Tumblr FTW

I know that I am very late in the game but Tumblr is pure awesomeness and perfect for my needs for spontaneous sharing over 140 characters...so if you were so ever inclined, you can find me over on Tumblr
and of course still very much on Twitter

me lazy blogger

so as you may have noticed, I have been blogging very sporadically lately, okay very rarely lately :)

Truth is I belong to the burst generation, I like easy and spontaneous.
I am much more comfortable with the compulsory shortness of Twitter input box or the easiness of the lazy comments and quick recommendation of bubbletop, the thing I have been working on for a while now.

So 2 sites where you will be able to follow me more regularly if you're interested:

http://twitter.com/virginie -> for what I've been doing
http://virginie.bubbletop.com -> for my favorites of the moment on the internet

so sayonara for now on this blog and hope to see you on Twitter and Bubbletop

Sebadoh at Noise Pop 2007

This week is Noise Pop in San Francisco, a very cool festival celebrating Pop and Rock'n Roll mainly, good from time to time to go back to the grind grind of the guitar.
Yesterday I went to see Sebadoh at the Great American Music Hall, the concert was a sold-out and I was pretty excited to finally see Sebadoh. It was an important band from my early 20s and I allways missed them. They are pretty historical band in fact, but you would never guess it from their attitude, I really like that about them, the antithesis of the star attitude.
Lou Barlow (was in Dinosaur Jr, then founded Sebadoh, also Folk Implosion, also follow his solo carrer) is credited for having invented the lo-fi style (meaning more authentic, not over produced, sometimes meaning home recorded). The 3 of them all sing ther own composition, switch instruments and just stay true to what they started as: experimentation, freedom and chaos even if it means aking us wait 5 minutes in between songs because they are switching places and gears. In short, very very cool show.
Other very good suprises from that show were Love of Diagrams, a two girls one guy band from Australia with an interesting punky Nu Wavy sound, and Bent Moustach, a Dutch band (i have a sweet spot for anything Dutch having lived 4 years there) with a very funny energy, mixing shoegaze and Dub. Very very nice live.

For more on these bands:
Sebadoh MP3s - they are asking for bootleg on their websites :-)
Sebadoh video
Video of Love of Diagrams
Bent Moustach on My Space

CSS (Cansei De Ser Sexy)

Cansei de Ser Sexy - Alala

My latest discovery: CSS.
Do you know this band? Really fun, not taking themselves seriously at all 5 girls and a guy, self-proclaimed, self-taught musicians and singers but that got signed by Sup-Pop nonetheless, pretty amazing! They are from Brazil but you would not guess it, their sound is more European Electro-rock-trash. They don't sing in Brazilian but in English because as they proclaim it: their scene is the Internet. So you find them all over the net, they have their own "TV channel" on You Tube: CSS.tv.
The only thing is that I could not find their music digitally elsewhere than iTunes (well ok they are not on eMusic, the MP3 site I use, so I bought them DRMized, damm!)
Anyway, here is a video of them, enjoy!

Green Festival this WE

so this is a busy week in San Francisco for the techies...there is of course the one and only web 2.0 conference. We also just finished the very good first ever on that subject Widget Live conference organized by Om and Niall, there will be web2point2 at the end of the week....but in a very different category, I wanted to point out an expo not to miss this WE: the Green Festival.
I volunteered to the first ever Green Festival 4 years ago (geez, time flies) and loved the vibe and energy from this conference. There is such a vibrant community and ecosystem in that field and so much innovations in there too. This year, I will be attending again but this time selling/promoting organic chocolates :-) for a small traditional chocolate company that started an organic line couple of years ago: Sjaaks Organics Chocolates. This should be fun, so if you're in the neighborhood, you should check it out....

Fresh song to put smile on your face

I first heard LDN of Lilly Allen on Cognac Jay podcast, and I really like it.
A very charming, fresh, upbeat song.
Easy listening is nice sometimes, put you in good mood at each time.
I love her voice too, reminds me of the voice of the singer of the Cardigans.
And now I found this song available to download on Odeo.
Enjoy!

powered by ODEO

Back from Burning Man

and once again it was brilliant, I think I enjoyed it even better than my virgin year amazingly.
Just awesome art, awesome landscape, awesome sunrise, awesome people watching, a lot of fun with my campmates and what I consider now a necessary condition for going to Burning Man: a life saving water air cooler for the hot afternoon...best birthday gift ever!
I posted some picture there, but for real amazing pictures go see the ones of Tristan.
And go check what is still keeping me dreaming there.

Silence radio

Long period without writing here,
a very short trip to Hawai to visit a friend, pictures to come soon
then a trip to France for my work....
pretty busy month of July, but a lot of good stuffs and I really can't believe how hot it is here...not to the point of missing San Francisco's summer fog though :-)
Back in SF end of next week