Kids These Days

I strongly believe Mark Ronson should get the fuck off my lawn...

Alas, they need a new jury

Vine Mercuryu' peste noi si eu de abia acum ma prind. Nomimalizari... Luati de aici. Tristete mare, din punctul meu de vedere. Nici un album care sa zic ca imi place cap-coada. Estelle si Adele mi se par niste glume. In Rainbows nu am putut sa il ascult (vechea mea problema cu Radiohead, ii admir, dar ii ascult din an in paste si atunci doar Fake Plastic Trees). De Last Shaddow Puppets m-am si plictisit. Laura Marling are o voce ok, un album la fel..La fel pot sa zic si de albumul Neon Neon. Dar nu merita Mercury short list. Elbow and British Sea Power never got me. Dupe ce ca anul trecut, domnii cu short listu' l-au ignorat pe Patrick Wolf si al lui sublim Magic Position, anul asta, they disappoint me again. Hai, nu o fac pe the desperate fan si nu le cer sa ii puna pe Horrors ca stiu ca deh... nu e muzica pentru oricine. You do need a certain acquired taste. Dar cand niste formatii superbe iti vin cu niste albume cu coaie (adica domnii de la Foals si domnii de la These New Puritans cu Antitodes si Best Pyramid...)... ei, eu ii vreau plecand acasa macar cu numele pe short list. Si poate pe domnii de la TNP cu premiul, bocind mai rau ca Clacsoanele anul trecut.

Iemtivi

So... imi intrerup programul obisnuit de impachetare si shopping sprees (coming home and sales in france, baby) to bring you this... O mizerie de articol... bine, poate articolul in sine nu ar fi chiar asa o mizerie.... asta daca you are able to read it, which I was not.... as it is writen in font 5 (if such a thing exists *checks Word...* it does)... Now, where was I? Ah, yes... the article...

Pam pam!!! (erm... you scroll down and look for the Interpol part of it...)

How dare they say that? Editors, a second-rate version of Interpol... and they dare add 'to put it kindly?'.... Stiupid... veri stiupid....

These Days

nancy boyo: o sa ocup doar eu o sala in care se tin lucrurile...
adina: nu vreau sa ma gandesc if you had an apart


Am terminat anu'... Acum, all I have to do is pack. Aaaaaall my stuff. To give you a hint... am 20 de pungi mari de H&M si 10 pungi tot mari de Fnac. Nu, nu sunt pline. Nu acum. Erau odata. Acum ce era in ele has to go intr-o valiza de 30 de kile, una de 25 si doua genti mai mici. Si nu numai ce era in ele, ci si ce mai aveam si eu adus de acasa (to give you another hint: in septembrie, cand am venit aici cu mama am avut doua valize de 50 de kile impreuna, in care mama nu avea mai nimic...). Haine de iarna, all my books, all my bags, the shoes I won't take with me. Perechea mea de hamsteri imputiti si extrem de jegosi (ar trebui sa mentionez ca 'hamsteri' se refera la skate shoes... as le spunem... erm... noi... ). Pe aia unde &#@%&^#^$ ii pun? Ca sa nu mai zic ca am OPT perechi de pantofi pe care nu le iau cu mine. In cutii. Si intr-o cutie sunt conversii mari si grosi de iarna. Tre sa vad ce fac cu ALL the cds (remember the 10 bags from fnac?). Toate posterele pe care le-am dezlipit de pe stalpi de pub. Si cel mai important... tre' sa il scot pe asta micu' *points down* din camera...

INSA's burning

Off topic again, cause we love them... we'd do off topics for just about everything in our life. Anyways, as I was going to say... Living in a dorm, in a campus is a wonderful thing... I think... School's almost done and the whole of Insa is having a blast getting pissed... So, last night (... she said, oh baby, don't feel so down...), some people thought they'd have some fun and started yelling around the first year dorms... made whole lotta noise... so the people in charge of the two buildings decided to pull the fire alarms at about 10 pm and get everybody out of their rooms... That was not fun... Then, some retard thought of pulling the fire alarm just after the storm started... so we could have a little shower.... Bloody hell...I have a cold, you blatant retards...and I was watching 'Ciggarrettes and Coffee'... again... (and my room mate was watching 'Love Actually'... riiight...) ... I have a gig to attend tonight, so hopefully I won't be here when some other retards pull the fire alarm...

Somewhat on topic: have tagged all my Clash... oh., yeah... now i can listen to 'Lost In the supermarket' and 'overpowered by funk' and 'brand new cadillac' and they'll get scrobbled on lastfm...whoa!

Din ciclul 'Bienvenu a l'INSA'

Se intampla inaintea primul examen din sesiunea juin 2006... la INSA, evident...

