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| ???? ?? ?? ????? ?????? ????? | HEavENly |
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|?????? ?? ?? ?????? ?????? ?????? | caNDy |
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|?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? | ARthUR LEe |
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| ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? | guM |
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| ?? ?? ?? ?????? ????? ?????? | KIckINg GIanT |
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| ?? ?? ?? ????? ?? ????? | guM |
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|?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? | NOteCArdS |
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|?????? ?????? ?? ?????? ?? ?? | paVEmeNT |
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| ???? ???? ?? ?????? ?? ?? | CAugHT IN FLux |
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| | saM heNDerSOn |
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| ???? ?????? ?? ?? ????? ?? ????? | inTErvIEw |
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| ???? ?????? ?? ?? ?? ?? ????? ???? ???? ?? ?? | #7 |
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| [ Hey Jack. What's up with this gossamer schmate? ] |
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My name is Mr. Slambook. In September 1992 my car was
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repossessed and the bill collectors were hounding me like you
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wouldn't believe. I was laid off and my unemployment checks
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had run out. The only escape I had from the pressure of
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failure was my computer, my modem, a bottle of vodka and
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Oprah. I longed to turn my advocation into my vocation. This
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January 1994 my family and I went on a weekend sojourn to
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Coney Island. I bought a Yugo for CASH in February 1994.
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I am currently building a tree house on the West Coast of
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Queens, with an above ground pool, a dog house, and a
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beautiful view of the driveway from my breakfast room table
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and patio. I will never have to work again. Today I am rich!
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I have earned over $400.00 (F-O-R-E H-U-N-D-R-E-D D-O-L-L-E-
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R-S) to date and will become stinking rich within 4 or 5
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decades. Anyone can do the same. This money making program
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works perfectly every time, 100 percent of the time. I have
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NEVER failed to earn $5 or more whenever I wanted. Best of all
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you never have to leave home except to go to your mailbox or
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the post office or the corner store to play lotto. But that's
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all I'm going to tell you about the secret of my success.
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Because if I told you any more, I'd compromise the stability
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of my Rockefeller-like existence.
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I own a mansion and a yacht,
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| [ E-MAIL ] [ STANDARD MAIL ] |
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| jis@panix.com P.O. Box 242 |
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| Village Station |
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| New York, NY 10014 |
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TITLE: The Decline and Fall of Heavenly (CD)
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ARTIST: Heavenly
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ADDRESS: K (Box 7154, Olympia, WA 98507)
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PRICE: It goes for $10.00 post paid
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No more wait! New Heavenly has arrived, and how wonderful it is.
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Honest. I mean, can this Oxford quintette ever put out a bad
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album? No. Never. They can't. And this is yet more tangible
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evidence of this immutable law of pop nature. More loveable tunes
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filled with peppy keyboards, jangly guitars and some of the
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happiest singing you'll ever hear. What more would you want, you
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misanthropic fool? For the senseless who need to know, read on.
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My fave track is _Skipjack_. It has a great beat thing going;
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accentuated by a cowbell, natch. _Sperm Meets Egg, So What?_ gets
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extra brownie points for creative titling. Whoops! Almost forgot,
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_Sacramento_ which is a groovy instrumental that does a job of
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splitting the tracks kindasorta in half. Kinda. I mean, you can't
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properly say that the fifth cut in an eight cut release is the dead
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center, can you? But who care's about math. This is reality,
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babe. Dig it.
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TITLE: New Bottle (CANDY)
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ARTIST: Orion
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Well, I got two bottles of this stuff. Yeah bottles. It comes
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packaged as little liter sized soda bottles. But they're not liter
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size soda bottles, they just look like them. They're actually
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about 2.5 inches high. One of them looks like a Fresca bottle.
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The other one looks like an orange soda bottle. But don't let that
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fool you. The candy in both tastes the same.
