Montreal New Years Eve 2010 :: the Blog

Including today, there are only 4 days left until new years eve. That’s enough to close up your year, finish everything you wanted to finish now, set this and that right and prepare the setting for next year.

But that also means that you have only 4 days left to prepare for your celebrations. The possibilities are endless: you can hit a club for a massive NYE party, or you can go to one of the many live shows around town. Or simpler yet, head for a house party, you just need to know someone that throws one, or just organize one yourself (it might be a bit late for that but you never know).

If you want to go to an organized party in a club or a bar, you’ll have to choose which place to go to. It all depends on the crowd you want to party with and the music you want to groove to. You can see description of parties at the new years party guide presented by Montreal-Clubs.com, where you can also purchase tickets online for these parties.

For house parties, no one can guide you to that but yourself. I suggest you check around Facebook, maybe one of your “friends” has advertised a party they are throwing, or maybe one of your “friends” has mentioned something about a cool house party they are going to. If you want to throw your own house party, just make sure you invite a lot of people (because a lot wont show up) and make sure you have a lot of alcohol. You don’t want the party to turn dry before the ball drops on Times Square.

Finally, for everything else, you have the Mirror’s complete new years eve guide. They have the info on pretty much all commercially organized events happening in Montreal for NYE.

You really can’t go wrong on NYE:

So enjoy whatever is left of 2009 (and of the poor Christmas turkey).

As for a quick side note (or I should say “side post”) I wanted to wish everyone a happy Christmas. I know it’s only the 24th, but I usually celebrate Christmas on the night of the 24th to the 25th; so yeah, here we go with the best wishes.

For people like me, who celebrate on the 24th at night and have no family to visit, there is the whole question of the full day on the 25th. It’s a pleasant lazy day, because almost everything is closed, you can’t even shop for food. Basically it’s a nice day to sleep-in, eat the succulent leftovers and just chill. And maybe catch a movie, for which my suggestion would be the latest Almodovar movie “Broken Embraces” again starring miss Cruz. It’s playing at the AMC at the Pepsi Forum, starting 4PM, 7PM and 10PM. A good lazy way to kill 2 hours of your day, and watch something interesting.

With all that gold, it seems that Cruz’s character got quite the Christmas gift there:

I like the poster a lot, very Warhol-ian in style, but still it doesn’t look over-used or too obviously copied:

Just look around you, the recession is so 2008. Or at least so it seems when you walk around St-Catherine street in downtown Montreal, and you witness the flamboyant store fronts, the colorful banners and the joyful consumers, prancing around from store to store, shopping for that gift that will make their loved ones feel even more loved.

Yes, the Christmas season has its good sides (vacations, snow, skiing, turkeys and families) and it’s dark sides (shopping, gifts, boxing-day). It’s all about establishing a balancing act, between maintaining your sanity, not offending anyone by not having gifts for them, and still make everyone feel loved. It’s not necessarily easy, but it is doable, and we have 2 resources for you: Montreal-Club.com’s shopping guide and the more professional and serious Montreal Mirror shopping guide (click on “Games”, “Gadget”, “DVDs” and “Music” sections to see the whole guide). The first will set you back only a couple of bucks and might get you lots of love in return, the second, more commercial one, will set you back 3 months of credi card payments, but will make you’re material-goods-loving relatives love you almost as much as they love their flat-screen 100-something inch TV.

Enjoy the sinful pleasures of shopping in Montreal.