Everybody’s Weird

I’m so tired, my day at job was stupid and boring, i feel dizzy, i just want to go to sleep. i hope i’m not on the verge of getting a cold. Plus the fridge is empty and i’m hungry. Hopefully, tonight the instant noodles save my life. 400 ml of boiling water, and I will eventually feel 15 minutes of relief, feeding my stomach.

You lucky bastards. Lastminute.com sells Radiohead tickets at Saint-Denis for october the 20th at 210 FF (i got mine at 250 FF).

<french>Vous voulez gagner des millions ? des chèques de 5 FF ? Moi je pratique le bananalotto qui ne coute rien. Pour rajouter du piment (?) à ce jeu con comme la lune, je lancerai une compet’ à la fin du mois : à celui qui aura accumulé le + de chèques… Pour l’instant, entraînez-vous.</french>

Now : a) noodles b) bed. Everyone’s favourite bachelor evening.

And sorry for the lame corporate links.

Last friday, Nita brought me to this huge asian restaurant in chinatown, Paris. It was a wonderful evening. Try to play a Madison track to a crowd of old chinese people, you’ll see them rush on the dancefloor and move their body like it’s the last dance of their life. As Titi (Nita’s sister) definitely put it, Madison is the ultimate cult dance for asiatics. I love to discover when people are weird. That’s so cute. (if anybody knows a web about the madison dance, please tell me ’cause i didn’t find one worthwhile, and, who knows ?, if anybody has an explanation, that would be very nice to you to share it with me…).

NP : Guided by Voices — Do the Collapse. Did I ever mentioned that this record is amazing ? Bob Pollard is a genius, if anybody still had doubts.

Travis, from the Dismemberment Plan, talks about his band’s amazing last album Emergency & I to LostAtSea.online. Excerpt :

And I think it was a major educational process for me because I hated it at first. So did the rest of the band. We didn’t enjoy the process of it at first because [producer] J Robbins put our noses to the grindstone. Don’t just wing it and go in and see what happens when the tapes are rolling. Know your part and know it while you’re playing it. It kind of made us feel like less of musicians. Then I got away from the album for a little while and it started to make the rounds to our friends and I realized that we had made a record of songs, as opposed to a record of us playing our instruments. It was an enormously maturing process and, like all maturing processes, it was very humiliating.

I enormously agree to this last sentence. (Main entrance to Lost At Sea here.)

Oh, and hotellounge.com has the Instant Street ring tone for nokias. My mobile just loves that. Tada tada tadada ….

Tanya hates music. All of it. That would normally turn her into my worst enemy but 1) she knows what she’s talking about 2) she’s so virulent it’s a pleasure 3) it’s entertaining. Really worthwhile.

This guy is sooo lucky… You can say what you want about Britney, but she’s hot. dot. At least she doesn’t want us to believe she’s doing Aaaaart (fans of Céline Dion, this one was for you ; wake up please). Britney, it’s just money, teen lust and mainstream musak, you are warned from the beginning.

And please spare me your feminist shit like this Rachel Thing email.

A spiritual joke is pleasing from times to times.

Check this screenshots of Microsoft’s Windows 1.x to 3.11. It drives me to a foolishly nostalgic mood, would you believe it. That may also be a sunday afternoon laziness by-product…

66 ways to be annoying at Monopoly. Indeed.

Design, logo and colors for this page are quasi finished. Please tell me what you think. Important notice : I’m color-blind…

Never heard something as frightening as this Godspeed you black emperor! monologue. The guys are dangerous situationnists. Beware. (from dead metheny)

Remember the purity test ? An old internet classic you should do. I did it again a moment ago (oops!) and I couldn’t get under the score of 74% of purity, again. I’m so straight…

Anyway, for my male readers, the new hip test is the suave-o-meter which will tell you how appreciated you are by girls as a potential love-mate. I won’t tell you my score, since as adam stated it (to fellow webloggeurs) :

any credibility you had in claiming « suaveness » was immediately shot the second you posted your score on the « suave-o-meter » to your weblog. in this post

Anyway, people from any gender are encouraged to try the others tests from emode.com, which are well-written, interesting, and above the standard of your disappointing boy/girl magazine summer tests.

