More Canada!
Okay, so I haven't been updating as much as I'd hoped! It's all good, though, 'cause ain't nobody read this any more.
Myriam was working on her thesis for most of last week; she'd hoped to have it finished before I got here, but something came up, and she had to make some changes. On Thursday evening, we met up for something to eat at a café, and then went to Starbucks. Both armed with laptops, Myriam worked and I surfed the internet. It was nice.
I didn't see her on Friday, however. During the day I went downtown again, to check out the Peel/Concordia district, and ended up going to the Musée des Beaux-Arts. It was pretty cool, but I have to admit that I find modern art a bit more interesting than classical stuff; at least anything earlier than the late 1500's, a lot of which is strongly Christian. I don't know nearly as much about art as I used to, though. Anyway, later in the day I met up with Heather (Of 'Pears' fame), at an Ethiopian restaurant, where we were joined by a friend of hers, Cindy. Food was good; Izzy had recommended I try Ethiopian while I was here, and if I'd been able to go to Toronto to meet her, we would have had some there.
After dinner, we made our way to the SAT, where The Field was playing; outside, however, we got sidetracked by a group of DJs and VJs who were doing a live performance in a small park area; Heather knew about the event because she'd been asked to collaborate, so we talked to a couple of the VJs for a while. Inside, there was a DJ playing decent-ish electronic stuff. The Field came on at 11pm, and put on an interesting show; though he produces alone, he had two other guys with him for his performance. One of them seem to be doing additional production stuff, and played a small xylophone on one track, and the other alternated between bass guitar and drums. Live drums were an interesting addition to his minimal house stylings! The Juan McLean were up after that, and they put on a pretty interesting show! Their frontman played a theremin on several tracks, which was awesome.
Myriam had finished her thesis at about 6am on Saturday morning, so we met up for 'breakfast' at about 2pm. I had my first crepe! We then made our way downtown, and popped in on an outdoor fashion event. There was nothing there to interest Myriam, so we only stayed long enough to have her photo taken. After that we made our way to her University, McGill, and passed through to Mont-Royal, a mountain in the middle of the city. We stopped at a lake on the way up to take photos of a fat squirrel and eat ice-cream, and then went all the way to the top. We took a number of stupid photographs of ourselves with Montreal in the background, and then got lost a bit, before finally making our way down. Myriam had a numer of ideas for places to eat, but they were all closed; we ended up at a Portuguese bar drinking beer and eating some really nice nachos. Two pints later, we made our way to the bridge to watch the fireworks display.
Whew! On Sunday (Yesterday), I went to Piknic Electronik, a dance party on an island, with the intention of meeting up with Heather again; she couldn't make it, however, so I ended up sitting around taking photos of people and listening to bad dance music for a couple of hours. It was pretty cool, all told. Made my way back into town and got something to eat while waiting for Myriam to arrive, and then we went to see 'Up' in 3D! It was pretty awesome. On our way back we stopped at a faux-Mexican restaurant for daiquiris and over-loud and annoying fiesta music.
Today I have no real plans yet! I'm going to do a bit of CD shopping, and perhaps see if I can find the Boards of Canada building again. See you!
Myriam was working on her thesis for most of last week; she'd hoped to have it finished before I got here, but something came up, and she had to make some changes. On Thursday evening, we met up for something to eat at a café, and then went to Starbucks. Both armed with laptops, Myriam worked and I surfed the internet. It was nice.
I didn't see her on Friday, however. During the day I went downtown again, to check out the Peel/Concordia district, and ended up going to the Musée des Beaux-Arts. It was pretty cool, but I have to admit that I find modern art a bit more interesting than classical stuff; at least anything earlier than the late 1500's, a lot of which is strongly Christian. I don't know nearly as much about art as I used to, though. Anyway, later in the day I met up with Heather (Of 'Pears' fame), at an Ethiopian restaurant, where we were joined by a friend of hers, Cindy. Food was good; Izzy had recommended I try Ethiopian while I was here, and if I'd been able to go to Toronto to meet her, we would have had some there.
After dinner, we made our way to the SAT, where The Field was playing; outside, however, we got sidetracked by a group of DJs and VJs who were doing a live performance in a small park area; Heather knew about the event because she'd been asked to collaborate, so we talked to a couple of the VJs for a while. Inside, there was a DJ playing decent-ish electronic stuff. The Field came on at 11pm, and put on an interesting show; though he produces alone, he had two other guys with him for his performance. One of them seem to be doing additional production stuff, and played a small xylophone on one track, and the other alternated between bass guitar and drums. Live drums were an interesting addition to his minimal house stylings! The Juan McLean were up after that, and they put on a pretty interesting show! Their frontman played a theremin on several tracks, which was awesome.
Myriam had finished her thesis at about 6am on Saturday morning, so we met up for 'breakfast' at about 2pm. I had my first crepe! We then made our way downtown, and popped in on an outdoor fashion event. There was nothing there to interest Myriam, so we only stayed long enough to have her photo taken. After that we made our way to her University, McGill, and passed through to Mont-Royal, a mountain in the middle of the city. We stopped at a lake on the way up to take photos of a fat squirrel and eat ice-cream, and then went all the way to the top. We took a number of stupid photographs of ourselves with Montreal in the background, and then got lost a bit, before finally making our way down. Myriam had a numer of ideas for places to eat, but they were all closed; we ended up at a Portuguese bar drinking beer and eating some really nice nachos. Two pints later, we made our way to the bridge to watch the fireworks display.
Whew! On Sunday (Yesterday), I went to Piknic Electronik, a dance party on an island, with the intention of meeting up with Heather again; she couldn't make it, however, so I ended up sitting around taking photos of people and listening to bad dance music for a couple of hours. It was pretty cool, all told. Made my way back into town and got something to eat while waiting for Myriam to arrive, and then we went to see 'Up' in 3D! It was pretty awesome. On our way back we stopped at a faux-Mexican restaurant for daiquiris and over-loud and annoying fiesta music.
Today I have no real plans yet! I'm going to do a bit of CD shopping, and perhaps see if I can find the Boards of Canada building again. See you!