Three (3) short films:
A Snow Storm in March on the street where I live
A Stop Motion stroll along the street where I live
A Blues Singer channelling Arthur Crudup & Elvis gone...
...on the street where I live
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A transplanted American ponders:
The Confederate Flag in East-end Montreal
A unique and also constrained vantage point from which to interpret the political terrain that is Montreal, Quebec
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My day-to-day life in Montreal can be experienced at quite a remarkable remove from the U.S., politically, culturally, and linguistically, more than most other parts of Canada.
While Montreal is located just 45 minutes from the Vermont/New York borders, its majority French-speaking population and its particular city culture – part European, very bohemian, and “very sexual” as several people on the street shared with me as I looked for housing -- feel nothing like the U.S., at least not the Midwestern parts of which I am most familiar.
For those U.S. Americans who think that Canada is just an extension of U.S. culture, they clearly do not have the city of Montreal or the province of Quebec in mind.
I’m not sure that the flag means the same thing in Montreal’s east side
"After the Civil War, Varina went to Montreal, Canada with the children..".
"First Lady of the Confederacy"
A Call to Arms:
Pierre Vallières: ''To be a nigger in America is to be not a man but someone's slave.''
The emotive urgency (and surging beauty)
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It must be strange reading really intense reviews and reports from your shows.
Established fans may claim that the emotive urgency and surging beauty of an Arcade Fire show can never be caged in plastic.
Their 2002 EP/demo didn't do it, serving only as a document of the band's first steps.
But their new album Funeral, out now on Merge Records, that captures that colossal spirit and symphonic grandeur, set to flow forth at their official hometown CD launch at the Salvation Army church next weekend.
Each inspired strain of the elegiac opus Funeral cements the Arcade Fire's status as one of this city's best bands.
The album's inception can be traced back to 1999, when Houston, Texas-born singer Win Butler moved to Montreal to study scriptural interpretation at McGill.
Before long, fate delivered him to a vernissage where Régine Chassagne was singing.
Born in Haiti and raised in St-Lambert, Chassagne displayed multidextrous talents, from jazz to medieval music, and soon teamed up with Butler to build a band.
The emotive urgency...
Zilon ...gone...
The Godfather of Montreal
As chic as this city is considered by heaps of staunch defenders, we can't help but compare ourselves to our (much bigger) east-coast American metropolis counterpart, the fabulous NYC.
But what exactly have they got that we don't?
... and surging beauty
Leonard Cohen & Lou Reed NYC 2008
"We've got these guys up in Montreal..."
...It's New York, Right? in 2008
Between waves of applause and hollers in French and English, he added,
“I am so grateful to be here and to be from here.”
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"This city is very important to me."
("It keeps me alive") - Rufus Wainwright
I booked a flight on September 11, it was very freaky.
Anyway, then I went over to Sean Lennon’s house, John Lennon’s old house, the Dakota, and Yoko was there and I was actually with Lorca Cohen, Leonard Cohen’s daughter.
So Yoko said, “We should get out of town,” and I was, like, “Okay,” so we got in the car with Lorca, Sean and Sean’s girlfriend Bijou Philips, whose father is John Philips from Mamas and the Papas.
Yoko ended up driving all the kids of rock stars to her farm in upstate New York, and we stayed there for two weeks and acted like four-year-olds!
Hubert Aquin (Gordon wrote... )
