| Hier nous avons recu quelques amis pour manger des sushi faits maison. | Yesterday we had some friends over for a sushi night. | Ayer recibimos alguno amigos para una noche de sushi caseros! |
| Tout le monde a bien profité! | Everybody had fun! | Todos se diviertiron! |
| Last Friday I went to the concert "The Wall by Roger Waters" with three friends: we were blown. Two of my friends had never seen the movie and they liked it too. It is a completely new show, building up and deepening the themes of the original. The set is huge, with many effects for your distractions, and the music is at once true to the original and revisiting it in interesting ways. |
| The original version was already about rebellion against authority, but this new version revisits and extends the notion, pushing against extremism of all kinds, let it be religious (Christian crosses join Islamic crescents and Jewish stars) or economic (logos of companies such as Mercedes, Shell, etc..), against submission, against surveillance. Roger Water talked about the conflicts in Chile, expressing his support for the rebellion, and during the intermission, pictures and short biographies of hundreds of martyrs were displayed, from Gandhi to Allende and other less known from Columbia, Iran and other countries. |
| I won't tell you more so that I don't spoil the pleasure of being surprised by Roger Water's many tricks: just go if you get the chance! |
| Il y a de cela plusieurs années, ma grand-mère maternelle a peint ce dragon sur un teeshirt pour moi. Les années passant, le tissu s'est usé et est devenu trop fin pour le porter, je l'ai fait encadrer et il décore maintenant mon appartement. | Many years ago, my maternal grandmother painted this dragon on a teeshirt for me. As it got old and the fabric got too thin to wear it, I had it framed and it now decorates my apartment. |
| En retour, j'ai pyrogravé ma propre version du dragon sur une planche à découper en bois, et l'ai offerte à ma grand-mère en Décembre à Noël. C'était à l'origine prévu pour son anniversaire en Septembre! | In return, I burned my own version of this dragon on a cutting board in wood, and offered it to my grand mother for Christmas 2012. It was supposed to be her Birthday present in September 2011!!!! |
| Le dragon a 7 queues, le feu central a 5 grandes flammes, et j'ai dessiné ses bras de manières plus humaine et ses queues (remplacant les "pattes" dans le dessin original) comme si c'était un humain récemment transformé en Dragon. | The dragon has 7 tails, the central fire has 5 big flames, and I drew the arms in a more human way, and its tails (replacing the two legs in the original drawing) as if it was a human, recently trandformed in a Dragon. |
Jacques Higelin JE NE PEUX PLUS DIRE JE T'AIME Je ne peux plus dire je t'aime Ne me demande pas pourquoi Je ne ressens ni joie ni peine Quand tes yeux se posent sur moi Si la solitude te pèse Quand tu viens à passer par là Et qu'un ami t'a oubliée Tu peux toujours compter sur moi Je ne peux plus dire je t'aime Sans donner ma langue à couper Trop de serpents sous les caresses Trop d'amour à couteaux tirés Si dure que soit la solitude Elle te ramène à ton destin La loi du grand amour est rude Pour qui s'est trompé de chemin Je ne peux plus dire je t'aime Ne me demande pas pourquoi Toi et moi ne sont plus les mêmes Pourquoi l'amour vient et s'en va Si la solitude te pèse Quand le destin te mène ici Et qu'un ami t'a oubliée Tu peux toujours compter sur moi Et qu'un ami vienne à manquer Tu peux toujours compter sur moi |
Jacques Higelin I CAN NOT SAY I LOVE YOU ANYMORE I can not say I love you anymore Do not ask me why I do not feel neither joy nor pain When your eyes fall on me If you feel too lonely When you come to pass that way And a friend forgot about you You can always count on me I can not say I love you anymore Without giving to cut my tongue Too many snakes in the caresses Too much love at loggerheads So hard that loneliness is It brings you back to your destiny The law of love is tough For whom took the wrong path I can not say I love you anymore Do not ask me why You and I are not the one anymore Love comes and goes, why? And if you feel too lonely, When fate leads you here And a friend forgot about you You can always count on me And if you are in need of a friend You can always count on me |
Jacques Higelin NO PUEDO MÁS DECIR TE QUIERO No puedo decir Te quiero No me preguntes por qué No me siento ni alegría ni dolor Cuando tus ojos caen sobre mí Si te sientes demasiado sola Cuando usted venga a pasar cerca Y un amigo olvido sobre ti Usted siempre puede contar conmigo No puedo decir Te quiero Sin llegar a cortarme la lengua Serpientes demasiados en las caricias Demasiado amor en pelea Tan fuerte que la soledad es Me trae de vuelta a mi destino La ley del amor es difícil Para quien se equivoco de camino No puedo decir Te quiero No me preguntes por qué Usted y yo no somos mas unidos El amor viene y va, porque? Si te sientes demasiado sola Cuando usted venga a pasar cerca Y un amigo olvido sobre ti Usted siempre puede contar conmigo Y un amigo olvido sobre ti Usted siempre puede contar conmigo |
| Through wimp.com, I discovered the Canadian band Walk Off The Earth and their admirable take on the song Somebody that I used to know, by Gotye. (Don't miss either the adorable pastiche by The Keys of Awesome) |
| The original recording and clip by Gotye and Kimbra is awesome as well, with the two voices perfectly expressing the conflict between two souls in a game of "question and answer" between two complementary melodies: sublime! |
| Wikipedia quotes Gotye as "It wasn't a nasty break-up, but it was messy in the sense that we hurt each other more than we needed to because it wasn’t a clean break... " |
| There are many covers and remixes of the songs, of which I liked only a few for their originality, such as the one from Ingrid Michaelson's Army of Three; |
| the "A capella" cover by Pentatonix, |
| the slow version from Jayme Dee, |
| the Jazzy version of Rita Ora, |
| the rappy version of Postman, |
| and the incredible instrumental version from Romeo Cabrera! |
| Songs about bad break-ups ineluctably bring bitter memories... "when annoying things that you thought you've long forgotten hunts you down in your dreams...and you wake up with a bitter after taste!" |
