colours, all genders, all statutes, And the master of it all is, of course, my friend Big Al. 

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Countries

I know people are critical of facebook and of the data exchange to the NSA but i find that facebook is magical. You get connected with people you wouldnt connect otherwise. I want to do one day a map of the  countries where there is members. 

Canada, United States, Uruguay, Peru, Ghana, Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, South Africa, France, Spain, England, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Lebanon, Tunisia, Israel, Italy, Macedonia, Serbia, Italy, Germany, Hungary, Brazil, Switzerland, Croatia 

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To represent

Even if Members of the Tribe is a clothing line, i want to be able to address through my FB page and my blog different interests of mine and I don't want the page or the blog to be solely about me and the clothes. The concept is to represent what i love.
Since I'm a music maniac and I can't live without music and since my primary love is house, the music I'll promote on my page will be mainly house music from the DJs that liked the page. Just so there is a clear relation between the music that i post and Members of the Tribe. The same thing will be apply to the artists of my FB page. Nonetheless since i always liked art, and maybe I know more djs than visual artists, I'll try to put oeuvres that I love from more known artists like Murakami and Kusuma or Kyle Bean for instance. Maybe one day they will be members as well. I'll promote anything that is close to my heart: movies, people, causes, spirituality etc anything that I feel makes the world moves forward. Of course, I'll put also important news, share posts from friends or other sources that i find worth sharing and once in a while my own reflections. 

So what is Members of the Tribe. It is a clothing line street wear to begin with, t-shirts, sweats, caps, tank tops etc… easy stuff for everyday wear or else

We will have 8 different series:

Logos

Chinese horoscopes

Regular horoscopes

Chakras

Sephirot

Messages

Cities

Dissidents

The website will be on by the end of march.

Part of the profits will go to a charity.

The clothing will be sweat free and manufactured as close as possible of Montreal. 

Women sexuality

I thought women's day was an appropriate day to talk about women's sexuality.   I don't mean, women acting as sexual object but women who actually like to have sexual intercourse. Not as a self destruction act, or as a sense of sacrifice, like in the movie Nymphomaniac that I haven't seen but knowing how Charlotte Gainsbourg is discovered at the end of her journey, i get the idea, but as a pleasurable and natural activity. I feel men are still scared of a sexual woman, claiming the sexual behaviour to be their exclusively their own field. Some men still have the idea that a woman is at their service sexually and that their pleasure is the only one valid. I remember in the movie The Wolfe of Wall street how Di Caprio after having a 2 minutes intercourse with his future wife calls it making love. Men often see the sexual act as a representation of their power over women and not as an act of intimacy and deep communion of the flesh and even more of the soul. Furthermore, strangely, some men don't respect the women who sleeps with them. I always thought that a woman accepting to open her legs, to offer the sacred among the sacred, demands respect. I don't say love, maybe it has nothing to do with love and solely with pure sexual pleasure, but respect that's for sure. I read recently that love without sex exists but sex without love shouldn't. I don't know about that, like Brel said: il faut bien que le corps exulte. Meaningless sex can be very exciting, but i would say, certainly sex without respect shouldn't be. 

Women love sex as much as men. The difference is that a woman will always respect the man she sleeps with but the contrary is not always the case. 

La grande bellezza

Out of the winter boredom of Montreal and the impossibility of traveling, i was in need of mental and cultural stimulations. I decided to rent movies at the local library everything in Italian with English subtitles. Never been in Italy, actually i crossed it by train centuries ago to Brindisi to take the boat for Greece but never visited it. 
So out of boredom and feeling stuck i decided to rent italian movies as a way of cheap traveling. I fell under the charm of the esthetic of the italian cinema. The conformist by Bertolucci is an absolute piece of art. 
La Grande Bellezza is in the continuity of this kind of esthetic and sophistication. i fell in love with the protagonist of the movie Jep, the music, the images, Rome, the places, this beautiful apartment right in front of the coliseum, the perfection of the dialogues that i wish i would know by heart, the choice of the actors, above all, the theme which is, among the banality and the ordinary ugliness of life, there is once in a while, those moments of absolute beauty which makes it worth to be alive. I didnt want the movie to end, i didnt want Jep to leave me, i wanted to stay in Rome with him. 

