1. hands down, it's Tanya Tagaq throat-singing (and dancing) at Lula Lounge with her trip-hop-inspired DJ!!!!!!! you were a fool to miss it (http://www.tanyatagaq.com)

2. The Lactation Station, performance art (breast-milk taste-test performance art!) by Jess Dobkin in FADO's Five Holes: Matters of Taste (http://www.jessdobkin.com/)

3. Thousand Mile Voice, an experimental, independent multi-genre music and poetry CD by Gein Wong (http://myspace.com/geinwong)

4. Esther & Rivkah's Latke Party at Katharine Mulherin's Sideshow (okay I'm cheating it's tomorrow but how can it not be top ten material?)

5. Gorey Story by The Thistle Project (interdisciplinary performance based on Edward Gorey's Gashlycrumb Tinies, at Artists Play Studio, www.thistleproject.ca)

6. the crazy music-performance collaboration between Sook Yin Lee (www.myspace.com/sookyinlee), John Kameel Farah (www.johnfarah.com/) & others at Xpace in Kensington for I Want To Go To Africa and Other Tales of High Adventure (this actually took place in the last two weeks of '05, but let's pretend okay?)

7. the DVD of Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July) and Miranda July's short story in McSweeney's #21 (frankly, anything Miranda July does http://mirandajuly.com/) 8. Tracy Wright & Caroline Gillis in Daniel MacIvor's A Beautiful View (theatre)

9. d'bi.young's wacked poetry-dub-reggae-punk high-energy performance with Dubbin' Gangsta Allstars at her book launch (Art on Black) at Lula Lounge (http://www.dbiyoung.net)

10. Get Your Lit Out, Pride reading organized by Debra Anderson at Art Metropole (www.debraanderson.ca)

Yo Sandra,

Thanks for the props - we hope you ate as fast as we could grate our knuckles into batches and fry em up!

Cheers,
Risa H. and Dana S.
- Estner and Rivkah (guest) 12-28-2006 2:53 am