ENGLISH // Music, movies, friends, sound, food, cooking, travelling, sound engineering and music production, learning about different cultures and languages,FRENCH // la musique (écouter, concerts, jouer, mixer, enregistrer, composer), les films/ciné, le son, voyager, les langues, manger, la cuisine, faire des rencontres, découvrir des endroits, des cultures différentes, sport, nature... J'aime aussi faire des trucs bizarres genre inventer le max possible de noms de groupes métal terminant en "a"..
Interesting people, music and movie freaks, sound geeks, people in my "heroes" list...
I like all kinds of music... even things some people wouldn't call music. I rarely like the radio formatted stuff (although some), but i'd go with anything else. Here are some of my favorites: the Mars Volta, the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Foo Fighters, Jimmy Eat World, At The Drive-In, Ash, Less Than Jake, Oxes, Alanis Morissette, Biffy Clyro, !!!, Weezer, Pink Floyd, No Use For A Name, Reel Big Fish, Thrice, Coheed and Cambria, jazz standards and free jazz stuff like Aka Moon, Greetings From Mercury (BE), John Zorn, anything with Mike Patton in it, Gorillaz, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Incubus, good old skate punk stuff like Pennywise, Bad Religion, Lagwagon, NoFX... Flogging Molly, the Dillinger Escape Plan, AC/DC, Guns N' Roses, Metallica, Nada Surf, Air, Brian Setzer, Belvedere, Muse, Queen, K's Choice, Björk, Girls in Hawaii, the Prodigy, Troy Von Balthazar, Autechre, Miss Kittin, Radiohead, the Clash, Zu, J.Hendrix, blues.. You can find most of those in my "friends" list. IN MY MUSIC PLAYER LATELY: Jeff Buckley - Grace, Biffy Clyro, Radiohead - Amnesiac, K's Choice - Almost Happy, Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E., Troy Von Balthazar, Jamie Lidell - Multiply, Foo Fighters, Tool - 10,000 Days, Jimmy Eat World, Massive Attack - Blue Lines, The Beatles - the "white album"...
The Virgin Suicides, Donnie Darko, The Big Lebowski, Mulholland Drive, Pulp Fiction, American Beauty, American History X, Almost Famous (Presque Célèbre), Fight Club, True Romance, the Hot Shots series, Star Wars (1st trilogy), Cidade de Deus, all Pixar productions, Girlfight, C'est Arrivé Près de Chez Vous, Astérix: Mission Cléopâtre, La Cité de la Peur, La Grande Vadrouille, Forrest Gump, Lost in Translation, Slam, Million Dollar Baby, Last Action Hero, Shrek, Long Way Home (Raising Victor Vargas) Coffee and Cigarettes, Garden State, The Perfect Gardener, L'Enfant, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Transamerica, Broken Flowers, JFK, The Rules of Attraction, Violence des échanges en milieu tempéré ... FILMMAKERS: S.Coppola, D.Lynch, Q.Tarantino, O.Stone, the Coen Bros., J.Jarmusch, K.Loach, P.T. Anderson, S.Spielberg, D.Cronenberg, F.Meirelles, C.Eastwood, les frères Dardenne, L.Besson, JP Jeunet, M.Kasovitz, S.Mendes, D.Fincher, T.Burton, T. Gilliam, J. McTiernan, J. Carpenter, R. Scott, S. Frears, L. Clark, G. Lucas, J.Cameron, G.Noé, P.Lioret, O.Welles...
Tracks (Arte TV), D6bels (RTBF), The Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy, the A-Team (back then), Futurama, Six Feet Under... Documentaries on culture, nature..
CURRENTLY READING: "Here, there, and everywhere : My life recording the music of the Beatles" by Geoff Emerick (chief engineer for the Beatles) and Howard Massey. OTHER READINGS: "John Peel - A Life In Music" by M.Heatley, "Mastering Audio" by B.Katz, "All You Need Is Ears" by George Martin (producer of the Beatles) & Jeremy Hornsby, AP, Rock Sound, Rock & Folk, les Inrockuptibles, Keyboards & Recording, Sound On Sound, Mix, Tape Op, Stephen King, Bret Easton Ellis, Amélie Nothomb, Conan Doyle...
John Peel, Tom Morello, D. Lynch, Butch Vig, Sonic Youth, Steve Albini, Rudy Coclet, Michel Lecloux, Brendan O'Brien, Terry Date, Geoff Emerick, George Martin, Andy Wallace, Brian McTernan, Tchad Blake, Rich Costey, Chris Sheldon, Ryan Greene, Martin Luther King, Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski, Mike Patton, Eddie Kramer, Rupert Neve, Gil Norton, Charles Peterson, S. Coppola, N. Mandela, le Dalaï Lama, Ghandi, the Dada movement...