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Coincidence?

I'm looking at a magazine at Comic Relief. There's an article on Zendik Farm. [ed: Those fucks accosted me on the street in Chicago also, peddling their wares.]

I'm walking down to the B.A.R.T. There's a guy with a Continental Club t-shirt on.

I'm wearing my Gas Huffer shirt in McDonald's. A crusty girl says, "Ive seen those guys." Where? "At Emo's in Austin."

I'm on the bus, wearing a 'New Year's Garage Stomp' t-shirt. A woman behind me says, "Were you at that show? 'Cause I was!" She bartends at the Chameleon.

I'm waiting for the bus when this group of kids ask if I know where the Castro district is. Where are they from? Austin. "Omigod, he's wearing a shirt from that guy in Sound Exchange, the one with the pressing plant!" Two weeks later I see her on the Drag.

A guy I saw at the Bagel Manufactory 'last week' asks if I'm seeing NOFX at Nightbreak.

Angular, like your favorite decade.

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COLUMBIA MISSOURI: A Scene Report

What is it that you do in a college town? In the middle of the midwest, it isn't so much what there is to do, as what you find to do. Certainly it is that way most places but it all seems more prevalent when the shows that come to town that are worth seeing are all organized by kids that I'm friends with and anything interesting that happens is either by a stroke of pure luck or the fact that someone didn't know what they were doing is cool.

What is good about this town? Well there are some good bands. Any college town has to have a few and we do, from the country rock of the Starkweathers to the garage induced mayhem of the Revelators to the obtuse acoustic stylings of the Northerns and the usual cadre of noise bands like the Carters and Product 19. We try, but it is the best we can do.

The fact that there are about 1 1/4 decent venues in town doesn't make going out very easy or worthwhile. The Blue Note holds about 800 people and uses that to their advantage, and our disadvantage. All of the shows that make it in are big and have to negotiate around the regularly scheduled dance nights every Wednesday and Saturday. Sunday and Monday find the Blue Note almost always closed.

That ends up working out okay now as the 200 person capacity blues club has taken to booking, well, "Alternative" bands on Monday nights. Deep Blues brings in decent local blues acts the rest of the week and the occasional good touring blues act. (OH and Missouri blues acts don't typically match up to those Antone's offers)

After that we really start to fake it. The Grifters had the privilege of playing in one of my friends basements until the cops came. The Fusebox used to book shows in the back of a coffee shop. Now they use various rooms around campus and the meeting room adjacent to the radio station. I've been trying to use University money to book some cool bands, but there's only so much I can do. Although I think I got the New Bomb Turks and Teengenerate to play in either an auditorium on campus or the bowling alley in the main Commons. Either way, it is an example of what we can do and how we make shit up in order to do it.

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There is stuff to do, you only have to find it. There are great pinball machines from Cyclone in Memorial Union to Bride of Pinbot in the back of the Columbia Billiards center and the machines that find themselves in the laundromats and hotels of this fine small town.

The food in town is good and most of the pizza joints are run by the same Greek families. There is some of the best pizza you'll ever eat at Shakespeare's and they rotate the pinball that they have pretty frequently. And if you want to you can try what is called by the proprietors "ST LOUIS STYLE PIZZA" and called by Greg Oblivion "saltines with tomato sauce and Cheez Whiz" at IMO's. My favorite spots are all on the same block as the record store I work at.

Village Wine & Cheese offers the best luncheon food in town, it's a bit pricey but worth every cent of it, there specials change every day and I've not yet had one I didn't like. Formosa is the place for Chinese and Bangkok Gardens fills the Thai niche in town. the 9th St Deli is the spot in town to fill your good and inexpensive sandwich void (there are oodles of bad sandwich places) and they also have the best selection of imports available: where else can you get a Red Stripe for $2??

There are tons of great artifacts that you can find when you walk around the town from the infamous columns to Thomas Jefferson's original gravestone to having the keyboard player for the Untamed Youth as the manager of our local Kinko's.

