hey robyn i think i'm meeting up w lamp at that show, maybe see u there?
― flopson, Saturday, 7 December 2013 23:42 (ten years ago) link
oh cool, I have an xmas party to go to so am playing it by ear but totally want to go!
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Sunday, 8 December 2013 01:09 (ten years ago) link
i am really enjoying winter so far. i hate winter. i was so scared about it, just memories of waiting for buses, waiting to cross streets scrunching your toes. but so far it's been so fine; the wind has not been in my face, i have been wearing regular shoes, the temperature change on the metro has been as inconvenient as it gets. but then TODAY. ugh. just sliding. what happened. sliding forever. so often almost dying.
also: i had a long conversation with my friend about olimpico, the little cosmopolitan nucleus of olimpico, & he said he preferred café social. i was so surprised! & then i sat bolt upright twelve hours later wondering if it was better, if it was like religious bias, the construction of a hierarchy instilled by whichever you visit first. i always thought c.s. was just olimpico but with food & slushy coffee. inferior because it was less ascetic, less pure. but then he talked about it having a better, more authentically grizzled quebecoise clientele. i like the ambient conversation at olimpico. but i doubted myself. does anybody have opinions about this, i feel like it has the dna to become a really excellent partisan division between people who are currently friends.
― mustread guy (schlump), Monday, 6 January 2014 23:18 (ten years ago) link
i have a lot of opinions about this, i've put in time, literally years, at each cafe
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 9 January 2014 23:43 (ten years ago) link
me too. I lean in the olimpico direction though because the coffee is better! I used to go to social with boozehound friend because for many years you could buy drinks without having to also buy food (ah the years of lax liquor license monitoring), and their terrasse in summer rules.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Friday, 10 January 2014 00:06 (ten years ago) link
Ah it's nice to think about summer...
it is a very very complicated and subtle dichotomy, the Olimpico and Social thing(it has been made more complicated, I believe, from the decampment of Vito northward to Villeray)
― sean gramophone, Friday, 10 January 2014 00:07 (ten years ago) link
I get Myriade because the baristas are so pleasant and the sun is nice
― pretty krulls make glaives (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 10 January 2014 01:07 (ten years ago) link
guy i know who works at myriade is a creep but maybe he doesn't work there anymore
also they have slush coffee at olimpico, too
― flopson, Friday, 10 January 2014 01:36 (ten years ago) link
olympico is a nobrainer for me, maybe i am just yet to have entered my social phase but that always seemed like the too obvious snob challop, like the equivalent of "tourists eat at schwartz's, real heads eat at the main." olimpico on a sunny afternoon just the best place on earth imo
― flopson, Friday, 10 January 2014 01:39 (ten years ago) link
Olympico's slush coffee wins it for me. I don't think I've ever been to either place outside of the summer. Even in the summer, I more enclined to buy bagels and sit at Parc Outremont.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 10 January 2014 02:36 (ten years ago) link
Most of my Olympico/C.S memories have more to do with World Cups and Euro than regular coffee activities.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 10 January 2014 02:37 (ten years ago) link
Montreal residents should build a summer-dome 3000 suqare feet in which to frolic in flowers all year in skimpy retro bathing suits
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Friday, 10 January 2014 21:04 (ten years ago) link
You—and everyone else, really—should then try Thanjai. Plamandon metro is really not that far... It's still Van Horne, even! You could bike it if you llive at Parc and Bernard (which I assume most of you do). It's South Indian: dosas, the unparalleled rasam, sambar, idli, vada, and all the gang. I've never spent more than 40 bucks for two. It is a charming, charming little place with great food. It's fuckin' spicy so don't bring your student friends (although I always see at least one table of confused people who are always scared of the menu but they are always accommodated as much as as a South Indian resto can accommodate "no spices, no sauce, just chicken please. I don't want any sauce thank you."
― fields of salmon, Sunday, August 18, 2013 6:34 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
went there this past week btw. soooooo good. not that spicy though?? (IME)
― flopson, Saturday, 11 January 2014 02:50 (ten years ago) link
In the 12 months I've been eating there I believe they have toned it down a notch.
― fields of salmon, Thursday, 16 January 2014 16:35 (ten years ago) link
http://gizmodo.com/explore-more-than-3-000-miles-of-tunnels-beneath-montre-1531576186
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 4 March 2014 21:29 (ten years ago) link
find march hardnice today though
― mustread guy (schlump), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 20:10 (ten years ago) link
And there's more snow+rain in the forecast for the next few days! March is painful mostly because it seems to promise to be nice and then turns harsh on a dime. It's a good time to be on vacation really. Or at least look at pictures of tropical beaches if you can't go anywhere (I have been doing this, no shame.)
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 20:56 (ten years ago) link
this marsh came in like a lion and is leaving like a bitch
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 20:57 (ten years ago) link
I almost went full nihilist stuck in a cycle of grey freezing-cold days coupled with 24/7 morning-sickness for the past two months. I feel like a survivor today just for leaving the house to do laundry. 12 winters here and i still sometimes ponder leaving because of the weather far more than the politics!
