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This file is ShareRight 1992 by Jerod Pore (email
[e-mail]), you may reproduce it however and as often as you
like as long as this sentence is included.

Send your zines to FactSheet Five  1800 Market St.  San Francisco CA
94102

These are zines that fall into a variety of categories, but I'm
reviewing them now for the benefit of those who have subscribed to the
update flavor of FactSheet Five - Electric.  For laughs, I've attempted
to alphabetize the zines by title.  I'm totally arbitrary about words
like "the."    Subscribers to both flavors of F5-E will see these
reviews scattered amongst other files.  Sorry this one is so short, but
Seth needed some reviews fast and we're trying some new software and I
got some other excuses, but you're probably bored enough as it is.
Bob of _Second Guess_ zine was kind enough to send me the zine and muzak
reviews from SG #5.  This time I didn't lose them, loser that I am.  So
I'm able to pad this file to something reasonable.


Let's start with some poetry zines.  I'm most indebted to Ida Libido for
reviewing these zines, as I would give them bad reviews just for
containing nauseating amounts of poetry.


%Title:  CitiVoice A Bay Area Poetry Magazine Vol. 4, fall 1992 The
Radioactive Poets
%Descr:  Excellent tiny collection that does a wonderful job of
capturing the eclectic consciousness, intelligence and diversity of some
of San Francisco's and the Bay Area active, living poets, "open to good
poetry from any style or school" says publisher Mel Thompson, a night-
time security guard and poet.  Supported by advertising, subscriptions
and donations.
%Info:   Free, $5/1-year subscription; SASE to CitiVoice/Mel Thompson
Publishing Company, 1515 Gough #1, San Francisco, CA 94109, mini.

%Title:  Dream Protocols by Lee Ballentine, illustrations by Richard
Kadrey
%Descr:  Masturbatory musings by apparently established and celebrated
local Bay Area poet.  Martini-dry, academic, contrived, mechanical poems
full of erudite references and titles that scale the heights of
pretentious irrelevance attempting (but failing miserably) to exploit
the relevant.  Semi-famous Bay Area collage artist Richard Kadrey's
illustrations are pedestrian here at best.  For hardcore ivory-tower
pederasts only.
%Info:   $9.95 trade paperback, Talisman, Box 321, Beech Grove, IN
46107, 95 pps.

%Title:  Feh!  A Journal of Odious Poetry, #13, Aug. '92
%Descr:  Well-executed, typeset 100% poetry zine with title that I
suspect is some Yiddish euphemism for bodily essences and other excreta
as many of the unusual and wonderful poems here pay homage to various
and sundry waste matter and other biological stigmata; highly
entertaining letters section, wickedly amusing editorial from editors
Simeon Stylite & Morgana Malatesta; adorned with whimsical original
black & white line art.
%Info:   $5/3 issues, 143 Second Ave., #603, New York, NY 10003, 24 pps,
1/2 legal.

%Title:  Late Knocking, Vol. V, #2, '92
%Descr:  Over-blown, obese collection of poems and short prose pieces by
poets and writers from all-over.  Interspersed with pen and ink drawings
and decorative clip art.  Serious, stuffy, stilted scribblings by what
appears to be college creative-writing course types; velo-bound, typeset
and funded by grants.
%Info:   SASE Harford Poetry Society, POB 336, Forest Hill, MD 21050 49
pps. digest.

%Title:  Poked With Sticks #5, 8/15/92
%Descr:  Energetic pastiche of socially conscious poetry and
second/third generation xeroxed photo-art collages. Warning: some pieces
are done in such miniscule point sizes that they are hard to decipher
but surprisingly worth the effort.  Much of this writing is gritty,
gutsy, viscerally startling, offering up exciting stream-of-
consciousness activist rants and jarring imagery which give this
powerful political punch.  Color postcard stock paper cover.
%Info:   $3.00 to 3964 Homewood, Toledo, OH 43612, 44 pps., digest

%Title: Police State by D.S. Black, Spring, 92
%Descr:  Emotionally charged poetry, art and photographs of outrage,
stemming from, and inspired by, post-Rodney King constitutional
violations in our own fair city of San Francisco as perpetuated by ex-
(fired) police chief Dick Hongisto and former police chief-turned-mayor
Frank Jordan.  Incinerating epiphanies capture the rage with depressing
and artful accuracy.
%Info:   SASE to Atlantis Express, 537 Jones St., #9156, San Francisco,
CA 94102. 11 pps, digest.

%Title:  Ransom Street Oct. '92 issue
%Descr:  A quality selection of psychosexual poetic utterances, free-
flowing pen & ink Munchian-style nudes, manually-typed, cut-and-pasted
short fiction, photography, free and paid space ads.
%Info:   28 pps; 1/2 legal; free; $5/1-year subscription; 323 McMasters
St., Chapel Hill, NC 27516.


Now, back to our regularly scheduled zine reviews by jerod23.