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Sugary chunks of stuff that are just a tad bigger than Pixie
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stick powder, and slightly smaller than Nerds. The taste most
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definitely leans more towards the Pixie stick powder side of the
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spectrum. But there's one important difference. Unlike Pixie
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sticks, Nerds and other similar candy treats, this stuff sucks.
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Despite the candy being virtually hermetically sealed in this
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little bottle, the candy tastes like it's been sitting and molding
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in some storage closet somewhere. Who the hell want's to willfully
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eat stuff that tastes like that?
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TITLE: The Arthur Lee/Love Experience (PERSON)
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ARTIST: Glenn Susser, Arthur Lee, a cab and a radio
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Glenn likes music and likes that groovy group Love, which is yet
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another victim of another tribute album. Below is one of Glenn's
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youthful memories of picking up Arthur Lee as a cab fare. Yes,
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Glenn was a cabbie. Yes, he was a cabbie in New York City. And I
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don't care what anyone says. You deserve a medal for doing that.
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[Memory by Glenn Susser]
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It's ancient history already. I drove in the city over 20 years
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ago during school breaks. Those were the days when cabbies still
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spoke English and obeyed a few of the laws. Was easily the most
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interesting job I had. Everyday it was something else. Didn't
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pick up too many celebrities, but the most memorable was Arthur Lee
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of Love. He gets in and is going to a recording studio... I didn't
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recognize him although I was a big fan. Hendrix is on my portable
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FM and he asks me to turn it up, which I was more than happy to do.
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Hendrix was Lee's idol. After the song, he just asks me if I knew
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who he was. When I told him no, he sez, like it's a big deal (which
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it really was to me) "I'm Arthur Lee of Love." Well, if you know
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anything about Love, you'd know that they were almost completely
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unknown at the time. I was probably the 1 in a 1,000 that knew
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them. He was such a conceited asshole you wouldn't believe it.
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TITLE: Kiss Mint: Sampler Pack (CANDY)
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ARTIST: Glica
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After bitching and moaning about how horrid the Kiss Mint for Wake
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up was in a previous issue, a pal clued me into this little thing.
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A sampler pack of some of the less useful Kiss Mint flavors.
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Unlike Kiss Mint for Wake Up, which is designed with some sort
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of tangible, utilitarian angle, in mind this stuff is really flaky.
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Kiss Ming for Refresh? What the heck is that? Don't the concepts
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of "refresh" and "wake-up" overlap in some way? Or is this gum for
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one of those days that I have that "not-so-fresh" feeling? Or Kiss
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Mint for Elegance?!?! Unless Grace Kelly, Cary Grant, and Audrey
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Hepburn chew this--which I doubt since they're all dead--I don't
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think the elegance seal of approval applies to this sugar product.
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Oh, and get _this_ one. Kiss Mint for... for... for... Etiquette.
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What the fuck?!?! Do you turn into a Letitia Baldrige or Henry
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Kissinger after chomping on a stick? Man, these Kiss Mint people
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have really taken the phrase "truth in advertising" lightly.
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TITLE: Alien i.D. (CD)
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ARTIST: Kicking Giant
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ADDRESS: K (Box 7154, Olympia, WA 98507)
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PRICE: It goes for $11.00 post paid
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Last year Kicking Giant gave us all the wonderful _Halo_ CD, which
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was the first CD release by this previously cassette only duo.
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This year they give us their first "proper" album--as all the Brits
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say--and it's pretty damn good. Same minimalist setup of an
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electric guitar a la Tae Won Yu and a stand-up kit drum setup a la
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Rachael Carns. But the sound seems to be much fuller for some
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reason. Better production? I would say that has something to do
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with it. But not everything to do with it, since Tae and Rachel
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are pretty damn talented sans the bells and whistles of production;
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see them live to see what I mean.
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Standout tracks include _This Song_, _She's Real_ and _Lucky_.
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The one track that I could absolutely, positively do without is the
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_The Town Idiot_ which is basically a spoken word piece by Sue P.
