Happy new year!

05-12-31 15:44 m-c: when and where’s the future?
05-12-31 15:45 cc: it starts around may 2006 until july 2008.

Montreal by non-montrealers

Its always nice to read about montreal from people who just moved in. Makes me see my city with new eyes. Homes for milions.

43 Things

Uh, there’s been a lot going on at 43things since i last logged in. Learn geography with me, see what i want to do, and people i want to meet.

emcee’s best of 2005

My top most listened albums of this last year (2005 or not), in no particular oder (i know, i defy all rules about best of…):

Björk, Medulla
To me she is one of the most original, creative and authentic pop icon of the 90’s. Read my posts on Medulla here and here;

Bloc Party, Silent Alarm
Even quite early this year I knew this album would be in my best of. This modern love and Banquet (’caus i’m on fiiiiiiire!) marked the year in rock’n roll. A show i will always regret i missed;

Arcade Fire, Funeral
En feu sur un nuage – the energy coming out of this album remembers me hey, i’m alive! Pictures and videos of the show can be found here;

Death Cab for Cutie, Plans and Transatlantism
show review and pictures here;

Kings of Convenience, Riot on an empty street
who could have told me i was about to meet Erlend Oye on St-Laurent that night, and have a drink ’till real late with Eirick and friends at Laika on a tuesday nite.
I listened to the The Smiths meets Erlend Oye hit ‘I’d rather dance than talk with you‘ repetitively and compulsively – enough to make any neighbors move out. A boyfriend would probably have splitted too.
Pictures and video of the show are here;

Erlend Oye’s Dj Kicks
Erlend again, best DJ Kicks ever. Heard it sucked on a live set though;

Annie, Anniemal
Some girls have it all and she does. An excellent pop album, one of the few female artist i can listen to on and on, followed by an excellent DJ Kicks from german label !K7.
Album review here, pictures and show review here;

Acid House Kings, Sing along with Acid House Kings
They found their way to me trough Myspace and i hope they’ll find their way to be heard in north america. Videos here;

The Legends, Up against the legends
Found late at nite on Myspace too, i was stuck by their incredible pop and strong melodies. I heard you loved them too;

Architecture in Helsinki, In case we die
from Australia, an excellent album if you’r on fire. Sadly, their van died before they reached my island for the Pop Montreal festival;

Clap your hands say yeah
was a breakthrough for everyone, not to remind me that i missed them at the Main Hall;

Malajube, Le compte complet
enfin! quoi dire de plus. Combien de bon groupes rock francophones sont encore cachés dans nos garde-robes? Pictures from my Pop Montreal coverage;

LCD Soundsystem
Twice in Montreal this last year, a great album and a great show;

Mylo, Destroy Rock’n Roll
Get up and dance – Mylo is definitely one of my best dance album of the year. High in class, will finally be dancing on February 13th at the Cabaret. You loved him too;

The Postal Service, Give up
Listening to over and over and over and… Indie-electro-romantic. Did they replaced New Order?

Royksopp, The Understanding
Didnt heard about many of you guys on this album. I loved pieces like ‘Follow my ruin‘, ‘Go away‘ and the great ‘49 percent‘… like a party in my house, i tell ya…

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i couldnt go without mentioning excellent bands i discovered this year: Beirut, Mission District, styrofoam, Voxtrot, Islands, The most serene republic, Chromeo, Of Montreal, Pop Montreal festival, Pop Montreal festival, Pop Montreal festival, and so on.

Most of these band can be heard on my podcasts. Happy 2006 in music to everyone into the cyber-space.

Titanic Lamp

‘I also showed a lamp, Titanic, designed to appear to be sinking beneath the surface of the table‘

The Titanic Lamp, a must see. Via Moco Loco.

TV is out too

Hey kids, TV is definitely out. Four Eyed Monsters is one of my favorite vlog – i honestly much prefer watching these guy than turning my cable TV on. What’s wrong?

Blogging gave written medias the worse headaches ever (circa 2002-2003). Podcasting made us realize how commercial radio is poor, and that there is a demand for some new kind of audio content (circa 2004-2005). Video blogging (also called Vlog) is there since some months now, and people are creating pieces that will, or are in fact, directly competing with TV (circa 2006). Changes are to be expected. If i would be a big player in the media industry, i would:

1. stretch and breath deeply;
2. pick up the phone, or google, and quickly get in touch with some uber-geek or someone who ‘gets’ my net generation – the one who barely watch TV, read newspapers or listen to radio – so to explain them what the heck is going on;
3. stretch and breath again, close my eyes and jump in.

Holidays blogging

I must admit, the content of this blog is quite different from what it is during the rest of the year.

I am on holidays, I am rested, at peace, out of this buzy-ness but still full of ideas and fire burning inside.

Filling my head with words i love to read, authors that inspire me.

‘Our lives are at once ordinary and mythical. We live and die, age beautifully or full or wrinkles. We wake in the morning, buy yellow cheese, and hope we have enough money to pay for it. At the same instant we have these magnificent hearts that pump through all sorrow and all winters we are alive on the earth. We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded. This is how writers must think, this is how we must sit down with pen in hand. We were here; we are human beings; this is how we lived. Let it be known, the earth passed before us. Our details are important. Otherwise, if they are not, we can drop a bomb and it doesn’t matter.‘
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg.

This paragraph has been written for writers-to-be, somewhere around 84. I like to think that in 2006 we can all be writers.

Expand

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

Anaïs Nin

Ordinary

“We must remember that everything is ordinary and extraordinary. It is our mind that open or close.”

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, by Natalie Goldberg.

MoCo Memes 2005

We’re all into best of for 2005, so is Moco Loco. Check out from the Moco Memes 2005 an interview with pop culture icon, Peter Saville, well know for his graphic work for the Hacienda and Factory Records in the 80’s. Also, Peter Saville on Wikipedia.

Joyeux no√´l! Merry xmas! Fröhliches Weihnachten!

To all, happy and creative holidays!!!

Today mark the first anniversary of the Vu d’ici – Seen from here podcast!! I recorded the first one in my kitchen, using the built in mic. I think it’s interesting to put it back here, even if i am really shy about it. It is now history. Get it here.

Also, best wishes + view over the last year and the year to come at meïdia.

RESERVATION SUMMARY

Traveler(s): MARIECHANTALE TURGEON

Montreal-Trudeau International Airport (YUL) to Amsterdam-Schiphol (AMS)
Thursday, February 2
Depart: Montreal-Trudeau International Airport (YUL), February 2 6:00 PM EST
Arrive: Amsterdam-Schiphol (AMS), February 3 6:50 AM CET
Amsterdam-Schiphol (AMS) to Hamburg Fuhlsbuettel (HAM)
Friday, February 3
Depart: Amsterdam-Schiphol (AMS), February 3 10:00 AM CET
Arrive: Hamburg Fuhlsbuettel (HAM), February 3 11:10 AM CET

Hamburg Fuhlsbuettel (HAM) to Amsterdam-Schiphol (AMS)
Monday, February 13
Depart: Hamburg Fuhlsbuettel (HAM), February 13 11:50 AM CET
Arrive: Amsterdam-Schiphol (AMS), February 13 1:00 PM CET
Amsterdam-Schiphol (AMS) to Montreal-Trudeau International Airport (YUL)
Monday, February 13
Depart: Amsterdam-Schiphol (AMS), February 13 2:20 PM CET
Arrive: Montreal-Trudeau International Airport (YUL), February 13 4:10 PM EST

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Mylo, feb 13th 2006

cant remember the venue but yeah, Mylo’s gonna be playing in Montreal!