It just takes time to find all of the great stuff in this town. When you come up, go to Whizz Records and ask for Jeff or just ask them where to go. It is like any cool town, there is a lot of beautiful stuff. You just have to remember how to open your eyes.

Jeff Breeze 1402 University Columbia, MO 65201

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Diagram of a gas engine.

peek-a-boo records! A rather small but enthusiastic record label dedicated to bubblegum pop and silly garage-punk. 2502 San Antonio #01 Austin, TX, 78705 http://weiss.che.utexas.edu/-scottg/peek-a-boo.html Send well-concealed cash or money orders payable to Travis Higdon.

The 1-4-5s Unsafe at 45rpm 7"ep--$3.00 The 1-4-5s aren't just another generic garage band, they aim to be the most generic garage band, exploiting every possible "garage rock" convention. This debut ep brings you six short, fast songs, including "Rat King", "Unstoppable," "Flame On!" "C.Y.B.E.R.F.O.R.C.E." and others. Not just "lo-fi", but hardly any fidelity whatsoever.

Peek-a-Boo Bicycle Rodeo 12"lp--$6.00 This clear vinyl compilation features Teen Titans, the 1-4-5s, and still more of Austin's most unliked recording artists, plus such established names as Spoon, Stretford, Death Valley, Lord High Fixers and the Paranoids (16 bands, 40 min), all unified by songs about bicycles! Comes on clear vinyl with a hefty insert full of band photos and info.

Teen Titans We're Wildcats! 7"ep--$3.00 Imagine if a few nerdy high school kids go ahold of somewhiskey an Vivarin and started a rock band. This second ep offers six new superfast hits, including "Flying Cobras of Rock," "Galexina plays Astropop," "King Texas," "Drunken Master," and others. These songs sound more "garagey" than those on their first ep, and are just as short and fun!

Last edit almost 7 years ago by ClaudiaDurand
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NEW YORK CITY masochism at its most surreal

The Editrix asked me to submit an article on my adventures in the Big Apple over the last couple of years. I was quick to point out that I am not sure who my audience is or what exactly to write about; I am also passing that information on to you, the audience. Go easy on me.

I'll start with a little history. I moved there the summer of '93 to attend AMDA, an acting school Ah, I was immersed in melodrama for 15 months, 2 days and a couple of hellacious hours. I waited tables for the entire two years and there felt the "real" New York. I served slop for a living, made butt loads of cash, and blew it all on sushi, cabs, and $8.00 movies. Sick. Sick. Sick.

I use "masochism" and surreal for two very important reasons. One) They are the best words to describe the lifestyle of the city: Two) Used together they create the feeling of stepping out of a movie in the middle of the night on the lower east side or west or upper or whatever. Many a time I would step out of an old movie house and right into sirens, horns, screams and sheer craziness. It was such a kick, yet surreal..

Patience guys, patience. I suppose I will just get this over with now. It;s loud, anxious, the weather is fickle, the people are fickle, the dogs have no grass (the humans have plenty of expensive crap), lots of parties, lots of money, lots of museums, art, music, pop culture, and piss on the side walks. Now. Interestingly enough in the midst of all this, you exist. It's incredibly lonely to walk among 8 million strangers. It's incredibly romantic to meet someone, take them home, fuck like banshees between latex and K-Y, and know that tomorrow you will never see them again. Rome doesn't seem that far away. Actually, Europe seems much closer and a much more likely place to go than say.. the Midwest. Who goes to the Midwest anyway? Those who have lived in New York for a few years (say five average) and have lost all contact with the outside world (except for what they have read) seem to embrace the idea that all of America is like Mayberry on a boring day. "Racism exists everywhere, except in Manhattan"...WRONG. "Sexism..." WRONG. "Homophobia..." WRONG. (Ever met anyone from Bensenhurst ?). It's the same shit everywhere you turn. Yes, there are fewer red necks, but more Mafia sleaze. It's a toss up as to which I'd like to meet in a dark alley.

Not a lot of bullshit where I was. Perhaps there is a lot on Wall Street, but I wasn;t making too many friends around there. No thanks I am not an iced, skim,

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