Unfrozen
Unfrozen
Daniel Safarik
23. Of Montreal, Hype-r-Mediocrity and All That
40 minutes Posted Apr 4, 2022 at 2:03 am.
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<p>Discussed:</p><ul><li>A Canadian Centre for Architecture exhibition, reviewed, and high praise for its bookstore</li><li><a href="https://saint-joseph.org/en/">The St. Joseph's Oratory</a></li><li>Unified Theory of Montreal -&nbsp;<ul><li>Expo 67</li><li>The Quiet Revolution of Quebec in the 1960s</li><li>Habitat 67</li><li>Death of Modernism was the Biosphere fire, 1976</li><li>Is Montreal the Canadian Berlin? Poor but sexy?</li><li>Jane Jacobs was a closet Quebecois secessionist?</li></ul></li><li>Hype-r-mediocrity: Moon Swatch, Watches are "investments"?</li><li>Billionaire Boy's Club (Drop Culture) - Business 2.0</li><li>Globalization embiggened or not during the pandemic work-from-home phenom?</li><li>Microsoft's collective brain damage due to lack of soft connection</li><li>Junk space incarnate - COVID testing centers in dead storefronts</li><li>S,M,L,XL</li><li>NukeMapper</li><li>War Games at Sandia Labs</li><li>Chateau Montebello - The world's largest log cabin</li></ul><p>Featuring the music of:</p><ul><li>Of Montreal (Athens, GA): "Don't Let Me Die in America"</li><li>Men Without Hats (Montreal): "Safety Dance"</li><li>Rush (Toronto): "2112: The Temples of Syrinx"</li><li>Expo 67 (???): "Montreal Lumiere"</li><li>Fischerspooner (New York): "Emerge"</li><li>Gary Numan (London): "War Games"</li><li>Sparks (Los Angeles): "All That"</li></ul>