The writing's on the wall by SCOTT C If you haven't noticed already, the streets of Montreal are once again filled with an overflowing abundance of young, intoxicated university first-timers. A short walk on one of the many club-laden streets in this city may look like some sort of mad nightlife boom is going on, but I'm here to tell you that it's just those damn freshmen. I was forced to stand in line at a popular 24-hour convenience store behind some drunken out-of-province fool the other night, who was trying too hard to convince the stone-faced checkout girl to sell her some beer at 3:30 in the morning. I guess it has to happen, and I want to congratulate all those who are entering into the university experience for the first time, but I wish there was one big party that all those kids could go to and get it all out of their system once and for all. And I wish it were somewhere else. As if a lightening bolt came down from the sky to answer my request, Cream '99 will establish itself this year not as the rave to beat, but as the next Montreal music festival/rave put on just in time to occupy that influx of students. From September 3 to the 12, we'll be able to check out a wider array of music than was ever available. As well as the usual house and techno superstar DJs on hand, there will also be some punk and straight-up rock thrown into the mix this year. On the hip hop tip, fans of Philly purists the Roots will be happy to see their one time beatbox Rahzel the Godfather of Noize on the bill. French hardknock Faf Larage and his crew will also be taking the stage, as well as performances from T.O. underground buttas Da Grassroots and the psycho beats of New York's Beatnuts. Schedules for this crazy event are available around town while info can be found at 790-1245. Tickets at 723-CREW. It seems the concept of the anti-graffiti team has made it to the streets Montreal. Mayor Bourque is being supported by the federal government in an aim to clean up the streets of Mtl. The most bombed city in Canada unveiled a $1.36 million program that will employ a crack team of anti-graffiti agents at $245 a week to remove graffiti from the walls of many of the city's districts. A clued-out Bourque referred to graffiti as "a kind of violence" on local news the other night, completely overlooking the overwhelming success of the Under Pressure graffiti exposition on the corner of Guy and Ste-Catherine that attracted thousands only weeks before. I gotta say what-up to my man Robert Walter, who rolls into town with his Twentieth Congress band on Saturday, August 28, to drop some keyboard science at Le Swimming. Known as the key-man for West Coast boogaloo greats the Greyboy Allstars, Walter did done destroyed the house the last time he was in the city, and with the release of his new EP Health and Fitness, I'm sure he's ready to do it all again. Don't miss this one, cause you'll be damn sorry you did.