accidental music

for the past few days i've been sleeping at jo's, so i haven't been near a computer. hmm where to begin. i've had an amazing time.

i worked tuesday-thursday. one of those nights we watched Rocket Science, which was amazing. I admittedly have a thing for Aaron Yoo but beyond that the film was very well done and showed considerable depth without being overly sentimental. The soundtrack was also very good.

We went to Dance Cave on friday night after we saw Razzle Dazzle at insideout. The film was very well done, and hilarious, but admittedly i have a predisposition to Australian accents in comedies. DC was fun. This guy totally looked and me, then Johannah, then me, at our hands together and then us again and then left. It was funny, to the point where we joked about it. THEN the next day we went to a party and guess who walks in the door. We actually asked him too, if he was there last night and he totes was. Speaking of the party, it was rad. Right near a hipster party though. AA fashion show to the max with an average age of 19. We did go to some random guy's house above the party, enjoyed some tunes.

Yesterday we saw Femmetastic! at insideout. I will hold back too much ranting, but I have to say that we really have to move beyond a butch/femme binary. What was so offensive was that most of the short films in the program tried to pass themselves off as being revolutionary. Bring proud of being femme is one thing, but doing so only in relation to butch is hugely counterproductive and not at all progressive in my opinion. Yes, femme lesbians often have to deal with the validity of their sexuality being questioned, and get a lot of flack for "passing" but shouldn't we invent new ways of talking about identity beyond such prescriptions. If we are so fucking liberated by coming out in a sexually oppressive society, then lets not use its words to describe how and why. We did talk to the director of the best film in the program, and she gave us some hope for the future of queer female filmmaking.

So i needed my filmic pallet wiped after some ranting with Krista and Jo and some ice cream/book shopping. we watched Smart People. It was good but an hugely hurried ending. Ellen Page showed depth and was not at all a Juno type character. I was happy.

ps the subject title refers to seeing Los Campesinos briefly, and Chantal Kreviasik (or whatver) while finding Jo in Dundas Square.