I didn’t mean to do it, but I just have to…

… Write about my university (after almost ten months, you kinda need to...) … Which is in fact (en effet) not a university… why? Cause nous sommes français and in France (içi) a university is something with a wider approach on teaching and learning blah blah… No, this is what they call ‘grande ecole’ (high school you mean?). Here, they mock you with their bloody system…Because, you see, dear reader, to be in a ‘grande ecole’ you have to do a ‘cycle preparatoire’… oh, dear… quickie… I forgot to introduce my grande ecole… Institut National de Sciences Appliqués… Insa… if you manage to get through the 5 years of Insa, you get to be an engineer… So, as I was saying… usually, les cycles preparatoires are not part of the grande ecole…you do them before and then you get into a grande ecole… Insa has it as a part of it… now, what exactly is a ‘cycle prepa’? Well, it is something like a high school…ah, desolée… lycee, car nous sommes française… just that you have to work all the time (morning, day and night, how New Order would say). If you don’t work, you get a 5/20… if you do work, you get a 10/20… Insa will basically be the death of you… You have to figure things mostly by yourself… and work, because that’s what an engineer has to do… work work work (maybe sleep) (sorry, Rakes, no pub and no club – prietenii stiu de ce- engineers must has no free time to party). After you’ve worked like a mule… you get to pass this sort of mid-term… yes, normal universities have mid-terms… they usually take place all in the same time, nice and neat… here you have them spread through out the whole semester… these test have been brilliantly named ‘INTERROGATION”… more commonly know as interro… when you have such a thing, you DO NOT have time to think.. You should’ve worked enough in order to apply standard patterns of exercise solutions… like a perfect future-engineer who do things like a little perfect machine… de plus/moreover, these interros are designed so that you do not have the time to finish … Still licking yr wounds after such a massacre, you head towards the wonderful travaux practiques (physiques and chemistry… a true joy) aka the experiments… this turn into a true holocaust… as a foreigner, it is the first time you do it… and you have to do it with a French person… the little prick who’s gonna be yr co-TP is familiar with the horrid techniques… they’ve already dome this at lycee… wankers! The truly fun part is the ‘cahier de TP’… you have to write down what you did during the three hours of sheer hell… and you get graded… and then, they heavily amuse themselves by making you pass a test… you have to do one TP all by yrself… go figure… The fun part comes when you actually think you know… guess what, you don’t! (such a cliché, but so true…)… Il faut que tu bosse plus… Mais je peut plus… Hein? Ah, on s’en fiche… Then you get one week of final exams… each semester… when you work you arse out and still get a mediocre grade… nothing new there… If you didn’t find this frustrating enough, wait till you get to yr language class… because at Insa you have to have 6 hours of sciences d’humanite… I don’t care what the French do during these 6 hours, I am here as a foreigner… so, as a foreigner… if you suck at French, you do 6 hours of French… pas d’probleme… if you have 4/2 hours of French or if you are so good that you don’t have to do French, you do English… it’s a must… and you usually get frustrated… cause you are not English, thus cannot speak as well as an English person, thus the maximum you get as a grade is 15… Bite me! … the true and outstanding entertainment starts for 2 to zero hours of French…you get to do ‘communication’(also known as ‘stupidisation’) with the French… and you have this huge amount of presentations and you end up being fed up with life… however, I cannot guarantee for this one, I have 4 hours… I am sure there are more thrills to come next year… however, right now I still have about 15 more exams… the first is on Friday and is in chemistry… well, it’s thermodynamics… so it’s more like physiques… ah, ça me soule... and I think I smoked a little too much this evening… I need some decent sleep… maybe some foot therapy…

Like Eating Glass

This was supposed to be a review of the Bloc Party gig in Lyon... However, there were no tickets when i went to get one... a month ago, that is... Somebody told me there were none 3 months ago... Putain...

This blows

Okay, okay...New Order breaking up... I can handle it... But Larrikin Love *hands to the forehead...theatrical gesture* WHY??? Well, at least now I can be all dramatical and play depressed... and insane... *sad sigh*...

I couldn't pick ONe vid...so here's four... FANTABULOUS!!!!


Happy as Annie



Six Queens



Downing Street Kindling



Edwould

*faints*

*hyperventilates* Why was I not told about THIS earlier????!!!!! My valium, where's my valium....???!!!!

Editie Speciala....

Si uite cum o ora de Antena 3 - editie special m-a convis sa intrerup obistnuita serie de bloguri bout music/my life....si sa ma inchin si pe blog de haosul politic din Romania....Trei luni lipsesc si eu....si astia isi fac de cap in ultimul hal...Aflu ca Basescu e suspendat...*complete silence*...si Tariceanu isi faureste un guvern nou-nout...shinny, i might say...Ca sa nu uit de "decesul.....aliantei"(pana mea...iti sta inima in loc cand auzi pauza facuta).. hence...no PD in the new gouvernment...sa raman fara CO2(la cate gaze de esapament se elibereaza in Bucuresti, am ramas de mult fara oxingen...or air, as a matter of fact)...La cum arata Boc si la ce face Basescu, eu le propun un remake "Lord Of The Rings"....Boc = one of those hobbits....Basescu= the big black evil dude(na, ca am uitat cum il cheama...)...Tariceanu= Aragorn(?)...Voiculescu = Saruman(parca asa se scria...)....Stiu, stiu..nu le am cu politica...nu ma pricep si nu imi sta bine pe post de comentator ala cretinitatilor facute/spuse de Romania's very own ex-topmodel....Asa cum nici politicienilor romani nu le sta bine pe post de politicieni...Funny, aren't I?

