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Loop Lust
Take a good look at this, because this is what my current object of lust looks like! Lionel, visiting from Lyon, brought his Boss RC20 LoopStation along. You can record a riff and loop it to play back while you overdub layers and layers of sound, until it feels like there are 20 people playing…
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Fortune Telling
Setting up a rendez-vous with a gynecologist isn’t exactly on my list of “10 Things to Look Forward To”. Even so, because I’m all adult and mature-like, I patiently go through the Pages Jaunes in vain search for a clinic. I do have one criteria to meet: my gynecologist must be female. Last year’s trauma still haunts me:…
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Some people ride the wave
My alarm clock is set to 6:25 am every day. A backup alarm for Julien, since his phone’s alarm clock has a Decision function installed: it decides whether it feels like ringing or not. At around 10 or 11am I finally manage to struggle into a vertical position, though somewhat slumped, and make my way towards the…
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Chopsticks
Marseille scares me. It’s not the people, it’s the buildings. Buildings that look as if they’re about to crumble and fall on you. And it’s not just the buildings, it’s the never-ending work going on around the city, for the tramway, for the train station. Bulldozers, everywhere. Men in hard hats and steel-toed boots, shouting.…
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The Force is Strong Here
Let’s start with this fact : I know nothing about Star Wars. Okay, that’s not entirely true. It’s set in space, right? And they use light sabers. Also picked up from Toy Story 2 that “I am your father” is totally Star Wars-y. A few weeks back, Julien and I watched the third… well, the…
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A Few More Beats – And Maybe A New Sound
The sky was dark yesterday morning. These last few weeks I’ve been waking up to sunshine. Yesterday I knew it would be a different day. During the afternoon the sun picked up. Jumped into 28°C pool water. And I dove and I dove into the water trying to touch the bottom. The pool is an…
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Funky Town
Funky Town by Lipps Inc came on the radio, that irritatingly catchy song, where the singer keeps on singing about wanting to get to funky town and how it’s the town that’s right for her. When the song ended, Jul, irritated, turned to me and said, “She doesn’t even say what she’s going to do in funky…
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Nekkid
There were two girls by the poolside slathering each other’s backs with lotion, and I was thinking, “Wow, wonder where they got swimsuits that perfectly match their body colour…” And then I went for a swim and they were facing me and I thought crossly, “Well, they should’ve at least bought matching bikini tops/bottoms, flesh…