March 2012 Blog Posts (76)

Reading: Dear Shane, I Tried To Kill Myself (SERIOUSLY OMG LOOK IT UP JAZZ WROTE IT LOOK HERE'S A LINK AHHH HE'S SO AMAZEBALLS)

Listening to: NOFX 2000-2006, Copy Scams demo

Drinking: peach-mango Kool Aid, which is the color of my pee when I drink a whole slurpee so let's move on

Pondering: half size or quarter size?!, how the…

Doris #29

Entropy

It's Down to This

Truckface #15

When Language Runs Dry #4

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With Any Luck on Great White Appetite

I've set up a Zine swap over on Swap-Bot:

http://www.swap-bot.com/swap/show/116728

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Just in today: A new issue of Shape & Situate! Which is one of the few zines we bring in from outside the U.S.. But it's just so good! We also got three new issues of the Olympia punk newsprint zine, Nuts. Which we've heard is huge in Japan. Go figure.…

This word means a total work of art - an artwork that merges many types of art in to a total single work.

IS

Gesamtkunstwerk . I had no correct answers. Seems your total answer was shy some part! I don’t dumb down, so please wise up!

Now on to a new Q.: Win a copy of my NEW cd CALLED ‘30′! – (first anti-band CD) or my NEWER cd CALLED ‘NEXT”(‘06) or my NEWEST cd CALLED ‘THIRDS” (May ‘07) or my MORE NEWEST cd Called “FOUR-TH” (‘08) or my MOST NEWEST cd CALLED ‘5-TH (Nov.'09) or…

Weekly Gratitude on Great White Appetite

Reading: Infinite Jest

Listening to: Green Day's entire discography with a concentration on Insomniac and Warning

Drinking: clearance store-brand organic English Breakfast. It's not bad if you don't think about it.

Pondering: names, what project to undertake next, flyers, going to the fabric store at this point in the day...

I've been up since 8 which is a fucking record for me, but…

Awkhold Vol. 2 - 12 Artists curated by Jason Kachadourian. I made a mini-zine for the edition, includes prints, zines, and original artworks, all unique only $25 Available…

A little book of my dreams, hallucinations and thoughts expressed through drawings, words, photography and collage. Alien like creatures, spinal columns, wires connecting the layers of worlds, the darkness who watches all and many more images splatted onto the pages. A5 sized, black and white…

There's only one way to go out. Singing! on Great White Appetite

After my third hospitalization and during a rampant crush on a boy, I furiously wrote this zine about the depression that lead up to the suicide…

Weekly Gratitude on Great White Appetite

Looking around I see that I'm not the only one with this problem.

One of the biggest thing keeping me from actually publishing my first zine (other than the fact that I can't draw a lick, and am afraid nobody wants to read pages of my rambling without a pretty picture attacked) instead of just talking about it is....My inability to settle on a title.

I was going to go with "YummY! Down" which has been my blog for many years.  But vetoed that.

I…

Tomas Moniz's 12 part serialized zine novella is now complete! We just got the three newest issues and they are awesome. Really ambitious zine project and we're totally proud of him.…

Released at the 2012 Chicago Zine Fest A split zine with Brainscan #29 and no More Coffee #4

Brainscan #29 - Ben Spies (no more coffee zine) threw out the challenge of fiction to my land of perzines and this is the grim result. These three short stories…

Poems written in March 2012

Comments welcome.

[poem notes in brackets like this]

POEMS

1 [Rainy day poem]

"Yes,

It's cloudy,

but the Moon

will return."

My hand

pulls the shades

and muffles

the rain.

2 [Idea from a Zen story]

the pail of water

held the…

Readers,  what is your experience/history with Myspace?

Most of us agree that the consolidation of the arts into so few corporate hands (Big 6 - see below) is not good for the arts. When that hand full of conglomerates not only make and distribute the art; but, review the art they make too - that is too much. That's reason enough to do some trust busting. BUT

Most of us think , somewhere in the back of our minds, that these business leaders, though hard on quality art, are…