Four Minutes to Midnight launch party is this Saturday!

Hi folks! The peeps over at Lickety Split are pleased to announce this launch in the spirit of indie publishing solidarity:

MUSICIANS ARE COWARDS:
Launch of Four Minutes to Midnight Issue 9
Saturday, January 26th @ Lab.Synthese, 435 Beaubien Ouest, loft 200
with PARLOVR, Flames! and American Devices + all night art happening!
9pm, $5 ($12 with a copy of issue 9)

Four Minutes to Midnight is an experimental literary arts zine, conceived in the samizdat tradition of underground publishing. Based in the firm belief that the personal is political, the zine explores the possibility for small stories, bad poetry, vast dreams and private pains as a means of advancing social change. We also seek to use the zine to challenge the tired dogmatism of commercial graphic design. The language of empire constantly threatens to suffocate our voices and we need to develop a language with which we can fight back. We fuck with typography because typography fucks with you.

“Almost every heartfelt page of 23:56 (as its abbreviation goes) revolves around issues of textuality, of words and pictures, of sense and shape, of palpable meaning-making.” - dbqp: visualizing poetics, December 2005

Winner of Best English-Language Zine Award at the inaugural Expozine Awards in 2005

FMTM issue 9 features writing and artwork by:
John W. Stuart, Kevin Yuen Kit Lo, Celia & Tavish, Kajin Goh, Billy Mavreas, Erica Ruth Kelly, Cozmos Quazar, Vincent Tinguely, F.A. Nettelbeck, Hilary Schaenfield, Amber Goodwyn, Shawnda Wilson, Maria Mavrig, Greg Tyce, Jason Lewis, Nadia Nespeca, Nadia Myre, Christopher David Ryan, JP King & Kyla Chevrier, Chris Heldt, Brigitte Henry, Catherine Rizzetto, Derek Beaulieu, Jean-Sébastien Day, Pascal Quimper, Lindsay Foran, Jason Gillingham, Dan Waber, and Colin White.