People like me don’t leave France because of taxes. We leave France because the moderns lost. Because Finkelkraut won. The dark side of France… God save the Queen, and fuck Finkelkraut!
24 août 2014
… and the bright side
24août
21 août 2014
On the dark side…
21août
This very dark vision is a part of the testimony of my generation. Boomers used to say we were cynical, that we were too realistic, not enough idealists, and bla bla bla, and bla bla bla… We were only 15 and those of us who were lucide enough to understand what was going on in the world knew that all those dreams of « socialism » and « revolutions » were vain.
20 août 2014
The best song of the 1980’s. Just that…
20août
New Order and The Cure wrote for the crowd of their time, and to tell the truth, the result was spendid for New Order. But with this song, The Bunnymen went farther, far farther. They just didn’t know they were recording for the 90’s and the 2000’s. In this song, there is Nirvana, there is Oasis, with a much, much better style. Maturity, I said.
15 mai 2014
1985, Grace Jones, Slave to the Rhythm
15mai
In 1985, I reached my 20th year. After years of « rock and roll », I finally cooled down, but I entered another moment in my life. Didier Lestrade talked about this many times and it is a subject which is not so frequently told. I stopped having sex for almost a year and a half. Not completly, but almost. HIV was a fear in my generation’s mind like no one can understand nowadays. It was a...
24 avril 2014
1984, The Smiths, What difference does it make ?
24avril
1983/84 was a turning point. I started living alone in Paris the previous in year in september and very quickly I drawn into the abyss of the University. Students were boring, all from middle/upper middle class in a kind of average Telerama culture. I hated that. Instead of studying, I invested my time into concerts, my radio program, and booze, and pot, and acids… I was 18 after all. Sex...
17 décembre 2013
Orchestre rouge, speakerine, 1982
17décembre
Few days ago, as my friend Pierre posted a song of Passion Fooder on Facebook, Peter O’Tool, I suddenly remembered Orchestre Rouge, the previous band of the singer.
13 décembre 2013
Elli et Jacno, main dans la main, 1980
13décembre
When people talk about a « French touch », they should ask themselves « but how did it happen, when did it start? »… How could the country of Mireille Matthieu and Edith Piaf become so cool, so good…
13 décembre 2013
Taxi girl, sos mannekin, 1980
As far as I recall, something changed in my life the day I heard this song, and even now it is still working somewhere deep in my soul. Yes, my soul.
11 décembre 2013
The DOORS, I looked at you, 1967
11décembre
I should write 1984 instead, but the original year is 1967.
