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  This is a split zine between Dave and Sarah. The underlying tone I got from this zine is loneliness and sickness- both of which can be very bleak together especially while living in a city. Dave's story is about being lonely in a city while being sick or intoxicated and dealing with people in those states. The tone of these stories often have a very alienating feel, especially how sickness is viewed by others in recent times. excerpt: "Today the sun is halogen and the air is reused. I am on the subway, on my way home from work early. Health issues. I stand while everyone is sitting, like a tree in a very narrow field. I stand while everyone is sitting reading papers, dreaming of their stop arriving. Meanwhile I wait and sweat and choke on the sharp little pain in my chest that's a little worse than yesterday. Deep breaths are hard and the people around, they start staring and leering, leaning away from me. They're ruffling their papers, not really reading, watching me closely with narrowing eyes." Sarah story has the same tone but has less to do with sickness and more with the people and spaces that Sarah interacts with or goes to. It reminds me of being lonely in a big city, trying to find spaces that you enjoy but end up feeling more alienated then when you started. excerpt: "It was a summer on film. A friend who was moving gave me some expired rolls, told me to go play. I met her halfway through. I never knew how the colour would look, if the pictures would be strangely saturated or not turn out at all, I just took a lot of them. I'd balance the pawnshop camera in my hands, squinting through my glasses to the tiny viewfinder and slowly adjusting the focus and light meter. She'd smile so calculated at the outset, her cheeks pearled with sweat, then lose patience and sigh that I needed to just take the picture already. I wanted the sharp relief of her features but was sure I got twenty-four different blurred takes on her faces; quick to return to motion, quick to laugh and seize my shoulders, push me back." $2.00 1/4th sized 24pgs 1 oz. |
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 Hehe Neeka and I are freakin' amazing. One day we were bored at work so we decide to work on a zine about work. Sounds pretty boring but there is more than that. We work at our family's restaurant. We serve Chinese and Filipino food, it's freakin' amazing. I sound like I take over in the zine because it's mostly my writing when really, Neeka was too tired to work on it anymore! We touch our favorite foods, what we do when we're bored (ha), stupid customers, and more! It's fun. This is a contribution to the 24 hour zine thing 2007! $0.75 1/4th sized 24pgs 0.5 oz. |
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  This zine has been one of my favorite zines consistently over the years. The zine touches on a variety of topics (and just to go off tangent, this is one of the zines that has inspired me to write more on other topics, Jen does it so well!) The intro really describes the overall feel of the writing, "I have a bad memory; I think it's why I write so much all the time. I also have the tendency to make up conversations or instances that never happened only because I frequently forget the ones that did happen. Lately, I've been remembering things that I thought were long gone and I've been dealing with some heavy things that would be nearly impossible to forget. So life has been more real and tangible for me than it has bgeen in a really long time. With that said, I don't know if any of this will be triggering for you, but I do briefly talk about physical abuse and drug abuse so please be in a safe place if these topics are sensitive for you." She talks about traveling to Seattle in contrast to being from Los Angeles and being Mexican-American and visiting Mexico. She talks of love, the beginnings and endings of each relationship, discusses her personal politics with sex and a lot more. There is also a small bonus zine included with each issue. $2.00 1/4 sized 72pgs 2 oz. |
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 This issue is totally awesome. Melissa expresses how she wants 2008 to be full of new experiences and she writes about those experiences for this issue. She documents her trip to California, recording the first studio album with Jerk Alert!, booking her first show with the Old Haunts, being interviewed at the Zine Core Radio Show, even interview Krysten Ritter of Gilmore Girls about her band, music, acting and feminism. Melissa continues to explore her sexuality, relationships and in general, her life! The cover is in full color and it's gorgeous! $3.00 half sized 38pgs 1 oz. Number of copies: 2 |
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  Melissa fills you in on her life between the months of June and December 2008. She takes us through her travels throughout the east coast, playing shows with Jerk Alert and its break up, periods and pregnancy, IUDs, an extensive list of what she would like to do in her life, current obsessions and so much more! Her writing is diary style and extremely text heavy! $1.00 half sized 38pgs 1 oz. Number of copies: 3 |
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  This zine is on a limited print run. Ari has wonderful art inside and dissects in this issue about zines, how they are a spectacle. I love this zine because she explains how the viewer puts meanings into things. She does this by talking about the Dada art movement and Marchel Duchamp and the whole idea of "conceptual art" and how the relates to the DIY punk movement. Many of the concepts in here are not new but maybe it is new to you? $1.00 half sized 12pgs 1 oz. Number of copies: 4 |
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  Sarah loosely writes about sexuality and gender in this issue. She touches gender politics, the experiences when she did BDSM, being queer, promiscuity and how she won't settle with anyone any longer. I love this issue! $2.00 half sized 18pgs 1 oz. Number of copies: 1 |
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  This is the first zine I've done in about two years and it's a split zine. It is seperated in two parts, my story first and then Cheo's. I write about my own existence and my conflicts with it. The writing isn't very definitive, everything is open ended and reaches to a conclusion of trying to be more capable and carry out existence. excerpt: "I want a change to happen within the minute. Why do I lack this patience? Is that immense amount of technology booming? People are constantly on their cell phones, checking status messages, portable screens, media, and there is a lack of heart-to-heart conversations that isn't about being plastered to the floor by your drug of choice. The more I critique this, it seems that I'm guilty of this too. I'm guilty for blurring the lines of technology and reality for enjoying drugs to enhance my thoughts and actions, for wanting a quick fix." The second part is called, "Moving Forward through Time and Space (Or How I got from point A to point B in only 34 Steps)" and Cheo seperated it into three parts, past, present and future, which describes his state of being during those times. Cheo manages to give you a taste of what his life means, how random everything seems to be and how he's viewed it in a few pages. excerpt: "I am out here out of pure chance, in this life, on this planet. It's the tiniest rock. On this rock, I am alive and so are all of us, floating in space, taking life far too seriously because we can think. All this surrounding us in our consciousness, accepting information through our eyes and ears. It's an unusual thought but we are all just here taking the burden of life, being held down by gravity, inhaling all these toxins, staring at clouds, hoping there's a god that cares, slowly dying every day and then not existing. We will all die. It's all just one big random mess that we've been forced to deal with. If it's all I see and all that is, then why take it so seriously?" The zine is illustrated by Cheo and inspired by conversations, space and existence. $1.00 1/4 sized 22pgs 1 oz. |
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