Mounir's Top Ten 2007

Here is the latest list of this year's best and worst of Movies, Concerts and Plays (in Montreal) from "my friend the party animal".
This makes a very good wish list of movies to rent the following year, as well as a good bet for the Oscars.
....enjoy!
v

Throughout the year I have what I call BLISS MOMENTS...

... the picnic this past February at the beach in Cape town (sunset, wine and Noella included !!! )... or seeing Joan Collins and Linda Evans on stage together last September.... etc...

But the greatest moments of all are the ones that I spend in dark theatres, holding my coffee and absorbing the MAGIC!!!!

AMONGST THE (record breaking !!!) 76 MOVIES THAT I SAW AT THE CINEMA THIS PAST YEAR ... THIS IS MY TOP 10:

10. AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH

9. RECHERCHER VICTOR PELLERIN

8. VA, VIS ET DEVIENS

7. QUINCEANERA

6. CONGORAMA

5. VOLVER

4. LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE

3. THE THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA

2. OMARET YACOUBIAN (THE YACOUBIAN BUILDING)

1. CONVERSATION(S) WITH OTHER WOMEN


HONOURABLE MENTIONS GOES TO...
(IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER)

BABEL // THANK YOU FOR SMOKING // LE TEMPS QUI RESTE //
THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP // LE PETIT LIEUTENANT // THE BLACK DAHLIA //
STUPEUR ET TREMBLEMENT //MATCH POINT // LE COUPERET //
CACHE // TSOTSI // BREAKFAST ON PLUTO //
LITTLE CHILDREN // THE QUEEN // SHORTBUS // MARIE-ANTOINETTE //
STRANGER THAN FICTION // RUNNING WITH SCISSORS //
THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND

GUILTY PLEASURE...

THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA
BORAT
JE VOUS TROUVE TRES BEAU
THE HOLIDAY

PURELY BAD...

DUO
TRUST THE MAN
THE DA VINCI CODE

PLAYS ...

LA PROMESSE DE L'AUBE
LE PROJET ANDERSEN
...AND OF COURSE...INCENDIES ( for the second time)

CONCERTS ...

GEORGE MICHAEL-25LIVE (EARLS COURT-LONDON)
MADONNA - CONFESSIONS TOUR (BELL CENTRE -MONTREAL)
PIERRE LAPOINTE
LOTFI BOUCHNAK (PLACE DES ARTS)
GORAN BREGOVIC (JAZZ FEST)

SPECTACLES /DANCE ...

MARGARET CHO -Juste pour Rire fest
MATS EK & JIRI KYLIAN -LES GRANDS BALLETS CANADIENS


ART SHOWS . ..

ANSELM KIEFER-HEAVEN & EARTH

CD'S...

AGNES JAOUI : CANTA
GOTAN PROJECT : LUNATICO
PIERRE LAPOINTE : LA FORET DES MAL-AIMES

VOILA...
2007 BISOUS ...
MK

New Year long time coming

I hope this message finds you all in good health.

This is my first annual message of peace...I thought I'd give a little summary of my last year. Sometime in June I started working on what ended up being the job that consumed my life. I'm the team lead of the Starbucks Mobile Sampling unit.
The summer I spent giving away thousands of Starbucks goodies at various festival and public event with a wonderful team. With the job, I got to go to every event around town - and beyond: The Abbotsfor Berry Festival and the Air Show, Tour de Gastown, Golden Spike festival, Vancouver International Film Festival, the Writers Festival...the list goes on. I even got to take the mobile unit to such cool places as Kamloops, Kelowna and Vernon...though I spent more of the time under the Van than inside it, working this job has been a huge treat. I have learned a lot as well as got to know some really wonderful people - didn't get too many dates out of it, but I got a lot of shopping done.

But it wasn't always like this... in August I got to go on a road trip with Craig through the Kootneys... as well as my annual pilgrimage to Widgeon Creek on a Canoe.

The last two months have been particularly eventful as I was involved doing samples inside the Safeways of SBUX products. I was so busy with it that I hardly had any time off, so my apologies to all my friends for having missed dinners, Birthdays and Births!
I hope the coming year will be a little easier on the schudule so I can catch up with you all.

Hey this is a good place for you to make your wish for the coming year...and if you post it on this page in the comments section - you know what they say, if you write it down, it is much more likely to come truecome true.

Hugs and kisses all of you...

Viken