He spends most of his time alone
He enjoys the rain
He never fils in
He hasn't been the same since he got the news
He tried to sleep
He couldn't make up his mind
He couldn't make any friends
He asked for advice
He tried everything and nothing worked
So he left and never looked back
mardi 27 janvier 2009
lundi 26 janvier 2009
Gallery Piece
I wanna be your love
I wanna make you cry
And sweep you off your feet
I wanna hurt your pride
I wanna slap your face
I wanna paint your nails
I wanna make you scream
I wanna braid your hair
I wanna kiss your friends
I wanna make you laugh
I wanna dress the same
I wanna defend you
I wanna squeeze your thighs
I wanna kiss your eyelids
And corrupt your dreams
I wanna crash your car
I wanna scratch your cheeks
I wanna make you sick
I wanna sell you out
Want to expose your flaws
I wanna steal your things
I wanna show you off
I wanna tell you lies
I wanna write you books
I wanna turn you on
I wanna make you cum
Two-hundred times a day
I wanna dry yours tears
Every time your sad
I wanna be your what's happening
I wanna be your only friend
I only go all the way
This time I'm not pretending
I can't take the trash
Your trashy friends are spreading about us
They've got like fifty personalities
Oh girl, that's so messed up
You see that sculpture on the hill?
That's where she cleared me out forever
They're monitoring my sub-conscious massacres
I know, bringing it closer to the surface
So it's easily pervertable
I want to be your beast
I want to make you proud
And play with your head
I want to take you out
Make you feel adored
And buy you everything
I want to hurt you bad
Make you paranoid
And say the sweetest things
I want to help you grow
And for eternity
I want to be your what's happening
What's happening?
I wanna make you cry
And sweep you off your feet
I wanna hurt your pride
I wanna slap your face
I wanna paint your nails
I wanna make you scream
I wanna braid your hair
I wanna kiss your friends
I wanna make you laugh
I wanna dress the same
I wanna defend you
I wanna squeeze your thighs
I wanna kiss your eyelids
And corrupt your dreams
I wanna crash your car
I wanna scratch your cheeks
I wanna make you sick
I wanna sell you out
Want to expose your flaws
I wanna steal your things
I wanna show you off
I wanna tell you lies
I wanna write you books
I wanna turn you on
I wanna make you cum
Two-hundred times a day
I wanna dry yours tears
Every time your sad
I wanna be your what's happening
I wanna be your only friend
I only go all the way
This time I'm not pretending
I can't take the trash
Your trashy friends are spreading about us
They've got like fifty personalities
Oh girl, that's so messed up
You see that sculpture on the hill?
That's where she cleared me out forever
They're monitoring my sub-conscious massacres
I know, bringing it closer to the surface
So it's easily pervertable
I want to be your beast
I want to make you proud
And play with your head
I want to take you out
Make you feel adored
And buy you everything
I want to hurt you bad
Make you paranoid
And say the sweetest things
I want to help you grow
And for eternity
I want to be your what's happening
What's happening?
vendredi 23 janvier 2009
Sigur Ros - Heima

Last night, I watched the documentary about the music band Sigur Ros called “Heima” – which means both at home and homeland.
After a worldwide tour during many years, the Icelandic psychedelic rock band Sigur Ros, went back home in the endless magic hour of the Icelandic summer. During this season, the band made a free and mostly unannounced tour around their homeland. The concerts combined both the biggest and smallest shows of their career. The whole thing has been filmed by director Dean DeBlois and his team. During 2 weeks, the director has alternated pictures of the concerts and pictures of the beautiful Icelandic landscapes. The movie now provides one of the most amazing and priceless look into the very creative universe of one of the less understood band ever.
The success of the movie not only results in the live concerts but also in the wonderful photography and the stunning contrast of colours. Indeed, “Heima” is a movie about Iceland too. So the documentary or let’s called it a journey will lead you into an unusual and fascinating environment.
