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Being the excremeditation of a hyperactive armadillo's activities, opinions
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No 4.
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In this issue:
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Editorial Crap....
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Short fiction and prose
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The CIA/Denny's connection
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Suffocation and fun in my desk drawer
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Bitch
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Music
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Curbside with Skankin' Pickle
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Show at 15 minutes on 10/9.
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Interview(LONG)
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Band/Album clips:
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Ghost of a RollerCoaster
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One Last Kiss CD
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Bikini Kill
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Bratmobile
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Pitchblende
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Swirlies
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Velocity Girl
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StereoTaxic Device
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Machines of Loving Grace
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USENET RMI CD Project
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Hangouts
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alt.zines
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alt.geek
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alt.pickle
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rec.music.industrial
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rec.games.frp.live-action
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Zig Zag Cafe'
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Monkey Island radio show
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-----------------Editorial Crap--------------------------------------------
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Umm...hi, welcome to another issue. I had this really cool "Gee I'm sorry
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its been so long since this was out, long live the revolution"-type
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editorial written up, but on second(or was it 3rd?) reading, I decided to
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scrap it because its all been said before in 50 zillion other zines and besides
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as a general in one of my favorite cult movies once said "You didn't come here
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today to hear me talk".....
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Enjoy,
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---me
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------------------------The CIA Dennys Connection------------------------------
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So, after a night of dancing I go to a Dennys at 5:30am. I sit down in the
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booth and the place is filled with mugwumps. My waitress comes over and says
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"Fire, walk with me" and offers me a variety of acid to go with my slammin'
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grand slammity-slam breakfast. Oh god, those pigs in a blanket...how I love
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them so....
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In the next booth is salvador dali and Elvis making love...oh, pigs in a
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blanket to their fullest...I watched them chicken fry their steak....
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The lips in my coke start to speak whipsering "look at me! look at me!" So I
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look over to the next booth at the annual Sunday morning meeting of the
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post-nkotb/suburb-o-buford/high-hair club for girls...In unison they all
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twist their hair in that familiar gregorian chant of "like, o my GOD!"...And
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then the hair flip...not the hair flip!!!...AAAAAAAAAGGGGHHH!! The torments
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of their minds have pierced my soul and the fire in their eyes speaks of my
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certain death.....Oh, but for the pigs in the blanket....
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And then the suit. The suit walks in. His eyes are bleeding and his Armani
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suit is not stained. He takes off his Wayfarer's and the sun shines through
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the gouged-out holes in his head. He walks over to the high-hair club for
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girls in the booth next to me and says "Rosebud. Rosebud." And then he walks
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over to a mugwump and the mugwump eats him. And I am not sad.
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And the high-hair club for girls took out the dreaded infin-o-mousse cans and
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sprayed the restaraunt. And as I feel dead in my plate of pancakes and a
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delightful-but-not-precocious sweet-but-never-bitter vintage '32 dark oak
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cherry maple splinter syrup I heard one of the girls whisper in my ear "the
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Toyota's waiting outside. The shotgun is in its mirror. The flaps still have
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the naked chic. The garter hangs from the mirror. 4 rear tires. The mall is
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close. The mall is close. And the harleybumper sticker survives. and the
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har...."
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And I understood. And Amerika was rejuvinated. And it all made sense.
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. . my pupils have left me now.
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------------------------Suffocation and Fun in my desk drawer------------------------
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>From linus.mitre.org!linus!agate!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!usenet.coe.montana.edu!news.u.washington.edu!uw-beaver!boesch Thu Oct 29 09:14:50 EST 1992
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Next Tuesday the police unlock the door and take away my batteries and
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rubber band and they take me to visit the doctor for a vacation, or
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maybe I was on vacation from the doctor and it's over, it's not clear
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any more. The doctor teaches me not to starve myself in the company of
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two batteries and a rubber band or else next time he'll get all
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exasperated.
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At Christmas surprise! I'm out of the asylum and back in the Room
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(capitalized, like the Universe or the Bed or the Radio/Cassette
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Player and unlike a sock or a stain). It never could really be MY
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room because if it was MY room it would do what I want. And I never
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decorated the room because to do that I would have to put MY thoughts
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on the walls, and by the time I moved into the room the thoughts in my
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head were no longer MY thoughts. I have tried to decorate the
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thoughts so they would be kind of "personalized", but I haven't done
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very well.
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There's always something else in the Room to entertain me until the
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hallucinations return. Sometimes I need the entertainment even
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afterwards, because soon the hallucinations become predictable
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combinations of what's really there, like rancid orange juice/dried
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out half-eaten plate of spaghetti.
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I have fewer responsibilities now because people take them away if you
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ignore them. And I still have money left because I've saved money on
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entertainment and food. There's still someone willing to pay me for
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my time, but he's smarter than me so he doesn't believe my promises to
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work. (It's such an easy slip-up to say "I'll have that done by five"
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instead of "I'll never ever work again.")
