Well, my final weekend in Montreal has rolled around. I’m having a hard time comprehending how fast this semester has gone by. Not to say that I’m not excited to make my way back down to Burlington, but on one hand I wish that I had another week to spend here without school and work to worry about. Everything is finally starting to bloom and its been quite warm the past couple days, as anybody in the Northeast/East Coast could probably tell you.
On Saturday I finally got to check out the “Imagine Peace” exhibit that’s going on right now at MMFA. Carolyn and I had been eyeing it since we saw it advertised back at the beginning of the semester. The exhibit takes a close look at the relationship of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, especially as it relates to their “Bed-Ins”, one of which took place in Montreal. Through pictures, art installations, movies, music and interactive pieces, the exhibit did an incredible job at covering John and Yoko’s relationship together and what they accomplished in such a short time.
That first image in the group is one of Yoko Ono’s Peace Trees. Basically everywhere she does an exhibit, she has trees, and small tags that people can write notes on and tie to the tree. She is collecting all of them, and the result will eventually be a sculpture made out of all the peace notes. Pretty cool.
Saturday night, I was lucky enough to get to go see Stick to Your Gun with Parkway Drive at Underworld. Alex had a ticket, but other plans came up and he didn’t want his ticket to go to waste. Stick to Your Guns was decent, though I can’t say I’ve listened to them a ton. Parkway Drive put on an extremely energetic set, despite the vocalist being sick and coughing his way through a lot of their breaks in between songs. Here, look at this crappy picture I took:
A good end to the night was going out and trying to meet up with Carolyn’s … cousins…friends…friend, who is here on vacation from Cali (or maybe he isn’t, if he doesn’t exist…). Short story made shorter… we didn’t know what he looked like, we don’t have cellphones, we couldn’t find him, but still had an awesome time wandering around to the bars he was supposedly going to and seeing if maybe there were any people wearing tshirts that said HI IM FROM SAN JOSE, IS YOUR NAME CAROLYN?
Then, to close the night, we watched Across the Universe to complete our day of Beatles/John Lennon-mania. A solid day if ever I have known one.