I am a roller girl!!! ;-)
I'm having Roller Derby training tonight. So here's the song in my mind.
(and I'm sure you'll all enjoy watching Anna Karina, such a pretty lady!)
Anna Karina - Rollergirl
"...je suis la seule qui reste seule. Il m'arrivera jamais rien... Si j'continue comme ça, c'est foutu pour moi!" (I am the only one staying on her own. Nothing will ever happen to me... If I carry on this way, that's fucked up for me!)
Monday, August 20, 2012
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Sunday, June 03, 2012
Royal!!
The funniest thing I've heard this week: Two guys were walking behind me, one asked the other: "D'you mean Queen the band or Elizabeth?"
Monday, April 09, 2012
Monday, April 02, 2012
But you know I'm here even though I'm not!
Today's song was recorded in 1979 for the film "Les Miroirs". Songwritter is Frederic Botton (Black Botton), orchestration is by Alain Goraguer (who worked on R.Laloux's animation films The Fantastic Planet and Gandahar (Light Years)), and the voices are Annie Girardot's and Dominic Briand's.
Ascence Prolongée:
Ascence Prolongée:
Monday, March 05, 2012
Save your sorrow... (part 1)
Lately I had some interest for Amanda Lear... I think I like her because she's the girl who's dumped David Bowie to start a disco career... You can't be more "beautiful loser" than that!! ♥
It started to get this "facination" after my brother offered me the second issue of Schnock, for my birthday:
I've enjoy very much, reading the 36pages about her friendship with Dali, her little love affaire with Bowie and with Brian Jones, her cool life when she was working as a top model with Nico and Twiggy, her disco career and her jet-set life, her work at Berlusconi's tv channel, her success at the theatre, etc.
Amanda Lear is a kind of "UFO" to me... She's such a versatil person.
She's done such completely different things in her lifetime.
And she's a mystery... after all these years, everyone's still wondering if she was born a girl or a boy?.. Is she or is she not a transsexual... I don't think she is, cause if she was that would have been the best kept secret of all times! haha...
But it's true the masculin lines of her face and her very low voice make people speak and write about it... Some say that she is the person who inspired the androgynous Ziggy Stardust to Bowie... Who knows?... I only think as short as they've been together for, they just had impact in each others life and then carried on in different directions after she's dumped him. After all, she was right, it was an impossible love story, he had a son and was still married; moreover, he was wearing even more make-up than she was, so she certainly had enough of washing the pillow cases ;-)
Though I think they looked lovely as a couple... Watch this footage (Bowie was performing "Sorrow", a cover of the Merseys, for NBC's Midnight Special. The show was filmed at the Marquee Club, in London, on November 16th, 1973. They are on a chess board, Amanda is the dark queen and he is the white knight. A little speech between them is introducing the song), this is quite touching:
It started to get this "facination" after my brother offered me the second issue of Schnock, for my birthday:
I've enjoy very much, reading the 36pages about her friendship with Dali, her little love affaire with Bowie and with Brian Jones, her cool life when she was working as a top model with Nico and Twiggy, her disco career and her jet-set life, her work at Berlusconi's tv channel, her success at the theatre, etc.
Amanda Lear is a kind of "UFO" to me... She's such a versatil person.
She's done such completely different things in her lifetime.
And she's a mystery... after all these years, everyone's still wondering if she was born a girl or a boy?.. Is she or is she not a transsexual... I don't think she is, cause if she was that would have been the best kept secret of all times! haha...
But it's true the masculin lines of her face and her very low voice make people speak and write about it... Some say that she is the person who inspired the androgynous Ziggy Stardust to Bowie... Who knows?... I only think as short as they've been together for, they just had impact in each others life and then carried on in different directions after she's dumped him. After all, she was right, it was an impossible love story, he had a son and was still married; moreover, he was wearing even more make-up than she was, so she certainly had enough of washing the pillow cases ;-)
Though I think they looked lovely as a couple... Watch this footage (Bowie was performing "Sorrow", a cover of the Merseys, for NBC's Midnight Special. The show was filmed at the Marquee Club, in London, on November 16th, 1973. They are on a chess board, Amanda is the dark queen and he is the white knight. A little speech between them is introducing the song), this is quite touching:
And save your stupid too... (part 2)
...Then I started to become Amanda Lear... well, I had her voice for few days, haha...