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Now I will work so that I can pay back some of what I owe to everyone
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for inconveniencing them by living this long. If I pay my part, then
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Mom and Dad won't have the credit revoked that they thought they
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earned when I grew up and they won't have to look for some other
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justification for their lives which is good because I'm not sure they
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could find one. If I keep going on visits to the doctor, I'll just
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keep owing more and more, but if I kill myself then I'll go even
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further in debt because I'll upset the parents.
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But Mom and Dad will have at least one way out as long as Brother and
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Sister and Nephew are alive. Mom and Dad just have to hope that it
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doesn't end with their grandchildren or great-grandchildren and it
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doesn't end until something somewhere finds reason enough of its own
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to live because something has to find justification in itself before
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all the others who found justification in others can really be
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justified. Then the parents could have their justification and they
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could keep it.
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So I'm think about working and so about the future and what it means
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to work and what will happen if I don't and it's over almost
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immediately when I'm reminded of how it feels to think that way. So I
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stop thinking about working and the future and reach into the desk
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drawer for two batteries and a rubber band but there are the timer's
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spare clips I'd forgotten about. The red one (that turns the timer
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on) fits against the black one (off) perfectly, and they can slide
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against each other and the protrusions in one fit the notches in the
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other. In, out, in, out, in, out, halfway in they look like an "S"
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together. But it's not just them, it's me too. They wouldn't slide
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in and out if I wasn't there.
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There's the crescent wrench and the pair of pliers and they're missing
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something and I have it and I'm missing something and they have it and
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I test the nerves in my fingers. The nerves still work, but they
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don't shriek like the ones in my head do when I put down the clips and
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pliers and wrench and I look for something better. It'd be
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embarrassing to hurt myself with them and then be found out and have
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to explain why and even if I don't hurt myself I won't be let out so
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soon next time but the important thing is to have no one asking why
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because I don't know why.
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Bitch
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/Bitch/
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Watch out, I just might
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rip out your jawbone
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and use it to hurl stones at Philistines,
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asshole.
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Choose your words more carefully
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in the prescence of a woman who has had
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enough.
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Enough time bided.
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Enough nice.
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Enough of this shit to last a lifetime.
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"Bitch"
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you mutter, under your breath,
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and I am complimented,
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for your concept of "lady"
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is synonomous with "doormat".
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Count me in their number,
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it is the time.
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Look back in anger,
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there have been too many tears
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eroding my soul,
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and only the fire of anger
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will evaporate them.
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The meek will inherit the earth
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after everone else is done with it
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and all the good parts have been taken away.
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For once, god once,
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I would like to be first.
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So next time you fly out,
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expecting only tired submission,
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watch your step.
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I may emasculate you for the rude pleasure
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of becoming free.
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I'm still new to feeling brutal, but I feel my claws
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already flexing
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and I could use some practice...
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Let us start with your heart.
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One razor-nail will disinterr it
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from the stony sheath
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within your chest.
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I want to see you cry
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as I did at each of your
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harsh words.
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Let's hear it for the changing of the guard.
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"Bitch"
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I please myself and am
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pleased by what I look on in the mirror.
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I am not ashamed of my accomplishments.
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If I am bitter, it is from soaking
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too long in the vinegar stares
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of you all.
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Did any of you ever think to remove the
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pole stuck up your ass,
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pull it from the ground
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and walk to widen your perspective?
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Surely not, from the expression
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of dull hatred
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and the sulfur on your breath
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when you exhale my name.
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Although in practice I have yet
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to rip the heart out
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of a man,
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in theory I would slaver for the opportunity
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to rip it beating from your chest
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and macerate each tender spot,
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winding the tougher parts into harpstrings
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to pluck at will.
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"Bitch"
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Damn straight.
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And fuck you all
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if you can not accept my anger
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with the same grace you accepted
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my defeat.
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---Lea(Nightshade)
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------------------------Curbside With Skankin' Pickle--------------------------
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So, I'm looking through the City paper almost a month ago now, and under
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the weekly blurb for the 15 minutes club, I see the following words:
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"10/9 Skank and Pickle".
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So I managed to tear my brother away from the wifeoid for an evening(I could
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tell it was going to be a cool show already just from that. Anytime I can
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get him away from her domestic clutches is an auspicious occasion and can
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only bode well) and we head down there. We almost immediately run into
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(and I'm talking literally here) Lars, carrying his trombone and
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we do this weird kind of Spalding Grey-in-the-Hermitage type thing.
