J'y ai réfléchi
J'avoue d'aimer la musique folk depuis longtemps donc j'étais prête d'aimer cet album. La musique folk et la musique country ont des qualités similaires. Et alors c'est Isabelle...
Je trouve qu'Adrienne et Comme un jour sans amour (Isabelle a l'air tellement défait ce qui me brise le coeur) sont les chansons plus"folkie" et bien sûr, elles me fait beaucoup plaisir. Si j'étais perdue, c'est une chanson refaite merveilleuse ("If I needed you" de Townes Van Zandt).
Sans doute, toutes les chansons sont très belles. Mais sa vraie beauté c'est comme une oeuvre qu'on prend en somme. C'est presque parfait. C'est comme si toutes les chansons appartiennent ensemble, l'une après l'autre, comme une fleuve qui court du pays d'Isabelle à les nôtres.
Voici un lien à Archambault si l'on veut acheter De retour à la source. Pardon, je veux dire qu'il vous faut l'acheter.
Labels: French, Isabelle, Music
« April 30, 2007 6:58 AM | Post a Comment | 0 comments »
Cat Fancy: call my agent
Labels: Cats
« April 29, 2007 9:18 AM | Post a Comment | 0 comments »
This does not compute
A few disclaimers:
- I have never seen an episode of American Idol.
- I still haven't.
- I'm not a big fan of duets with dead people.
- But Elvis is still alive, right?
- Celine is understated beside the not-dead guy.
- Bravo!
- I don't get why video sharing like YouTube is so popular.
- It might be the same thing that makes American Idol popular.
- I'm obviously not in on "it".
- Anyways, the song is quite nice.
- The whole thing makes me feel weird.
- But that's not an uncommon feeling for me.
- Enjoy!
- Try not be weirded out.
« April 26, 2007 5:37 PM | Post a Comment | 0 comments »
Must be the cheese
Last year, a family in France lost their cat on the a day before they moved to another town. 800 kilometers and 13 months later, the cat finds her family and says, "Found you! Now, your turn to hide."
"Je vous ai trouvé! C'est à vous!" The cat's bilingual, or so I've heard. But, the article isn't cause I can only find it in French.
Un chat fait 800 km pour rentrer chez lui (Cyberpresse, 04/24/2007)
Why can't my cats be this awesome?
All they have are the plump legs.
« April 24, 2007 4:15 PM | Post a Comment | 0 comments »
C'est le mien
Non, elle ne peut pas faire aucun mal.
Pourquoi est-ce que tu demandes?
Entre matane et baton rouge - La première chanson mets l'album dans le cadre parfait. Sa voix basse (en pleine forme) et la musique simple se font une très très bonne écoute. C'est une de la plus meilleure de l'album.
Un monde à refaire - C'est un reprise d'une chanson de son premier album. Cette fois-ci, c'est plus que la musique change. Sa prononciation en anglais s'améliore bien.
Adrienne - Sans doute en ce moment-ci, c'est ma chanson preferée. C'est un hommage à sa tante dont l'image a créée est un cadeau d'amour.
Simplement tout - Au plus je l'écoute au plus je l'aime.
Comme un jour sans amour - Toutes les chansons conviennent les musiques aux paroles très bien mais c'est surtout vrai ici. C'est mon autre coup de coeur.
Only a woman's heart - En anglais, Isabelle chante comme en français, avec tout son coeur et son âme. La seule chose qui la ferait meilleure serait si Emmylou Harris chantait avec elle. Comme ça, c'est magnifique.
Si j'étais perdue - Comme la chanson "You are my sunshine," la musique a l'air heureux qui se masque les paroles tristes. C'est une chanson refaite merveilleuse qui s'appelle "If I needed you" de Townes Van Zandt. C'est bien fait.
Labels: French, Isabelle, Music
« April 21, 2007 10:31 PM | Post a Comment | 0 comments »
Quelle belle journée
La belle Isabelle lance un nouvel album country aujourd'hui.
Comme si je n'étais pas déjà tombée amoureuse...
Labels: French, Isabelle, Music
« April 17, 2007 7:57 AM | Post a Comment | 0 comments »
Redheaded confusion
We saw Patty Griffin in concert last night. This was a sad, unrequited dream of Cylinda's that was finally requited. She got to hear her favorite song, which made the ridiculous parking charge all the more worth it. As for me, I knew about 3 songs and I liked two of them. That in itself exceeded expectations.
Honestly, I enjoyed the show, if only for the reason that it started in an unbelievable way. Before the lights came down, I was running on and on about Isabelle and how I wish I was seeing her and blah blah blah. Cylinda, in her never-ending cheeriness, said, "Just pretend that she (Patty) has red hair, is short and is singing in French."
Not 30 seconds later, the short, red-headed Patty Griffin came out on stage, sat down at the piano and started singing this:
J'irai la voir un jour,
Au ciel, dans le patrie,
Oui j'irai voir Marie,
Ma joie et mon amour.
Au ciel, au ciel, au ciel,
J'irai la voir un jour.
I swear, I can't even make this up if I tried.
God help me if I ever mistake one for the other.
Labels: French, Isabelle, Music
« April 15, 2007 10:16 AM | Post a Comment | 0 comments »
Email fever
Email is so mundane and routine these days. I do it at work, I do it at home, I do it... no, that's it. I hope I don't do it anywhere else. Anyways, I'm trying to say that it's not very exciting. In fact, I can only recall one time that I got hysterical over an email message. Michelle Marciniak (the original crush) wrote me personally for reasons I can not reveal and I literally ran around the office three times, sat down, read it again and ran around some more. Yes, it was that good.
You'll always be a Lady Vol, never an assistant coach.
Well today, I got the second email to ever make me hysterical with glee. Now, getting me hysterical may not sound like much of a challenge (just ask Cylinda), but, like I said, when it comes to email, it's rare and I must acknowledge the occasion.
This perfectly worded letter came from my French language idol, the one person in the world whose mastery of French I aspire to attain. I don't even know her, but I've read her writings for quite some time and I marvel at her ability to turn an already beautiful language into a literal work of art. So when she responded personally to something I wrote, I nearly fainted. For real, I almost passed out onto my keyboard.
Ridiculous? You be the judge. Her first sentence to me was: Ton message me va droit au coeur et je t'en remercie beaucoup. If you Babelfish that, you'll probably think that's corny and I need to have my head checked. But in French, it's simply elegant. Off to study more of her writings...
Okay, I'll go get my head examined, but only because I have a dent in the back and I think I lost some brain matter a little while ago.
« April 11, 2007 9:37 PM | Post a Comment | 0 comments »
Things to keep to yourself
Amy Henthorn Jones of Marietta, who has six dogs and two cats, said she threw out 50 cans of pet food and several bags of dry food when the recall started.
"I didn't care if it was part of the recall list or not. If it was the same brand as one on the list, I tossed it. [...] I'm just feeding the dry until this is over; foods made with human grade ingredients," she said. "I even tasted it. It was good."
- Pet food recalls rise; so do suspicions (AJC, April 6, 2007)
I have nothing to add. No, wait, I do. Dear Ms. Jones...
This is called a filter - for a camera lens.
This is also known as a filter - for a car.
Oh look, here's another one - for water.
Please choose one (or more) and insert into your brain.
« April 06, 2007 7:28 PM | Post a Comment | 0 comments »
Easter violence
"My butt hurts."
"What?"
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