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Article 733 of alt.etext:
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Path: news.cic.net!ddsw1!panix!not-for-mail
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From: jis@panix.com ()
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Newsgroups: alt.zines,alt.etext,alt.music.alternative,alt.music.independent,alt.comics.alternative,alt.non.sequitur,alt.slack,alt.society.generation-x
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Subject: E-ZINE: SUPER STUPID SLAMBOOK #4 (JULY 1994)
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Followup-To: alt.zines
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Date: 19 Jul 1994 10:24:21 -0400
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Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
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Lines: 469
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Message-ID: <30gnml$91g@panix.com>
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NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com
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Keywords: halo, benders, tsunami, sex, gum, frente, girl, velocity, drugs
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| $$$$ $$ $$ $$$$$ $$$$$$ $$$$$ | HaLo BeNdErS |
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|$$$$$$ $$ $$ $$$$$$ $$$$$$ $$$$$$ | GuM |
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|$$ $$ $$ $$ $$ $$ $$ $$ $$ | VeLoCiTy GiRl |
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| $$ $$ $$ $$$$$$ $$$$$ $$$$$$ | SoF' BoY |
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| $$ $$ $$ $$$$$ $$ $$$$$ | TsUnAmI |
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|$$$$$$ $$$$$$ $$ $$$$$$ $$ $$ | FrEnTe! |
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| [ All of Andy Wharhol's superstars were either dead, ] |
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| [ or working in shoe stores ] |
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We congratulate you on a choice of the product of our firm.
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People have been enjoying the taste of our product for less
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than a year.
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Tradition and strong competition on international markets make
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the constant care about the high quality of our products the
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main principle of our firm.
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Our products are made of the highest quality raw materials.
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They are subject of quality inspection in every stage of their
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production, so that finally they are in the perfect state of
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quality.
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However, under the influence of heat, our product may become
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grey, what does not influence its taste or nutritive value.
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Taking the opportunity, I wish you the best of luck,
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| Village Station |
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| New York, NY 10014 |
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TITLE: God Don't Make No Junk (CD)
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ARTIST: The Halo Benders
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ADDRESS: K (Box 7154, Olympia, WA 98507)
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PRICE: I paid $12.99.
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Calvin Johnson's latest non-Beat Happening side project is one of
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the funnest things I've heard in a long time. Ten ultra-neat lo-
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fi, poppy and punky, garage rock songs about girl, guys,
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relationships and all of the fun junk that falls in between those
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categorical cracks. So lyrically, _God Don't Make No Junk_ is what
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most of us Beat Happening fans--and most of us are, right?--are
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used to. Musically, it's a slightly different story.
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The Halo Benders aren't as minimalist in sound as Beat
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Happening--thanks to a noticeably fuller rhythm section on most of
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the tracks--and there's little, if any, of the typical guitar
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feedback in this collection. Glue that together with some great
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Steve Fisk mixing, and you got yourself one fine album. Standout
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cuts include _Will Work For Food_, _Freedom Ride_ and my personal
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fave, _Don't Touch My Bikini_. Just the mere idea of Calvin
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singing about bikini's from the first person voice is enough to
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make me like it. Oh yeah, for some reason the track _Scarin_
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sounds like a Jeff Lynne/ELO ballad on a bagful of peyote. Haven't
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decided if that is a bad or a good thing, but you've been warned.
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TITLE: Piyochan's Lemon Chewing Gum (CANDY)
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ARTIST: Creative Yoko Co., Ltd.
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Piyochan is a cute little yellow chick-bird who likes lemons. This
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cute little bird is also the ever lovable pitch-person for some
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damn fine tasting lemon flavored chewing gum. The flavor can only
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be described as being some funky gimmish of massive citrus tartness
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and gushing sugary sweetness. Insanely good stuff. But while the
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flavor is great, I don't like the way the flavor dies off. It
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doesn't fade away like other types of gum or candy. It just plain
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disappears, not even leaving an aftertaste behind. *sigh* What's
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up with that?
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TITLE: Your Silent Face/You're So Good To Me (7" SINGLE)
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ARTIST: Velocity Girl
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ADDRESS: MERGE Records (P.O. Box 1235, Chapel Hill, NC 27514)
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PRICE: It goes for $3 post paid.
