Getting ready for Nihon!

Yes, at last, I get some holidays! I'm leaving for Japan for a two week trip with Julien and Cyril. Cyril has been living in Tokyo for a bit more than a year. It's gonna be a crazy adventure! We will travel mostly by rail and buses to visit some traditional villages, some awesome natural hot springs (Japanese Onsen), some dramatic sceneries and ultra high tech cities.
I have been preparing my apartment for a few days, because I want it to be clean when I come back. Imagine, going on some great vacation and then coming back only to discover an horrible stinky mess. That would be quite depressing.
So I repainted my closet that was tagged during my house warming party, repaired some holes in the doors and walls and mopped the floors. There is still some cleaning to do before the little exhibit/farewell party tonight. I wanted to post a video of myself painting, since many probably can't imagine how Clem painting would be possible but I haven't found yet how to export the avi files from my camera to a iMovie-supported file. All hopes aren't lost anyhow, maybe I'll find a way to do so and you'll get a good cheap laugh :)

Paris Clem: The Conquistador!

Quotes of the dead

I'm still playing around with Garage Band, discovering some new features every day.



One would probably think that I have gone nuts for good after listening to that new stuff. I'll let you guys guess who actually wrote the lyrics.

Latino Stuff

Yeah I love my iMac! It's so awesome! Oh didn't I tell you that's what I brought back from London? It's a 24" flat screen mac, with a double core 3ghz CPU. Freakin'ly strong and cool.



Here is what I did with it tonight. I used the Magic Garageband feature, which generated automatically a backing track with istruments and a style that I picked up. Then I plugged my guitar and improvised some "Santana" style solo... Quite exciting!

The sound is great, I love that software, it's the perfect scale/improvisation learning companion!

Paris Clem: a happy nerd

Crazy week-end !

It's been a busy week-end for the Clem! It started on Friday night with a farewell party for Benoit who left wat.tv to work for a Rich Internet Applications (RIA) start-up. Then Saturday morning I had a rehearsal with The Acolyts, it was a good one, we managed to settle the structure for the songs My Psycho Dinner and Zoidberg. Ruben came and took a lot of awesome pictures! You can find them on his blog: http://www.boubablog.fr/. Then I ran to the railway station to meet with my parents in London!! There we did some quick sightseeing and some shopping. Shopping indeed as we went to the Apple store on Regent Street. Pretty awesome place I tell you! I will write another post about what I bought there, which will make all of you completely jealous! Well, enjoy the music, don't hesitate to comment about it and let me know your listener experience!
NB: For those who never listened to some The Acolyts music material, I have to warn you, some of it is quite heavy indeed. However there are also some light delights!

Paris Clem: for those about to blog!

The Acolyts - Rehearsal

• Harbinger covered by System of a dawn:
  
  


• 
  The great successor:
  
  


• 
  L'anus artificiel:
  
  


• 
  Harbinger, first take:
  
  


• 
  Harbinger, second take:
  
  


• 
  My Psycho Dinner, first take:
  
  


• 
  My Psycho Dinner, second take:
  
  


• 
  Zoiberg and bonuses:
  
  


• 
  Harbinger one more time:
  
  

Edit: I realized that the mp3 player wasn't working on IE from the begining :) I found a workaround but I won't do it on the old posts.