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Turkey festivities at 3953
It started with everyone arriving at my apartment on Friday afternoon, including my dog.
I was just sitting on my bed with the front door open, not expecting anyone to arrive yet, and in walks cricket,
followed a few seconds later by my parents, Sam, Glynis and Jason. So that made me pretty happy.
We took advantage of the Pop Montreal festivities and saw two concerts.
The first was Patti Smith, playing with her band at an enormous, absolutely gorgeous church near my house.
It was the best, most captivating, inspiring concert I have ever attended.
She is sixty years old and is such an incredible performer.
We sat in church pews up front and none of us could take our eyes off her.
She played for a solid 2 hours and 15 minutes, singing, playing clarinet (who knew the clarinet could rock?),
reading Ginsberg, reading her own stuff, ranting against the U.S. government
and urging the audience to unite together and save the world.
We left the church in awe and walked over to Schwartz's for a midnight smoked meat snack and concert recap.
Saturday we saw Across The Universe.
(My third time in a row...third time's a charm.)
I introduced Charlie to everyone and he came out to dinner with us.
Dinner was definitely an example of the family at their most ridiculous/finest.
We went to a little vietnamese BYOW place with four bottles of wine in tow.
Two bottles in and we hadn't even ordered, so we picked our meal according to everyone's favourite number between 1-45.
Everyone picked a number off the menu, we told the waitress and then waited for our surprise dinner to arrive.
The food ended up being great, we didn't get stuck with frogs legs or anything.
After dinner, the seven of us stumbled over to Just For Laughs to see Islands.
It had been a year to the day since they'd last played Montreal and it was such a different, more edgier show.
Dressed all in black, they played a fantastic set of new songs (I only knew three from the entire night).
They also officially killed/retired Rough Gem as a song, cause they hate playing it.
The encore was awesome, with a huge 5 person rap for Whalebone. fuuuun.
Sunday's big Thanksgiving meal reminded me a lot of a Fancy Dinner Night,
only without the potluck and a different crowd.
We were joined by Gavin, Kevin, Charlie and his roommates Marcus, Jacob and Trevor.
It was my first real thanksgiving meal in two years and it was damn good.
The apartment was filled with people; we ate, drank lots of red wine, and at the end, guitars,
mandolins and a ukelele were brought out for a FDN-esque singalong.
It was quite a night.
It started with everyone arriving at my apartment on Friday afternoon, including my dog.
I was just sitting on my bed with the front door open, not expecting anyone to arrive yet, and in walks cricket,
followed a few seconds later by my parents, Sam, Glynis and Jason. So that made me pretty happy.
We took advantage of the Pop Montreal festivities and saw two concerts.
The first was Patti Smith, playing with her band at an enormous, absolutely gorgeous church near my house.
It was the best, most captivating, inspiring concert I have ever attended.
She is sixty years old and is such an incredible performer.
We sat in church pews up front and none of us could take our eyes off her.
She played for a solid 2 hours and 15 minutes, singing, playing clarinet (who knew the clarinet could rock?),
reading Ginsberg, reading her own stuff, ranting against the U.S. government
and urging the audience to unite together and save the world.
We left the church in awe and walked over to Schwartz's for a midnight smoked meat snack and concert recap.
Saturday we saw Across The Universe.
(My third time in a row...third time's a charm.)
I introduced Charlie to everyone and he came out to dinner with us.
Dinner was definitely an example of the family at their most ridiculous/finest.
We went to a little vietnamese BYOW place with four bottles of wine in tow.
Two bottles in and we hadn't even ordered, so we picked our meal according to everyone's favourite number between 1-45.
Everyone picked a number off the menu, we told the waitress and then waited for our surprise dinner to arrive.
The food ended up being great, we didn't get stuck with frogs legs or anything.
After dinner, the seven of us stumbled over to Just For Laughs to see Islands.
It had been a year to the day since they'd last played Montreal and it was such a different, more edgier show.
Dressed all in black, they played a fantastic set of new songs (I only knew three from the entire night).
They also officially killed/retired Rough Gem as a song, cause they hate playing it.
The encore was awesome, with a huge 5 person rap for Whalebone. fuuuun.
Sunday's big Thanksgiving meal reminded me a lot of a Fancy Dinner Night,
only without the potluck and a different crowd.
We were joined by Gavin, Kevin, Charlie and his roommates Marcus, Jacob and Trevor.
It was my first real thanksgiving meal in two years and it was damn good.
The apartment was filled with people; we ate, drank lots of red wine, and at the end, guitars,
mandolins and a ukelele were brought out for a FDN-esque singalong.
It was quite a night.