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Indie pop people, Velocity Girl, do the cover-song thing with this
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two cut hunk o' vinyl. _Your Silent Face_, one of my all-time fave
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New Order songs, gets redone via a synthesizerless, sugary and
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harmonica accompanied arrangement. Not as moody--a bit too cheery-
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-than the original, but not too bad either. The other side,
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_You're So Good To Me_, is a great version of a good song by
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everyone's fave Beach Boy, Brian Wilson. Velocity Girl's guitar
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pop-sound was meant for tunes like this. One of the guys--Archie
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I assume--sings the lead on this, accompanied by some great twangy
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guitar, and Sarah's la-la-las. No badness on this one at all.
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TITLE: ACEROLA Chewing Gum (CANDY)
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ARTIST: Lotte
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What do you think of when you read the word, ACEROLA? For some
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reason, when I first read the label on this gum I thought of some
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ol' gruff old bastard looking at me and saying "Hey kid! You don't
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know shit from acerola!" And frankly, I don't. So sue me. A
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quick gander in Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary tells me that
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acerola is "a West Indian shrub with mildly acid cherry-like fruits
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very rich in vitamin C", which is a pretty accurate description of
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what this gum tastes like.
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It has an incredibly tart cherry taste that stings my
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tastebuds; which is a good thing. The flavor is so sweet and
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strong that even after the gum is gone, it leaves a yummy cherry-
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like aftertaste floating through my mouth. *sigh* Chewing gum
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heaven. Worth getting your hands on at any cost.
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TITLE: Sof' Boy Volume 2, Issue 2 (COMIC)
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ARTIST: Archer Prewitt
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ADDRESS: Simple Machines (P.O. Box 10290, Arlington, VA 22210-1290)
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PRICE: I paid $1.50, but I'd send them a stamp/IRC for a current
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catalog to make sure this is still available from them.
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I'm gonna cut to the chase, Archer Prewitt, of Chicago swingers
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lounge swingers Coctails, has put together one of the best mini-
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comics I have ever seen. Gush city on this one, so stop reading
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this review if you're incurably misanthropic, and hate ultra-happy
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reviews, okay?
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Technically speaking, this mini-comic _is_ actually a _mini_
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comic. Four-color separations and everything in a lovely 4.25" x
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5.25" package. Considering that most mini's are black and white
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xerox jobs that are hastily collated and stapled together, this one
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definitely stands out from the crowd.
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Sof' Boy, our cute protagonist, looks like a relative of the
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Pillsbury doughboy, acts as naively benevolent as Barney the
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Dinosaur, and has the magical ability to put/pull himself back
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together like the '70s cartoon fave, the Shmoo. He is such the
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loveable, and eternally optimistic, dork! I guess you have to be
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when you live in the nasty world he lives in.
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It's a world filled with vagrants who feel him up, steam
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rollers that run him over, kids who pump him full of lead, old men
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who beat him up with canes and speeding cars that decapitate him.
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Wouldn't _you_ be an optimist if _you_ lived in such a world?
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Regardless of what's thrown at him, Sof' Boy pulls through it all
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with a big dorky smile on his face, and that's why I love him. My
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fave moment of Sof' Boy cheerfulness occurs when he's mistakenly
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arrested for gun possession.
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His ass is kicked into paddy wagon, then he's photographed,
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finger printed and thrown into a dark and dingy prison cell that's
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equipped with only a toilet and cot as furniture. "What a
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comfortable cot..." he says as lays down in it. As I said, he is
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such the optimistic dork.
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TITLE: The Heart's Tremolo (CD)
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ARTIST: Tsunami
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ADDRESS: Simple Machines (P.O. Box 10290, Arlington, VA 22210-1290)
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PRICE: It goes for $10.00 post paid.
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Listening to _The Heart's Tremolo_ was a big kick in the head to
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this Tsunami fan. Individually, their songs and singles have
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always been great but their first full-length album, _Deep End_,
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really sounded like it was rushed. Everything on that LP just
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seemed to be tossed together with no particular rhyme or reason.
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This time around all of the things that make Tsunami great fall
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into place perfectly. Songs flow smoothly from one to another in
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a really neat and well thought out package.
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Soft melodies in tracks like _Quietnova_ and _Fits and Starts_
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do a nice job of bridging and balancing the more rockin' din of
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_Loud is as Loud Does_, _Cowed by the Bla Bla_ and _Be Like That_.