You will enjoy Sigur Ros playing in deserted fish factories, behind a movie screen or an animated curtain, at the rock bottom of a mountain, in a tiny village, in front a church… You will also find out more about the 8 members of the band.
So instead of having a real leader like Ian Curtis, Thom Yorke, Stuart A. Staples, Kevin Barnes or Mick Jagger, Sigur Ros has a real universe which makes their music so good and addictive. Their influence in our nowadays music world is as important as Radiohead or Animal Collective. They are pioneers.
Here’s the track list of the movie:
- Glosoli
- Sé Lest
- Agaetis Byrjun
- Heysatan
- Olsen Olsen
- Von
- Excerpt from Sugarbush
- Sildarvalsinn
- Gitardjamm
- Untitled # 1
- Chris Watson Vatnajökull
- Ekkillinn
- A Ferd Til Breidafjardar Vorid 1922
- Staralfur
- Hoppipolla
- Untitled # 8
- Untitled # 3
The trailer
Reykjavik final
jeudi 22 janvier 2009
Aer Obama
Some crazy guys celebrate the 44th POTUS by a Daft Punk remix, called Aer Obama, and the less we can say is that the video is pretty cool !
Daft Punk vs. Adam Freeland - "Aer OBAMA" from Gold Greendot on Vimeo.
Daft Punk vs. Adam Freeland - "Aer OBAMA" from Gold Greendot on Vimeo.
mardi 20 janvier 2009
Lady Liberty
I have seen so many things in my life,
Ordinary, strange and normal things,
It is an opera of what is life,
So I will never change a thing.
In their Wall Street suits,
My party animals and disco biscuits,
For the passion of a pursuit,
They will share the happiness of my fruits.
I opened my eyes this morning,
And I saw you arriving.
From the top of my buildings,
Basquiat sold his paintings,
Whoever you are, I have seen war.
I am not afraid of a teenager,
So another new stranger,
Or the shadow of the World Trade Center.
For the grace of your friendship,
The Giants won the championship.
On my promised land,
My artificial lords ride Neverland.
If you can not sleep at night,
The morning after midnight.
My yellow cab army,
Will always drive you safely.
Even with a broken collarbone,
You will never be alone.
I am the guardian of freedom,
Enjoy the sidewalks of my kingdom.
Ordinary, strange and normal things,
It is an opera of what is life,
So I will never change a thing.
In their Wall Street suits,
My party animals and disco biscuits,
For the passion of a pursuit,
They will share the happiness of my fruits.
I opened my eyes this morning,
And I saw you arriving.
From the top of my buildings,
Basquiat sold his paintings,
Whoever you are, I have seen war.
I am not afraid of a teenager,
So another new stranger,
Or the shadow of the World Trade Center.
For the grace of your friendship,
The Giants won the championship.
On my promised land,
My artificial lords ride Neverland.
If you can not sleep at night,
The morning after midnight.
My yellow cab army,
Will always drive you safely.
Even with a broken collarbone,
You will never be alone.
I am the guardian of freedom,
Enjoy the sidewalks of my kingdom.
dimanche 18 janvier 2009
Highway to hell

There are beautiful readings as great movies. We know from the first page or the early pictures that we are dealing with a work of exception. Cormac McCarthy is one of the greatest contemporary American writers. He won the Pullitzer Prize in 2007 for an outstanding book, The Road.
“Cormac McCarthy sets his new novel, The Road, in a post-apocalyptic blight of gray skies that drizzle ash, a world in which all matter of wildlife is extinct, starvation is not only prevalent but nearly all-encompassing, and marauding bands of cannibals roam the environment with pieces of human flesh stuck between their teeth. If this sounds oppressive and dispiriting, it is.”