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Fox with Kicking Giant providing the backup music. It's disturbing
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and interesting on the first listen. But after that it gets stale
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fast, and seems really out of place on this otherwise neat
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collection of tunes.
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TITLE: Booing: Ginger Ale (CANDY)
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ARTIST: Kanebo
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Unless the soda candy that you consume is cola flavored, it's bound
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to suck. This is the best evidence yet. The package smells like
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flat ginger ale _before_ you even open it. The gum tastes like
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some bastard concoction of maple syrup and ginger candy. And mind
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you Faithful Reader (tm), I actually like the way pure ginger candy
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tastes. This stuff just wreaks of bad over-sugary, syrupy gunk.
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Bleagh! The gum itself comes in pretty big portions. And the
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flavor last a real, real, real long time. Which would be a good
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thing if its tasted okay. But it doesn't taste like anything you
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want to savor. So this is _not_ a positive factor. No sir.
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TITLE: Popeye/Felix The Cat Notecards (MISC)
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ARTIST: Graphique de France and the original artists
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ADDRESS: Graphique De France (46 Waltham Street, Boston, MA 02118)
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PRICE: They go for $1.50 each, but you can buy a whole box of 12
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for $22, I think.
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Let's face it. Most greeting cards really suck. The sappy, syrupy
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shit that passes for prepackaged sentiments really makes me wretch
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sometimes. What to do? Go get some blank cards. Frankly, buy
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only blank notecards. Write your own damn greetings. Its much
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more personal and infinitely better as a result. And a good place
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to get some of the best notecards that I've seen come from this
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place, Grahique de France.
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Slightly pretentious name aside, the cards that they make are
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really neat. Heavy stock paper, with really nice, heavy lines and
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strong, saturated color. What else would you want? It also helps
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that this company graces their cards with two of the coolest
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cartoon characters ever made, Popeye the Sailor Man and Felix the
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Cat.
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The Popeye line comes with neat portraits of the spinach
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eating seaman himself, as well as the lovely Olive Oyl, the non-
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sequiturish Jeep and that baby of babys, Swee' Pea. The Felix the
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Cat line is my personal fave, with scenes of Felix lounging,
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dancing, painting, sleeping and laughing his ass off. A damn fine
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role model that Felix is, if you ask me. Much better than those
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Mighty Annoying Power Rangers.
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TITLE: Pavement, Guided by Voices and David Kilgour (LIVE SHOW)
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ARTIST: See above, buddy...
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So there I am. In the middle of the Roseland in lovely midtown
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Manhattan. The Roseland used to be a huge old dancehall; which
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makes going to shows here really depressing. You know, the whole
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by-gone era and things like that thing. Cool art-deco stuff, but
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there's something haunting about it. It seem's hollow in some way.
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But enough about that. You want to know how the show was, right?
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Right...
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David Kilgour stunk. Derivative, wall-paperish bulljunk, just
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like most of the things that get played on many mainstream
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"alternative" stations. Guided By Voices was slightly better,
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although I'll be the first to say that I just really don't like
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them. They're sound just doesn't click with me; live or on album.
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But I do have to give them credit for being one of the few bands I
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can think of who brings a cooler filled with beer out on the stage;
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and promptly takes it off the stage when they are definitely
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leaving the stage. Oh yeah. Kim Deal did a guest spot. Supposedly
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singing, but you couldn't really hear her, so the crowd mainly had
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the pleasure of seeing Ms. Deal bob her head drunkenly on stage
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with the rest of the Guided By Voices crew. Pinch me. But enough of
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this sarcastic shit.
