“I was an outsider before I was a traveler; I was a traveler before I was a writer; I think one led to the other.”
Haunted by Sound: Calgary Folk Fest and the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio
Inside the truck, the original custom Helios soundboard from the late 1960s, in all its dirty analog glory, was now fully restored, along with decades-old half-inch tape decks. Upon entering, one could almost smell the history.
Montreal Grand Prix Weekend, 2003
To get out of the rain, I slip into a bar called the Madhatter at the corner of Drummond and Maissoneuve, calling itself the “best dive around.” The far wall is "el muerte wall"—the dead wall—with photos of Jimi Hendrix, the Rat Pack, James Dean and more. Handwritten across a wooden crossbeam in big black lettering I see Morrissey lyrics: “What she asked of me at the end of the day, Caligula would have blushed.”
An Evening at Jules et Jim
I was drinking on a Saturday night, in a Québec City bar called Jules et Jim. Dark, smoky and its subterranean walls adorned with old movie photos befitting a place named after the classic François Truffaut film...