Reading is haunting, it requires time to adjust because McCarthy does not write conventional. He disrupts your habits. Punctuation is reduced to its minimum, sentences are short, sometimes nominal, the dialogues are not reported by traditional dashes. To the desolation of the world, Mc Carthy responds by a writing skinned, almost ascetic. This technique, which describes only the minimum refers to Faulkner. You never know what happens, what has caused this devastation. But he constantly stirs our curiosity. The story, in its form as much as in substance, becomes breathless.
The style is very poetic, we could almost say metaphysical. It is hard to forget about this book. We are forced to lay in it. It focuses on the "Man" and his "kid" as they will always be pointed out. Because they are the last shred of humanity which to hang. Their world is terribly hostile, it seems to share their journey on this horrible road. We feel their pain, their hunger, the death surrounding them and the permanent cough of the man. Their exchanges are as simple as necessary. We are alone in the dark, without knowing more than they.
What holds the grace? Perhaps only this: all the stories were told, but never like this. The affection between the father and his son in a world in ruins is harrowing. Everything is fair and beautifully described: the abandoned cities, the remains of the lost civilization…
Reading this book becomes an intense and almost painful experience. This novel is a must. It is violent, dark and singular. It is a poetic masterpiece.
The adaptation of the book has been filmed and the main role went to Viggo Mortensen!
Here's one of the first pictures of the movie.
jeudi 15 janvier 2009
Animal Collective
GENESIS † HOUSE

Here are the designs of the "GENESIS † HOUSE", a project from the design company Planda. Behind this initiative, Julien Jacquot & Marc Antoine Maillard, 2 architects installed in New-York, have imagined a construction on the shape of the logo of Justice, also symbol of christianism. As many churches, the "GENESIS † HOUSE" looks like a latin cross. But, the "GENESIS † HOUSE" includes a home-cinema, a bar, a sun lounge and a swimming-pool on the roof. Enjoy the video.
GENESIS † HOUSE from PLANDA on Vimeo.
mercredi 14 janvier 2009
Where you go I go too
Next time I see you around, with your great ideas,
The way home will be long but I will follow you.
For a brand new start,
I will play the part.
But I don't want you to watch me dancing,
Shoulders to shoulders, with strangers.
Keep in mind how to hang a Warhol
Because we all have ghosts under rocks.
On the flip of a coin, on the edge of a cliff,
Dying is fine.
It's a daily routine.
Can you tell, too too bad.
Everything is borrowed but I'll be lightning.
I love you more,
Heaven for the weather.
And no one should call me a dreamer.
I am only human, an original man.
But you are the strongest person I know,
So do I deserve a second chance?
Let's gather in a chapel and decide will a scalpel.
In the flowers,
Also frightened are my girls.
Summertime clothes they wear,
But I do not care.
I can see you in guys eyes, so don't blush,
That makes me like a lion in a coma.
No more runnin',
I want to taste you.
Skinny love, it's a sad song but we are a team.
You are a butterfly, I am a vampire.
I want to lose myself in New York.
Music moves my feet,
It is such an energy spent.
Lullaby,
I want to fire your belly.
Remember when,
I was a wise man.
You now call that friendship but,
I am only the shadow of your man.
You are my creature,
I feel the fear.
I can be the intreprete but,
If it kills me in a beautiful mess.
It is better to be,
Wide awake on the voyage home.
This place is killing me,
Oh, la.
I am yours.
Make yourself mine.
I am a strange boy,
Who wants to have good time.
For you,
Never, I will give up.
For the love of a child.
Each year,
And every winter.
Let's be together.
We are two lucky wolves.
The way home will be long but I will follow you.
For a brand new start,
I will play the part.
But I don't want you to watch me dancing,
Shoulders to shoulders, with strangers.
Keep in mind how to hang a Warhol
Because we all have ghosts under rocks.
On the flip of a coin, on the edge of a cliff,
Dying is fine.
It's a daily routine.
Can you tell, too too bad.
Everything is borrowed but I'll be lightning.
I love you more,
Heaven for the weather.
And no one should call me a dreamer.
