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Tuesday, December 01, 2009 

Current mood:  warm
This is the second part my ecological way-of-thinking that I started to introduce to you last week.

If you don't have already read the first part, you can have a look on it with this link :
Let's get grateful of the outside (Part I)



Thinking green is like being in Love don't you think ?
You're in Love with the nature, the planet, the ocean, everything, and it thanks you with health and wonderful lands, food, water !
You reflect everyday to try to find new things you could do to improve your way of life, same as you would try to surprise your girl (or boy) (how will I be better than yesterday ?).

So it came to my mind :
        * How could it be more ecological to be in a relationship ?
        * Is it really better than being single for the environment ?

And the first thing that I came to my mind was :
being a couple is less expensive than being alone, in most of the cases !

Single people are bigger users of living spaces and appareils.
They use more energy than a couple would. They buy dishes and furniture for one that they could use for two.
That's it ! You are single and you polute more the world. What a shame (it's a joke but it looks real).


Some observations :
    * Travel in couple is less expensive : one car with two is better than driving alone ; when you're two you fill up a litle bit more the car or train or fly you will take,...
(Just notice : I remember when I was in Finland, the hotel room was the same price for one or two, then it would have been shipper for me to find someone to come)
    * Living with someone else in the same home is making more heat. You warm the rooms for two and not for one, and the better heat is the physical one (
most pleasant in the bed... ).
    * A couple
IS : one fridge, one oven, one bed, one Tv, on phone, 2 times less lights than in two houses, ...
    * A couple IS, most of the time, more motivated for cooking than a single person. And then it's imply -> eating better and buy better food than "ready-to-eat" food or "precooked-meal" = less wrapping, etc...

    * Some numbers I found on internet to finish it :
        - A single person produce about 1'600 tons of rubbish in a year, only 1'000 per person in a couple.
        - A single person use 21% more of electricity than a couple.
        - A single person use 30% more of gas than a couple.
        - ...

Now it's time, if your single : GO OUT AND FIND SOMEONE !


If you have some numbers or anything in this way don't hesitate to put it in com'. And even if you don't agree with it.


Good vibes and greeny-music for all of you :
- bAM -



A little video for you, about the problem of most of us right now : you don't really understand the impact of what you do or what you become but when you finally understand it's too late !...






Thursday, November 26, 2009 

Current mood:  animated
Bonjour à tous !

Il y a deux jours (ou plutôt deux soirs) j'étais de sortie pour enfin assister à une de ces soirées "jeux" dont j'avais entendu plusieurs fois parler.
Après avoir invité une amie on s'est lancé pour tenter l'expérience du jeu en société.

Et cette soirée de jeux de rôle n'en a pas était des moins drôles !

Une petite dizaine de personnes réunie dès 21h30 dans le bar du coin. La plupart se connaissaient déjà et nous étions les nouveaux.
Plusieurs jeux proposés dès le début mais un seul choisi pour commencer : "le loup-garou".
Ce jeu de rôle dans lequel les quelques loup-garou doivent décimer une population citoyenne démocratique. Basé sur la suspicion et l'aisance à se fondre dans la masse, le jeu se déroule en plusieurs phases : la nuit (tout les citoyens dorment et ferment donc les yeux ici), les loup-garous se mettent d'accord en silence pour dévorer un des habitants ; le jour, les concitoyens découvrent un mort et débattent pour pendre l'un des leurs, perçue comme un loup-garou.
D'autres personnage aux rôles ou objectif variés viennent aussi pimenter le jeu pour qu'à la fin il ne reste qu'un seul camp !
Vous pouvez d'ors et déjà imaginer les "tensions" et les messes-basses, que peuvent créer un jeu comme celui-ci.
METTEZ VOUS Y A FOND ou ni venez pas du tout !




Après 5 parties éprouvantes pour les relations à entretenir avec ses nouveaux amis par la suite, un autre jeu à pris la place de ce dernier, au vue du départ de certains.

Dans ce nouveau jeu, nous allions toujours incarner des rôles mais cette fois dans une petite ville du farwest !
Shérif, hors-la-loi, renégat, etc... tout le monde est là pour la bonne ambiance.
Les objectifs :
* pour les hors-la-loi > prendre la ville en tuant le shérif
* pour le shérif > libérer sa ville en tuant tout le monde, aidé d'un Adjoint
* pour le renégat > finir seul en duel avec le shérif et le remporter.

