last days in america

hey guys!

it’s been a little while i haven’t written, but i have been pretty busy lately.

laurent and I have spent a weekend in new york last week, because we really needed to get away from montreal. we took part in the halloween parade in the same costumes we wore in august for montreal gay pride. we got photographed a lot, and we had a lot of fun. the rest was nice too, we went out, went to the brooklyn museum…

back in montreal we went back to work, but the money wasn’t great, so im leaving on wednesday with not much, but enough i hope to live 2 months at mom’s.

the pictures of laurent (a.k.a. josh) and i in our bar for our shows can be seen at that address buy the way:

http://ladonis.com/elle-lui.html

we had a big argument with one of our (homophobic) housemate who started being aggressive towards me. laurent came to help me (my hero!) and the madman punched him in the face! we then decided to leave the house, and moved with jacques, laurent’s best friend, for our last week in montreal. jacques is a 63 year-old gay man who’s a lot of fun to be around, we really get on well the three of us so we’re having a good time.

i can’t wait to be back and see my family and my friends who I’ve missed a hell of a lot. i won’t be able to post as regularly as i have been doing until now, but i promise i’ll let you know what’s happening during my holidays.

i should spend a week in rennes late november at my best friend tiph boy’s and for gurvan’s birthday, then a week in paris at laurent’s. then christmas with family, new year’s eve with friends, and laurent will come to nantes to meet my family!

in january, we will be continuing our adventures but we’re still undecided where for now. florida seems not to be an option anymore, as we don’t want to be dancers anymore but we want to concentrate on our careers. for that, we decided that if one of us has to be somewhere at some point, the other one will follow him. so we should be going either to the canary islands or to greece. seen worse! lol

thanks for your comments.
fred: I’m so sorry, coming back to paris on the 12th and taking a train straight away to nantes. :’( you should’ve told me earlier!
aurelia: i’ll be back in paris end of november-early december, hope to see you then!

nina, celine, where are you???

mwah!

myshit completed!

hi guys!

after a lot of trouble with the website, i've finally uploaded the final versions of the 6 songs I wanted to post on my myspace page. so now that's 6 songs that are complete. the first three ones will be on a cd that i might send to record companies. then if you add 3 more to those 6, that'll be the complete cd. i feel very accomplished, happy and proud. i like my songs! lol

i'd appreciate if you could each tell me the songs you prefer.

www.myspace.com/AlanAsound

now what's left to do: have a makeover for my "myshit" page, work on the layout of the cd (i designed it already, i'll have to take the pictures and work on it), work on my youtube page, shoot some videos for my songs and post them, work on my website and... advertise! for that i'll be needing you, like sending links to my videos to your friends, and tell your friends to send them to their friends, so that i get the biggest number of views i can!!!

after laurent last week, I had my own show last friday at the bar we work at. i put on the "wonder brit-man" costume one more time and danced on the "wonder woman" theme song! here's a picture if you want:

then i took on a full suit and tie and stripped on the song "comme ils disent" from aznavour!

for halloween, laurent and i are going to new york for 4 days. with chicago and toronto canceled, we really need to get away together. and in just over 2 weeks i'll be back home in nantes for 2 whole months, can't wait!

thanks for your comments:

fred: when's your house warming party in paris? do you want me to ask my eurostar friends to get you tickets?

nina: can't wait to see you either. so new years eve in le mans??? ok then! :(

oh and where's your english guys??? lol

mwah!

5 months and some mastering

hi guys!

laurent and i have met 5 months ago and for that, we went to the botanic garden in montreal and had a romantic walk in the afternoon. It was a cold but dry weather, and we enjoyed it. what you can see at the back of the picture is the inclined tower, which is there to hold the roof of the olympic stadium, and serves as an observatory point.

that evening, laurent took me to a nice french restaurant where we had a nice meal, then we went to the bar we work at as laurent did a show as batman. that was fun! 

next week it'll be my turn to do a show and i'll put back on my "wonder brit-man"'s costume!

