Jonathan Goldstein

Leaving my parents' house...

I have to say, and you know, and this is kind of like, you just don't know what you don't know back then, but I was nothing but excited.

Um, I didn't enjoy my childhood very much.

And the idea of being able to make my own rules, uh, was very exciting.

And I remember when I, I hearken back to it now that I got a kid, I think about how sad my mother was, how she was sitting on the edge of my bed.

And yelling at me for what she called dismantling my room for the stuff that I was taking.

And all I was taking was these milk crates.

I didn't even have like a bookshelf.

It was just like I kept my books and stuff in milk crates.

And she was like very upset that I was taking them.

And I remember I wore cowboy boots.

which were a very impractical thing to wear in the summer when you're moving boxes.

But there was something about it that felt very romantic.

I had these cowboy boots that I only wore like once a year.

And it felt like that was an occasion for the cowboy boots, even though they were slippery.

So I was living in Montreal.

That's where I grew up.

And I was moving to a very cheap part of town called Point St.

Charles.

Yeah, it was probably no more than like a half an hour car drive.