Camille's Chateau
Main: home * info * blog
My-inventions: art gallery * photo gallery
Chronicles
The Extinction of Beauty
March the 9th, 2026
Every week in the little countryside stain of urban development where I had the misfortune of being born, raised, and to currently reside in, an old and venerable mansion gets demolished in favour of some medical clinic or other similarly grotesque structure.
This week's victim, an ancient portuguese-style manor, in the middle of the city's commercial centre, surrounded by a thousand chinese restaurants and chinese trinket shops and cellular phone repair places, is being torn down. I had been aware of this house for as long as I can remember, and have always looked in wonder whenever I happened to pass by. As I understand, It had been the property of a local family of land-owners, one of the first to settle the region (you can see the family's coat of arms on the façade of the house). Due to the city's involvement in the brazilian coffee trade, many such mansions had existed here, and only a few of them remain. There are judicial tools with which the city is able to preserve what is "historically, artistically or architectonically-significant", but no one bothers to use them. Not even the descendents of this respectable family bothered to preserve their own legacy. This is far from being a local trend, our utilitarian world has no time for such unprofitable sentimentalities. Beauty serves no apparent purpose to the modern man, and is therefore in the process of extinction.
I am aware that the reader might live in a city with a well-preserved historic centre, and might not consider the house to be "all that" which I just described. But still, one must recognize the value.
Chateau rebuilt
February the 23rd, 2026
The page layout was looking more aggravating to me with each passing day, so I re-wrote the C program I use to organize the site completely from scratch. It is more compact now, and displays better on terminal browsers like Lynx and W3M.
I also removed more than half the posts on this blog. Because.....
My favourite songs
November the 26th, 2025
Nico - Chelsea Girls (1967)
The Doors - The End (1967)
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - Smell of Incense (1967)
Harry Nilsson - Everybody's Talkin' (1968)
Donovan - Hurdy Gurdy Man (1968)
David Bowie - Fame (1975), Station to Station (1976), Blackout (1977)
The Boomtown Rats - Wind Chill Factor (Minus Zero) (1979)
Patti Smith - Dancing Barefoot (1979)
Germs - Manimal (1979)
Talking Heads - Crosseyed and Painless (1980)
The Gun Club - Brother and Sister (1982)
The Dream Syndicate - John Coltrane Stereo Blues (1984)
Moss Icon - Kick the Can (1989)
Big Black - Bad Penny (1987)
Dinosaur jr - Little Fury Things (1987), Out There (1993)
Morrissey - Suedehead (1988)
Alice Donut - Green Pea Soup (1988)
Slowdive - Slowdive (1990)
Sonic Youth - Tunic (Song for Karen) (1990)
Jesus Lizard - Monkey Trick (1991)
Polvo - Vibracobra (1992), Stinger (1993)
Swervedriver - Never Lose That Feeling (1992)
Stereolab - French Disko (1993)
Pavement - Cut Your Hair (1994)
Sebadoh - Careful (1994)
Suede - Trash (1996)
At the Drive-In - One Armed Scissor (2000), Cosmonaut (2000)
Placebo - Special K (2001)
Yoeko Kurahashi - Kyou mo Ame (2007)
Tooth amulet
November the 14th, 2025
Monday I had two of my wisdom teeth removed. I thought that it was a pretty incredible thing, that thorough most of my life they've been part of the whole that is my body, and then they weren't.
I wanted Isabel to have one of my teeth, and I had the idea of turning it into a good-luck charm by drilling a hole into it.
It's a little rough: the drillhead I used was a little too big, and the teeth hangs upside down by the chain. The end product could've been nicer had I spend more time and thought into it, but if I sit on any idea for too long, I forget about it. I have another teeth, and I'll have two more by next week, so maybe I'll make another, nicer one.