A chaque tour, un joueur peut augmenter son artillerie en déposant des cartes d'arme, des objets à usage unique, enfourcher sa monture pour aller plus loin, etc... Et avant de finir son tour, tirer sur un voisin !
Tout les coups sont permis ! Même ceux de faire appel aux indiens locaux.
On oubliera pas la meilleur carte : la bière permet de restaurer sa vie !



Tout pleins d'autres jeux à découvrir aux prochaines soirées. Ca s'annonce bien !

Si vous avez l'occasion de partager ce genre de moment avec de nouvelles "tête" n'hésitez pas, ca ne peut être qu'enrichissant !

Bonne soirée à tous 

- bAM -
Monday, November 23, 2009 

Current mood:  relaxed
Today was a rainy-windy day.
We had the chance to have 4 sunny and warm days but now the things had changed and the water is back to our feet.
And as the winter is coming, the night is coming too soon on our lands, it's already dark !




While I'm talking about water I would like to write about something that is important for me, due to the world we live in.
Actually, 1 billion and half people have no clean water around the world, and about SIX thousand children dying everyday because of this.
Last week was the week of the rights of children but we have to think about it and try to be grateful for what we got, in each level.
Actually we got the chance to have a large choice of water to drink but also the chance to be able to clean ourselves with it (and even more to clean).

Reflecting a little bit about this and some questions may come :
* do we need to clean our cars while the rain is often falling ?
* do we need to take a bath instead of washing under the shower ?
* does our city really need freshwater in the toilets, knowing each flush is a wast of 3 gallons ?
* more more more more water wasted in canalisation unrepaired... why ?


It may look like it's "fashion" to think eco-logic, but, I'm sure there is a gap between doing nothing and react too much. We all can do something at our level to make the world better for us and the children that'll take it.


In another level, we are able to drink lots of different water but do we really need that amount ?
Our tap-water is good enough for us in most of our cities, and even if the taste is not good enough for you there are alternative solutions :



I think we could and we should make some noise louder for the water in our cities. Actually, the municipalities are responsible of our water. But most of them don't give any € in it and the treatment is minimal. The water tax is to finance the water treatment and the maintenance of the network, but they could make it way better by thinking about it seriously instead of, in most of cases, paying private to do it.



There is another problem with buying water. In a first look, bottles are made of plastic, and even if it's supposed to be recyclable, it take a lot of energy to do it. The plastic that pack up those bottles is not that recyclable.
There is more wasted energy by carrying those bottles around the country and far.

Lot of my friends and family that I talk with about it told me : "you know, it's hard to go on vacation or for a long road without having some water drink. We can't stop everywhere. Having a bottle here is really easy." or "I use to drink at night, with my bottle I just need to hold out one hand and it's here".
I remember when I was a child, and that was only 10 years ago, I used to have a glass of water nearby. Times have changed and now it's a bottle, and most of time just a little one.
It's the same about vacation, or going outside for a walk, etc... Most of us take the small bottle, it's easy to carry and we can drink whenever we want.
(just to notice : a small bottle is more expensive to buy than the big one, and even more with the sodas)

I remember too when I was a child that I saw some of those lemonade bottles, easy to close and in glass.

The glass is totally recyclable and stronger than plastic. You can use it several times, clean it and drink in again. You can put your freshwater in and don't even think about the chemical sharing that there is between the plastic of other bottle and water.
You can carry it easily without fearing to broke it.
You can also buy different sizes for each occasion.


Try it and you will also see that you save some money doing this instead of buying plastic bottles (and even some time because you don't even collect that amount of plastic that you used to !)
You'll be saving water by using your own tap and limiting pollution of the trucks carrying plastic bottles you used to buy.



Here are my bottles. I love them cause they are not to big, go easy in from the fridge to the side of my bed, even in the car or my bag while I'm going to have a show.
My tea is always good, fresh and tasty !

I invite you to try glass bottle : with some € you'll save the nature at your level.
(If you want my bottles just contact me I can send some).

Musically and grateful for the outside
: - bAM -


More eco-logic ways to tell you soon, if you have some tell me yours


Currently listening:
Noble Beast/Useless Creatures
By Andrew Bird
Release date: 2009-01-20
Monday, November 23, 2009 

Current mood:  talkative
bAM fait maintenant partie des diffusions quotidiennes sur Radionomy.

Ecouter Radionomy :

Sunday, November 22, 2009 

Current mood:  cheerful
Hi there !
It's been a while since I wrote right here.
And for that i'll start this post apologising.

