Summer has peaked

and fall is coming. I've spent more time biking around town than drawing lately. It would be a bit of a shame if I went back to France and only had seen the inside of my rented apartment, after all. I rode my bike up to Chalet Mont Royal and watched the view of Montreal from the lookout. It's pretty impressive. I didn't go inside the chalet, though. Maybe I should have. Also, I unfortunetely didn't have a time machine.

Montreal sketches 2

Hudson, sir. He's Hicks.

I had planned to skip Prometheus and just wait for the dvd, but then discovered that it's still running in Montreal and, hey, it's in good old 2D, so I gave it a try. Sigh...

I still find it strange that Hollywood today can spend hundreds of millions of dollars on films with scripts that barely exist. Why am I supposed to care about these characters again? Shouldn't they at least behave slightly logically? In Alien you could actually believe in the characters, the same with Aliens. Another thing: why didn't they give Noomi Rapace a Swedish name to explain her accent? One of  the other characters had a Scottish accent after all. Why should all characters in films taking place in the future sound like Americans? What happened to Europe? There's no IKEA in 2099?

Saturdays

Probably the wisest thing I did on arriving in Montreal was buying a bycycle. I got one used for 60 dollars. The guy in the bike store said he would buy it back for the same price when I leave. Not sure if he will keep his word, but even if I only get 40 dollars it will be worth it. Biking around in town is much better than taking the subway, like I did the first week.

Mostly I bike up to Rue Mont-Royal for a coffee and checking out some used bookstores before moving on down to Parc La Fontaine for some reading and quality squirrel watching time. Square Saint-Louis is also nice. I discovered a bookstore I hadn't seen before on Milton Street, The Word Bookstore. Amazon has ruined a bit the joy of bookbrowsing, but still...

Steamboat Bill, Jr.

Paths of Glory

Point Blank