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Vincent Tigreat

be bold and mighty forces shall come to your aid.

About Me

...nothing more than an almost innocent bystander.
..
You see we were twins, and we got mixed in the bath-tub when we were only two weeks old, and one of us was drowned. But we didn't know which. Some think it was him, some think it was me...

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My Interests

one-armed deejaying, dancing, doodlin', serious chopsticks practice, bad photography, toyz [early shit], Illustrator!!!, ol' movies, havin' been there but loosin' my edge, kool graphic designers & illustrators, HK + Glasgow + Benicassim + Sarajevo... and definetely Macau! la blanquette de maman [avec des coquillettes, pas du riz], stinky cheese, seafood, coriander [cilantro], tapas & experimental cooking.

I'd like to meet:

dunno, new faces with new ideas . . . . . . . . . . .

24 MILLION PARTY PEOPLE

DIRTY
CLUBBER

partner in crime

his
highness

I'm not "robert cure"

evil
step sister

the red menace

delta
hint

jessica
rabbit

our agent in Marseille

le pur
style

go-go dancer number 1

go-go dancer number 2

space
monkey

wheels
of steel

un grand monsieur

redhead
alert

My Friends

Music:

music that make me raise my fist / fall to my knees / scream...
Black Strobe, Cansei De Ser Sexy, Love, Shellac, New Order, Action Biker, The Sunshine Underground, Peter Bjorn & John, Mohd. Rafi, Bonde Do Role, Primal Scream, Ilaiyaraaja, !!!, Manhead, Primal Scream, Minor Threat, Kylie, 808 State, NIN, NWA, ATR, The Shins, The Goats, Ramones, Tiga, The Stooges, Serge Gainsbourg, Divine Comedy, Tricky, Grizzly Bear, Arcade Fire, Smash TV [1st album], DJ Shadow, Sick Of It All, Clearlake, UNKLE, Hypnolove, LRD, Cure, M.I.A. [german band, 1st album], LCD Soundsystem, Gigolo, Ewan Pearson, Out Hud, White Zombie, Etienne Daho, Beyonce, Prong, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Asci Disko, Happy Mondays, Talking Heads, The Grates, The Rakes, House Of Pain, Herman Dune, SFA, Supremes, Pet Shop Boys, The La's, Ministry, Saint Etienne, L7, EPMD, Suburbia, Dick Voodoo, Moving Units, [some] Abba [preferably the spanish versions], Bowie, D.A.F., Claudine Longet, Blur, Tok Tok and Sofy O., Console, Taxi Girl, Undertones, early Madonna, Sisters Of Mercy, Scissor Sisters, Spearmint, S-Express, Stone Roses, Cypress Hill, Xray Spex, Miss Kittin, David Caretta, The Hacker, Legowelt, Alden Tyrell, Young Knives, Gang Of 4, Bis, Flaming Lips, Grauzone, Jeanette, La Casa Azul, Alaska & Dinarama, Rocksteady Crew, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Aphex Twin, DMX Krew, Delta 5, Go Go's, Avengers, Rezillos... The Rakes, The Chinese Stars, Kasabian, The Dresden Dolls, The Shout Out Louds, The Dead 60's, Arcade Fire, Pink Grease, Fancy [the Parisian band, even if the italodisco one was fun], Pink Panzers, Saibu, Bloc Party, Go Go Charlton, Grand National, Winter Camp, The Zutons, The Klaxons, The Spinto Band... rock, 80's + early 90's hip hop, electro, tarty r'n'b, indie pop, electrodiscopunks, bootlegs, italodisco, spanishpop, britpop, french house, new wave / goth anthems, soul, madchester, 70's punk... et bien sur Bobby Lapointe & Jean Yanne.

Movies:

Innocence by Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Shaun of the Dead [a romantic comedy with zombies], Blade Runner - director's cut, not the crappy happyending, Chinatown, Angel Heart, Cronenberg, Gilliam, Miller's Crossing, Wilder, Capra, The Wicker Man [original version, goddamnit!], 20's + 30's + 40's, Harold And Kumar Go To White Castle, The Most Dangerous Game [The Hounds of Zaroff], Blow Up, Vertigo, Greenaway, Tokyo Godfathers, The Wizard of Oz / The Five-Thousand Fingers of Dr. T, Pompoko, early Woody Allen, asian stuff, Donnie Darko, Fritz Lang, Todd Browning's creepy flicks, Dr Strangelove, ol' british comedies, Buffet Froid, J'ai Horreur de l'Amour, Un Air de Famille, Hey Dude..., La Traversee de Paris, Les Copains, Bebert & L'Omnibus, Peril En La Demeure, Un Monde Sans Pitie, animated flicks [not necessarily japanese]... Tracy/Hepburn, Cary Grant, Bogart/Bacall, Garbo, Veronica Lake... Witness for the Prosecution... anything featuring Claude Pieplu, Jean Rochefort, Bernard Haller, Jean-Pierre Mariel, les Deschiens, Bernard Blier, Louis Jouvet, Francis Blanche... and Marty Feldman!
THEATRE : Gerard Desarthe en Don Juan, Podalydes dans Le Revizor, Francois Rollin...