my arranger's going on tour, so i'm meeting him this week for the last time and for a last song. that'll be my 9th one! i've been in contact with a guy who masters songs for a very cheap price! so i'm paying him through paypal, i send him my songs and he sends them back with a brilliant sound! i've deleted all the songs on my myspace page and will post only the one that are mastered. but myspace is having problems uploading songs now and i can't post them! that should be working soon hopefully. so when you find a song on my page, lemme know what you think, because that will be the final cut!

three more weeks before going back home and i really cannot wait any longer! i miss my friends and family so badly!

thanks guys for your comments (always the same ones!)

nina: i'm back in nantes on the 13th, cannot wait any longer, so i won't stay at laurent's straight away. i'll go back to paris and meet his family and friends at the end of november. thanks for your frank comments on the songs, that's what i need!

celine: unfortunately, i don't think i'll be able to afford new year's eve in london... :( but i'll see you in nantes or in vendee, ok?

fred: here again, i don't think i'll afford to go to london :( but might be going to the south of france in may with laurent, just in case you go to your parents' around that time. and around may, i'll try to go to london but might be on my own.

love you guys! mwah!

one month left... and three new songs!

hi guys!

well indeed in exactly one month I'm leaving montreal for good to go to france see mummy, my sisters and nieces and all my friends. i really can't wait and i'm getting more and more excited every day! i'll be staying there for two months and then i'll fly to florida with laurent, that's the plan. it's now been six years i haven't stayed for more than two weeks, and i really can't wait to take some good time off and to take care of my nieces a lot! anyone not far for that period of time has to let me know, i miss you so much guys!!! i'll be posting less but i'll still be posting a bit to let you know what's happening in my life!

actually i'll still have a lot to do. first of all, any paid work would help me a lot as i am saving for my holidays but i won't have much on the side! and i've decided i'll have to do a lot of work for my demos. i want to design a nice cover for my cd, and i want to shoot some videos! I have some ideas and i want to work on them as i want to post them on youtube. myspace is good for artists to get noticed, but now everyone has kind of left their myspace profile to join facebook. but everyone still goes to youtube!

talking about my songs, this week i've finished three new ones! listen to a song in french "la flamme", to the sad ballade "depression" and to the rock song "lackadaisical", still at www.myspace.com/AlanAsound . my arranger is going on tour soon and i've booked two days with him next week. but first of all i want to re-work on the songs we've already recorded. there's a few things i want to change, now i've listened to them enough. then i'll ask all my friends to listen to them all and to vote for the ones they prefer so that i'll choose the favorite three for a demo cd.

thanks for your comments, so few can they be:

fred: i need to work on that new cheeky song called "come over" (you know what i'm talking about???) but i'm not sure i'll have time to record it...

celine: indeed i'll be in nantes for christmas, and i hope we can catch up!

where are the other ones? looks like less and less people are reading me! :'(

mwah! xxx.

2 new songs!

hi guys!

i'm back with two new songs! i've recorded i want you back last week and yesterday i've re-recorded out of the show, for the ones who knew it. i'm also working on new songs, but i think i'll re-record la flamme (here again for the ones of you who know it) next time.

also i've been playing with myspace, and i didn't like the 'alan_a_' thing, so i've been trying to find a new one. now only letters and digits are allowed, so the 'alan-a' i wanted is not possible... i've tried 'alanaofficial' for a while, but i thought it sounded too much, and 'alanamusic' was already taken, so i've chosen 'alanasound'. so the new link is www.myspace.com/AlanASound hope you like the sound of it!

my favorite song remains pleasure, even if i think out of the show is the one that sounds the best, but i have some surprises for the next few weeks, i'm working on some more cheeky songs, and one in particular is much cheekier! hehe!

working at the new bar is better in a way i make more money, and it's fun working with laurent.

i can't wait to be back to nantes in a few weeks now, i'm getting more and more excited about that each day!

chicago is now no more an option. we are going to stay in montreal in october as i don't have any money on the side, because of some teeth work i've had to get done (and it's not finished yet.) but we'll go away for a few days to toronto normally and back to new york for a weekend.

