Radio Nova 25 - A gift idea ??

Radio Nova [Parisian Radio Station] has 25 years, and celebrates these 25 years with a compilation of 25 CD. You can see the title on a dedicated website: http://www.nova25ans.com/

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The fountain....

Quotations of the day:
"Fella I once knew in El Paso, one day he took all his clothes off and jumped in a mess of cactus.
I asked him the same question, why?
He said it seemed to be a good idea at the time." VIN [Steve Mc Queen] in The Magnificent Seven [1960].

Reminds me of that fella back home who fell off a ten-story building. As he was falling, people on each floor kept hearing him say, "So far, so good. So far, so good."
VIN [Steve Mc Queen] in The Magnificent Seven [1960].

USA - Democrats in da house
The democrats have won the latest election, what will change.... not much ... there will probably be more enquiry, the president will need to argue and defend more his policy... Rumsfeld already resigned... Eric Leser a journalist from Le Monde answers some of these questions in this chat[FR].
The war in Iraq will probably continue, the USA will lower their objectives... and Halliburton will gain less money ( or will it ? )

Meanwhile Olympia, Walsh is questioning through history, our emotional dependance on marriage in Too close to comfort (NY Times). Seems the marriage has taken more and more importance in the relationship ( in the last 50 years ) and other relationships have declined ( for example the number of people you discussed meaningful matters).

The Fountain
Darren Arronofsky [Pi, Requiem for a Dream]is due to release his new movie: The Fountain.
The New York Times ask eleven artists to give their view of the movie in picture.

The Eleven pictures.


[FR] Accents de France
A website about the different accent in french depending on the region : http://www.accents-de-france.fr.st/

Mille Trillion de mille sabords.....

Word curiosity, the word trillion did not have the same meaning in French, English or American...

Number	`American'	'British'
1E12	trillion	billion
1E15	quadrillion	thousand billion
1E18	quintillion	trillion

See what the (in french) what the proofreders of the newspaper "Le Monde" think about that : ca chauffe dans la calculette/.
Things learned

• Parker Lewis is back, to kick ET ass in Stargate SG1... at least it's the same actor: Corin Nemec
  Is this an achievement of coolness ?
• No more fish in 2048, according to a study published in Science, because of desctructive fishery (fish and habitat).

Improving Rhum
The basic recipe to improve Rhum by mixing it with bananas.
You need 1L of white rum (I prefer brown) and 4 bananas, cut the bananas (after removing the skin) in bits of 1cm. Put them in a frying pan with butter and sugar, and heat them (caramelization), and put them in the rum. Let the mix macerate for 2 months.

Another recipe use Carambar:
1L of Rum and 6 carambars. Put the carambar in the rum, add some brown sugar ( 20CL), let it for 8 to 10 days, shake the mix everyday.
Songs of the month

• Damien Rice - 9 Crimes and Rootless Tree (Album: "9" Atlantic)
• The Good The Bad And The Queen – Herculean (Parlophone)
• Nero – Autopsy
• Thom Yorke – Analyse (XL)
• Scott Matthews - Dream Song (Album: "Passing Stranger" SanRemo)
• CSS - Let's make love
• Peter Bjorn and John - Young Folks
• Ray Lamontagne - Let Me Stay
• FourTet - (Album: "Rounds")
• The Killers - When You were young and Bones (Album: "Sam's Town" Island Records)
• Iain Archer - Long Jum
• L'Aroye & Ky/Dynamax - Tribute to my people
• Smooth/Yann Tiersen - The Endless rise of the sun
  

Gare au Jaguar....

# Joey Starr (ex-NTM) is releasing a new album... and soon the album is forbidden from selling.
The cause an unauthorized cover [mp3] of a G.Brassens song ("Gare au Gorille").
Info from:

• Blog Un Monde de sons [FR].
• Joey Starr vs Brassens

# More news about Wii in the New York Times. Nintendo is clearly differentiating itself from its competitors (Sony and Microsoft) targeting new customers (the 50+), and enhancing new gaming experience.....wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

# And back to French...
Aprés avoir lu les derniers post/dessin de Lewis Trondheim sur son blog dessinné [Les Petits Riens], j'ai voulu en savoir plus sur le syndrome du prisonnier (quand quelqu'un est enfermé et ne fais rien, et ne faisant rien, il est de plus en plus fatigué et a de moins en moins envie de faire de choses), j'ai découvert le site In Libro Veritas. Les textes y sont publiés en lecture libre et gratuite. Pour les textes classiques, avant que Google n'ai fini de scanner tous les livres de la planete, la BNF est en train de faire la meme chose avec Gallica.

Here we go again...

Munster started his campaign to retain his European crown.... [H-Cup website]
And that's Bourgoin which has been defeated despite:
28/10/06 Pool4 Munster 41-23 Bourgoin Thomond Park (12,800)

The Good The Bad and the Queen

Back to more regular posts. Damon Albarn (Blur, Gorillaz...) has started a new adventure or story with: The Good, the Bad and the Queen. I've discovered it thanks to Tom Dunne's Pet Sound show on today FM, with their first single Herculean. And also Zane Lowe (BBC1). You can listen (until the 2 november 2006), the show they gave for BBC: here. Brilliant. There is loads of good stuff on BBC electroprom website, from Paul Weller to the Magic Numbers. In a world where with an IPOD, you can have litteraly months of music in your pockets... does it make sense the old question: which cd would you bring on a island ? My answer would be something on this left side.

Note : Lego are becoming greater and greater.

finally a post....

Long time since I've been blogging regularly, just to keep up to date.

Activities:
- Sailing ( at least trying to learn ), fantastic week-end with the University of Limerick Activity Center. I have just done the course start sailing Level 1, and looking forward for the level 2.
- Nintendo DS: Brain Training and Brain Academy.. and so far the results BT = 26 year's old brain and BA = 1300g brain weight....
Unit of alcohols: 1 last week.
Books read: "Ubik" and "A Time out of joint" by Ph.K.Dick

Links:
- Le petit champignacien [FR], if you like the champignac mayor.
- BBC1 Zane Lowe Radio Show
- The nintendo Wii will be soon in our saloons...You can watch videos of people trying the system... my favourite is this french girl. Probably the most exciting console ( for the concept ) to come.

A mystery [FR]
Dans Truismes de Marie Darrieusseq, page 52 de l'édition P.O.L :
Un jour la dame en noir, l'amie de ma vieille cliente, m'a donné un euro. Elle croyait que j'avais faim.
Rien ne vous choque?
Le roman est paru en 1996, soit trois bonnes années avant le passage à l'euro (le premier janvier 1999). Même dans les bourses internationales, cette monnaie n'était pas utilisée avant 1998 ou 1999.
Étrangement, mieux que les autres disparités délibérement uchrononiques du récit, c'est ce détail-là qui le place pour moi dans une sorte d'anticipation bizarrement proche.
Ce n'est pas moi qui est remarque mais je l'ai decouvert ici.