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Poutine.

― jm (jtm), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 02:03 (twenty years ago) link

haha, i totally searched out that montreal thread to help me get an idea of what was good in montreal. i forgot whether it was helpful or not, i think i meant to check some places out, but then i went to blvd st laurent and just got lost in my shopping excitement.

― sand.y, Wednesday, 28 May 2003 02:13 (twenty years ago) link

is it a good place to honeymoon?

I'd think it would be. Its where my parents went on their's during Expo.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 02:17 (twenty years ago) link

More cinemas: The Rialto & the Cinemateque (near UQAM). Assuming they're still there.

― Wired Flounder (Wired Flounder), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 02:20 (twenty years ago) link

The Rialto is still there, but it's not a cinema any more sadly (or even a theatre really). Primary purpose seems to be a rented hall for bouzouki nights. But but but, they were going to go even further & basically turn it into a nightclub, even--probably not-so-kosherly--got the right permits before the province stepped in and was all, "you're crazy, this is a historic monument, corrupt city government notwithstanding."

― slutsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 02:24 (twenty years ago) link

Just a dozen or so more posts and we can beat the Toronto thread, people.

― slutsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 02:25 (twenty years ago) link

Shit, make that two dozen. Okay, we're seriously fucked unless we pick up the pace here.

― slutsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 02:25 (twenty years ago) link

Vice magazine.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 28 May 2003 02:26 (twenty years ago) link

That's something nice about Montreal?

― slutsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 02:32 (twenty years ago) link

Dude, first the SARS joke, now this... you're are bringing the edgy, not-funny-unless-you-are-evil funny tonight.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 02:35 (twenty years ago) link

One of my all-time favourite bands is from there: MY DOG POPPER!!!

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 02:37 (twenty years ago) link

Oh my god, I remember them.

― slutsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 02:39 (twenty years ago) link

668: Neighbour of the Beast!

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 02:40 (twenty years ago) link

there was like a really big guy and a really small guy in that band right?

― slutsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 02:40 (twenty years ago) link

Montreal is cool because it has pretty girls, great hockey fans and it's less pretentious than Toronto. (The T-dot still rules though!!!!!!)

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 02:41 (twenty years ago) link

I think so, slutsky. I never actually saw them live, though. They were extremely hilarious.

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 02:42 (twenty years ago) link

I'm fairly sure there was at least one really big guy in that band. This is the blurry mental image that swims to mind.

― slutsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 02:43 (twenty years ago) link

By the way, in discussing any "fun" band to ever come out of Quebec, it is vital to recognize the foundation-text-level importance of "Ça plane pour moi."

― slutsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 02:47 (twenty years ago) link

Ain't that from Belgium?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 03:02 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah (or wherever Plastic Bertrand hailed from), but the gospel seems to have been spread over the sea.

― slutsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 03:03 (twenty years ago) link

The cafés.

Too bad about the Rialto. But I'm not surprised (also RIP: the Seville and Cinema V)

― Wired Flounder (Wired Flounder), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 03:20 (twenty years ago) link

The Quebecois accent. Mais ouais tabernac!

And being able to replicate it given sufficient Molsons.

― Wired Flounder (Wired Flounder), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 03:24 (twenty years ago) link

See also:

What's the best movie theatre in your city/area?

― slutsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 03:24 (twenty years ago) link

COIL are playing the jazzfestvl this weekend in MONTREAL
thats pretty damn nice
ther big dollar, drugs, & strippers

― kephm, Wednesday, 28 May 2003 03:25 (twenty years ago) link

Me Mom & Morgantaler. They were great. Whatever happened to them?

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 03:25 (twenty years ago) link

They briefly re-united for a nostalgia show a couple of years ago.

― slutsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 03:29 (twenty years ago) link

but that DAMN HOCKEY TEAM OF YOURS--LET THE BRUINS WIN ONE FOR ONCE, I AM SICK OF HEARING ABOTU IT FROM SAD SAP BRUINS FANS*

― kephm, Wednesday, 28 May 2003 03:33 (twenty years ago) link

There's like, huge musky in Lac St. Louis.

