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A designer’s guide to bar fights.

As my conversation with Kristy and Patrick at the bar last weekend turned to politics, two other patrons within earshot expressed their disdain with icy silence proportional to our increasing application of decibels. It became clear that their body language was expressly directed at us, and we considered the possibility that continuing our conversation would lead to the necessity of physically incapacitating two men larger than either of us. In short, we began preparing for a bar fight.

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Salad days and poutine foie gras.

Had I visited Montréal when I was 19, buying too much second-hand music, attuned to markers of soi-disant hipness through vodka hazes, and leading a life of dissipation, dressed in dubious vintage, it would’ve been the place I would’ve liked to grow old. It strikes me as a stubbornly unique place, the one city in all of North America that acknowledges its European colonial heritage as integral to its identity — Vieux-Port cobblestones, haute cuisine, and all things vintage — under a Francophone umbrella.

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Every day is a song for a holiday.

I had tried, or I should say, I am still trying and writing and researching and conversing and attempting to construct a narrative that somehow casts the activities of my European vacations and the months between as myth and metaphor, a microcosm of the improvisational information architecture, anomalies of sociology, and decline of western civilization in the first decade of the 21st century. Given the pretentious mess that promises to be, this chapter of my pop-music autobiography may be the closest thing to a straight narrative of my week’s sojourn in Brussels and Paris, 11-19 November 2006, I might extract from that unwieldy text.

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An accurate description of some of the women I’ve dated, found on a tub of crème fraîche.

Found on a 200 mL tub of Tesco Finest crème fraîche.

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Ice cream for breakfast, again.

Ice cream for breakfast, again. Palapa flan ice cream, banana, wild honey, grated Scharffen Berger 99% cacao, grated pecans, mint garnish.

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Ice cream for breakfast.

Left: Häagen-Dazs vanilla, Bosc pear, candied walnuts, chocolate syrup, one strawberry, one Perugina Baci, shaved Scharrfen Berger 70% and crumbled pistachios. Right: Häagen-Dazs strawberry cheesecake, strawberries (¾ pound), shaved Scharrfen Berger 70% and crumbled pistachios.

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2008 November 11

Some families set their dramas on the stage of a castle, a city apartment, a suburban bungalow. Mine was wed to the four wheels of a 1990 Toyota truck.



Echoes

  • 'Til Tuesday - Voices Carry
  • Pink Martini - Tempo Perdido
  • Pink Martini - Taya Tan
  • Pink Martini - Song of the Black Swan
  • Pink Martini - Hang On Little Tomato
  • Pink Martini - Let's Never Stop Falling In Love
  • Pink Martini - Taya Tan
  • Pink Martini - Song of the Black Swan
  • Pink Martini - Hang On Little Tomato
  • Pink Martini - Let's Never Stop Falling In Love

Data compiled by Audioscrobbler.


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