Voici une émission expérimentale de Culturama qui présente en douze rondes et deux émissions douze chansons en leurs versions originales et en leurs versions reprises toutes aussi originales.

Here comes an experimental episode of Culturama in twelve rounds and a total of two shows that presents the same song twice: first in its original version and afterwards in a creative cover version.

Hier folgt nun eine experimentierfreudige Sondersendung von Culturama in zwei Teilen und insgesamt zwölf Runden. Diese beiden Sendungen stellen insgesamt zwölf Stücke vor, die zunächst in ihrer Originalfassung und dann in einer originellen Coverversion präsentiert werden.

Tracks / Chansons / Lieder:

Blue Öyster Cult (1976) / HIM (1997) - Don't Fear The Reaper

David Bowie (1977) / Apocalyptica & Till Lindemann (2007) - Helden

Metallica (1986) / Van Canto (2006) - Battery

Sisters Of Mercy (1987) / In Extremo (1999) - This Corrosion

Nine Inch Nails (1994) / Johnny Cash (2002) - Hurt

Britney Spears (2000) / Children Of Bodom (2005) - Oops! I Did It Again

Voici une émission expérimentale de Culturama qui présente en douze rondes et deux émissions douze chansons en leurs versions originales et en leurs versions reprises toutes aussi originales.

Here comes an experimental episode of Culturama in twelve rounds and a total of two shows that presents the same song twice: first in its original version and afterwards in a creative cover version.

Hier folgt nun eine experimentierfreudige Sondersendung von Culturama in zwei Teilen und insgesamt zwölf Runden. Diese beiden Sendungen stellen insgesamt zwölf Stücke vor, die zunächst in ihrer Originalfassung und dann in einer originellen Coverversion präsentiert werden.

Chansons / Tracks / Lieder:

Zarah Leander (1942) / Umbra Et Imago (2011) - Davon geht die Welt nicht unter

Eddie Cochran (1958) / Blue Cheer (1968) - Summertime blues

Sim Malmkvist (1964) / Frank Zander & Nina Hagen (2005) - Liebeskummer lohnt sich nicht

The Doors (1967) / Amorphis (1994) - Light My Fire

Joe Dassin (1969) / NoFX (1997) - Les Champs Élysées

Bob Dylan (1973) / Guns 'N Roses (1991) - Knockin' On Heaven's Door

To be continued...

Bonjour tout le monde!

Après quelques semaines sans message, je tiens à souhaiter à tous ceux et celles qui suivent toujours les activités sur mon blogue un très beau temps de Pâques.

Je me trouve en ce moment dans le nord-est du Québec, plus précisément dit dans la capitale de la région administrative de la Côte-Nord qui est Sept-Îles. Je suis ici depuis le 25 mars 2012 et je resterai encore dans le coin jusqu'au premier ou deux mai 2012. Ensuite, je retournerai au Saguenay pour un peu moins de quatre semaines avant de faire un tour à Québec et à Montréal suivi d'un retour dans mon pays natal qui est l'Allemagne. Plusieurs choses sont prévues durant mon temps en Allemagne. Je vais certainement aller voir plusieurs concerts et festivals avec mon père, je vais faire des petites excursions au Luxembourg et aux Pays-Bas comme d'habitude, je vais rencontrer mes vieux amis, je vais assister à la Journée du Japon à Düsseldorf, je vais suivre le Championnat d'Europe de football de 2012, la Coupe Stanley et les Jeux olymiques d'été à la télévision et j'en passe.

Je fais en ce moment un stage en enseignement secondaire à l'École Jean-du-Nord avec six groupes de troisième secondaire auxquels j'enseigne l'histoire et l'éducation à la citoyenneté. C'est un stage très différent de mes deux autres expériences, mais très enrichissant et passionant et je suis content d'avoir pris la décision de vivre ici afin de connaître un autre milieu et une clientèle scolaire différente. À part de cela, la ville de Sept-Îles me plaît de plus en plus et je découvre de nouvelles choses à chaque semaine vu que je me promène beaucoup et surtout à pied. En venant ici, j'ai également pu visiter la belle ville de Baie-Comeau et je compte voir d'autres endroits dans les prochaines semaines comme peut-être Port-Cartier. Je vais sûrement mettre quelques photos et vidéos de mes voyages en ligne prochainement, si tout va bien.