Because I had a chest infection (and I'm still coughing as I'm writing this), so my voice started to get lower...
When it happens, I'm usually telling I have Terminator's voice and enjoy saying "I'll be back!" anytime I leave a room.
A friend once said I more have a Marianne Faithfull voice... aww.. (certainly he only said that to be nice to me, cause he knew I like Marianne Faithfull, or just cause he had enough of my Terminator joke).
But having Amanda Lear in mind after reading Schnock, I thought, it's in fact more of an Amanda Lear's voice that I had. And next time, maybe I should take the advantage of having this low voice to record a cover of one of her songs... (she has few good ones but mainly wasted by some heavy disco rhythms...)
Here are her best ones (in a chronological order):
(I'm personally having a preference for The Sphynx, Intellectually and Enigma, and also liking Lethal Leading Lady and...)
La Bagarre - 1975
Trouble (english version of La Bagarre) - 1976
Lethal Leading Lady - 1976
Blood and Honey - 1976
My Alphabet - 1977
Mon Alphabet (french version of My Alphabet)- 1977
Enigma - 1978
Hollywood Flashback - 1978
Intellectually - 1978
The Sphynx - 1979
Oh Boy - 1979
Nymphomania - 1980
Because I had a chest infection (and I'm still coughing as I'm writing this), so my voice started to get lower...
When it happens, I'm usually telling I have Terminator's voice and enjoy saying "I'll be back!" anytime I leave a room.
A friend once said I more have a Marianne Faithfull voice... aww.. (certainly he only said that to be nice to me, cause he knew I like Marianne Faithfull, or just cause he had enough of my Terminator joke).
But having Amanda Lear in mind after reading Schnock, I thought, it's in fact more of an Amanda Lear's voice that I had. And next time, maybe I should take the advantage of having this low voice to record a cover of one of her songs... (she has few good ones but mainly wasted by some heavy disco rhythms...)
Here are her best ones (in a chronological order):
(I'm personally having a preference for The Sphynx, Intellectually and Enigma, and also liking Lethal Leading Lady and...)
La Bagarre - 1975 Trouble (english version of La Bagarre) - 1976 Lethal Leading Lady - 1976 My Alphabet - 1977 Mon Alphabet (french version of My Alphabet)- 1977 Enigma - 1978 Hollywood Flashback - 1978 Intellectually - 1978 The Sphynx - 1979 Thursday, February 02, 2012
Monday, January 30, 2012
Turning 30!
Today I'm 30!
Turning 30 is an occasion when you take stock of all accomplishments in your life...
Then, I must say I'm not very happy getting older.
When I was a child, I thought by the time I'd reach the age of 30, we'll be traveling to other planets... I thought I'd work as an astrophysician or some other boring and important jobs like that, and I'd drive a moon bugy (like the one James Bond steals in Diamonds Are Forever), and I'd be married to a martian who I would make aliens with...
Reality is so much different!
I just carry on doing shit jobs. I have a bicycle. And looking at my love life, I don't predict any birth coming soon. (Yeah you can tell it, my life sucks!) In fact I'm not doing anything of my life at all, that's why I can't enjoy turning 30 cause I haven't done anything constructive yet!
Shit, I've wasted my time!!
Luckily I'm having a 10years extension! Phew!! Saved!! Thanks goodness!!
Yes, considering things have changed, nowadays, that means I still have 10years to build this "happy" way of life I dreamt about when I was a child.
You've heard things have changed, don't you?
Stuff like: - Thursday night is the new Saturday night (20sthg people prefere partying on Thursdays rather than Saturdays cause there are too many 40sthg people in clubs on Saturdays)
- 80's kids are the new hippies (leather jackets and skinny jeans have replaced baja jackets and flare trousers)
- and 30 is the new 20 (because we live longer, etc.)
(I'm stopping the list here, can't bother thinking of more than 3 exemples)
So yeah, things have changed and I'm lucky enough to be born in the early 80's, so I'm turning 30 right at the good time, just when the twenties are sliding into the thirties therefore I'll have 2 decades instead of one!! Don't know if my explaination's clear enough... I don't think it is, but hope you'll get my point and understand why I'm still having ten more years to do the things I haven't done before turning 30! ;-)
Philippe Katerine - J'ai 30ans!
Another thing: Let's stop asking kids what they wanna be when they grow old. It's fucking stupid!! Why planning things such a long time in advence?
