Jarre.net - The Official Jean Michel Jarre Site
"Jean Michel Jarre's new best of-album 'Aero' is scheduled for release on 20 September 2004 and will be released as a normal stereo CD and as an audio DVD containing 5.1 surround sound versions of the songs. The album contains newly recorded versions of Jean Michel's best compositions as well as three brand new tracks. The album was recorded by Jean Michel Jarre, Francis Rimbert & Patrick Pelamourgues. Joachim Garraud took care of the mixing and audio optimisation.
Tracklist:
Aero Opening - Scene 1
Oxygene 2 - Scene 2
Aero - Scene 3
Equinoxe 8
Oxygene 4 - Scene 4
Souvenir of China - Scene 5
Aerology - Scene 6
Equinoxe 3 - Scene 7
Equinoxe 4 - Scene 8
Last Rendez-Vous - Scene 9
Zoolookologie - Scene 10
Aerozone - Scene 11
Magnetic Fields 1 - Scene 12
Chronologie 6
Rendez-Vous 4"
Bloody hell! Why does it have to be the same day the the Holy Trilogy is released? I'll have to save up even more. Or just stick them both on my credit card...
I'm taking the day off too! Lots of popcorn, and all three DVDs back to back. Bliss.
Thursday, 1 July 2004
Tuesday, 29 June 2004
Back to my old ways...
Well, I couldn't get rid of that A character thing, so I decided to go back to the old HaloScan comments thing.
I've just realized that the reason I keep redesigning the website, is that it stops me from actually writing new and interesting stuff. So, instead of writing the things that fly around in my head, I decide to design a new logo, or change the name of something (again). And it's starting to drive me mad! I've just finished reading M.J. Simpson's biography of Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker (quite good, worth a read if you're at all interested in the man, but I think I preferred Neil Gaiman's Don't Panic), and he was the master of doing anything but writing, but he found writing to be quite an arduous and painful experience. I don't. I'm just bloody stupid, or lazy. I live in fear of the day I might actually get something finished. I enjoy writing, I love getting swept up in the world's that I can create, in making the characters do whatever I want them to do (sometimes they fight back, and go wandering off on tangents I hadn't even seen...) It's just that I have this big problem about disciplining myself to sit there and actually put it down on paper.
I'm about a third of a way through a novel (well, I've written over 25,000 words by my estimate), and I'm making myself write it out longhand, and I will make sure that I won't stick a word of it into a computer until I've finished the first draft. Because I know that if I start to type it out, I'll go off on another tangent, doubt what I've written before, and change it, when I've written some perfectly good stuff already. I've seen a few things in what I've written already that will need changing, but I've been able to resist the temptation to try and sort them out so far. They're not big important plot points, just small things that would make the story better.
It's the same with my websites. Only worse! Instead of writing articles, I'll mess around with the design. And this has stopped me writing the stuff I want to write. For example, I went to see the Manics a year and a half ago, and was absolutely blown away, and really inspired to write an article, not just about the gig, but about my unusual appreciation of the band - the short version is that I've loved them since they started, completely missed and still don't rate The Holy Bible (a sacrilegious thing to say amongst the Manic-devotees) and really like their post-Richey stuff, putting me in both camps of Manic fans. I don't know every song off by heart, in fact, I've got some strange sort of block when it comes to remembering their lyrics. And, as I'm almost totally apolitical, I really like one of the more political bands around... Sheesh. The point is, I never got around to it. The same goes with films and books and so on. This site was meant to be a way for me to tell the world what I think about things. But then I think, what the hell difference does it make? Who's actually going to read what I have to say? Are my opinions worthwhile? And then it all descends into a cycle of self-doubt and anguish.
And then I go off and design a new logo...
I've just realized that the reason I keep redesigning the website, is that it stops me from actually writing new and interesting stuff. So, instead of writing the things that fly around in my head, I decide to design a new logo, or change the name of something (again). And it's starting to drive me mad! I've just finished reading M.J. Simpson's biography of Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker (quite good, worth a read if you're at all interested in the man, but I think I preferred Neil Gaiman's Don't Panic), and he was the master of doing anything but writing, but he found writing to be quite an arduous and painful experience. I don't. I'm just bloody stupid, or lazy. I live in fear of the day I might actually get something finished. I enjoy writing, I love getting swept up in the world's that I can create, in making the characters do whatever I want them to do (sometimes they fight back, and go wandering off on tangents I hadn't even seen...) It's just that I have this big problem about disciplining myself to sit there and actually put it down on paper.
I'm about a third of a way through a novel (well, I've written over 25,000 words by my estimate), and I'm making myself write it out longhand, and I will make sure that I won't stick a word of it into a computer until I've finished the first draft. Because I know that if I start to type it out, I'll go off on another tangent, doubt what I've written before, and change it, when I've written some perfectly good stuff already. I've seen a few things in what I've written already that will need changing, but I've been able to resist the temptation to try and sort them out so far. They're not big important plot points, just small things that would make the story better.
It's the same with my websites. Only worse! Instead of writing articles, I'll mess around with the design. And this has stopped me writing the stuff I want to write. For example, I went to see the Manics a year and a half ago, and was absolutely blown away, and really inspired to write an article, not just about the gig, but about my unusual appreciation of the band - the short version is that I've loved them since they started, completely missed and still don't rate The Holy Bible (a sacrilegious thing to say amongst the Manic-devotees) and really like their post-Richey stuff, putting me in both camps of Manic fans. I don't know every song off by heart, in fact, I've got some strange sort of block when it comes to remembering their lyrics. And, as I'm almost totally apolitical, I really like one of the more political bands around... Sheesh. The point is, I never got around to it. The same goes with films and books and so on. This site was meant to be a way for me to tell the world what I think about things. But then I think, what the hell difference does it make? Who's actually going to read what I have to say? Are my opinions worthwhile? And then it all descends into a cycle of self-doubt and anguish.
