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- [ How To Get More Sex ] [ By The GNN ]
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- HOW TO GET MORE SEX
- by THE GNN/DualCrew-Shining/uXu
-
- Once again, we thank Cheap Attention Grabbers for supplying
- us with a great title! Thanks boys!
-
- The true (and way too long) title of this textfile is however:
-
- HOW TO SUCCESSFULLY CONSTRUCT AN ELECTRONIC PUBLICATION IN THREE EASY LESSONS
- by THE GNN/DualCrew-Shining/uXu
-
-
- Right this minute, billions and billions of people ask themselves these
- questions: What is this? Yet another file on how to successfully create a
- e-zine in three easy lessons? Do we really need this crap?
- The answer is: Yes, of course we do. For the sake of humanity. For the
- sake of your own ego. Down to business.
-
-
- <LESSON ONE> THE NAME OF YOUR PUBLICATION
-
- For starters, you need to give your magazine a name. The best thing is to
- put together three words so that it looks like you were the coolest dudes on
- earth. A good move is to give the impression that you are the one and only
- expert of a subculture, preferably the computer underground. To be able to
- give your friends the same status, inform the reader that you are a bunch of
- *united* experts. For example: 'united underground experts'(UUE), 'eXperts
- united Underground' (XuU), 'underground United eXperts' (uUX).
-
-
- <LESSON TWO> WHAT TO WRITE
-
- Electronic magazines offer no entertainment. Hell no, in the zine business
- you must be 'political' and 'offensive'. This kind of writing is referred
- to as 'ranting' (which is a nice paraphrase for 'whiny'). Please keep in
- mind that your audience will mostly consist of less intelligent people,
- which means that your texts must be on their level. If you wrote files that
- were not on the wavelength of the common zine reader, you would immediately
- be considered as 'self-occupied', due to that the reader would find no
- support for his own trivial problems concerning his puberty in your text.
- Such a development would be fatal for your publication and should therefore
- be avoided at all cost.
-
- Example 1a: (WRONG)
-
- "Life is wonderful. Everything is great. I have a beautiful boyfriend,
- even though I don't really know how he looks like, since I met him
- on the IRC #really_intelligent_men_with_big_cocks. I have a nice job.
- Well, actually, it sucks. But who cares? As long as there is love,
- peace and understanding in this world, everything is jolly good.
- I never watch television since it makes me depressed. You ought
- not watch TV either, since it will make you depressed. Be happy!
- Yippe-yippe-yay-yay, it's fun to be-gay-gay, all fucking day-day."
-
- Example 1b: (RIGHT)
-
- "I'm a teenager and my life sucks. I hate myself. In fact, I hate
- everything. You know what? Yesterday, I saw a commercial on TV.
- It sucked. I hated it. I hate the government, even though I don't
- really know which country I live in. Everything is so insane. I'm
- insane. Don't tell me that I am wrong, because you don't know the
- real me. I've had a tough childhood. I've been on heroine. Yeah.
- Everything sucks besides Nine Inch Nails. And Simpsons. Fuck."
-
- If you are into poetry (even though you should avoid that genre - no one is
- really interested writing poetry, less *reading* such crap), the same rules
- apply.
-
- Example 1c: (WRONG)
-
- April is the cruellest month, breeding
- lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
- memory and desire, stirring
- dull roots with spring rain.
