hey raymi,

here are the details for the 28th. officially it’s for this zine my friend joanna works on and this is what she has written as her msn name. artisitically it’s a really good looking zine as joanna is a studio arts major, inside is mainly poetry and stories. it’s pretty typical but nowhere near as diy crap as the one i sent you that v and i did.

Lip zine Launch Dec 28th

IV Lounge, 326 Dundas Street West

poetry/spoken word, live music, dj, you, me

$3.50 cover, comes with a free zine while supplies last

blah blah blah, that’s about it i guess. i don’t know what time it starts at though. like i said before sherwin the hipless boy will be reading. he was nominated for some big deal poetry award in quebec for a book of 1600 pseudo haikus (hilarious stuff. he has the preprinted version thats 1600 pages long and in the past he had ppl shout out random questions and then reads from the book like it has all the answers while basically falling over cus the book was so heavy).

lip had a launch in mtl too and the readers there were pretty amazing and crazy, but i’m not sure who’ll be here.

oh and i haven’t talked to christine from its all fashion, but i’m sure she’ll be there. she’s absolutely in love with joanna and since i’ll be representing out of the basement and v can’t be there christine should be.

tell me if you wanna read. stories or whatev are totally fine. i don’t know if you’ve ever been to a poetry reading, it sounds pretty lame to ppl who haven’t and sometimes they can be, but not the ones my friends throw. no one is gonna standing on stage and quietly reading poems about the great canadian wilderness or anything like that.

email me or gimme a call about this 416 ***-**** or if you wanna get together. joanna and vera and i haven’t been to the bovine and your description of it as a hilarious goth hangout has made us curious. other than this i haven’t bothered to plan much for my visit cus it makes me feel too oppressed to plan stuff. or something like that.

oh except that emilio from naturalkinds blog fame has emailed me and i said i might possibly maybe go to one of his, i don’t know, whatever things he was advertising on his blog. are you friends with him? i feel like you know him. interested? he said he’d buy bloggers a drink and there is music involved.

hope fil’s bday was a blast and that your settling into your new place nicely. later,

amber