EDIT: english comic version click here english translation: july, 21 2009, somewhere on the highway between Santiago and Santander, Spain. Paula gives me an initiation to the local traditional music. -"that's real nice from her, but still... 2 hours non-stop spanish music karaoke is a bit..."
july, 24, santander festival, Alaska, the movida's queen show. -if you had to compare Alaska to another artist I might know, who would it be? -Well, let's see... -That's hard to say, it's an icon in Spain you know? -I would say Grace Jones, as she get through all eras by marking with her own vogue and style. -Okay, it's clearer to me now. -Here she comes on stage, let's see how the "spanish Grace Jones" looks like. note that the show was really great
english translation: it's there, I can feel him... He's just... ...THERE! Nothing? I was sure that... F**C! He was behind me! There, I gotcha. Now, the way is clear ; just this corridor and.... GODDAMNITYAIYAI!AREYOUNUTS?I'MPLAYINGDOOM3YOUSCAREDTHSHITOUTOFME'GONNAKILLYA!
english translation: Well, well, listen hard, you can hear me singing in my room, during my shower, in my car, anytime I think I'm alone. I'll give up my ES 335 for the microphone next sunday, at the Luna Rossa.
J'aurais bien utilisé l'expression "trauma de trentenaire" mais le plagiat a des limites (ceci dit vous pouvez cliquer vers pingoo, c'est bon pour le moral). Sometime, things taste like teenagehood. That's what we call the 30 years itch (go check Pingoo btw...)
Bref, en ce moment, c'est la saison, je régresse et voilà-t'y pas que je redécouvre un groupe de métal mythique nommé CATHEDRAL que c'est heavy comme on aime, que leur halbume s'appelait The Ethereal Mirror Well, those days, I'm regressing and listen an ol' heavy metal band called CATHEDRAL, especially THE ETHEREAL MIRROR Album
(vous avez déjà entendu l'expression "disco metal"?) Have you ever heard of "disco doom"?
I weight about 45kgs, and those heavy metal suits only exist in XXl size, my, my...
On the other hand, I got a huge success while crowd surfing, sometimes wholes songs long!
Bref; et or donc, comble du revival-régressivo-heureux, quoique je retrouve tout à l'heure dans mon tiroir à trésor de mes 17 ans? Ze ticket du concert à l'Elysée Montmartre et dédicacé par...-par qui? Il me semblait que c'était le bassiste mais je n'arrive plus à déchiffrer le nom... Si y'a une âme charitable dans la salle, hein..?
(and so looked my friends also.) And, guess whot? I just found an oooooooooold concert ticket with I-can't-read-your-name autograph on it! Was it the bas guitarist? Can't say, can't remember. Enfin voilà quoi, il fallait que jeunesse se passe, ça c'est fait, au moins j'aurai des trucs à raconter à mes petits z'enfants, quoi, merde. Anyway, those were the dayz, I will have somethingto tell my grandchildren then...
english translation: what? already 3 weeks without updating the blog? This is going to kill my stats! Quick! A sketch! Something! I need anything to post! Quick scan! Quick levels! Quick clone stamp! Save as...
The quick pinup of da week Now, THAT is what I call update!
english translation: in just 2 weeks... ...no less than 4 different girls... ...slept in my room... ..and opened the shutters right in front of my neighbour.
...too bad I wasen't in my bed with them in those very moments. "I told you, a girl a day, I SAW those creatures!" "and he's married with a foreigner, my, my, my..."
Français expatrié chez les sauvages du bout du monde-qui-ne-savent-même-pas-parler-français, je dois dire que ce défi est plutôt facile à relever, toute la difficulté étant même de ne choisir QUE 3 points énervants.
A mon tour donc de tagguer d'autres expatriés: Pif de chez les Belges, Roland de chez les Canadiens, AKA, en Italie et Aurélien de chez les euh... Alsaciens (ça compte aussi).
english translation: I've been taggued by Philippe's café froid. I shall name 3 things that bug me off. That will be sooooo easy, as a french expatriate, all the rest of the world is nagging me
First, (in the "it's an hard life I'm livin'" serie), I hate when my cracker broke and fall down in my coffee and splash everything around.
