DUDE. I'm in Québec City, and the Plains of Abraham are, like, where the English defeated the French in 1759 and basically did a not-so-successful mind-meld with New France and made North America into what it is today. Or something like that.
ANYWAY, the battlefield is a national historical site, but RIGHT THIS FUCKING MINUTE I can hear VAN HALEN playing a concert there, because my hotel room faces onto it (more or less). It's a bit like if a big British band (because Van Halen, is, like American, okay?) played on Gettysburg or something. Between the gravestones. Sacrilegious if it weren't so damn funny.
JESUS WEPT. They're playing Panama now. WILL IT NEVER END?
I don't know if I should laugh or cry.
Oh, hell, don't worry about knowing Canadian freakin' history. 95% of Canadians probably couldn't tell you what the Plains of Abraham are. I'm just one a one-woman mission to educate people. Starting with hapless LJ users. Don't worry. kimonkey7 will be here any moment to mock me.
No, the vacation's actually SWELL. It's just so fucking funny, it makes me want to weep. The city, on it's 400th anniversary, is CRAWLING with tourists (of which I am just one), but it's so damn beautiful. And the food's great. If only we could do something with the children, we'd be FINE.
They just finished Panama. Can't wait for Jump (yes, correct band). Wait...wait...Eddie V is currently in the middle of an interminable guitar solo....what song is it? Wait....still going...Eddie...settle into a song...crowd going crazy...wait...fuck...can't believe it....c'mon Eddie...throw us a bone...pick one song and stick with it...it's...it's...
Four centuries is a looooong time. But they have good marketing. Loads of folks here and the street buskers are second to none. And the baked goods? Well? Yeah.
(for the record, there's STILL a guitar solo going on).
I should post some pics...and may. I'll download some soon and see what's possible. The weather sucked for most of today, but it's supposed to turn around tomorrow (guitar solo is IMPOSSIBLY long...teen boys across Québec are going NUTS right now)
The good news? At least it's not Céline Dion! (for the record, she's playing in a few weeks).
aaaaaand, I can't finish this response before the guitar solo ends. Eddie V has outlasted me.
LOL! images of madly thrashing teen boys guitar heroing their way through the solo just burnt out my retinas thanks very much!
Don't talk to me about french pastry! I just had a salad for lunch...pitié ! sil vouz plais pitié ! Je vous prie !
LOL for Celine...haven't you already had her dealing death to the boys in Quebec? Poor Dean...but I can see him jamming to the guitar solo just to freak out Poor Sam. :-)
Points at you and laughs!! I laugh at your pain. You are not surprised by this I know. I'm home ALONE! No kids, no husbands....NOBODY! and no Van Halen! WOOT!
I am never surprised by the fact that you laugh at my pain. I could be in the hospital, undergoing a colonoscophy or some such thing -- and you'd still be laughing at me. You're like that.
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There sounds like there's something more to this story.
And, y'know. Feel free to tell us.
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ANYWAY, the battlefield is a national historical site, but RIGHT THIS FUCKING MINUTE I can hear VAN HALEN playing a concert there, because my hotel room faces onto it (more or less). It's a bit like if a big British band (because Van Halen, is, like American, okay?) played on Gettysburg or something. Between the gravestones. Sacrilegious if it weren't so damn funny.
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I'm so sorry.
I feel that I should have known that.
Sacrilegious if it weren't so damn funny
Gotta admit I'm having trouble moving past the 'sacrilegious' part.
I hope I didn't offend with my ignorance, and sincerely apologise.
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I don't know if I should laugh or cry.
Oh, hell, don't worry about knowing Canadian freakin' history. 95% of Canadians probably couldn't tell you what the Plains of Abraham are. I'm just one a one-woman mission to educate people. Starting with hapless LJ users. Don't worry. kimonkey7 will be here any moment to mock me.
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No, the vacation's actually SWELL. It's just so fucking funny, it makes me want to weep. The city, on it's 400th anniversary, is CRAWLING with tourists (of which I am just one), but it's so damn beautiful. And the food's great. If only we could do something with the children, we'd be FINE.
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Wow...Quebec is celebrating 4 centuries of settlement? send us snaps!...er please?
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Four centuries is a looooong time. But they have good marketing. Loads of folks here and the street buskers are second to none. And the baked goods? Well? Yeah.
(for the record, there's STILL a guitar solo going on).
I should post some pics...and may. I'll download some soon and see what's possible. The weather sucked for most of today, but it's supposed to turn around tomorrow (guitar solo is IMPOSSIBLY long...teen boys across Québec are going NUTS right now)
The good news? At least it's not Céline Dion! (for the record, she's playing in a few weeks).
aaaaaand, I can't finish this response before the guitar solo ends. Eddie V has outlasted me.
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It's not pretty.
And their in-between song patter...isn't even en français. Pathetic.
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Don't talk to me about french pastry! I just had a salad for lunch...pitié ! sil vouz plais pitié ! Je vous prie !
LOL for Celine...haven't you already had her dealing death to the boys in Quebec? Poor Dean...but I can see him jamming to the guitar solo just to freak out Poor Sam. :-)
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And I will now mangle my limited French by adding a tres bizarre to the festivities. Please to not be committing hari kari, it's so not worth it. ;-)
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I laugh at your pain. You are not surprised by this I know.
I'm home ALONE! No kids, no husbands....NOBODY! and no Van Halen!
WOOT!
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Fuck off.
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