Nature, sea (i'm a former bodyboarder and i'm mad about sea-fishing), walking, photo (it's new for me but it's really great), books, beer (real ale pub is my own conception of heaven), rock (i'm the worst bassist in the world but I keep the faith), culture and basicly the differents forms of Art, and my homeland: Cotentin, my sweet peninsula where I spend my childhood and where my heart remain until doomsday and after :).
Me and the wild bunch, brothers in arms since many years...
From university to the St Peter's port Jamaica inn, always ready for new adventures :)***
If you want to visit OUR wikipedia, I mean wikipedia in Norman (snif, snif... such a great emotion), just click on the button and say Bouônjour ! good reading my friends :
***And if you like the channel island of Jersey and it original culture and way of life, clik on the arms of the Jersey society, which preserve that heritage since more than a century :***Martha High, a terrific punkocaine, they remind me an excellent night on Jersey island(one more?...)Jersey island is a kind of pub-rock avalon for me. Channel islands gave me a different point of vue on a lot of subjects, it's not a perfect place, but, there is no perfect place on the earth isn't it? There, I feel good, that all I wana know, I try to cross the sea from Granville each time I can to spend time on that little charming rock...
I send all my love to my friends from the Toads island...***
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CHOOSE LIFE,CHOOSE FIREFOX !
I'd like to meet:
interesting people, it a good way to begin...
On the road again..., in the past it was the leitmotiv of my life
Warsawa, I'm Norman so travel is in my blood, so, one day I decided to go there alone, just with my bag, it was a really strange trip, lost in that city, I have feel the life in a sharp way, some extraordinary nights some very scary moments in bad places, one night I'have met a portuguese girl from Madere as lost as myself and had the strangest discussion in my life, that night she gave me something, a thing that I keep preciously...
Lisboa, the city where you can touch the dream of travel, there it's real life, I went there with Alex my travel-fellow, it was a great time, fado has steal our souls , thank you maria josé Mélo, thank you Francisco, thank you Lisboa, just wan a say Portugueses I LOVE YOU...
...TO MARIA, THOUSANDS MILES FROM ME,YOU ARE ALWAYS IN MY MIND...Show of hands - "roots" and "country life": That songs... it could talk about Normandy, but "the time they are changing..."The wolf tones - My heart is in Ireland.The songs of exiled peoples are the same everywhere in the world...
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A LITTLE GIFT, SOME PIECES OF FORGOTTEN HISTORY, GOOD READING :
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***ROOTS, forget it, it's being half of a man...When you grew up in such a place, is it possible to have little dreams ? Never tell me about being reasonable...Ocean, the only place for a man to begin to know himself, without it, I would'not be who I'm. My childhood remind there for ever...
La pouquelaye de Faldouét, one of the Jersey magic place
Hastings 1066, Invasion or birth of a nation ? large subject...Richard I of England, coeur de lion, probably our most legendary Duke.
Music:
* pop rock and rock: Joy division,Dépéche mode, Jeff Buckley,sisters of mercy, noir desir, Nine inch nails ("the Fragile" live contain great intimist songs with piano)...
* world music: Oum Kalsoum, Asmahan, tzigan music, Flamenco, Fado...
* classic: Mahler, Satie, Debusy, Shostakovitsch...
Therapy? - Nowhere : Yes, I know, I'm a 90's child, and I'm proud of it, yeahh!!!....
Rage against the Machine - killing in the name : Yes, it's old, yes, things goings on, but I keep faith in future...
My Cort Curbow, my sound excalibur (in a monty python version of my life :) ) being a musician is a too much big word to describe me, in fact I'm just a human metronome :D )
PJ Harvey - the letter : Dark and urban, it's a part of me too, even if it's less present nowadays...
SPONGE : Binary and efficient, my way to enjoy Rock'N'Rollon the road again, again :D
Nine Inch Nails - The Perfect Drug: That clip is a kind of gothic piece of art.
Enjoy the silence - Lacuna Coil version.
why? just because I like it, and because it's the favorite one of someone who is very important for me, it's the better reasons in the world isn't it ?..."les Ecréhou" strange, magic, beyond the world...
New model army - stupid questions : perfect for me, I should not looking for answers, it's the secret of quiet nights...
DEAD CAN DANCE, just enjoy...AHHH !!! Belfast beer, not irish but polish , during my last travel in poland, it was my favorite one, I have spend there great times, marvelous nights and some scary moments, so my dear fellows believes me, when you travel alone in an unknown country, learn to run :D ,Anna Goldsmith, from the isle of Man, what can I say... just listen, you will understand why I like her voice...
Foo fighters - everlong :excellent video, rock is not a so serious stuff and it's perfect in that way .
Jeff Buckley-Hallelujah, just let your mind away and ear the little music of your soul...
May the mighty god keep his hand on your shoulder Johnny, you're the man in black for ever...
Joy division, travel at the center of the night...
singer, poet, who knows, Alain Bashung is just a traveler which show you the way for a trip in your own dusk...Emir Kusturica and the no smoking orchestra - Life is just a tale so keep a smile on your face... unza!unza!unza!
Movies:
movies by David Lynch, Tim Burton, Scorcese,Abel Ferrara, Quentin Tarentino,Emir Kusturica,John Carpenter...
UNDERGROUND : The madness and passion, the only two importants things in life symbolised by that movie.
Sorry, but it's my weird side.For the next elections I have choose : Snake for president!!!...
Television:
twin peaks, american gothic,and...
The new statesman, the TVshow wich would be impossible in France, I'm definitly fan...
Books:
Lermontov Gogol Tourgueniev Boulgakov joseph Conrad Jack kerouac Albert Cohen romain gary and CORTO MALTESE
Heroes:
anonymous heroes who are brave just to do the right thing......and : my parents : always be there for me, my grandfather an old donkey mind but brave enought to resist during the last war.My good old thinkpad R32, ugly black brick design, built as a battletank but always ready for a new adventure ;)The arms of my familly, not the most beautyfull ones but it's ours, a 400 years old history of a normand familly...
***Your sympathic host in a XIXth century style, very Brontê sisters character isn't it ? :) , that photo is a kind of private joke with a friend, I hope he appreciates it. Daguerotypes and old photos are true time-machines I really like it...
***1898 Coutances lycée football team, match versus Avranche, one of them is a member of my familly, can you guess ? Not so easy, well : second line, begining by the right, he is the second one, that dear old August with their English teacher Mr SCHACHER...***
A part of my familly was protestant and have been persecuted by the king of France, Louis the XIV th, they became famous silversmithes in London, founding the English branch, here is the mark of Peter the elder engraved on his work, some of their creations are exposed in European and American museums (for example in Cincinnati)***
The Normandy Tartan, that's a true tartan registred and approved dedicated to the link between scotland an Normandy, yes ! some Normands descendants have fight with Braveheart, one more forgeted history, Normans seems to have an alzheimer illness with their own history, thank you globaliztion :(
For more details click on the tartan !...
Morrissey - Irish blood, english heart.That mix between england and Ireland can be strange for someone from british isles, but how could I choose my side, I'M NORMAND !!!, it would be like choose between my dad and ma or between two child of mine (if I would have child of course ;) ).
So I love the both side, in an objective way, that's true but really and deeply.
The Dubliners - the rocky road to Dublin. Yes I like Ireland, and I deeply love England too, you got a problem with it ? :)That page is dedicated to my sweet homeland, that country like an island, engraved in my heart...
