Martine Pagé

One more reason to think she’s cool

Grammy-Winning Singer Norah Jones Admits to Never Working Out, Says She Loves to Eat.

« I’ve never worked out. In fact, I need to lose a few pounds, » said the Grammy-winning singer, although her slender shape contradicts her. « I don’t care if I’m a little chubby. I love to eat way too much. »

And food loves you back, Norah. She has the most adorable round face found on a person over the age of 4.

I really thought she was a true original until I saw the lower back tattoo. Damn. They are everywhere! Every single girl we saw in Mexico (tourists, mostly) below the age of 30 had one of them!

La mode des Flash Mobs

Vous avez vu cette histoire qui circule aujourd’hui concernant les flash mobs � New York? Un courriel est d’abord envoy� � plusieurs personnes dans un m�me endroit g�ographique (dans ce cas-ci � Manhattan) qui invite les gens � venir se pr�senter en grand nombre � une heure et � un lieu pr�cis. Le courriel leur indique aussi ce qu’ils doivent faire. Cette semaine par exemple, les new yorkais ont �t� invit�s � se pr�senter au grand magasin Macy’s, � l’�tage des tapis, autour d’un tapis qui vaut 10,000$. Les participants devaient dire au vendeur qu’ils habitaient tous dans une commune et qu’ils voulaient acheter le tapis pour accueillir leurs �bats amoureux… Au bout de quelques minutes de discussion, les gens devaient voter contre l’achat du tapis et quitter les lieux tous en m�me temps.

Le tout devient donc une sorte de performance socio-politico-artistico-absurde qui utilise les nouvelles technologies pour former des groupes d’inconnus en un �clair (d’o� le nom flash mobs, comme les flash floods par exemple). La technique avait d�j� �t� utilis�e � travers le monde et un livre sur le sujet sera bient�t publi�. J’aime bien voir la bouille des vendeurs et imaginer �tre � leur place quand des dizaines de personnes se sont pr�sent�es en m�me temps au rayon des tapis!

Blog your music!

This Saturday, June 21st, it’s la f�te de la musique, a day dedicated to music of all forms and styles. Someone over in France is inviting you to dedicate your blog entry of that day to the theme of music. Anything goes, as long as you talk about music. I’ll talk about the use of music in movies. You can talk about your favorite song. You can sing and make the song available online. You can photograph an instrument. Tell us about a bad music lesson. Be creative. Or not. The only thing required of you is that you blog about music on that day and that you link to somebody else who will blog about this as well. So far, I believe that every person who has chosen to participate is a francophone, but why not make this a bilingual, trilingual, web-wide activity? Cool Web projects don’t always have to be generated by English speakers to be successful, right?

Interested? Send an e-mail to mediatic@netcourrier.com and let them know you’ll write about music next Saturday. I’m sure they’ll be very nice to you, even if you are American. ;-)