%Title:  Aphasia     Volume 1 Issue 1
%Descr:  One piece, "Sledgehammer Diary" by Adam Fox is a truly awesome
tale of desperation, obsession and the inability to cope with life after
prison.  Fortunately, it is the longest piece in this zine.  The rest is
insipid poetry, dumb collages and stupid ruminations on coping as a
college student.
%Info:   $2.85 each to Todd Wardrope  PO Box 14274  Dinkytown Station
1311 S.E. 4th Street  Minneapolis MN  55414-0274    50 pages, digest.

%Title:  Atheist Network Journal     Volume Two  Issue 9
%Descr:  Rather dry coverage of important issues padded with much self-
promotion.  How the election of President Bill is supposedly good news
for atheists and most everyone else with a functioning brain.  Praise
for Sinead O'Connor's ripping up a pope picture.  Mildly humorous
accounts of recent religious stupidity, such as the Korean Rapture
fiasco and the Vatican finally admitting that Galileo was right; as well
as the account of a Minnesota atheist who tried to get the Bible removed
from public school libraries on the grounds of violence and obsenity.
%Info:   $1.00 each(?) to Atheist Network  PO Box 130898  Houston TX
77219  8 pages, standard.

%Title:  Bad Karma    Issue 2
%Descr:  Illegible scrawls and lots of black xerox toner.  Worst of all,
they demand their stamps back.
%Info:   Free, as far as I can tell, from Aura  797 Woseley  Winnepeg MB
R3G 1C7  12 pages, digest.

%Title:  California Entertainment Review    April 1992
%Descr:  Reviews of quintessential California-type entertainment:
Flaming Carrot comix;  Motorhead and McCartney;  cyberpunk, steampunk,
roncknroll and vampire books.  Chilling exerpt from "Consciousness
Explianed" on a true account of anti-rock mind control.
%Info:   SASE to A.P. MacDonald  Box 561  Concord CA  94522-0561  4
pages, standard  email [e-mail]

%Title:  Cyber-Psycho's A.O.D. (R)    Issue 2
%Descr:  For the lovers of the cyberpunk soundtrack.  Jasmine and crew
interview The Electric Hellfire Club, Godflesh, Front Line Assembly and
Pamela Z.  There's also profiles of Voodoo and The Cutthroat Empire.
Comix, including an extremely psychotic mini "The Leather Pope," reviews
and fiction.  The fiction pieces, while well-executed, are stuck in the
typical deathmetalhorrordevilslasher genre.  Excellent Geiger does
grafitti cover art.
%Info:   $4.00 each to Jasmine Sailing  PO Box 581  Denver CO  80201  40
pages standard + 14 page mini

%Title:  The Drood Review of Mystery    Volume XII Number 7
%Descr:  Detailed and capsule reviews of mystery novels by people who
seem to live for the next release of another good book.  "The phrase
'hardboiled' gets tossed around as much as a Presidential candidate's
reputation, used to describe any protagonist who comes within staggering
distance of a trenchcoat or taking a walk in the night."  26 novels are
reviewed, and information on over a hundred more titles is provided.
%Info:   $2.00 each to The Drood Review  Box 1293  Brookline MA  02146
16 pages, standard.

%Title:  Famous Hardcore of Punkland    Number 7
%Descr:  This is supposed to be new, but the most recent smelling crap
was a page about the state of pro football in 1991.  Interviews with The
Hates, Boom and the Legion of Doom, The Wretched Ones and Agnostic
Front, padded with bad reprints of gig photos and related data that date
the interviews to 1989 and 1990.  Reviews of about three years worth of
punkrock records and tapes.
%Info:   $1.25 each to Craig Hill  220 Standish #1  Redwood City CA
94063  32 pages, standard.

%Title:  Flux    Issue 2
%Descr:  Another cyberspace/zine crossover.  Robert offers tips on
starting your own BBS, and navigating through Usenet and The Internet.
Plus Twisted Image, Hakim Bey on the end of the world and garage VR from
Mondo 2000.  Layout and multicolored paper is strongly reminiscent of
_The Silicon Womb_.  I have one complaint, the instaglossy plasticine
over the front and back covers is very toxic feeling.
%Info:   $2.00 each to Robert Derek  200 Market St. #A-21  Lowell MA
01852    20 pages standard.  email [e-mail]   or
[e-mail]

%Title:  Folk-Michel    August 1992
%Descr:  German zine about folk music.  Mainly, but not exclusivley lame
middle-aged white people like Fairport Convention who are profiled in
this issue.  Also covered is the traditional music of North American
Indians, polka and klezmer music.
%Info:   4 DM each to Folk-Michel  Postfach 30 08 52  5300 Bonn 3   52
pages, A4.