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Pavement came on, and they were really great. Last time I saw
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them, it seemed to be a pretty academic, paint-by-numbers set of
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songs. Not this time. They were loose and on the ball in a big
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way. Steve was great. So was Mark. Heck, I even like Scott a
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little more. Fuck that, Scott was the best! Songs included a
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healthy dose of old stuff like _Debris Slide_, _Summer Babe_, _Two
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States_, _Trigger Cut_ and _Box Elder_ as well as lots of new stuff
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like _Silence Kit_, _Range Life_, _Elevate Me Later_ and _Cut Your
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Hair_. No _From Now On_. No _Forklift_. So I'd have to grade the
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set an A minus. But nitpicking aside, this was definitely one of
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the more satisfying shows I've seen in a long time.
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TITLE: Caught In Flux #3 (ZINE)
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ARTIST: Mike Appelstein
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ADDRESS: Caught In Flux (P.O. Box 7088, New York, NY 10116-7088)
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PRICE: It goes for $2.00 post paid
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Reading through this special "How I discovered music" issue is
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really a mind blower. Well, maybe mind blower is the wrong way to
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describe it. But basically by focusing on this one thing and
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interviewing--or allowing the subject to write a short essay--Mike
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has managed to add a different, and more thoughtful, twist on the
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same old song and dance.
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We've all probably read interviews with Barbara Manning, but
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did you know that she accidentally crushed her pet hermit crab
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while going nuts at a screening of The Who's _The Kids are Alright_
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when she was a kid? Or that the ever-so-schmoozy Jessica Willis,
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who does music reviews and interviews for the New York Press, has
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secret dreams of being a slutty groupie? Or that Indie-List and
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Telegraph electronic publishing mogul Sean Murphy really has a
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thing for Del Shannon's tunes? Well, whatever. If I say anymore,
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I'll destroy all the fun that contained in this zines pages. But
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I will tell you that other musical discovery moments are shared by
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Jenny Toomey (Tsunami), Kristin Thomson (ditto, Tsunami), David
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Nichols (Cannanes), Stuart Moxham (Young Marble Giants), Anne
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Rubenstein (Comics Journal), Mark Eitzel (American Music Club),
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Lois Maffeo (Lois, duh) and Mike Schulman (Slumberland). Buy it,
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or else I'm gonna have to get medieval on your ass.
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TITLE: Sam Henderson (PERSON)
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ARTIST: Sam Henderson
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ADDRESS: Sam Henderson, The Cartoonist (14 Bayard Street #3,
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Brooklyn, NY 11211)
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Sam is one of the most prolific and productive mini-comic people
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that I know of. His mini, _The Magic Whistle_ is one of the few
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consistently funny things one can buy for $2.00 nowadays. So send
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him $2.00 and he'll send you a copy. Ask for #5 and you can read
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the fake letter his roommate Mike wrote on his behalf to the
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National Endowment for the Arts. The first sentence of the letter
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is "If you give me a grant of $6000 I will spend it on whores for
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my friends and myself." Let's wish him luck and hope he gets the
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grant! This interview was done in August, 1994.
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[SLAM] When did you start drawing cartoons?
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[S.H.] I don't know when I started drawing cartoons. But I've
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been self-publishing when I was 10. I put out a book.
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It was actually my elementary school that published it.
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In junior high, I did comic called _Captain Spaz_, with
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my pal Bobby Weiss. It was a super hero parody.
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[SLAM] Are you ever going to reprint that stuff?
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[S.H.] Well that was then, but I still might reprint it anyway.
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I did do a reprint the first thing I did when I was 10.
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[SLAM] How did _The Magic Whistle_ mini-comic start out?
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[S.H.] Basically, before _The Magic Whistle_ I just did several
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mini-comics under different names and I eventually wanted
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to have some kind of identity and also a way people could
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easily keep track of what I was doing. Before that, there
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was no way that people could keep track of what I did.
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[SLAM] I remember also seeing that one mini-comic tribute you
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did on C3PO? Where did that come from?
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[S.H.] We only made about 25 copies of that. My roommate Mike
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Rex and I just did that in one night.
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[SLAM] That one was neat. I remember reading that and laughing
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my ass off in big way.
