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REVIEWS FROM SECOND GUESS #10.
SG#10 available for $1 ppd. to Bob C., PO Box 9382,
Reno, NV 89507. #10 has journal crap, these reviews,
male rape by Donny the Punk, and funny things.
Zines
Absolutely Zippo #18, 50 cents?, PO Box 4985,
Berkeley, CA 94704. Digest. Personal narratives mostly
about Eggplant's summer, a trip to Gilman, some comics and
more. A quick read.
Blue Ryder #33, $2, Box 587, Olean, NY 14760.
Reprints from other zines. This time we have stuff on AIDS,
sexual freedom, reviews, videos and more.
Chuck #3, $3, PO Box 10122, Berkeley, CA 94709.
They gotta be smart-ass kawledge stoodnts. Funny funny
stuff: a centerfold of a girl with pizza on her tits (with a
caption "What makes you feel most feminine? Melanie:
'Getting fucked till my nose bleeds), how to jerk off with an
avocado, more chicks on dicks movie reviews, cat skinning,
food and sex and more. Get it.
Claustrophobia v2#11, $2?, 400 N. High St. #137,
Columbus, OH 43215. Libertarian freedom newsletter with
articles on cryptography, custody laws, some reviews and
more. Worthwhile and informative.
Cometbus #31, $2.50, Wow Cool, 48 Shattuck Sq., Box
159, Berkeley, CA 94704. Digest. Thick issue -- novella size
-- about Aaron's travels all over the US, from Berkeley to
Washington, Chicago, Minneapolis, Wisconsin, New York,
Boston and everywhere in between. Great reading but gets a
little too romantic at times. One of the better zines out there.
David NYC #1, $?, 2001 Adams Ct., Arcata, CA 95521.
Digest. Personal commentary around gender issues (Riot
Grrrl flavor), art, a bad layout and named after some guy in
New York who the editors lust after. Ill thought out and
hypocritical in places, i.e. whining about guys who talk about
tits and ass then endorsing a book where women make fun of
dicks. Stupid.
Drop Forge #2, $2.50, PO Box 7237, Reno, NV 89510.
Digest. Lit zine, meaning not really my thing, but has
interesting, weird, abstract writings, art, and poetry. Pricey for
its small format. If you can find the Zoinks! song herein, you
get a prize.
EIDOS v7#3, $15, PO Box 96, Boston, MA 02137-0096.
Tabloid. The price is insultingly high. Way too high. Just
because the mag is about SEX, that doesn't mean it has to
follow the trend of other SEX mags and jack its prices up to
ridiculous levels. That aside, it is pretty thick and there's a ton
of info here: contacts, many reviews and letters, poetry,
fiction, photos, articles and more, all revolving around sexual
freedom. Good mag, but worth the money?
Exploitation Retrospect #38, $1.75, PO Box 1155,
Haddonfield, NJ 08033-0708. Digest. Interviews with
Screeching Weasel, The Junk Monkeys, and Tommy Stinson,
reviews, and more. The rock journalist style of writing makes
it hard to read without gagging.
Fallen Leaves..., Cliff Hopkins, 953 E. 87th St.,
Brooklyn, NY 11236. Chapbook. Small poems of personal
nature. Cliff and Bukowski are the only poets I can enjoy.
Fucktooth #11, $1, c/o JME, 221 W. 12th Street, Box
232, Columbus, OH 43210. Digest. Commentary by Jen, her
dad, some reviews, art, The Offspring, man/boy sex by duh,
stuff on suicide and more. Pretty good.
GeeZuz #11, $2, 297-810 W. Broadway, Vancouver
B.C., Canada V5Z4C9. Cool, sorta anti-PC mag with band
interviews, pro-death sentiments, suicide, reviews and more.
Karma Lapel #5, $2, PO Box 5467, Evanston, IL 60204-
5467. Tabloid. Review zine with thorough reviews, unlike
these, and some kinda boring articles. But there was a good
one criticizing that shit mag Sassy. Okay.
My Letter To The World #8, 2 Stamps?, PO Box 40082,
Berkeley, CA 94704. Digest. Fun reading about the
Buzzcocks, Jawbreaker's Nirvana tour, drugs, jocks, personal
stories and more. Great.
No Longer a FANzine #4, $2, 142 Frankford Ave.,
Blackwood, NJ 08012. Becoming one of my favorites, NLAF
is a thick bastard with Joe's US tour diary (with companions
who whine, steal, play nude and wreak havoc on an
unsuspecting public at large), some droppings in New
Orleans, interviews with some authors, religion, pro-gun
attitudes, hate mail from some twits (reminiscent of some of
the crap i get), some dawinistic attitudes and much more.
Buy, buy, buy.
Panic Button #8, $2, PO Box 62, Prospect Hts., IL
60070. This one features an interview with Johnny Ramone,
an article on the Ramones, sports stuff, a cool story about
seeing/meeting Nirvana backstage when Jawbreaker played
with them in Chicago, movie and record reviews, a bit on jobs
and that's about it. The Ramones and sports things were
disturbingly uninteresting making the previous issue way
better. Ben also drifts into HUH? land by claiming Green
Day's new album is more punk than most of the other stuff he
reviews and that they aren't "pandering to the mainstream."