%Title:  Franklin's World Sentinel    Volume 6  Number 3
%Descr:  B.L. Franklin is in a world of his own.  He talks to God, and
God talks back.  Unlike most people who have these sorts of
conversations, and write them down for publication, Mr. Franklin is full
of compassion and understanding.  True, he is anti-abortion, but he
doesn't condemn the people, just the procedure.  He's located the New
Jerusalem at a ski resort in Colorado, where Saint Ryan White will sit
at the Loard's (his spelling) right hand.  He's really big on gay
rights, "Remember, simple-minded earthlings (American Politicians),
there are twice as many queers in the world as there are Americans..."
He also offers brain research as the key to an AIDS cure, along with
God's sincerest apologies for the creation of HIV.  This is probably the
gentlest rant from kookdom.
%Info:   $1.00 each to B.L. Franklin  58 West Ferry  #7 Lexington Place
Detroit MI  48202  10 pages, standard.

%Title:  The Gate    Volume 8  Number 3
%Descr:  A well done zine of Fortean and related phenomenae.  An
interesting speculation on the extraterrestrial origin of "The Man in
the Iron Mask."  Near death experiences that are frightening instead of
peaceful,  the search for Rudolph Hess' ghost,  strange things that have
fallen from the sky, the soldiers who went A.W.O.L. on the advice of a
Ouija board, UFO sightings, contactee support groups and a variety of
other similar eventss.  Plus a page of related zines.
%Info:   $2.00 each to The Gate  PO Box 43516  Richmond Heights  OH
44143  20 pages, digest.

%Title:  Good Day Sunshine     Number 67
%Descr:  Some people just don't give up.  It's a Beatles fanzine.  And
they cover, with maniacal and sometimes illegible fanish hyperbole, the
latest bootlegs, re-issues, tours, films and books about and activities
of anyone with the remotest connection to a band that hasn't performed
in almost 30 years.  GDS has the *really*  crucial information, like
what the son of their tailor is doing these days and how much a home
movie of a vacation in Greece sold for at an auction.
%Info:   $3.00 each to Liverpool Productions  397 Edgewood Ave.  New
Have CT  06511-4013   72 pages, standard.

%Title:  It's a Tabloid World   Issue 1
%Descr:  Generic punk zine from New York.  Stupid question by-mail
interviews with Sockeye and Lawnmower Deth.  OK, they called Sockeye on
the phone, but the interview reads like it was done by mail.  Reviews
and reprints from 'bloids and pix of Madonna nekkid.
%Info:   $1.00 each to John Beatty  529 W. Franklin St.  Horseheads NY
14845  24 pages, digest.

%Title:  MLBD Newsletter    Volume XIV  Number 4
%Descr:  Reviews of books published in India.  What makes this little
review zine unique is that the reviews are in the same language as the
book.  So English language books are reviewed in English, Hindi books in
Hindi and so on.  The subjects of the English language books are Art,
Religion, Mysticism and History.  Plus titles to be published and news
items, such as the "Discovery of an old coin" and "Sanskrit teacher
training camp."
%Info:   $10.00 a year to Motilal Banarsidss  Bungalow Road  Jawahar
Nagar  Delhi  110 007  16 pages, A5

%Title:  The Neon News     Number 11
%Descr:  A zine by and for the crafters of neon signs.  This issue
includes a somewhat amusing tale of a neon sign maker getting burned by
a con artist.  Plus how a neon art school gets accredited, European
powder-coating techniques, translated from Dutch, building your own
electronic choke, dumpster diving for parts and other assorted tips and
techniques on the craft.
%Info:   $6.00 each to The Neon News  PO Box 668  Volcano HI  96785  16
pages, standard.

%Title:  New World Odour  Issues 1 & 2
%Descr:  Generic punk zine from New Zealand.  Darren worships
Alternative Tentacles bands, especially Alice Donut.  Reprints stuff
from MRR, Threat By Example and ancient Sex Pistols newsclips.
Collages, poetry and pleas for penpals.  Each issue has one page on the
scene in Christchurch.
%Info:   $2.00 each to Darren Kirk  4 Grimseys Road  Redwood
Christchurch 5  24 pages, A4.

%Title:  The New Philistine     Number 7
%Descr:  The publisher promises that "All issues taken together will
amount to a complete repudiation of contemporary American literature."
This issue, at least, is a great rant about John Updike's narcissism and
cluelessness.  Anton Chekov is also reamed, but I fail to understand his
contribution to American Literature.
%Info:   SASE to K. Wenclas  5440 Cass #1006  Detroit MI  48202  6
pages, standard.

%Title:  Ox    Number 12
%Descr:  German language punkrock tabloid with recipies(?!?)  I guess
they're veggie.  News and somebody's vacation in Australia.  Interviews
with members of SHARP (Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice), Poison Idea,
Articles of Faith, The Nation of Ulyesses, Boxhamsters, Misery L.C. and
Nursery Crimes.  Tons of reviews of comix, music and zines.  Comes with
7-inch vinyl of generic punkrock bands.
%Info:   5 DM each to Joachim Hiller  Weg 5  4300  Essen 14   36 pages,
tabloid.

