Jean-Louis Costes

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Otomo_Hava


nahàsh atrym

its provocations are not enough to fill its lack of talent. its shit gives me urticaria

HongKongGoolagong

I still have a few Costes discs: Jap Jew, Lung Farts, End of the Trail. They don't get many plays. I think last time was when a houseguest who had never heard these was here, we listened to some tracks on Lung Farts and collapsed in laughter.

It's funny stuff and anyone who would be offended or take it seriously is a strange person. I remember a cassette 'Hung By The Dick' being very funny. Have seen him perform a couple of times, once it was stopped by the venue management after pissing on the floor etc.

While he certainly doesn't have the musical talent of Serge Gainsbourg, it has been strange to see France slowly embrace him as a national arts figure. First via his big-selling books and cameos in films like Irreversible and Baise-Moi, and more recently and very surprisingly by electing him to the national assembly: http://www.lepoint.fr/politique/en-direct-villeneuve-sur-lot-centre-de-la-vie-politique-23-06-2013-1685080_20.php - he was standing for a centre-right party, with the tactical support vote of the left, to make sure FN did not get elected in this seat. As he explained in a 1990s interview in Progress Report, the extreme texts which got him into legal trouble were parodies of the rhetoric of the far right (as anyone with a brain could tell).

Corrosive Art Records

Jean Louis Costes the artist, didn't participate to the election of Villeneuve Sur Lot, it's not the same people. The people that you speak here is a french politician of the UMP.





Concerning the works of Costes much texts are in french and it's easy to understand for me. Really provocative in lyrics for which he has several lawsuits. Minimalist & experimental for sound.

Quote from: HongKongGoolagong on August 30, 2013, 06:52:07 PM
While he certainly doesn't have the musical talent of Serge Gainsbourg, it has been strange to see France slowly embrace him as a national arts figure. First via his big-selling books and cameos in films like Irreversible and Baise-Moi, and more recently and very surprisingly by electing him to the national assembly: http://www.lepoint.fr/politique/en-direct-villeneuve-sur-lot-centre-de-la-vie-politique-23-06-2013-1685080_20.php - he was standing for a centre-right party, with the tactical support vote of the left, to make sure FN did not get elected in this seat. As he explained in a 1990s interview in Progress Report, the extreme texts which got him into legal trouble were parodies of the rhetoric of the far right (as anyone with a brain could tell).

HongKongGoolagong

Quote from: Corrosive Art Records on August 31, 2013, 02:11:06 AM
Jean Louis Costes the artist, didn't participate to the election of Villeneuve Sur Lot, it's not the same people. The people that you speak here is a french politician of the UMP.

I got that incorrect information from his English wikipedia entry! http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jean-Louis_Costes&diff=565229078&oldid=565228640

http://www.theonion.com/articles/wikipedia-celebrates-750-years-of-american-indepen,2007/

Corrosive Art Records

Yes it's totally incorrect information about the artist. Both people have the same name. On the Wikipedia french page the information is correct. http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Louis_Costes_(artiste)

Wikipedia sometime suck!

Quote from: HongKongGoolagong on August 31, 2013, 02:20:29 AM
Quote from: Corrosive Art Records on August 31, 2013, 02:11:06 AM
Jean Louis Costes the artist, didn't participate to the election of Villeneuve Sur Lot, it's not the same people. The people that you speak here is a french politician of the UMP.

I got that incorrect information from his English wikipedia entry! http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jean-Louis_Costes&diff=565229078&oldid=565228640

http://www.theonion.com/articles/wikipedia-celebrates-750-years-of-american-indepen,2007/

impulse manslaughter

Saw hem live 2 times which was pretty entertaining.. Do not care for the records although Daddy's Scheiswelt 7" still get some spins now and then.

Kate Fear


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Kate Fear

My French isn't great, but in that first interview he seems to get particularly excited talking about female violence in the novel

Bloated Slutbag

#10
Always kinda dug Rape GG*, a serious contender for the French Juntaro, sprinkled with a little Violent Onsen Geisha flavoring:

Quote"GG, fuck/When you fuck Lisa/I am not jealous/I was the first"

"I come to suck you off GG/I am not afraid"

"Don't worry GG/I shall fuck you/Don't worry"
etc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOn27RJkMUw

Kinda sweet, the way he sticks up for his girl.