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There's even a groovy instrumental, _Slaw_, which has a guitar
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section that sounds like it was lifted straight off of--I'm not
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kidding you folks--Black Sabbath's _War Pigs_. The track does a
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pretty good job of dividing the CD's 10 tracks; not mention making
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me dig up my war-torn copy of _Paranoid_ just to satiate my aural
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delusions. The only cut that sounds a bit weak is _Kidding on the
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Square_, but lyrics like "do you have the guts to pick up a penny
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off the ground" make it totally unhateable.
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TITLE: Tsunami & Codeine (LIVE SHOW)
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ARTIST: Pretty obvious, no?
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To say that lovely New York City--and most of the east coast--
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was hotter than hell the day of this show at CBGBs is a major
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understatement. It was a zillion-gajillion degrees, and then some.
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But I'm rambling...
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Tsunami was great, doing lots of new material off of _The
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Heart's Tremolo_. Can't remember the names of all the songs they
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played--who can remember or think when they're slowly
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dehydrating--but I do remember them doing _Slaw_, _Sometimes a
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Notion_, _460_, _Be Like That_, _Le Bride De Elegance_, _Fast Food
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Medicine_ and a whole bunch of other stuff. Jenny and Kristin were
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great doing their guitar/vocal thing. Andrew's bass was slightly
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sluggish, but okay. And John's jazzish drumming was incredibly
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refreshing (Fuck, I sound like Kramer...)
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Miscellany-wise, Kristin had a good rant about the utter
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stupidity of wearing polyester shirts in gym class (I hear ya...)
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and Jenny had a neat sales-pitch/story about almost losing a whole
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bunch of Tsunami t-shirts on a flight from Chicago. A very well
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composed and polite band, considering that the crowd was literally
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filled with frat-boys--or people who just enjoy looking like them--
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shouting about how they wanted to "do a mosh pit". *sigh* Not to
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mention this drunk bud-boy who was standing on the chair next to me
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talkin' about how cool it was when he and some buddies trashed up
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some place at some Mighty Mighty BossTones show. *sigh* I get's
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better, read on...
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Buddy almost falls off the chair, so I grab him. I ask "You
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okay?" He say "Nahh. I wasn't worried, there's more than enough
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cleavage here to brace my fall, ya know [nod, wink, nudge]..."
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*sigh* ad infinitum. Is there some tour bus--maybe one of those
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double-decker jobs that you see all over New York City--that
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guarantees to drop off losers at CBs on Saturday nights?
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Codeine was as sluggishly great as they always are, although
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it was mildly depressing to see that tons of people cleared out
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after Tsunami. What's up with that? Hath people no taste. Is
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Simple Machines Sub Pop's next big threat? Hmmmm... The mind
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wobbles...
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TITLE: Marvin the Album (CD)
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ARTIST: Frente!
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ADDRESS: Mammoth/Atlantic (Or is that Atlantic/Mammoth?
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Regardless, most any of the overpriced chain record places will
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have this thing.)
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PRICE: Costs more than pizza. Not to mention, it's less filling.
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Back in junior high school, our spanish teacher made us memorize
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inane conversation-like scripts in hopes of making everyone bi-
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lingual. It didn't work. Neither does this album. Join me as I
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write this review in a tribute-like fashion in honor of my junior
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high spanish teacher, Ms. Bentham.
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NOT ME: Mi amigo, donde esta mi _Frente!_ grabacion?
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ME: Tu _Frente!_ grabacion es en basura...
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NOT ME: Hay dios mio!
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ME: Lo compadazco. _Frente!_ es un conyo mas grande...
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NOT ME: Tu esta muy boracho!
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ME: Si. Mi favorito jugador de beisbol es Fernando
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Valenzuella!
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NOT ME: Tu esta _muy_ boracho!
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CONCLUSION: My spanish sucks, and so does this album.
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TITLE: Twenty Six Panel Sex Comic (COMIC)
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ARTIST: Ron Rege
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ADDRESS: NiB Comics (P.O. Box 382163, Cambridge, MA 02238)
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PRICE: It goes for $2.00 post paid.
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All you nutty, koo-koo-crazy, indie-rock kiddies have probably have
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seen Ron Rege's work on Swirlies album covers, t-shirts and other
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assorted miscellany. In fact, one of the best comics he's ever
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done, _Beauty Section_, is part of the album art to the Swirlies
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LP, _Blonder Tongue Audio Baton_. But that's besides the point.