%Title:  Die Rote Zora    Number 2
%Descr:  Another German language punkrock zine, but this one is
handwritten!  Aaargh.  No way in hell can I decipher it.  The inhalt
promises interviews with The Plot, Inside Out, Seek, Kin@ and UFD.  Also
comix, concert, zine and record reviews, recipies and other stuff.
%Info:   2 DM each to Ines Baumann  Junghof 3  6719  Altleiningen   72
pages, cut-in-half A4.

%Title:  Second Guess    Issues 3 & 4
%Descr:  Pranks and scams, many of which are restricted to Reno, but
this is a local punk zine.  I'm especially curious about getting an hour
on a parking meter by filing one end of a penny.  City government scams
the populace once again.  Band interviews that transcend the typical,
such as the subject getting knifed at a gig, or the influence of bad
local radio, or Mykel Board on being Mykel Board.  A road trip to New
York and DC where extremely rude security guards protect "boring, old,
white, fat assholes who do nothing but sit on their butts and talk to
one another all day while they take turns behind a lectern speaking
worthless drivel into a microphone."  Bob has been kind enough to email
me his zine reviews, and I was stooopid enough to loose them the first
time.  You'll find his reviews after mine.
%Info:   $2.00 (cash or stamps) each to  Second Guess  PO Box 9382  Reno
NV  89507  28 and 40 pages, digest  email [e-mail]

%Title:  Shavertron    Number 29
%Descr:  For those who don't know:  Richard Shaver was one of the great
kooks of the fifties.  He synthesized the popular myths of UFOs,
Atlantis and the Hollow Earth into a unified myth known as the Shaver
Mystery.  The Hollow Earth was populated by rogue Atlanteans known as
Deros that piloted UFOs to abduct humans for unknowable, yet frightening
reasons.  Shaver wasn't just a garden variety kook.  His ideas then had
the same impact as Striber's do today, a lot of people were convinced
that Shaver was on to something.  Some people still believe, and this is
the zine for the true belivers, and one has to be somewhat versed in
both the Shaver Mystery and the sordid tale of it's inception and
publicity to fully appreciate all the references in this zine.
Entrances to the Hollow Earth, Shaver's comments about TV,  MJ-12 and
the CIA, Tesla and assorted Forteana.
%Info:   $5.00 AND an SASE each to  Richard Toronto  PO Box 5237  Napa
CA  94581  44 pages, digest.

%Title:  The Tempatation of St. Anthony    Numbers 53-56
%Descr:  I utterly flubbed the ordering information for this one last
time.  It's still once-a-week, in-the-mail I Ching.  'In the future,
_Wheel of Fortune_ will be played in Morse Code.  "I'd like a dot, Pat."
"Is there...A dot?"'  Meditate on *that*.  Or, "Shoot, I'd settle for
just knowing what it feels like to have a zero diameter."
%Info:   $0.50+postage per FIVE issues.  Subscriptions are 52 issues per
year in 12 batches of 4 or 5 issues each for $10.  We are willing to
accept stamps or The Usual.  Martin Bormann's Cranial Splints
POB 8166  Philadelphia PA  19101  1 or 2 pages, standard.  email
[e-mail]

%Title:  Thieves and Prostitutes   Number 6
%Descr:  If the producers weren't a bunch of rabid anti-drug, anti-
abortion Christians this would be yet another generic punk zine.
Skulls, lousy poetry (just substitute George Bush for Abortionist and
it's the same poetry as half the other punkrock zines), more skulls,
band interviews, even more skulls.
%Info:   $1.00(?) each to Alexis Neptune  4009 Johnson St.  Hollywood FL
33021  12 pages, standard.

%Title:  Thingumybob    Number 6
%Descr:  A rather typical close-knit sfanzine from England, with
contributors from the UK, the US and Australia.  I especially liked the
two episodes of the comic "Russ L. Street C.O.P." a Bladerunnerish epic
of future civil war between Sydney and Melbourne loaded with awful puns.
Thingumybob is almost all long fanzine reviews and LoC's.  It has the
most amusing address (so far) in zinedom.
%Info:   The Usual to Chuck Conner  Sildan House  Chediston Road
Wissett  Near Halesworth  Suffolk  IP19 0NF  52 pages, A4

%Title:  Tommy Magazine    Number 105
%Descr:  Italian language punkrock zine.  Band, zine and underground
radio infromation.  Interviews with Sundial, The End, Ataraxia, Isola
Posse All Stars, Nuovi Briganti, Aeroplani Italiani, Les Coquines and
Diaframma.  Lots of record reviews.  Comes with a 4 page zine with
details about the latest gigs in Udine.
%Info:   22,000 Lira a year to Mauro Missana  Via Uberto I  146-33034
Fagagna  Udine   40 pages A3(? I dunno, it's a bit bigger than A4) and 4
pages A4.