Only bringing disappointment when they grow up, and realise they can't get it cause the world has changed (different fashions, different ways of life), this is evolution! By the time they arrive to what they dreamt, it's not contractual anymore!!! The dreams we put in their minds today will mostly not be realistic anymore tomorrow!!! Like me and my futuristic vision of the future when I was a kid...
Though, I was quite clever cause I had considered the evolution fact, but not the right way because I thought technology would send us in different world with spaceships, etc., but in fact technology has only sent us in the virtual world of the Internet! Bleh, that'll teach me to dream too big!
Turning 30 is an occasion when you take stock of all accomplishments in your life...
Then, I must say I'm not very happy getting older.
When I was a child, I thought by the time I'd reach the age of 30, we'll be traveling to other planets... I thought I'd work as an astrophysician or some other boring and important jobs like that, and I'd drive a moon bugy (like the one James Bond steals in Diamonds Are Forever), and I'd be married to a martian who I would make aliens with...
Reality is so much different!
I just carry on doing shit jobs. I have a bicycle. And looking at my love life, I don't predict any birth coming soon. (Yeah you can tell it, my life sucks!) In fact I'm not doing anything of my life at all, that's why I can't enjoy turning 30 cause I haven't done anything constructive yet!
Shit, I've wasted my time!!
Luckily I'm having a 10years extension! Phew!! Saved!! Thanks goodness!!
Yes, considering things have changed, nowadays, that means I still have 10years to build this "happy" way of life I dreamt about when I was a child.
You've heard things have changed, don't you?
Stuff like: - Thursday night is the new Saturday night (20sthg people prefere partying on Thursdays rather than Saturdays cause there are too many 40sthg people in clubs on Saturdays)
- 80's kids are the new hippies (leather jackets and skinny jeans have replaced baja jackets and flare trousers)
- and 30 is the new 20 (because we live longer, etc.)
(I'm stopping the list here, can't bother thinking of more than 3 exemples)
So yeah, things have changed and I'm lucky enough to be born in the early 80's, so I'm turning 30 right at the good time, just when the twenties are sliding into the thirties therefore I'll have 2 decades instead of one!! Don't know if my explaination's clear enough... I don't think it is, but hope you'll get my point and understand why I'm still having ten more years to do the things I haven't done before turning 30! ;-)
Philippe Katerine - J'ai 30ans!
Another thing: Let's stop asking kids what they wanna be when they grow old. It's fucking stupid!! Why planning things such a long time in advence?
Only bringing disappointment when they grow up, and realise they can't get it cause the world has changed (different fashions, different ways of life), this is evolution! By the time they arrive to what they dreamt, it's not contractual anymore!!! The dreams we put in their minds today will mostly not be realistic anymore tomorrow!!! Like me and my futuristic vision of the future when I was a kid...
Though, I was quite clever cause I had considered the evolution fact, but not the right way because I thought technology would send us in different world with spaceships, etc., but in fact technology has only sent us in the virtual world of the Internet! Bleh, that'll teach me to dream too big!
Sunday, January 29, 2012
I love you Bandcamp! ❤‿❤
If you need some inspiration for a Valentine's Day playlist... why not digging deeper, there are truckloads of new (and not so new) bands on Bandcamp, and it's a happy feeling to discover new things to listen to, isn't it? :-)
(now if you choose to download songs on Bandcamp, even if it's a free download please make a donation... Let's be honest, it's harder and harder for an independant artist to survive nowadays! You can download commercial stuff like Lady Gaga as much as you want, I don't care, but not independant artists, please!... They need your support, keep them alive if you wanna have more coming from them...) ;-)
Here are few suggestions of bands I think you should check, enjoy!
High Highs
Kim Novak
Fever Blanket
Sun Sister
The Unbearable Lightness
Bhurgeist
Deadbeat Beat
(now if you choose to download songs on Bandcamp, even if it's a free download please make a donation... Let's be honest, it's harder and harder for an independant artist to survive nowadays! You can download commercial stuff like Lady Gaga as much as you want, I don't care, but not independant artists, please!... They need your support, keep them alive if you wanna have more coming from them...) ;-)
Here are few suggestions of bands I think you should check, enjoy!
High Highs Kim Novak Fever Blanket Sun Sister The Unbearable Lightness Bhurgeist Deadbeat Beat
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