An Ode To The Montreal Canadiens

Lol they just lost.

Ode To The Montreal Canadiens

To start off let me get some stuff out of the way: All that rioting crap in Montreal.
OK whenever there are a few bad people getting the spotlight, the human race generally generalizes. This is quite obvious if you have ever seen George Bush speak, while he is a idiot and well, much, much, much....much much much more of an idiot than i give him credit for, he is not what all Americans are like. Most Americans are good people, and not all idiots, even though that is a farily well established stereotype.
ANYWAYS
my point is a few bad people can ruin stuff for everyone else, and this includes reputation. Now most MontrealIans... people from Montreal are nice people, as a many people in Canada. However a few stupid people that wanted to riot did and they fucked it up for everyone, and destroyed cop cars, and guess who has to pay for new cop cars? THE PEOPLE OF MONTREAL, so you see its just a few bad eggs that fuck up stuff for everyone.

Now to more recent news. The Canadiens have made it into the second round after defeating the Boston Bruins in an awesome game seven. And now they have started the second round against Philidalphia with a win in an amazing "come from behind" overtime win. The Montreal Canadiens are now the only Canadian team left in the Playoffs after San Jose outsed the Calgary Flames. Now some of you might not rally around the Canadiens and that is your choice, but some of the arguments i've been hearing are absolute BULLSHIT in my view.
First, most of their players arent even Canadian. To this i say, so what? It's not just the people that play on the team, its who supports the team and last time i checked it was a CANADIAN city. I mean their team name is the "CANADIENS!", that french for "FUCKING CANADIANS EH!"
My Other Point: some people say that they arent really a Canadian city, they did want to seperate after all, and to that i say, STFU!!! they are a Canadian city, the majority of the population wants to be Canadian, this goes back to my talk about the stereotpyes.

Now Lets all come together as Canadians and cheer for the CanadiEns!

One last note: George Bush is a fucking idiot and an instigator of global unrest, and the Canadiens rule, that is the gist of my talk here

Not Just A Car Factory Roundup!

A Collection of Lucas's informative and hilarious Ford Plant Chronicles!

• A Car Factory? Ep. 7: The Story of Rob and The Drunkard

• A Car Factory? Ep. 6: Night of the Living Drunk (We're Skipping 5!)

• A Car Factory? Ep. 4: Tile-Stealing Mutha-Shut Yo Mouth!

• A Car Factory? Ep. 3 Noize!

• A Car Factory? Ep. 2

• A Car Factory? An epic series about the Ford Plant. Ep. 1

A Car Factory? Ep. 7: The Story of Rob and The Drunkard

I already had the hints of a headache so I took to Advil and hopped into Isaac's car. Driving down the highway blaring Sloan, can it get better? No, stop thinking about it.

We arrive at the Ford Plant in good time, and we were all surprised by how clean and tidy it was. The holes in the walls were fixed! Woo! They probably did this because they knew of the large amount of people that were going to come to this show. Guess what? There was a large amount of people that went to that show. When we paid our ten dollars at the door, we each had a number written on our hands. I was 84. Impressive.

We had, the Arkells, Raccoon Wedding, and then Attack In Black as the headliner. People that I had never seen at the Ford Plant before showed, probably for Attack In Black. I had never heard about Attack In Black before someone at my school mentioned them. I didn't really know what the big deal was. I had listened to some songs on their Myspace and I found them fairly run-of-the-mill.

Anyways, the Arkells were up first. They started they set by some interesting feedback and spacey noises. I was getting really pumped, the opening sounded amazing. They all started singing "Amazing Grace". I cringed. Don't get me wrong, I'm not against Christianity, or religion, but that song really bothers me. It felt weird to have an obviously Christian band play at the Ford Plant. I just did not feel comfortable with some of the lyrical content of the songs. Not only that, some of the songs were a bit too poppy for my taste.

That aside, the band themselves played an amazing show. The drummer was a maniac, and the keyboardist was nice and animated. The lead guitarist did some nice feedback effects with his guitar and the singer/guitarist sang with gusto. The bassist kind of stood at the back, but he was busy playing some nice riffs. I moved and clapped, even if the songs weren't really what I was looking for. Their set was tight and calculated, almost too calculated, as it seemed that they had planned everything.

Thankfully, the next band was the complete opposite. Racoon Wedding is a personal Ford Plant favourite of mine. One could say that they are the FP house band. Tim Ford himself is the singer/guitarist. Scott Willson, on keys, is almost always doing the soundboard at the back. Hey, even Isaac's brother, Ty, is in it!

Unfortunately, the trumpet player, Drew Ayerhart, was absent. I was worried when I heard this. The trumpet always adds nice touches to their songs, but Racoon Wedding played just as well as before. I'd even go as far to say that they played better than they did the last time I saw them. They had everyone moving in their own way and it just elevated the sense of a giant party that the FP always seems to have.

And with a party comes the ladies. And with the ladies come the drunks ones. And with the drunk ones comes the ones that dance up against people they don't know. This leads us to Rob getting nice and close to some lady whom none of us had seen before. Yes, they sexy danced, to Racoon Wedding no less. I mean really, what is sexier than one of Tim's signature rock-out yelps? Or when Mr. Jesse Shanks does that one drum fill on that ol' rockin' and rollin' song. You know which one. The "dum-dilla-dum-dilla-dum-dilla-dum" one.

The room was hot and moist by now. I was beat from Racoon Wedding's set, but there was still one left. I would like to say it was the best. Attack In Black certainly did rock out, and they were good enough for not one, but two encores. They played their style of indie pop loud and fast, one of the guys even had a kick ass beard. I think that it is fairly obvious that they are better live than on record.

Something just bothered me about them. I don't want to come off as a music snob here, but they sounded too mainstream. Many of their songs reminded me of songs I've heard on the radio at work. I mean, it was loud and fun, but overall it just felt samey to me.

They had the same problem that the Arkells had. Everything went smoothly and seamlessly until the encores. I felt that everything had been planned instead of just plain performing. I understand that it is good to be organized, but when it just goes song to song to song, it takes away from the stage/audience relationship. My favourite bands that I have seen at the Ford Plant (the Superfantastics, Racoon Wedding, the Torcus, the Doers, etc.) all communicated and joked with the audience. Attack In Black played well, and they moved around a bit, but that connection between us and them seemed non-existent.

It was an interesting night, (a guy peeing across the street is never boring) for me it was all about Racoon Wedding, instead of the headliner. Their loose feel made their set that much more fun and exciting.

On the the drive home we belted out to the Sloan CD in the car, and hey! No headache! What could be better than blaring Sloan while driving down the highway at night?

-Lucas Thurston

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