promise is a deal

I wrote that I'll make a review about Foster The People's Supermodel...here it is!

I have to confess that I was a bit afraid about what this second album could be, because I just adore their first one! But it's been a month I only listen to it (+ Torches + new songs from The Black Keys...) and don't cannot stop.

So then? Some songs (like 'Pseudologia Fantastica' or 'The Truth') sound like nothing else, but I also appreciate them and for me, they perfectly knew how to stay true to their style while evolving. Music still has this amazing (Helena)beat and joy and energy which make me dance!
Besides that, lyrics improved too, being more adult and serious ('Are you what you wanna be?' and 'Ask yourself' made me think about life, consumerism and future a lot...!)



Plus, I find Mark Pontius (drums) is as cute as a surfer....

“If you want more and you'll get there.

 Throw a quarter in the well.
 Well, it's okay, you're fine, ambition's not a crime.
And you say that dreamers always get what they desire.
 Well I've found, the more I want the less I've got.
 Is this the life you've been waiting for.
 Or are you hoping that you'll be where you want with a little more?
 Well ask yourself…”                                                               > Foster The People

what on earth is going on?

1) cute Joseph Gordon-Levitt and beautiful Emma Watson looking amazing together at the Oscars' ceremony!

2) absolutely gorgeous prints from Peter Pilotto x Target!

3) new video clip from Arctic Monkeys : 'Arabella' which is so visual and retro...

4) new (and super easy) way to do my nails!!

5) Foster the People are back! How is this new album?  Torches was INCREDIBLY enjoyable and  I love every single song. This one sounds different even if there are some great tunes, like "Ask Yourself", "The Truth" or "Are you what you want to be?"(maybe I'll make a review soon!)

6) weather isn't warm enough to wear summer dresses, so I draw them...

7) my mum began to bake fantastic (and delicious) cakes!!

credits

 

 

 

 

 

 

“If there's another way it is hiding from us darling

 'Cause the outside world doesn't need our help tonight

…

Drunken satellites in the orbit of our earth

In the gentle night little whispers draw us closer …”    >  Tired Pony

 

 

 

if I were a boy...

...I would dress like Joseph Gordon-Levitt!!!

 

 

 

 

"Never again, will there be another one that's as desirable as you ..."  > Acrtic Monkeys

 



Alex + Alex (music review)

Twitter, Pinterest

1. Alex (Kapranos) = Franz Ferdinand

FOUR YEARS after Tonight (which unfortunately hadn't much success...even if I really really like their funny lyrics ('Twilight Omens', 'Ulysses', 'No you girls',...)), here are 10 new songs!
Okay, I don't (already) understand everything they say ("We're fresh strawberries..."*/"Car keys choose your keys..."**), but their music still sounds as FF but with some very nice improvements (choir, rythme, trumpets or hypnotic chorus).
And Alex's voice is great, excited and sexy with his improbable tones. This is a great album to dance, jump, run or to make some exercice :)
So, yes, I love this album and it could become my favourite one!


2. Alex (Turner) = Arctic Monkeys

Okay, I already wrote about this album (here), but I was OBLIGED to make a review. Why? It is awesome! Okay, Alex's voice is soooooooo sexy, but music is amazing (bass on 'Knee socks' or 'I want it all', guitar on 'Do I wanna know?' or drums on 'Snap out of it'), more mature and lyrics are still good ("Secrets that I have held in my heart are harder to hide that I thought..."*** / "I can't explain but I want to try, There's this image of you and I..."****)
One negative point? I worried they'll become too American...because, yes, we feel this sunny hip-hop californian influence on their work. Not bad. Yet.
Love it, but should be my 2nd favourite of their albums ; 1st = Worst Favourite Nightmare...

"I'll meet you coming backwards

I'll meet you coming back

When the universe has expanded

Time will contract

You'll come back..."  

 

> Franz Ferdinand

"And her lips are like the galaxy's edge

And a kiss the colour of a constelation

falling into place..."

> Arctic Monkeys

 

♥

♫

* 'Fresh Strawberries'
** 'Brief Encounters'
*** 'I wanna be yours'
**** 'Fireside'

French corner

French is my mother-tongue, so I wanted to talk about people who have this common with me...