I am only human, an original man.
But you are the strongest person I know,
So do I deserve a second chance?
Let's gather in a chapel and decide will a scalpel.
In the flowers,
Also frightened are my girls.
Summertime clothes they wear,
But I do not care.
I can see you in guys eyes, so don't blush,
That makes me like a lion in a coma.
No more runnin',
I want to taste you.
Skinny love, it's a sad song but we are a team.
You are a butterfly, I am a vampire.
I want to lose myself in New York.
Music moves my feet,
It is such an energy spent.
Lullaby,
I want to fire your belly.
Remember when,
I was a wise man.
You now call that friendship but,
I am only the shadow of your man.
You are my creature,
I feel the fear.
I can be the intreprete but,
If it kills me in a beautiful mess.
It is better to be,
Wide awake on the voyage home.
This place is killing me,
Oh, la.
I am yours.
Make yourself mine.
I am a strange boy,
Who wants to have good time.
For you,
Never, I will give up.
For the love of a child.
Each year,
And every winter.
Let's be together.
We are two lucky wolves.
Låt den rätte komma in (Linda this is for you)

Last night I met a vampire and I kissed her. Now I am a moon' sister and a wolf's brother.
If Tomas Alfredson delivers a new full-length film of this level, no doubt: it will be necessary to count on him these next years. His film is just the best vampiric variation since The wisdom of crocodiles. It's a Swedish film so it's rare enough to mention. 2 thumbs up !
Cela faisait longtemps que l'on attendait un renouveau. A des kilomètres de la série True Blood, de Alan Ball. Ici, il suffit de quelques plans (des flocons de neige qui illuminent une banlieue paumée de Stockholm, des rues désertes, des meurtres en plein air, les paroles atrophiées d'un garçon ou la première apparition fugitive d'une fille comme en lévitation) ; et c'est l'électrochoc. Ce film, on le soupçonne vite, ne sera pas comme les autres. Une nouvelle forme d'obscurité profonde se déploie devant nous, sans balise ni rien (ce qui peut dérouter), il suffit juste de fondre. Au premier degré, Let The Right One In peut être vu comme un conte initiatique sur toutes les formes de peurs avec sa nuit noire, son atmosphère de purgatoire tout blanc, sa nature inquiétante (le corps d'une victime, balancé dans l'eau, qui exhale une vapeur et s'évapore, sous nos yeux), ses routes désertes à emprunter, ses tunnels à traverser. Et, sur ce territoire, plane une menace redoutée et attendue : un mystère, une force animale, une présence maquisarde qui fait très peur. Celle d'un "enfant vampire", improbable dans cet havre d'ennui, qui a 12 ans depuis une éternité.
Talent inconnu dans nos contrées, Tomas Alfredson construit un univers où chaque élément (son, durée des plans, hors-champ) renvoie à l'autre dans une discrète et inquiétante harmonie, travaille les cadres avec une précision d'orfèvre, joue sur les couleurs (du bleu et du rouge) pour multiplier les contrepoints. Sur un plan thématique, il révèle une obsession du délabrement - social, familial, psychique et organique - en prenant comme héros deux enfants : Oskar, un garçon blond solitaire qui subit les brimades de ses camarades de classe ; et Eli, une fille vampire en quête d'un nouveau complice. Le spectateur observe le passage de l'innocence (le jour, la neige) à la démence (la nuit, le sang), du rêve au cauchemar dans le même prolongement cotonneux. A tous les niveaux, cette variation vampirique n'appelle pas de comparaison cinématographique (on ne pense pas à un autre film du genre en le regardant) et s'impose comme la plus inspirée depuis... Depuis Aux frontières de l'aube, de Kathryn Bigelow, qui n'a certes strictement rien à voir mais propose le même genre de choc durable.
