Dan and Greg reunite again in person, in Greg’s adopted home city of Montreal. Witness Greg’s Unified Theory of Montreal Modernism. Featuring music by artists of, from, by, with Montreal, or Canada, or topically adjacent planes of existence.


Show Notes

Discussed:

  • A Canadian Centre for Architecture exhibition, reviewed, and high praise for its bookstore
  • The St. Joseph's Oratory
  • Unified Theory of Montreal - 
    • Expo 67
    • The Quiet Revolution of Quebec in the 1960s
    • Habitat 67
    • Death of Modernism was the Biosphere fire, 1976
    • Is Montreal the Canadian Berlin? Poor but sexy?
    • Jane Jacobs was a closet Quebecois secessionist?
  • Hype-r-mediocrity: Moon Swatch, Watches are "investments"?
  • Billionaire Boy's Club (Drop Culture) - Business 2.0
  • Globalization embiggened or not during the pandemic work-from-home phenom?
  • Microsoft's collective brain damage due to lack of soft connection
  • Junk space incarnate - COVID testing centers in dead storefronts
  • S,M,L,XL
  • NukeMapper
  • War Games at Sandia Labs
  • Chateau Montebello - The world's largest log cabin

Featuring the music of:

  • Of Montreal (Athens, GA): "Don't Let Me Die in America"
  • Men Without Hats (Montreal): "Safety Dance"
  • Rush (Toronto): "2112: The Temples of Syrinx"
  • Expo 67 (???): "Montreal Lumiere"
  • Fischerspooner (New York): "Emerge"
  • Gary Numan (London): "War Games"
  • Sparks (Los Angeles): "All That"

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