Toronto, the perfect end of the Great Lakes route
1. In the bed : 'The Dharma Wanderers' or how to recite haikus lost in a forest, for Jack Kerouac . That because? “Forests do that, they always seem familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a fragment of a forgotten song gliding across the water, and most of all like the golden eternity of past childhood or past maturity with all the living and dying and sadness of a million years ago, and the passing clouds seem to testify (with their lonely familiarity) to this feeling, almost an ecstasy, a sudden flash of memory, and feeling sweaty and sleepy I told myself that it would be very nice to sleep and dream on the grass.” Spot.
two. In the bar : Poetry Jazz Cafe , Toronto. A gin and tonic for $7.50 and a session of jazz or poetic improvisation. Everything here is letting go in the arts (and in the bar).
3. between frames : we're going to MET , in full for Fifth Avenue in New York , to give us a run-in with the history of aesthetic taste for carnal desire and the nude. 'Naked before the Camera' It can be enjoyed until September 9.
Four. In the club : The Underground Garage , Toronto. "If ** Pearl Jam ** owned Cheers." This is how this Canadian club is defined where music comes first and last too. And for this reason, it is (and hopefully continues to be) the infinite quarry of the local groups of the city.
5. In the table : ** Paganelli's **, Toronto. That because an Italian restaurant in Canada ? Well, because beyond the BBQ and fast food chains, Canadian national food is the national food of any other country. We stay with Paganelli's because they serve the best chocolate mousse on planet earth (in addition to some exquisite gnocchi with gorgonzola). Without exaggerating.
6. On the road : Great Lakes tour from Chicago to Toronto. Take the car and enjoy this region with the incursion of the Mississippi between dense and wild forests all the way to Lake Ontario. A route to make an entire book of haikus a la Japhy Ryder.
7. In the stadium : the second leg of the Super Cup. Real Madrid-Barcelona on August 29 at the Bernabéu at 10:30 p.m.
8. At the cinema (inside or outside the house) : 'Dark City' . Steampunk aesthetic, nods to the magnificent Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis' and a science fiction plot that will make us consider what Calderón de la Barca had already been telling us:
What is life? An illusion,
a shadow, a fiction,
and the greatest good is small;
that all life is a dream,
and dreams are dreams.
9. in the walkman : 'ultrapressure' , the new EP from Knotty lefty . A personal sound, coming from the deepest and darkest of the soul to come out brilliantly . Perhaps 'Ultrapresion' won't surprise us within its magnificent discography. But what the hell, in the Madrid scene, this is without a doubt, the best born of the capital (and perhaps of the rest of the peninsula, without exaggerating, as we like it).
10. A neighborhood : West Queen West , Toronto. west of west canadian town is the neighborhood that is emerging as the most alternative of these streets. But let's remove labels and stay with reality: two kilometers of main street, Queen Street, about 300 premises with a vintage look and philosophy, countless art galleries underground... You have to see it and experience it.
eleven. in the conversation : the 'wikiwar' has exploded . Ecuador supports Assange and in fact, she has offered him to stay in the Embassy as long as she wants to avoid her extradition to Sweden. Is political persecution what should be achieved by reveal uncomfortable truths about the governments of the world ?
'L'Academie' by Julian Brassai