Ce qui frappe le plus, c'est la rigueur mathématique avec laquelle Alfredson enchaîne les évènements louvoyant entre horreur et beauté, éclat et silence, réalité glauque (une série de meurtres) et éblouissement soudain (une lumière vers laquelle se dirige le jeune Oskar). Avec la même détermination - calme, jamais brutale -, il alterne les points de vue de différents personnages pour évoquer un malaise collectif diffus. Qu'ils soient enfants ou adultes, les personnages secondaires qui gravitent autour d'Oskar et d'Eli alimentent la tension de manière étonnante. Dans un écrin froid, des vendettas personnelles font exploser la colère sous la glace. Elles sont toujours motivées par des blessures intimes (venger son honneur ou son meilleur ami) qui renforcent le potentiel universel de cette histoire (il n'est pas nécessaire d'aimer les films de vampires pour apprécier celle-ci). D'autres artifices qui relèvent de la dramaturgie classique étendent le pouvoir d'attraction de cette aventure exotique au-delà du seul cercle de spécialistes.
Ce qui peut induire en erreur, c'est que les éléments les plus voyants, ceux que les amateurs du genre attendront de pied ferme, ne sont pas nécessairement les plus importants. Pour donner un exemple, une scène à la fois effrayante et grotesque où des chats s'acharnent sur une pauvre femme qui vient d'être mordue par la jeune vampire menace soudainement de faire sortir le spectateur du film. Pourtant, il est moins question de saluer la réussite des effets spéciaux (par ailleurs rares) que de considérer cette séquence sur un plan humain : un homme, aveuglé par la mort de son ami, n'essaye même pas de sauver sa femme. Sur ce même régime, Alfredson trouve une jonction idéale entre Grand-Guignol (à deux doigts de la folie baroque) et drame poignant dans un contexte à la fois réaliste (l'anonymat des lieux) et irréel (la neige qui enterre tout, jusqu'à l'identité) afin d'exacerber la dimension tragique de ses personnages (les échecs répétés du vieux complice silencieux d'Eli, tracassé par un con de chien ou des adolescents ; l'effet double-face lors de la superbe scène à l'hôpital ; la femme qui demande à ce qu'on tire les rideaux parce qu'elle se sait condamnée). En résultent des visions surréalistes (un corps mort, coincé dans un bloc de glace) et des personnages pittoresques (le professeur d'éducation sportive).
Le scénario s'est débarrassé des connotations sexuelles, inhérentes au genre, pour les minorer, de manière presque subversive : Oskar aime Eli d'un amour platonique, au-delà de son identité, parce qu'il ne peut pas survivre sans elle et que cette union fait leur force (Oskar est cérébral, Eli est physique et les deux endurent le même ostracisme social). S'ils ne s'étaient pas rencontrés, ils se seraient manqués et les conséquences auraient été désastreuses pour l'un comme pour l'autre : Oskar serait resté une tête de turc toute sa vie, plongé dans les jupes de sa mère possessive et martyrisé par ses camarades ; Eli n'aurait pas trouvé de complice capable de la nourrir ou de la protéger. De la même façon, le cinéaste sous-entend que le père d'Oskar a probablement décidé de refaire sa vie avec un homme, mais il faut toujours faire attention à la manière dont le spectateur peut interpréter les regards et les gestes.
Le rapport à la souffrance est également très juste : Oskar a tellement l'habitude de vivre dans la peur que l'on peut lire sur son visage une étrange extase SM au moment où l'un des jeunes bourreaux le frappe, comme s'il avait absorbé cette violence et qu'il s'en nourrissait à son tour. Joie de la dépense totale, de la transgression ultime qui passe par tous les excès (ivresse, peur, jouissance). Tous, sauf les larmes de crocodile qui sont réservées aux faux durs et aux vrais faibles, à ceux qui ont une trouille bleue de la violence, à ceux qui s'en prennent à plus fragiles qu'eux, de peur de se prendre des coups de bâton à leur tour. Rien n'est explicitement dit, mais tout se ressent (le ton reste léger, le montage extrêmement fluide). C'est aussi une manière subtile de suggérer que tous les maux découlent d'un manque de communication : la neige qui tombe est moins un effet de style poétisant qu'une vision mélancolique pour traduire la solitude, ce néant blanc que Oskar regarde de sa fenêtre. C'est certainement en raison du caractère exclusif de cette relation que les distributeurs français ont choisi de rebaptiser le film sous le titre «Morse» qui fait allusion au moyen secret de communication entre les deux enfants. Le titre international ("Let the right one in"), lui, évoque une particularité rarement exploitée dans la mythologie des vampires : leur obligation de se faire inviter avant d'entrer chez quelqu'un.
