Souper des vignerons @ Le Clocher Penché

Mmm... what a delicious evening. I went to the Souper des Vignerons at the Bistro Le Clocher Penché. The concept is that the Clocher Penché invites a wine grower to show and talk about it's products and the chef composes a special menu to match the wines. Tonight it was Chantal Comte from the Costières de Nîmes region that brought us her marvelous wine and rhum. Madame Comte explained to us how her wine was made between each service. She's an amazing women, very interesting and passionate about her art. Here's the menu

SALADE DE CALMARS, SAUCISSON PORTUGUAIS ET CHOU D'AUTOMNE
Château de la Tuilerie, Vieilles Vignes 2005

POTAGE DE POIREAUX NOUVEAUX ET TOMME

MAGRET DE CANARD GRILLÉ, RAISINS RÔTIS ET PAIN DE MAÏS
Château de la Tuilerie, Vieilles Vignes 2003 et 2004

FROMAGE MI-CARÊME ET CASSIS DE L'ILE
Château de la Tuilerie, Cuvée Éole 2000

GÂTEAU À LA COURGE KABOCHA ET PÉCANES RÔTIES
Rhum vieux agricole Arbre du Voyageur 1998

CAFÉ

www.chateautuilerie.com

Shakey Face

matt_B-2, originally uploaded by BrandonVoges.

I've found a very interesting set on Flickr by Brandon Voges . It's basically portraits shot when peoples are shaking their head. Very unusual results !

Here's a slideshow of the the set: Shakey Face

Soirées Québec 84! Vol. 7

archive.upcoming.org/event/118492

Let's dance on the new-wave, rock, pop, alternative and francophone 80's hits ! Without forgetting the slows ! With DjZézette and DjLo

Crazy japanese massage prank

I will watch my back a lot if I ever go to japan...

Paper Thin Records

While listening to Last.FM, I discovered a very interesting independent label from Boston. The label is Paper Thin Records and they specialize in instrumental indie, pseudo-outsider, and rock/noise/experimental/8-bit artists. Here's the artists (linking to their Last.FM page so you can listen to their free streams). Avi Paul Weinstein Brian Saia Simon Taylor Lawrence Valby Emily Geanacopoulos The Georgie Porgies Two Sheds The Harriers The Daikon Legs Quartet Reverend D and the Fifteen Teeth

http://www.paperthinrecords.com

Here's a video made by the two founders (Avi Paul Weinstein and Emily Geanacopoulos). The music is a cover of "I Wanna be Your Dog" by The Stooges.

Dj Zézette invitée au Fightpod

Come in great numbers to cheer Dj Zézette at the next Fightpod. It will be held at the Sacrilege, October 11th. More info about the event: http://www.fightpod.com/article.php3?id_article=79 archive.upcoming.org/event/115448

Festival Antenne-A :: Ipod Battle @ Rouje

Oh their god, what a crazy night ! My ears are completely destroyed. It feels like having broken speakers instead of ears. I still have more than two hours to take a short nap before I go to work... Here's some photos I took: www.flickr.com/photos/simonroy/sets/72157594315010671/

iPod Battle :: Limoilou Dancefloor Squad

The Limoilou Dancefloor Squad (Jahmorinz, Érick D'orion) sent me their flyer for the iPod Battle that will be held at Rouje October 5th. Come in great numbers to see them kick some serious ass ! More info about the event: http://upcoming.org/event/110581/

Festival Antenne-a

www.antenne-a.com

While posting about the Tokyo Police Club show (October 6th), I saw the programmation for the Festival Antenne-a. Here's the complete schedule.

Galerie Rouje (228, Saint-Joseph Est) Electro-rock

Thursday October 5th iPod Battle (Voir Québec, Black Taboo, FTS, P45, Dj Lo, Bang Bang, CHYZ, Limoilou Dance Floor Squad) 7$ Friday October 6th Duchess Says (Montréal – rock disjoncté) Numéro (Montréal – électro pop pop pop) 10$ Saturday October 7th Mocky (Germany – électro r&b soul) Heart & Soul (Montréal – hyponotic dance) The World Provider (Montréal - Casio Rock) 12$ (pre-sale 10$ : cd mélomane/chyz)

Pub L’Échouerie (380, rue Dorchester South) Urban Country

Friday October 6th Angela Desveaux (Nova-Scotia – folk country) Flip Top Box Duo (Québec – country) 8$ Saturday October 7th Marie et les Marchands d’armes (membres du groupe Karkwa) (Montréal – country & bluegrass) 8$

---off circuit--- L’Arlequin (1070 Rue St-Jean)

Friday October 6th Beirut / Tokyo Police Club / Lesbo Vrouven 12$

Tokyo Police Club + Lesbo Vrouven + Beirut

I saw Tokyo Police Club at Osheaga and they gave a kick-ass show. They will be playing at L'Arlequin, October 6th with Lesbo Vrouven and Beirut. More info about the show: http://upcoming.org/event/110571/

La voix est libre - Encore et encore !

