Dink in a Box: Shannon Gerard!

From the inimitable Shannon Gerard, past Lickety Split contributor and all-around fascinating person:

I know you know at least one person who would love a Boob for Christmas!

Nothing tells that special mohel in your life how much you appreciate them more than a Dink for Hanukkah!

And to quote the indefatigable Justin Timberlake: "Kwanzza. Dink in a box."

There are three-- yes THREE-- chances in the next two weeks for you to make these holiday dreams come true.

On Saturday December 1st (this weekend!), I'll be taking part in CITY OF CRAFT-- a new event being held this year in the Theatre Centre at 1087 Queen Street West. That's the basement of the Great Hall at Queen and Dovercourt. The event runs from 11AM til 8PM. There are over 60 vendors selling handmade, locally produced crafty goodness. There are workshops and demos happening all day (I'm teaching folks how to crochet their very own dinky finger puppets between 1 and 2PM) and admission is totally free!

More details at http://www.cityofcraft.com

On Sunday December 2nd (the very next day), I'll be at the OCAD BOOK ARTS FAIR. 100 McCaul Street on the second floor. 11AM til 5PM. More handmade heaven, but this time with an emphasis on books and prints. There are also some amazing deals on letterpress paraphernalia, papermaking supplies, and book related ephemera.

More details on facebook, here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=5862682153

The next weekend, Saturday December 8th and Sunday December 9th-- there are two parties happening at ART METROPOLE as part of their annual GIFTS BY ARTISTS show and sale. On both Saturday and Sunday between 2PM and 5PM, you can stop by Art Met-- 788 King Street West-- for a drink and dink, a boozy booby, and first dibs on some pretty amazing multiples and artists books they'll have for sale. The sale runs til January 5th.

More details and gorgeous photographs here: http://artmetropole.com/popups/events_exhibits.cfm?str_filename=exhibits/exhibits_07/gba/gba.htm

Consider supporting local artists and buying handmade this year. If you can't make it out to these events, or if you are interested in taking a peek at some of the stuff I've been making lately, check out my ETSY SHOP:

http://www.shannongerard.etsy.com

Etsy is the most amazing international online marketplace for all things handmade.

Seasonal Joy and Love from me to you!
Shannon.

Check us out at the Flea Affair this Saturday!

If you missed us at Expozine and still have some cash burning a hole in your pocket, come say hi to the gentle mannered folks behind the Lickety Split table at the Flea Affair! This is an awesome event organized by cool ladies (one of whom is Jill our events organizer, of Quel Damage-Episode Design fame)and is going down in the Mile End. Be there or be square!

Expozine was a hoot! (check out these photos)

Aw man, I looove Expozine! "Montreal's Annual Small Press, Comic and Zine Fair" is something of a milestone for a lot of indie publshers and artists in this city. It functions as a place to celebrate and sell some amazing and beautiful/weird/wacky art as well as a deadline for many others who are looking for one. I think that many folks in this milieu understand challenges that can come up in terms of ones motivation, and personally, Expozine always reaffirms how awesome this city is in terms of creative output.
But anywhoo. Here are some photos by Sherwin Tjia, a longtime Lickety Split collaborator (for example, he's our official cover artist). I'm throwing in a couple of us at the end from the Faggity Ass Queer Stripper-ganza too!
The Lickety Split table, directly next to Sherwin's table, separated only by our Slow Dance Night Poster!
Amber, Kathleen and Sherwin!
The throngs of art adoring fans! Please buy our smut!
K$ representing behind the table on Sunday!
Gamble's dog Lucy is a sexy bitch.
Our loverly Sherwin (at the strip show)...
Et moi! Pushing zines as always...co-tablers for LIFE!(also, at the queer strip show)
Thanks to all who came out and bought Lickety Split stuff or just came by to say hi!!!!!!

Hearts,
Amber

Do you hear what I hear? : The Sound Sex Project

Recently Mark Harris, a local musician in the band On Bodies and a Concordia University Media Studies MA candidate, sent me an e-mail giving me a heads up about a new project he's been putting together entitled the Sound Sex Project. Here's what he has to say about it:

Music becomes imbued with meaning through the myriad of ways that we use sound and song in our daily lives.

The Sound Sex Project seeks to explore how sound articulates desire, and how people use music to orchestrate their sexual encounters.

I began thinking about the links between sound, music, sex and arousal in an attempt to write about audio in pornography. My critique of the porn soundtracks was that sound quality seemed to be of less concern than image, that the noises of bodies and voices were often muted, and that pornographic scores were often cheesy, bland and repetitive.

