Jet Set Sec
Lancement de disque de Rick Hughes. Club Soda. 5 à 7. Je suis un peu énervée, c’est la première fois que je vais à un lancement… Plate, plate, plate. Pas une maudite vedette… Ah oui, Steve Diamond. Qui ça? Ben c’est ça. Toutes les stations de rèdio y étaient, pis des journalistes, des caméras, Flash notre Entertainment Tonight local… Cibole que c’était poche.
Mais Rick Hughes donne un bon show. Je l’ai vu avec son band Sword, dans les années 80… Ouin ça me rajeuni pas. Anyway… Il a une voix incroyable. Mais ses tounes sont so-so. Bon, il est entouré d’excellents musiciens. Et live, c’est sur, ça sonne. Mais je reconnaissais plein de riffs de Led Zep, Metallica, Maiden… C’est fatiquant. Sa ballade, Une Seconde, ça fait Marc Déry par bout. Overall, je suis pas certaine que ça va vendre tant que ça. C’est rock à la Éric Lapointe, mais ça s’en va un peu de tout les bords. Et je trouve ça plate qu’il n’ait pas essayé autre chose avec sa voix. Les longs cris à la Robert Plant, ou les finales le poing en l’air, la note étirée à la Rob Halford, c’est pas très original.
J’ai quand même aimé ça voir les camera hores et les petites pitounes aux cheveux crêpés. Je me serais crue à la Mansarde ou au Backstreet… Ahhhhh que de souvenirs!
On est allés souper au Petit Extra! Yééééé! Ça faisait une éternité… Toujours aussi bon, toujours aussi cher. Mais ça fait du bien, sortir un peu.
I love death
*Brilliant* flash movie
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the Dude
I watched the Big Lebowski again today. Sometime I wish I was like the Dude. He is totally aware and content. Absolutely ok with who he is, isn’t. Jeff Bridges reminded me to watch Arlington Road soon too, I really enjoyed that one when it came out. I love Tim Robbins. He’s filming with Phillip Noyce right now, a film about an ANC freedom fighter. Noyce is also directing American Pastoral, from Philip Roth’s novel. I bought some stock on the Hollywood Stock Exchange for that one but so far it hasn’t paid much.
Also watched The Fellowship of the Ring. How can a movie get better even after so many many times? I hope King Kong will have that same magic.
The Devil’s Rejects
Is a fucking brilliant movie 
Rob Zombie has an incredible eye and can capture images that are just perfect. The colors, textures are carnal, you can almost smell the rooms, the characters, their clothes. You just know they stink. Brutal, deliberate, sensless violence. It’s ironic, vulgar, funny, twisted and highly entertaining. He took the best from House of 1000 corpses and just made a perfect sequel. Zombie cut out the Dr Satan scenes from the final product though, but put them on the DVD as extras.
Some movies I want to see…
Hostel. I saw the trailer and it reminded me of Saw. But it still looks interesting.
Grandma’s boy… I know I know, but I don’t care, I’m sure it will be hilarious.
The fountain with Hugh Jackman. I’m intrigued. I don’t care for love stories, but the treatment looks original.
The dying gaul. I loved Lucas’ Longtime Companion. I was like 20 when I saw it, it was my introdution to the gay world. Although it came out a couple of years before Longtime companion, I saw Torch song trilogy after. Both films are excellent.
The Chumscrubber… yeah I know another teenage suburbian angst themed independant. But having seen the trailer, I have faith in it. I don’t know where it will show around here though, thanks to the megaplexes.
Match Point by Wood Allen. such a different setting… London! Fascinating interview in Vanity Fair with him by the way.
And also… Maurice Richard, Capote, Syriana, King Kong, The Libertine, Va vis et deviens, Le promeneur du Champs de Mars, Trop de volume.
Read and release!
Isn’t that a beautiful idea? If you haven’t done so yet, visit Bookcrossing. I won’t explain, just go have a look.
I’ve been a member for months, registered my books weeks ago… Meant to release them but got sidetracked a bit… I’ll go release a few next week for sure. I have to. It’s too good an idea.
I released only one and someone catched it a couple of days later. I hope he releases it back once he’s done!
Writers list
Une liste d’auteurs que je veux découvrir, lire, aimer ou détester. I’ll keep that one open for revision
Maurice G. Dantec. Son passage à TLMP a fait réagir les gens au bureau… My god, je ne pensais même pas qu’ils (elles surtout) avaient des opinions.
John Brunner. Surtout Stand on Zanzibar.
William Gibson. Le pape du cyberpunk. J’ai même pas lu Neuromancer.
Bruce Sterling. Un autre pionnier du cyberpunk.
Jim Thompson. Pulp fiction writer, really hard boiled.
Dylan Thomas. The power of words over reality. I should read more literature.
Nelson Algren. The man with the golden arm. I’ve always loved that movie with Sinatra… Chicago in the 50’s.
Charles Bukowski. “There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.” Man, ’nuff said!
Joseph Conrad. Heart of Darkness of course. Birth place of Apocalypse Now. The original setting was Belgian Congo.
Oscar Wilde. He was consumed by temptation. Aren’t we all…
Dennis Lehane. J’ai lu Mystic River et maintenant je dois lire tout ses livres. Pas le choix.
La liste reste ouverte.