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Since I'm gonna spent my summer in Montreal I have to find lots of things to do, even though most of my friends will stay here as well.I'm trying to get a work permit so I can get an off-campus job.That's gonna take a while since I also have to get a new passport.I hope it will all be done on time before the end of the summer.Maybe I'll try to work a little bit during the school year but I'm not sure yet because school takes a lot of time.Besides I have to apply to different schools for my masters and I'm on the university student board...yeah...I'll be busy next term.
I wanna read a lot this summer as well.Try to catch up on all the classics and maybe a few entertaining fictions as well.
My List:
Wicked (Finished)
Perfume - Süskind (Reading.Almost finished)
War and Peace - Tolstoy
The Witches of Eastwick - Updike
Jane Eyre - Brontë (always wanted to read that one)
1984 - Orwell
I really want to see Wall-E, the new Pixar/Disney movie.I think he looks so adorable."WAAALLL-EEEEE" I might go next week
I'm going on a 3 day horseride/camping trip...I just wanna see nature.I'm taking a friend.I'm really excited.I think it's a good way to discover Canadian nature....As long as we don't meet any bears along the way, I'm sure we'll have a great time.Other than that I'm not so sure what I wanna see this summer.I usually find summer movies quite annoying.Blockbusters without any real meaning.That's fine, I'm not saying any movie should have a deep meaning but I'm not too interested in seeing Batman and so on.Just not really my cup of tea.
The jazz festival is currently taking place in Montreal and I went to this Leonard Cohen Tribute concert the other night.Free and open air.Lots of people and great atmosphere.Katie Melua did two songs, Sam Cohen (his son), Garou (he is very famous in France.I usually don't like his songs but he did a great interpretation of Everybody knows), etc.MAny concerts are free during the festival so it's a good chance to see live music.
Can't wait for Coldplay and Radiohead :):)
Have to go the Piknik Elekronik now.Electro music, friends, food and alcohol.What more can you ask for?

The world of music

If I had to form a boy band..well I don't really like boy bands (at least not anymore cause when I was 15 I did...a little bit but just one).Anyway...Apparently by bands are still around and we seem to have a hard time getting rid of them.I don't know if they are making the worst music around cause Heidi Montag's latest song "Fashion" or that Vanessa Hudgens' song about shoes are probably some of the most horrible, shameful tracks ever written.I mean why sing about clothe and shoes.Okay, I admit I love shopping and reading about fashion but I certainly do NOT wanna hear a song about it.It's crime to music.I mean cone on!!We used to have Mozart, Beethoven,Verdi,The Beatles,Nirvana and we still have amazing singer/song writers such as the Wainwrights, Neil Tenant (Pet Shop Boys),Brian Eno...but what we hear on the radio, especially from people like Heidi and others like that...come on!Take That, Boyzone and New Kids On the Block are back....bbaaah!I think young people are not being offered the best music these days
Anyway...rant over....
If I had to form a boy band:
-the old and wise one: George Clooney (well he is kinda wise with all the humanitarian work but I heard he likes to party and he is forever single)
-the young, funny one: Jake Gyllenhaal, Adam Brody, James McAvoy or James Marsden (cute and funny)I know...long list.But I can't decide.Cause that one is important cause every girl is going to jump on him and that's how I'm gonna sell CDs and fill stadiums
-the family man: Brad Pitt (well he has a million kids so...)
-the wild one: Jude Law? I think...well he's British.I can see him with a lot of tattoos.
-the back singer, the one hiding behind the others, but so pretty: Patrick Dempsey

Ok..they are all rather old.Except for Adam, Jake and the James'...that might cause some difficulties when comes to the dancing.George might hurt his back or toe.But I'll be there to give him a back massage.I want Jude to play just a little bit of guitar and Patrick will certainly want to juggle.And if I ever need a gay one then I'll call pretty Rufus...I wish he write them songs but boy bands are not really supposed to write good songs so I don't think that's possible
There...my boy band...I think they will be a hit.

Tales of teens

Ok...I'm back after a long time.With my mother here I've been pretty busy.We went to New York City.It was great as usual.Fantastic weather, shopping and visiting.I hope I can move to New York one day and live in the Village.It's just a great neighborhood.You'd never guess it's in the middle of Manhattan.There are nice little boutiques, cafés, bookshops, restaurants, people playing music on the street.It's the artists' district.Even saw square I think Rufus lives on.Pretty nice I must say.As much as I like the Upper East Side because of the nice buildings and two storey appartments with a view on Central Park, I saw some of the rich kids there who go to private schools or the Lycée Français, I don't want to live in this atmosphere.I mean I saw girls younger than me with their Blackberries and tons of Gucci, Prada and Vitton shopping bags.I mean...it's not their parents' money I guess and they get everything they want (not everyone of them, obviously, but still).I just think it's wrong.I guess their parents are rarelly home and they make up by giving them money.It's Gossip Girl in the real world and if ever have kids I certainly don't want them to live like that.You can send your kids to private school without giving them all the money in the world.You just make it easy for them.
Anyway...Oh yeah, I saw the damn Jonas Brothers...twice.I walked past them while they were giving autographs in front of their hotel (which was just next to ours).It was 7 in the morning and they looked so clean.Clean hipsters?Perfect hair, virginity rings, no drugs or alcohol...it's all very funny, I think.Especially since in Hollywood and the music industry.Never gonna happen I think.Unless they are gonna get married at 21 just because they wanna have sex...Then they'll live a miserable life because they married too young....Yeah, I know it's sounds sarcastic and pessimistic.They do whatever they like and if they believe in it, great for them.I personally don't cause I've seen couples get married young and get divorced rather quickly because they wanted to meet someone else.
Oh I heard about these 17 girls getting pregnant in the US because they made a pact to have babies so they could have baby showers and raise their kids together...how fucking retarded is that???Seriously?I think that's complete madness.They don't realize what they gotten themselves into, obviously.
You've got the two extremes here...abstinence and teen pregnancy
.....Oh what a world!

Ten reasons why I wanna see this movie (trailer further down)

1.Dancing Brad Pitt (at the end) is hilarious
2.Clooney pulls the weirdest faces. "Who are you?111"
3.Brad seems to be playing a complete idiot.I think he is gonna make me laugh so hard
4."I thought you might be worried about the security of your shit!"
5.Brad and George reunited.
6.The Coen Brothers make brilliant movies.I love them
7.Clooney's smile in the trailer (1.29)
8.Brad's laugh (1.40)
9."For PC or MAC?"
10John Malkovic, Tilda Swindon and Frances McDormand

oh yes yes yes

This looks absolutely hilarious .Brad Pitt,George Clooney, Malkovic....great great great!!The Coen Brothers are amazing

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News might be slow in the next few weeks cause my mother is here and considering I see her twice a year...well I don't wanna spend too much time of my little maccie.
Haven't seen SATC yet but am going to see i on Tuesday with a glass of martini, of course.I can't wait.I'm also going to NYC in 10 days so that's gonna make it all better.I'm gonna look for everything SATC, including Sarah Jessica Parker and shoes ;) Thank God I can drink in the US by the way, cause I really wanna do that as well.Besides shopping and walking all day.
I'm a little saddened by the news of Yves Saint-Laurent's death as well.He was quite a man and revolutionized women's clothe.They were allowed to wear what men wore, which was pretty great at the time.We might take it for granted now but it was a big deal at the time.So, yeah, sad news.