I've been working and the job took me lot of time and lot of energy.
The rest of it has been used for training with Greg and working to make born "bAM en live" the best way we can do it.
We have not been to the top stil, and in reality I'm not sure there's even a top, cause music can always be better, and sharing with people is always different, but we're working hard on making music and carrying your mind and soul for a night.



LIVE MUSIC is some kind of relationship between musicians and public. Each show is another meet between us and YOU. We have to talk with you, we're not totally here to play for you but also playing WITH YOU.
Of course, the music part has to be worked and that's what we've been doing for several months since Greg came with me.

The shows we played since now have been good experiences, from the small restaurant celebrating there anniversary with 30 eaters, to the stage with one hundred persons clapping, we've been several times in bars playing from 20 to more than 60 people, and I must admit that the place I prefer.
The feeling with you there have been so good, I really felt sharing energy and music with you. Smiling, laughing, talking , clapping, singing , being there with us was a present for me. I appreciate so much each night, and was and am still motivated to play more and more and meet more and more of YOU.

This post of "coming back" is first to give a big THANKS to all of you that have been coming to our first 10 shows.
It has been a pleasure to meet you, to pass our time with you, and to meet you passing your time with us.



We are now going to share our hours of live music and life-real-experiences farer than the places we used to look for.

I hope we will meet sometime and while waiting I keep on "
Smiling up", imaging I'll share with you anytime soon.

Keep the good vibes :
- bAM -

Friday, August 21, 2009 

Current mood:  jubilant
Sometime you just need to wake up to be happy. And the cloudy sky of this morning wasn't about to make me change my smile.
Then I decided to have the most fun I had there on this last day.

I wanted to go from the room to the entry, from the hotel to the street, from the street to the boulevard, from the boulevard to the center, from the center to the port, from the port to the Esplanadi, from the esplanadi to my favorite park.

And of course I've done it.

My first surprise had been on Esplanadi when I saw some kind of intersting music about to go on.
Imagine 16 musicians on a stage. Imagine that they are Military. Imagine their about to play some kind of Jazzy-Funky-Popy-Reggae music.
The imagine 4 brasses, 2 keyboards, 2 guitares, 2 percussionnists, 1 bass, and 4 singers covering Jason Mraz, Pink, Jamiroquai, and Katty Perry !
Then you got : MILJazz !

 

More than an hour and half of fun and on going very good music. The sun was there to light them and the people to clap their hands.
Real good.


Then I gone to the park but in the street I first met a group of thousand of teens-students walking, full of make up and crazy wears. They was loudy screaming some finnish words. But wasn't their to fear tourist, just to have fun. But have fun what about ?
Two streets farer, the same, and even more teens doing the same things, screaming the same words.
I've seen 6 groups like that until I came to the park and sit on my favorite bench.

I saw some guitarist playing and singing so I decided to come to the hotel, take back my guitar, and come back there.
Then I met them and they told me they were in a Finnishcompetition of music.
They played and I did too and I invite you to discover their music :
www.myspace.com/Chasebandmusic

Finally the night was about to come slowly.
As a wednesday, teens was about to come and sit everywhere there. And that came. And they were hundread and hundread. It was like a small Woodstock because the music was going on there too : weird mystical and sometime punk music, with fire players, and jugglers.


This last night in Finland was surelly one of the best I passed in Helsinki.
Next time I'll come I still got a lot of things to discover and that will be great.

I WILL COME AGAIN !

Good night everyone/ Hyvää Yötä

-bAM-
Tuesday, August 18, 2009 

Current mood:  inspired
Hei !

Day 4 and I've been walking again.
I talked with some Finnish people and that was really cool :)

People look really religious there. I am not a religious man and that surprised me when, after the talk, the man told me "God bless you".

The religious way of finland is also very present in the city.
In every street, I see a shop, a churhc, or some kind of counter about religion :
# christianism
# catholism
# seven days adventist
# Gehova
# ....

That seems to be something really important for people.

With the conversation I had I also learned more about living there. Helsinki is a big city and things are different out of there. The man tald me about alcoolism problems and depressed people, it seems not to be rare. Works, cold,... there are some explanations for this, but probably not only.

Well, there are some photos of today.

 


 


 


 
More in my photos ;)


PS : I also writed a song about Filand and Helsinki but I have nothing to record it so you will wait for it ^^

-bAM-
Monday, August 17, 2009 

Current mood:  relaxed
Moi !

