Montréal

Hey all,

I'm moving up to Montreal on July 18th :) which i'm very excited about. I'm even more excited about my champagne birthday the following day, which is a Saturday. The only problem is... I don't know where to go out! I'm looking for a place we can go out to dance to eletronica, indie, rockish, etc.. think Friday nights at Saphir! (Justice, DFA 1979, MSTRKRFT, SebastiAn, metric, the faint, css, etc)

Please help me out for my 19th birthday :) Thanks!

Hi

Where could I find pre-made frames for posters I have a couple that will need to be framed "sur mesure" but for regular 24" x 36" I'm sure there's a place I can get some for cheap. Custom built is around 75$ and the posters only cost about 30$ each!

Thanks

Hey, photographers: My friend gave me a nearly 4ft tall roll of Ilford photo paper (106.7cm x 30m) and I'm moving and can't use it. That's a lot of paper for your black and white developing needs. I live a block from the berri uqam station and it's yours if you can come pick it up. Email for more info: tgtower@pdx.edu

Does anyone know of any audio equipment rentals in Montreal that could compare to Long & McQuade in the western half of the country, for price?

I need a sound system for a small one-day conference in November, which we pulled off for about $135 from L&;ampM last year in Toronto, but the few price lists I've found here in Montreal are just a tad more expensive (by a magnitude of 4 or 5).

Hello, have been here for five days now and have some stupid questions to ask, feel free to look away now if you're bored by mundanity...

Cell Phone & voicemail - Fido network: Me and my buddy both got a phone from Fido for our stay here - we followed instructions on how to open our voicemail which was basically 'press and hold 1 and then enter the last 4 digits of your phone number', which I did, but it didn't seem to work. Now any time I press 1 I only get a message saying i've dialled a ten digit number and i've to hang up, press the area code and then the seven-digit number, I don't understand what's going on. Can anyone shine any light on it before I go embarass myself at the Fido counter over something that turns out to be super simple?
I have three or four unheard messages in my inbox which is gutting. Also, what's the deal with getting charged for INCOMING calls?? Is that to force you into getting the better/more expensive deals? What a rip off!

These smoked sausage sandwiches: For some reason I haven't tried these yet - recommend some joints for good eatin

Jobhunt: Right, I flagged up a possibly dodgy ad on here last week which was basically for funs and I had no intention of going for it, but I went for an interview for a coffee house and after the whole interview thing was over and he'd offered me the job and stuff pretty much he stopped and said 'we'd' have to 'rethink' my dress-code: ie I was wearing pants and he wanted me to wear, not short short, but 'sexy dresses'. He said that it would bring in more tips if I did so. Fair point, but I don't think I want my arse cheeks to dictate my wages very much. Having walked past some very short skirted bars in the past few days I guess this is normal here to ask girls to wear revealing clothing??
I'm personally going to tell him where to stick his sexy job when he calls me back.

Good stretches of shops: I've been in a few malls and they all depress the hell out of me, where can you find cute little boutiques with local craft or designers? Stuff that's quite unique and 'Montreal' would be good. I want a general browse and need to send my parents a silver wedding anniversary prezzie.

Post Offices: Are there any post-offices in the Atwater area? I need to send my parents said present and a few post-cards.

Gigs: What local gigs are coming up on the 'indie' scene? I think I'm gonna try to go to Parlovr on Tuesday and No Age next week, anybody going to any of those and could bum up over a beer or something and map out some good places for gigs? Or on here, whatever...

YAWN! Cheers dudes Lx