I discovered
Mark Knopfler when I was 16, in a english course, through the studying of Telegraph Road from the Private Investigation Album.Since then, I never stopped listening to him. Of course I had to buy a red Strato and get nervous trying to play Sultan of Swing.My preferred albums are the two first ones, but I really like his recent solo albums too.
The same unusual teacher made us discover "The Hurricane" protest song from
Bob Dylan. I really like the early days & not "electrified" albums. Although not appreciated by many people, I really like the "smooth & nonchalant" atmosphere of "Slow Train Coming" with Mark playing guitar.
As a young boy I clearly likes strong guitars and shouted-out energy like AC/DC with Bon Scott.But growing-up I moved to the Blues music, my favourite player being
Robert Cray. His guitar playing is as clear as his voice, and he play a very modern blues.
My addiction to video game started with the DigDug and Galaxian when I was arround 10 (can't explain why the pacman or spaceinvaders did not catched my attention). I got my mother to buy me the
Atari2006, while some friends got the Intellivision (sport games) or the ColecoVision (donkey kong).
I always wanted to do IT... how sad! When I was 12 years old I used to spend afternoons in a computer shop to write little programs in basic until the shop closed, to start all over again the next day. I finally got my parents to buy me the
Oric atmos (months before the birth of the c64). I then spent the summer writing little games (snake, skiing, pacman...).Sadly, these two devices filled-up a closet when I reached 16.
Running on my 30's, I came back to my old addiction, thanks to sony and its
PS-One. Our home looks like a museum now with a PS2, a GameBoyAdvance and a DS for my daughter Marie-Caroline, and a Wii, a PSP and a PS3 for me, collected over the past 10 years.
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