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  • « Chu un Rocker » - Offenbach

    Je n’ai pas écouté ce vidéo parce que je ne veut pas réveiller ma femme, mais j’aime bien cet chanson. Offenbach est la première groupe Québécois que j’ai entendu avec une style de rock «  classique » comme des groupes Américain comme Kansas ou Boston. J’ai besoin de lire les lyriques parce que je trouve l’accent difficile à comprendre mais j’aime bien le son.

    C’est un jour fortuit pour commencer cet série parce que aujourd’hui je commence un route de 2 000 km/1200 miles avec la destination de Saguenay!

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    I haven’t listened to this video because I don’t want to wake my wife, but I love this song. Offenbach is the first group from Quebec that I heard with what I think of as a classic rock sound, like American bands like Kansas or Boston. I have to look up the lyrics because I find the accent difficult but I love the sound.

    This is a serendipitous day to start this series because today I’m starting a 1200 mile/2,000 km road trip with Saguenay, Quebec as the destination!




  • I think it made so much money at the box office because it was so visually stunning (for the time) and no one had made a movie like that at that point. It was very much a movie everyone said to go watch on the big screen in 3D, ideally IMAX 3D. I never did and only watched it on a DVD borrowed from my wife’s friend 6 or 7 years ago, and came away less impressed. Like, it’s fine, but the movie itself isn’t exactly the greatest story ever told, and the visuals, while groundbreaking at the time, are now pretty standard.










  • That would explain the bizarre “Christian” aspects of two of the shows I saw. My French is good enough for ordinary conversations but I had a bit of a hard time following along with the recorded dialog over the loudspeakers. In the Viking show all hope seemed lost for the villagers when suddenly the pope (?) appeared out of a river and the Vikings were so impressed by this that they immediately stopped their attack and swore off their Norse gods to become Christian. And the Roman arena show had the Gauls fighting for their freedom to be Christian while the Romans tried to force them to worship pagan gods, when I’m pretty sure the history was basically the opposite of that.

    I saw afterwards if you downloaded the app you could see synchronized translations in your own language so maybe it would make more sense, but I doubt it.



  • Went to Puy du Fou in France (English language link) a few weeks ago and saw their Vikings show (among others). It was a lot of stunts and they had a couple stunts where dogs took down the invaders, and it definitely seemed like there were a few wagging tails in there. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were having fun and were happy because they were doing a good job.