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[S.H.] We pretty much just gave the copies to Jim Hanely's
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Universe and a couple of other places. My roommate is a
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real Star Wars nut, so we just thought up all of gags
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about C3PO one night.
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[SLAM] The one with the two kids cursing him out [VISUAL AID:
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C3PO is quietly walking down the street while two kids
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yell "Hey, C3PO! Up yours!" and "I saw your mom naked,
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you dork!"] It's so stupid yet it's so true. That's
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exactly what would happen to him. And the thing is, that
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when I watch the Star Wars films now, I'm becoming more
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aware of what a real dork C3PO really was. He was just
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the most useless character.
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[S.H.] The thing that spawned the mini was when Mike Rex did the
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one strip with C3PO dancing and going "Woo! Woo! Woo!"
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and this guy points at him and says "Hey! Little Richard
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is inside C3PO." And so I did the other one, and we just
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kept on rolling.
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[SLAM] Why did you decide to call the mini _The Magic Whistle_?
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[S.H.] I was just making up sitcom plots in my head. I'm always
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doing stuff with stereotypes and cliches. And I just
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came up with the idea of this sitcom where the lead
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character finds a magic whistle. I just thought that was
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really funny at one point.
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[SLAM] It reminds me of that Sid and Marty Kroft _H.R.
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Puffinstuff_. You know. The magic flute that kid had.
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[S.H.] Yeah. _H.R. Puffinstuff_. H.R. supposedly stood for
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_H_and _R_olled. There was thing in Film Threat about
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all the drug references in all of the Sid and Marty Kroft
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shows a couple of years ago.
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[SLAM] All of the Kroft stuff is screwed up. Well, not the new
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stuff. Like the new _Land of the Lost_. The sleestacks
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suck in the new one.
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[S.H.] I haven't seen any of that stuff for about 15 or 20
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years.
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[SLAM] Just memories.
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[S.H.] Yeah and with all this seventies retro stuff, all these
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things are just coming back to me.
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[SLAM] Well, back to comics. The _F Hat_ mini, where did that
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one come from?
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[S.H.] Actually, I saw someone in the street selling a hat with
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the word "Fuck" on it. And I was wondering, what type of
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person would wear this? And if he did, would everybody
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think he was a great person because he had this hat?
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[SLAM] Yeah. That was the funny ending in that one. Where
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everyone who was talking about how great the guy's hat
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was, turned around and said that they lied and it was all
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a big joke. They were all making fun of him. Even the
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guy who sold him the hat.
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[S.H.] That was kind of a cop-out ending. I couldn't think of
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a way to end it.
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[SLAM] Yeah, but that's kind of like what would happen, in a
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paranoid sort of way. I mean, did you see Adrian
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Tomine's letter in HATE? The one where he told Peter
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Bagge that he bought a HATE hat and was walking around
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San Francisco with it and was getting all kinds of shit
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from people on the street?
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[S.H.] That hat's actually a big seller for Fantagraphics, now.
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Just because of the word "Hate", even people don't buy
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the comic buy the hat because of that.
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[SLAM] Yeah. I know tons of people who bought the HATE T-shirt
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just for that reason. But back to your stuff. What about
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the visual stuff. Like those wordless strips you have in
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_Nickelodeon Magazine_?
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[S.H.] The first one I did for them was originally in _The Magic
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Whistle_; the one with the guy and the animal taking each
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others eyes and noses off. I submitted a bunch of my
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stuff to Nickelodeon, most of it just being from my mini-
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comics, and many of them inappropriate for them to print.
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I just wanted to show them what I could do. And that one
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being one of the only ones that wasn't dirty, I guess
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that's why they accepted it. Then they asked me to do
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more stuff with those characters.
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[SLAM] That was a kick in the head for me. I think I was in
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Penn Station flipping through _Nickelodeon Magazine_,
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when I saw your stuff. Then I saw Mark Newgarden's
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stuff. Then Kaz's stuff. Even David Mazzucchelli had a
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strip in it, and I was going "What the hell is this?"