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I go "Shit!, its Lars from the Pickles" and he's like "Holy Shit, where'd
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you get the shirt!?!?" I tell him about the show i saw them at last winter
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at Slims in SF and the next words out of his mouth are "Put these guys on
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the guest list!" 'We don't have one yet...Happy Hour isn't over yet so there's
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no charge ' comes the reply from the cashbox inside. "Well put them on anyways
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...Cool!, somebody here knows us"
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Skankin' Pickle is a 6-piece ska-punk band from San Francisco thats been
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together since 1987. They have put out a demo tape, a {cd|tape} called
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"SkaFunkRastaPunk" and by now should have the new album "Pickle Fever"
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out of the jar and working its way onto shelfs/racks,etc. They play
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a blend of high-energy ska with heavy hardcore punk influences, seasoned
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with a tangible flavor of funk and reggae.
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The Show:
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The show was totally cool. There were Pickles everywhere.
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Pickles hammering on guitars, Pickles skankin' their asses off, Pickles
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on horns, just this total burst of punk pickle ENERGY just all over the stage.
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And while they're leaping over each other, or skanking or singing, they're
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playing too. I mean not just playing a couple seconds and then backflipping
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across the stage, but playing WHILE backflipping across the stage. Okay,
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so there weren't any gymnastics like that, but it was pretty damn close.
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They played stuff off their demo and off SkaFunkRastaPunk, plus some other
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songs I didn't recognize off the new album. They started off with
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"Fakin' Jamaican" and from there went on to do "This is Ska", "You Shouldn't
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judge a man by the hair on his butt", "HandTwister"(a personal fave along
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with "Anxiety Attack"),"I Missed The Bus","Pseudo-Punk","Hulk Hogan" and
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a bunch of others.
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Despite Mike's laments in the interview below, taken before the show, I
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thought the show was good. Yes, there were yuppies. But who cared?
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By the middle of the first set there were already about 10 people in the
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back room of 15 minutes who were up front skanking and just gyrating
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and throwing themselves all over the place like I was. By the 2nd
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set the whole front section of the back room in 15 minutes was
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moving and gyrating and bouncing off each other and I was just totally
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exhausted, I couldn't walk straight for 2 days afterwards.
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The energy that these guys exude just totally bowls you over, even for
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the yuppie kind of crowd that showed up...
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Interview:
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Before the show I got to talk to Mike "Asian Man" Park and got him to
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agree to do an interview and we just started talking and he let me record him
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and at first it was me interviewing him and then we just got to talking
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and then it kind of got to be the other way around and he ended up
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interviewing me...We talked for about 40 minutes and this is pretty much
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how it went:
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[Me explaining about AC and what it is]
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Mike Park: So you've made two copies of this thing?
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Armadillo Culture: Well, they went out to the net fine, but the second got
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eaten by my computer after I sent it out. Its mostly done on the computer
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networks, like Usenet more than anything else. But you're right...I've only
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really done about 2, maybe 4 printed copies and that was 'cause two people
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asked me for them...
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Mike:Someone said there's an alt.pickle now.
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AC:There's an alt.pickle now!?!?
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Mike:Thats what I heard...sounds pretty cool..
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AC:Do you guys have access to USENET?
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Mike:Uuuuh...I used to....the guy who used to live downstairs, he had the
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computers and then he moved out and I don't now...but our trombone player
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he does....one of the guys he lives with works for Sun, so he has it all
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set up for him right there...
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AC: Cool!...God, that just sounds so California.....thats just so cool.
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AC:So, what do you play?
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Mike: Saxaphone...
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AC:Is this your first time out to the East Coast?
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Mike: Yep...
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AC:What brought you out here...I've talked to some people around here who
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are into the ska scene and they said you guys were mostly a west coast band.
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Mike:Well, we're just on tour, y'know...you gotta do it eventually....Thats
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cool...who'd you talk to?
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AC:Well, just some friends of mine from around here and I saw this girl at
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a hardcore show a couple months back with a Pickle shirt on and...
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Mike:In DC?
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AC:In DC....and she said they'd seen you in New Mexico and a bunch of times
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in California and NM, but never here, and was pretty psyched to see another
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Pickle fan so I guess it was just kind of word of mouth, nobody like really
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important I guess...
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Mike:Oh yeah...definitely..Well, with the new album coming out,we got a new
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one...hopefully it will get distributed more around the east coast and we'll
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get a bigger fan base.
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AC:Um, Whats a, Whats this one called?
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Mike:Skankin' Pickle Fever.
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AC:Ok, 'cause like I saw you guys last year in December in SF, and you had
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Skafunkrastapunk out then...have you done anything else since then?
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Mike:No, ah, this is gonna be our second album. Nothing else since that one.
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AC:Ok....
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[A porkpie hat attached to a head pops in between us from overhead at this
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point]: Hey, Howya doin'?
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AC:Hey!..not too bad....could I get your name for the record?
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Lars Nylander:Lars Nylander, I play valve trombone..
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AC:Cool..thanks..