%Title:  Twisted Image    Number 43
%Descr:  If you haven't had the chance to see Ace's comix in every zine
on the planet, or if you get some zines *just* to read them, you can get
Twisted Image straight from the source.  In addition to strips I've seen
repeatedly, this issue has an hommage to R. Crumb, responses to the
readers' survey (including R. Crumb's), Bukowski on the presidential
election and a reprint of a local news article on Ace's participation in
a Berkeley art exhibit.
%Info:   $20.00 a year (cash) to Twisted Image  1630 University Ave.
apt. 26  Berkeley CA  94703  10 pages, standard.



Now zine and music reviews from Second Guess #5.

Hi, please include this in the FF5-E files you are sending out.  thanks!
-bob
PS you forgot these last time....what happened?

______________
Second Guess #5 zine and music reviews.  For the complete issue of
Second Guess send $2 to bobc, PO Box 9382, Reno, NV  89507.
or email [e-mail]   Thanks.

MUSIC
WINDHAM HELL cassette, "Complete Awareness," seven songs,
$6, L.T. Windham, 9405 384th Ave. SE, Snoqualmie, WA  98065.
Half classical-style metal guitar solos and half drum machine thrash-
metal with unintelligible and barely-heard vocals.  Unfortunately this is
part of a genre that should have fully died when it dropped in
popularity soon after it came out a few years back.  We're talking
thunder and echo intros here.  Honorable DIY quality, just rehashed
concepts that's all.
        LOCAL H cassette demo, "IS," seven songs, $5?, PO 9161,
Waukegan, IL  60079-9161.  Local H is a band that sounds like what
Seattle bands would sound like if they had talent and creativity.  This
is pop/ grunge/ noise/ crash/ thump-thump/ burn your speakers stuff.
And they're friends of mine.
        WALLMEN 7 inch EP, 2 songs, $3?, Dead Judy Records, 771
Lisa Lane, N. Syracuse, NY  13212.  Clear Vinyl!  Wooo...neato.
But the annoying part is this record has the big hole where you need
one of those adapter thingys to fit it on your turntable.  No biggie.
Sound:  keyboards and guitar synth create a
college/modern/alternative rock sound on one side and an upbeat
pseudo late 70s rock/metal sound on the other.  These guys could be
coming to the college radio station nearest you!
        BLOODHOUND GANG 7 inch EP, "Locked Out," three songs,
$3, THD Records, 2020 Seabury Ave, Minneapolis, MN  55406.
Rockish pop punk with dark love songs like this:  "Ran into a friend of
yours and I couldn't stop my voice - told her your just a messed up
girl with a freaked out, doped up life.  And I swelled up strong when I
said this and pretended it was true but she knew:  I shoot this loud
cap gun that can't kill a thing about you..."  Pretty good.
        JABBERJAW/BLOODHOUND GANG split 7 inch EP, three
songs, $3, THD records (address above).  One tune from BHG
similar to the above stuff.  Jabberjaw, is more fast pop punk stuff.
Maybe a tad more serious, though.  I find them interesting but not
exciting. Kind of there, but existing just above the threshold of
conscious awareness.  In other words, okay.  Weird, I spotted a few
of these at a local record store, of all places.
        GARGOYLES CD, Sympathy For the Record Industry
(Mordam Distro).  Seventies-style rocknroll with a punk style.
Gargoyles have an old punk following in the Bay Area.  Jeff Bale likes
them.  Their drummer, Brian, has lots of stories to tell about the
band, like being pressure vomited on while playing a show in San
Jose.
        FURY 7 inch EP, "Resurrection," six songs, $3, THD Records
(address above).  Cool shit, this disc.  Punkish post-hardcore noise
(whatever the fuck that means) with catchy lyrics.  "Shotgun" strokes
this reviewer's loins.  Buy it, no questions about it.
        QUINCY PUNX 7 inch EP, "Me," nine songs, $3, THD Records
(address above).  Jokey, anti-PC lyrics combined with a stale style
of punk make this a laugher.  Check these words from "Punker Than
U":  "You listen to the PC groups and wear your brand new DM
boots, mind controlled by Profane Existence."  Okay, goodie goodie
gum drops.  Yes.  Czech also Zannah's fav, "I Wanna Be A Dyke."
        MINORITY 7 inch EP, four songs, $3, Steve Dilley, PO Box
8649, Austin, TX  78713-8649.  Standard hardcore (and I want to
say straight-edge) with personal and political lyrics.  Fairly good
music and attitude.
        POPINJAYS "Flying Down to Mono Valley," CD on Epic
Records.  Oh lordy, the debate over whether to review big label (I
don't use the term "major label" cuz SUP POP and TOUCH AND GO
act like majors so they may as well be) releases.  I say fuck it.  First
and foremost is my support of underground and independent music,
but if I keep getting shitty-ass post cards and press releases from
shitty-ass labels like TOUCH AND GO and TAAANG! w/o the
releases it's kinda hypocritical of me to turn down EPIC who at least
takes the time to send me shit.  I can at least give a review and take
the CD down to the used CD store to help pay for this zine.
        Anyway, I'm a sucker for good pop music and this disc almost
sucked me dry.  Not to mention the killer glossy photo of the two
cuties producing the music....  It's upbeat, alterna-acoustic pop-rock
("crackle crackle," you know that candy stuff) with, unfortunately,
drum machine rhythms.  A little too trendy soundin' but pink hair types
will dig this.
        RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE cassette, Epic Records.
Politically charged white boy thrash-rap done by guys that may or
may not be white.  Lyrics reflect smelLA conditions.  The press
release pretty much says they're an overnight sensation-type band.
Pretty good stuff but we can do without the self-glorifying hype
portrayed in the promo, thank-you-very-much.
        HUASIPUNGO 7 inch EP, "Canciones Para Una Causa
Perdida," seven songs, $3, Discos Sanjuancito, 80-50 Baxter
Ave. #125, Elmhurst, NY  11373.  I saw these guys (and gal) in NYC
and it was a riot.  The sound is total guitar heavy hardcore, much like
Born Against, but HUASIPUNGO is not slow and limp, unlike Born
Against.  The lyrics are in Spanish and English and reflect Latin
American situations.  One of my favorites recently, this disc.  Highly
recommended.
        VARIOUS, "Piledriver" 7 inch EP with THE OXYMORONS,
SINKHOLE, FAQ and KID WITH MAN HEAD, $3, Sub-Mission
Records, PO Box 6824, St. Paul, MN  55106.  Red Vinyl.  FAQ, in
their song, "Twinkie, has lyrics like "Livin' off those berries and
'shrooms, but at least I don't have to clean my room."  Their vocalist
sounds like a throwback 60s folk singer applying his skills to '93 pop
punk.  FAQ has more style changes in their tune and a silly
breakdown about a Twinkie purchase.  KID WITH MAN HEAD play a
sweet, melodic groover about surfin.  THE OXYMORONS are kinda
a pop thingy which sounds a little to me like Green Day and
Crimpshrine mixed.  But I may be wrong.  Pretty good.  SINKHOLE,
more poppy stuff; is this the trend these days?  All pop, happy
sounders on this disc. Decent stuff.

