Une autre exception culturelle française ? La France : 1er pays au monde à légaliser le « Peer to Peer » ? Téléchargement illimité de fichiers musicaux à usage non commercial en échange d’une redevance de 7 euros par mois ?
Miracle de Noël ?
Incroyable coup de théâtre à l’Asssemblée Nationale en France qui devait voter le 23 décembre devant un hémicycle quasiment vide le projet d’une des lois les plus répressives à propos des échanges et de téléchargements gratuits de fichiers musicaux sur internet (DADVSI) et la mise en place d’un système de contrôle et d’espionnage (DRM) pour suivre l’utilisation de ces fichiers chez les particuliers.

Another French cultural exception ? France : first country in the world to legalize the P2P ? Illimited music downloading to the non profit user for 7 euros a month… ? Christmas miracle ?
Incredible night in the French National Assembly (almost empty) who had to vote December 23th one of the most repressive law about the musical files’ exchanges and free downloading on the internet (DADVSI) with the Digital Right Management’s setup … Continuer la lecture de 24/12/05 Christmas’ miracle ? →

Last Sunday afternoon in Marseille when the children are free !

click on the pictures to enlarge the angels of the city !

Oh ! I only want to know who was Oscar Wilde really in details (complete works, bios, letters, lawsuit’s stories) : la rentrée littéraire de Meltingpod !
One of the most amazing book until now is « Teleny » : Oscar is only supposed to be the author of this « true » story : if he wrote that book in the context of England at that time he couldn’t sign it without signing his death sentence. I found this book in a public library in Marseille discreetly listed under « Physiological study » ! Even read in a French translation I heard Oscar’s voice in my head (or maybe an other man ?) telling a part of his life. I found a German fan on the web who wrote about this book : « Die schönste Liebesgeschichte der Welt » (la plus belle histoire d’amour du monde); a French fan wrote : better than the poppers ! …I encourage you to read it and give your opinion !

Left pile is already read, right pile is in working…I fear to have been too « gourmande » !
To stay a very short moment with the intellectuals (don’t worry), I answered to a request of France Culture, one of the most important and famous public French radio, who recorded last Thursday a live show in Marseille’s center about…city planning.
I was not invited as city planner but as DJ to propose for free a choice of songs I already played in my meltingpod podcast to integrate into their show !! Surprise or not a few days later they didn’t spread anything of my music in their show « Travaux Publics » : my rock and roll was censured without a word of explanation : not cool !

I saw strange apparitions walking in a bog during a hot night with Ilotopie :

I need a break a few days in a cold country ! I’m flighing tomorrow for Vilnius (Lithuania). If you didn’t have any time until now to listen to every podcasts of meltingpod, it’s the moment to update your ears.
I gave an interview during one hour to Julien from France Podcast for his podmag : this funny conversation is podcasting on the internet in the middle of the next week. I hope you will like to listen to me in French only !

I began to work on a logo for meltingpod, give me your first reactions.

After spending some noisy days with the Saints, I found back home to Marseille an invitation from Alice Cooper’s guitarist to see their concert the day after in l’Olympia and do an interview with Alice after the show : too short to organize this new travel (arrgh); I needed to take a break in the silence and the loneliness in my own hard land of France, a little village in the Alpes : Saint-Crepin (hey, where Frederic Chopin’s ancestors+father were born)…loneliness, silence ? not true this morning because the Tour de France was running through the village…behind the sponsors’caravane the 165 heroes ran in front of us during exactly LESS ONE MINUTE ! a great road-theater performance, the shortest I ever saw.

BTW : I have personally a new sponsor, Luc Saint-Elie, another French podcaster; have a look on : http://audioblog.fr; he spreads my podcasts from iTunes until I will be myself on the iTunes podcasts list. Nice solidarity !

The Independent Republic of Figuerolles (a wonderful place near Marseille-Free Town) greets the true stars of the summer !