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Lars:Later...[He walks away]
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AC[turning back to Mike]:I was wondering if you could just maybe talk about
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your music in general? It seems like a lot of your songs or the content of
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them kind of comes from stuff around you out there or real life experiences
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or things from around where you live and stuff?
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Mike:You mean lyrically?
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AC:Yeah...
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Mike:Ahhhhhhhhhh...I don;t know...its hard to say. I haven't really thought
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about it in that sense, but I guess it could be. I guess everybody who writes
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something its going to be uh, going to be more adapted to your environment.
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Don't you think so?
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AC:Yeah.
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AC:Probably one of my favorite songs is "Anxiety Attack" on the...
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Mike[jumps in]:Oh!, that was a demo tape!
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AC:It was?...
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Mike[Surprised, smiling]:Where'd you get that?
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AC:I got it at the show last year..
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Mike:At Slims?
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AC:Yeah, the guy who was there hawking stuff didn't have change for the
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money I gave him or anything so he just gave me a couple of the tapes and
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a sticker and some other stuff instead.
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Mike:Oh well thats cool...Yeah, well I didn't even know we were still selling
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that one, thats a rare tape man, you should hold on to that one. Anxiety
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Attack is going to be on the new album.
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AC: I guess what I liked about that one....well, um, see Dan Quayle is such
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a target in this town, its like every time he says something here, you hear
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about it no matter what it was, I mean we heard about the whole potato thing
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for weeks. Is there anything in particular behind that song about him, or
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is it just that he's such an easy target like he is for everybody else here?
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Mike: I don't like him, but its because he IS kind of an easy target, y'know,
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we just kind of had to jump on the bandwagon,and,uh, y'know its the Quayle
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thing. We do Quayle a lot; and Bush. We gotta rip on Bush and Quayle as
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much as possible.....
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AC[laugh]:I don't know if you've seen it out there or not, but here they
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put out this thing called the "Quayle Quarterly"
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Mike[grinning]: Oh really?...I haven't seen THAT...
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AC:You haven't?
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Mike:Nahhh...(excitedly)I saw a book!, A Quayle book, but thats all.
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It was called like "Everything Quayle knows" and it was just empty, it was
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white pages, have you seen that?
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AC[I crack up here a bit]:Ummmm..no, and there's been like a book that has
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all of his and Bush's misquotes and stammerings in it. I've seen that at
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some of the indie/punk record holes around here..a friend of mine has a
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copy of it..its pretty cool.
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Mike: Have you seen our record at any of the stores around here in DC?
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AC:Um,No.
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Mike:Well do you think you could just as a favor, just kind of go around and
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ask them for it?
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AC:Ok...sure..
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AC:So, uh, how did you guys get together?
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Mike:Well,uh, lets see here, what DID we do? 3 of us went to high school
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together and then we met a couple people from our college, and(laughs and
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throws up his hands) and we just did it!.
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AC:You..
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Mike:We just did it!..thats it.
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Mike:...Have they advertised this show at all?---How did you find out about it?
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AC:I saw it in an ad in The City Paper...15 minutes took out a full page
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and you guys were in there with some others bands on about a quarter of
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that.
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Mike:Yeah, God...I wish there were more people....I mean I don't think anybody
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here knows who we are, doesn't like like our crowd you know, doesn't look
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like our type of crowd at ALL.
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AC:So what do you think of DC so far?
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Mike:I couldn't say...its impossible to judge on one day. We're leaving tomm
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orrow. I dunno, its good fast food, good chinese. The stuff in the cafe'
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[at 15 minutes] was good.
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AC:Yeah, we do have some good chinese around here...
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Mike:...I'm not even looking forward to this..this is not the kind of crowd
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I want to play for, you know what I mean?
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AC:Yeah, I know what you mean, yeah.
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Mike:I like playing you know, with punks, with punk shows.
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AC:Yeah, you want to play somewhere where the people are really into it,
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where there's going to be like a pit and everything right?
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Mike:Yeah!
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AC: You guys had a really good pit going out there in SF when I saw you
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Mike:We have a lot of unity out there too. The crowds always with us.
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AC: Yeah, I noticed that, the crowd was always moving with each other
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and not against each other, they were trying to be together.
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Mike:yeah...yeah..
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AC:Out here you just have a lot of the fratboys who just like jump in and
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they think the idea is to kick somebody or stomp on somebody, it kind of
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sucks.
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Mike:I know what you mean, I hear you..look at these guys reading the name,
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(points to billboard at the front of the club)"Skankin' Pickle who's that?"
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I hate these shows man, I hate 'em
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AC:Has the tour gone mostly like this?...has this happened a lot?
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Mike:Yeah, at least once a week..Last week we did Porchester New York,
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it was just like this, it was worse. It was like the average age was 40
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and just all yuppy.....shit, it sucked. This crowd, man, look at this,
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I hate 'em already...I hate 'em...even if they like us I'll hate 'em.
