Montreal!

or a bunch tbf

a bushel

Oh hey here's a question for the Montreal people: my French is garbage, how do I make it good w/o having to actually meet people? Everything on the internet that's all "LEARN FRENCH" is like "LEARN TRANSATLANTIC USELESS IN QUEBEC FRENCH."

You could try the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec at Berri. They have a section of language tapes/CDs etc.

it is such a good library and also nice to be in

man, i went through a few harsh months this late-winter/early-spring of 'oh, mtl, r u 4 me rly' but thankfully that has passed. i guess that happens in every relationship re people, places, jobs, etc. right now this town is rulin, so i'm glad i hung in there - like, where else is there to go in canada that is as good? srsly! i think i'm finally going to winterize a bike this year even. (lol now watch me get a great job in like mali or something)

I seriously spend 6 months a year wondering why I live here and 6 months a year wondering why I'd live anywhere else. It's so completely true.

If I weren't a non-real-winter person Montreal would be on a short list of spots to live for sure.

that travel&leisure article is pretty great! and well-written! (haha yeah, even i want adam to show me around and i live here) (he actually ended up in the group of people i went to see lou reed jazz fest show with! he lasted longer than the others)

is that after-hours at parc & beaubien still a thing or did it clse after the magical "6 motnhs and it's fucked" timeline that seems to exist for mile-end party jamz?

si1ver door? yeah, haven't heard anything abt it for a bit.. prob was a bit too talked-about..

yeah, the thing about montreal is that living through winter is key to summer bliss and key to serious love of this place. also: metaphor for life.

i always wondered if there was a trick ie. finding a job that spent half the year anywhere but here. my bosses at my old job used to basically spend all winter in the dominican republic. but then again they spent the rest of the year never, ever leaving DDO. kind of defeats the purpose of mtl summers.

I think Si1ver Door is opening a cafe or something actually. Or maybe I'm thinking of a different seekrit party hideout.

last time i was there a very high girl talked my ear off abt how i should buy a coffee because they make it sooooooooo good there (it was like 4am) and i was like "maybe next time :S"

so it is very possible that that's teh cafe place.

Is the DDC house beer Kriek (i.e. belgium style cherry beer)? cause that would be awesome.

i didn't even know about si1ver do0r and it is already non-existent? MTLFAIL. so bad at being in the know. i'm still all the way back at e4stern bl0c vis a vis mile-end party jamz.

gah so many scummy nights at the door. Kinda hate that place

i've had some wonderful nights there but i know what ya mean

someone offer me a job in montreal

I'm qualified

Is the DDC house beer Kriek (i.e. belgium style cherry beer)?

The site says "German inspired sour wheat beer," I don't think it's a Kriek style but from the sound of that it's not that far off! You should really really really check it out before they run out.

OMG I still have dreams about DDC.

But basically, no one's ever hiring for anything in Mtl, right?

My favourite thing in Montreal was Rrrobyn.

I've been here for what seems like forever. The food is still appalling (tourist trap brochetteries, rudeness bistros, overpriced fast food, casse-croûte straight out of Naked Lunch, Asian fusion nouilleries, the worst pizza of any major city in North America) in any of the areas that are "Montreal" enough to warrant living in. The food's good enough in some outer areas where the immigrants of colour have been granted restaurant licenses to cook their smelly ethnic foods, but you might as well live in Ontario and get a decent job at that rate since a Montreal suburb is just as ugly if not uglier than anywhere else and the food in Toronto is world class. Go ahead, live in Verdun. Have a hot dog. Tant pis. Or, live somewhere even shittier and, une fois par semaine, vas-t'en au quartier Chinois to enjoy the privilege of paying $8.00 for mediocre Pho. Bagels are good though, so is La Banquise (which hasn't poisoned me yet).

Any of the charmingly local nouveau cuisine has a kind of reactionary political context that I don't feel comfortable eating. Go ahead, eat duck and rabbit while your city collapses around your ears. Historical shit, right? Let's continue to harken to a semi-mythical vie de bûcheron. That's going to help a lot, bros. But the tourists love it so I guess you're getting paid, Picard.

The omnipresent corruption and incompetence can wear a bit thin. But, whatever.

Still not sure I'd want to live anywhere else.

maybe you're more of a toronto guy?

Not so much, but there is nothing I enjoy more than winding up Montrealers about their shitty restaurants.

...Whether it's the 1970s throwback "casual dining" or the extortionate, xenophobic "fine dining", fields of salmon is your guide to Montreal's culinary scene.

What about a restaurant that serves Pad Thai AND General Tao Chicken. You'd think I'm crazy, right?

it doesn't really haunt my days but I guess everyone needs a 'cause'?

my favourite thing about the pinefox's visit to montreal was def the pinefox. also: aw :)
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i'm no foodie, and i don't get wound up abt food (except sushi) but i fully appreciate it when food is good, and i have eaten some good food here, outside the above referenced categories.
ohman i so want to eat a huge plate of qing hua soup DUMPLINGS! right now

It must be poutine time out there right about now.

Fuckin' love Qing Hua! Once I am free of my minimum wage shackles I will eat there every other day.

btw anyone who has not been to kazu yet - run don't walk

Rrrobyn did take us to a Chinese place that wasn't bad! And the White Horse and Black Island bars - those were real good times.

salmon's "montreal food sucks" campaign is so bullshit.

ie, he has successfully wound me up

well if all u eat is salmon I definitely wouldn't recommend montreal, feel like that's probably his problem

Go ahead, eat duck and rabbit while your city collapses around your ears.

we are such backwoods aristocrats

wd eat while city collapsed

Yeah, fuck fiddling. Nero had the wrong idea.

It suddenly occurred to me last night that I might seriously consider moving back to Mtl in the fall.

Oh? What's happening here?

FoS wound me up for a second but then I was like "oh yeah, it is kind of collapsing huh" because I'm in my living room and I just looked at the walls in here. This house would be a flop for heroin addicts in any other city in the world tbh. But you can't beat $1200 a month split 4 ways a block away from virtually everything you ever need. Still want to move back to the Mile End though. Like real bad.

Alex in MTL - you are the Alex in MTL I know right? Worked @ CJ-ello? I had no idea you were thinking abt law school?

Oh no! Different Alex in MTL. There was a weird glitch in the ILX system that resulted in me unaware-ingly taking the name b/c you can be "alex in montreal" AND "Alex in Montreal". Been meaning to switch to a new handle to avoid the confusion but \(o_O)/

that was the real reason behind the Toronto move right

Lawlex

It's not so much that something's happening in Mtl as that nothing's happening anywhere else. If I have nothing to do, it's best to do it in Montreal.

See you at the needle exchange.

i wanna go to montreal

u should check out the needle exchange

We could get a steamé after.