I chose one band, one singer, one actor and one journalist:



pictures from Google, Twitter and Pinterest

1) Vincent Glad : journalist
He's the one who continues to make me want to be a journalist. He writes for several newspapers and works for TV too (Canal +) and created a job with what he likes : web technologies and information.

2) Thomas Dutronc : singer & guitar player
He's got famous parents, but I really appreciate his music which doesn't look like everybody's. Plus, he's a super guitar player and he's completely amazing (and good-looking!!)

3) Raphaël Personnaz : actor
He's my last crush and we'll hear a lot about you this summer : he plays Marius in the remake of Pagnol's films. Plus his character in La Stratégie de la Poussette is sooooo cute!

4) Phoenix : band
Ahhhhh, I'm a big fan of them for years!!! and their last album is great (they have songs called 'bourgeois', 'drakkar noir' or 'oblique city'...French words in English, I love it!). and the singer  (Thomas Mars)'s wife is Sofia Coppola.

“I don't always think of you

As untitled, insecure, Chloroform
I would rather stand if you stay
Why would I lie to you?
My love, my love, my love, my love is
My love, my love, my love it is
My love, my love, my love, my love is
Cruel
Buckle up, we'll chase each other
It's not a lot it's just enough to matter
Anyway you want the truth is
I will marry you on Tuesdays …”         >    Phoenix  

"R U mine?" I wanna know

I'm really really really really happyyyyyyyyyy  to I have some tickets to see Arctic Monkeys live at a festival nearby!!!!

Yes, I already told you about my love for Alex Turner (here and here) and when I listened to their last hypnotic song (Do I wanna know) I had an auditory orgasm... I ♥  him and his amazing voice !!  So, if he agrees, I'm his!  ♥

♥  ♥  ♥

“I dreamt about you nearly every night this week

How many secrets can you keep?
Cause there’s this tune I found that makes me think of you somehow
When I play it on repeat
Until I fall asleep
Spilling drinks on my settee
…
And I’m sorry to interrupt
It’s just I’m constantly on the cusp
Of trying to kiss you
I don’t know if you feel the same as I do
We could be together if you wanted to…”         >  Arctic Monkeys   

do(s)t

Just a post about the cutest Michigan's guy : Andrew Dost, from Fun. (I saw two weeks ago...here) who plays the piano and the trumpet and writes music too (!! unable to do that myself..., so wow!)


PS: Sorry for the silly wordplay :)

pictures from Pinterest and from me

"You swore and said
We are not
We are not shining stars
This I know
I never said we are

Though I've never been through hell like that
I've closed enough windows
To know you can never look back

If you're lost and alone
Or you're sinking like a stone
Carry on
May your past be the sound
Of your feet upon the ground
Carry on
...
Cause we are
We are shining stars
We are invincible
We are who we are
On our darkest day
When we're miles away
So we'll come
We will find our way home..."    > Fun.




* nail polishes = Mavala / Catrice / OPI

dis-moi oui, Andy*

My new musical crush : Andy Burrows!
This blond English guy is an ex-member of Razorlight, We are Scientists and now works in solo, what I love!

pictures from Instagram (@andywburrows) and Google

“If I had a heart,

 I would've let you go
 And if I had a heart.
 Well I wonder would I know
 That we're still miles away
 Still running and hiding
 If I had a heart,
 Was good to you,
What good would that do now?”    > Andy Burrow





* quote from a French song of Rita Mitsouko

"catch me if you can"...

... Shutter Island  Titanic  Inception  Gangs of New York   The Departed  Revolutionary Road  is my favourite film with Leonardo DiCaprio Y! So I'm very excited to discover this version of The Great Gatsby...besides that, 20's clothes seem to be amazing!!

 



Even if some songs are really good (Florence + The Machine, The XX,...), I'm quite disappointed by the soundtrack...I usually blog about what I love, but I think Beyoncé's Black to black is useless...

“He's my sun, he makes shine like diamonds

Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful?
Will you still love me when I got nothing but my aching soul?
I know you will, I know you will
I know that you will…”           > Lana Del Rey

to the moon and back

I put Railroad Track in my playlist of 2012 and you probably already heard his song Yeah Yeah in the ad for 'Ipod'. Willy Moon is a young musician from New Zealand who just releases, after few singles, his first album! I really like his retro-pop-songs and his black&white photography too...so I wanted to make you discover him!