Then (in the "of mice and men" serie), I hate when someone give me an quick geopolitical lesson that I diden't ask for. "I mean, chinese really sucks to eat tibetan dogs during the olympics, seewhatImean?" bonus: sometimes, they add some a personal attack (and it could be the same person and the same conversation) "And, I mean," how do you earn your livin' apart from sketching stuff?"
...but what REALLY piss me off is...
"hey? Sarkozy says he will finally meet the Dalaï-Lama later..." "Somebody PLEA-SE SHUT HIM UP!"
...when our president is trying international diplomatics...
english translation: rhaaaa, I fuck**ng can't believe it! The chinese team's no match to the US team When I was a little girl, we used to watch basketball on TV with my mom. We really enjoyed watching. F**ck! PASS! RUN! JUMP! SMASH! HAAA! POOKAÏ! ASSH**LE! He loose the ball! It's over! Do you know what you look like while watching sport on TV? What? Lies! You always sketching me so ugly! You're mean!
english translation It's already one month, a whole month that we moved, we left the small island of LAMMA, the small house with small garden, my small bounty, quack of paradise that I liked so much.
10 days with intense packaging period with many " haaann my yellow-platic-duck , where should I arrange it? in the cardboard box " bath toys "? Or in the cardboard box " sex-toys"? , 10 days during which one wonders how one could live with as many tricks that one does not even remember to have bought nor used one day.
"We 're gonna need more cardboard boxes"
The happy pet's owners and friends will not contradict me undoubtedly if I tell the true part of pleasure which was the emprisonnement in cage of our cats, which had measuring rod very well what occurred and like so much to be made encaged in a gray plastic box which smells the cat's wee. Between the mewings and the desperate blows of claws as they feels the slaughter-house…
"I KNOW you don't like it and I DON'T CARE! Now get into that fu***ng cage!"
… we just close for the last time the sheet door of the house, repressing a small tear by thinking of the beach that I leave. Admittedly there were 2 months of rain not-stop, moisturing which rots the linen, the walls which mildew and the centipedes which come to take refuge under the pillow; but all that is finished.
"Can't believe it's SUNNY NOW!!!!!"
(good weather fixes on all hongkong since qu' one left, grrr…)
The last voyage in ferry, 30 minutes of happiness to feel last once the spray, fuel oil, as much familiar odors which I will also miss.
"Smells strange, doesn't it?" "I know, Yaiyai just peed in her vomit"
To return downtown, in the family apartment of Waiyim, in Tseung Kwan O, residential district ZUP-style containing buildings of 38 floors, even for a guy from Paris like me, that always impressing.
"Yeaaahh, back in my place!" "yeaaaaaahhh..."
Return in the apartment thus, where neither the song of the birds, nor the gracious flight of the butterflies will rock us more. Nature, is like capri, is finished. Bouh.
"Yeaaahhh, let's open the carboard boxes again... OMG! There was a centipede inside!"
english translation: Meet Bebert. Yo. Bebert is a Geotrupidae (from Greek geos, earth, and trypetes, borer), a member of the family of beetles in the order Coleoptera. They are commonly called dor beetles or earth-boring dung beetles. Indeed. Wings-equipped, the geotrupidae can fly with a characteristic buzzing. Do I look "characteristic" to you? WTF. Those insects are typically detrivores, provisioning their nests with leaf litter (often moldy), but are occasionally coprophagous, similar to dung beetles. Yeah, yeah. Not my favourite meal really. and I... Uh? what's that? They sometimes drink the sap of cutted trees or mature fruits. GOD! Look at that! You can witness dozen of them dying in a beer can left in the forest. Yumm, it's an 5-days-old' one at least!
english translation: (TOC!)
(singing): 99 bottles of beer (hips) on the wall...
According to the latest news, Bebert and his pals are alright, they are sleeping it off in lamma's garden.
I got up to 6 drunken beetles a day, falling in the garden. Even my cats are bored. But every time, I felt I HAVE to help them to rollover upright. (drinker's solidarity)
(Independent Media Center) -- (...)Lakota Sioux Indian representatives declared sovereign nation status on Wednesday, December 19th in Washington D.C. following Monday’s withdrawal from all previously signed treaties with the United States Government. The withdrawal, hand delivered to Daniel Turner, Deputy Director of Public Liaison at the State Department, immediately and irrevocably ends all agreements between the Lakota Sioux Nation of Indians and the United States Government outlined in the 1851 and 1868 Treaties at Fort Laramie, Wyoming.
