remember zines?

BEN IS DEAD
cometbus
infiltration (done by a friend of mine)

I was just wondering about this last week. I haven't seen a zine anywhere in years.

Was Infiltration an urban exploration zine?

yup!!

NOT IN BERKELEY THEY HAVEN'T

I still read and make zines.

has the internet made them irrelevant?

for lazy & disorganised people, yes.

This does not explain how I manage to still read and make zines.

Also, Aaron Cometbus writes "novels" now.

Some friends and I made three issues of a zine when we were about 14. I still have them. They're kind of funny, I suppose. "Dada"

lotsa xposts. I don't love blogs like I love zines, and have never felt the need to have a blog like I do to make something material.

Well, you can, I suppose, but zines are much more accessible.

stuff that sticks out in my head that i enjoyed... (that aren't upthread already)

chemical imbalance (and yeti!)
forced exposure
superdope
bunnyhop
hit it or quit it
bananafish (does this count?)
ugly things
cool beans
skyscraper
sound collector (now arthur yes?)
copper press (is okay...sort of ... nice layouts at least.)
rocktober
america?
manic panic (more of a comic i guess.)
thumb
badaboom grammaphone
ecstatic peace

i've been considering going back to xerox... but it's so... "nobody's reading this". which hey, maybe that's true with X million blogs too.
m.

http://www.shift.jp.org/

m.

hell, somebody even made a docu film about zining in portland

Baked Bean Teeth
Tim Ellison
Mike McGonigal

(reminds me... gyg... i got a superdope of yours. need to send.)

m.

There was another ILMer who had a zine called Last Plane To Jakarta, I forget who he was but he might have gone on to bigger things perhaps.

Cometbus
Feminist Baseball
Sissy (my friend did this one and I was in it)
The Journal Of Inconspicuous Consumption (that’s a subtitle, can’t remember the actual title but dude made it into a book)
Power To The Pessimists (by a grade school friend)
My own zines, various titles
Yukko (Newark DE in the house!)

Annoying:

Beyond Hinduism
Many, many others the names of which I forget but they’re rotting at my mom’s house

I still get the occasional issue of this, but their email list is much more active (along with the Urban Explorers list)

Get one laptop.

"Would you like to check your e-mail with my laptop? Just be aware that IT'S BEEN SITTING ON MY COCK WHILE I TOOK A SHIT for the last thirty minutes."

i do a zine. can't beat the feeling of blu-tack on your fingers, the warmth of the photocopier...mmm

zines are shit though, really. every now and then i get one i like the look of in rough trade and its just interminable live reviews of third rate schmindie bands and articles on riot grrl

hi sam, hi quitty!

i was tangentially involved with SKYWAY, taking pictures and handling layout for some of the final issues.

incorrect. they are separate things, though published by the same person. l4r1s has plans to put another issue of SC out sometime soon.

I think the thing that's wrong here is Make calling themselves a "zine".

thomas, jeff was one of my oldest friends... i'm glad you knew him too. his death hit me pretty hard.

there's a lot I could say about jeff and what a big great influence he was on my life but not here I think.

I just found a box that has some pretty great late 80s-early 90s stuff, is this stuff worth anything? Give it away? Craigslist?

You got any titles? I would be interested, maybe.
My friend Morgan does a great zine (Letters I will Never Send To You) that is mostly just a lot of fun and is also practical.

The usual stuff:
80s: Ecstatic Peace, Conflict, Matter, Forced Exposure, Chemical Imbalance, MR&R etc.
90s: Superdope, Crank, ROCKMAG(*!), Pope, Last Plane To Jakarta(**), etc.

*tim ellison cracking the code on left-field no-wave and comus allthewhile revisiting REM/George Harrison
**underrated aerosmith albums i have lusted after

Some of my favorite zine-dudes are on ILM!:
Baked Bean Teeth
Tim Ellison
Mike McGonigal

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, May 26, 2005 10:33 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

what did tim used to do? and bbt?
(reminds me... gyg... i got a superdope of yours. need to send.)

m.