-
- Example 1d: (RIGHT)
-
- proto-fascism and crack;
- killed my flying Mac,
- seven sailors in a row
- fucked me like a cow
-
- [Note to Swedish readers:] Den svenska e-zine-industrin ser helt annorlunda
- ut, och de ovan givna exemplen {r helt v{rdel|sa f|r ett svenskt zine. Hav
- f|rtr|stan, f|r det {r faktiskt mycket enklare att publicera ett zine i
- Sverige som omedelbart n}r en stor publik och blir om}ttligt popul{r. Allt
- som kr{vs {r en ordbok och en herrans massa knappande p} tangenter (vilket
- inte ska misstas f|r 'skrivande'). Tekniken {r k{nd som LOB-Teratologen-
- tekniken, efter de tv} mest erk{nda m{starna p} det omr}det, {ven om de
- faktiskt skrev *riktiga* b|cker. I sammandrag ser en typiskt text (ja, ett
- helt zine faktiskt) ut p} detta vis:
-
- "det {r nu dags att knyta f|rnuftets m{starn{ve i de borgerliga asens
- f|rljugna r|vh}l och kl{mma den kvasiintellektuella prostatan tills
- den v{lf|rtj{nsta publika orgasmen i v{lf{rd och dumhet sk|ljer |ver
- massorna och de slickar i sig den absurda sanning som bara vi k{ra
- l{sare kan f|rse eder med d} vi vara det nya genesis, tiden och hoppets
- sanna b|rjan p} en ny bisarr tids}lder i paradoxernas samtid"
-
- Obegripligt? Sj{lvklart. Brist p} n}got vettigt att s{ga kan, och skall,
- alltid lindas in i avancerat 'kul' ordvr{ngeri. [End of note.]
-
-
- <LESSON THREE> HEADS AND FOOTS
-
- All electronic zines that aims for reputation need two additional features:
- 1) A nice ascii-logo with class (head) and 2) a foot with information how
- many distribution sites the magazine possess around the world.
- It should be mentioned that it is impossible for you not to have any
- ascii-logos of class, because virtually there is no such thing as
- 'ascii-logos with class'. All logos suck, more or less. The reason for this
- is simple: you cannot create art with ascii. Those who dare to claim the
- opposite are all a bunch of liars who try to justify the only thing they are
- good at, putting together crap.
- If you have not got any distribution sites, the simple technique 'lie'
- will remedy that embarrassing fact. Everybody uses the Internet nowadays,
- which means that there is no need for bulletin board systems, which means
- that no one will ever try to call one, which means that you can list how
- many non-existing boards you feel for.
-
- Example 2a: (WRONG)
-
- Bad beYond Belief Magazine Presents
- File #02: "Welcome to My Anxiety"
- written by ETT JAVLA HELVETE
-
- blah blah blah blah blah
-
- --------------------------------------------------
- Call one of our dist sites: (we haven't got any)
- But please apply! PLEASE PLEASE FUCKING PLEASE
- --------------------------------------------------
-
-
- Example 2b: (RIGHT)
-
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- 00000000 0CC CCCCCCCCCC 000 asc xsszzza
- xxXXX00000000000cccceew wwwwwwwwww ascasc////////////////7
- XXXXXXXXXXXXX 000 eeeeeeeeeee3333333d ccccccc///////// ///7
- Xxxxxxxxxxxxxx www 00 ECCEECeeeeecccccccccccc//////////7
- xxxxxxxxxxxxxxeeeeeeeee 000000 cccccccccccccc//// /////7
- ////////////cwqrcqrcwcrcrb657567356745553//////////////7
- ////////wetvqwetvqwevcccccccccct 000000000000000000000
- 000000 00000000000000000000000 zxxxxxxxxc <.pRiCK.>
-
- Presents....
-
- File 000002: "WHY THIS MAGAZINE IS SO DAMN GREAT!"
- written by I AM SO GODDAMN GREAT!
-
- blah blah blah blah blah blah
-
- --------------------------------------------------
- CALL OUR DIST SITES: SUCKER! THEY'RE ALL SEKRET
- WANNA KNOW WHY? BECAUSE WE'RE *HAKKERS*!
- --------------------------------------------------
-
-
- <APPENDIX> THE *REAL* SECRET BEHIND A SUCCESSFUL E-ZINE...
-
- Forget all of the above. If you want your e-zine to become popular and
- famous (within the tight limits of this culture), there is just one simple
- rule you need to follow. Always remember, 'quantity is more important than
- quality'. Release files like hell, but never ever care if they all suck.
- There is no such thing as 'proof-reading' in the textfile industry. (A cool
- web-site with tonnes of graphics will work out fine too; just make sure that
- no one will be able to easily find your files somewhere in the pile of
- pointless animations.) Case closed.
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- uXu #419 Underground eXperts United 1998 uXu #419
- http://www.uxu.org
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