What exactly is the MEG festival, I am not too sure, and I don’t even know what the acronym stands for. What I do know is that some pretty damn good music will be showcased at the festival.

To start, the amazing Bonobo will be playing the last day of the festival, Sunday the 1st. If you don’t know what a bonobo is, I can just tell you that it is a very sexually active primate (I guess a bit like us). But the Bonobo is a primate from the UK, making groovy electronic music like none other.

To end, the amazing Chromeo will be playing tomorrow Saturday the 31st. The guys from Chromeo went to my high-school and I saw them perform live maybe in 95 (that’s already 15 years ago for *&*# sakes). This morning I take the Montreal metro to work, like every day of my adult-like life, and i see that both frewe daylies, Metro and 24 Heures, have Chromeo mentioned on their front page. It’s good to see people from my generation making it (and I still taking the metro).

Then again with a genius album cover art like this bellow, how can they not make it?

Get a shirt from Rudetackle and you can be sure that no one else will have the same tshirt as you. You will not find this line of apparel anywhere in stores either; online is the only place.

It’s pointless to describe the designs in text; just go and visit his online store and you will be convinced.

See all the products at the Rudetackle store.

Bring out the Irish in you, sport green clothing and enjoy your Guinness and your Irish car-bombs.

If you want serious journalism, read what the Mirror has to say about St-Patties. I did just that, and I realized for the first time where the name “Irish car bomb” comes from, and it’s kind of wrong, at least for people that have witnessed the violence in Ireland. But I guess this is a recurrent event: a name that starts with a quite dubious origin, but with time and history evolves in something more and everyone forgets it’s unpleasant origins. And there will be a lot of forgetting being done Sunday, especially after a few of these Irish car-bombs are consumed.

Talking about Guinness here are two cool ads. I prefer the first one, because it isn’t made with computer effects.

Judging from the media’s attention, it seems that the event was a success yet once again. It’s great to see so many talented designers from Montreal showcasing their creations.

Again, judging by reactions in the media, designer Denis Gagnon won the hearts of the public with an all-zipper made robe and purse, which you can see bellow:

I must admit that the zipper thing is an amazing idea. Denis Gagnon also makes shoes that have a big chunk of them made from zippers, so I guess it is a specialty of his.

Unfortunately, you will now have to wait until next year’s edition of the Montreal Fashion Week, to view the beauties bellow and to witness which other clothing accessory could be made from zippers, or other secondary materials. You’re probably already thinking about thongs, but I am ready to bet that it has already been done.

Today I wanted to know more about the eyes behind the mask, so I looked Tomcikova on the web. There is not much info on her, but I guess that’s normal, she still has her whole hockey career in front of her. The results are bellow. But one thing is for sure, for me, a new hockey star/hottie is born.

To top it all, these Olympians, these best-of-the-best, are also hotties. As if being amazing in a sport and kicking everyone’s ass in it wasn’t enough. For example, check out Lindsey Vonn, a skier for the US team.

It turns out that, other, smarter minds of the web, had already discovered this “Olympic hottie” effect and published much better articles than mine. So here it is, the link for Olympics beauties. So let the games begin and may the best woman and man win.

And here is snowboarder Torah Bright:

Then a colleague of mine mentioned the Carnival, and I went: “Yes, I am going to Quebec city to party and ski, but that’s only next week end, for the last days of the Winter Carnival, so it’s too early to talk about that”, a innocent and truthful statement, to which the answer was “What Quebec city are you talking about? I was talking about the Rio Carnival” (which I should have understood right away, considering that my colleague is, luckily for him, Brazilian).

And that’s genius.

The Quebec Winter Carnival is always lots of fun. There’s the freezing cold allowing tons of activities like hockey, bobsleigh, skiing and naked snow wrestling. The warm “caribou” served and drank on the street, finally restoring our human dignity and giving us freedom to get intoxicated on the streets. And finally the packed bars and clubs, full with human beings trying to forget the cold.

Or maybe trying to pretend they are in Rio.

Because the Rio Carnival is the real stuff. It’s summer in Rio. It’s full with people in Rio. And all these people want to do for a couple of days is: dance, party and indulge in all sorts of debaucherous activities. They don’t have to worry about freezing to death, so they don’t need the tasty “caribou”. All they have to worry is finding their way back home at the end of the carnival.

I love the Quebec Carnival, I’m going for sure. But I wish I went to Rio.

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I think there really is no competition here, Bonhomme des Neiges finishes last (unfortunately for him).

And somehow they ended up being right.

Last week-end (January 23rd) a whole bunch of my friends headed for the Igloofest, and I quickly labeled them as crazy and refused the invitation. Turns out the party was a blast: all they had to do in order to survive the cold is to dress with skiing-clothes and drink some alcohol. But apparently the setting, the ice bars, the igloos, the music and the people, made the whole event amazing. I guess I can understand that, it is definitely different than the usual week-end chilling at Rouge or any other “normal” club.

If you’re skeptical like me and you missed the event the last two week-end, you still have one last chance to catch-up on Igloofest this week-end (January 29 and 30).

I hope you all had a blast partying on new years eve, I know I sure did.

A friend of mine had some issues with a patron at Confessionnal, so that place is now officially black-listed, and yes, you shouldn’t go there either. If you don’t know where it is, even better, I wont say.

Today reality is back with a full-strength slap in my face. After almost 2 weeks of vacations, it’s hard to go back to the routine. At least we had some amazing snow falling in the last 24 hours, so ski-slopes, here I come.

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).