Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Yes, can we?

Je suis un fervent admirateur de Sénateur Barack Obama dans ces interminables préliminaires démocrates. Ce n’est pas vraiment l’endroit de dire pourquoi et je n’ai pas vraiment une opinion de valeur sur le sujet, mais voilà, il est intègre, paraît honnête et ça me plait. Et apparemment je ne suis pas le seul.

Mais ce n’est pas le sujet de cet article. Ce qui est passionant quand on est français aux États-Unis dans un moment pareil, c’est de voir la déconnexion avec notre vieille locomotive française. Les élections sont nettement plus mises en scène, plus de show, des pubs, des contre-pubs, on y voit de tout. Avec des avantages et des désavantages bien sùr. Il est parfois ici difficile de se séparer du marketing et de parler des vraies questions, mais il faut voir que les gens sont beaucoup plus passionné par la politique qu’en France et que, parfois, le marketing a du bon.

Pour preuve cette vidéo sur youtube vue plus de 5 000 000 de fois par les internautes, issues d’un discours mémorable d’Obama.

Et la première chose qui saute aux yeux pour moi c’est “tiens, ils ont pas l’air si ridicule que ça…”. Est ce que vous pouvez imaginer stomy bugsy faire une vidéo pour ségolène sans que ça ait l’air d’une grosse farce?

From http://my.barackobama.com/page/s/videoyeswecan

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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Ne jugez pas trop vite

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Saturday, April 19th, 2008

I’m an addict — Coffee #1

coffee stain
I have to say — the smell makes me smile in the morning. When a smoke can disgust you when it’s too early, your coffee friend will always make you feel better (unless it’s the 13th cup, and you start to feel your heart pounding out of its cage).

So when in the morning I go to my usual coffee shop down the hill, and people welcome me with a smile, I can’t help but thinking “stop fucking smiling, you slag and give me my coffee, fuckhead”. And usually I show it too — if not say it very low… those who know me in the morning before a coffee fix will understand.

But those at Tully’s are persistent. They kept and kept on smiling, day after day, insult after insult, mental murder after dreams of slaughter. Even though their teeth were pulled off with my virtual baseball bat, they kept on welcoming me with their large (and mentally teeth missing) smiles. “Damn they’re good!” I had to say.

I was almost nice with them once, and answered to their stupid “how are you today sir?”. This same same guy, smiling at me every day, how many times did I actually pop his eyeballs with 2 chopsticks?
- well, I’m fine, thanks. what about you?
- oh pretty good. I can hear an accent, are you french?

damn you, shithead. how can you be so fast to tell? huh
- yeah, I’m afraid I am…
- oh right! zhe parle un peh le fwanssais. Comment allez vous aujoudui?
- ça va bien — one grande latte please
- alright… (tip tip tap bip) bon journée (he looks at my credit card) alexandre!
- ouais bon journée!

And that’s exactly when they became my favorite place to go in the morning. By taming me, I guess we could say. By finally saying my name, welcoming me in the morning, smiling, a whole new world that knows who I am. I almost enjoyed the little french the cashier person had, and he almost remembered my usual order of the morning. Finally a place I could enjoy, even before my caffeine fix? That little place of heaven giving you some energy for the day?

Maybe.

coffee stain

Or maybe not.

The guys at Tully’s are even more tricky than others. After a few weeks like this (Bonjour alexandre — bonjour, one grande latte please — bon jounée — bon jounée), they suddenly started calling me … Marc…

“One grande latte for Marc! One!
- oh is that mine? hum, ok thanks!
- bye, Marc!

Bye… but why the fuck?

And then it was too late obviously. The first day of me being Marc had been passed, and I couldn’t go back in time. 2nd day, 3rd, one week. How could I tell them my name wasn’t Marc after a full week?

And now here I am. To not lose this little place, I don’t say anything. I am Marc, and proud of it. And I preferably pay with change, afraid he would see my name on the credit card.

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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Free live of Radiohead on BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/musicevents/radiohead/

Thanks to Al Gore’s current news .

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Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Once you go black…

Google is all in black today to save some energy and save the bears for Earth Hour.


Google is black

I can’t remember which website did this before, just putting a new style over the google website claiming that they were saving so much energy that way. Any idea?

