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Alex

Syncopate it!

About Me

It's mostly about drums, in these pages anyway. There's more elsewhere...

Played with BLM, ConcentriC, Public Online Terminal, Moffo Daisy Duke Quartet, Passing Tones, Moustache Verticale, Cruel Shoes, and now FIRST TIME VICTOR ...

Grew-up in Paris, France, but now enjoy the rain in Van City!

Music.
Outdoors.
books.
Funk.
Funk is happy music. We definitively need more happy music on this planet! Come-on people, let's dance!



Some groovy drums by yours truly:
    Cruel Shoes First Time Victor

"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent." - V. Hugo.

My Interests

Lots...

I'd like to meet:

Humans.
Especially if they are musical...

Music:



BLM, Quantic Soul Orchestra, James Taylor Quartet, Soulive, Bugge Wesseltoft, Cinematic Orchestra, Stereolab, Fela Kutti, Ozric Tentacles, Maceo Parker, Radiohead, The Meters, Linton Kwesi Johnson, The Specials, Alpha Blondy, M, Earth Wind and Fire, Lalo Schifrin, Vivaldi, Massive Attack, Sofa Surfers, Spacious Couch, Noir Desir, Manu Tchao, Ali Farka Toure, Thievery Corporation, Gotan Project...

A demo here...


Movies:

Delicatessen.
Buffet Froid.
7 Samurai

Television:

no TV. Can't even sustain a conversation about "Lost"...
Hopeless.

MAIS : Tetes a claques

Books:

    Permutation City Hyperion Les Miserables Foundation 93

Heroes:

Gandhi; Victor Hugo; Animal; Teri Fox; Asimov; Bradbury

My Blog

Eloge de l'amuseur.

On n'est pas la pour rigoler, on est la pour travailler. Fauteur de troubles, amuseur public, bouffon pathétique, retourne t'en dans la mare fangeuse qui t'a vu croitre, et laisse donc les gens sé...
Posted by Alex on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 11:17:00 PST

Save Internet Radio !!!

If you live in the US and listen to Web Radios, or if you listen to US based web radios, then this is the time for ACTION. We need to stop the threat to free culture and easy access to art and creativ...
Posted by Alex on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:22:00 PST

Spam ... help fight them

Add this profile to your Top Friends: SpamStopper , read the text there and see how this can help you avoid account Hijacking, or just to say you're not a spammer!Hope it helps....@....
Posted by Alex on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 02:51:00 PST

First Time Victor

 Well, it's done, First Time Victor is online: First Time Victor . Check it out, feel the heat and give feedback !...
Posted by Alex on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:09:00 PST

Emo

I really felt I had to share this. Here's a definition of the word 'Emo' from the Urban Dictionnary :"Genre of softcore punk music that integrates unenthusiastic melodramatic 17 year olds who dont sm...
Posted by Alex on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:18:00 PST

Grunts

There is a problem in this city, Vancouver BC that is. Faced with the constant lack of groovy live acts, one has to get one's funky fix elsewhere, which is sad. Come-on now, isn't there anything beyon...
Posted by Alex on Tue, 25 Apr 2006 05:15:00 PST