Packing Dillemas

Why are all my H&M bags so huuuge? Why do I have so many pairs of Converse? Why does one need so many clothes in order to be hip? Why do I have to wash my towles home, in Romania?

Uptade of previous post: well, Arcade Fire have canceled 9 shows...among which the one on Saturday in Lyon...so, on Saturday I won't have to be depressed...However, I still hate the guts of that fets, Les nuits des fourviers...Lou Reed is playing on the 3rd of july...and I...well, I am NOT in Lyon....nooooo....!!!

*staring at the screen*

Life is mocking me...Why, I hear you ask? well...remember the fact that Arcade Fire and Electrelane were playing in Lyon on 31 March and I'm going back to Romania for the Easter holiday on the 30th...well,Arcade fire are playing again here in Lyon at Le Festival "Les Nuits Des Fourvieres"...on the 18th of July...I am NOT in Lyon at that date...I officially hate the guts of this fest...In '06...just 2 weeks before I got to Lyon, The Strokes played during this fest...Now, excuse me...I must crawl in a dark corner and wallow in self-pitty...erm..till next gig, that is...Blood Arm + Second Sex...fancy...*remembers she must wallow in self-pitty...so she starts doing it*

The Top + Some Wallowing In Self-Pitty

1. !!! - a fab band they are....and a fab new album they have....

2. Klaxons - funny fuckers....hairy...but so funny(just for the fuck of it...here's a pic of James Righton of yr beloved Klaxons)

3.The Strokes

4.Cut Copy - And God said 'There shall be great Ausralian bands!`

5.Queens Of The Stone Age - had a metal moment this week-end...been listening to SOAD and Tool...while Bican was Listening to Klaxons....:|

6.Nouvelle Vague

7.The Rapture

8.Hot Club De Paris - they are wonderful...Do add them to the incredibly long list of bands I adore

9. The Libertines

10.Van She - See no.4


Now....the wallowing part....My Windows had a breakdown...I do believe I'll get it fixed soon...But i do not have Internet in my room(I have to come to the Centre Info...) and....well...i don't have a computer period....And I need it!!!!!

La nouvelle scene française....part 1...

France has got itself a shinny new indie scene….The only problem is the half of ‘la nouvelle scene rock française sucks…ça pute! Majoritatea nu ar fi in stare sa faca ceva remarcabil nici daca James Murphy le-ar fi producator, Warhol manager si Morrissey lyricist…And THAT says a lot…
First in line: NAAST…Been dubbed “Libertines of France”…Evident ca muream de curiozitate sa ascult this wonder band…Si am ascultat…And..pam pam…Mi-a lasat impresia unui grup de tanci de 5 ani care se joaca cu p… in tarana…Dezolant..
NAAST - Mauvais Garçon.mp3

Then there’s Plasticines….some kind of a bad French version of The Pipettes who try to be a feminine alternative to The Strokes…’try’ is the key word…They happen to be the most know out of this new wave of acts….not due to their music…but to the fact that they are ‘mignonnes’( NME’s Stephen Worthy said it)…Their debut “LP1” doesn’t get through a first listening…It just sounds like a huge pajamas party held in a pink Cadillac…12 year-old style….
06 (Zazie fait de la) Bicyclette.mp3

Bikini Machine’s music doesn’t make me see things different either….They do make me think of Louis XIV stripped of all the decadence, glamour and energy….And this is usually the problem of all these bands: they try to sound ‘English’…ça veut dire: like the British/American indie scene….but they lack the cultural background…because they are French….doh…
03 La pharmacie anglaise.mp3

I should mention Vanessa and The O’s...But they are just far too easy to forget and sound like…erm…nothing….Completely dull….I read about them in “Rock&Folk” where Busty was praising their music…Busty, honey…I thought you knew good music…being a Libertines fan and everything…
04 Something Is Calling.mp3

I’ve also seen some French acts opening for various bands I’ve seen live…Apple Jelly and Tatiannas(I believe that was the name) are two other examples of bad bad and oh-so-wrong music…Fortunately...I do not have any of their songs….Desolée…

Angry Mob....

No, I'm not attending ALL the gigs in Lyon...Putain....Not only that I'm leaving a day before Arcade Fire and Electrelane will preform here....*maximum frustration*...but the guys from The Blood Arm have changed the date of their gig..It was supposed to be on the 15th of April...perfect...I get back here on the 14th...But noooooooo...Now, they reported it for the 11th of April...I am NOT here the 11th...I can't decide whether i should be heavily depressed, pull the shuters of my room and stay in the dark(after the Kalxons gig and untill the Rakes one, naturally) or just take the attitude "Life's just mocking me again...oh, well, I should mock it, too).....