― Wired Flounder (Wired Flounder), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 03:36 (twenty years ago) link

chomi2003: that *was* a great photo. Feel free to regale us with more.

― Wired Flounder (Wired Flounder), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 03:40 (twenty years ago) link

I've taken some photos in there, but they'd all be of people you don't know.

― slutsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 03:49 (twenty years ago) link

I've always wanted to fish for musky. There're some big fuckers in Lake of the Woods a couple of hours east of here (Winnipeg).

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 03:51 (twenty years ago) link

Come on! We've almost got the fucking Toronto thread beat! Montreal has SMOKED MEAT FOR FUCK SAKE.

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 03:56 (twenty years ago) link

And many, many diners, something I've always loved about this city.

― slutsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 03:58 (twenty years ago) link

And it has slutsky, who is a great fucking guy!

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 04:00 (twenty years ago) link

Lake of the Woods sounds awesome. The world record musky was caught in the St. Lawrence a couple of hours drive upstream of Mtl (in the Thousand Islands area). 69 point something pounds, if I recall correctly.

― Wired Flounder (Wired Flounder), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 04:01 (twenty years ago) link

Bryan, you deserve a serious high-five for that, should we ever meet.

― slutsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 04:02 (twenty years ago) link

Slutsky does seem ace.

Not to mention Wilensky's! A special and a cherry coke, please. Especially after a long bike ride or skate session. (Don't tell me THAT'S gone, slutsky)

― Wired Flounder (Wired Flounder), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 04:03 (twenty years ago) link

HOLY FUCK! No way, slutsky! You're awesome! You made a post yesterday that was so fucking brilliant. I can't talk about it right now, though.

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 04:04 (twenty years ago) link

NO WAY!!!

― slutsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 04:05 (twenty years ago) link

X-post! (I wasn't fishing for high-fives, you know... though I'm game)

― Wired Flounder (Wired Flounder), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 04:05 (twenty years ago) link

Wilesnky's is still around, Flounder, and I dined there a couple days ago (it's very close to my house). Had a Wilensky's-made cream soda too.

― slutsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 04:06 (twenty years ago) link

Fighting a 69 pound musky would be like fighting a psychotic 8 year old on crystal meth. MUST GO BUY TACKLE.

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 04:06 (twenty years ago) link

(x-post on me too)

I'll high-five any ILXor who can provide appropriate identification. (Bryan, you'll still get an extra-special one)

― slutsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 04:06 (twenty years ago) link

OK! Circle jerk over! Hee hee!

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 04:10 (twenty years ago) link

Glad to hear it. From your bagel comment upthread I figured it might be in your hood. I was a bit further south, on Esplanade, for a while. Fuck! I think I've confused cherry cokes with cream sodas in my mind.

― Wired Flounder (Wired Flounder), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 04:11 (twenty years ago) link

A painting of Wilensky's I found on the web:

http://www.williamemorris.com/720.jpg

Also found online, a picture of Bernard Wilensky:

http://www.studioiris.ca/gazette/1998-09-17.jpg

― slutsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 04:11 (twenty years ago) link

Flounder, you can still get many kinds of hand-pulled sodas there.

Though I probably shouldn't say "hand-pulled" around here--wouldn't want to get Bryan worked up after that last comment of his.

― slutsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 04:13 (twenty years ago) link

By the way, we've so nailed the Toronto thread.

― slutsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 04:13 (twenty years ago) link

Without even trying.

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 04:15 (twenty years ago) link

I hunted those muskies for a while. In the middle of perfectly innocent bass fishing expeditions on Lac. St. Louis (which is just a widening of the St. Lawrence), I'd dig a 12 inch long plug out of my tackle box and start flogging the weedlines. Never got one, though I did manage to whack my brother on the back of the head with one of those plugs once (cramped little rental rowboats, you know).

Shit. I just saw that painting go up. Oh. Man. Thanks.

It's really been too long.

