Ces temps-ci, en rotation intensive sur la platine de tonton Alias: Ayreon, The Human Equation; Therion, Lemuria/Sirius B; Nightwish, Once; et IQ, Dark Matter. Si vous n’aimez pas le grandiose, le mégalo et les morceaux de dix minutes (voire plus, si affinités), passez votre chemin! The Human Equation, de Ayreon. Ceux qui connaissent l’oiseau savent que c’est un mégalo; […]
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La blague est classique: “Deux mauvaises nouvelles aujourd’hui: Claude Nougaro est mort et Michel Sardou est encore vivant.” Remplacez Sardou par le nom d’un artiste que vous n’aimez pas. Je crois qu’elle est de Desproges, mais à mon avis, lui-même l’avait réchauffée.
Daft Punk, je vous hais! Vous m’avez volé mon rêve d’enfant. Case in point: Interstella 5555. Une histoire d’un groupe de rock extra-terrestre qui arrive sur Terre, en dessin animés japonais, illustré et réalisé par un des maîtres du genre: Leiji Matsumoto (Albator). Le tout est un clip video d’une heure, sur la musique de — vous l’aurez deviné — Daft Punk.
Dieu est très tendance. En tous cas si j’en crois mes dernières trouvailles musicales. Or donc, je suis allé faire un tour (en fait, deux) chez mon disquaire préféré, une boutique genevoise microscopique qui a la bonne idée de vendre des trucs que j’aime (et qui en plus n’est pas […]
Il faudrait que je mette à jour mes pages “Animés”. Parce que, depuis que je les ai écrites, c’est pas qu’on en a vu des nouveaux, mais on en a vu des chiées de nouveaux… Hellsing: en un mot: grotesque. Hellsing est le nom d’une fondation anglaise qui fait la […]
Trois musiques de film — enfin: deux musiques de film et une inspirée par. “Pirates des Caraïbes” est un des meilleurs films de divertissement du moment: un grand moment de cinéma dans son genre. De l’action, pas de prises de tête, des jolis costumes, des combats impressionnants et de jolis […]
Ceci est un blog. Le mien. Il s’appelle “Blog à part” et doit être pris à peu près autant au sérieux que le titre l’implique. Ça faisait un moment que je jouais avec l’idée de faire un blog. Un web log, un “blog” pour faire plus court; une sorte de journal […]
No Bag of Tricks these days, I’m on holiday. So there. Instead, something a little more personal. Have you ever felt like the complete antithesis to what is happening around you? I have. I hate it. Saturday we were invited to a wedding. “We” being Otaku-chan (for those not following, […]
He was a mean bastard, but down he went, him and his clique of skeleton warriors and bone witches. Which means I finished Return to Castle Wolfenstein. When I bought Return to Castle Wolfenstein (RtCW), I was expecting a nice FPS, with a few puzzles here and there. I got […]
So there was a porcupine tree, frogs and princes, adventurers in Middle-Earth, Nazi Uebersoldaten and some nerd in a red and blue costume. Oh, and Mister Garibaldi, too. Quite a packed week-end, I tell you! Last week-end, I bought Stars Die, the latest from Porcupine Tree. “Latest” may not be […]
It’s a simple Earth-meet-Aliens story. It’s part Lord of the Rings, part Adam Warren’s Dirty Pair, with a bit of Elfquest thrown in. It’s my world — and welcome into it! It all started when I got into role-playing games, maybe a bit before. I had a few ideas about […]
I love anime, and I love my girlfriend too. But sometimes I feel like I could yell, kill her and then hurl my DVD player out of the second-story window. The reason: soundtrack. Now I understand that J-Pop (that’s Japanese Pop, I believe) is not something for everyone. People dig […]
A little bit of music, a little bit of movies, a pich of animes and a few facts of life. All this in this new selection from the Bag of Tricks. And more… So there was this Star Wars: Attack of the Clones review I was talking about last time. […]
I went to see Star Wars:Attack of the Clones yesterday. Bless the World Cup and sunny weather: the theater was almost empty. But you won’t get a review today, sorry. I was about to, but then I got the news that a friend’s girlfriend died early this morning. It was […]
You see, I had this weird dream (is there any other kind of dreams, by the way?) about going back to my old high school and talking with a priest about my religious convictions (or, arguably, the lack thereof). The short of it is, I believe there is a god, […]
What happen when you mix a noodle-making old kung fu master, (quite literaly) cat burglar siblings, a street-savvy Hong Kong tech head, a 19th century Wiccan sorcerer, hordes of mooks, idiotic plots and Evil Lunatics? Well, our average game of Feng Shui, of course! Feng Shui is a table-top role-playing […]
OK, first review then, more or less. I’ll start with an anime: Spriggan (or “The Spriggan”). I’ve been waiting for this one for a long time, salivating in front of the ADV trailer. Finally it’s here, and I’m stuck with a severe case of trailer withdrawal syndrome. You know the […]
Okay, into the fray then. Theantix‘ Who You Are story incited me to make the plunge and start my own blog. That’s the easy part. The hard part is, what am I going to talk / write about? There came the Bag of Tricks. Those of you with AD&D flashbacks […]