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BASTARDS U.S TOUR
EPISODE 2 : BALTIMORE
Date : October 2011
Location : Baltimore (MA)
Mode : Bastards
Dark alley in Baltimore, closed to the club.
You can't send bands from Paris here, they'll be affraid of coming back.
Noon
After a good meal with the musicians of Lee Fields & The Expressions,
we will live to Baltimore.
02:00 pm
Malcom forget his bag at the restaurant, with his passport inside... luckily,
everything will be sent to Madison.
04:00 pm
Stop in Manhattan to buy some postal cards for The Printemps de Bourges
Fest
06:00 pm
New Jersey: when you go out the long tunnel between New York and New Jersey,
you're really in the countryside. We feel like home : New York is like Bordeaux
and the New Jersey is like Landes. But an industrial version of it, with
a lot of devastated sheds, power lines everywhere... a certain idea of urban
development. Springsteen comes from here and sings it very well. Apparently,
this is the kind of place where there is more "special vibes"
in the U.S.A. Baltimore is a grim port where New Yorkers look at people
with scornful eyes, like a Parisian when you talk about Le Havre or Brest.
We love it. We continue to Wilmington, where we stop at a motel that looks
like a serial killer movie.
Baltimore's suburb
08:00 pm
We're looking for a TV channel to watch the rugby final... not a chance.
There is like 200 American TV channels, but no one to broadcast something
that happens outside of their country. It's stupid, because the Americans
are lovely people, very helpful, but even if they're very open-minded, what
government gave them to eat (in their plate and intellectually speaking)
is very poor. It's like being on an island, actually, without any information
from outside. Only "cougar style" bitches saying "Oh my god"
all the time and selling some new spoons on the table. Or shows with coaches
for mentally deficient children, knowing that these coaches look not very
bright either. But a super channel, AMC, with only Z movies and Romero stuff!
09:00 pm
Still no rugby, only American football, university championship. We don't
get nothing about that sport where each game sequence last like two seconds
max. Looks like burgers and hormones don't work for endurance...
10:00 pm
Anthony tries to have philosophical chat with a truck driver who doesn't
understand the Indignant Movement and call them only "lazy people".
That's what we know about U.S.A, you're a loser or a winner, that's all.
In a burst of humanity, Anthony takes a beer and his courage, and he tries
to explain that even if we are French, we're not necessarily doing strike
in front of Wall Street building. Yet, this is what Fox News told them on
the TV... shortened chat. We can understand better how American politicians
are doing their job: you have to make it simple. It's terrible, because
we say it again, these American people are really cool.
These eggs were not so bad, by the way...
04:00 am
Alarm clock for the rugby game, we succeed to see it on a Polish streaming
website, at least without stupid French commentators.
08:00 am
Breakfast. We all start by going to the toilets. The American version of
the Yogurt is a lot a sugar and pure fresh cream. You can't imagine how
terrible is the food, everything is salty, fatty... we're all on the verge
of vomiting. Water and diet for everyone.
Adriaaaaaannn !!!
11:00 am
Going to Philadelphia. We want absolutely to make a photo on the steps of
the museum. We don't care about the museum, but in front, there's the statue
of Rocky! Pollllllyyyyy! Adriaaannnnn! Go Stade Montois, Saturday versus
Dax... a stupid video that you will see soon!
07:00 pm
Going to Baltimore. Very impressive town, devastated by the crisis, a lot
of Afro-American having drugs at the street corners, and the car-jacking
seems to be like a national sport. Many European bands are afraid to come
back here! The club is huge, "David Lynch style" ! Great atmosphere
and great show, people are really lovely around. But that's where you start
to see another America : when you're poor, you're very very very poor. For
example, the support band are not very poor, but they don't have any social
security, it's too expensive. We don't realize how lucky we are in France,
despite all the problems we may have. When you are in Baltimore, it could
be hard to imagine that you're in the richest country in the world.
11:00 pm
We are going to bed, we have a long way to go to Madison tomorrow. Anthony
wakes up at 4 o'clock in the morning to do his live interview on his won
French radio-show. But it's cool, he's not snoring while he's speaking.
That's something.