*EDIT Allin
Someone weaker than you should beat you and brag
And take you for a drag

blackoperations

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i don't have any of his records, and have only heard a few (yeah 'rape gg' mentioned above is one of them), i have a few of his videos though - live and some other crazy stuff - and there're all worth watching. some are hilariously funny, some are pretty sick, some are just '?!?!?'.

i've only had the pleasure (!) of seeing him live once - november 1998 here in middlesbrough (uk) - death squad, radiosonde and dwolma 19 an industrial punk sorta band i played a couple of gigs for were also on the bill. the venue was just the upstairs room of a very small pub. the landlord/staff weren't given any prior knowledge of costes and he got about 20-25 minutes into his set before the gig got stopped. we assume one of staff collecting glasses told the landlord what was going on (costes and marianne, the rather pretty girl performing with him that night, both had their kit off by then). after a bit of commotion - the landlord shouting at my friend who put the gig on, etc - and us at one point thinking the police were going to be called (the speed at which costes took down his merch table could easily have been a world record!), the landlord eventually realised that his license would've never have been in jeopardy, and after hearing the reactions of audience leaving who were obviously disappointed the gig had been stopped (just when it was getting really good!), he ended up saying "ok, let me know what's going to happen in advance next time and there'll be no problem..." or words to that effect, but there was no next time!

yep, i heard all about that gig in leeds hongkong mentioned where it got stopped after the pissing started onstage.

HongKongGoolagong

I remember Marianne his '98 touring partner telling me while laughing that Jean-Louis had only brought one pair of socks with him for that three-week UK trip.

Crack Kiss is one of his better films I remember, there's a scene where he's puffing on a crack pipe in a horrible flat and then is inspired to do some grotesque naked dancing...and I think murder, sex and so on follows. It usually does.

blackoperations

after the middlesbrough gig he decided to cancel some gig down south to stay round here a couple more days to go to whitby to make a dracula themed film with the promoter and another guy we know (simon - kev and jak) which was released as 'the dracula experience' on one of costes short film comp videos with another 3 or 4 films. description and a few stills here : http://www.costes.org/cv31.htm

tiny_tove

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J'ai adoré "Guerriers amoureux". Je lisais et voyais un film !
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Jean-louis Costes est un tragédien trash de génie.
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"Guerriers amoureux" m'a réconcilié avec la lecture. Enfin de la littérature française pas molle !
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Le plus grand écrivain que je connaisse. Aucune concession. Brutal, jouissif, beau, immonde, magnifique !
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En lisant, j'avais les sensations ressenties pendant les films "Taxi driver", "Seul contre tous", "Naked"...
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Je me suis éclatée à lire "Guerriers amoureux". A peine fini, j'ai recommencé du début ! Encore, encore !
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Un pur délire. Un pur délice. On sait plus si on aime ou pas. On est juste fasciné.
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Le cocktail idéal de violence, de sexe, d'humour... et même d'amour !
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On sombre dans le trash, et d'un coup on se retrouve au ciel !
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"Guerriers amoureux" nous plonge dans le réel sauvage et effrayant où "politiquement correct" et "politiquement incorrect" sont tout aussi insignifiants.
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J'ai lu "Guerriers amoureux", et j'ai compris trois trucs : L'apocalypse va venir - La haine est nécessaire - L'amour est éternel.
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Nuit blanche, les yeux collés sur le livre. Impossible de s'arrêter de lire.

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Un des meilleurs bouquin que j'ai lu. Tant de rebondissements, de folie, de délires.
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Génial ! Echappe à toutes les catégories. A la fois philosophique et immoral.
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L'écriture de Costes est un scalpel passé au feu qui explose le cerveau.
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"Guerriers amoureux" se lit à cent à l'heure, les yeux toujours au bord de la nausée.
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Récit d'aventures épiques. Fiction picaresque sexo-sociale. Enorme. Un régal.
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L'aventurier de la littérature Jean-Louis Costes explore les territoires de l'extrême.
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Surgis miraculeusement du chaos, des instants mystiques d'une puissance et d'une poésie hallucinantes.
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"Guerriers amoureux", une bombe littéraire, et aussi sociale, philosophique.
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J'ai adoré. Merci Costes.
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Paradoxalement, en plongeant dans les entrailles avec Costes, on va au fond de l'âme humaine.
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Cathartique. Le lecteur ressort purifié de toutes ces horreurs.
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Si cru, si violent. Insoutenable. Un tableau sans pitié du monde actuel.
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Drôle et désespéré. Lucidité écorchée vive de l'auteur.
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Une quête de l'Amour dans un monde dingue qui part en vrille.
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J'ai gloutonné le bouquin dans la journée. Ca faisait longtemps que j'avais pas aimé un bouquin. Excellent.
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"Guerriers amoureux", le chef d'oeuvre d'un génie précurseur, hérault de l'art brutal.
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Un roman post-nihiliste. L'espoir surgit enfin de l'horreur.