Yet, in reading theorist Tia DeNora, whose work has informed this project, I was faced with my own arrogance. Who was I to deem what kind of music might or might not instigate sexual activity? Everyone uses music and sound in a different way.

This is where the Sound Sex Project needs your help. I would love any varying degree of participation, but my basic request is:

-Please send me the name of an audio track and artist which you have played during a sexual encounter. If you have an mp3 file of the sound/song, e-mail that as well. Please send your submission to:

soundsexproject@gmail.com

I will post all submissions chronologically on my blog, so please indicate if you would like your name to be used, if you would like to use a pseudonym, or if you would rather remain anonymous.

My aim is to compile a Sound Sex Project mix CD for everyone who participates. After the first compilation has been completed, feel free to submit to the project again.

I would love to post additional information about your song choice. If you are willing to share more than just the sound selection, other information you might include could be:

-your biographical info
-how your musical choice affected your sexual encounter
-what type of technology you used to play your soundtrack
-why you chose that particular work
-any other thoughts or reflections

Thank you for reading, and I look forward to hearing from you. Once again, please send all entries to:

soundsexproject@gmail.com

We're at Expozine this Saturday and Sunday!

Expozine will take place on Saturday, November 24 and Sunday, November 25, 2007, from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. at 5035 St-Dominique (Église Saint-Enfant Jésus, between St-Joseph and Laurier, near Laurier Métro). Free admission.

This incredible event brings together over 250 creators of all kinds of printed matter – from books to zines to visual art and comics – in both English and French. In the past six years, Expozine has become one of North America's largest small press fairs, attracting thousands of visitors as well as exhibitors from as far afield as Chicago, Halifax, New York, Toronto, Ottawa, and Quebec City!

Expozine brings together a multitude of publications and printed works that are often difficult to find in the first place, much less altogether in the same room! The result is a rare opportunity to peruse the work of hundreds of young and emerging authors, publishers and artists, and to see what the winners of last year’s Expozine Alternative Press Awards are up to. Not to be missed!

Check out our Etsy.com store!

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licketysplitsmutzine.etsy.com
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Vagina Dentata Movie!

Okay, so the trailer for this flick looks incredibly misogynistic; I still intend to cackle my way through it. The gyno scene alone is worth the price of admission. Who's with me?

Image 1 from http://biancabean.wordpress.com/2007/05/15/angry-beaver/
Image 2 from Google images

Tampon Turkey

The things crafty people come up with. What kind of gravy would you serve with that?

For the recipe, go to http://www.tamponcrafts.com/turkey.html

Zinester to check out: Spencer Butt!

After reading a review in Broken Pencil of Spencer Butt's zine/chapbook "I wish raptors still existed so I could get disemboweled and finally spill my guts to someone", I decided to to get a copy. He happily suggested a trade and included a copy of the more recent "My name is Scientist". I love them both!!! Here is an excerpt from the poem "I wish I was a poet" from ""Sometimes I wish raptors...":

I want to spread your legs apart with a sense of wonder, as
if I'm opening the closet to Narnia
and I wanna be lion, bewitched in the many folds and
crevices of your dirty, little wardrobe.

To get in contact with Butt check out www.myspace.com/thirtysecondblurbs

Launch #5 reviewed in The McGill Daily

Check it out here: http://www.mcgilldaily.com/view.php?aid=6661

An excerpt:
"...After my private show was done, the others moved on to other innocent newbies, bouncing their tassled breasts mere inches from their faces. With all this excitement and sexual ease, it was no surprise that my shirt magically came off towards the end of the night. I was even considering working with these ladies. I then realized, listening to local band Starvin’ Hungry rock it out, that this was Lickety Split’s mission: to create an atmosphere that promotes unbridled sexual expression in a healthy, fun and hilarious setting. "

Yeah. Article by Linda Issa.

lickety split oddcast no. 5 side b

SIDE B: lickety split in your dreams


MMMUSIC

or www.licketysplitzine.com/oddcasts/lcktsplt_ddcst05_sideB.mp3
or indyist podcast land

deeper in sleep, whisps of significance are unarticulatable by my waking self: only the echoing residue of experience. the strange makes me anxious, like a forgotten meeting. or a breakfast slept through. better to relax ride it out, shake it loose, wave like seaweed always. a little militantness in lifestyle, and less dust and debris covering me in the morning.

