Zine: Hyde/Burn Collector
Amy Herschleb10.28.11
Who says print is dead? Eat my ass, Harvey Levin––and I don’t mean in a good way. It’s a sign of the times when Creative Loafing…
Book: Monster Party by Lizzy Acker
Amy Herschleb10.28.11
Monster Party, Lizzy Acker’s first book, is love without mercy for your own heart, the fierce, inextinguishable flame of certitude that the barriers…
The End Of The World As She Knows It: Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia
Scott Bradley10.28.11
It’s nigh Halloween, and if you haven’t already been spooked off by director Lars Von Trier’s comments at this year’s Cannes Film Festival or by Trier’s excruciatingly visceral last film Antichrist, then perhaps you’ll welcome his latest offering Melancholia, available now for internet download and soon to be in theaters. But don’t expect to be scared as his apocalyptic drama centers on another emotion, clinical depression. The world is about to end, in one person’s solipsistic view, and in general. Scott Bradley reviews.
Halloween at the Zoo
Casey McKinney10.20.11
It’s been one of those bag em and tag em days in the news. For starters, the hunt for “exotic animals” in Zanesville. When I…
Music: Save Criminal Records/ Kill Your Darlings
Casey McKinney10.15.11
One of Atlanta’s icons, Criminal Records (and comic shop, etc) is maybe going out of business. Go there and buy records. Best record I bought at…
Music: Worker’s Playtime
Casey McKinney10.15.11
You’ve likely heard this put snidely…What are the list of demands of the Occupy Wall Street protesters? A quip usually followed by: Will…
Film: Michael Caine
Casey McKinney10.15.11
Michael Caine is everywhere these days, again. Though he never really goes anywhere. His voice just changes – according to the movie The Trip, in…
What Not Sleeping Starts To Make: Blake Butler’s Nothing
Ken Baumann10.15.11
The late great David Foster Wallace was once interviewed on European TV and said he can’t own a TV because that’s all he would be doing. Like in the pot scene from Infinite Jest in the first bit of that epic novel. He also said he writes in a difficult way to try and battle this tendancy in himself. Too easy is self defeating. Blake Butler, the author of Scorch Atlas, Ever and two books on Harper Perennial this year, the novel There is No Year and Nothing: A Portrait of Insomnia, released this week, is an inheritor of Wallace. Everything Butler writes is difficult (a good thing), beautiful, dark, and oft funny. Friend and copublisher of the literary mag No Colony Ken Baumann recently interviewed Butler. It is no less challenging than Butler’s fiction, or non.
George Kuchar: an appreciation and resurrected (self) interview
Brad Lapin09.30.11
George Kuchar died this month of cancer. He worked for over 50 years making films that mainstream audiences missed, but that an underground adored and was immeasurably inspired by. Brad Lapin has been a fan since the beginning and in 1979 he interviewed Kuchar for a zine he published called Damage. Yes it’s fucking punk rock.
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Peter Thompson09.28.11
Peter Thompson didn’t get shot today so he is writing a letter to Fanzine expressing his intention to write. Current events, two generations of hookers, and a riff on gambling culture intervene. Not even the Greyhound will get you out of Reno for long.