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(I cracked up at this point)
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'Cause sometimes we'll play to like a totally yuppie crowd and they'll
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just love us y'know, but I hate 'em...'Cause we're a punk band man!,
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we're a punk band with horns, thats what we are! Our whole mentality
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is punk, we're totally punk. We're too fast to be a ska band. Our
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ska is way too fast.
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AC:...Yeah, you guys are really fast.
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Mike:The tape doesn't give us justice, justice to the album.
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AC:Really?
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Mike:With the new album we should do a lot better. So if you want to get
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it, it should be out in like,well like a MONTH.
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AC:Ok...cool. Are you guys still on your own label?--are you still on Dill
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? or are you with somebody else?
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Mike:Oh, yes, ever faithful to Dill records. Especially since we're the
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only band on it.We're the band and the label...
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AC:That can help...kind of like Simple Machines and Tsunami around here.
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|
They're the band and the label...well one of the bands.
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Mike:Tsunami!?!??---Whats Tsunami? who the hell is Tsunami? Is that a rock band?
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AC:Well here, they're a...
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Mike:I've seen like 10 different bands called tsunami. I've seen a Tsunami
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speed metal band, I've seen a Tsunami glam-rock band, its kind of like
|
|
"How many Tsunami's are there!?!?!? "(grins)
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AC:Well this particular one is a indie rock/punk kind of band. They're
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one of the big bands around here on the indie rock and punk scene.
|
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The band members run Simple Machines and they're all part of this
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punk collective called Positive Force.
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Mike: ...If you're going to get any record, get Operation Ivy. Get their
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CD, they put out a CD, they broke up like 4 years ago, but they put out
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this CD, it has their album, their EP, and then a couple compilation songs
|
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on it. It has like 27 songs.
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AC:Cool!
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Mike: They're the best. You're really getting your money's worth from that.
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Mike:So, where's a GOOD place to play, where's like a good punk club?
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AC:A Punk club would probably be like asylum or St. Stephen's Church or
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maybe even the Roxy, I don't know how much punk the Roxy is though..
|
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Most of the real hardcore shows people manage to rent
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Mike:...rent space for?
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AC:Yeah..
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Mike:Well thats cool. See, we're going to be on tour in the spring and
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in the summer and during that time we're going to try and hit every punk
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DIVE and just do 'em all!
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[Ed. note, okay I've now been to the Betapunk's warehouse and its totally
|
|
cool. Mike and everybody, if you're reading this, THATS where you want to
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play when you come out here next.]
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AC:I'd go to like Asylum or call any of the punk groups in this area and
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see about renting space...a lot of shows around here aren't even in a club
|
|
, a lot of it is rented space. They had a cool place here up until last
|
|
December called DC Space, but the property owners closed it down 'cause they were going to tear it down, but its still sitting there and now
|
|
like the only place to play here is either here or at the 9:30 club, but
|
|
they've gone almost totally "alternative".
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Mike:How would we do here with the punk crowd?
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AC: I dunno....probably pretty good
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Mike:'Cause we've played with them ALL...We've played at speed metal shows,
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|
we've played punk, we've played with Bad Religion...
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AC:Really?---Cool!, how was that?
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Mike:Maybe it was because we were home, but it was fine, we did great.
|
|
We've gone to like South Dakota and played punk shows in halls and
|
|
just done great. 'Cause like stage shows are just *pfffft*, punk shows we
|
|
just go *SO* crazy!...we just go totally off...more punk shows, less of
|
|
this shit will make me happy...and that pretty much about it..
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AC:Okay, well thanks a lot Mike...this was just really cool of you
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|
Mike:Alright, no problem...
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Skankin' Pickle can be reached at :
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PO BOX 35585
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Montesereno,Ca.
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95030-5585
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Versus:
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Some good fast, fairly driving pop, sounding like somewhere in between Mission
|
|
To Burma and The Pixies.
|
|
|
|
Favorite Song:"Seaweed Rising", which ,according to their bassist is their "hit".
|
|
"Everybody likes it" she said. "Its like everybody comes up and say 'I really liked that last song' Great!,
|
|
what about the rest of it...."
|
|
|
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|
|
Pitchblende
|
|
Punk meets Wall of sound and explodes like a phosphorus shell into 50 zillion
|
|
different varied rhythmic fragments and you feel the soundwaves hit you
|
|
before you hear it . A mixture of megadistorted rhythmic soundwaves backed by
|
|
hardcore drumming. The dictionary definition of pitchblende is
|
|
"A varied, black brown mineral with a shiny slick texture." Exactly!!!