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This comic is great in it's own way.
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First, you get what you pay for, 26 full-page panels that
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poetically philosophize and analyze that wonderfully mysterious
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thing that drives us all, sex. But all you sleaze-balls can just
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back off and put your hairy palms back in your pockets. This isn't
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a pornographic jizz-fest like _Cherry Poptart_ or other "adult"
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comics. Ron has a brain and uses it.
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On orgasms? "It doesn't matter if I draw a half-assed attempt
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[at visually explaining orgasms] because no matter what I or anyone
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draws no image can come close to what this feels like." On lust?
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"I remember my heart fluttering over the girls in kindergarten. I
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am very sensitive to the fact that it is no fun to be a woman,
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being ogled by men all the time." On homosexuality? "If it feels
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right to you, then by all means, I'm all for it!" On love? "Love
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exists!" Combine statements as cooly honest as that with some
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funky primitive/abstract art and you have one great comic. Very
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much worth the money. And if you're too cheap to buy his stuff,
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send him a S.A.S.E. and he'll send you something cool.
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TITLE: Juicy & Fresh (CANDY)
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ARTIST: Lotte
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Ugggh! Bealgh! P-tooey! What a friggin' lie and sham the name of
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this gum is. Juicy _and_ Fresh? I don't think so. Juicy? Nah, it
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has a taste reminiscent of the gritty, bitter taste one gets when
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one bites into an unripe piece of produce. And fresh? No way! No
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matter how long chew this stuff, it never manages to lose its
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chemical-like, mothball rich taste. Yikes! An el cheapo pack of
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good ol' American _Juicyfruit_ tastes a helluva lot better than an
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ultra-expensive pack of this Japanese confectionery travesty.
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TITLE: Prescription drugs that Jeff had to take (DRUGS)
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ARTIST: Jeff, Jeff's dentist and various pharmaceutical companies
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ADDRESS: X Magazine (P.O. Box 1077, Royal Oak, MI 48068-1077)
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E-MAIL: xmag@world.std.com
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PRICE: No loser, he will _not_ sell you these, or any drugs, so
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don't even _think_ about asking. But you can send him $3.00 for a
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sample issue of X Magazine--It's Cyberlicious!
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[Reviews by Jeff Hansen]
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PENICILLIN: Pretty straightforward. You'd have to be born under a
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rock not to know that this is an anti-biotic. You may
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not know, however, that it goes with either red or
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white wine.
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[SIDE EFFECTS: decreases effectiveness of oral
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contraceptives; diarrhea.]
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PERCOCET: I was originally given these pills to combat Wisdom
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Teeth Removal Pain (sounds like the Chi Peps' new
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album). I was told to take a pill IMMEDIATELY. However,
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because of the numbness of my lower lip and general
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hilarity, I shot the pill clear across the bathroom
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along with a large amount of water. I didn't find it
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until five (miraculously) pain-free hours later. This
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pill will make you feel groggy, groggy, groggy. But a
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good kind of groggy. My sister had to dip into my
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supply for some post-op pain she had; she informs me
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that it (an accidental double-dose) makes Saturday
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Night Live seem funny, so you KNOW it's powerful goo.
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[SIDE EFFECTS: mentally/physically dependent; sleepy;
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foosball.]
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V-CILLIN: This is a stronger version of PENICILLIN. I was given
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this after I acquired an infection from the wisdom
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tooth surgery. Isn't this one of the members of Public
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Enemy?
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[SIDE EFFECTS: same as PENICILLIN, except stronger (go
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figure).]
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FLAGYL: Arrrrrrrrrrrghhh! This is the nastiest drug I've ever
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had to take: It's big. It tastes like chalk and
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cigarettes. And lint. It has the worst side effects.
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One thing they don't mention is the possibility that
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you will react to the drug in the wrong way and develop
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a kidney stone that, according to the nurse hunched
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over your fetal, quivering form, is the "worst kind of
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pain there is". Great, you've made it, boola! This is
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also THE drug to take if you have a wide array of
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sexually-transmitted diseases. So, hey, kill two birds
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with one kidney stone.
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[SIDE EFFECTS: dizziness; dry mouth; darkened urine;
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emergency room visit.]
