For those who aren’t afraid of the dark, for those who aren’t afraid of Montreal’s narrow and desolate back-alleys, of the packs of wild cats roaming free and the hordes of drunken young people dresses in all manners of original costumes, then the Halloween week-end is just what you’ll need.
Of course, lots of house parties will be happening left and right, and this is usually where you’ll meet the craziest Halloweeners with the fanciest costumes.
If you want to, you can also join the crowds and partake in any of the awesome events listed in the Mirror’s Halloween party guide.
Nothing better than some original music to put you in the Halloween mode, some Transglobal Underground madness:
And I just hope that you date for Halloween doesn’t look like this picture taken from montreal-clubs’s article on the second-hand clothing store Eva B:
I must have been hiding under a rock; or maybe it’s because I don’t watch TV or listen to the radio. Regardless, I just learned today that Roger Waters, the bass player from the original Pink Floyd lineup is in Montreal tonight (the 19 of October) and tomorrow (the 20th) for a show of Pink Floyd’s The Wall.
Yes you heard it right here, The Wall, the icon album/show-concept, released in 1979 by Pink Floyd, will be in Montreal for two consecutive nights (this at the Bell Center unfortunately, but I guess the Wall and it’s huge production needs a big venue).
I’m not sure that a show like this will ever happen in our life-time again.
Our partners and Montreal nightlife specialists, published a brand new review today for a little second floor bar on St-Laurent street, Korova. As the reviewer points out, Korova is also the name of the bar in “A Clockwork Orange”, a book by Anthony Burgess and immortalized graphically in a film by Stanley Kubrick, especially in its mad opening sequence.
Mentioning the name Korova and “A Clockwork Orange”, automatically brings to mind the crazy set of the Korova bar of the movie: the white colored female plastic statues, with milk coming out of their breasts. And you can’t help but feel weirded out by the fact that it is milk that they drink, not liquor or beer, but milk. This weird drinking arrangement is explained in the book by the fact that the boys are under-aged and there is actually drugs mixed with the milk. Still, the Korova in “A Clockwork Orange” makes for a perfect, health-obsessed, nature-loving, stylishly designed present-day bar.
The Korova in Montreal is not like the one in Kubrick’s movie, but it is still an interesting and original place.
Here is the opening sequence from Kubrick’s movie, set at the Korova:
My only problem with Kubrick’s brilliant vision of the bar is that it is skewed in only one direction, making it possibly sexist. It would have been interesting (and funny) to have some male-body shaped furniture to take a drink out off; a male counterpart to the genius contraption bellow:
And in a weird coincidence, these female-bodied furnitures in Kubrick’s Korova remind me of the female-legged synthesizers of Chromeo. I guess there is only that much original ideas out there.
