My summer Rock n’ Roll story

I’m not the kind of guy that could be the hero of films like “Almost Famous” or “Velvet Goldmine”. I don’t gravitate around musicians or film’s artists. I’m a down-to-earth Rock n’ Roll fan computer programmer. I’m the average folk that have one in a billions chance to make rock history or (lamer) history at all. But sometimes, the awesomeness of some people I know just fall down on my knees.
I want to tell you the story of my drumsticks. I’m currently living in Paris in a little loft, for free. The other day, while cleaning up a forgotten closet in my apartment I found a barely used pair of drumsticks. My neighbor being a film maker (and, by the way, the son of the guy that lend me the loft) that love to help out his friends, some young musicians he meets at his favorite bar, I assumed that this were left-over of a long forgotten music clip filming and went on using them to lose stress on any object that could produce a nice sound without disturbing the neighbors(tables, books, stools, wallets, etc etc).
Just yesterday, my very own friendly-neighborhood-film-maker came by to ask me a few washing machine related stuff (like “why do you keep on using high-temperatures!” or “where did you put the plastic bowl?”) and saw me fooling around with this sticks. He then went like this : “LOL, do you know what those sticks are?”
That’s how I learned that my sticks were actually the property of the drummer of the rock band Noir Désir
famous around Europe (and maybe the world) for this song “Le vent nous portera” or this one “L’homme pressé“. This group is also well known for its lead-singer/guitarists killing his girlfriend in a drunken fight (they were both drunk and she fell on the table apparently … which still makes him an asshole, minds you). By the way, the girlfriend was also the daughter of a family that is the closest representation of a royal family the French movie industry might have, the name was Marie Trintignant.
My neighbor landed those sticks in Bulgaria, the Noir Désir were on tour there, he was simply accompanying a photographer that was covering the tour. They were sitting at a table in a restaurant when the band came and sat at the very table beside them. They were just over with sound-checks and the drummer, Denis Barthe, was still carrying his sticks with him. After exchanging some very boring banalities with the photographer and his companion the band finished eating and went to prepare itself for the show. Denis just left the sticks behind as they were barely chipped and no more useable (as they might have damaged the drums during the concert). My friend had the good idea of picking them up and keeping them as a memento of the tour.
Now I’ve inherited those sticks … and frankly I don’t care where they came from : they are just very good for loosen up a bit when I’m alone and working on complicated stuff. For me it’s just a nice true story, and I needed to post something on my blog. Thanks Denis Barthe!

On a side note : I’d like you all to see this movie : CHOCOLATE. I’m not talking about the one with Johnny Depp and Juliette Binoche – although that one was really good too I must admit – but the one with JeeJa Yanin. It’s a Thai movie directly from the same mold that was used for  Ong-Bak (same producer and director, and the choreograh of Tony Jaa is the master of the lead-role actress), but god is that girl great … Don’t go there if you love well written stories with complex plots or lots of actor’s work. This is a 100% action packed movie, the 20 first minutes (the classic intro of the character) is so-so but we see a lot of Hiroshi Abe in it(LOL… I love that actor). Just watch it with friends to have some fun and disconnect your brain for 110 minutes. Watch the Trailer for now … this one doesn’t lie, what you’ll see on this teaser is what you’ll get on the movie. So get ready for seeing a cute girl (really Aya Ueto’s level cuteness and all IMHO … ok maybe a bit lower … but that’s an almost illegal level of cuteness too) kick some (many) A$$! Peace!