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 21:03 (ten years ago) link
i hate people who went to california but ... i went to california
just because last winter was so hard that i felt like something had to be in the calendar, a picture pinned against the wall & traced with trembling fingers, dustin hoffman in midnight cowboy, or i wouldn't make it til spring. & then actually this winter turned out to be fine? just fine! every day above -30 really just a triumph. less time this year spent waiting for a bus to arrive or a light to change at a windy crossroad, scrunching my toes. it has been okay but yeah, march refusing to deliver on its promise of palpably easing is hard because you've only budgeted enough endurance for february
days like today remind me at least a little of some of the whenever-they-were (april? may?) days last year of prematurely picking up takeout cold brew coffees & people smiling at you on the street, this simultaneous civic defrost. i can't take the subway anymore. but it feels like it'll be over soon, or almost over enough for that delusion to paper over the chill
― mustread guy (schlump), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 21:06 (ten years ago) link
april promising weather + politics, quick, split
everyday I have the 2 degrees blues
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Thursday, 20 March 2014 19:40 (ten years ago) link
why am i so annoyed by the whole food truck thing here
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Friday, 2 May 2014 02:48 (nine years ago) link
except for the really good coffee truck, that can stay
which is the good coffee truck? on parc?
food trucks in montreal seem kinda potemkin to me
― schlump, Friday, 2 May 2014 03:57 (nine years ago) link
they're doing it wrong.
(the food truck thing)
― socki (s1ocki), Friday, 2 May 2014 13:06 (nine years ago) link
basically you can only get a food truck in this city if you already own a restaurant and you promise to put $9 pulled pork sandwiches on the menu.
Most pulled pork sandwiches cost $9 already. The food truck version would be a pulled pork banh mi slider.
― fields of salmon, Friday, 2 May 2014 14:13 (nine years ago) link
Thinking it's time I come back the next month or so.
With Mutek and Suoni Per Il Popolo, should I consider moving to Mtl for end of May/June?
― Kornblud (admrl), Thursday, 15 May 2014 19:22 (nine years ago) link
do it! feel like you're simultaneously more & less eligible for the thrill of seeing los angeles plays itself at the cinematheque in a couple weeks but come anyway. montreal is in #full #spring.
also admrl come before i leave montreal forever, soon
― schlump, Thursday, 15 May 2014 19:26 (nine years ago) link
yesssssss
whats your deal as of sept adam?
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 15 May 2014 19:27 (nine years ago) link
deal as in...?
I will come soon, maybe even in a few weeks. I think Mtl is by far and away my favorite East Coast city, if you even consider it that
― Kornblud (admrl), Thursday, 15 May 2014 19:34 (nine years ago) link
Oh I am staying put where I am now, if that's what you mean. I'm in this for the long(er) haul.
― Kornblud (admrl), Thursday, 15 May 2014 19:35 (nine years ago) link
I'll be in yr city for a week starting the 26th
― a strange man (mh), Thursday, 15 May 2014 19:40 (nine years ago) link
my favorite East Coast city, if you even consider it that
if philadelphia can be considered "on the coast," then why not Montreal?
also, i agree.
― espring (amateurist), Thursday, 15 May 2014 19:44 (nine years ago) link
well finally we agree on something
― Kornblud (admrl), Thursday, 15 May 2014 19:50 (nine years ago) link
reject your tar sands oil
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Thursday, 15 May 2014 20:10 (nine years ago) link
ams you need to come visit again too.
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 15 May 2014 20:39 (nine years ago) link
― Kornblud (admrl), Thursday, May 15, 2014 3:35 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
cool!!!
im doing a guest lecture in a friend's film class next week, on science fiction. you guys are gonna have to give me some helpful advice
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 15 May 2014 20:40 (nine years ago) link
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, May 15, 2014 3:39 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i might, next march. we'll see.
s1ocki, feel free to email me
― espring (amateurist), Thursday, 15 May 2014 21:08 (nine years ago) link
i've actually met both of you! a rare moment on ilx for me.
Mutek is going to be great! So much good stuff this year. plus a lot of it is at the contemporary art museum, which will make an interesting difference of some sort, who knows. and there's a bunch of free outdoor stuff that is pretty cool and weird, so we get to see baffled looks on random tourists' faces.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Friday, 16 May 2014 13:28 (nine years ago) link
Yeah!
So I think I'll come up in a couple of weeks. Time to play the hotel/airbnb game again.
― Kornblud (admrl), Friday, 16 May 2014 13:35 (nine years ago) link
shweet
― socki (s1ocki), Friday, 16 May 2014 13:37 (nine years ago) link
just don't come between june 7-11
p.s. mh, we will obv hang out, whether admrl decides to visit or not ;)
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Friday, 16 May 2014 13:37 (nine years ago) link
yaay admrl!
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Friday, 16 May 2014 13:38 (nine years ago) link
:D
― a strange man (mh), Friday, 16 May 2014 14:07 (nine years ago) link