Nevermind!

If I could choose, I'd rather have a romantic night in tonight sharing a bottle of red wine and eating Ambrosia rice pudding, playing music and talking about our resolutions for the new year coming...


Would You Please Spend New Year's Eve With Me?

Last day of the year...

Time for sharing what I liked (and didn't) in 2011:
(in no peculiar order)

Top 30 best songs of the year:
. Ecoute - by Medhi Zannad
. Superball - by Magic Kids
. It's Real - by Real Estate
. Mystery Cloud - by Starfucker
. One Day We'll Get Married - by Shirley Lee
. Kaputt - by Destroyer
. Shining Bright - by The Proper Ornaments
. I Am Never Going To Die - by Tim Cohen
. An Arcade From The Warm Rain... - by Comet Gain
. Light In Your Eyes - by Vivian Girls
. Will You Marry Me - by Kim Novak
. The Black Dog - by Jacob Yates and the Pearly Gate Lock Pickers
. Sleep Composite - by TV Ghost
. Watermelons - by The Lovely Eggs
. Sycamore Tree - by Crystal Stilts
. She Didn't Know - by Twerps
. The Words That Maketh Murder - by PJ Harvey
. Be With You - by Hal
. Like It Was Again - by Dignan Porch
. Amplifiers - by Atlas Sound
. Charlie Sheen - by Cheveu
. Means That Much To Me - by Shellshag
. Most Days - by Mazes
. If I Keep On Loving You - by Let's Wrestle
. Want Some? - by Tahiti 80
. Desire Be, Desire Go - by Tame Impala
. Please Turn Me Into The Snat - by Conan Mockasin
. You Today - by Martial Canterel
. Late Bloomer - by Ron Sexsmith
. Café - by Sonic Youth

Top 10 best LPs of the year:
Album of Death - by Moustache Of Insanity / Yoko Eats Whales - by No Cars / Cob Dominos - by The Lovely Eggs / The Past, The Present and The Possible - by Tahiti 80 / Nursing Home - by Let's Wrestle / Fugue - by Mehdi Zannad / Days - by Real Estate / Rumors In Disguise - by Shellshag / Ce Très Cher Serge - by Aquaserge / Veronica Falls - by Veronica Falls

Top 5 biggest 'flops' of the year:
Angles - by The Strokes / Out of Sight, Out of Town - by Standard Fare / Happy Soup - by Baxter Dury / Smoke Ring For My Halo - by Kurt Vile / Forever Today - by I'm From Barcelona

Best concert and concert venue of the year:
Moustache Of Insanity's album launch party at Dogstar, in Brixton was cool, promoted by Librarian Wanted (these kids are very kind, they'll always greet you with a huge smile and offer you a cupcake and if you do have a library card, they'll give you a reduce-priced ticket).
Best venue... hmm, I still like the Lexington the best... though come on guys, I'm not ready to spend over ten quid for a gig in a fucking pub!!! WTF!!

Best festival of the year:
Indietracks was having a great line up this year again.
A special blink to french indie festival 'La Route du Rock' as they now make it easy for people from UK to buy ticket including the coach and ferry. Everything is organised for you, from London to the Fort St Père, so you don't have to worry about how to go there ;-) (and as french festivals tickets are usualy way cheaper than for festivals in UK, it doesn't make any difference of price for you at the end. And you'll have a lovely escapade in France ;-) and you can take advantage to see the beautiful medieval town St Malo so closed to the festival site! Win! Win! Win!)

Best music blog of the year:
What about mine? ;-)

Why the fuck are you looking like Alice Cooper?...