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Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Amazing covers #1 - Billie Jean by Chris Cornell

Starting a new category here, because I keep stumbling upon crazy and beautiful covers of classics. Some people are against covers for valid and / or stupid reasons. But some of them are simply genious and give a new dimension of the song. This one is the kind of cover I really like. I discovered it yesterday, unfortunately (or not?) thanks to American Idol… I know, I plead guilty.

But anyway, here’s a very strong cover of the Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” by Chris Cornell, who you might know from Soundgarden or Audioslave. He recently started his solo career and THIS IS THE SHIT, man… That’s what I call serious talent.

And anybody who might have a different opinion, I’ll just remove his comment. It’s my blog, and my censorship, hurra.

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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

6 - The complete crazyness

Here’s the video of the crazy day. Sorry to have ben so rude little camera guy but I was scared like a cockroach in a drainer.

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Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

5 - Comme promis

Still alive!

Me flying!

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Thursday, March 20th, 2008

4 - Bientôt ma tête sur cette photo…

La pression monte…

skydive

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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

Alexandrie - Alexandra

Enfin un peu de bon sens, ça défoule :):

http://www.presse-citron.net/?2008/03/11/3157-chanteur-de-salle-de-bain

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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Vampire Weekends are the new trend

Vampire Weekend

I’ve seen quite a buzz lately about this new band called Vampire Weekend. They seem to be everywhere on the web (especially on the blogosphere), I’ve heard their song in a commercial, they also performed SNL and the Dave Letterman show.

So I told myself, “hey why not check them out whenever they’re in SF?” — So, Ticketmaster me voilà, oh great they have 2 dates in a month at the Independent. and CRAP! they’re sold out! what?

For those who don’t know, the Independent is a relatively small venue, playing a lot of “independent” stuff. This place has always room for some more people, and is rarely full. Ok, that’s too bad, but a good sign. I have to listen to more of their songs. Here’s their current hit called A-Punk and I have to say: it fr$%^&ing rocks !!!

They come from New York and have a pretty strong African influence, along with an obvious Western influence, therefore describing their own genre as “”Upper West Side Soweto”. I hate defining music as genres usually but that one was pretty original.

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Friday, March 7th, 2008

Jackson still Lies

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the world’s best selling album ‘Thriller’ :

Bootleg produced by the excellent Loo & Placido, french duo exported in England and now working for MTV (I think?).

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Friday, March 7th, 2008

Photoshoot

Allez, à la demande générale d’Alex seulement, voici la dernière photo de moi prise pendant mes vacances. Me voilà déguisé en éponge, Victor, fils de Hub’ à ma gauche, un mec moche à ma droite.

SpongeMoi

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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

3 - Journée étrange…

Aujourd’hui est un jour étrange, c’est mon dernier jour de vacances. C’est aussi le seul jour de vacances passé depuis bien longtemps où je reste chez moi sans avoir rien de précis à faire. Pas de musée, pas d’aquarium, pas de derniers instants de plages, pas de route de retour à regarder les étoiles en s’endormant, pas de TGV à prendre, pas d’avion, pas de séparation, non rien de tout ça. Un simple jour paisible qui nous rappelle le temps où les grandes vacances étaient encore dans notre vocabulaire. Ces longues longues vacances que l’on passait à faire un peu de tout et surtout rien.
Le soleil tape aujourd’hui comme un début septembre, la rue est paisible, le déjeuner était composée de vacances lui aussi: pâtes au jambon, carottes rapées et tomates bien rouges. Bref, tout est parfait.

Et puis hier soir, je découvre que j’ai reçu un coli étrange. Une envelope PostExport de la poste mal ficelée avec du gros scotch pour la fermer.

Kdo Enveloppe

Elle est trouée en bas a droite, mouillée dans les coins. L’adresse d’expedition dit qu’elle vient de chez “potaches”, une organisation basée dans la petite ville de messimy, au sein de la maison d’une certaine sylvaine. Je fait quelques recherches sur internet et découvre que cette “sylvaine” est beaucoup trop petite pour exister. Je n’y crois pas, je n’ouvre d’ailleurs l’enveloppe que ce matin.

Kdo livre

“Apprendre à vivre” par Luc Ferry. Étrange… mais ou est le message?