|
|
|
|
|
|
Swirlies:
|
|
I first heard them at the Pop Losers show last year and really like the grunge
|
|
mixed in with Clarity Held type sound and they way the two work together and
|
|
manage not to stomp on each other. Kind of folky, kind of speed pop, they tend
|
|
to stick to trad indie sounds while musically roaming around the room and
|
|
checking out the boundaries that the sound exists in.
|
|
They have a couple out on K as well as as demo they did for the PopLosers show
|
|
last year and a split single they did with Kudgel on Pop Narcotic. Look for a
|
|
couple new singles this fall and an album early next year as a result of a
|
|
recent signing with Taang!.
|
|
|
|
Favorites:"Didn't understand" and Chris R.(Their contrib. to the "One Last Kiss
|
|
" SpinArt CD)
|
|
|
|
Bikini Kill:
|
|
At the forefront of the DC/Seattle Riot Grrrrl thing, Bikini Kill zips around
|
|
with a pair of killer hardcore scissors slashing institutional G-strings
|
|
and ripping social "convention" to shreds. While this makes for a cool attitude,
|
|
it doesn't save their music from being ruined by 4th grade antics
|
|
on stage and their message being delivered with a whine as opposed to the
|
|
grrrrowl they're looking for...
|
|
|
|
Bratmobile:
|
|
'Nother Riot Grrrl band. Think Bikini Kill but with no whining. Cool!
|
|
Singles by themselves(The neat Anti-Metro "Kiss and Ride")
|
|
and with Bikini Kill("No You Don't") and also on the Kill Rock Stars
|
|
comp. as well as the IPUC Steamer CD comp from the International Pop
|
|
Underground Festival. On K!
|
|
|
|
Ghost of a RollerCoaster
|
|
A Shrimper Collection
|
|
A collection of bands all on the Shrimper label yields a neat, weird,
|
|
,kind-of-performance-arty,dripping-with-pathos,varied
|
|
type canvas dipped in a grungy batter and fried to a delicate crisp
|
|
upon which Halo, Refrigerator, Shoeface, Franklin Bruno,
|
|
Satnam Puppets,Halo, Refrigerator,Wcker Spgt, and members of Sebidoh
|
|
scribble, scream, ponder, and angst. Most of the cuts on here are too short
|
|
and varied to allow for the formation of anything but the shards of images
|
|
and ideas,which kind of seems to be the point. Highlights are Wcker Spgt,
|
|
Refigerator and Franklin Bruno(if you like indie rock love ballads).
|
|
|
|
Shrimper:PO Box 1837, Upland Ca. 91785-1837
|
|
|
|
One Last Kiss:A Spin Art collection
|
|
A collection of mostly East Coast Indie-Rock bands such as The Swirlies,
|
|
Jane Pow, Magnetic Fields, Our American Cousins, Crayon, Lorelei, Small
|
|
Factory, Courtney Love, Wimp Factor 14, Lilys and others. Mostly concerned
|
|
with the downside of love, highlights are The Swirlies with "Chris R.",
|
|
Magnetic Fields and "100,000 Fireflies"(a neat song that uses something
|
|
sounding like a toy piano as the lead instrument), Our American Cousins
|
|
("One wish too many"), Courtney Love with the angry, insistent "Baseball
|
|
Bat" and Wimp Factor 14 for their Slacker-generation/anti-trendoid song
|
|
"Change of Address Kit". A worthwhile disc despite a few missteps in
|
|
organization and a couple weak and misplaced tracks.
|
|
|
|
SpinArt Records
|
|
P.O. Box 1272
|
|
Lancaster, Pa. 17603
|
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|
|
|
|
Stereotaxic Device: LostLand
|
|
This one has been around for quite a while, but I like it so much I decided
|
|
to stick it in anyways.
|
|
If you thought all recent industrial was AngryYoungManScreamingHate-type
|
|
stuff think again. SD is cool, ambient, dark, threatening industrial that
|
|
doesn't hit you at 120mph, but instead sort of seeps into your brain and
|
|
marches across your mind with just as much purpose and intent. All I could
|
|
see when listening to this was Post-Nuclear Terminator type wastelands....
|
|
Good proof IMHO, that small-in-number electronic bands can crank out stuff
|
|
other than remixed "industrialized" disco. I have "LostLand" by them
|
|
off Cargo and there was supposed to have been a new one a couple months
|
|
ago, but I haven't been able to find it. Environmentally and animal-rights
|
|
based lyrical content doesn't do anything to fluff-ify or weaken the sound
|
|
and manages to avoid reducing the problem to a series of cliches like other
|
|
"enviromentally correct" music I've heard..
|
|
|
|
Machines of Loving Grace:
|
|
After picking up a demo copy of "Burn Like Brilliant Trash" and liking it
|
|
I snagged the full CD when I was out in 'Zona and was disappointed.