Television:

Operation Frisson, MTV2 120 minutes, Le Cine club [Antenne2, 1980's], Field Dans Ta Chambre [pasqu'encore un peu critique], Ce Soir (ou Jamais !), Le Grand Detournement, The Young Ones, anything by Les Nuls, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Simpsons, Frederic Taddei, anything that's connected to Desproges, Topor, Averty, Francois Rollin, Ribes... LES ENFANTS DU ROCK, Droit de reponse, L'Assiette Anglaise, Kaso Taisho.
Which "24" character are you?

Jack Bauer
You are Jack Bauer!!! You always save the day, you have a sexy voice, and have the longest days too often. Almost all of your love interests die or just get sick of your need to save the world. You're not afraid of sticking it to the man, and if people would listen to you things would get done a lot faster.
Well, it's a dirty job, but I guess someone's gotta do it... need to get anyone tortured, darlin'?
RADIO : Xfm, Le Masque et la Plume [France Inter], C'est Lenoir [France Inter], 2000 ans d'histoire [France Inter], Couleur3 & Radio Beton & Canal 9 & OuiFm in the 90's - the British Broadcasting Corporation [of course]

Books:

growing up in the 70's on a steady diet of kids books [check this one & that one ] from a feminist publishing company [good job, Mum], and adult alternative magazines: Charlie, Charlie Hebdo, Hara-Kiri, Actuel, Pilote, Fluide Glacial, Metal Hurlant...
Javier Arguelo, Ballard, Viken Berberian, Boulgakov, Burroughs, Bukowski, Sophie Calle, Calvino, Capote, Casanova, Celine, Roald Dahl [kids books, short stories, novels, you name it], Philip K. Dick, Ellroy, B.E.E., Jasper Fforde, Frank Herbert, Neil Gaiman, Carl Hiaasen, Chester Himes, Jerome K Jerome, Kerouac, Kipling, Elmore Leonard, Lovecraft, Miller, Mishima, Petrone, DBC Pierre, Poe, Tom Sharpe, Stevenson, Hunter Thompson, John Kennedy Toole, Zweig... Pattern Recognition, The New York Trilogy, England's Dreaming, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, His Dark Material...
Frank Miller, Paul Pope, Corben, Philip Bond, Moebius [preferably superdark 1970's stuff], early Enki Bilal, Hugo Pratt, Grant Morrison, Garth Ennis, Katsuhiro Otomo [there's actually more exciting stuff to read than Akira], Alan Moore, Warren Ellis, Lewis Trondheim... Vania Zouravliov...
and photography books.

Heroes:

Eilert Pilarm & of course the king of Kowloon.

My Blog

6th year behind the decks: parties 2006 - 2007

sat, sept. 16 @ truskeltue, oct. 31 @ ne nous fachons paswed, nov. 15 @ le triptyquesat, nov. 18 @ pop insat, dec. 2 @ café chéri(e)sat, dec. 9 @ truskelwed, dec. 20 @ le triptyquewed, jan. 10 @ le tr...
Posted by Vincent Tigreat on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:36:00 PST

PLAYLISTS

some tracks haven't officially been released when I start playing them, some bands aren't actually signed, hence I suggest you check their Myspace pages and - in case you'd enjoy the mu...
Posted by Vincent Tigreat on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:34:00 PST

dirty P I C N I C

s'y fait beaudimanche, vers 14.30 / 15.00aux Buttes Chaumontamenez à boire, à manger, de la musique si vous pouvezvos amis, votre famille, la concierge... si vous voulez, mais pas trop de chiens.rdv d...
Posted by Vincent Tigreat on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 09:05:00 PST

Miyazaki / Studio Ghibli

Gedo Senkiadapted from Ursula Le Guin's Tales From Earthseadirected by Goro Miyazaki (son of Hayao)Japanese release date: July 29, 2006US: probably not before 2009Europe: ?trailer1:trailer2:...
Posted by Vincent Tigreat on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 06:40:00 PST

holidays

workworkwork. watching concerts from the side of the stage. need a better camera, though. no rain! too much alcohol. no time to talk. sucker DJs. dancing to The Pipettes & Philippe Katerine (great...
Posted by Vincent Tigreat on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 06:03:00 PST

PLAYLIST

  j'en oublie forcément, mais en gros ça donne :   LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - TIGA - YOUNG KNIVES - FRANZ & SHAPE - CANSEI DE SER SEXY - PRIMAL SCREAM - WOLF PARADE - WE ARE WOLVES - PHILIPPE KAT...
Posted by Vincent Tigreat on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 11:10:00 PST

AMAZING

JULY 11, 2005 it's gonna be hard to make better week ends :- teaching THE RAKES to handle such a fucked up PA [the 'limiteur' device is definetely the curse of french venues] while deejaying, drinkin...
Posted by Vincent Tigreat on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

words of wisdom

"those aren't real rockers, they're poseurs.rockin' ain't about getting loaded & actin' like a jerk."Jack Black
Posted by Vincent Tigreat on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

harcèlement

ca commence à bien faire, tous ces connards bourrés et désespérés qui saoûlent les filles dès que l'on rallume les lumières. note pour la prochaine soirée : prévoir des seaux d'eau.
Posted by Vincent Tigreat on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

DJ BOOTH ETIQUETTE

stole this from RESTRICTED: WHAT NOT TO SAY TO THE DJ 1. "Can you play something we can dance too?" In the meantime The Rapture is on. If you can't dance to The Rapture you must really suck i...
Posted by Vincent Tigreat on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST