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Publié le Dimanche 27 mars 2005

Duo bluegrass avec Banjos:

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Autant la musique country moderne, je peux pas, réaction allergique grave, encore pire que Céline Dion, l’opéra Chinois ou la musique Bretonne;-), autant le bluegrass j’aime bien. Le bluegrass, c’est la musique Folk country traditionelle principalement originaire du sud des appalaches (ouest de la Caroline du Nord, Kentucky, Tennessee, etc…) des année 1930. Ca se joue typiquement avec des banjos, fiddle (sorte de violon), guitare acoustique et contrebasse. Si vous avez vu le film “O brother where art thou?” (O’Brother en Français) la bande son c’est plein de tubes bluegrass. Pour écouter quelques extraits, aller la sur amazon, et puis dessendez sur “Listen to Samples”, je vous conseille la 15, 16 ou 3.

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Au niveau chapeau de cowboys et santiags, Nashville n’a rien à envier à l’ouest. A part qu’ici, les cowboys ont plus des têtes d’Irlandais que de Mexicains et qu’ils sont plutot clean. C’est de la country quand même, faut avoir l’air un peu rebêle (tatouage, jeans déchiré) mais pas trop quand même (cheveux courts, bien rasé, etc…)!
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Dimanche 27 mars 2005 | 23:02 | # girl

i was going to say: you wrote this whole blog in french and english?! v. impressive and helpful for studying french. but now just by random wandering I see you haven’t! say one of your readers is an american who loves pates de fruit and is on a road trip and wondering whether she should buy this nice box of cactus candy? i mean candy from a cactus? a sensible girl would probrably pass it up wouldn’t she? really, very inconsiderate.

Dimanche 27 mars 2005 | 23:53 | #1 Sébastien

Most of the time, I start by writing in French and then, instead of translating, I got tired, strips down the text and only posts the photos on the English side… Anyways the whole “expat experience” is IMO a lot more interesting for people of your country of origin than for people of your host country.

Now concerning cactus candy, I am assuming you are refering to this post:
http://www.windal.net/weblog/francais/archives/000183.html (in English) or this one http://www.windal.net/weblog/archives/000186.html (in French).
If I remember correctly, I bought cactus candy at a gas station between I-40 and Grand Canyon National Park, I believe on US route 180. I also saw it at many other gas stations in Arizona and New Mexico but it is true I never found it anywhere else. I did not really search too hard though, especially after I found what it was:-) You might find it online.

Good luck with that and bon apétit if you manage to find it! :-)

Lundi 28 mars 2005 | 0:06 | #2 girl

hmmm, the french blog is much more interesting than the english, i see…

“Bref, Savannah est une ville qui ne manque pas de charme. Sans vouloir me faire l’avocat du diable, je comprend un peu mieux l’amertume des sudistes natifs que j’ai pu resentir dernièrement vis à vis du Nord et tout particulièrement du général Sherman. Le sud, y compris Atlanta, devait sans doute ressembler plus à ça avant qu’il ne se défoule et détruise tout, enfin presque tout, puisqu’il n’a épargné que Savannah donc.

D’un autre côté, si il y avait plus d’endroits comme ça aux USA, il y aurait beaucoup moins de raisons pour un Américain d’aller en vacances en Europe.”

places like savannah were saved from evil empty razing and rebuilding by poverty! south central los angeles has probably the most attractive houses in LA. I just read an article about the guy who started saving the more interesting victorians in san francisco and how when he started everyday they would go be pulled down by developers and now of course, no one can afford them and they had a picture of him and he looks quite young! it was like that everywhere esp. during the seventies and eighties; if people like jackie kennedy hadn’t happened to take an interest and been very fierce about it, it probably still would be.
(she saved some of the most attractive houses in washington and if you ask any ‘coloured’ person of a certain age they will tell you back then washington was a v. southern town) southerners are still americans… it’s quite gentrified now but that is for the most part quite recent, who knows what savannah would look like if they’d had a little more money when things were particularly bad and old buildings were going down everywhere… anyway, what do they have to be bitter about? as though it could be helped, look at the state of the place in the sixties!! if it wasn’t for constant federal intervention where would a substantial chunk of their population be? so northern imposed poverty turned out not to be the worst thing for them, architecturally speaking.
I don’t know how you meant that last comment but i’ll assume of course you want us there because um, we are so lovable… :)

Lundi 28 mars 2005 | 0:13 | #3 girl

first post purely hypothetical. :)

Lundi 28 mars 2005 | 7:43 | #4 miss lulu

j’aime beaucoup la bluegrass, moi aussi, beaucoup plus que la country. je te conseille Ryan Shupe and the Rubber Band. jolies photos :)

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