The Kount at the Jello Bar
It's 3:49 AM, Monday, November 29, 1999 Second Cup coffee shop Sainte-Catherine and Peel / Montreal Quebec, Canada
The roughest time in a new assignment (contract) is the
first 3 months
This has been no exception it's difficult
to make new friends and find ones way around a new city. Not to
mention, working under the new customer's microscope. But by picking
a comfortable point to start looking, (for me a small bookstore)
and by asking a few questions, one finds oneself on a path to
similar souls.
Tonight I went searching to resolve a couple of leads I received
at the bookstore. The first was the Yellow Door (a place for poetry
readings) and the second the Jello Bar (a groovy nightclub). Unfortunately
the Yellow Door is only open during the times I work
but
the Jello Bar is right on my schedule.
I walked into the bar and was hit with a combination of classic
sixties décor and a live band pushing the envelope of improvisational
house-dance music. The place was full of definitive early sixties'
shapes
You know
the ones that look like an artist
palate and giant suspended olives with a colored light instead
of a pimento. (Cool vibe done well not cheesy) There were a dozen
lava lamps, mounted on a wall, visually composed like a sawtooth
wave. Light projectors were spilling psychedelic goo on the walls
and nice furniture that you would find in a hip coffee shop. The
place was very warm with friendly staff and I made some new friends.
The picture I sent is of, "Sequoia", the cool band
that was playing