|
|
Sounding initially like a more pop version of FLA or KMFDM with "BLBT",
|
|
then electronic love-pop with "Cicciolina", then back to the KMFDM style,
|
|
then to something else, I was left confused and disoriented. If you
|
|
want to hear a band do funk,industrial, electronic love pop, and techno
|
|
all on one disc, you'd like it. I just thought it got a little silly
|
|
after a while.
|
|
|
|
Velocity Girl:
|
|
Yeah!, as if these guys really NEED any more press around here ! :) :)
|
|
VG is fast, indie-pop grunge fuses attached to sonic shells
|
|
that detonate into MBV-influenced sheets of sound. Sound a little
|
|
more pop and less anarchic than they used to, VG is still a personal
|
|
favorite.
|
|
If you like wall-of-sound and have had you head in the ground
|
|
for the last year or so, they should be your first stop in D.C.
|
|
On too many labels to mention, save for the fact that they can currently
|
|
be reached at Sub-Pop:
|
|
A singles collection should be out now, with an original album out in early '93.
|
|
A neat, recent T-shirt of some anime' characters dancing near a portable
|
|
turntable gets a claws-up from this 'dillo.
|
|
|
|
|
|
USENET RMI CD Project:
|
|
|
|
No I haven't actually heard this one yet, mostly because it doesn't exist.
|
|
It should be good though. The RMI CD is going to be a 2-CD set of industrial
|
|
and dance-industrial music created by bands and singular artists who are
|
|
on the net and in particular hang out on rec.music.industrial. I'm plugging
|
|
them because I've talked to some of these people, have some of their music,
|
|
and what I've heard I've liked. Some of them have also been cool to me in
|
|
helping me to find shows to go to in their area when I've been traveling.
|
|
Among the bands to be featured are:
|
|
Dresden, Evolution Control Committee, SLUR, SNOG, Soma Holiday, Users of
|
|
the Wicked Gravity, grae*com, Unit Circle, KILLED by a BLOW in the HEAD,
|
|
Macronympha and a bunch of others that are subjects of occasional threads
|
|
on RMI. I am looking forward to this one...
|
|
|
|
>From the FAQ:
|
|
|
|
The compilation will be available as a 2-CD set, with discs entitled
|
|
"Mind" and "Body". The "Mind" CD will have traditional and ambient
|
|
industrial music, the "Body" CD will have industrial dance music. The
|
|
pieces were selected by a panel of reviewers from the net (the panel
|
|
did not contain any of the artists) (or me, for that matter).
|
|
|
|
|
|
PRICING on the CD set (all prices in US dollars):
|
|
|
|
CD set itself: $8.00
|
|
|
|
Shipping: first copy additional copies
|
|
USA: $3.00 $1.50
|
|
Canada/Mexico: $3.50 $1.75
|
|
Outside N. America: $6.00 $3.00
|
|
|
|
Contact:
|
|
|
|
Ben Cox
|
|
RMI CD Project
|
|
1007 W. Kirby
|
|
Champaign, IL 61821
|
|
USA
|
|
or finger btc30679@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
|
|
|
|
---------------------------------Hangouts----------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
Below is a list of places, virtual and real that I've hung out in over the
|
|
past couple months, either in person and visibly or lurking.
|
|
|
|
Newsgroups:
|
|
|
|
alt.geek: Newgrouped about a month ago, its just what it says it is. A hangout
|
|
group for the pocket-protector and black-framed glasses set. Recent threads
|
|
have included talk about the aforementioned glasses, Geek the (ex)band,
|
|
geek love, geek socialization and evolution, geek food, etc. A surprising
|
|
number of female geeks and all of them damn proud of it too!
|
|
|
|
alt.zines: repository for netzines and typed-in postings of analog hardcopy
|
|
zines from all over the place. Punk, SF, Cyberpunk, indie, horror,
|
|
discordianism, Bob-ism,anarchism, militant feminism, etc. You can be
|
|
recursive and find a copy of this one there. Really good stuff!, two claws up!
|
|
Also, check into the Anonymous Political Archives for copies of these and
|
|
other zines. ftp to redspread.css.itd.umich.edu to reach the Archives.
|
|
Snail:
|
|
Paul Southworth
|
|
Consulting and Support Services
|
|
Information Technology Division
|
|
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mi.
|
|
|
|
alt.games.frp.live-action A group for discussing the different forms of
|
|
live-action gaming and interactive lit. Sizeable representation of
|
|
SIL, ILF, and Vagabond members there.
|
|
|
|
alt.pickle I looked for this, but its not out here yet. Supposed to be a
|
|
fan and info group about the Ska/Punk band Skankin' Pickle.
|
|
|
|
comp.graphics.animation Also relatively new. A sort of meeting of the minds
|
|
between artists and programmers about animation. Significant threads have
|
|
been on schools for studying animation, file formats for anim. data, fave
|
|
software, technique, notices on showings of original works by artists on
|
|
the group, etc.
