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Ok. I have one particular one on my mind. Who I just witnessed win the F1 qualifying race - of course - Lewis Hamilton. I’m so happy.

A few days ago I got a comment on my blog about having omitted britpop. Well, yeah. I did. And I have to resolve the cognitive dissonance evoked by that comment. Throughout the 90s I listened to my share of britpop. I even got Gavin Rossdale’s signature at a very cozy and intimate concierto. I am not a huge fan of Liam Gallagher. But I like his music. A lot of my friends (such groupies they are!) had crushes on him. I wrote something else, but my friend who was momentarily “involved” with Liam would kill me!

So I won’t write it.

But, whatever. I also um. LOVE. The Beatles. The Rolling Stones. And my all-time favorite band, Led freakin’ Zeppelin. Who the he-doublehockysticks isn’t into britpop (well, I mean like 60s brit “pop”…rock…).

britrock. youknowwhatimean.

Prince - why are you singing Creep? Imagine if Radiohead did a version of “Controversy”…oooooh. That would get my attention.

I used to like Prodigy. Until I saw the video for that song I won’t mention. And the video made me wanna holler, throw up both of my hands.

here’s a homage. tu sais…je ne sais pas pourquoi, mais j’ai le goût d’écrire en français…en tout cas…

Big beat, as a genre, should be NULLIFIED in sacrifice for that despicable Prodigy song and video. So I’m putting the Chemical Brothers in the britpop genre.

Rock the Casbah.

Ok, so it’s not all 90s. And not all britpop. It’s just stuff I like.

So sad to read. I just saw the article in the New York Times that said Yves Saint Laurent has passed away at age 71. YouTube has videos dedicated to YSL. See this post on the Raspberry Revolution site.

Nous sommes chanceux d’avoir l’exposition d’Yves Saint Laurent au Musée des Beaux Arts.

Merci pour tes créations merveilleuses, Yves. Je te salue.

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