My friend Richard maintains his large website (in French), where you can find the famous « Zone Pingouin », evidences that he’s a php3 guru, and a large collection of useful links, among many other stuff. Go there to find the view of a guy who’s been a professional webmaster for more years than any dumb start-up empty-headed prick in the business since Time said it’s hot money-making. Respect.

Hey ! Are you all sleeping ?

The only reaction I got so far ’bout this blog came from Nick, my old friend (almost ten years, mate!) who’s trying to be more leftist than me and wins :

« that may be a different way to use internet » : very elegantly said ; I hope that at least there are porn sites in your weblog…:-)

(translated by me)

Thanks for the humour… but not for the sarcasm ! Yes, there’s another way to use internet, which is not driven by money, greed and the pursuit for power. But you’ve got to search behind a thick layer of crap sites to find it. I guess that it’s the purpose of weblogs to generate a mutual aid network to help people digging…

Enough theory. And… there isn’t porn links so far here, but why not ? A bit of erotism here.

Dinette’s weblog has a wonderful design, and it’s quite funny.

This is very small and this is huge : the bookmarklets are small tools designed to help you browsing. Most of them are great. Try to click <a href="javascript:if(frames.lengthhere as an example !

Hey ! My 1999 top-ten favourites records is online ! Check it out…

<french>De retour de vacances. J’y ai eu la surprise de découvrir l’été d’Uzeste Musical, impasse d’autant plus impardonnable de ma part que c’est à 6 km de Noaillan et que cela a lieu tous les étés depuis 23 ans… Ce festival éclectique est une mine d’or (c’est toutefois à chacun d’extraire les pépites du minerai), même s’il était « en grêve » cette année pour cause de subvention refusée. Pendant ce temps, Fabius exonère Vivendi de 5 milliards d’impôts. Pour plus d’infos sur les raisons de la colère, faites un tour sur leur magnifique site et cherchez un peu.

Dans le train et au bord de la piscine, j’ai lu le numéro d’août 2000 du Monde Diplomatique, contenant d’excellents articles de Marcos, de Noam Chomsky, de Garcia Marquez, etc… que je vous conseille d’aller lire dès le mois prochain sur la Toile : leur site contient les archives de tous les numéros parus (sauf celui en kiosque), initiative remarquable. Le diplo a l’inconvénient de ses avantages : c’est dense et épais, je n’ai pas le temps de le lire tous les mois.

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Listening to Coldplay. A great album of ethereal pop. Everybody’s talking about it : are they the new Day One ? Hype goes fast.

The comparisons with Radiohead are a bit flattering, but it sure is exquisite songwriting, featuring a couple of catchy tunes bound to conquer the British charts, at the least. And it’s a nice introduction to some forthcoming and exciting LPs (Radiohead, Placebo, Portishead, GYBE!).

Speaking of this, here’s from nameless :

Deux infos de taille : les canadiens de Godspeed You Black Emperor ! vont sortir un nouvel album. Il s’appelera ‘Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven’, sera double et sortira le 9 octobre. Deuxième info de taille (pour les fans de Godspeed également), sachez que les tout-aussi-atmosphériques Sigur Ros assureront la première partie de Radiohead en europe en Septembre…

[English fast translation: GYBE! will release 'Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven', their second LP, october the 9th ; and Sigur-Ros will support RH during their European tour in September.]

This fall is gonna be post-rock and apocalyptic…

The design of this page is almost done (thnx again Dreamweaver!!). It lacks a couple of links on the right (articles, electric light…) and a better-looking logo on the top. If you feel like creating one for me, I’d be extremely grateful !

I’m taking a week of holidays, but I’ll be back on duty very soon. Take care.