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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

― 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

THAT'S IT. I want to fish NOW!

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 04:19 (twenty years ago) link

I don't want to list my favorite clubs, record stores, etc, cause the thread will degenerate into "Er, that's not there nomore, Flounder". That's partly why I've gone into flora, fauna and hydrographic features.

Skiing to classes across Mount Royal: CLASSIC.

― Wired Flounder (Wired Flounder), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 04:32 (twenty years ago) link

I'll second that Quebecois accent vote. I'll never forget the first time the guy I ended up being engaged to phoned me all the way from Montreal (I live in Melbourne) and that twangy french-canadian drawl, ooooh! Niiice. His cute lapses into french also endearing.

Damn I miss that lad.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 05:03 (twenty years ago) link

Wait!...accent..."Trayce"....Melbourne.....that was me!

(I should probably get some sleep)

― Wired Flounder (Wired Flounder), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 05:12 (twenty years ago) link

Brian: go. get. musky. And remember: it's "the fish of a thousand casts". Bonne chance. Et bonne nuit.

― Wired Flounder (Wired Flounder), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 05:38 (twenty years ago) link

Oops, I meant "Bryan". Sorry.

― Wired Flounder (Wired Flounder), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 05:40 (twenty years ago) link

It's ok, Weird! CRAP!

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 05:43 (twenty years ago) link

The Expos kickin' ass, free phones at Concordia (6th floor), Esoterik, Beatnik, Tam-Tam, best place for people-watching, the great battles between drivers and pedestrians at every intersection, francophones for their love of life and their unexplicably weird medieval fetish, drinking on St-Denis on a nice day, weed delivery service, Old Port during summer nights, great restaurants, Mile-End and Plateau, Fantasia film festival, easy-ish access to rooftops, thrift shops, Movieland, Architectural Park and finally, the hottest people around.

― alex in montreal, Wednesday, 28 May 2003 17:53 (twenty years ago) link

i saw a rocker on a ten-speed here the other day and felt completely at one w/ the universe

― jones (actual), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 18:00 (twenty years ago) link

I used to live there.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 18:06 (twenty years ago) link

It's weirdly humid today in Montreal.

― slutsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 18:48 (twenty years ago) link

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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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