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The comics section in it is great. It's like the RAW for
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kids.
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[S.H.] An editor at magazine, Anne Bernstein, has done a few
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underground comics herself. She went to school with Mark
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Newgarden and Kaz. And I worked with Newgarden at Topps
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on few projects, so he hooked me up with Nickelodeon.
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[SLAM] What did you do at Topps?
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[S.H.] I did some concept art and writing. Most of the things
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I did will never see the light of day. But they put out
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some of the _Wacky Packages_ I wrote. They also have
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another series called _Gruesome Greetings_. And it was
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funny, because I did the roughs and the artists--who draw
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really realistically--just copied directly from my
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roughs. So in the final product, it looks like my
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characters but they're three dimensional; done in
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acrylics, watercolors and everything.
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[SLAM] Here's a stupid question. Where did you get your style
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from?
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[S.H.] Oh, just because I'm lazy.
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[SLAM] It's doodlish, but it's cool. It reminds me a lot of
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Sergio Aragones stuff.
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[S.H.] Yeah, a lot of people compare me to Aragones. Basically,
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when I started out in art school I was just trying to
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show how realistically I could draw and everything. And
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these characters I do, I began to doodle them when I was
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on the phone. But I realized with the type of humor I
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do, it's much funnier with my doodle style. Which is
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quick and spontaneous.
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[SLAM] The stories are really great also. You've done a few
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written, non-comic things. Like _The Greatest Teen Movie
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Ever Made_, that's another thing I was laughing out loud
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to.
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[S.H.] There are things I do that are just funny without visuals
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at all. I've always thought it would be just funny to
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write them out and let somebody else imagine what they
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would look like in their head.
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[SLAM] Well, with _The Greatest Teen Movie Ever Made_, if you
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put visuals to it, it would just ruin it. If you grew up
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watching any of those teen flicks you don't need any
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visuals to laugh at it.
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[S.H.] Yeah. A lot of people think I watch teen movies all the
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time. Some people call me when there's something on.
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[SLAM] Like any of the _Porky's_ films?
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[S.H.] Basically. It's not as much that I like these films and
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like to watch them, I'm just fascinated that they were
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even made at all. That people spent, more or less, a year
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of their lives working on these films.
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[SLAM] Do you ever see one now that you saw when you were a kid
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and thought was so great. And then you watch it again
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and you're like "Shit! I actually _liked_ this?"
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[S.H.] Actually, much entertainment I liked as a kid is like
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that. I remember I was in eighth grade and when Porky's
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came out and everybody said "This was _the_ funniest
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movie." And this one kid I knew who was allowed to see
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R rated movies, he was like telling everybody about how
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great it was. It took him about five hours to explain
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how great a film it was.
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[SLAM] Was that where the strip where the guy is over-analyzing
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_Porky's_ in _The Magic Whistle_ #5 came from?
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[S.H.] Nah, that was more made up. I don't think any eighth
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grader could come up with that kind of stuff. It's just
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like my whole philosophy of being into stupid humor and
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this whole idea of intellectualizing something as stupid
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as _Porky's_.
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[SLAM] Well, then what do you think about the current trend in
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ultra-realism in comics. Like Batman getting his back
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cracked in half.
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[S.H.] What? Is that what happened? I dunno.
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[SLAM] You don't know? Well it's like everything is getting
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painfully ultra-realistic. Like do you remember when
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Marvel did that special issue of Spider Man where his
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uncle molested him? Or the Iron Man where Tony Stark was
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revealed to be an major alcoholic?
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[S.H.] Well, I read Marvels for a period, between '80 and '84.
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So I'm not up on that kind of stuff anymore.
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[SLAM] Well, okay.
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| This was SUPER STUPID SLAMBOOK #7 (OCTOBER 1994) |
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| All contents (c) 1994 Jack Szwergold, all rights reserved. |
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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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