That will be fast today.
I woke up with the rain and will probably go to sleep with it too. Then I deceided to do NOTHING !!

Then I played guitar and this day wasn't that bad.

I eated some reinder too and that was really good cooked.

Have a goodnight everyone ;)

-bAM-
Sunday, August 16, 2009 

Current mood:  impressed
"Happy birthday cousin !
Even far from about 2000 kilometers I think of you, and everybody that I start to miss today, third day there in Helsinki."


Today wasn't a really nice day, about the weather I mean. Wakin' with the rain falling on my 6th-floor-window, this sunday wasn't one sunny day.
Then that wasn't a real problem 'cause I planned with visit museum.

Then I walked to the first and payed my 7€ and had my first surprise : I can't find the lift !.... After 5min (which is a long time while you're searching something) I finally found it. And there was my second surprise : 4 floors was originally supposed to be visited and then in reality there was just ONE FLOOR ! :(
And this one floor was about Picasso, not even about some Finnish painters...
Let's make the final : 7€ for 25min there and 5min of searching... That wasn't that great...

Then I decided to visit another one which looks better : The design museum.
And there it was totally different. Everything about the design in Finland from 1800 until here (very interesting) and all about textile art in Finland. Really good to see that.

After that I visited the museum of Helsinki and learned more with the rooms and 2 movie in an old cinema.
This capital is really recent : built in 1640 but became capital in 1812 with only 3000 people living there (600 000 in Paris in the same time). After wars, industry problems, domination from Sweden, and Russia... the Finland become finally independant in 1917 and started to grow up. Then another war and expansion etc.... I will not tell you everything about the city, let's discover it by yourself ^^


I want to talk about life in Helsinki. A lot of things seem different from what I use to see.

Everybody looks so respectual about others. It is a big city but it odesn't like a stress city. People walks and talks but stops when the light is red, they don't go fast without looking when they cross the road and cars also stop to let us go to the next pacement. I don't listen noisy horn so often. Even when they talk, finnish people take their time to listen others, they don't answer spontaneously, they reflect about what they'll say, and they never talk before the other has stopped...

In this day of lessons about Finland' history and Finnish being, I realise that their vision of their country got its own personnality : Finnish have fight for their country, to build their industry, their laws, their way of living, and they finllay made it with natural way of vue.
When I was on the island yesterday or even when I'm in the streets I see that architects always used natural material to build. Remember this little bridge, some would have made this with wood but they made this with an arch of stones. And they made this everywhere. Most of the roads in the city are still made cobbled. Helsinki is really representative of long term thinking and evoluting vision of building without forgetting the past.
It's some kind of ecological-designed-young-city which is made to grow up uP UP ! Everything's made for people and to help them live well and have the best life they can with innovations but without frogetting where they live : a natural place.
That a good way of life I think.
 
Before I forget, you remember, I talked you about the fire-lights, so there is a photo with the red and the orange.


 



Hyvää yötä !

-bAM-
Saturday, August 15, 2009 

Current mood:  jubilant
WHAT A BIG DAY TODAY !

That wasn't really gone good because I woke up one hour late (and then missed the breakfast). But the good thing was that the sun was here and shinning, going through the small clouds running everywhere in the sky.
I decided to walk the whole day and the sea was my goal. I started with the seashore, passing by some representative monument.

  

I discovered there the birds, the runners, bicycles, and competition of hundread of small sailing ship. You can sees some more photos than here in "my photos".
 
 

After a long walk I finally came to the seashore market, just behind the Senat place. There I seen such an original scene : horses and old costumes. that was fun, and chinese people liked that.


 
 

Well, the rest of the day I gone to an iland near from Helsinki whitch is called Suomelinna. This is an old fortress build to protect, in the past, Russia, Sweden, and then Finland of course. But when it was meant to protect and be impenetrable, the fortress nevertheless surrendered to the Russians in 1808. Now it's a real part of Helsinki with 900 people living there, and opening their "land" to the tourists. It's a real restoration that have been made to change military construction and garnison to homes, workshops, school, restaurants, and museum (7 on three little islands). The islands are linked by some bridges and that really nice to walk there for hours.


 
Well I wrote enough about my day. Let's talk about my night. (have a look to other photos in "my photos" )


I tried the finiish cook and I must admit that it was really good.
Here are the photos :

"Vorshmack"
 

"Camembert with jam"
 

After this new day I'm totally impressed by the way of life of Finnish people. More to tell tomorrow...
Good night everyone ;)

-bAM-