ARNAUD CHATELARD


Your favorite virtue ::
La générosité / generosity

Your favorite qualities in a man ::
L'humilité / humility

Your favorite qualities in a woman ::
La patience / patience

Your favorite occupation ::
Éclusier / lock keeper

Your idea of happiness ::
Elle est multiple, mais je dirais, que le vrai bonheur réside essentiellement dans celui de pouvoir aimer quelque chose ou quelqu'un sans arrière-pensées / It is multiple, but I would say that true happiness lies essentially in being able to love something or someone without ulterior motives.

Your idea of misery ::
Elle aussi est multiple, même si je pense qu'il est beaucoup plus difficile de sortir de la misère intellectuelle que de la misère matérielle... quoique! / It is multiple too, even if I think it is much more difficult to get out of intellectual misery than material misery... although!

if not yourself, Who you would like to be ::
Quelqu'un de vraiment libre... ou alors Robert Desnos / Someone really free... or so Robert Desnos

Where would you like to live ::
Dans un moulin près de Frontenac, dans le sud-ouest de la France / In a mill near Frontenac, in the south-west of France

Your favorite color ::
Bleu / Blue

Your favorite flower ::
L'orchidée / orchid

Your favorite prose authors ::
Boris Vian / Milan Kundera / Louis Pergaud

Your favorite poets ::
Robert Desnos / Antonin Artaud / Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa

Your favorite heroes in fiction ::
Tyler Durden, Héracles, Corto Maltese

Your favorite heroines in fiction ::
Poison Ivy, Ellen Ripley, Sarah Conor, Trinity...

Your favorite painters ::
Egon Schiele, Vassily Kandinsky, Gustav Klimt

Your favorite composers ::
Classical - Bela Bartok, Sergueï Vassilievitch Rachmaninov, Franz Liszt, 
Jazz - John Coltrane, Charlie Mingus et Thelonious Monk
Rock - Wright, Jimi Hendrix et John Cale
Hip Hop - El-P, RZA et Pete Rock
Electro - Dj Shadow, Bonobo et Kavinski (guilty pleasure...)

Your favorite heroes in real life ::
ça n'est pas très original, mais les personnels soignants, les pompiers et les travailleurs sociaux / it's not very original, but the caregivers, the firefighters and the social workers

Your favorite heroines in real life ::
Les mêmes / the same

What character (s) in history do you most dislike ::
Tous les connards de dictateurs... / All the fucking dictators...

Your favorite food and drink ::
Saucisson et vins / sausage and wines

Your favorite names ::
Niels, Max, Zven

Your pet peeve (something that easily annoys you) ::
La maladie / disease

The change you most anticipate ::
La guerre ...? / War ...?

A gift of nature you would like to have ::
La patience / patience

How I would like to die ::
Lucide / Lucid

What is your present state of mind ::
Morose, mais plein d'espoir / Gloomy, but hopeful

For what fault have you the most toleration ::
La gourmandise / Greed

Your favorite motto ::
"A vaincre sans péril on triomphe sans gloire"... (que je ne m'applique pas du tout d'ailleurs...). 
Ou alors le plus classique " Ce qui ne te tue pas te rends plus fort" ou enfin "Seigneur protège moi de mes amis, mes ennemis je m'en charge..." / 
"To conquer without danger, one triumphs without glory"... (which I don't apply at all, by the way...). 
Or the more classic "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" or finally "Lord protect me from my friends, my enemies I take care of it..."

29 juillet 2022 - 13:24

Arnaud Chatelard is a musician, producer, label coordinator and a visual artist. Arnaud lives in Bordeaux.

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