on monday, laurent and i have been to the old montreal to check it, but there's not much to see actually. indeed, montreal's not that old! well here's a picture of the port!

before that we went to have lunch at la binerie, which is apparently the place where they serve specialities from quebec, but that wasn't that great we found, and that looked more like a tiny diner than a restaurant! but it was still busy.

thanks for your comments:

fred: 2 comments! wow! i'm glad you and jamie like the songs, but i still have some work to do on them! sendind you both some big kisses!

nina: thanks again for your lovely email. can't wait to see you again!

where are the other ones? everybody's on holiday or what???

mwah!

new song: daddy

hi guys!

yesterday i was back in studio with frank, who i work with now on some new songs. we had spent 5 hours on pleasure but it has taken us 8 hours to do daddy! you can listen to it on my mypace www.myspace.com/alan_a_

this song is about my father who died exactly 7 years ago. i don't talk much about him because i never entirely grieved and it's still painful, but writing a song helped me a lot. the music is inspired by a song called mamie that a young singer called mélody sang when i was a child, about her grandmother who was getting old.

writing this song has been good therapy. I actually wrote it back in 2001, but i re-worked on it in july this year. please tell me frankly what you think.

the picture is of my tattoo at my ankle and represent my dad's initial with a halo.

the boss at my bar being too much, and the fact that i have to pay a big fee to the DJ on the nights i'm not making any money made me take a big decision: i'm leaving and i'm going to work in laurent's bar. plus the money is better! so i had an interview today, i'm finishing my week in my bar and i'm starting there on monday. hope it's ok working with your boyfriend!

thank you for your comments:

fred: thank you for the invite. i'll let you know when we arrive but that's not gonna be before december!

celine: keep posting babes, with pleasure!

nina: how was the weekend at cece and will's?

flo: still waiting for your email! hey by the way carrie has a cell phone in the 6th season, with pink glitters!

mwah!

Pleasure...

hi guys!

i'm sorry i'm taking quite long to write, but in the next few weeks, i should be updating the blog once a week or so, with a new surprise each time!

i had told you i had been working with this arranger on my songs, but he got a problem with his computer and had to leave early for new york. i haven't been looking much, but my friend jim told me about this other guy who could do nice work and recording for a very good and cheap price! i met him today and in like 4 hours, we all re-worked and re-recorded my song pleasure, that some of you may know. you can listen to it on my myspace page: www.myspace.com/alan_a_ 

i'm meeting him again next week and we should work on two more songs! i'm very excited about this new cut, please tell me what you think frankly.

important spice news: melanie c's pregnant!!! she's the last one of the band to be expecting as, let me remind you, victoria has 3 boys (brooklyn, romeo and cruz), melanie b 2 girls (phoenix and angel), geri a girl (bluebell) and emma a boy (beau.) please, no critic on the names! sorry celine i took so long to post this news, just been lazy! here's a picture of the parents-to-be:

laurent and i are thinking of moving to chicago in october for a month. and for those who are in london, we are thinking of spending a couple of days there at the end of the year! gonna need to stay somewhere though... we are currently looking for another apartment as we have to leave the current one next week! 

laurent being a huge fan of the singer, we've downloaded the new mylene farmer's cd "point de suture" and i can tell you it's really, really good! much better than the one before! my favorite song is "sextonic" (a song about dildos!) and laurent's is "c'est dans l'air." the hidden track is mylene's version of the ave maria, which impressed me actually! she actually has a very good voice! if you were hesitating in buying the cd, don't hesitate any more!

thanx for your comments:

cece, will and aline: sorry for the 6th, have fun for me, i'll think of you! thanks for the picture, aline's a beautiful little girl now!

celine: thanks for you 3 comments!!! lol you're crazy!

fred: katy perry is very big in america with "i kissed a girl" but listen also to lady gaga with "let's dance", great song!

nina: still waiting for the letter! be quick i'm leaving the apartment on the 9th!

didi and yaya: definitely see you at the end of the year.

miss you all guys! mwah! xxx.