Yep, Ottawa! You're hitting all the best public art galleries! Did you also visit McMichael?
MrGG
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Is that at the national gallery? Or AGO?
Everything was fucked!
I was the other way around! I really liked Joy Division, didn't really care for New Order. Now I like them both, but they stimulate very different parts of my brain.
It was just one of those days!
Wait a second... you're not Canadian but you know who The Hip are? And you like them?! My mind is blown, my dude. That's awesome ๐
Weird, I was just about to add my comment in here about The Hip. I used to haaaaate them, like get up immediately and turn the radio station if they came on kind of hate.
Then I remember the music video for Poets came out, and I thought it was okay. Fine, maybe I like one of their songs, but fuck the rest!
And then I heard Bobcaygeon a few years later - I think it was the right place and the right time. A cottage trip, after a few drinks, and somebody I had a lot of respect for said they loved the band. Suddenly Gord wasn't some awful screechy eccentric folk elderly-rock singer, but an eccentric artist whimsically singing about deep Canadiana. I started exploring them more, and now I love them and passionately regret that I will never be able to experience them live.
RIP Gord, you beautiful weirdo.
If any non-Canadians want a glimpse of what Canadian culture is like go take a listen to the top Tragically Hip songs. Also pay attention to the lyrics because some of them are just poetry and magnificent.
Rush still fucking sucks, though.
Are you asleep right now?
Yikes. This person needs a whole spectrum of medication pre-scriptions.
My headcanon is that after world war 3 we lost track of time (for a while; survival was priority) and a lot of records were destroyed / reconstructed, so the dates become fuzzy after world war 3, and by the time of TNG and DS9 those fuzzy dates had become accepted as fact because they didn't know any better. The eugenics wars haven't happened on the canon dates, but whose to say they don't actually happen 10 or 20 years from now? ๐
Real life example, our date system involves numbering based on the birth of somebody that almost certainly didn't exist. It's just widely accepted that Christ was born 2024 years ago. Or would it be 2025 years ago? I'm too tired to figure that out.
Nice! A lot of great Group of Seven there.
By the way, if you happen to be from Toronto (or will be in Toronto around the end of November) the art auction houses have their major auctions around that time. They always have public previews / exhibitions in the days leading up to the auction, which happen to be a great way to see some art up close (before they get purchased by private collectors). The previews are totally free of charge, they might just ask you your name for security purposes, but otherwise anyone can come in and look at the art. This auction house has a big previously unseen Lawren Harris coming up: https://www.waddingtons.ca/auction/major-fall-auction-canadian-international-fine-art-nov-28-2024/
The auction houses low-key love when more people come to the previews, even if they have no intention of bidding, so I recommend taking advantage of that if you can.