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About Me


MORE AND MORE VIDS IF YOU CLICK ON "MY VIDEOS". These films are all made with a small sony "cybershot" camera... I put on this page pictures and movies(despite i have to compress it 75%to post it!!) I do in party's, happenings,performances, concerts etc..some kind of revue of what happens in Belgium and around, essentially in the jazz,soul, garage,ska and r n roll scene, Actually there are more garage films as they arent so many sixties SOUL or cool-jazz concerts around...grrrrr....
creation of mademoisellejean, acting caroline for a performing at Micca club in Roma on 31)10-2006
Well..I am shure you know her!!

burlesque at its best,this lady is a singer too...she did that perfect burlesque show for diesel event in Antwerp at the end of 2005, but who is she? If some know...
An Italian band based in Paris;they play sixties acid-jazz-bogaloo....their name : INTRIGO (life at the sounds in Brussels)
My sweetheart MADEMOISELLE JEAN deejayin at diesel event in Antwerp, end 2005

My Interests

I wouls say I am a fetishist in differents ways of meaning : working on my old cars and searching for ol vinyl records on flea markets, record shops and internet.....I like many kinds of vintage things like cameras, books,clothing,packagings etc etc... Fixing totally useless things is great too...who needs 25 chairs and dozens of lamps home...even fixed (yes but see darling ..its works!!)?? Who needs thousands of pulp books,dozens of thorens cigarette lighters-because-its-the same-name-as-the-records-player)when he stopped smoking...Who needs to turn his home in an absurd museum...and I won't tell you about my other meanings...SAVE ME....
my garage where I "rebuild" old cars....and other thinks..
Funny garage I know in Brussels...but I wont give you the adress!!!!

I'd like to meet:

I met(well..I saw!) : Cab Calloway...thanks LORD..
In a fictive life...well..Robert Mitchum because of his way to play naturally..nonchalence...
Somebody gave me a postal card of Louise Brooks when I was six of seven...felt instantly in love and still got the card!! some friends wonder why I have a sorta "fetichism" for ladies in black or brown hairs with a certain hairdress!!
Lauren Bacall; I saw her once in Deauville : The eye!!!

Music:

cool-jazz, be bop, vocals (like Mose Alisson or Babs Gonzales), uptempo blues, doowop, soul, northern soul, African jazz , highlife, ethiopian old music, calypso, early ska etc etc...Old French(Frehel!!)..and sometimes, in some moods,a bit of garage, psyche and rock(abilly or others lol)
Found in a 1933 german mag;a full metal tubular and glass record player!!

dancefloor at mod weekender Antwerp 2005(or was it 2004?)

Movies:

the beat girl, the connection(shirley clark),jazz classics like jammin'the blues or cabin in the sky... Cassavetes,early b&w Russ Meyer,Jacques Tati, William Klein... Caro&Jeunet, Kusturica, woody Allen, John waters, David Lynch...

Television:

sixties classics like avengers, mannix,persuaders,star trek(yes!), cosmos 1999(shame), Hitchcock presents, the twilight zone.....absolutely fabulous(more recent!!)...

Books:

crazy bout the early french collection "la serie noire", old pulps, jim thompson, david goodis, chester himes, iceberg slim, boris vian, toni morrison,aldous huxley,richard wright .. Alan Lomax , mezz mezzrow, Robert Goffin... Desmond Morris, Maurice Maeterlinck...

Heroes:

From the DUKE that created "the mooche"(Allways gets me in a strange mood) to...Smokey Robinson by exemple, via Cab Calloway, or Little Walter, Gainsbourg... Actors..Writers.Insane and dirty people,freaks..what can I say..!!
IN SOME OTHER WAYS, ALL THE GUYS AND KITTIES YOU CAN SEE ON FOLLOWIN PICS, designing, collecting and playing music, acting, modeling, painting, performing, managin crazy shops, doing festivals, makin' pictures, filming etc, etc....all of them making my town(and my country) an exceptionnal place ; Brussels, Belgium...actually, there are many more people I'd like to take in picture but I m a bit shy..heheeee..
Cats talk!!
Dizzy's sister: Pam.. she's...veterinary!!
Deejaying at Dita Vonteese performance,Antwerp2007
Julie:P-R, Aurore,stylist,deejay,and Lise;stylist,model..
Mademoiselle Jean : stylist(and many more)
Lise: stylist, Aurore JEAN: stylist and julie: icon!(and public relation)
Aurore JEAN: stylist
Vanessa: artist, stylist and performer
J-P : Parisian BELGIUMLOVER and hot vinyl record collector!
Caroline: actress, performer...
Sophie: art painting restauration..
Fanch: photographer
Lise: stylist, model...
Julie: public relation
Sharon is incredible:she's musician,singer,painter,performer,model sometimes,organise events and music festival,record collector..etc..
Gregg is a stylist...
Caroline again
Mademoiselle JEAN's shop 100 rue dansaert 1000 Brussels
Samantha: great singer,despite she doesn't sing anymore grrrr...model, performer...
Alex : bass player,scooterist...
Jack:singer,guitar, garagist,specialist in oldtimer electricity
Vanessa again and friend
Timmy: he's got the best northern soul vinyl collection I know!!!
Anya: aestete,she collects vintage clothing like hell,collects vinyl records.etc...