IF YOU’RE ANYTHING LIKE ME, YOU’RE PROBABLY DEAD. My first post of the new year. If you’re wondering where I’ve been, I will say that I would have written something new sooner, except that I celebrated New Year’s Day by suffering a deliciously festive heart attack.

Annual: It’s the biggest week of the year for Community Radio and Queer Cinema.  From Jan 30 – Feb 8 we all delight in an overstuffed grab bag of events from the CFRC Funding Drive 2009 and reelout, Kingston’s annual gay, lesbian, and queer film and video festival. reelout Opening Gala: Were the World Mine [...]

Saturday April 4, 9PM @ BarNone (394 Princess Street) $5 door, 19+ event FemBots “FemBots use “junkstruments,” but their music’s far from disposable…” — Eye Weekly “There’s a truly spectacular class of independent music coming out of Canada, and it’s so frustratingly genre agnostic and post-everything that to even bother labeling it is an exercise [...]

The round-up continues. Now for movies. Barbeau’s photo.

Jeff Barbeau said “I thought maybe it could appear like this: photo, then essay.” Behold. 1. The Oxford English Dictionary defines community as ‘a cold cement room with a small window.’

The first Apple Crisp concert of 2009 is happening very soon: Gentlemen Reg Tuesday Jan 27th 7pm @ The Next Church on 89 Colborne St. (NOTE: different venue than usual!) $5 at door, dessert for sale Good Tastes Modern Fuel Fundraiser Dinner and Art Auction Saturday Jan 24th 6-9pm @ Aroma Restro-Winebar (428 Ontario St) [...]

CFRC Funding Drive Festival 2009 Tuesday February 3 @ The Grad Club Advance Tickets $7 – $12 on sale at Lower Carruthers Hill Featuring: Magic Jordan / The Gertrudes / False Face / Cities Turn to Sand RSVP on Facebook

More of Kingston’s favourites from last year. Photo by Barbs.

Kingston picks a favourite album from 2008. Photo is Barbeau’s.

Lucas – an Apple Crisp member, music-lover, and musician – discusses “real” music: the appreciation of music not just as sound, but as part of a broader social, physical, and artistic context. Click here for Part I.