No. Sorry. That is so wrong.
Phalanx #5, 50 cents, 2390 Tripp Dr. #9, Reno, NV
89512. Digest. Writings on PCness, being a young anarchy
boy, some art, a review of some sell out bands' show, Aus
Rotten interview and more. Decent, but like MR&R said,
honest but boring.
Piss Off #0, $1.50, PO Box 20522, Carson City, NV
89721-0522. Digest. Articles on DIY, scams and pranks
(some of which don't work or aren't worth the trouble; I
know), fashion, personal things, pro-egotism, anti-TV,
Spitboy and more. Rambled at times, bordering on
pointlessness, but this is a good first start.
Potty Mouth #4, $1, PM Digest, 3642 Hilsinger Rd.,
Phoenix, OR 97535. Digest. A rural Oregon zine with
musings on the "alternative," local happenings, urinating,
shows and more. Small but decent.
Practical Anarchy #8, $2, PO Box 173, Madison, WI
53701-0173. Lots to read: anarchy and economics, reviews,
boycotts, electronic anarchy, resources and more. Fuck the
intolerant Profane Existence and give PA a try.
Publik Enema #6, $1, 25686 Nugget, El Toro, CA
92630. Tabloid. This zine reminds me of why i generally
dislike anarchists. While this ed. has his heart in the right
place by dropping the label, he sure does occasionally act
really stupid on his six-month bike road trip by taking on their
inane ways, stealing from "hippie capitalists," getting
arrested, squatting, going to anarchist conventions, smoking a
lot of pot and stealing a lot (probably from potentially cool
people). But at least he criticizes other anarchists, which is
cool, and the "rants" sections was pretty right on. There's
some interesting anecdotes but the writing is mediocre
overall.
Snipe Hunt #18, $2.50, PO Box 3975, Portland, OR
97208. Tabloid. Thick, colorful mag devoted primarily to the
northwestern scene but includes interviews with bands like
Tiger Trap (yummy), Godhead Silo, Karp, Uncle Tupelo and
more. Also covers the art scene somewhat, has lots of comics,
reviews and overall lots to read. Cool.
Styzine #15, $1, 300 N. Bryan, Bloomington, IN 47408.
1/2 digest. Kinda boring zine with a pinball review, reviews,
personal thoughts, skater photos, vegan stuff (reprinted, of
course) and more.
10 Things #6(66), $1.50, 1407 NE 45th St. #17, Seattle,
WA 98105. Thicker than previous issues. Covers Seattle
scene and bands, but also has reviews, New Bomb Turks and
more. Their best one yet.
Volare #1, $?, Box 24, 2147 Commercial Dr.,
Vancouver B.C., Canada V5N 4B3. Digest. Pretty good but
not much to read. Features, personal stories, how to make
bombs and some reviews.
Books
The Morning After: Sex, Fear, and Feminism on Campus
by Katie Roiphe.
Last semester, influenced by the Jeff Bale/reader debate
about rape in MR&R and Donny the Punk's rape article
(printed in this issue), I wrote a column in my school paper
about the veracity of rape and rape statistics and how
propaganda about such has possibly created a needless
climate of fear for women. After the column was printed I
gained a small reputation among the campus PC contingent as
one who thinks females deserve to be raped. The behind-my-
back gossip wasn't even worth responding to.
To my delight, though, Kev bought me a book by someone
who does respond to such idiocy and does it ten times better
than I ever could. The Morning After by Katie Roiphe, 24, is
a well-researched, well written, extremely diplomatic fuck
you to shit-for-brains feminist thinking. It's along the lines of
Camille Paglia, another anti-feminist feminist, but less brash.
Roiphe criticizes Naomi "Beauty Myth" Wolfe (who has a
new book out, sounding like a subtle response to Roiphe's,
which I'd also suggest checking out), Katherine MacKinnon,
Andrea Dworkin, Campus Rape Centers, Take Back The
Night marches (exposing some pretty sick, fake melodramas
created at such, all in the name of "empowerment"), political
correctness, the notion of "date rape," and much more.
There's been criticism of Roiphe saying she did a lousy
job of researching her subject matter. This is an invalid
criticism. In the introduction she admits that very thing: "This
book is not a scientific survey of campus life, measuring the
immeasurable with statistical certainty... I have written what
I see, limited, personal, but entirely real. I have written my
impressions." There are a couple times, though, where her
impressions appear contradictory, as if she's more concerned
with being on a crusade against a nebulous thought trend than
she is in criticizing solid facts. This weakens her case a bit.
That aside, however, Roiphe's book is pretty important.
For a critical glimpse of over-zealous kawledge feminists and
how their motives, while perhaps sound, are overshadowed by
their hypocritical, intolerant and closed minds, reading
Roiphe's impressions will give light to an often shunned point
of view. Check it out.