LICKETY SPLIT ODDCAST no. 5 SIDE B

featurin'

Anemones
Angelo Badalamenti
Sandy Bull
Bob Dylan & The Hawks
Richard P. Feynman
R. Buckminster Fuller
Kristy Heeren
Les Rallizes Denudes
Charles Manson
Stephen P. McGreevy’s sound recordings of “earth’s mysterious natural VLF radio phenomena”
Santiago Mutumbajoy

Queereaction Weekend!

We're tabling Saturday and Sunday and will be making an appearance at the awesome Faggity Ass Stripshow Saturday night!!!!

xo

More Lickety Split smut zine launch photos on Indyish.com!

Check them out here! Thanks to Marilis Cardinal who took all the fine shots!!!!
Dead Dollz:
Alex from PARLOVR:

Photos from the Lickety Split #5 at Zoobizarre! (more to cum)

All photos by Sabrina Ratté.
John of Starvin Hungry
Scott of Starvin Hungry
The crowd dances!
Naughty bits!
Bow tie!

Check out a review of the night at Solid Waste.

Lickety Split #5 press links!

Check us out in Brendan Murphy's Hour column, y'all:
http://www.hour.ca/music/music.aspx?iIDArticle=13337

...and also the lovely article in the MTL Mirror by Sacha Jackson!
http://www.montrealmirror.com/2007/110107/arts.html

...and a mention in Johnson Cummins' column:
http://www.montrealmirror.com/2007/110107/rex.html

Yay!

lickety split oddcast no. 5

(note: no. 4b is missing. if you find it, please tell it to come home. or at the very least, that i miss it.)

lickety split in yr ears

There is still cigarette smoke in the air. Random and secret cosmic messages from your 11-dimensional lover. Or the dial just spins wildly, cycling through all known frequencies until you’re rested. The fibers of existence connect us electrically always. A dream uncluttered and calm: a white plastic patio table and her grey eyes staring outside, past the sink, into the yard and she smiles as she sips some tap water, flotsam gently whirling around the glass.


downloading SIDE A is a fab idea. you can listen to it early in the morning, while learning to speak backwards.

www.licketysplitzine.com/oddcasts/lcktsplt_ddcst05_sideA.mp3

featurin'

Beethoven as performed by Paul Copeland
The Beatles
Bob Dylan
Feu Therese
G!YBE
Nusrat Fatah Alie Khan, Qawwal and Party
Koo Nimo The Kumasi Ensemble Adadam Agofomma
Toshiya Tsunoda
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Lickety Split is in the November issue of Nightlife Magazine!

Lickety Split has 2 items in the current issue of Nightlife. We're included in the "stuff you should buy" sort-of section near the back and there's a wee interview with yours truly in the feature/theme of the issue "Freak Therapy". Thanks to Mic Shu and Clifford Brown for hooking this up!

More here: http://www.nightlifemagazine.ca/magazine/view/599

For those who can't click or don't have access to the free monthly, here's the interview by Clifford Brown:

FREAK #4_Amber Goodwyn
/ Porn culture jammer

You’re definitely not publishing smut for profit – what’s your mission?_Lickety Split is all about the people doing it, and each other, for themselves! We’re making sex-positive, pansexual smut. There’s a quote from Susie Bright we always drop: “If you don’t like what you see out your window, the most subversive thing you can do is make your own vision. If criticizing sex is so important, then where are our role models? Who do you think is going to make erotic expression meaningful to you if not yourself?”

Ever been contacted by outraged readers?__Never.

What’s the freakiest thing you’ve ever done?_Hmmm. I brought a blow-up doll to my high school prom as my date. But I’ve never eaten spiders or bitten the heads off of chickens or anything like that.

Is it hard to be taken seriously with artsy porn?_No. But seriously artsy porn, now that’s hard to take.

Women are slowly taking over the porn world - thoughts?_Is that a promise? Truthfully, I don’t think Lickety Split fits in with the regular porn world. We’re not even on the radar for those folks, we’re making our own
culture on a different planet away from them and we’re coming from a place of multiplicity and inclusiveness. And slutty-ness.
licketysplitzine.com
Zine launch on November 3rd at Zoobizarre, free zine with cover charge

Lickety Split auction was a success!