― msp (mspa), Thursday, May 26, 2005 10:47 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

BBT's zine was called POPE and was top-notch.
Tim's was called ROCKMAG and later MODERN ROCK MAGAZINE, both very excellent.
There was another ILMer who had a zine called Last Plane To Jakarta, I forget who he was but he might have gone on to bigger things perhaps.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, May 26, 2005 11:43 AM (5 years ago)

i never knew lptj was a print zine

Yup, still have an issue or two around.

shasta bro id buy summa these off u

^Yeah man, totally. I would love some Forced Exposure back issues, I only have the MX 80 sound cover issue.

are there any clever or creative ways to organize large quantities of zines? Sticking them on a bookshelf or keeping them in a pile doesn't rly cut it for me. Divider tabs, mabye? Or folders?

I wonder what Mike Gunderloy is doing these days.

remember s1ocki?

I think I've heard of him. Are he and Gunderloy the same person?

O_O

From Wiki on Gunderloy and Factsheet 5:

Gunderloy currently works as a computer programmer and farmer. He co-authored the book SQL Server 7 in Record Time

Mike Gunderloy's Factsheet Five Collection of over 10,000 zines and mail art is now held at the New York State Library and Archives in Albany, New York, where it occupies 300 cubic feet (8.5 m3).[7] However, only about 4000 zines in the collection have been cataloged.[8] About 1/4 of the zines in the collection are listed on Excelsior, the New York State Library's electronic catalog; staff of the Manuscripts & Special Collection can help locate other items.[9] 240 zines that R. Seth Friedman donated are in the collection of the San Francisco Public Library

markers, why did you ask that question about s1ocki

srsly guys maybe like folders for "queer zines" and "DIY/how to zines" and "food zines" and "perzines"?

and then there's comix too!

I wish I knew a clever and creative way to organize mine

markers, why did you ask that question about s1ocki

― what made my hamburger disappear (WmC)

he started this thread & he hasn't posted in a while (miss u) -- was just kinda riffing on/"joking" abt that

Ikea "Flyt" magazine folders. $1.59 for five. That's why I've got mine in.

Or there are several more expensive versions of the same thing.

3-ring binders + clear sleeves would be great if you have the shelf space, but would get expensive in a hurry

Replace MY COCK with MY PUBES.

lol

xpost. I use the 3 ring binder/clear sleeve thing for sheet music but it doesn't work with books/ booklets/zines etc because they all slide out if you are not careful to handle it properly.

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<3

AS FEATURED IN QUIMBY'S COMICS, CHICAGO!

KICK!

Two current zines worth reading: Cinema Sewer and Ugly Things.

wow, the collective zine writing amateur press association thing I am involved in is celebrating its 20th year of existence.

Bumping for nostalgio's sake. Thinking back on my itinerant twenties and thirties and the beautiful collections of Rollerderby, Bananafish, Re:Search, Wax Poetics etc. that I had and have left me. Now 40 and stable, planning a family, and want to rebuild a library. Maybe my newborn doesn't need to learn to read from Lisa Suckdog but I would like to revisit this stuff. Hard to track a lot of it down and scans are scarce.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V5FkUsMXYw

Hard to track a lot of it down and scans are scarce.

Hugo House donated their 30,000-strong zine library to SPL early this year

What was that zine from the '90s that was just a little booklet filled with quotes from elderly people in a retirement home? I think it was made into a book later?

Duplex Planet

That's it, thanks!

ephemera acquires the most interest about the time that 99.9% of it has disappeared

^^that is one for the ilx lines that stick in your head or whatever it's called thread

got a big box of late 90s zines upstairs, when I searched for a few of them there was no trace on the internet. someone should start a library where they can be scanned, uploaded and catalogued, actually maybe this already exists, hold on

Duplex Planet is one of my favorite things ever, so so good.

Over the years I’ve volunteered on & off digitizing a huge library of zines kept by a DIY venue in my town, I think with the idea of actually putting them all online at some point

the things I'm finding via google are physical libraries, not digital ones. I might just scan them all one day, sure some of them had a readership of 20-30 people, I know mine did.

Good archive of reviews here:

https://fuckinrecordreviews.tumblr.com/