drum machine

drum machine is a flash movie made by tokyoplastic and it's fun. thanks thom for the link.

carnaval de québec

québec city is a three hour car drive from montréal. we were invited to spend a weekend at lise-anne's family during the 'carnaval de québec'. the weather was unusually warm, meaning it wasn't freezing. this had an impact on several activities, like the international snow sculpture contest (sculptures melting and damaged by rain) and the canoe race (not enough ice on the river). but we did enjoy a soap box race (quicktime 2,14 MB), a québec version of "ter land, ter zee en in de lucht". we also had 'tire sur la neige', a seasonal treat of thick hot syrup poured onto fresh snow, eaten off sticks as it quickly cools. on saturday evening we watched the parade together with other kids. the voil janetten were replaced by bonhomme, the carnival's official embassador.

marble sounds

today i've finished a website that collects some of the tunes i made for films, for commercials and for fun. you can check out my portfolio on this site: www.marblesounds.com!

low

the second concert i saw in the sala rosa was one of low, an american band that is always up for some slow, sad but beautiful songs. there were two support acts: 'his name is alive' and 'death vessel'. death vessel is a solo artist, a troubadour with an acoustic guitar and folk songs. the gender of the artist was a subject of discussion between sébastien and me. sébastien said "man", i thought "woman". try to find out for yourself with this mp3. when a solo artist does a support act, it's guaranteed that the crowd is chatting on top of it. so it was weird when a girl on the front row asked for the microphone of the singer and started complaining about the noisy people. bottom line of her discours (in both french and english): "this is not a bar!". shouted reply from someone at the bar at the back of the sala rosa: "it is a bar!".