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COMMUNITY DIRECTORY • MAP AND EVENTS • TOURISM INFO >> STARTING ON PAGE 17 LGBT RESOURce • CALGARy • EDMONTon • ALBERTA www.gaycalgary.com GayCalgary and Edmonton Magazine #83, September 2010 Table of Contents SEPTEMBER 2010 5 My Musical Journey Publisher: Steve Polyak Publisher’s Column Editor: Rob Diaz-Marino Sales: Steve Polyak Design & Layout: 7 Modern Man Rob Diaz-Marino, Ara Shimoon Jesse Tyler Ferguson Writers and Contributors Mercedes Allen, Chris Azzopardi, Dallas Barnes, Dave Brousseau, Sam Casselman, Jason Clevett, 9 All Over Adam Levine 7 XXX Andrew Collins, Rob Diaz-Marino, Janine Eva Maroon 5 frontman on New Album, and being so cool with the E E Trotta, Jack Fertig, Glen Hanson, Joan Hilty, Evan Kayne, Stephen Lock, Allan Neuwirth, Steve Queers Polyak, Romeo San Vicente, Ed Sikov and the PAG PAG GLBT Community of Calgary, Edmonton, and Alberta. 10 Canadian Champs Tokyo Police Club Shows that Hard Work Pays Off Photography Steve Polyak, Rob Diaz-Marino, B&J 12 The Return of Cho Videography Favorite Fag Hag Back with New Album and Tour Steve Polyak, Rob Diaz-Marino Printers 14 Patrick Masse North Hill News/Central Web Country Music for Our Community Distribution Calgary: Gallant Distribution GayCalgary Staff 15 Dancing Queens Edmonton: Clark’s Distribution 9 XXX Tell Your Mother - Mamma Mia is Back! 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Though for something so important, it seems people who had supported me continued trying to expose me to too easy to take it for granted. new music with the hopes of inspiring me to compose again. My It is something so engrained in the human psyche, like a mom’s influence got me interested in a new age composer by the precursor to language, that we seem to understand naturally and name of David Arkenstone, and yes, I did finally start buying his can affect us so deeply. Even without lyrics, the sounds can evoke albums. But I was left in a state where I was completely isolated emotions and memories, tell stories, and inspire us to harmonize and unaware of mainstream music. physically with the pace and motion. Then I started writing for this magazine, taking over the music I recall telling part of this story in another column, however when review column and getting exposed to all sorts of new mainstream I think back to my childhood, I don’t remember anything of buying music. I’m still often stumped when it comes to knowing who a lot music. My parents already had a substantial collection of cassette of bands are, but along the way I’ve discovered songs in all sorts of tapes, origin unknown to me, and anything new was borrowed from genres that bring me immense joy. These keep me company on my the library. As I randomly went through their collection, I would long drives to and from Edmonton, and when I’m concentrating on occasionally glom on to particular songs I liked of just about any intensive tasks in my daily work. I would miss not having them to style: marching band themes, 60’s crooner songs, James Last, and listen to. Michael Jackson. I also stumbled across a fair amount of classical Yet in those times when I feel like I’m losing my sense of self in music, and ended up listening to a handful of those artists who my busy life, I will go back and listen to my own songs. They bring would sound pretentious to list. After that, I specifically remember me back to the mindset of my younger self, and that helps remind going crazy for an album called “Switched On Bach” which had me of who I am and where I come from. Even though my music some of his pieces retooled for electronic instruments. Then when is probably long forgotten by others, I’m still glad that I created we got our first CD player, “80 Spectacular Sound Effects” was the it. Those pieces still carry great meaning for me - it’s like I put my big fascination for me. dreams in a bottle so that they could never evaporate. I do remember the kids on my street would get all excited when The Winds of Change, Part 4 their parents bought them the latest New Kids on the Block album, Things are finally starting to calm down in this community or KLF, or Salt N Pepa since “Let’s Talk About Sex” was so taboo for shakeup that’s been happening the past few months. As planned, our age. But I never went home and asked my parents to buy me the Junction opened on August 13th, bringing Edmonton’s bar that music. I was happy with what I had, and while I would oblige count up to 6; then the following day both Prism and PLAY had to listen to those songs with my friends, that was as far as it went. their closing nights, bringing it right back down to 4. After I got my first video game console, a Nintendo Entertainment While the new owners are still working out some of the kinks as System (NES), I started to really enjoy the simplistic background they go along, the community’s response to the Junction continues music from the games I played.