PS: Yes, the title of this post refers to the song of the band Savage Garden...

"I ain't waste no more time
See that girl, she's so fine
And I know that she's mine
'Cause she said she loves me yeah
She said something to me
Just wait and see
How it's gonna be
'Cause she said she loves me yeah
She said she loves me now
She really loves me now
She's my baby and I think I love her too..."   > Willy Moon

I see life in black&white

Hurts.
yes, again...
still a week!

I saw them live and their show has the same stark gloomy melancholic universe which is already present in their songs and the design of their albums.

Can't wait more!

 

 

"No love, no light, no end inside

And I’m looking for a miracle
And I’m looking for a miracle
But I hope, I pray, and I will fight
Cause I’m looking for a miracle
Cause I’m looking for a miracle

There’s a place I wanna go
And a life I wanna know..."   > Hurts

March will be my favourite month for the year...

Just because I'm waiting for the  new album of Hurts, one of my favourite bands (which will be available on the 11th March!!!). I discovered this band during summer 2010 with the song Wonderful Life and when I bought their CD, I just fell in love!

The duet created its own world and atmosphere, compared to most of the bands which only have a theme and ambience for each album. I'm hardly sure that they will still have the same, even in 10 or 20 years.

So I 'm just looking forward their new songs (I already ADORE Miracle and Sandman!)!!!

found on Google

"Are you looking for happiness?

Are you looking for something better?

Can you ever feel emptiness?..."             > HURTS

♪

 

PS: To be able to wait until March 11,  Miles Kane released his new song today! :)

gangster style

I recently watched Gangster Squad, a film about fight against underworld of Los Angeles, starring Ryan Gosling (!!!, I had to see it!), Emma Stone (I'd like her hair colour so much) and Sean Penn, which takes place in the 50's (great decade for clothes, isn't it ?) 

Anyway, Ryan  Jerry Wooter  all clothes look great, here you are :

 

pictures found on Pinterest

♥ ♥ ♥ Inspirational Ryan Gosling ♥ ♥ ♥

“True Romance,

 Is what I'm after darling “    > Miles Kane

François Gabart, a distraction in my revision work

77 days ago, I wrote about the world tour sailing, the departure of  Vendée Globe.
And today, the first one (that is his first participation!), François Gabart, 29 (the youngest), is arriving. He will break a record too, finishing in less than 80 days.

So I wanted to congratulate him and all the other skippers, because they deserve it! and see you in 2016!

those news make me think about something else than my exams...

 

 



“If I knew yesterday what I know today, where would I be tomorrow

I won't let my soul slide away, I'd do whatever it takes
Coz this time's only borrowed

I got one life, one life, one life and I'm gonna live it

I got one life, one life, one life and I'm gonna live it right…”    > James Morrison

I don't need a wax

Movember.
Yes, you read well, Movember, not November...if you don't know about it, you can check my last year post about it.
As girls, it is difficult (and probably better if we don't) to have a moustache. So I'm wearing those earrings my mum found for me (aren't they so cute?). Or you can have a moustache-mug (from Urban Outfitters).

“I've been around the way

Been around but not ok
Ah whoaaa
Cos I missed you so
I'm coming home
Just to let you know
That I missed you…”        > Joshua Radin

Love, love me do...

No, I'm not talking about my love life...this is the 50th birthday of The Beatles' song Love Me Do!!
I think they deserve a post, don't they?
I would be there, in 1962...for dresses, haircut, music and atmosphere...

PS: This is the 50th birthday of Bond...James Bond too. (for my mum!)

"Love, love me do.
You know I love you,
I'll always be true,
So please,
Love me do.
Love, love me do.
You know I love you,
I'll always be true,
So please,
Love me do.
Someone to love,
Somebody new.
Someone to love,
Someone like you.
Love, love me do.
You know I love you,
I'll always be true,
So please,
Love me do.
Love, love me do.
You know I love you,
I'll always be true,
So please,
Love me do"  

 

 

(pictures by me, 2007 and 2012, Liverpool)

up for lost time

Hey! I'm finally back and fortunately everything is working well now. So I'm sharing with you what I wanted to post last month...

First, my nails, again and again...(I tried new patterns ; adhesive is my new best friend!) :

and I wanted to share with you David Beckham's Elle cover(s) too:

I wish you a nice summer and see you around (I promise!!)