Waxing poetic on birthdays (one MTL night)

Jan 12

Jan 12 Waxing poetic on birthdays (one MTL night)

I was born in July. Hence this weekend happened in July. (I will not use the term “birthday weekend”, but 1+1 does equal 2.) I had no interest in having a birthday party, the likes of which your friends either attend begrudgingly, while quietly (or openly, depending on the ilk of the friend), detesting your choice of venue, before storming out early to attend event #2. God bless millennials and our Houdini-like ability to have no less than 14 events a night, weighing them right until we enter the door. It’s your mid 20’s anyway, who gives a fuck.

Instead I got last minute JFL tickets to Dave Chappelle and John Mayer’s “Controlled Danger” show in Montreal and booked a really great Airbnb for my family and I for the night. The tickets were close enough to see how great John’s hairband really is, and the show had only been done once before, on New Years in L.A.

I also had no interest in posting this in July, so here we are. It is now the dead of Winter, so it is subjective as to if these photos still have relevance. However to me, they always will. Montreal is so different from Toronto, and has an air of freedom and mischievousness that I feel this city lacks, or maybe once had, but has since been replaced with a condo.

Eat, drink, generally luxuriate @ Les Enfant Terribles… I went to the one in the Financial District, it had great cocktails (I did not stay to eat as I was too gassed up re: JMay + DChapps.) You have to go through about 4 entrances, 3 elevators, and 57 floors but do not be deterred.