And then I go off and design a new logo...
Tuesday, 15 June 2004
Wednesday, 9 June 2004
The End of an Era
Well, that's it folks. Last night, the final episode of Angel was shown on Sky One. For the first time in 8 years, there will be no more stories from the Buffy-verse. And while the final episode was fabulous, the last season was a bit strange. I know that they knew they were going to get cancelled from quite early on in the season, but it still seems that it was all a bit directionless. Possibly a lot of that is due to trying to deliver more stand-alone episodes to attract more casual viewers, but after the huge ongoing plot arcs of previous seasons, it all seemed a little strange. The Big Bad didn't really pop up until a few episodes from the end of the series, and then was dealt with quite quickly, and almost effortlessly. (I don't want to say too much, in case I give away some spoilers... What do you think this is? SFX? ;-) )
I hope Joss Whedon gets back onto the small screen soon, after working on the Firefly movie. Even if there are no more series in the Buffy-verse, we need him to be giving us TV of such a great quality as he has been. OK, he can have a bit of a holiday first, but then he's got to get back on the horse...!
And Enterprise finished this week as well. And by golly, what a blinding season it's just had! The whole Xindi/Expanse storyline just kept getting better and better. Totally blew anything that Voyager ever did out of the water. The new executive producer, Manny Coto, certainly shook things up a lot, and created some great moments. And as for the cliff-hanger ending... What the f***?! If it doesn't get renewed next season, then there's something wrong with the US TV networks... Oh, wait, they cancelled Angel, didn't they? Oh dear...
I hope Joss Whedon gets back onto the small screen soon, after working on the Firefly movie. Even if there are no more series in the Buffy-verse, we need him to be giving us TV of such a great quality as he has been. OK, he can have a bit of a holiday first, but then he's got to get back on the horse...!
And Enterprise finished this week as well. And by golly, what a blinding season it's just had! The whole Xindi/Expanse storyline just kept getting better and better. Totally blew anything that Voyager ever did out of the water. The new executive producer, Manny Coto, certainly shook things up a lot, and created some great moments. And as for the cliff-hanger ending... What the f***?! If it doesn't get renewed next season, then there's something wrong with the US TV networks... Oh, wait, they cancelled Angel, didn't they? Oh dear...
Thursday, 20 May 2004
The Clock Is Ticking...
Yep, the countdown has started. Well, it could have started at any point, but, well... Look, the new Star Wars film comes out in exactly one year. It has been confirmed that Episode III will be released on May 19th, 2005. What it's going to be called is another question. The papers were all full of it being called "Birth of the Empire", but then the official Star Wars website www.starwars.com "accidentally" said it would be called "The Creeping Fear", but then it was April 1st.
Anyway, I'm excited. This will be the BIG one, the one where it all kicks off - the big Anakin/Obi-Wan showdown, the death of Padmé, the birth of Luke and Leia (though obviously not in that order...), and the moment we've all been waiting for, the moment when Anakin becomes Vader. I personally hope it's the last scene of the film - just imagine Vader's theme thundering out in glorious Dolby Digital, the sound of his breathing, and the first shot of that cool helmet.
Um, that sounded a bit crap (and a little bit suspect...) You know what I mean. I hope.
Just as long as they don't balls it all up with too much CGI and some crappy slapstick moments... You know who you are, Jar-Jar Binks... Don't make us come down there....
Until then, though, we've got to all be content (heck, ecstatic) with the release of the Classic Trilogy on DVD on September 20th. Finally we'll be able to see A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi in glorious, pin-sharp DVD-ovision! Of course, these will be the Special Editions released a few years back, as George Lucas has decided these are the "correct" versions of the films. I personally think they should have released them in dual-format, like they have done with the Alien Quadrilogy, so you can decide which version you want to watch. On the plus side, there are rumours that the nasty CGI Jabba in A New Hope has been replaced with the smoother version from The Phantom Menace, and that Ian McDiarmid has re-recorded the Emperor's scene in Empire, just to keep things nice and contiguous.
Anyway, I'm excited. This will be the BIG one, the one where it all kicks off - the big Anakin/Obi-Wan showdown, the death of Padmé, the birth of Luke and Leia (though obviously not in that order...), and the moment we've all been waiting for, the moment when Anakin becomes Vader. I personally hope it's the last scene of the film - just imagine Vader's theme thundering out in glorious Dolby Digital, the sound of his breathing, and the first shot of that cool helmet.
Um, that sounded a bit crap (and a little bit suspect...) You know what I mean. I hope.
Just as long as they don't balls it all up with too much CGI and some crappy slapstick moments... You know who you are, Jar-Jar Binks... Don't make us come down there....
Until then, though, we've got to all be content (heck, ecstatic) with the release of the Classic Trilogy on DVD on September 20th. Finally we'll be able to see A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi in glorious, pin-sharp DVD-ovision! Of course, these will be the Special Editions released a few years back, as George Lucas has decided these are the "correct" versions of the films. I personally think they should have released them in dual-format, like they have done with the Alien Quadrilogy, so you can decide which version you want to watch. On the plus side, there are rumours that the nasty CGI Jabba in A New Hope has been replaced with the smoother version from The Phantom Menace, and that Ian McDiarmid has re-recorded the Emperor's scene in Empire, just to keep things nice and contiguous.
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