Queue Leu Leu

Yesterday was a great night. An acquaintance had her birthday at this awesome bar in Old Montreal. The theme of the place is that everyone gets up onto the tables and benches to dance their heart outs. There`s a catwalk-style stage going through the center for people to jump up on as well. The more people there are up on the tables, getting their shimmy on, the more likely the MC comes over to you with free beer.


It`s safe to say the birthday girl, Xav, Tim, Mike, Mike's Girlfriend, Liz, myself and friends annihilated our poor livers with beer, while gyrating our hips in every direction on the floor, on top of tables and on stage. Every other person in the bar was going just as wild as us, so beer was constantly getting spilt over people and it wasn't uncommon to see someone slip and fall off a table. The great part is that each time someone took a dive, they just stood right back up, not worried about it and went back to dancing.

So although the below picture does make the place seem like a male strip joint, it in fact was not.

Without a doubt, I am the best/most awkward drunk, skinny guy dancer. I love it.


Music-wise, the bar is more of a traditional French-Canadian place, so they mix in Quebecois folk songs with the standard popular music. Although I don't know many French songs, nor was I in a mental state to remember some of the unknown songs blaring through the speakers last night, when Ça fait rire les oiseaux came on I went wild with the rest of the bar.

Ça fait rir' les oiseaux.
Ça fait chanter les abeilles.
Ça chasse les nuages
Et fait briller le soleil.
Ça fait rir' les oiseaux
Et danser les écureuils.
Ça rajoute des couleurs
Aux couleurs de l'arc-en-ciel.

Ça fait rire les oiseaux,
Oooooh, oooooh, ooooooh - rir' les oiseaux
Ça fait rire les oiseaux,
Oooooh, oooooh, ooooooh - rir' les oiseaux.

It's really the quintessential Quebec song, that is familiar to every person from this province. Everyone always joins in to sing it too, possibly because the law stipulates we have to. Don't quote me on that one though.

Feel free to copy/paste the song into google translation, if you'd like. The words are actually really stupid, but that doesn't stop the fact that the song is amazing. There's no real music video for it, but I did manage to find a random primary school concert video on YouTube, that features the song. Watch 5 year olds, dressed as bees, dance around on stage to the song!

Amazing.

The hot guy from New Years was also there. Looking back at the pictures I took from last night, clearly the drunk me really likes him since he's in most of the photos. Too bad he's very straight. Damn cute, funny, friendly straight people.


By the time we left at 3am, we all stunk of sweat, split beer and joy.