Montreal!

I saw you from across the room at pop opening party but was in conversation and missed you. Tell cold to go away so you can at least come late-night dancing.

Or tomorrow: jacob lusk R Kelly all stars thing at sala, whoaa

sigh

too much

too festivaled out from tiff

i dont knowwwww

pop is pretty bad this year imo, i have an artist pass & am looking for things to go to but... there's barely anything i want to see, even free

mrrrr I was supposed to come up this weekend, boooo

i am curating a thing in toronto in 1.5 weeks, you should come!

(that was vague)

um. i am excited about the r kelly all stars tonight.

venus x was apparently pretty great, as was the peaches christ superstar thing?

the loft sets at eastern bloc thursday night were pretty stellar, but cops shut it down before physical therapy's set.

damn shoulda gone to peaches christ superstar

Yeah s1ocki FB me bc I don't know what that thing is but I'm interested!

i will... it's trampoline hall have you heard of it? speaker series thingy?

Duh, basically. Ok.

I mean, yes I've heard, no I didn't realize

venus x was good! both the set and talk

ok cool!

i did one last year and have curated a few since!

good times.

that thing always sounded neat, i didn't know it was still happening
xp re: trampolining

It is cool! It can be cool. You have to have a high tolerance / appreciation for extreme Torontoness.

i am going to visit my gf at her parents in ottawa nxt week. will maybe spend some time in montreal before i head back to uk. anything good going on week after next?

i don't know exactly what torontoness is, though i remember it being raised in the sheila heti thread which i guess figures in part re: trampolining. the vague precis of TH is that people are encouraged to talk but outside their field of expertise, right, capturing enthusiasm for learning rather than didactic teaching of knowledge, &c.

not sure what's happening week after next, i will keep a lookout

Yeah, that's sort of it. But it's also the debate about whether or not it's "a good idea", the "amateur hour as anti-capitalist commentary" schtick, it's that debate that keeps Toronto's gyroscope spinning. Any time anybody does anything there's always somebody who makes a pooface and smugly asks "what the fuck are you talking about?" [/Toronto]

yeah. i don't know i was skimming the old n+1 article on mcsweeney's, yesterday, & it kinda reminded me of some of the cloying aesthetics of new-weird-tangents-on-existing-forms - so believer interviews which first set out to establish their novel or non-professional approach to interviewing, the stated form the selling point. & i guess that could presumably be leveled at this? but then at the same time there is doing something versus not doing something & it isn't like anyone has to attend. i went to the david byrne thing, here, last night, which was really good. it mainly kinda reminded me of the virtue of just conversation in public, freewheeling town-hall-style discussion that is valuable for offering a bunch of perspectives from people you might want to listen to, or who have like been to other countries & stuff. the salient things aren't necessarily the things that people are most qualified to talk about but the things which catch your attention, or that arise out of the difference between participants. so i can imagine TH being good. you get something out of most things, even if it's just the Torontonical joy of criticising.

my mtl-based involvement negates the torontoneity

Montrealism is the exact same thing as Torontoism
Except replace "criticize self" with "criticize Toronto"

lol

ftr i disagree with that (ime the extent to which the kind of montrealers who would go to the equiv of trampoline hall don't so much criticize toronto so much as criticize the idea of having to get a job) but it's still a great aphorism

Montreal is Torontorious for its Torontoism

ppl talk less about toronto in mtl than ppl in toronto generally believe tbh

(a belief rooted deeply in torontoism)

well people in montreal generally think that people in toronto are always talking about how much people in montreal talk about people in toronto tbqph

je ne comprend pas

I was telescoping s1ocki's assertion.

I don't disagree with what you're saying, s1ocki, but Torontonians have good reason to feel the occasional moments of victimization. Toronto gets trashed a whole lot in the press and in person by like everybody and (beyond the fact that Toronto absorbs tonnes of $ and manpower from all over Canada) it's weird and surprising, considering that a) this city is pretty great and b) nobody here ever trash-talks Montreal, like, ever, Montreal is beautiful and we love to visit and would move there in a heartbeat

'the cultural value of elaborately rolling ones eyes' sets by the janitorial staff, tickets by the HP print lab

seeeee you're kind of doing it right now, too

wait Lamp who's side are you on idgi

tbh i mostly take the attitude that its better to just go out and do/create cool stuff than bitch abt the fact that the same circle of bougie mediocrities gets all the coverage/funding/advantages blah blah blah but theres some merit to that general criticism - i think the way a lot of toronto stuff is structured is p terrible and insider-y in a poisonous way, its sort of a lot to get into tho rn rh tho

i don't even really want to talk about this tbh, i rarely talk about toronto here in mtl, i feel like this is all because of my joke about my mtlness mitigating the torontoness of my trampoline halls!

Nobody's accusing you of talking about Toronto

anyway I'm SUPER BUMMED I'm not in MTL ~right now~. I was gonna do a thing tonight at Casa but had to cancel my whole weekend b/c of food poisoning. It is OK. I will see Nicky Da B and Patrick Woof tomorrow

urgh! what poisoned you??

Me, according to the Heartland thread.

urgh! you?

muhahahahahaha!

I talked about it on a couple other threads but I've had shitty shitty food poisoning for the past 12 days, three more days of antibiotics and hopefully it'll be gone. It was a whole roast suckling pig I ate on my birthday with my inlaws and they urged me to eat of warious parts of the animal that I ought not to have done (the brain, the ear). It's been a bilious, delirious and creative couple of weeks

sweet jesus

Yeah I've lost fucking seven pounds so far it has not been pleasant. I tried to go jogging today and my thighs felt like empty garbage bags :(

I talked about it on a couple other threads but I've had shitty shitty food poisoning for the past 12 days, three more days of antibiotics and hopefully it'll be gone. It was a whole roast suckling pig I ate on my birthday with my inlaws and they urged me to eat of warious parts of the animal that I ought not to have done (the brain, the ear). It's been a bilious, delirious and creative couple of weeks

― whiter than... this? (Ówen P.), Sunday, September 23, 2012 10:21 PM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

omg man.. that's brutal!! where did you eat this?

(i've eaten most of those parts of the animal myself... but i guess it was properly prepared)

Oh man. I am missing Nicky da B because four days of pop drained me and I have class in the morning and your casa thing was maybe the only reason I would have stayed up but it's supposed to be great.

Patrick was A++ although pop time constraints and vocal strain limited the set to an hour-ish (though I couldn't hear it hen he sang, just when he spoke). Not sure if a jazz club set up is what I expected but the

Concert was lovely and I'll probably post real thoughts on the pw thread

i was kinda worried about my contribution itt being lazily cut & pasting cinema du parc listings once in a while just to draw attention to exciting-to-me film events (like, they are showing a few wong kar wai movies, soon), BUT, check it out:

http://www.cinemaduparc.com/english/prochainemente.php?id=waintegrale#top

how neat to live here