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Pitchfork : Review of Guided by Voices’ last two shows.

Of the maybe 20 people immediately around me at the New Year’s Eve show, one was from Chicago; the rest were from everywhere else: students from Boston, record store owners from Detroit, a guy from Ohio who fell in love with GBV listening to Bee Thousand on his morning commute, and a mother of two who promised her husband a blow job, anytime, for two years, in exchange for allowing her to dump the kids on him and fly out for the farewell show.

Amanda Palmer (The Dresden Dolls) : Block

The performance ended, accidentally early, when the sheet fell down and I stood there, naked, screaming that I never wanted this, that I didn’t want to be talented, that I didn’t want to be a songwriter with any fucking ideas, good or bad.

J’aime beaucoup son journal.

Libération : Les fuyards de la jungle

Pendant plus de vingt ans, une poignée de déserteurs khmers rouges s’est cachée dans la forêt du Cambodge. Six familles qui ont survécu à partir d’un peu de riz sont restées à l’écart du monde, ignorant tout de la fin du régime de Pol Pot. Jusqu’en novembre dernier.

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Uther recommence.

J’enchaine, selon l’antique technique des dresseurs de lion de mongolie centrale, profitant du maigre avantage que j’ai pris.

« Je suis un ami du directeur de l’agence. »