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Galaxia

It's a song I have in my song pipeline, sometimes I give it a try, trying to find something new to play with it. I have progressed a bit on it. Tonight I had fun adding some strings and organs.




Enjoy!

Paris Clem!!

Das kungstruk zie flogosaktan

Knowing that I'm a metalhead, many are tempted to ask me if I love or love Rammstein. The answer is: no I'm not a fan of that band, even if, I admit, they have a few catchy tunes that I find okay.
Then I just found funny to write a fake Rammstein song, because, in my opinion, their music is quite simple/basic.
Here are the lyrics:

das kungstruk zie flogosaktan
da küntrrrruk !
erzi fenschälpt
harrr tesk lumük
virrr schalben kløg zwerhund
Wieztzen shrleeuuuu
fråkken wolhren perden zum
frundzenheim ! frundzenheeeiiim !
pfaßenhund das heinfrikzystch
flogo'SAKtan

And of course, the song!! :




Paris Clem: A multilangual frog

Foxy Browsin'

Hey there! Firefox 3.5 is almost out, you can find the Relase Candidate 2 version on mozilla's website. I'm already using FF3.5 at work and at home, it already has Firebug (v1.4b) which is pretty much all I need in my toolbox to do my CSS, HTML and Javascript debugging. The new version offers many improvements on speed and memory consumption, so, to my friends out there who are usualy reluctent to move to new versions (Ruben?), it pretty much is FF3 but faster and lighter so it's ok you can go on, do the upgrade and your PC won't burn. FF3.5 also offers new exciting CCS3 and HTML5 implementations and I'm willing to use them. As I can't use them where I work because wat.tv's browser market share is 60% Internet Explorer, I'm thinking about trying these new techniques on my blog. So over time this blog will have some new cool features that will only work in FF3.5 and the future versions of Safari, Google Chrome, Opera... all the other browsers that are aware of standards and willing to keep up with the innovation. Unfortunately the business website market is a decade late technology wise because of the need to degrate gracefully in IE.

Anyhow, do yourself a favor and upgrade your surfin' with Firefox (3.5)!

Paranoid

This week gets the 60th post! Wowzer, I never thought I would keep that blog alive that far, well ok I'm quite far from the initial goal of "a new song each week" but eh, I got a life too and it pretty god damn buzy right now!
Anyway, this week I give you a very personal interpretation of Black Sabbath's most popular tune: Paranoid.


Careful little fellow, it's much heavier than the original song.

Paris Clem: Keep on rollin'

Call me: Tony Glair!

Disgusting play on words. But this is how I've been feeling for about three weeks, I got a cold that won't leave me. Darn this cold is a possessive one! Because of that stuff I haven't been in the mood for blogging and music. I bought a couple of albums lately, Heaven & Hell - The devil you know and Black Label Society - Hangover Music, Volume VI. Heaven & Hell is actually Black Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio singing (he used to sing for Black Sabbath at the begining of the 80's when they released the famous album Heaven & Hell, hence the new band name). The album isn't as good as expected, especially since I really liked Tony Iommi's (the famous guitarist behind eveything black sabbath) 2005 release Fused which had Glenn Hughes' voice. Yes the album has some good moments, but it lacks speed, usually I like doom metal which is really a slow kind of metal. But doom metal is all about writing songs that piles up the heaviest riffs until a break-even point where speed is unleashed like a musical orgasm. In this album, there are no orgasms. Some good riffs for sure, Dio sings very well but doesn't compare with the extremly well he used to do. I guess the most dissapointing is that the album is okay but sounds like a Dio album and not a Tomy Iommi one... Oh well, I'm awfully picky.
Black Label Society's Hangover Music is a safe pick if you want some rock and a quiet moment at the same time. Usually the Zakk Wylde, Ozzy Osborne's lead guitar and Black Label Society's voice and guitar, offers us much heavier material. Here it's more emotional, well... why not? It sound pretty good to me, often you could mistake it for some Alice in Chains.

Paris Clem: Criticizing the others but unable to do anyting that sounds a bit as good as they do

Sunny days, flower's blossom

Humm the sunny and warm days of spring are arriving in Paris, everyone starts wearing the most scandalously revealing cloth, we sweat in the metro, it's hot... so hot. The sexual tension arises in the city and everyone's aroused as can be(uh uh nice poetry eh?). I give you today: Paris Porn!


The story behind that music: seriously I was just playing some random A6th chords and then I had this slow melody in my mind. It needed another chord to keep going so I added a Dmaj7. It sounded alright to me at first but way unusual compared to my usual stuff. Then it came to me as a flash: it sounds like some... porn music. So I added some Latino style percussions and deep sexual voices, et voilà!