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DEMAROL: I was given this in the hospital intravenously to
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combat the pain associated with my kidney stone. It
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makes everything serene; the only problem is you have
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to concentrate to focus your eyes.
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[SIDE EFFECTS: knighthood; desire to fish naked.]
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VICODIN: My latest drug, and the biggest pill yet. I was given
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it for any follow-up pain, but I haven't had to take it
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yet. Its size, however, says to me: "I mean BUSINESS!"
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Can't WAIT!
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[SIDE EFFECTS: sleepy; physically/mentally dependent;
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dressing up in opposite gender's clothes.]
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TITLE: Relax (CANDY)
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ARTIST: Lotte
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Ever wonder what it would taste like to take a nice long lick of
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one of those cardboard car air fresheners? You know, those little
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pine-tree-like thingies. Well, dream no more candy lovers, because
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Relax gum tastes _exactly_ like what I'd imagine one of those air
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freshener thingies would taste like. As strong, putrid and
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"unique" in taste as _Black Black_ (reviewed in Slambook #3) but
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unlike _Black Black_, it has no character or personality
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whatsoever. Really sucky stuff. Definitely not something to waste
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your hard earned junk-food cash on. Inhaling copier toner seems
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more appealing.
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TITLE: The Guy Who Lived Under a Picnic Table (PERSON)
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ARTIST: Dan, the guy who lived under a picnic table
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ADDRESS: Same as the SLAMBOOK
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PRICE: If you'd like to own or rent someone who lives under a
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picnic table, you're more screwed up than you think. But this
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grade "A", certifiable, true story originally ran back in the
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Summer/Fall, 1993 issue of EXILE; a zine that Matt and his brother
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Spencer put out whenever they feel like it. The next issue--due
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out in the fall--will be an ultra huge thing devoted to the
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underground scene in Osaka, Japan. If you're interested in the
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super-mega-total-all-star-Osaka-a-go-go issue of EXILE, you can
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contact Matt and Spencer via the SLAMBOOK's luxurious and elegant
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New York City P.O. Box. They love to get postcards, FYI.
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[Interview by Matt Kaufman]
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[SLAM] Why did you go to Hawaii in the first place?
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[DAN] I was teaching English in Japan and I went to Hawaii for
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three weeks because my visa was running out. Then I decided
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to stay.
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[SLAM] How did you end up living under a picnic table?
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[DAN] At the end of three weeks, I went to some island named
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Somali and I camped out one night with a friend of mine.
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The I got the idea of camping all the time. I started out
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in a tent, but the tent got stolen. So I lived under a
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picnic table.
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[SLAM] What did you do to support yourself?
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[DAN] I worked as a security guard at a housing project. I cooked
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all of my food at the campground on propane burners.
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[SLAM] Did you ever get anything ripped off?
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[DAN] Not too much. Some.
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[SLAM] Did you have any bad experiences while you were living under
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the picnic table?
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[DAN] I was at the campgrounds and there were these big Samoan
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dudes with a '56 Chevy. They asked me where the bathroom
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was and I showed it to them. In the bathroom, they
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threatened to beat me up. But I talked them out of it and
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we actually became friends. We cruised around in the '56
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Chevy.
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[SLAM] What advice do you have for other people who are thinking of
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going down to Hawaii to live under picnic tables?
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[DAN] Hawaii is expensive. The key thing is to get a motor
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scooter. Then you'll be able to go anywhere.
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[SLAM] So what are you doing now?
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[DAN] I'm living in Chicago studying for my actuarial exams. I
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want to write a book about college graduate who is homeless
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for eight months, and works as a security guard to support
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himself. It ends when he becomes a successful businessman.
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| This was SUPER STUPID SLAMBOOK #4 (JULY 1994) |
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| All contents (c) 1994 Jack Szwergold, all rights reserved. |
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| And after saying all that, I realize that this is an elec- |
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| tronic zine, which by the nature of it's medium, allows it to |
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| be duplicated with little or no effort. So this is to let |
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| you know that distribution is free. You can copy and send it |
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| to as many people and places as you want. But the content is |
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| mine, and plagiarism is just not a nice thing. Which is the |
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| only reason why I stuck a copyright statement on this thing. |
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| So be nice, and don't claim authorship to things you didn't |
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| write. Okay? |
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