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
me irl
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BolXS57CIAAUlPQ.jpg
― schlump, Monday, 26 May 2014 19:03 (nine years ago) link
hi
― a strange man (mh), Monday, 26 May 2014 20:07 (nine years ago) link
Hi mh!
Omg I forgot PA was opening new location today! It feels so much closer to my house even tho the difference is, seriously, a block.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Monday, 26 May 2014 21:13 (nine years ago) link
where is the new one?
― Neckbread (Will M.), Monday, 26 May 2014 21:32 (nine years ago) link
i cant handle this
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 26 May 2014 21:34 (nine years ago) link
it's amazingalmost a carnival atmospherein spite of a resounding zero tie-in celebratory dealsactually maybe premiere maison baguettes are 2/$3but yeah wild times
will it's on parc at fairmount, across the street. whenever i see stores w/francophone mention of TAPIS i always think TAPIRS, & it's next to a tapir store, go grocery shopping & grab a capybara on yr way out
― schlump, Monday, 26 May 2014 21:42 (nine years ago) link
i got a free shot of sambuca so
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 26 May 2014 21:49 (nine years ago) link
what is PA and do they have any sambuca left
― a strange man (mh), Monday, 26 May 2014 22:08 (nine years ago) link
it is a store full of food! and now apparently sambuca sometimes
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Monday, 26 May 2014 23:20 (nine years ago) link
only in montreal does a store open or move and the management is like "booze for everyone!!" e.g., they were giving away samples of sapporo beer at the renovated loblaws in parc-ex the other day)
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Monday, 26 May 2014 23:24 (nine years ago) link
I have names heard that were dropped over dinner I am going to have to run past you guys later to see what credibility level things clock at
― a strange man (mh), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 00:28 (nine years ago) link
I went to Atom Heart (I know, music on physical media, lol me) on the way out of town and wanted to buy an album but they only had the promo listening station copy left, so they gave it to me for free! Buy something there.
― a strange man (mh), Wednesday, 4 June 2014 01:04 (nine years ago) link
mmttllblog.wordpress.com is my favourite thing atm
― Neckbread (Will M.), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 16:38 (nine years ago) link
this place gave me a parking ticket, should i pay it?
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 8 July 2014 16:46 (nine years ago) link
the city really needs the money, so it would be nice if you did
― silverfish, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 19:49 (nine years ago) link
1/3 of it will just fund the lavish suburban homes of extended Calabrian or Sicilian families. Don't pay it.
― fields of salmon, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 21:45 (nine years ago) link
well i'm less interested in the moral implications than i am in the legal ones
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 8 July 2014 22:06 (nine years ago) link