Magazine: McSweeney’s & The Believer combo subscription
Casey McKinney11.14.09
Note price correction, originally way off: But here’s a deal if there ever was. For $90 you get 4 issues of McSweeney’s and 10 of The…
Notes from the Brink – Reintroducing The Love Language
Brian Howe11.14.09
Brian Howe gets a rather full scoop on a band that, while still on the rise, has already been pegged with a storied mystique and an expected sound. Call the eponymous The Love Language a debut of lo-fi heartbreak if you must, but frontman Stuart McLamb and company have whipped up music some say is as big as Big Star, as anthemic as Arcade Fire or as classic as a Guided by Voices gem, and LL brings it with a patchwork wall of sound that only makes one wonder what the next, perhaps more refined, Merge Records LP will bring. But no pressure folks, really…Yeah right.
Film: RiP: A Remix Manifesto
Ben Bush11.13.09
My own position on copyright gets muddier and muddier but this is a compelling and visually enticing copyleft documentary starring the usual suspects…
Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem
Daniel Hamilton11.13.09
Jonathan Lethem has been cultivating under "an umbrella"… "ideas about identity, culture, history, cities, and loss" since 1999’s Motherless Brooklyn, Daniel Hamilton writes in this review for Fanzine. Chronic city, Lethem’s latest, is "a story about storytelling", one that unloads a giant gobstopper of a plot in the author’s most postmodern novel to date.
Music: The Jesus Lizard Tour
Casey McKinney11.06.09
‘Ello Kiddies, in case you never saw this one 5 footish, screwy eyed, seemingly ever acid tripping, dangerously cowboy-booted Texan David Yow dive…
Music: Haunting The Chapel: Brandon Stosuy’s Metal Column
Casey McKinney11.04.09
Days ago, October 30th, readers of Brandon Stosuy’s (a fanzine contributor among a zillion other things) metal column Show No Mercy, which ran on…
Three Documentaries by Werner Herzog
Tao Lin11.02.09
Writer Tao Lin and director Werner Herzog share a certain interest in stunts that, rather than a means to an end, begin to seem like an extension of the work itself. Herzog’s film Heart of Glass was performed almost entirely by a cast of hypnotized actors and, after daring Errol Morris to complete his first documentary, Herzog famously ate his own shoe. Tao Lin has funded his literary efforts in part by selling shares in his forthcoming novel Richard Yates ($2000 per) and using eBay to sell Gmail chats with him on various substances such as methadone, adderall, green juice and iced coffee. ($31-$61) Lin’s recent novella Shoplifting from American Apparel is an engaging and unusual read that packs a lot of twists into its seemingly straightforward sentences. More on Herzog from the Fanzine later this month when Matty Byloos reviews his upcoming Bad Lieutenant 2: Port of Call New Orleans.
Music: Slayer: World Painted Red
Casey McKinney11.01.09
A voice in the wilderness Slayer is. Long time fans noted the creepy serendipity of the release date of God Hates Us ALL (September 11th, 2001). For…
Site: DC’s Halloween Month
The Fanzine10.31.09
Not sure who likes Halloween more, would be blood brothers Dennis Cooper or Derek McCormack? And in case you thought we were complete idiot space…
The Zombie Monologues
Darius James10.30.09
Each year at this time the dead rise from their graves but way back in the summer of 1961 Nazis revivified deceased plantation slaves through the powers of voodoo during the midday movie on WNEW’s Jungle Jive at Five. A young tyke at the time, Darius James was thirsty for any televisual images of African-Americans even the eye-popping antics of Mantan Moreland and discovered more than he bargained for. James is the author of the novel Negrophobia and That’s Blaxploitation!, a book every bit as stylized and opinionated as the films it profiles.