ZINES
We've been receiving too many zines lately.  Unless this lets up, we
can no longer review every zine sent in.  This will first effect those
zines that don't review in return.  Sorry.

        Profane Existence #16, $2, PO Box 8722, Minneapolis, MN
55408.  Tabloid-size zine.  This excerpt is taken from a column
within this issue.  It's written by a character named Troll:  "I support
the actions 100% of women fighting back to destroy patriarchy."  So
far so good.  "And I have no regrets the PE is going to take this on in
our usual way -- up front and in your face!"  A bit vehement but still on
planet Earth.  "If you have any questions I recommend immediate
castration."  BZZZZZT!  Ding!  Ding!  Ding!  Ding!  Ding!  Yo, Troll!
Why don't you crawl back under the bridge!
        I've said it before and I'll say it again:  lame.  (Note:  this
isolated
bit of lack of wisdom tends to be characteristic of a lot of the idiocy
at PE -- except for the zine reviews, of course.)
        Who Cares? #5, $2, 7537 Heatherton Lane, Rockville, MD
20854-3232.  Small zine.  "Bob, didn't have room for your review --
(ad) money first for me the whore."  Oh, I see, Steve.  So that's how
many zines I've sent you now and you haven't reviewed yet?  Maybe
next time, right?
        Anyway, the best part of this is the opening editorial where Steve
describes being arrested for shoplifting at Tower Records.  Includes
also features on the Swirlies, Lilys, Treepeople, Stumpy Joe and
Hammerbox.  The latter three by my pal The Glitter who says she
thinks it is a-okay to be biased in her articles because the bands are
friends of hers.  So much for getting in-depth.
        10 Things #1, 2 stamps, 1407 NE 45th St. #17, Seattle, WA
98105.  Zine.  A Seattle zine with what you'd expect:  a pretty good
Mudhoney interview, local show reviews, Naken Aggression, a Sonic
Youth commentary and record reviews.  Sorry, but it reminds me too
much of the lame grunge-list.  Cool first though.
        10 Things #2, $1.50.  Ten things this zine -- put out by See-addle
whores Dan and Parker -- can do without:  Steve Turner ('ho), the
cover (art), the back cover (ad), the majority of the show and record
reviews, and...fuck that's all I can cum up with.  Ten reasons why you
should buy this rag:  THE GLITTER GIRL (!!!!), my letter, the SE
Fashion draw-ing (which i just may steal...), the CRACKERBASH ad,
SIN's Riot Grrrl quotes (clap clap), the photo of that guy (girl?) going
down on that chyck, GARGOYLES, and ... fuck that's all I can cum up
with.  Dan houses me, i appreciate.  Getting better, sirs.
        Cactus Prick #6, $1 and two stamps, 1265 E. Univ. #1014,
Tempe, AZ  85281.  Zine.  CP is becoming one of my favorite zines.
I don't even care if this Melmoprick slags me, this is funny shit.  The
band interviews suck, but they're kinda funny cause Melmo is a
smartass (generally) to the bands.  Sheprick and
farts...Melmo=desert toroise churning out beef patties.  Buy.
        We Are the Weird #25, $3, Joe Bob Briggs, PO Box 2002,
Dallas, TX  75221.  Newsletter.  B-Grade movie reviews by critic
Joe Bob, as well as a eulogy to Mad magazine's publisher.  Includes
a funny and right-on commentary on the Klan.  Bobc says cool.
        Christ: The Dark Years, $1.60, Church of New Faith, PO Box
9152, Va. Beach, VA  23450.  Small, half-page zine.  Uh...yeah,
right.  Check this:  "Jesus clad in shining armor and sword forged by
the angels of  God, crept into the hollow pit where the gargoyle lived.
The gargoyle had one vulnerability and one only, and that was its
massive genitalia.  While it slept Jesus hacked the genitalia from the
evil monster.  Then Jesus wandered aimlessly for days."  Buy this if
you want the complete tale of the Dark Christ.  Heh heh.
        Blue Ryder #25, 12 issues/$5, Box 587, Olean, NY  14760.
Small, tabloid sized zine.  This is mostly a review thing (zines,