I had a weird dream! The kind of dream that you keep in mind for a while after you woke up.
I don't know if I was in the future or on another planet, or in a parallel dimension or whatever... but it was kind of "futuristic". It was kind of awesome and freaking at the same time...
At the beginning, I was on what looked like a coach. But I was sitting upstairs, as if I was on a double decker bus. It looked 'normal'. Then I started to stand up because I was getting off. I had 2 bagpacks with me (1red and 1black) and I also was carrying a black hoody jacket. As the coach was moving, I got down the stairs carefully.
There, the coach didn't look like it was upstairs, it was bigger, I mean larger. It was a huge shuttle, a long and very large carriage.
As I walked to the door, it was like walking on a spaceship... and everything was black inside (Big black sits, black carriage's floor and structure, and no windows) so it was quite dark, a bit like when you walk through a dark cinema's room.
And the sits were kind of big armchairs, kind of like that famous Herman Miller's leather armchair, if you see how it looks like. And there were also big tables near by the door. An automatic door. With the 'tch' noise, exactly like in sci-fi movies. It was open but before I could get off it closed down, so I had to wait for the next stop.
As I had to wait, I sat down at one of the table (a table for 6). I put my 2bags and jacket in front of me, on the table.
But at the next stop, I didn't have more chance to get off because the doors staid open for a fractionnal time only.
So I thought I'd better get myself ready for next opening, standing and waiting just near by the door.
Then when the door opened again, I managed to get off, hurrey! But once on the platform, I realised my 2 bags and jacket were still on the table. So I ran back on the coach and grabed my bags superquickely and I jumped off again.
I did it!! But again I realised I had left my jacket behind. I thought it didn't matter, I wouldn't have time to pick it up before the door close anyway, so I decided not to play this game again.
Then the coach moved away... I was at a 'bus-stop', wich looked like a big open-air platform. And it was raining a lot. Well, not really raining, cause soon I realised it was in fact some water spay on the stuctur of the platform. And sounds of rain were coming through a speaker.
And it was hot. I understood they had to fake the rain because it wasn't raining anymore in this 'world'.
I started runing to not get wet. I was running in the street going fuck knows where and I started to hear the voice of my friend in my mind. It was a memory, I was remembering him telling me the direction to go to his house.

So I understood I was in the future and I was going to a place that used to be familiar to me. I was in the future going back to a place familiar to me in the present.
(Well, that's the feeling I had, it's not very clear because apparently I didn't go there for years because my friend's voice telling me the way to go there really sounded like an old memory. And another anachronism is the fact I wasn't looking older in my dream, I was just myself as I am now.)
So hearing the memory of his indications, I kept on going. I was still running (I don't know why?), maybe I was in a hurry to find him. Yeah, I think I was looking for him for some reason..., and I arrived behind a guy on a white bicycle.
I was running behind this guy on a white bicycle and he was wearing a black hat. Then looking at his back and at his neck, I had the feeling this guy could be my friend older. If I was in the future, it made sens my friend would be older... So I called his name. He almost fell down. He got on the side of the street where he stopped and looked at me. This guy looked like Alice Cooper (don't ask me why, there are no connexion between Alice Cooper and my friend, except they're both musicians. And I've never had any interest for Alice Cooper. I only know his name is Alice Cooper cause I've watched Wayne's World so many time when I was teenager). So to come back to the end of my dream; the guy who looked like Alice Cooper, looked at me. He seemed kind of shocked and he said my name (and something else that I can't remember... was something like: "you're coming back with your same young voice"), so I understood I had seen right, this guy was my friend but older and looking like Alice Cooper... uh?
So I had a feeling of great happiness and relief of finally having found him and being reunited, but he didn't seem as happy to see me, as I was to see him.
I'd even say he looked kind of 'angry', but I don't know why, cause then I woke up.
Was he just a bit bitter cause I was young and he wasn't?...
Or is it more complexe?... I'll never know...

Why did I wake up before having more details... I wanna know why he didn't seem happy to see me! And also, why the fuck he was looking like Alice Cooper?...

Now what song is in my mind... to be honest, I don't have any songs in mind right now! I'm still too disturbed because of this dream... So let's simply do a "dreams" thema list:

Banana smile!

Go to a No Cars gig and you'll get it! You'll get the banana smile ^‿^

Link for a free download of Banana Song
And you can buy all other songs on their band camp

Adult Activities

Girls, don't you know that when a guy asks you: "what are you thinking about?", in 90% of cases that's because he's thinking about it... ;-)

Green olives and red wine to color my blues!

Sometimes we realise things when it's too late...

I ♥ Minimalism.

I remember an interview of Sebastien Tellier, he was talking about the Eurovision competition and he said something like that: "the question is 'do I love it or not?', it's a very simple world and I love that because I need very simple things to be happy".
I couldn't tell it better than him! I only need small things to make me happy.
How I love, all of the very simple things of life... (hope you've heard my Morrissey's voice here, hihihi) ;-)
Therefore it's no surprise if I'm telling you I like minimalism!
In every disciplines, I think pictures, buildings, songs, texts, etc. are more beautiful if they're rough. It's very impressive to me, how can people create a masterpiece made of almost nothing and create beautiness with only elementary stuff.
I think it's way more impressive to do more with less. It appeals to much more creativity according to me.
Anyway, I'm not trying to persuad people minimalism is good. Art is something subjectif and everyone can like different stuff, being pro-minimalism or being anti-minimalism (to be or not to be...), it won't make you be a less or more interesting person, there are no good art or bad art, well, maybe there is yes, but it's not the question of the day, hahaha... So my point is, you don't have to like what I like, I'll have no hard feelings if you don't share my point of view, we'll still be friends. But you can't tell me you don't like this album I'm posting today... because believe me, it is just ace! All effects are created using voices, basic instruments (guitare, bass, drums), plus the use of one of the first British synthesizer (EMS Synthi VCS3) and then some tapes manipulation techniques. So please take time to listen to the complexe simplicity of An Electric Storm and I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I did:

White Noise - An Electric Storm:

We are the bleh-generation!!

