At Thirty-Three, My Anger Hasn't Subsided. It's Gotten
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t thirty-three, my anger hasn’t subsided. It’s gotten And to all this, I don’t have a real answer. I don’t think I’m naïve. I deeper. It’s more like magma keeping me warm instead of lava don’t think I’m expecting too much, but it’s hard not to feel shat upon by AAshooting haphazardly all over the place. It’s managed. You see, the world-at-large every step of the way. There are a couple of things that I’ve been able to channel the balled-fist, I’m hitting-walls-and-breaking- temper my anger. First off, when we were doing our math, I got another knuckles anger into something of a long-burning fuse. Oh, I’m angry, but number: sixty-four. That’s how many folks help out Razorcake in some I’m probably one of the calmest angry people you’re likely to meet. I take way, shape, or form on a regular basis. Damn, that’s awesome. Sixty- all of my “fuck yous” and edit. I take my “you’ve got to be fucking kid- four people, without whom this zine would just be a hair-brained ding me”s and take pictures and write. I seek revenge by working my ass scheme. off. Anger, coupled with belief, is a powerful motivator. The second element is a little harder to explain. Recently, I was in an What do I have to be angry about? I don’t think it’s obvious, but we do adjacent town, South Pasadena. It’s richer than where I live—it’s lousy everything in our power making this zine to be fair to everyone we deal with white people of all colors—but they have an awesome video store with, from bands, to subscribers, to our printers and our advertisers. I don’t chock full of independent films. Right before my friend and I walked in, want to rip anyone off, so we keep all of our prices as low as possible in we saw a cop car on the sidewalk. Then we saw it: a massive tree branch the hopes that we can continue to contribute to culture that I love and lit- had fallen right on top of a luxury car. Termites or heat or something erally owe my life to. And that’s a liability. This is capitalism, dummy. made that tree branch fall and we had to stifle our laughter and bite our Make stuff that sells well or go out of business. lips when we inspected it up close. Spiderwebbed windshield, caved-in So, we’re attempting to become legitimately non-profit. We had to pay roof. What that tree had done made me happy. That tree did what we $500 to file the forms. Then we waited eight months for a response. The both would have liked to do to that car. And it’s not the car, per se, it’s IRS asked more questions. We just submitted a thirty-four page response what it represents. as to how we do everything in our power to not benefit ourselves. When If we stop giving everything we’ve got, if a tree metaphorically falls we were done, it felt like someone had zipped out my brain and replaced on us, we’re pretty fucked because we haven’t paid into the system. It it with Silly Putty. We tried to get free legal representation to explain copy- owes us nothing. That car—or more precisely the person who owns a car right law and help us with wording so a bureaucrat could understand how that is worth more than I’ve ever made in my entire life—their insurance DIY punk rock works without being dishonest. No dice. We paid a lawyer, probably covered it. They get a bad day, some inconvenience. literally, almost one hundred times an hour of what I make. (I found out I like the idea of my anger working quietly, like a termite in a piece of that I make $1.66 an hour. Ouch.) It almost feels like we’re being punished wood, bite by bite. You never know if the world’s going to break away by having the nads to claim that our culture—punk rock, independent in unexpected ways. I just gotta keep on chewing. music and publishing—is as worthy and viable as other non-profits. –Todd AD DEADLINES AD SIZES "Dissent is native in any society which ISSUE #29 • Full page, 7.5” wide, 10” tall. is still growing. Has there ever been a October 1st, 2005 • 1/2 pg: 7.5” wide, 5” tall. society which has died of dissent? ISSUE #30 • 1/4 pg:, 3.75” wide, 5” tall. Several have died of conformity in our December 1st, 2005 • 1/6 page, 2.5” wide, 5” tall. lifetime. Dissent is not itself an end; it is • Please make all checks out to the surface mark of a deeper value. Email [email protected] Razorcake. 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Guerrilla My Dreams 7 Art Fuentes Shizzville 8 Jim Ruland Lazy Mick 38 12 Ben Snakepit Snakepit 14 Amy Adoyzie Monster of Fun 16 Rev. Nørb Love, Nørb 50 62 20 Nardwuar The Human Serviette Who Are You? 24 Josh Lane Kind of a Sewer 28 Ayn Imperato 90803 29 Chrystaei Branchaw’s Photo Page 30 Sean Carswell A Monkey to Ride the Dog 32 The Rhythm Chicken The Dinghole Reports 34 Designated Dale I’m Against It 37 Dan Monick’s Photo Page INTERVIEWSANDFEATURES 70 74 38 This Moment in Black History by Ben Lybarger 44 The Lynching of Emmett Till by Chris Pepus 50 Against Me! by Todd Taylor 62 Zero Boys by Mike Frame 70 Downbeat 5 by Brian Mosher 74 Holy Kiss by Kat Jetson REVIEWS 78 Record Conformity as nonconformity still sucks... 104 Zine I think that a girl wrote this and she needs a hug... 108 Book A chapstick cap full of pot is worth twenty-five dollars in prison... Individual opinions expressed within are not necessarily those of Razorcake/Gorsky Press, Inc. Razorcake/ Gorsky, Inc. 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