Je me décide également ce matin à enfin aller chercher une envelope importante à la poste qui m’attendait là bas depuis 2 mois. Je m’y rend à reculons car elle contient de la paperasserie bancaire… pour me rendre finalement compte que c’était en fait un autre colis venant de France. J’ouvre et découvre une multitude de choses. Un mini-dvd dont la boite est brisée, un livre, un autre livre, un joli mot, un marque page, de l’encens, des bougies… Le mini-dvd est la démo d’une cuisine high-tech, avec en guest star un énorme chat qui autrefois était le mien. Il est toujours aussi gros et aussi beau.

multi-kdos

Merci à tous d’avoir rendu de ce jour le meilleur jour de mes vacances…

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Sunday, February 24th, 2008

iBand, Rock Band ToGo — Say it ain’t so!

For those who haven’t seen it:

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Sunday, February 24th, 2008

Au milieu des vacances

Un petit post au milieu de mes vacances mouillées pour vous dire que je viens de voir aux infos qu’une tempête arrivait sur nous, et nous qui croyions avoir pris la décision d’aller a Los Angeles pour avoir chaud…

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-weather23feb23,1,1853746.story

Ben bravo… Changements de plans donc, demain on se casse et on remonte a Monterey voir des baleines, woohoo:

meuh?

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Friday, February 15th, 2008

Umphrey’s McGee — Tonight at Fillmore

Yay! I’m going to see Umphrey’s tonight at the Fillmore in SF — yay! They’re a Jam rock band with endless guitar solos and improvisations of all sorts. They freakin’ rock!

I’ll write more about them later, but here is a video of them, just to try to convince some more people to go (yes, you boris, marc, cyril, justine, farid, …)

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Thursday, February 14th, 2008

24h in San Francisco

Quand je vous dis qu’il y a du fog brouillard à San Francisco…

Merci Olivier pour ce joli lien…

From http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/41661/2dc27363/steden_in_de_mist.html

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Thursday, February 14th, 2008

The Polyphonic Spree — Rock Symphonic band from another time.

For my first post about music (because I’m sure many more will follow), I have to talk about this band I just discovered thanks to a US TV show. I might be a late bloomer on them but hey, it’s never too late :).

They’re called The Polyphonic Spree, a self-described “choral symphonic band” from Dallas, Texas. They might look like a cult at first sight — but no, they’re just the creation of the (beautiful) crazy mind of Tim DeLaughter, ex-member of the Tripping Daisy. This band is heavily influenced by the experimental rock bands of the 70s, sunny and overwhelmingly happy. They now count about 23 musicians and singers, depending on everybody’s schedule. and those white robes were just introduced to have an consistent image across the musicians, obviously influenced by a theme of happiness and purity. Their costumes rapidly changed to a black tunique.

Here’s the song that made me discover them — they still wear those white robes every time they play this song, probably because it is the one most representative of their spirit.

Polyphonic Spree - Light And Day

Why would I like such a crazy poppy music? First of, because the music is actually not that simple, and very rich. And also because it is crazy — and I love crazy. Plus, they look so happy when they play it :)

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Sunday, February 10th, 2008

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Cheer up!

Voilà. Après des années d’absence de la toile, je reviens avec un nouveau blog. Cette fois-ci aucune prétention de quoi que ce soit. Ce sera un blog perso, public, un fourre-tout, un diary ou pas. Ce sera ce que je voudrais bien y mettre. Et peut-être bien ce que d’autres gens y mettront aussi, ça serait encore mieux, ne serait-ce que pour avoir quelques jolies photos de cissou.

Ce sera un blog bilingue, parce que je suis bilingue il paraît, donc des fois il me semble plus facile d’exprimer certaines choses dans une autre langue.

Ce sera un blog pour ma famille, mes amis et pour moi.

Mais surtout c’est une partie de mon plan machiavélique pour être maître du monde. 1ère étape pour être maître du monde: Brainwashing. Pour cela, faire un blog unique pour mes partisans, afin de répandre la bonne parole.

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Sunday, February 10th, 2008

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Premier post d’une grande série?

J’espère, on verra. Pour l’instant c’est plutôt pour que le gens ne tombent pas sur un Not Found…

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