Sébastien Tellier
Sébastien Tellier, soon to be revealed to mass audience at the Eurovision show (he’ll represent France…), has a new record out, Sexuality, following his master debut L’Incroyable Vérité and a more irregular Politics (although with the amazing track “La Ritournelle”, featuring drummer Tony Allen).
Sexuality was recorded with Guy Manuel De Homem-Christo (half of Daft Punk and surely one of the best producer on this planet right now) and is a marvellous ode to sex, from the subtle practices of eye fucking to cheezy italian soft-porn. Brilliant.
YouTube Video: Sexual Sportswear
Links:
Myspace profile.
Amusing track by track with the man.
Howard Beale
Awesome speech from the 1976 classic and 4-Oscars winner “Network“.
30 years later and the world is still getting smaller.
Video here.
I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It’s a depression. Everybody’s out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel’s worth; banks are going bust; shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter; punks are running wild in the street, and there’s nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there’s no end to it.
We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat. And we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that’s the way it’s supposed to be!
We all know things are bad — worse than bad — they’re crazy.
It’s like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don’t go out any more. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we’re living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, “Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials, and I won’t say anything. Just leave us alone.”
Well, I’m not going to leave you alone.
I want you to get mad!
I don’t want you to protest. I don’t want you to riot. I don’t want you to write to your Congressman, because I wouldn’t know what to tell you to write. I don’t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street.
All I know is that first, you’ve got to get mad.
You’ve gotta say, “I’m a human being, goddammit! My life has value!”
So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell,
“I’m as mad as hell,
and I’m not going to take this anymore!!”
The Darvaza flaming crater
Located at Turkmenistan desert, Darvaza flaming crater is one of the most apocalyptic landscapes in the world. Its 60 meters in diameter and 20 meters depth have not been caused by volcanic activity or a meteorite impact. This crater was created sometime in the 50’s when the Soviets were prospecting for natural gas in this area and it’s been burning since then.
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Pictures from John Bradley.
Sourced from Fogonazos.
Tearing down the house
Sad news from múm’s blog:
We just wanted to tell you about a very special festival we played a couple of weekends ago. It was called ‘LátÃð à bæ’ which means something like ‘Low-tide in town’, we guess and it was a protest against the demolition of old houses in the city centre. In the next couple of year the city of ReykjavÃk and various contractors are going to annihilate most of the old city center to make way for new houses and big shopping centers.The festival took place in the the old hang-out Sirkus, the bar has now been closed down and is awaiting the wrecking ball. Most every musician or band in town at that point played the festival and the line-up was quite amazing: 1985!, Amiina, Ampop, Barði Jóhannsson, Berglind Ã?gústsdsóttir, Bob Justman, Benni Hemm Hemm, Bloodgroup, Bogomil Font, Borkó, Botnleðja, Cocktail Vomit, Curver, Dr. Gunni, FlÃs, Ghostigital, Gusgus DJ-set, HjaltalÃn, Hjálmar, Hudson Wayne, Jagúar, JakóbÃnarÃna, Jan Mayen, Kira Kira, K.K., Megas, Motion Boys, Mr. Silla & Mongoose, Mugison, Music Zoo, múm, My Summer as a Salvation Soldier, Orgelkvartettinn Ananas, Páll Óskar, Pétur Ben, Rass, Trabant Experience, Retro Stefson, ReykjavÃk!, Seabear, Singapore Sling, Sigur Rós, Skátar, Skakkamanage, Slowblow, Sometime, Sprengjuhöllin, Valgeir Sigurðsson, XXX Rotweiler, Æla, Ölvis
Sadly the struggle against the demolition of downtown Reykjavik has not been efficient and all help is appreciated.
Thank you,
bless bless,
múm
Arnaud Michniak
YouTube Video: A travers les gens comme au fond de moi
YouTube Video: Appelle ca comme tu veux
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