I’m virtually a ghost. I live a very ghostly life.

My favourite colour is green, and my hair is blue. I’m sure Freud would have something to say about that.

COFFEE

Ha! This is gonna be a LONG one. Mostly because I wanted to write a blog about it, but this seems like it could reach more people than my blog. Like, more than my dad.

I love the James Gunn movies, Especially “Super” and “Slither”, it’s an amazingly bizarre movie and Kevin Bacon is on it and it didn’t make me want to shoot myself, so that’s saying something.

“Django Unchained”, despite all the bullshit that has been said about it, it’s a fucking awesome movie. Samuel L. Jackson saying “muthafucka” in the late 19th century is just priceless.

“Bad Biology” is probably the weirdest movie (that makes sense) I’ve ever see (so David Lynch doesn’t count). Not for everybody, but if you think you could enjoy a talking/living penis in a pseudo horror movie, definitely, watch this.

In the comedy department, “Shaun of the dead” & “Hot fuzz” are the greatest most perfect comedies I can recall.

And recently, I watched “Waiting For Godot” (the movie). Vladimir is played by Barry McGovern (one of the greatest “Beckett actors”) and it’s amazing how he transformed the play into a movie without sacrificing the cinematographic codes and language. Obviously, McGovern carries most of the movie, his Vladimir feels so real that it’s almost hard to believe that he’s saying lines. Probably my favorite movie.

OH WAIT.

My favourite movie is Troll 2. Watch Troll 2. I have watched that movie a thousand times. Go watch Troll 2 right now.

This is also gonna be a long one, because in my opinion there are no good actors per se, just appropriate actors (just like musicians). To give you an example, I didn’t especially like Brando in “Apocalypse Now” (and If you watch the documentary Coppola’s wife filmed during the production of the movie, you’ll understand why). So I’m gonna give a list of actors, but in the context of the movie they’re great in:

Robert DeNiro as Vito Corleone in Godfather II (not a movie I especially enjoyed, but the way he mimicked Brando, and the quasi perfection of his Sicilian accent gives him first place)

I’m very interested in accents and language, and it always baffles me when a Swedish character speaks english in a movie (n’est-ce pas, David Fincher?). To give you the perfect example: Hugo, by Scorcese. They’re in France, everybody is french, but not only they speak english, but they have a British accents… Why? Makes no sense. Shoot your movie in french, with french actors, and add subtitles.

So, the fact that DeNiro worked hard on the accent and the character is a sign of a great actor, committed equally to the fiction he is supposed to embody, AND the logic that makes you forget it is fiction.

I also like Bjork in Dancer in The Dark, Kristen Dunst in Spiderman, and Christopher Walken in anything he’s in. Bill Murray is probably a perfect actor. But I didn’t see Ghostbusters… Oh and Bryan Cranston and the guy playing the lawyer in Breaking Bad are absolutely perfect. And Johnny Depp.

My electric guitar that I call “Jane”. It’s an original 1964 black and white Silvertone that I found in a vintage store in Montreal east (like… FAR east). It cost me almost nothing. I know it belonged to several very talented Montreal musicians (no name dropping.. sorry) and now it’s mine.

What’s interesting is that I was already working on “The Bathurst Moment” for quite a while when I purchased that guitar. It was mostly acoustics and depressing ballads up to that point, and the label and my team were starting to lose interest in the project. Then I bought this guitar and that same day I wrote and recorded “A La Derive”, and “Fish Tank Blues” the next day. So in a way, “Jane” saved my artistic life and I will never play another guitar until it’s into pieces (let’s hope this doesn’t happen).

Also, that’s the guitar Beck always plays, so that scores a lot of points in my book.

NIGHT NIGHT NIGHT!

I’m nocturnal.

I woke up at 2PM today.

Hmm I hope I’ll get to find 10… I don’t listen to a lot of music. It also depends on the research I’m doing for various projects, so don’t judge me 🙂 :

-Etudes pour Piano, by Aleksánd Scriabin

-drukQs, by Aphex Twin

-The Suburbs, by Arcade Fire

-Fantasea, by Azealia Banks

-Hundred Thousand Pieces, by Patrick Krief

-Young Machetes, by The Blood Brothers

-Greatest Hits, by Carlos Gardel

-Clues, by Clues

-CIVILWAR, by Dillinger Four

-Omega, by Enrique Morente

-Solo Piano II, by Chilly Gonzales

-The Specialty Sessions, by Little Richard

-Bad as Me, by Tom Waits (this is actually my second favourite record)

-Funeral Blues, by Mark Lanegan Band

-Self Entitled, by NOFX

-Freaked Out and Small, by The Presidents of The United States of America

-LP3, by Ratatat

-10.000 Shots, by The Real McKenzies

-Contra, by Vampire Weekend

-Reunion Tour, by The Weakerthans

OH AND DID I MENTIONED I CAN’T COUNT UP TO TEN

Patience.

10 what do you love about having facebook/google account.

To be completely honest I fucking hate it. I hate Facebook and Google and everything that has to do with those two companies. I started Facebook out of peer pressure when I moved to Paris, years ago, to stay in touch with people i didn’t really wanted to stay in touch with to begin with. Then I shut it down, but the motherfuckers won’t delete your account! then, obviously, I had to open it again when my career started becoming more “serious”, because Facebook, like it or not, is a ubiquitous thing. You’re either on it or you don’t exist as an artist nowadays. But I seriously don’t spend much time on it, and I even use my account very ironically. I don’t befriend FRIENDS. All my “friends” on Facebook are musicians from Toronto I don’t even know, so I get their updates and stuff.

And Google… i never log in. It’s seriously enraging, every time I want to like a video on youtube they make me log in and they immediately ask for my phone number so I thought to myself “fuck this shit”. Always trying to know where you are, what you do, with whom…

I like twitter tho. Because I can lie about anything. It’s glorious.

If I learnt anything from Zappa is to not answer that question. For the reasons stated above.

Very badly. I’m not famous, obviously, and I like it that way. But every once in a while there’s a very intense character that pops out of nowhere and starts asking questions, and wanting things, and all that. I don’t know how to deal with that, honestly.

You’ll never live up to the idea somebody has of you. And I’m very unprepared for those things, since I usually am the guy in the background, thinking while everybody talks. I’m very shy.

If it weren’t for the music scene, I wouldn’t have any human interaction. Not that I think that that is a good thing, or a bad thing, but it proves that art is bigger than me, than us, and I like that concept. Art took over when God died, and it makes people be in communion more efficiently than anything else, including religion. Which makes me think that when Lennon said “we’re bigger than Christ”, he wasn’t kidding, he was not being a smart ass. Ever since art was born, and especially those aspects of art that put people together in a room, religion became obsolete and poisonous. Lennon was absolutely right. In fact, any artist is bigger than Christ. Any person, for that matter.

So, to make a long story short, I love that the music scene partakes in the destruction of organised religion.

I’m not proud of any part of my body, but I’m happy with my brain. Sometimes.

Make coffee, watch the news and check my emails. I also check the last tweet I read to see how many hours I slept…… yeah..