i blogged about it if anyone cares http://markslutsky.com/post/26018910565/montreal-mirror-1985-2012
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Thursday, 28 June 2012 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
i totally carelast paragraph otm!
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 28 June 2012 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
thx!
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Thursday, 28 June 2012 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
yeah that is the saddest part of the whole thing, really
― carly rae (flopson), Thursday, 28 June 2012 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
ppl havent really gotten that yet i dont think, having been on the 'front lines' of listings & BOM & soundcheck etc for the early part of my career its quite clear to me thats where the impact will be
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Thursday, 28 June 2012 17:38 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, not having the Mirror for recommendations for Fringe next year, or Pop, or even just weekly 'what i should be doing in town' will make filtering through the hundreds of things going on in the city much more difficult.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Thursday, 28 June 2012 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
there wasn't much fringe coverage this year tho?
― carly rae (flopson), Thursday, 28 June 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
honestly facebook sucks
― carly rae (flopson), Thursday, 28 June 2012 20:31 (eleven years ago) link
flopson did you ever start FLOP'S ON
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Thursday, 28 June 2012 20:31 (eleven years ago) link
haha yeah i did, you mean the dj night right? it's tonight, in fact
― carly rae (flopson), Thursday, 28 June 2012 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
yes, that's what you called it in the end.
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Thursday, 28 June 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
oh really!
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 28 June 2012 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
ugh that huffpo article by will. nothing against him as a person but how obviously untrue is it in montreal that listings are "scattered across other sites which can be reached just as quickly (and cheaply)"? that sentence negates the argument in itself! having a couple of informed, local, comprehensive, descriptive (yes!) arts & culture listings that include lesser-known/indie/anglo/underground events is so important and just doesn't exist now.
it's a big deal to create that kind of listings - that's why people are/were paid to do it. i mean, i kind of slaved over hit list for Hour, going through so much info and writing it up with hardly any space to do so, but we felt it was really important, especially when our page count was down. i do my TM things to do article every week and my email is full of events of all kinds, but that article is hardly the forum for grad student avant art and noise shows in st-henri. and facebook, as useful as it can be for knowing about events, remains a curated news feed and one that has to be monitored constantly - and it still doesn't give much critical (vs PR) information about art/bands/etc. i like to believe that people still want to know what's going on from an informed and aware source. that doesn't have to be by one person but i think it should be in one (or two) places.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 28 June 2012 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
yes, i know that dude is well respected but writing something that ignorant, in the fuckin huffington post, is smh
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Thursday, 28 June 2012 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
yep
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 28 June 2012 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
I thought only americans were able to be suckered into writing for huffington posts
― mh, Thursday, 28 June 2012 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
we have a canadian version! and a french-canadian version! canadians are suckers too!
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 28 June 2012 21:11 (eleven years ago) link
we're all the same on the inside
gullible
― mh, Thursday, 28 June 2012 21:13 (eleven years ago) link
we just want to belieeeve
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 28 June 2012 21:17 (eleven years ago) link
where is FLOP'S ON? I was not aware of it.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Thursday, 28 June 2012 21:42 (eleven years ago) link
It's at b@r de coµrce11e in st-h3nri! "every 2nd Thursday"?
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 28 June 2012 23:45 (eleven years ago) link
I am at the jazz fest... at a press thing. but/because drinking champagne (sparkling white)!
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 28 June 2012 23:47 (eleven years ago) link
~romados~
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Friday, 29 June 2012 06:19 (eleven years ago) link
work is flying me to QC later in July, and I get to drive down to Lac Megantic again
― Fiendish Doctor Wu! (kingfish), Friday, 29 June 2012 06:20 (eleven years ago) link
qc city?
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Friday, 29 June 2012 06:25 (eleven years ago) link
yup. poutine there is disappointing compared to what i've had from local food carts
― Fiendish Doctor Wu! (kingfish), Friday, 29 June 2012 06:28 (eleven years ago) link
i cannot speak to that
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Friday, 29 June 2012 06:29 (eleven years ago) link
go to la belle province, or the the rinky-dinkiest casse-croûte you can find
will do, if time allows.
― Fiendish Doctor Wu! (kingfish), Friday, 29 June 2012 06:31 (eleven years ago) link
wtf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_hot_dog
― Fiendish Doctor Wu! (kingfish), Friday, 29 June 2012 06:33 (eleven years ago) link
oh def get a couple steamies (or toastés, my preference). and say OUI to all-dressed.
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Friday, 29 June 2012 06:34 (eleven years ago) link
or just head out to Orange Julep, because hot dogs from a GIGANTIC ORANGE on the side of the Decarie Expressway = living the life. Especially after going to the Dollar Cinema.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Friday, 29 June 2012 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
he's gonna be in q city, silly
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Friday, 29 June 2012 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
belle province in verdun sells beer
― carly rae (flopson), Friday, 29 June 2012 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
felt like the rash of cynical internet assholes who came out of the woodwork to talk shit about the mirror on fb/comment sections after in the past week are a good argument for alternative print media
― carly rae (flopson), Friday, 29 June 2012 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
also: http://montrealmirror.org/ ???
uh
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Friday, 29 June 2012 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
good luck with that.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― carly rae (flopson), Friday, 29 June 2012 19:01 (eleven years ago) link
looks like smiley face has been pumping iron
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 29 June 2012 23:13 (eleven years ago) link
Just learned that Montreal Steak Seasoning is an actual thing from your city! Thank you Montrealers!
― goat news for people who love boat news (how's life), Sunday, 1 July 2012 21:17 (eleven years ago) link
yup. my butcher calls it the "jewish"
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Sunday, 1 July 2012 21:46 (eleven years ago) link
In Lac-Megantic right now, will be driving back up to Quebec City tomorrow afternoon after finishing up at customer's. Nice little town when its not covered in snow, and I was recommended the best poutine place around here. The french-only thing does get annoying, tho; it's like, cmon, you folks are within only half-an-hour of the U.S.
― Steam Sale Jonesin' (kingfish), Thursday, 19 July 2012 00:25 (eleven years ago) link
do. not. express. that. opinion.
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Thursday, 19 July 2012 04:25 (eleven years ago) link
Isn't most of Europe a quick car ride? Why all those languages. ;_;
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Thursday, 19 July 2012 05:00 (eleven years ago) link
hahaaaaaa srsly this is place with complex french-english colonial history and hundreds of years of french language/culture battles. a border is a border for historical and cultural reasons and language is a part of that. and so is defensiveness about it. outside of montreal in quebec unless i know the town/area to be anglo-skewed (rare but happens), i don't speak english.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 19 July 2012 06:31 (eleven years ago) link
tho quebec is fully survivable no matter what language you speak as long as your parka is sound
! kingfish you are joking, yes?
― Ówen P., Thursday, 19 July 2012 13:05 (eleven years ago) link
and i was being drunkenly earnest
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 19 July 2012 13:39 (eleven years ago) link
My family used to own quebec
― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 19 July 2012 13:47 (eleven years ago) link