En restant très fidèle au roman d'origine (le script est adapté par l'écrivain John Ajvide), le cinéaste oublie les clichés du vampirisme en même temps qu'il explore des zones plus ambiguës sans tomber dans le postmodernisme. L'action, située dans les années 80 (on le comprend par les fringues et la BOF), monte en puissance jusqu'à la dernière scène, clou du spectacle, qui exploite le contexte d'une piscine pour organiser des plans esthétiques mémorables. C'est le crépuscule que l'on redoutait et qui fout les jetons, le sommet paroxystique d'une succession de salves fulgurantes entre rire et effroi. Etre ébranlé et désarmé, ne plus savoir si l'on aime ou pas, ne pas trouver la grille de lecture adéquate ; c'est ce qui peut arriver avec un film d'une telle envergure. On peut ne pas être sensible au rythme lymphatique - la beauté de Let The Right One In réside justement dans les longueurs (le temps nécessaire pour se trouver, se connaître et s'aimer) - mais son intensité ne nous quitte jamais. Plus on y repense, plus le film prend de la valeur. Le studio Hammer films a tellement été séduit par cette proposition de cinéma qu'un remake américain, réalisé par Matt Reeves (Cloverfield), est déjà en route.
mardi 13 janvier 2009
Great DJ played in acoustic
Take Away Show
La Blogothèque is a website that gathers a lot of take away shows with a touching & refreshing note about music. Always in acoustic or in a total improvisation, these artists perform in unusual environments (a street, a coffee, a bus) & often in front of an audience amazingly stunned. These small improvised concerts are pure musical wonders to consume til death!
I dare you to forget his smile !

Heath Ledger in his villainous role as the Joker in the Batman movie "The Dark Knight" won Golden Globe awards yesterday as the Hollywood honors reached their midpoint.
The award for Ledger, who died of an accidental drug overdose last year, was accepted by "Dark Knight" director Christopher Nolan who said the loss of Ledger was like "a hole ripped in modern cinema."
"All of us who worked with Heath accept this with an awful mixture of sadness but incredible pride," Nolan said. "He will be eternally missed, but he will never be forgotten."
The souvenir of the beer I shared with him at Beatrice Inn 2 days before he died, will forever stay in my memory.
NYC will be freezing at the end of the week, but not New-Yorkers' ears
Of Montreal is one of my favorite band and there is their new video clip called "An Elardian Instance". A song with trumpets inside, made to melt the cold wave. As usual, it's very joyful and colorful, I love it.
Of Montreal ~ An Eluardian Instance (2008) Dir: Jesse Ewles from jesse ewles on Vimeo.
Of Montreal ~ An Eluardian Instance (2008) Dir: Jesse Ewles from jesse ewles on Vimeo.
A Cross The Universe
This merciless sound party restores marvelously the atmosphere of Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay behind their computers. But the cherry on the cake is that the documentary will take you to a 70 min journey on the American tour of Justice.
Enjoy the first part!
Enjoy the first part!
Late Night Tale
My vampire side is awake tonight and my soul is diving into a bottle of vodka while my lungs suppress of Davidoff... I guess another long night is knocking at my door and the dirty sidewalks of Paris are whispering my name.
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