It’s Sunday night and I don’t know how much energy I have to get through this. I like to think of it as an exercise in discipline, something I’ve been lacking in many areas of my life lately. But I thought I would write about a few of my favorite musical memories from the past year, like I usually do.
As many people who read this blog know, I moved to Montreal from Toronto this past spring.  As part of this change I noticed that I began going to shows that …

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My neighbourhood in Montréal.
This year went by extremely fast for me. I simply can`t believe it is the end of the year and that I have been in Montreal almost eight months. I doesn`t seem like four months ago that I saw GBH at Foufounes or five since I dated that weird chick from St Léonard, or eight since I spent the month of May in a disoriented haze. It`s like someone flipped a switch and moved time into fast forward.
My French is coming along slowly. I`m still …

Drive-By Truckers and The Hold Steady perform “Let There Be Rock” from the Drive-By Truckers album Southern Rock Opera at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, California, on November 25, 2008.
Guy in a gorilla suit aside (why is there always some asshole who does that?), this is a prime example of why the Drive By Truckers are one of the best, purest rock n roll bands working today.
The closest this tour came to Montreal was Toronto. Maybe next year.
Via Fark.

See my previous post on the Drive by Truckers