|
|
|
|
rec.music.industrial This one's been around for a while and is usually
|
|
besieged by flame wars, but I mention it as a pointer to a CFD on the
|
|
proposed group rec.music.hardcore.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Zig Zag Cafe'
|
|
1524 U St. NW D.C.
|
|
Open 'till 2am weekdays, 4am weekends.
|
|
A real coffeehouse in Northwest D.C.. 50's/60's Camelot style decor with
|
|
period kitsche and pattern formica tables with the 3-inch wide metal
|
|
rim makes this a cool throwback place to hang out at. The couch and
|
|
other furniture makes it apparent they don't mind if you veg here for
|
|
a while. A sparse, veggie-oriented menu(PB&J sandwiches, muffins,bagels,
|
|
veggie dips and soups rounded by a killer white pizza) with typical
|
|
coffeehouse drink offerings as well as juice, seltzer and Jolt.
|
|
If you drop by, say hi to Jan for me, but just don't sit over in the
|
|
corner table in the 2nd room...its mine :)
|
|
|
|
|
|
Monkey Island
|
|
GMU Radio Station AM 560
|
|
6-9pm Sunday nights
|
|
|
|
Probably the only other radio show I've managed to find in the D.C. area
|
|
that plays indie/small label stuff along with import psychedelia and
|
|
occasionally some hardcore. Chris, the DJ has been pretty cool by just
|
|
letting me hang out with him for a few shows now and spin some stuff.
|
|
Yet another port of solace from the mass-produced storm....
|
|
Too bad they're on cable....
|
|
|
|
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
---------------------------Roll Credits!----------------------------------
|
|
Generally, let me just say thanks a lot to all the people who sent me stuff
|
|
and gave me the opportunity to inflict my little persipflage upon the
|
|
unknowing public once again... :)
|
|
|
|
In particular, here's who did what:
|
|
Andy Hawks <ahawks@nyx.cs.du.edu> did the CIA/Denny's thing. You can also
|
|
get a hold of him on his list:future-request@nyx.cs.du.edu.
|
|
|
|
Eric Boesch <boesch@cs.washington.edu> did the "Fun and Suffocation" thing.
|
|
|
|
Lea(Nightshade)<a FOAF, contact me> did the "Bitch" poem.
|
|
|
|
Mike Park and the rest of the Pickles were cool enough to let me stick
|
|
a tape recorder in their faces and interview them.
|
|
|
|
Eric Mason provided the pictures from his "Specious" artwork collection.
|
|
Please don't post these or send them to anonymous FTP sites.
|
|
They are (c)'ed and Eric was cool enough to let me put them in here.
|
|
Contact Eric through me.
|
|
|
|
I did the music reviews, the hangouts column and this bit right here.
|
|
|
|
Nobody did anything else...the bastards...
|
|
------------------Submissions,Dominations, and other family fun-------------
|
|
|
|
Submissions: yes, have some. Send me stuff, pretty much anything really.
|
|
reviews, letters, opinion stuff, high-weirdness-by-mail type stuff, art,
|
|
etc.
|
|
|
|
Send to:
|
|
USnail:
|
|
Armadillo Culture
|
|
2857 Foxmill Rd. Herndon, Va. 22071
|
|
|
|
Net:
|
|
sokay@cyclone.mitre.org
|
|
|
|
If you're at a show and you see a guy with long brown hair wearing a
|
|
photographer's vest(has about 20 pockets on it)glasses(and possibly an
|
|
AC t-shirt), thats probably me. Come up and say hi, I don't bite.
|
|
|
|
GIFS and FTP sites:
|
|
The FTP site has changed. Paul at the redspread political archives
|
|
has been kind enough to offer me space. The new address is:
|
|
redspread.css.itd.umich.edu.
|
|
I still have all the old cover GIFS and a couple backissues.
|
|
I would especially like GIFS of some bands. If you are in a band or
|
|
know somebody who is, send me a uuencoded GIF to my net address or
|
|
something that I could scan in via snail.
|
|
|
|
Shirts:
|
|
I was bored one night and decided to make up a silkscreen with the 'zine
|
|
logo on it.
|
|
The text says:
|
|
Armadillo Culture
|
|
Netzine
|
|
Music, Film, Technology, The Net, Fiction, Opinion
|
|
Cool Tunes, Fast Compilers, Cheap Caffeine.
|
|
(or)
|
|
Sleep all day, Hack all night, Geek like Hell!
|
|
|
|
The Armadillo Culture part was done in a spray-paint type text
|
|
with the word "Netzine" done with storm of data lines zipping
|
|
across it, to give it a dissolving transporter kind of effect.
|
|
The rest are done in a Helvetica font.
|
|
|
|
Black or blue ink on a white shirt. $6, specify size,color
|
|
and logo. Default is Large, black ink "Cool tunes" version.
|
|
|
|
|