MONTRE-HELL
FIRE & ICE
Photos by Daniel Mathieu
You don't need a bathing suit when you
skate the waterslides in Saint-Sauveur.
Eric Mercier haulin' ass.
i
o you've made the decision to actually read the words
that coincide with the surrounding pictures... that's
great! If you've made it this far, you know that you're
Montreal being a ballpark and you, the reader, are the crowd
and I, the writer, am the vendor walking up and down the isles
trying to sell you what Montreal has to offer. I would probably
(in a Cracker Jack vendor style) be shouting (but probably slur-
ring) this out: "Quarts! Get your cold quarts here! Ledges! Get
your slick, marbly ledges here! Tang! Get your poontang here!
Trees! Get your strong trees here!" And last but not least,
"Skateboarding! Get your skateboarding fix here!" Without a
doubt I'd make a small fortune if I sold any of these fine
things; but realistically, I'm too busy living out the life of a
socially oppressed gladiator of modern times. Oh! Sorry, I'll
keep it simple. What I meant was, I'm too busy skateboarding.
Montreal is an old Canadian city in the south of Quebec that sits
by the St. Lawrence river where a whole lot of importing, exporting,
and smuggling (no question about it) goes down everyday. Just so
you have an idea, by car it's approximately six hours away from
Toronto and eight hours away from New York. This big, spacious
city is a serious melting pot of culture, language and accents. You
end up seeing a lot of weird things and behaviors due to the fact
that many Quebecers isolate themselves from the world because of
language and poverty. Bitterness. There's a large population of
mullet-sporting mutations-I guess you could call them mulleters.
or mulletations. Half the people here are brainwashed by useless
political matters that create a bunch of static between the French
and the English-speaking citizens. What ever happened to freedom
of speech? Do I have to quote Rodney King on this one? Live and
Alex Gavin loves
his elbow wraps so
much that he sleeps
with them on. F/s
tailslide to fakie.
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