Paris Clem: revamping the sex industry with uber hot musical content.

Hendrix babe

Some kind of perky blues that just popped in my brain. I had to output it. Here is the music:


Paris clem: Bluesin' around

Nihon 2

March 1st, 2009:

That was a tiring journey/arrival. We got up at 4pm, just like big bums. Hungry we went out for a snack at a curry joint at about 7pm. I've chosen a fried chicken scallop, cut in slices served with a Curry Level 3 sauce. The others had a level 2 but on the menu it was written that level 3 is the spiciness "like a curry should be". Humm there are 10 levels of spiciness available so level 3 sounds fair... It's burnin' Hell in my mouth!!!. I'm usually quite resistant to spicy foods, but oulalala, this stuff is violent! Thinking that a level 10 exists sounds impossible. That stuff gave me horrible hiccups, but it was good... yeaaaah.
Then we went for a piece of cake in a small café. We noticed: there are no man in Japan. Well at least not in cafés (I'm not speaking about the beverage). Walking down the streets of Shibuya we bumped into Cyril's friends, they were celebrating a birthday! So we went for some karaoke with this crazy crowd. In Japan karaoke is a big deal, they are everywhere and they fill entire buildings.

Each group of karaoke singers get their own private room where they have a TV set, some sort of encyclopedia where all the music in the world is indexed (almost but we did find this one : Moskow. Check this goodness if you don't know it) and some pads to select your music from. Many folks need a little push to sing in a karaoke so business oriented Japanese thought it was a good idea to provide beer, as much as you want, for about 8$. Because drinking without eating isn't a smart move, you also get all the greasy bar food you love... Your dear writer sang a Barry white track, My everything. Stunning ;)
After ruining the place with a classic smell like teen spirit and the pogo-stick dancin' that goes with it, we left for a small pub located at the 5th floor of a building. The place probably used to be an apartment! One table, a bar and that's it. There wasn't even windows. There I met the second Finnish guy in two days! They must be taking over japan slowly or something. Of course I had to practice a bit my Finnish (I love showing up my language skills, isn't it what I'm doing right now after all??). A couple of Mitä Kuuluu, ei paskiempa and Kitti vittusti bought me a drink ;)

French version (If you read it you either suck or you are great, depending on your mother tongue, remember: this version is just the raw note as I wrote it during the trip):

On s'est levés a 16h comme des grosses larves. On est sorti manger un curry vers 19h, j'ai pris un poulet pané frit en tranches avec une sauce au curry niveau 3 "niveau de curry comme un curry devrait être", oulala c'était violent! Ensuite on est allé prendre un dessert dans un petit resto, truc amusant les hommes n'existent pas au japon. En marchant dans la rue on croise par hasard les amis de Cyril ;) c'était l'anniversaire de l'un d'entre eux. On est allé a un karaoke finalement et on a chante et bu jusque 2h du matin! Je leur ai fait l'interprétation de Barry White ultime qui a calme tout le monde :) on est allé dans un petit bar (un bar qui se trouvait dans un immeuble au 5em étage) la je croise le deuxième finlandais en deux jours (je crois qu'ils envahissent secrètement le japon) on boit quelques bières et finalement on vas se coucher.

Rehearsal

Saturday morning, The Acolyts rehearsed. We were auditioning a new drummer, Anto, he did quite well given that we gave him a very short notice. Anto and I used to play in the same Metallica cover band, so it was a real pleasure to hear his metallish drumming again! I think the sound is a bit better than usual (still can't hear the singin' very well but it could actually be a good thing...). I guess the band was quite rusty since we didn't play together for more than a month (because our drummer was not responding) so we didn't manage to play Harbinger really well. Anyway it wasn't a real rehearsal because we were there to hear what Anto's got to say about drumming. He performed quite well, he will tell us shortly if he is definitely interested in joining the band or not... Suspence!

We played a few cover songs on this occasion since it wasn't a real rehearsal. So today I give you the Acolyts playing For Whom The Bell Tolls and Seek & Destroy from Metallica! Don't be to excited I sucked on the vocals... Unfortunately I'm no James Hetfield. We played a bit of Megadeth but that sucked much more because we don't even know the riffs ;)

after typing this to create the right links for you for f in ../../../Repes/18.04.09/*mp3 ; do ln -s "$f" "./`basename \"$f\" mp3`clem"; done
here is the music!



Paris Clem.