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Avec Costes, les mots sont des images.
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On lit et on dit "Wahouuu" !!!

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Très bon roman. Virginie Despentes et Michel Houellebecq peuvent aller se rhabiller.

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Lire "Guerriers amoureux". Une folle évasion, un dépaysement total, une expérience intense.

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Encore une fois, Costes fait très fort. Plus fort que jamais. Ce roman est de la dynamite.

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Houla, ça envoie du gros calibre dans la gueule ! Et c'est pourtant extrêmement délicat.
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Costes, c'est de la VRAIE littérature, pas de la sousoupe gnangnan.
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Normalement, lire un roman ça me gave tellement c'est nul. Mais "Guerriers amoureux", je l'ai lu d'un traite.
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Bien que trash et violente, l'écriture de Costes vibre d'un énergie positive qui balaie tout sur son passage.
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Entre S.A.S., Céline, Artaud et Tintin. Que du bon quoi !
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Le roman le plus puissant, abouti et lyrique de Jean-Louis Costes.
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On lit et on oublie de respirer. On a peur, on est dégôuté. On pleure, on rit. Tellement excitant.
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Personne ne parle aussi bien que Costes des sentiments extrêmes. L'amour, la haine, la perversion et la religion exacerbés.
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Totalement immergée dans l'histoire, j'avais l'impression de mourir et ressuciter avec les héros !!!!!!
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Un roman qui fait gerber, mais on arrive pas à le lacher. On en redemande.
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Face à Costes, toute la littérature française contemporaine relève de la "Bibliothèque rose".
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Je parie que les droits de "Guerriers amoureux" vont être rachetés par un grand éditeur, et qu'il va faire un carton. Costes finira dans la Pléiade.
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Flashes d'amour et de beauté en plein délire gore. Magnifique !
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"Guerriers amoureux" de Jean-Louis Costes : Voir qu'une telle liberté est possible fait un bien fou.
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Costes a tout compris. Il est en avance sur les mentalités, la compréhension du monde et l'esthétique. Sur tous les plans, il domine son époque.
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J'ai dévoré "Guerriers amoureux". Incroyablement addictif. Totalement poignant et excitant.
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La grosse claque.
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Vraiment dingue, mais qu'es-ce que c'est bon ! Bravo ! Encore !
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Costes est un Céline punk, un prophète de la décadence, qui a précédé Houellebecq dans ses dégoûts et dérives misanthropes.
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Une pure bombe littéraire qui fait exploser le cerveau par son rythme frénétique et ses aventures épiques.
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"Guerriers amoureux", des trésors de cruauté et de beauté qui retournent la tête et les tripes.
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Du Tex Avery erotico romantico trash.
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Costes, chevalier des lettres qui avance à la machette dans un monde pourri.
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Mouaaaahaaaaahaaaaaaa !!!!!!!!!!! Trop fort !
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J'ai lu "Guerriers amoureux" de Costes et j'ai quitté ma femme.
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Libre, fort et fun. Quel panache !
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Pas une minute d'ennui avec ce monstre de la littérature.
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Terrifiant, et pourtant hilarant et émouvant.
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Oh que c'est sombre. Oh que c'est beau. Oh que c'est réel.
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Monstrueusement éclatant.
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Excellent, épique, mystique, drôle, grave, intelligent. Vivement le suivant !
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J'étais en dépression et "Guerriers amoureux" m'a remontée !
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Enfin un vrai roman du 21ème siècle. Pas une saletée lobotomisante. Un chef d'oeuvre qui parle de nos terreurs et de nos espoirs.
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"Guerriers amoureux". Ca monte toujours plus fort et finit en Apocalypse.
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Comment ne pas tomber amoureuse de ces "Guerriers amoureux" ?
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Disons le carrément : Costes est le plus grand écrivain français vivant.
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"Guerriers amoureux" est ultra-violent comme le monde, et ultra romantique comme nos coeurs.
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Jean-Louis Costes, un alchimiste qui transforme les cicatrices en bouches à embrasser, la merde en or, la folie en lucidité.
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"Guerriers amoureux", gros trip barré où on flippe grave et rit fort. Ca monte en puissance, encore, encore et encore. Et on est aspiré jusqu'à la dernière page.
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Comme le Christ, Costes descend aux enfers pour annoncer la bonne nouvelle aux morts.
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Bon, je déteste les mecs qui te conseillent des trucs, mais là j'ai envie de hurler : Lisez "Guerriers amoureux" ! Vous pouvez pas passer à côté d'un truc pareil. C'est urgent.
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