Je Cherche L'ombre

Je Cherche L’ombre
I’m looking for the shadows

Je cherche l’ombre, pour danser avec toi mon amour
Sur ces musiques anciennes qui reviennent en memoire
Quand le soleil s’eteint et que revient le soir

I’m looking for the shadows, to dance with you my love
On those old musics that come back into memory
When the sun turns off and the night comes back

Je cherche l’ombre, pour nous mettre a l’abri mon amour
Pour decouvir ton corps, loin de toute lumiere
Et pour t’aimer encore comme une etrangere

I’m looking for the shadows, to protect us my love
To discover your bodym far from all light
And to love you again like a stranger

Je cherche l’ombre, pour eteindre le feu mon amour
Qui devore mon ame et brule dans mes veines
De ce desir infame qui en moi se dechaine

I’m looking for the shadows, to extinguish the fire my love
That devours my soul and burns into my veins
Of this infamous desire unleached in me

Je cherche l’ombre, pour pleurer avec toi mon amour
Sur cette vie trop courte qui file entre nos doigts
Et qui mange les jours en m’eloignant de toi
I’m looking for the shadows, to cry with you my love
Over that life too short that runs through our fingers
And which eats up days pulling me away from you

Je cherche l’ombre
I’m looking for the shadows

Je cherche l’ombre, comme on cherche un ami mon amour
Qui nous prendra la main, sans larmes, sans chagrin
Pour nous conduire ailleurs, cacher notre bonheur
I’m looking for the shadows, like we’re looking for a friend my love
Who will take our hand, without tears, without sorrow
To lead us somewhere, to hide our happiness

Cacher notre bonheur
Hide our happiness

Et je cherche l’ombre
Et je cherche l’ombre
Je cherche l’ombre…

I’m looking for the shadows
And I’m looking for the shadows
I’m looking for the shadows…

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Zeitgeist

There are certain sectors of the art world that crave a useful social role for art. Others see art as an activity making important contributions to intellectual discourse. Many look to art for pleasure. And then there are those who appreciate all of this seriousness, but crave the trappings of the entertainment industry too – fame, power, money, glamour, hierarchies, cultural parochialism. One year the art world is interested in this, the next year it’s interested in that. It wants to party, it wants to be scholarly. Markets go up, markets go down. At the same time as the Serpentine Gallery is showing Gustav Metzger, people are posing for photographs licking a giant chocolate facsimile of a Jeff Koons sculpture and throwing themselves on giant mounds of peanuts at the gala opening of PERFORMA 09. America elects a mildly progressive president and suddenly people scream ‘socialism’ as if the year is 1954 and Senator McCarthy is on the warpath. Everything changes and nothing changes.

Dan Fox in Frieze, January-February 2010. Full article here.

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17 Again - Movie Review Linda Randall - Matthew Perry, Zac Efron, Leslie Mann

17 Again – Movie Review Linda Randall – Matthew Perry, Zac Efron, Leslie Mann

17 Again Movie Trailer – Zac Efron

I can’t picture myself wanting to go back in time and relive my high school teen years.

It’s a funny movie, comical writing, this poor guy has spent the last 20 years complaining about the past.

He blames his wife for everything, causing her to want to divorce him.

He is given the opportunity to relive his life again at the age of 17.

He starts to find out about his kids, his wife and all the mistakes (HE) made for the past 20 years.

It’s a good family movie, awesome acting, directing and interesting story line.

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Mountain Goats Live on NPR

It appears that The Mountain Goats are the featured band this week on The All Night Eatery. If you are keeping score, that is 4 posts in one week about the band.

My good friend Zach showed me a video segment on NPR called “Tiny Desk Concert” a few weeks ago. Every week NPR has different guest play an acoustic set live in the office. Past guests have included Fanfarlo, Bowerbirds, and Andrew WK. This week John Darnielle is the featured musician for the show. He plays four songs (including “Going to Georgia”).

Watch it on NPR.com

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Sigh

Such a cliche, I know, to even mention this

But I would so like a clear raincoat!

(That would be Richard Nicoll, doi)

Relatedly, what do you think the atmospheric conditions are like right now in Aberdeen?

Relatedly, who do you think has to go to the library right now?

That’s right!  What is it the kids say?  FML?

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Holly Hardin and The Dry County Band - wring your longneck - American Idol Season 9 Contender for Finals!

Holly Hardin and The Dry County Band – wring your longneck – American Idol Season 9 Contender for Finals!

Okay I think Holly Hardin wins hands down just by listening to her perform in this video.

She is the favorite of the three contenders I found tonight.

Holly received a golden ticket to Hollywood on American Idol!

You know its important to start a following on YOUTUBE before you go audition for American Idol.

I suggested this last year, so I am happy that several of our contenders took my advice.

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Amazing…..

Sneaky Sound System – When We Were Young (Shazam Remix)

Shazam is a young DJ/Remixer from Perth, Australia. He’s done a lot of interesting stuff that I’ve come across the last year or so. This one i hadn’t heard before but it has this wonderful 80’s feeling somehow. The bass line reminds me a bit of D-Train. In the swedish version of this blog that I wrote before I had a couple of his remixes/productions and I will probably repost them here just because they are so good. What the heck, let’s play another one right now.

 

MUNK – Down In L.A. (Shazam Version)

If you have a pair of Cerwin Vega speakers around I’ll suggest that you play this song LOUD and you’ll be more than happy of the result. The bass line in this song is even more D-Train like than in Sneaky Sound System’s song. What i find quite amazing is that Shazam is only 17 or 18 years old. It’s like he has sucked up all the good parts from the retro heap and reassembled them into an updated version of the 80’s.

Tjillevippen

notbugs

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