say something nice about montreal

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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

Schwartz's Deli!!

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 18:51 (twenty years ago) link

And Ben's Deli, while we're at it, the most beautiful deli in the world. Let me see if I can dig up a pic.

― slutsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 18:54 (twenty years ago) link

It's weirdly humid today in Montreal.

put a sock in it, "apartment w/ ceiling fans + a cross-breeze" boy

― jones (actual), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 18:54 (twenty years ago) link

and Rue Prince Arthur!

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 18:54 (twenty years ago) link

Here's the only picture of Ben's I could find:

http://www.greatestescapes.com/images/98gourmet11d-01.jpg

...and that doesn't even really give you a sense of it. I should go take some pictures of it and post them online.

― slutsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 18:59 (twenty years ago) link

just remembered i went to a REALLY nice steakhouse... "queue du cheval" i think was it's name. best steakhouse i've ever been to.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 19:15 (twenty years ago) link

That's probably the most famous steakhouse in town. Never been myself, though.

― slutsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 19:21 (twenty years ago) link

horse's ass?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 19:23 (twenty years ago) link

tail! TAIL!

― slutsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 19:31 (twenty years ago) link

Jeanne-Mance Park (Fletcher's Field): where Mt. Royal meets the Plateau, excellent pick-up soccer, impromptu percussive jams across the street, etc etc...

― Wired Flounder (Wired Flounder), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 19:35 (twenty years ago) link

I used to play soccer there occasionally, mostly hung-over. The percussive jams I could do without.

― slutsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 19:39 (twenty years ago) link

They're a bore to actually hang out at, but I appreciated the ambient effect from a distance.

― Wired Flounder (Wired Flounder), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 19:43 (twenty years ago) link

For non-Montrealers, these are called the "Tam-Tams." I once saw a poster for a band called J'Tam, which made me sigh.

― slutsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 20:01 (twenty years ago) link

Did someone slap them for that name?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 20:07 (twenty years ago) link

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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