What does "Bleh!" means?, asked my mother.
Have a look on Urban Dictionary mummy, it says:
Bleh = State of mind usually caused by boredom or an annoying situation that doesn't really causes any heavy emotional reactions.
Then, further down, on the same page, it says it now exists a new movement called the bleh-generation

... Sweet!! Bleh-generation... I like this idea!!
So technically, the bleh-generation is a state of mind. When you say 'Bleh!', it expresses an intense frustration, the fact that life is not easily livable, that you don't expect anything more from this world. Though, it can't be connected to the 'no future' movement, and either to any punk or goth movement, etc. The bleh-generation is someting unique, something that truly goes to the essence of the emotional base of today's society.
Saying 'Bleh!' doesn't mean you reject this world, actually bleh-poeple don't reject anything. We just don't care about anything anymore! But on the other side, we're not dead yet... So we're just waiting for something better to happen. But we're not going to make it happen, why the fuck should we make it happen? It just has to happen by itself! Et puis quoi encore! On a autre chose à foutre, non mais!
In fact, now that I'm thinking about it, I think I've adopted this bleh-attitude few years ago already... without even knowing it! In fact, I've always been feeling it, but now I've got a name for it: 'Bleh!'
And I'm sure some of you will identify yourself as part of the bleh-generation too...
Now you will ask me what's the link with this blog... Keep reading, I'm coming to it...

Nowadays, the world is a massive chaotic place. Exhaustion, frustration, self-absorption... none of us wants to spend any energy in trying in vain to make this fucking world better! We're just gonna get more and more lazy and unable to fight for our rights!

An exemple:
My reaction when I logged on my favourite social network last Monday evening; All friends were posting stuff about the stupid riots in London. And I was laughing and laughing reading what they were thinking. I mean, really, did everyone need to comment what was happening so much... at the end, I found myself taking part to this "conversation" too, to balance it and dedramatize ;-)
There was no need to spend so much attention to these looters. Was just few people having an anti-social behaviour and in the actual society, I perfectly understand it can happen!
As english people are used to tell: there's worth happening in the sea! Chineese people keep fighting to obtain liberty of speech (worth!); aids is still killing 8% of all people living in sub-saharian Africa (worth!); a tsunami menacing north Korea (woth!); there's still not a drop of rain falling on Somalia and they keep dying of starvation in there! (MUCH worth!!!)... But I haven't seen any of my dear friends posting anything about the kids dying in Somalia. Why?... Seems they all felt more concerned with the ridiculous rioters. Seems it's more difficult to keep ignoring the shit when it knocks at yr door...
I feel a bit disgusted to be honest and I now better than never understand what Brigitte Fontaine was meaning when she wrote Je suis inadaptée (I'm inadapted). That's how I feel more and more, I'm inadapted to this world. I don't wanna take part to anything in this world, even if it's what you call a rebelion, revolution, insurection or whatever. I'm not made for this world and I'm glad I'm not. I'll just keep not giving a rat's arse to whatever happens, just saying: BLEH!, Anyway..., no matter!, whatever...
Do like me, don't give a shit! Say BLEHHHHHH! Just say "bleh!" and listen to more and more music... :-)




Brigitte Fontaine - Je suis inadaptée (1968)

Another new year has started...

As far as we are, I am pretty happy of the way this year started :-)
So what have I been listening to on this beginning of 2011?...
I've listened to some old Pulp, cause I'm waiting for Wireless festival with impatience.
I've listened to some Standard Fare cause I've finally seen them playing last week.
But mostly, I've listened to Edwyn Collins!!! His last album, Losing Sleep!
I've put my hands on this album 2 weeks ago and since that, I've been listening to it every single days!!!
I love all the songs on this album and especially the one with Johnny Marr - Come Tomorrow, Come Today.

Now I can't wait for the gig at Shepherd Bush Empire next month... I bet he's gonna be joined on stage by some very special guests, like when I've seen him at ATP festival... I'd like to see Johnny Marr coming on stage to play Come Tomorrow, Come Today with Edwyn please... ;-)




(I HAVE UPDATED THE GIG LIST FOR THE NEXT 6 MONTHS)