La grande bellezza

Women's day

Women's day

So much to say about the situation of women in 2014. 

Genital mutilation is still practiced 

rape is use as a weapon of wars 

12 years old are still married by force

Women even in the Western countries are still the victims of verbal and physical abuse.

Women still make less, are less educated and live in more financial insecurity than men

Sexual exploitation is flagrant and it is not women power.

Women power don't lie in her sexual attributes but in the quality of her mind, heart and soul. 

It is a man's world. Written by men, filmed by men, dressed by men, ruled by men for most.  But if women in the more emancipated side of this world continue the game set by men. Nothing will change.

Women have to start taking position and speak for themselves. 

As Malala said women freedom begins with education. 

Women freedom begins with a career that will give them financial autonomy. 

Often women are trapped in relationships with no way out because of their financial dependance on the spouse.

Women have to free their mind from mental slavery. 

I ask women around the world to ask for respect and respect begins with oneself. 

There is a balance to be found between the whore and the virgin...

I truly believe that the world is the reflections of our own behavior. 

We have to get out of our comfort zone, of our known environment, think for ourself and see the big picture. 

If the movements of the wings of the butterfly have an effect on the world according to the chaos theory what about the consequences of our actions...

Yoga

The power of yoga to clear ourselves from all the toxic elements in our soul heart mind and body and to find harmony. There is no competition in yoga no better or worse only you with yourself as a whole. Yoga became essential for my mental health and i would say spiritual and physical health of course. I forgot about the fact that i inhabit a body who needs to stretch and to get out of its comfort zone by feeling a bit of pain. 

I knew it but never truly applied it. 

Every beginning has a start.

A spirit in a healthy body is really the starting point.

The quest for happiness

People have a tendency to search for happiness in the material and not in the spiritual. It's easier and quicker. The problem is that more often than not the feeling of happiness is created more by the desire than by the actual object. Once its obtained they want more. Artificial paradise. This paradise is made of smoke and emptiness. It leaves a whole inside that needs to be filled with more artificial paradise and so on. The difficulty is to find happiness within, without the help of artificial paradise or artifices of any kind. The difficulty is to be happy solely because we are and not because we have. It takes courage, it takes efforts. To be is not to rely on the approval or the recognition of others but to exist according to our own truth. To be happy is to have found our essence and to live according to it no matter what people have to say. To be happy is to have found harmony between our mind body soul and heart. Only then,  when we reach that point of healing can we really start to heal the world. 

Members of the tribe is thought as a spiritual movement where each member is its own guide. krishnamurti said the truth has no path. The truth is one but at the same time each individual is unique so every one chooses it own way. No road is better than the others. Members of the Tribe has no religion or political denominations and embraces everyone regardless of color, gender, sexual orientation or social status. Members come as they are as long as their intentions are pure and positive and they are true to themselves and others. Members of the Tribe can't be bothered with people who killed other people's vibes or fuck with their happiness. Members of the Tribe has no tolerance for assholes. 
Members believe in what you see is what you get, i say what i do and i do what i say. Members of the Tribe takes position and believes in actions. Change begins with oneself. The world is a reflection of who we are as humanity. Members of the Tribe believe that the world can be repaired one step at time.
Members of the Tribe believes in the be and not in the have. Members of the Tribe believes in good energy or good vibes that human spread by doing what's right instead of what's easy.
Against human cruelty For social justice
Against animal cruelty Against animal testing
Against commercial farms
Against arms and wars For justice and love
Products will be sweatshop free
Will be the reflections of our values
Part of the profits will be given to charities
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