Comme d'habitude, je vais également mettre mes vieilles émissions de radio en ligne et vous pouvez toujours écouter les dernières émissions de "Culturama" directement sur www.ceuc.ca. Vingt-sept sur un total de vingt-neuf épisodes de Culturama ont été publiées jusqu'à date. Ça vaut la peine d econtinuer à faire le tour car mes dernières émissions sont particulièrement riches en anecdotes, informations et pièces musicales exotiques comme les émissions sur le Brésil, sur l'Afrique du Sud et la Chine. Par la suite, je travaille sur mes nouvelles émissions de "Top Chrono!" et sur une série d'émissions de radio spéciale sur la culture musicale canadienne.

Continuez à faire le tour de mon blogue, il y a une panoplie de choses à découvrir pour tout le monde!

À la prochaine et prenez bien soin de vous!

Sebastian

After the overrated hypes around series such as "Twilight" and the last "Harry Potter" movies that are based on artificial special effects and rather mediocre acting I didn't expect too much from this new series that start with "The Hunger Games". To my surprise, this movie is easily better and plays in another league as "Twilight" or the last two "Harry Potter" movies.

This movie is also based on many special effects but they are visually truly beautiful and the strange future world is quite interesting to discover. The acting is also solid at many points I really appreciated the appearances of the charismatic Donald Sutherland, singer Lenny Kravitz and the very talented young actress Isabelle Fuhrman. The movie also contains some decent criticism about media and society but it could dig deeper at some points. The open ending makes you want to see the evolution of the characters and the addicting future world in the upcoming two movies. This movie is a solid Hollywood popcorn movie for teenagers but might also please to older fans of fantasy and science fiction movies even though I prefer the more mature "John Carter" that has been released a few weeks before this output. I was positively surprised by the high amount of brutality and raw killing scenes in the movie that make it more dramatic towards the end. After horrible adoptions from fantasy books such as the teeth-less "Eragon" in the past, this is definitely a step in the right direction even of worried parents, conservative Hollywood maniacs and too religious watchers might feel shocked about these tendencies.

On the other side, this movie offers nothing new after all. The dystopian context and the brutal games make me think of "Rollerball" and other classics and this movie has not enough originality and soul to come close to this masterpiece. It could though initiate a younger audience to this genre and make them discover further great dystopian movies such as "1984", "Equilibrium", "Fahrenheit 451", "Renaissance" and "V For Vendetta". In comparison to these movie this one we have here is rather forgettable and only worth to be watched once even though you get well entertained in over two hours of running time. I also disliked the choice of the main male character who lacks of charisma and guts in comparison to the convincing female lead role. Josh Hutcherson seems to be like a mixture of Justin Bieber and Robert Pattinson and seems only to be there to attract young girls to this movie. He might be a sweet guy for them but he honestly is a rather mediocre actor. The love story between him and the female lead role is simply not convincing in this movie and I'm looking forward to read the book to see if the whole thing is more authentic in the written version. The next time I wish the studios would chose an edgier and more unique actor or change the character of the book a little bit to make him more interesting. The soft guy simply feels out of place in this rather brutal survival movie towards the end.

In the end, it's worth to watch this movie once and to get out and watch the two sequels if their quality is as good or better than this movie. It's nothing groundbreaking though or something I would watch twice or purchase. A younger audience might though like it and overall the flick is well done and a step forward after the last rather mediocre Hollywood fantasy blockbusters with the exception of "John Carter" and "Super 8" that were approximatively as good or slightly better than this.

This is a movie filled with hilarious laughs, over the top characters and many crazy ideas that you should enjoy with your friends in the movie theatres or watch at home in an appropriated atmosphere. Once you saw this you might now what I mean. This movie makes you want to break feel, have some fun and get out to have the party of your life but of course you should not do any of what the movie shows us at your home.

In the end, the main character prefers to celebrate his next birthday with the girl he likes and loves instead of having a big party just to get famous at school and this is where the movie shows us the real sense of life and morality. I must admit that some characters are even pretty well developed for this kind of movie and represent quite well three naive teenage guys that play the main role. You have the sneaky and egoistic guy who only wants to have a hell load of fun, the more responsible and naive birthday child and the shy and awkward young man who risks everything to be cool and live the best night of his life.

The rest is great and of course superficial entertainment. You simply have to switch your brains off and enjoy it. Of course this epic movie is not a joy ride for everyone. It's about drugs, it's about alcohol, it's about sex but you should see all of this coming. This movie contains probably more swear words and bad gestures than a gangster rap album and more naked women than a regular porn flick and might not please to younger and older audiences. I'm not used to watch this kind of movie at all as I watch rather exotic and intellectual stuff but it's a light and welcome change of my usual habits and I enjoyed it and would definitely watch it again.