A dear friend of mine is hosting a great radio show about francophone music. The show by Elisa Baron is called La voix est libre and is on air every friday between 10h and 11h30 on CKRL 89,1 in Québec City. 

Click here to hear the online radio if you don't live in Quebec City.

Les Journées de la Culture 2006 - 10th edition

The 10th edition of Les Journées de la Culture will be happening September 29th, 30th and October 1st all across the Quebec province. 1 000 cultural events in 3 days, totally free. Everything must be seen ! More info on the official site: journeesdelaculture.qc.ca The complete schedule for Quebec City here.

Les Convertibles

Here's some photos I took of the Les Convertibles event: 

  www.flickr.com/photos/simonroy/sets/72157594286882856/ 

 

L'invisible vue - La numérisation de la mort

 

By Pascal Boucher

Technical direction: Marc Doucet

Performers: -Luke Dawson, Hélène Messier, Julie Pichette et Mario Veillette 

archive.upcoming.org/event/108312

Difficult choice: Holy Fuck or Duchess Says + Les Georges Leningrad UPDATED

It's not fair ! On September 20th, there's two excellent shows I want to see. It's impossible for me to choose which one to attend... Duchess Says and Les Georges Leningrad at Rouje (More info) or Holy Fuck at the Grand Salon (More info)

***Edit***

Good news (!?!), the show is cancelled. I can now go see Holy Fuck knowing I don't miss a good show. According to Rouje, the show was cancelled a month ago by the producer. Newspapers made a mistake and published anyway. I did'nt check before posting... sorry about that.

Holy Fuck at Osheaga festival

I've just returned from the Osheaga festival in Montreal, my ears are buzzing like crazy (tinnitus) . I saw Holy Fuck and it made my day. What a great show ! Too bad it was so short.

Holy Fuck will be at the Grand Salon (Pavillons Desjardins-Pollack, Université Laval) September 20th. It's for the launch of the new season of CHYZ 94,3
http://upcoming.org/event/104419/

Here's a video of them live at the Dot-Dot festival in Nothingham.

Taxidermia - Soundtrack by Amon Tobin

I can't wait to see Taxidermia by György Pálfi. The soundtrack is by Amon Tobin.

Here's a link to the official site: http://www.taxidermia.hu/

New geotagging on Flickr

I first used Geoblogger to geotag my photos and it closed when the author got hired by Yahoo. I then found the excellent Flagr. The developpers of the site are great and open to new ideas. The website is getting better all the time. Now, Flickr offers geotagging as well (probably with the help of the geoblogger guy). It's a shame that the satellite photos are still in low resolution for Quebec City... I'll hang around Flagr again for a little while. I can now see the possibility to digitalize the whole planet as a probable thing. Microsoft is working on Photosynth, a software that let's you build 3d objects in real time with the combination of many photos. Google will eventualy jump on the wagon and combine it's power with Photosynth and Flickr. We will then be able to navigate digitally around every little square centimeter Earth has to offer. Imagine a Google Earth that zooms-in from space and let's you see the dime on your basement's coffee table.

***Update***

If you use Firefox and Greasemonkey, I highly recommend using GMiF . With that combination, you can use Googlemaps instead of Yahoo ! maps.

Pocoyo

I'm a sucker for animation in all it's forms and I found a beautiful 3D cartoon for kids. It's called Pocoyo . The characters are simple and gorgeous, it's feels like clay but it's CGI. The animation is spot-on and very dynamic. The music soundtrack is really good (cartoonnish electronica). The narrator is Stephen Fry (the voice of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy). Here's an episode from YouTube:

 

Photos Osez! 2006

I was in St-Jean-Port-Joli for the Osez! 2006 event. Here's a selection of my photos. Click on the photo below to see the slideshow.

   

An original idea by Karine Ledoyen

Choreographer: Ginette Laurin 

Music: Jérôme Minière and Pascal Asselin (Millimetrik)