Music
B.H.R., "Breaking In!" CD, $10, Signal Sound
Systems, PO Box 1861, Victorville, CA 92393. Fun, goofy,
So. Cal. sounding HC/punk/ska etc. but they kinda go too far
out of their way to be "anti-PC" which is kinda dumb. Catchy,
though.
BRAINIAC, "Smack Bunny Baby" CD, Grass
Records. I wanna say grunge, but this is beyond that. Kinda
like Sonic Youth on crank. Noise guitar wanking over off-
kilter rhythms, and what makes this good is that the lyrics are
catchy. Bonus points for that. Check it out.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT, "Messiah Complex," CD,
We Bite America, PO Box 10172, Chicago, IL 60610-0172.
Generic punk with grating vocals and bad metal guitar solos.
Die-hard punks may like this. I don't.
THE DEVIATORS, 7-inch, Skene! Records, PO Box
4522, St. Paul, MN 55104. Skene! wanted me to run an ad in
exchange for some of their releases. I said okay. Then I read
Aaron's take on the Jawbreaker/Crimpshrine split 7" which
was supposed to be a benefit comp for the homeless but
Skene released it as a split and altered it a bit. I wrote them to
tell them I wouldn't run their ads until they gave me their side
of the story. They haven't. So, no ad. But THE DEVIATORS
7-inch is pretty rockin, classic poppy, catchy punk rock. It's a
great disk but it's dated 1990 so I don't know what's up other
than I dig their record _ but not their label.
GOB/LOADSTAR split 7-inch, $3, Satan's Pimp
Records, 1229 Ralston St., Reno, NV 89507. A great as can
be expected. GOB: two songs meshed together, orating a
story about a girl from the Sparks Mental Hospital who rubs
shit all over herself, keeps her ass dirty to make it slick for her
fist, and loves John Travolta. LOADSTAR: one song about
Priscilla Ford, who mowed down 29 people in downtown
Reno on Thanksgiving day, 1980. It ends with the moaning of
"Priscilla Ford, you're my fucking hero, fucking hero, fucking
hero." The other tune is about driving real fast on a
motorcycle. Get it now.
THE HALFBREEDS, 7-inch, Spuyten Duyvil Records,
509 E. 88th St., Suite 3C, New York, NY 10128. My first
reaction: honky-tonk punk. My second: exceedingly
annoying. My third: yeah, get it.
MURPHY'S LAW, "Good For Now," CD EP, We Bite
America, PO Box 10172, Chicago, IL 60610-0172. A little
punk, a little reggae and a little ska and seemingly dumb
lyrics. Nothing too outstanding.
NAKED AGGRESSION, "Plastic World" 7-inch, $3,
Amalgamated/ Mighty Records, 6607 Sunset Blvd., LA,
CA 90028. NA get my nomination for the hardest working
punk band around today. They tour much of the year and
recently did a stint in Mexico right after having their
residence destroyed by the L.A. earthquake. But they're back
with this new 7-inch. They're great people, playing great
music and doing great things. But this record, while having
great hooks and all, has some super cheesy lyrics. At least it's
consistent with their older stuff. I would put more thought
into what's being said, that's all.
PLAINFIELD, 7-inch, $3, Bovine Records, PO Box
2134, Madison, WI 53701. Two decent noisy tunes from this
Bay Area cannibal band. I like that they're shaking things up
in a way too PC atmosphere, but if they weren't so cheesy and
idiotic they may get a point across better. Buy their records,
avoid their lame live shows.
QUADILIACHA/BROKEN, split 7", $3?, Will Greene,
7236 Thornhill Ln., Atlanta, GA 30328. The Quadiliacha
side rocks with melodic HC with a Fat Mike sounding
vocalist. Good stuff. The Broken side is in the same vein but
not as good. Recommended.
THE WRENS, "The Low 7"," Dow Boy Records, PO
Box 3305, Hoboken, NJ 07030. Upbeat pop noise, annoying
at times, catchy at others. Kinda so so.
v/a "Fast Kids Go!" 7", $3?, Dave N., 1210 Anita Dr.
Apt. 302, Kent, OH 44240. Each cover is individually hand
colored with crayons. It also comes with a booklet. The
bands, THE THROTTLE BOTTOM, BALLPEEN GIDGET,
SPLINTER and HARRIET THE SPY _ play various types of
punk/thrash and are decent overall. HARRIET THE SPY
stand out but they were better live when I saw them in Kent
last summer.
v/a "Vital Music Records presents TOMMY," $4, Vital
Music, PO Box 20247, NYC, NY 10028. With a special
mastering process, 12 bands play The Who's "Tommy" in
seven minutes. On the flipside four bands play different
versions of "You Know My Name." This 45 features YOUTH
GONE MAD, ARTLESS, LUNACHICKS, ALICE DONUT
and more. It's a nice idea, and it works, but it's not that fun to
listen to unless you're a Who fanatic.