Dudley

Another restaurant, another favorite of my family. This time it's on the cheaper side, and mainly Mediterranean. It's also pretty far away, from my point of view, somewhere in the north of Montreal, but I could be wrong. The name is Dima. We start with various spreads, in which we dip pita bread. There's the classic hoummos; metabaal, which is made from eggplant; and mouhammara, which is a mix of pine nuts and pomegranate. I could be awfully wrong about all the different spellings. Other starters include taboulé, a parsley salad; akras naanaa, which is meat with a touch of mint; and sausages. I then had shish taouk: chicken served with hot, crispy pita, and some salad and rice. Every time we go there, we are never disappointed.

And in other news: Eminem's new song kind of sucks. And it's kind of making me sad.

Dragon Queen

Family time. We went to our favorite restaurant, M sur Masson. Translation: M on Masson, Masson being a street. We like to go there because the food is always delicious, the servings are always enormous and we are pretty chummy with the maître d'. I had forgotten about their incredible salad served with a half-cooked egg on the top. I had duck magret along with some sort of duck purée, which was absolutely scrumptious. I finished it off with a chocolate desssert. There was fine Italian wine all along. A very agreeable evening.

Hysteric

What the hell is wrong with HMV?? It's Blitz! was out of stock at their store!!! I had to go buy it in a friggin' library... Oh well, it's not that important. What is important is I GOT MY HANDS ON THE NEW YEAH YEAH YEAHS CD :D

Some people hate reviews that focus on the songs individually rather than on the album as a whole, but those are the reviews I enjoy the most. That's how I deal with an album. All in all, what I can say is: there's some incredible music, right there. Karen O's vocals are as awesome as usual, on every single song. I love "Heads Will Roll" ("Off with your head!"), but every song is great in its own way. "Runaway" is kind of sad. Generally, I tend to find some songs really sad without any good reason. "Little Shadow" is a great closer.

The CD I got had a shitload of acoustic songs on it: "Soft Rock", "Skeletons", "Hysteric", as well as "Little Shadow". They are all gorgeous :D

The art inside the CD "box" is also very original. To know what it is, buy the album in a CD format :) A CD is a beautiful thing to possess...

Slave To The Wage

Damn!! I've been buying way too many CDs these days, digital or otherwise. What the hell is wrong with me??

Here are the CDs I bought in the last month or so:

Is This Desire? - PJ Harvey

This Business of Art - Tegan and Sara

Only By The Night - Kings of Leon

Haughty Melodic - Mike Doughty

Dying To Say This To You - The Sounds

War Child Presents Heroes - Various Artists

Black Market Music - Placebo

Acid Tongue - Jenny Lewis

And these are the CDs I intend on buying soon:

Traffic and Weather - Fountains of Wayne

It's Blitz! - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Live Forever - Explosions In The Sky

Give Up - The Postal Service

Urgh.

Running To Stand Still

I have finally bought the War Child compilation. When I first heard of the concept, I thought it was very cool: an artist from the old generation chooses one song he believes is the most important amongst all of his songs, and then chooses an artist from the new generation to interpret it. Perhaps this concept was more or less applied severely, but if it was, some pretty cool things appear: for example, Leonard Cohen's favorite song of his would be "Take This Waltz", and I love that song too! And so we discover Bob Dylan likes Beck, The Clash like Lily Allen, The Ramones like Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Blondie likes Franz Ferdinand, and Iggy Pop likes Peaches. Yeah Yeah Yeahs' song is pretty cool, and Elbow's version of "Running To Stand Still" is tears-worthy. I also discovered an Elvis Costello song I didn't know, and The Like's rendition is pretty catchy. 

Music When The Lights Go Out

Three songs I am listening to a lot these days:

1) "Lover, You Should Have Come Over" by Jeff Buckley - Great.

2) "The Gift" by The Velvet Underground - Is it even a song? Eight minutes of madness.

3) "Like Spinning Plates" by Radiohead - Sometimes I think I could go crazy simply from listening to some of Radiohead's songs. "Motion Picture Soundtrack" from Kid A is another good example. "Like Spinning Plates" can be found on Amnesiac. I know a lot of people think Amnesiac is almost a "Kid B", but I really like it. It is really bleak, but I like it. 

No No No

It broke my heart when she said "no".