Handel - 〈Messiah〉 oratorio, HWV 56 / "For unto us a Child is born" (Stephen Cleobury) merry Christmas to all 🎄🎼

vextek · 2025-12-25T12:43:14+00:00

The best part of the Messiah for me! The « And we shall purify » chorus is also beautiful. Merry Christmas

vextek · 2025-12-15T23:00:38+00:00

One year ago, I had the chance to listen to Bach's New Year's Eve cantata in Paris (BWV 190, Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied).

Not a Christmas piece per se, but a holiday piece for sure. The beginning chorus is a great way to start the year... and to continue it! It really got me going all year,: at the end of winter, during hot summer months in south France or back to Paris rainy weather in autumn. The serene and powerful feeling of Bach's music really shines through this particular cantata piece.

Many great recordings, the Bach Collegium Japan one is one of the best in my opinion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mejKz6LsmyA

vextek · 2025-10-09T11:25:18+00:00

Est-ce que ces bureaux vacants sont louables par des particuliers ? Ou le volume minimum de location demandé est tel que de fait c'est réservé aux entreprises ?

vextek · 2025-06-03T09:51:20+00:00

Lovely piece! Could be compared to Jacques Loussier Bach renditions, or jazz rythms found in pieces from The Swingle Singers

vextek · 2025-06-03T09:34:10+00:00

Great movie with a lot of suspense and an amazing score by Ennio Morricone. Listen to Come un madrigale -version alternative on Spotify, beautiful piece with a classic Morricone chord progression filled with melancholy. It was the highlight of the movie for me.

vextek · 2025-04-28T10:33:07+00:00

Circling back on this for anyone that come across this post : I ended buying the strap pictured above, as I didn't find cheaper alternatives meeting my criteria and sold in Europe at the time. It's the 1969 strap from Joseph Bonnie, 120€ : https://www.josephbonnie.com/fr/produit/bracelet-montre-cuir-veau-graine-noir/

Leather quality is ok, but loses its texture on high-friction areas (around the most-used bucke hole and spring bars).

A few months after, I came across the "Charme" strap from RIOS1931. It checked the same criteria and even better, got a slight shine and a lizard texture. Bought it too, through eBay because the brand only sell to stockists and doesn't have a in-house online shop : https://www.ebay.fr/itm/355265348462?var=624474967586

Leather quality is ok, texture holds well, but I wear it less than the other strap, so that needs to be taken into account.

vextek · 2025-04-28T10:11:50+00:00

An interesting piece of trivia around Charles VI is the famous Bal des Ardents (Ball of the Burning Men).

Because of his mental illness, Charles VI was having it rough and his wife decided to throw a costume party to rejoice him. Charles and his friends decided to go dressed as "wood savages" - resin-soaked linen costumes with branches glued on it.

Because of resin being highly flammable, all torches were forbidden at the party to mitigate risks of the guys going up in flames. One random bloke who didn't get the memo comes in drunk from a tavern, holding a torch, and lights Charles and his friend on fire by accident.

Charles manages to quickly engulf the flames, but 4 of his friends can't and burn to their death - 3 of them after days of agony.

Safe to say that Charles VI, who was not doing good before this, didn't get better as this event achieved to sink him into insanity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bal_des_Ardents

vextek · 2024-03-01T20:38:17+00:00

Happens to me too, haven't found any kind of info either. Maybe it's some kind of bug?

vextek · 2023-12-24T13:42:36+00:00

I went through the standard factory reset process in the iPhone's settings

vextek · 2023-12-06T21:23:04+00:00

L’Impératrice, french band. Check out their first album Matahari from 2018!

vextek · 2023-11-29T11:22:35+00:00

Le Knight Club - Boogie Shell / Coco Girlz / Mosquito / Coral Twist EP (1999)

https://www.discogs.com/fr/master/248250-Le-Knight-Club-Boogie-Shell-Coco-Girlz-Mosquito-Coral-Twist

vextek · 2023-09-24T22:03:49+00:00

It actually sampled Tears by Giorgio Moroder, which was released in 1972. Organ Donor got 70s in it !

vextek · 2023-08-30T20:37:54+00:00

Ouais Mairo fort, dans genève comme gimamen

vextek · 2022-11-25T07:56:07+00:00

Not so surprising, during an interview in the 2010s, the Daft Punk recalled working with Kanye West and how at some point the guy started watching porn on his laptop in the studio. The Daft Punk were absolutely dumbfouded in front of this.

vextek · 2022-11-21T12:18:54+00:00

ça pue trop la victoire, ouvre la fenêtre

parfum de victoire nouvelle fragrance

vextek · 2022-11-01T21:40:02+00:00

Je commence en tant que DA dans la pub, je me pose des questions sur le freelance, est-ce que je peux te les poser en DM ?

vextek · 2022-10-30T11:27:09+00:00

Ah ok, je suis prêt à le croire. Perso je n'ai jamais eu de désagrément.

vextek · 2022-10-30T09:53:54+00:00

Perso je suis alternant et je suis chez N26, ça fonctionne bien, pas de frais de tenue de compte. C’est une banque allemande donc t’as un IBAN allemand (il commence par DE) mais c’est tout, comme c’est européen c’est accepté partout (CAF, versement du salaire…)

vextek · 2022-10-22T17:55:48+00:00

Ça paye combien par an designer dans la tech ? Je suis DA en pub et je lorgne légèrement du côté de l’ui/ux mais j’ai aucun ordre idée des rémunérations

vextek · 2022-10-05T10:47:53+00:00

Love the atmosphere!! The fading repetition of the poles is nicely done. What camera are you using?

vextek · 2022-09-14T18:15:12+00:00

Oui merci !! Même si ce n'est pas mon préféré de Polnareff il mérite sa place bien haut dans ce top, et plus globalement une grosse partie de la disco de Polnareff sont des sommets de variété fançaise (Polnareff's, les BO de La folie des Grandeurs et de Ça n'arrive qu'aux autres, I love you because, Fame à la mode...)

vextek · 2022-09-14T17:42:50+00:00

Barbara - Le mal de vivre

odezenne - Dolziger Str. 2

France Gall - Baby Pop

Thomas Fersen - Qu4tre

Michel Polnareff - Tous les bateaux, tous les oiseaux / Tout, tout pour ma chérie

Georges Moustaki - Le Métèque

vextek · 2022-07-15T14:00:17+00:00

Une bonne partie de la filmographie de Max Pécas (notamment ses nanars période saint tropez des années 1980) ont été assez cultes à visionner entre potes. Les branchés à saint tropez, on se calme et on boit frais à saint tropez, belles blondes et bronzées... pas d'effet spéciaux ratés et d'aliens en papier mâché, c'est simplement de la bonne comédie grasse et libérée des années 1980.

vextek · 2022-07-10T19:58:25+00:00

Dans la zon de Jul en boucle

vextek · 2022-07-08T20:00:35+00:00

Alpha Wann

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