Chaque Jour

29 juillet, mardi
- Namori, Svinkels, David Marin avec Karkwa!, Kayans
- Classic rock et l'ami d'Elise
MUSIQUE DU JOUR: David Marin

30 juillet, mercredi
- Late awakening for entrevue avec Laurent Saulnier...
- Speed lunch of beans and burned garlic chicken before...
- Guy Brouillard a CKOI et Eric au bibliotheque (des speakers tres bons!)
- Ouanani, Yelle, Lilison de Kinara, La Patere Rose, Radio Radio
- Des drapeaux; drums!; la paix dans la salle et beaucoup de pensees; des claviers dingues; "Oh shit"
- Les claviers et l'accordion, c'est plus populaires que la guitare comme aux Etats-Unis...!
- Compte de faire l'entrevue demain au resto (filipino? haha)
MUSIQUE DU JOUR: L'electro-pop de Yelle et La Patere Rose

Je peeeense qu'il y a quelque choooose de dire de ce teeeemps et ces petiiiites artiiiistes

J’ai pensé que c’était temps de dire à tout le monde ce qui se passe dans ma vie montréalaise ici. Je voudrais beaucoup faire des postes longues toutes pleines de détails mais je n’ai pas de temps. Donc j’écris quelques notes et quelques listes chaque jour. Chaque note est un cahier des souvenirs et des mots… les voici :

21 juillet lundi
- Early morn train station
- Our old friend on the train
- Good views
- Fizzy Fish
- Crazy customs
- Arriving on the metro SANS handicap help (automatic doors,
elevators)
- "PUSH THE DOOR"
- Nice lady telling us directions to Rue des Pins, Rue de Bullion
- Crashing the cobblestone music party
- Finding Elise's apartment
- Sister has piano in the room!
- Le balcon

22 juillet, mardi
- Tartines at the Premiere Moisson
- Book package
- Hotel
- Chateau Ramezay
- Pointe a Calliere
- Gondola carriage driver
- Fire trucks and tricks (dollars, balloons, etc.)
- Maple Ice Cream (Delices de L'Erable)
- Mediterranean Panini and really good fries (Cafe by the Pier)
- Street musicians and dancers
- Spectacle de Son et Lumiere (Basilica)
- Resting by the Parc/Quai
- @ the Sherbrooke: Guitar, Sitar, Violin, etc.
- Buddy McNeill, Magic Mirrors, Les Breastfeeders
- Awkward seating, pas de boisson
- Pate Jamaican, running with a peach
- Freako creepo man with beard in a dark doorway
MUSIQUE DU JOUR: Les Breastfeeders

23 juillet, mercredi
- Bagel at St. Viateur
- Interview with Daniel Glick
- Bell Centre francais receptioniste
- Meeting Dustin Moores, Patrick, Foo Fighters, etc.
- Notre Dame/Mary de L'Univers
- Downtown Basha
- Marche Jean-Talon
- Bread and Cheese and "Wine"
- So You Think You Can Dance (Elise's friend Amanda)
- Feux D'Artifices Loto on the Jacques Cartier bridge
- Jellyfish and sparkles and lingering stars

24 juillet, jeudi
- Meeting with Professor Minorgan
- Music Castle with band inside
- Mont Royal discounts and stores and BecikVert
- Cafe Art Java: the alphabet, internet, saumon fumee
- Schwartz's MMM
- Rundown St. Laurent (best street ever that's right around the corner)
- Club Soda (Karkwa and Jerome's veste en cuir/jazz the best)
- Multiculturelle (Polka, Russian dance, Italian, all together, etc.)
- Ferris Wheel
- Electro Lise
MUSIQUE DU JOUR: Karkwa, Jerome Miniere

25 juillet vendredi
- Saw Claire off: depressing!
- Dishes and catchup
- Horrible humor and polka guy (best part: the constant dancer)
MUSIQUE DU JOUR: Navet Confit

26 juillet samedi
- Groceries à Mont-Royal
- 3 libraries du disque ("Tu as pense que c'etait Pierre LaPointe?")
- Later, la station centrale et la femme folle, le jus d'orange et la grande assiette a emporter a Schwartz)
- La pluie et les trompes à marcher!
- Elise finally comes back, at long last! Company!
- FrancoFolies: Saïd, ca va; Spaïcy, très bien set avec l'homme chanteur; Zebulon zéro; Kulcha Connection plus doux que je me suis attendue
MUSIQUE DU JOUR : Spaïcy (ça me fait beaucoup plaisir), Toutes les artistes francophones que j’ai acheté en CD (Grand Corps Malade, PIERRE LaPointe, Jérôme Minière)

BUY/BRING:
- Lotsa postcards
- Hat/Clothes/Bag for Joanne
- Mommy, Daddy...

Overwhelmed!

Professors Christopher Jones (C) and Will Straw (McGill) are my heroes. They've published some recent articles on popular music in Quebec which have been really reassuring. (I don't know how I didn't see these before... I was so concerned with understanding the broad basics of history and ethnomusicology that I don't think I realized that that will all come in time and I can always reference it if I need to.) I guess it makes me more sure about what I'm doing--that it's possible, important, legitimate. Coming from a background of high school science fairs it's a big step for me.

5 days until I ship off to Montreal! This is insane. I have so much to do... besides actually doing the research, I have a History of Music class I haven't worked on since the end of May, interning at International Action, and being a social, human being. And let's not even mention the biology 206 work I'm supposed to be doing/have done (in my defense, I didn't find the book until about 2 weeks ago).

La folie, that's the word. N'importe quoi folie, toute folie.