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Doseone interviewed
Fanzine contributor (among other things) Ben Bush just got up a nice interview on rapper Doseone (who does other things too, but you have to read the interview) on The Believer’s website, and y’all should check it...yo.

Damon Packard: Reflections of Evil Film
Damon Packard: Reflections of Evil
Okay, so underground filmmaker Damon Packard is definitely more funny than he is scary (maybe unnerving is the better contrasting word), but I was trying to think of a good Halloween recommendation, and well, regardless the season, if you have never seen Reflections of Evil and its many remasters, check Damon’s Myspace page here. Fans of Spielberg and Lucas will hopefully appreciate the satire. Genius stuff. -C.M.

Dodie Bellamy: Barf Manifesto Book
Dodie Bellamy: Barf Manifesto
When asked to present an essay at a stodgy MLA conference, author Dodie Bellamy gave her “MLA Barf” as an apt reply - a rejection of the MLA style and a defense of Eileen Myles’ relentlessly ‘sleazier and sleazier’ “Everyday Barf” from her book of poems Sorry Tree, itself a refutation of form, family, femininity as it’s often cast. From Ugly Duckling Books, this limited edition includes the follow up essay, “CCA Barf” with cover art by Raymond Pettibon and design by Colter Jacobsen. -C.M.

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Film

Real Escapism: Kentucker Audley and Team Picture

Brian Pera

11.03.08

Brian Pera reviews Ketucker Audley's Team Picture, which started gaining attention at last year's Memphis Film Festival. Since then it has been featured in New Talkies: the DIY Generation series at IFC, and film scholar Ray Carney included it as part of Independent's Week: New Independent Cinema 2007 at the Harvard Archives. Team Picture has been embraced by - yet stands apart from - the current laissez-faire Youtube genre trend "mumblecore." Pera argues that Audley wields a unique style that bridges somewhere between the verité of a Cassavettes or Antonioni - the scenes slow and thoughtful, the directing more slight-handed than sleight of hand, and the final product beautiful and with purpose.

Books

Swedish Death Metal by Daniel Ekeroth: a review

Adam Ganderson

10.29.08

Fanzine basically took the month off, so we get this review just in time for the remaining days of October - a month of nippy nights that creep up early and announce the Halloween season; behold here Adam Ganderson's review of Daniel Ekeroth’s Swedish Death Metal. You may have read the Norwegian side of things in Lords of Chaos, or got a taste of other non-Norwegian death metal bands in the excerpt "A Blaze in the North American Sky" from Brandon Stosuy’s forthcoming book that ran recently in The Believer. Here we get the Swedish death metal story, an instant classic, and required reading for music lovers and fanzine fans of varied yet discriminating tastes.

Sport

Mid-Atlantic Dreams: Postseason Baseball

Tom Flynn

10.03.08

It's playoffs time again, and frustrated with the way the season ended for two mid-atlantic teams - The Washington Nationals and the Baltimore Orioles (both wound up dead last in their divisions), Tom Flynn looks back to the days when the mid-atlantic region boasted postseason domination, with the Negro League Elite Giants and DC's Homestead Grays.

Columns

Talk Show 18 with Chris Bohjalian, Joshua Henkin, Perrin Ireland, Aryn Kyle, Kelly McMasters

Jaime Clarke

09.30.08

First dates can range from the love-kindling I-just-met-my-future-spouse variety to the more common awkard, sweaty-palmed anticlimaxes of angsty teendom (or older). Some had their first dates in elementary school and some in college, but these writers all remember the blood, sweat and tears of their first dates very well. Host Jaime Clarke does the questioning, while Danny Jock serves up the art.

Film

2008 New York Film Festival Preview

Benjamin Strong

09.26.08

Benjamin Strong takes us to this year's New York Film Festival. While overall, perhaps not as strong as festivals past (a committee member was quoted saying the equivalent of the old: you go with the army you have, not the one you wish you had, or whatever it was Rumsfeld said about the Iraq war), but Strong does find some gems amidst the bunch. Read his preview before you purchase your tickets.

Sport

Detroit Schlock City

Adam Underhill

09.20.08

We still have a ways to go till Thanksgiving. That's the day the Detroit Lions annually offer up their gullets in ritual sacrifice to another football team for all of America, plump with turkey, to see. But after this year's awful season beginning, even cheesehead fan Adam Underhill is already saying enough is enough. Will someone please step in and save the Detroit Lions? Is it possible? The Giants came back from 0-2 to win the Superbowl last year. Maybe Fanzine's rant here will be enough of a psychic prompt to turn the tides for the motor city's beasts of burden. Uhh...yeah...

Film

Jaws Revisited

Masha Tupitsyn

09.15.08

Like a survivor from a good shark gnashing, what we see in a feature film is really the remains of a great deal of cutting and slicing. What happens in the editing room often stays in the editing room. Of course with the advent of DVDs we now get a lot more options in viewing a film, with the outtakes, deleted scenes, etc. Recently a retrospective of Spielberg films aired on TV, and here Masha Tupitsyn revisits with fresh perspective the collector's edition DVD of the director's 70's blockbuster Jaws.

Music

Only Connect: Some Modern Folk

Timothy Cushing

09.12.08

There's a folkload of new folk springing forth again in America, a renaissance you might say; as it happened in 60's with Guthrie and Dylan and Baez and so on, so it is again, if however tweaked. Timothy Cushing looks at a sample of these new musicians that he, a musician himself, particularly connects with: the Avett Brothers, Ian Thomas and Langhorne Slim. Art By Danny Jock.