M Yeah, I went to the Shades of Hendrix concert last Friday and, well, I found that the band was very good. The bass player and the drummer were excellent, and the guitar player can really play like Hendrix. He can even sing like Hendrix. The only problem with that show was that the guy who dressed up like Hendrix had his FACE PAINTED BLACK. Absolutely, completely stupid. Why would you paint your face black? That's insulting. Are we in the 1920s or something? This is not a tribute to Hendrix, it's an insult to Hendrix. Next time you do a show, just do it as yourself. Hendrix wouldn't want you to paint your face black to try and look like him. Dumbass. [BLEEP!]

F This is Anik from Pandora. I just got back from the MiMis and Voivod should have won. What's wrong with you, Montreal? Personally, I'm not a huge fan of their music, but god knows they've been working their asses off in the music scene for years. They're big in the U.S. So what, when a band makes it in the States, we ignore them? What the fuck! They deserve a fucking trophy! Okay, I need a drink now, I'm pissed off. Oh, and by the way, we need a female drummer. My e-mail is bloodstone1_2000@yahoo.com. [BLEEP!]

M Hey, this is for the Stugotz. Thanks a lot but we're going to be going with Kindergarten Punk. [BLEEP!]

M This one goes out to hopeless musicians on welfare. Remove yourself from your selfish fantasy and GET A JOB. Real musicians make it or break it before they reach their mid-30s. So if no one has signed you yet, stop selling your drugs or whatever you do to squeak by, clean your pitiful apartment and start paying your dues. You know who you are out there. [BLEEP!]

M Yo, what's up? This is Loes from HYH replying to the Fats rant which is totally bullshit. Fats, you're a fat fuckin' ugly fuck. You live right beside the Guy metro, you have BROKEN TEETH, I battled you the other day, you think you can rap, you say the N-word. And this shit about graf and everyone having the same style, it's as if all these people were actually good, and that's called a style to you. So get out of the street with your whack tags, you and anyone like you who thinks they're ill, you suck. [BLEEP!]

M Yo, this is Sean P, you know what I'm saying? I'm calling up saying Fats, you ugly cocksucker, I saw you in jail, you got RAPED. Your dick is two inches long, you know what I'm saying? Wasting space on the Rant Line™, you don't even know what you're talking about. All right? Peace. [BLEEP!]

M Mr. Poland here. We are not in L.A. marking gang territory. A tag is a tag, not graffiti. So first of all, if you want to talk about THE GAME, learn it. Second of all, we're not in this to make it big, we're in it for the LOVE. So if you want to talk about it, learn it, and stop acting big and grow the fuck up. Shit. [BLEEP!]

F This is Helen from LaSalle and I'm here to rant about an attempted mugging. I had two friends, Frankie and Damien, who were on the metro on Friday afternoon between Monk and de l'Eglise and these three guys ganged up on them and started pushing them around, starting trouble, and then one of them pulled a knife on my friends. And nobody on the metro did anything. My friend Frankie, he was going, "Hello, can somebody help me?" But the people, these Montrealers, were just sitting there staring at them. Frankie had a big black eye the next day and Damien got a cut on his throat. So what are we Montrealers becoming? It feels like we're getting to be more and more like those ignorant Americans. You hear about stuff like this happening in the States, but not here in Canada! And I'm so disappointed to see that nobody would even help their neighbour. And also, people, please stop talking about the music scene. Who cares? [BLEEP!]

F Here's my question. I know that SHOPLIFTING is rampant, in Montreal and in North America. But why is it that today, shopping for a new winter coat, I was trolled like a criminal? And this happens all the time. I'm a 33-year-old woman with a good job, but that doesn't even really matter. The fact is, when did we stop being shoppers and assumed guilty because we are just looking for a new winter coat for next year? That's my question for you retailers. [BLEEP!]

M This is for P-Boy, okay? I live downtown and I'm really sick of all these DRUNK WEST ISLANDERS coming out and pissing all over the place. Because the next morning when you people have all gone home to your nice manicured lawns, I've gotta smell your friggin piss. So it should be more than an $85 fine, they should make you clean up your own goddamned piss! [BLEEP!]

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