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Hey, look! Madeleine Peyroux is back with a new album and she’s going to perform in Montreal at the new Cabaret La Tulipe. I saw her sing in San Francisco sometimes around 97. Her voice sounded just as good in concert as it did on her debut CD but since then, Peyroux had remained silent. Excerpts from her new album are available here.

I got a pair of tickets right away when I heard the good news! What’s even better is that the Cabaret La Tulipe (514 529-5000) takes phone orders, which means that you save all the extra R�seau Admission charges. The show is on November 11th. I can’t wait!

Air Supply sera en concert � la Place des Arts le mardi 30 novembre. Prix des billets: 75,00$ (!).

Je dis �a juste comme �a, en passant.

Years after everybody else – or so it seems – I’ve finally read The Beach. Really enjoyed it. Got a little impatient with it in the middle, but couldn’t put it down towards the end.

And yes, it did have s-c-r-e-e-n-p-l-a-y written all over it. I love observing the adaptation process (and I’m starting to adapt a novel into a screenplay), so I’m planning on watching the movie as soon as possible, even though if I trust the reviews, it sounds like I’ll be disappointed.

Reading up on what the british author has been up to since he wrote The Beach, I found this article . This passage made me cringe:

« Publishers, predictably, have been more reluctant to let the bestseller go. Garland recalls how, after he wrote his second novel, The Tesseract, a far more complex and demanding narrative set in Manila, he was sat down by an editor in America who said: « Look, Alex, your strength is young people, backpackers in search of Utopia. Get back to that. And this time, can you make the young people Americans? »