music, etc.) with reprinted stuff from Chain Letter (below) and an
interview with Hank Rollins (neck).  #27 has an interview with a cop,
more reviews, Manic Street Preachers and Mike Gunderloy
interviews, and more.
        Chain Letter #4, $1, PO Box 72671, Las Vegas, NV  89170-
2671.  Half-page sized zine.  A brother Nev. zine with at least equal
amounts of fun, slippery, drippy, oozing verbiage.  This one features
the reality/myth of tattoo addiction, flag burning and a how-to
complain correctly section.  Me like.  Me laugh.
        Fat Kid/Spiderworks split fanzine, $1?, Matt O., 4326 Airport
#B, Austin, TX  78722.  Half-page sized zine.  Features Wynona
Ryders (cool), Bitey Bitey Mosstones (sellout), Myke Bullshit
(PC...actually this guy is known for being an anti-bigotbig DEAL!!!),
Citizen Fish (England), and more garbage.  Pretty cool.  I want to see
another.
        Flipside #80, $2.50, PO Box 60790, Pasadena, CA  9116.
Thick zine.  I like.  Big zine.  Many bands.  Like Cud, Frantic Puzzle,
Jesus Lizard, Seven Year Bitch, Tesco Vee, L7 and mush, mush
mo'.  L7 get the lamequote-of-year award for this fragment of
stupidity:  "It pisses us off when a fanzine like Maximum Rocknroll
gives us the big 'fuck you' without knowing what's going on...poverty
pisses us off whether it be other people's or our own."  Oh, sure.
L7=suck but Flipside=good.
        #81 has Falling James of Leaving Train (wow, yer sooo punk
doode), more Billy-boy Cooper (can you say paranoia?), Gass
Huffer, Ministry (ack), Mudhoney (ahem), Rudimentary Peni and
some funny slags on Bikini Kill along with the usual scene reports.
        Jersey Beat #47, $2, 418 Gregory Ave, Weehawken, NJ
07087.  Zine.  This gets the silly zine name tag.  But damn if these
aren't good interviews with Screeching "Ben" Weasel, Faith No More
(hair farmers), Letch Patrol(s), Lemonheads and more.  Good look,
feel and attitude.  I recommend.  It's a wise and humble zine.  That's
what it is.
        Pawholes #2, $1,50?, 13 Forbes Terrace, Pittsburg, PA
15217.  Half-page sized zine.  Hey, easy does it on the clip-art
images okay?  Generally, Pee-holes numbah two is more serious
than number one, but this workage features one exciting interview
with RACHEL McNALLY of SLEEPYHEAD, a pro/anti make-up
story (me no like mayke-up), the on-going single, straight, male quest
(this one in an auto-supply store ... HUH?! ... weird kids, these
Pawholes people...), Tipper Gore's drum kit and her "rock roots
revealed," interesting aborshun facts and mo' mo' mo'.  Yes!
        Blown Chunx #5, $2?, Alyssa Chunx, 75 Stanton Rd.,
Brookline, MA  02146.  Half-page sized zine.  Blown Chunx,
product of Bahstahn mover and shaker Alyssa Chunx.  This one
features much writing on Native American and feminist issues (you
know, women-with-a-"y" type stuff).  Includes one of those annoying
"Foopee" comics, a stinker called "Just Another Freak" (no comment)
by DuH and two photos of the editor and her friends.  What's with the
hand-drawn maps these zine editors keep doin of their little
scenes???  Eric Butt, among others, has a cool article on the 404
Willis (Detroit) collective.  Bigger and much better than number four.
94159-1275.  Half-page sized zine.  Some nauseating poetry but
some cool journal-type stories.  HT is mostly male-centered, which is
disappointing, but overall it's recommended.  Good writing, art and
layout.  I liked best the essay on what zines really are:  "Zine is not
short for magazine.  A magazine is a product, a commercial
commodity.  A zine is a labor of love, producing no profit, and
frequently a loss, of time at least."  Right on.  Add two stamps if you
want Queer Zine Explosion, a listing of queer zines.
        Practical Anarchy #5, $1, PO Box 173, Madison, WI  53701-
0173.  Zine.  Generally there's a lot of good information here, but
some of the ideas in this issue -- which seem to be consistent with
those who label themselves as anarchists -- are contradictory.
