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day 14; a song that no one would expect you to love

July 13, 2010

I had to think hard for this one. Mainly because to a couple of people, I’m known as the rock/hardcore girl, some others know my guilty pleasure for industrial and new wave, others have seen my indie/folk side, and a few even know I’ve had my phases being addicted to Orbital or Crystal Castles. On [...]

Papier Tigre @ fluc

April 23, 2010

As I have already mentioned, my days have been hell and hell. The peak of it was yesterday, when… well, let’s not get into this. Let’s just say I lost half of my day looking for something I couldn’t find, was laughed at by an old frustrated man at an electrics store when I mentioned [...]

Dreams of Poetry

November 9, 2009

When I was a kid, I wanted to be an astronaut but also an author. In fact, before I had my dreams of becoming an author, I wanted to be a poet. I was obsessed with French 19th Century poets like Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire and Paul Verlaine. When I was around 9 or 10 [...]

Soundtrack for spontaneous baking sessions

June 17, 2009

It’s the end of term, and I really hate June. Oh, I hate it with a passion. for no apparent reason. So when I am not working or at uni (anyway half of my classes seem to be cancelled or postponed) these days, I keep my phone hidden in the depths of the mess that’s [...]

Louise Attaque.

June 29, 2006

So yesterday I was reminiscing about old bands and I suddenly remembered a french band I hadn’t heard in years called Louise Attaque; they’ve got some nice and very catchy folk rock tunes. Their main hit at the end of the nineties (when part of the country was undergoing the celtic music craze) was J’t'emmène [...]