― Wired Flounder (Wired Flounder), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 04:17 (twenty years ago) link

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queue to cul is a short trip, in so many ways

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 20:10 (twenty years ago) link

If I ever see them I'll deliver that slap for ya, Noodles.

Montreal has a not-proud tradition of bands with horrible, horrible names, like (and I will googleproof these for obvious reasons) 2 St0ne 2 Skank, Suck la M4rde, er, and many many others. It never ends with these bad band names.

― slutsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 20:15 (twenty years ago) link

One of the very first punk bands out of Montreal was the 222s. They could have tried a little bit harder in the naming originality department, methinks.

― Wired Flounder (Wired Flounder), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 20:22 (twenty years ago) link

I like Montreal better than Chicago.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 20:41 (twenty years ago) link

Speaking of the naming originality department, there's a Montreal band called Galaxie 500 right now.

― alex in montreal, Wednesday, 28 May 2003 21:33 (twenty years ago) link

I know! That drives me crazy! And The Saints too!

― slutsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 21:47 (twenty years ago) link

nice list alex... plus the obvious stuff, like the insane amount of festivals in the summer.. (fringe, jazz, bunch of films, mutek...theres basically some festival going on any time between june and august).

Oh and there are some really nice pictures here.

― Elliot (Elliot), Thursday, 29 May 2003 06:43 (twenty years ago) link

God, I miss Montreal so badly, you have no idea... everything about it, except maybe the weather and the inexplicable popularity of schlocky soft-rock. Is there another city anywhere in the world that's both that cool and that cheap to live in?

― Patrick, Thursday, 29 May 2003 15:26 (twenty years ago) link

Ville St. Laurent - the west indian grocery that only gets jamaican hardoh bread on Thursdays kicks and so does Ma's Place (better than Curry Garden--I know that's saying a lot) and the hot dog stand on the corner of Decarie and Cote Vertu.

I never thought I'd have a soft spot for St. Laurent--but it's happened.

Also, when I was away in the south for a couple of months this winter, I actually missed the weather. Now I miss the burning hotness of where I was...can't satisfy me either way. Especially when today the weather in mtl sucks!!!!

― cybele (cybele), Thursday, 29 May 2003 15:36 (twenty years ago) link

faded memories of summers in mtl as a kid:
- LaRonde
- the expos' homosexual mascot, Youppi
- Jos Louis
- olympic stadium when it seemed huge and far away from everything
- A beautiful mod girl on a brokendown bright yellow Vespa I saw when i was about 10
- expo 67 and olympics 76 ashtrays and clocks and teacups in all your aged relatives homes
- the almost graham greene-ish dying colonialism of westmount & anglo mtl: roast beef sunday dinners at my gandma's in Town of Mount Royal etc

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 29 May 2003 16:02 (twenty years ago) link

cybele, I just ate at Ma's Place for the first time and it was fantastic. This was during my joyful discovery of St. Laurent, which is really an overlooked gem in my opinion.

― slutsky (slutsky), Thursday, 29 May 2003 16:08 (twenty years ago) link

Is there another city anywhere in the world that's both that cool and that cheap to live in?

Halifax, NS. You just have to accept being far away from everything else.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 29 May 2003 16:51 (twenty years ago) link

there's a street named rufus rockhead!

― sevin, Thursday, 29 May 2003 17:03 (twenty years ago) link

Hahaha yeah I saw that for the first time while driving with my boss and I started laughing. She didn't understand why it was so funny, maybe it doesn't translate into french.

― Elliot (Elliot), Thursday, 29 May 2003 17:06 (twenty years ago) link

i want my address to be 746 Rufus Rockhead

― sevin, Thursday, 29 May 2003 17:07 (twenty years ago) link

ten months pass...
Poutine in the New York Times.

― Paul Eater (eater), Monday, 26 April 2004 13:05 (twenty years ago) link

!!!!

thanks for the link paul!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:21 (twenty years ago) link

"Club Super Sex" still makes me laugh.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 26 April 2004 19:02 (twenty years ago) link


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