“This is an historic day for our Lakota people,” declared Russell Means, Itacan of Lakota. “United States colonial rule is at its end!” “Today is a historic day and our forefathers speak through us. Our Forefathers made the treaties in good faith with the sacred Canupa and with the knowledge of the Great Spirit,” shared Garry Rowland from Wounded Knee. “They never honored the treaties, that’s the reason we are here today.”
The four member Lakota delegation traveled to Washington D.C. culminating years of internal discussion among treaty representatives of the various Lakota communities. Delegation members included well known activist and actor Russell Means, Women of All Red Nations (WARN) founder Phyllis Young, Oglala Lakota Strong Heart Society leader Duane Martin Sr., and Garry Rowland, Leader Chief Big Foot Riders. Means, Rowland, Martin Sr. were all members of the 1973 Wounded Knee takeover.
Property ownership in the five state area of Lakota now takes center stage. Parts of North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming and Montana have been illegally homesteaded for years despite knowledge of Lakota as predecessor sovereign [historic owner]. Lakota representatives say if the United States does not enter into immediate diplomatic negotiations, liens will be filed on real estate transactions in the five state region, clouding title over literally thousands of square miles of land and property.
Following Monday’s withdrawal at the State Department, the four Lakota Itacan representatives have been meeting with foreign embassy officials in order to hasten their official return to the Family of Nations.
The Lakota reservations are among the most impoverished areas in North America, a shameful legacy of broken treaties and apartheid policies. Lakota has the highest death rate in the United States and Lakota men have the lowest life expectancy of any nation on earth, excluding AIDS, at approximately 44 years. Lakota infant mortality rate is five times the United States average and teen suicide rates 150% more than national average . 97% of Lakota people live below the poverty line and unemployment hovers near 85%(...)" source: http://www.inteldaily.com/?c=144&a=4650
Finally! It happens! The Awakening of the first tribes of the Earth! My brother's long march! Nothing could muzzle the wisdom of Native Americans anymore! Soon, many will join our cause. Yet the Lakotas, and then, the World! Together, to victory! (slam) ...t-too cold... g-get there t-tomorrow...
Dédicace à tous mes ami(e)s Appleiens: Didou, iris, Julie, etc. english translation: What the F**K?! Boh? What's happening Waiyim? The Mac Power Adapter's cable just fried! No problem! I'll take care of it! Lemme fix it, I will... NO WAY! You WON'T TOUCH my computer! I'm gonna call Apple Care shop service. Yes? I come with the warranty tomorrow morning? Yes. causeway Bay, right. ...blahblahwas working...blah..smoke smellblah...) Yes, Power Adapter is defective, unfortunately warranty's over for 3 months. It gonna cost 800 HK$ (about 80€) heheheh... EIGHT? BUT THAT'S BURGLARY! Calm, I'll pay for you. Christ, luckily euro's rate of exchange is attractive those days. Thank you Gweilo!
english translation: Wow? What? What did he just asked you? He asked if french people eat bread. okay, time to launch emergency procedure before nervous breakdown, let's do it on 3... one... two... is he still here? S##T, no choice left, 3...! "NI HAO MA?"
...
This very day, I decided to learn to speak chinese.
Alors même que le sympathique Brice Hortefeux reproche aux préfets et à l'entreprise Police Nationale de ne pas faire assez de chiffre d'expulsions, je vous invite à lire cette série d'articles sur la famille Muliqi. arrivée du Kosovo en France en 2002, judicieusement expulsée en août alors que les parents conduisaient un de leurs enfants de 18 mois à l'hôpital. Si vous aussi vous habitez Orléans, ça s'est passé près de chez vous.
Sometimes, it's not your turn to wash the dishes...
english translation: monday, wednesday, saturday sunday. "Why, I'm gonna drink a glass of mint" "Oh? No clean glass left?" "Well, never mind." "Oh, yes, I finished the bottle of mint syrup. Sorry..."
WIDGETIZE