A Week in Music - ww14-2010

Monday:Dynamic start for the week
Franz Ferdinand - Aug Acsfe


Tuesday: Just after escaping a snow tempest on the Shannon-Limerick road.
P J Harvey - A place called home


Wednesday: I like to watch thing on TV ( especially Ms Dahl cooking and other BBC2 wonders)
Lou Reed - Sattelite of love


Thursday: I'm high as a kite, I just might, stop to check you out
Violent Femmes - Blister in the sun


Friday: Oh Baby let's go down tonight....
Ben Harper - Sexual Healing


Saturday: Two French groups (Dyonisos and Louise Attaque) covering a Blur song



Sunday: Reversing from yesterday, Anthrax covering a mythic French song "Antisocial"

Revoir Clermont....

Spend a week back in France, and use a day to go back to Clermont, walking back to memory lane.

Walking errantly through the small streets...

Discovering old sculptures on the wall...

Finding even poseidon...

Remembering what a proper cinema is, with an interesting choice...

In display that day: "A Serious Man" the ferocious latest Cohen, "A Single Man", ....

Passing in Vercingetorix shadow...

Seeing the cathedral.

And finally re-discovering the beauty of the Lecoq garden...

So me......

Procrastination from Johnny Kelly on Vimeo.

Lego Time Lapse Construction - 1

Lego Time Lapse Construction. from Christophe G on Vimeo.

2009 - A summary, top ten things....

A summary of the 2009 year in picture.



And to get in line with the annual top ten from Time, here's my personal top ten for 2009.

• Movie: Pixar Up
  The 10 first minutes are absolutely fantastic in term of story telling. And I got my quote of the year: "I hid under your porch, because I love you"....


• Galway Volvo Ocean Race
  In June, the Volvo Ocean Race visited Galway, fantastic atmosphere in town.
  
  


• Halloween in Mickey Martin
  
  One of the best party of the year.
  


• Irish seals
  2009, will be the year where I saw most seals, the first one were down in Cork in Union Hall basking in early march/april
  Then we saw one or 2 venturing regularly near Kilkee.
  
  


• 90 years ago, my granddad was born, just had to celebrate his birthday.
  
  


• Concert: Mick Flannery in Dolans
  
  


• Snorkel with Dolphin in Milton Malbay
  On of the most amazing encounter in the sea, as i was training for duck diving in Miltown Malbay, a curious dolphin came to see what i was doing...
  


• PS3 Game: Assassins Creed 2
  Finished it but still addicted to that game by now... have to wait for the third installment, now.
  


• Obama election / French politics
  Big hope from the USA with Obama election, and at the same time in France... the left wing are left arguing between themselves in front of a media omnipresent president.
  


• ASM 10th final... lost again....
  No comment. Congratulations to Perpignan.
  
  
  Demie_Finale_ASM_ST
  Uploaded by asm. - Basketball, baseball, pro wrestling and more sports videos.
  
  

Top ten Movies seen in 2009
1. Inglorious Bastard - Q.Tarantino
2. Up - Pete Docter / Pixar
3. Moon - Duncan Jones
4. (500) days of summer - Marc Webb
5. District 9 - Neill Blomkamp
6. The Wrestler - D.Arronofsky
7. Vicky Cristina Barcelona - Woody Allen
8. Fantastic Mr Fox - Wes Anderson
9. Where the wild things are - Spike Jonze
10. The Ugly Truth - Robert Luketic

Additinal interesting movies:
Bolt - B.Howard/C.Williams/Disney
The Men who Stare at goats - ??
A Serious Man - Cohen
Waltz with Bashir - Ari Folman
The imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus - Terry Gilliam

Lisa <3

An additional interview done in Limerick:

Sarah Lynch interviewing Lisa Hannigan for "I Love Limerick" from Dominik Kosicki on Vimeo.

Reeling the years (2009)

Following the post from last year, let's make that a yearly tradition.

The idea is very simple and based on a simple question: Where was i 5 years ago, 10, 15 ...etc ?
So let's go back in time by 5 years leap...

2004
Location: Grenoble, France

My last year, in Grenoble, a very strange year indeed, between "successful" promotion at work ( project and people management ), both great and tumultuous friendship moments... anyway that's the year I've decided i had to leave my job in Grenoble, and go abroad to see if things are different; at the time I had no idea of the country I would end up.

1999
Location: Clermont-Ferrand, France

In Auvergne, studying physics in Blaise Pascal University. Spending lots of time hanging out in cinemas and most notably in the Short movie festival.

1994
Location: Hauterive, France / Lycee Presles, Cusset
Failing the Baccalauréat

1989
Location: Hauterive, France / College Victor Hugo, Saint Yorre
I was not in Berlin for the wall fall.

1984
Location: Hauterive, France / Ecole primaire
France is winning the UEFA Euro_1984, and guess what everybody playing soccer, in the recreational area.
My parents now owns the local shop in the village.

1979
I am no longer the only kid in the house, as my brother just born in March, we're still living in my grand father house in Hauterive, Allier, France.