Yay! The auction on eBay was a success! We raised $377 towards the printing costs of Lickety Split #5, which paid for 1000 silk-screened covers for this issue.
We couldn't have done it without the generosity and support of so many awesome people. All the lucky top bidders are super happy with their loot! We also received amazing feedback and hot tips on how to run the next one in the springtime, so keep your eyes and ears peeled for more opportunities to support this dirty little zine in the future.
We hope to see you at our zine launch, November 3rd at Zoobizarre!
Thanks to:
Justin Burnham
Ann Cascarano
Jon Claytor
Risa Dickhttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifens
Leah Dolgoy
Kathleen K R
Grenadine Records
Seska Lee
Hausmann Photography
On Bodies
Sarah Mangle
Gary M.
Anita Schoepp

Life imitates art?

Sometimes life is so bizarre that you really have to ask yourself who's writing this shit?

Yesterday I was at the Cinémathèque with my advanced queer cinema class watching André Brassard's "Il était une fois dans l'est" (1974). Based on a screenplay by Michel Tremblay that melds the plot of about a dozen of his other novels and plays, this film is unbelievably fascinating and insanely well acted. Set in and around 'the Main', it criss-crosses between the lives of three waitresses and a number of drag queens. A lot of the action takes place in a drag club that stands in for Café Cléopatre, and the next-to-last scene is crammed with actual performers of the day.

As a Michel Tremblay fan, it's not terribly surprising that I would dig the writing, which is indeed excellent. But combined with the mind-blowing acting-- fuck! Not to get sucked into nostalgia for a time when I wasn't alive, but films just don't convey pathos the way they did in the 70s. I'm thinking of Cassavetes, who covers a lot of the same ground as "Il était...": working class daily life, spurned women on the verge of nervous breakdowns, monologues by drunk women railing against the miseries of the world, sexual glamor and marginality...

So to make a long story short (too late!), it was a very intense watch. Then I walked out of the theatre and ran into a sweet young woman (a stranger) who was incredibly drunk and looking for a pay phone. I asked her if she was okay, and she said she'd just had a nervous breakdown at her job. We sat down and talked for about a half hour, and she told me about her life, which trauma-for-trauma matched about two thirds of the scenes from the movie. When her boyfriend arrived, I left her with some phone numbers and a hug (which really didn't seem like enough), and biked home feeling very manhandled by the Fates. I hope she's feeling better today.

Images of people from http://www.collectionscanada.ca/writers/027005-4310-e.html
and of Cafe Cléeopatre from http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevin4/406513498/

Lickety Split smut zine launches #5: The Multiples Issue!

Lickety Split smut zine launches #5: The Multiples Issue!

Saturday 3rd of Nov., 9pm
$6 entry includes free copy of the zine
@ Zoobizarre, 6388 St-Hubert, metro Beaubien

Lickety Split #5 Muliples Issue, with work by Anna, Sarah Beall, Señora Braulina Bustamante, Nick Cabelli, Luna Maria de la Cruz, Sharon Davies, Gary Dickson/Annie, Christina Foisy, Giddy Gelfling, Jess M Grosman, Eric Hanson, Philip Henderson, Lara Kaluza, Kathleen KR, Farah Khan, Kirsten, Sarah Mangle, Alex Megelas, Kai N., Elizabeth Pennington, Bartlerodd Phiggins, Omar Rahman, Robyn, *safe solvent™, Michael Shu, Sherwin Tjia, Rick Trembles, Ty, Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt, Ina Wood and Yolanda/Jer.

“The bigger the better and more is more!”
Con-join us for Lickety Split smut zine’s #5 “Multiples Issue” launch, a hot, sweaty and messy rock n roll affair with a dance party DJ-ed by the Pirates of the Lachine Canal, the Dead Doll Dancers, music by Starvin Hungry, PARLOVR and more!

Lickety Split, Montreal’s own pansexual and sex-positive smut zine, is proud to announce an even more promiscuous approach to zine-making with a 1000-copy print run, an expanded beneath-the-sheets team and more! So, grab onto your anal beads cuz this issue’s wide open! Open format, open relationships, body openings… you name it and we give it, over and over and over again.

This issue boasts our first ever color centerfold; a limited edition series with artist multiples; interviews with Sasha VonBonBon, Montreal South-West Skillshare and Hakim Bey; art by Rick Trembles, Kathleen KR, Sarah Mangle, Eric Hanson and Philip Henderson; writing by Ina Wood, Christina Foisy, Jessica Grosman and Kai N. as well as all girl, all boy, all queer and all hot photo spreads! Also: sex ed tips for the masses, how to throw an orgy, fidelity issues, the Highly F*ckables List and more!

www.licketysplitzine.com