        For example, the editor says to vote is "to sanction or legitimize
the state (and) ... anarchists are anti-statists, so why should they
acknowledge or even legitimize the state?"  Why?  Because the right
for you to say that is in jeopardy if some of these assholes get
elected, that's why!  Also, the editor goes to baseball games which is
supportive of excessive, corrupt capitalism in my eyes.  Unless, of
course, he steals the tickets, but I doubt that!
        There's other stuff as well, such as anarchist updates, reviews,
Internet tips, other voting stuff and more.  Overall rating:  good.
        Thwack #1, $2 (for 1 & 2), Cynthia Kravetz, 1640 W. Grace St.,
Richmond, VA  23220.  Zine.  The editor thinks many feminists are
(t)whacked.  She hates PC punk bullshit.  She's all right in my book.
This zine features the guitarist of Toasters (dipshit), 411 (living on
inheritance), Chris Shary (cool) and more.  In the show reviews
section a reviewer has this to say about BORN AGAINST:  "their
music is just not good ... the bassist dropped his bass to stage dive
and I honestly didn't hear a difference."  Hee hee.
        Thwack #2, has more of the same but with Clutch, Shudder to
Think, Five-Eight, and more.  Good scene coverage and attitudes.
        Lights Out #1, $1.50, Chris or Jeremy, 2837 Hickey Ave, N.
Las Begas, NV  89030.  Zine.  This is done by a couple 16-year-
olds.  It's pretty good, but has a sloppy layout..  They call each other
fags and are doing a "White Trash Girl" contest.  Says them:  "Lights
Out is ours.  If you don't like it, well, that's too bad.  You can just go
fuck yourself." Glad to see they aren't afraid to piss people off.
Includes a couple interviews.  The best part of the zine is the attitude
and the "Dumb Girl Gets Play in Our Magazine" interview.
        Hungry Girl #1, $1.75, c/o Zannah Marsh, 1426 Grand Ave., St.
Paul, MN  55105.  Half-page sized zine.   The editor insists this
"isn't a Riot Grrrl zine."  I disagree.  It has "grrrl revolution" spelled all
over it:  it has those cutesy stars Riot Grrrl has, it has an intelligent
interview with Billy and Kathleen (did somebody say "confused"?)
Hanna of BIKINI KILL and most of the rest of the content except for
the reviews is oriented around gender issues.
        The RG correlation is definitely there.  But I don't think that's
necessarily bad, as the opinions -- "people, not girl or boy,
revolution" -- are inconsistent with some RG's trains of thought, which
should be viewed, ultimately, as positive.  Cool layout and the
coolest handwriting since vomitbus.
        Traffic, $1.50, Cliff Hopkins, 953 E. 87th St., Brooklyn, NY
11236. Poetry chapbook.  Short, pointed and humorous  verses
make up one poem which lasts for 12 pages.  One of Cliff's best by
far.  "some people never see the marble inside a can of spay paint.
some professors don't read our homework.  some kids are dreading
the first day of school.  denzel washington looks exactly like malcolm
X."  etc.
        Void, $2, PO Box 72671, Las Vegas, NV  89170-2671. Half-
page sized zine.  Overall I was pretty confused as to what this zine
was about.  It wasn't until the latter half that I started to find worthwhile
reading material.  Mostly sloppy layout with a lot of ads and poor art.
A few cool stories and scam/hangout type things.  Wasn't until the
very last page that discovered what the zine's about -- bad placement
decision there guys.
        (Personal aside:  Sorry but it you want contributions you'll have to
give me more than a week and more information....)
        A Day in the Life Of.... #9, two stamps, c/o Carrie Carolin, PO
Box 94221, Seattle, WA  98124.  Zine.  This is really cool.  It's a
collection of writings by people who describe their lives and daily
routines.  Wow.  There's a couple from people in collectives, one
from a prisoner (ouch!), some travelers and more.  Cool, cool, cool.