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PO Box 42129, Los Angeles, CA 90042 #12 www.razorcake.com few months ago, Todd and I got a chance to see two legendary Last week, I ran into a guy I know: a forty-something maintenance East LA punk bands – Los Illegals and The Brat – play at a worker in East LA, a Mexican immigrant, and also a student. He was Japanese American Museum. It was a strange place to see punk reading an issue of the zine Nervy Girl. He told me that I’d inspired him to AA bands. Their sets were incredibly short. It was an amazing show, pick up a copy of the zine. Since I’d never hear of it, I asked him what he anyway. After the show, Todd spotted The Brat’s guitarist walking around meant. He told me that all my talk of a media monopoly and the need for with copies of the only record they’ve released. I looked at Todd to make independent voices to balance out the mainstream corporate voices got to sure I wasn’t hallucinating. Because I have to admit, I’ve dreamed of him. He was in Hollywood and saw the zine and never would’ve picked it seeing this record in record stores so many times without actually seeing it up if not for me. He felt embarrassed purchasing it, he said, but now he that I’d begun to believe that the record only existed in dreams (and was glad he did. “Have you heard about all these women getting killed in Jimmy Alvarado’s record collection). Todd clearly felt the same way Cuidad Juarez?” he asked me. I nodded. “It’s upsetting to me. All of these because he stared at me and back at the records with the same injustices to women around the world. I never knew,” he said. Then, he dumbfounded look. We caught up with the guitarist and tried to buy a said to me, “Thanks.” “Don’t thank me,” I said, “thank the women who copy of the record for each of us. The guitarist wanted to just give them put out the zine.” away. We reached a compromise and each gave him five bucks for a Last night, Todd and I pretty much wrapped up this issue of record. Later, when I told the story to people who knew of The Brat, who I Razorcake. I drove home from HQ in my truck with no stereo. Out of thought would appreciate the story, several of them told me that I could nowhere, “Attitude” popped into my head, and I sang it to myself. I was probably get forty or fifty bucks on eBay for that record. Okay, but how’s dog-tired, run ragged from this issue and my other job. The only thing that fifty bucks gonna help me when I get “Attitude” stuck in my head for keeping me company was the song I was singing to no music. I was a week straight, and The Brat record no longer exists in my world? happy, though, that I had the record at home to fill in the parts of the song A few weeks ago, Todd set up a show for Super Chinchilla Rescue that I forgot. I thought about the fifty bucks on eBay and it reminded me Mission. It was just a little show at a little skate shop. About half of the of questions people ask me all the time. Like: what do you hope to get out Razorcake contributors were there. About two dozen underage drunk kids of Razorcake? What job do you hope it gets you? Who would you were there. It was a good place to hang out and drink beer and talk music ultimately like to write for? Luckily, by now I have answers. (and watch Dan Monick snap pictures of underage drunk kids doing What do I hope to get out of Razorcake? That feeling I got at the underage drunk things), a place where punk rock wasn’t an anomaly. The SCRM show. What job do I hope it gets me? Um, the job of putting out Super Chinchilla Rescue Mission plugged in. I thought I was ready for it. Razorcake. Who would I ultimately like to write for? Everyone who’s I’d listened to their songs on an almost daily basis for a year and a half. I reading these words, plus an East LA maintenance worker, now and then, knew every word, every note, every drum beat. I wasn’t prepared, though, and anyone else who wants to hear independent voices. for all that music flooding into that little skate shop. I felt like I was In the end, it all goes back to my copy of The Brat record, because swimming in Super Chinchilla Rescue Mission songs. It would’ve been sure, there’s money to be had in selling the things you love, but where’s one of those moments when I waxed philosophical about the power and the point in that? I’ll trade the 103 pages that follow this one for higher- vitality of music and about the importance of building a culture instead of paying aspirations any day. buying one. But I was too lost in the songs to get lost in my thoughts. Fucking-A. -Sean AD DEADLINE FOR ISSUE #13 • All ads are black and white. February 1st, 2002 • Make ads the right size and orientation. AD DEADLINE FOR ISSUE #14 • We don’t reserve ad space. April st, 2002 • Send good laser prints for the ads. Use EMAIL OR MAIL US FOR THE solely black ink on all art. 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Thank you list: Red Bull on tap thanks to Julia Smut for her help with the cover; let’s get edumicated thanks This issue is dedicated to the memory of Jarrod Adams. to Stanley Korza to turning us on to You Can’t Win; it’d just be a chart without it thanks to Rebecca Rodriguez for her pictures in Jimmy’s ELA Punk Family Tree; quick jab thanks to Tom Wrenn for his illustration in Sean’s column; hard asses through windows thanks to Kat Jetson for her Rattlesnakes interview and the accompanying pictures;Randy Iwata for all the help with Nardwuar’s - Canada’s National Treasure’s - column; big, purple thanks to Art Fuentes for his illustration in Dale’s colum; trenches thanks to Donofthedead, Aphid Peewit, Pucket, Bob Cantu for their record reviews; Bradley Williams for his zine reviews; Cuss Baxter for his zine, record, and video reviews. Slave Labor Stuffing Labor Party thanks to Harmonee, Dale, Art, Stacy, Pete, and Julia; skate thanks to Calisto at Juvee and Toys That Kill, Broken Bottles, and Super Chinchilla Rescue Mission for helping us have a fun-ass show; Todd doesn’t want to thank himself, especially in a strange third person way, but he took the cover shot of Isaac Arrival. Issue #12, Feb. /March 2003 Cutting. Tasty. www.razorcake.com and PO Box 42129, Los Angeles, CA 90042 Table of Contents ***** Nardwuar The Human Serviette ............. Who Are You? ........................ pg. 4 Art ..................................... Lil’ Beez and Unca Jeez ........................... pg. 7 Ayn Imperato ........................................ 94103 ............................ pg. 8 Gary Hornberger .......................... Squeeze My Horn .......................... pg. 10 Felizon Vidad ................................... Shark Bait ................................ pg. 12 Rev. Nørb ............................. Love, Nørb ............................ pg. 14 Designated Dale ............................... I’m Against It ..........................pg. 20 Money ......................................... Lazy Mick .......................................... pg. 22 Rich Mackin ................................... The Twisted Balloon ......................... pg. 24 Sean Carswell ...................... A Monkey to Ride the Dog ............................ pg. 26 Maddy ..................................... Shiftless When Idle ............................... pg. 30 The Rhythm Chicken .................... The Dinghole Reports ................... pg. 34 Shawn Granton ................... The New Motherfucker Music ....................... pg. 37 ***** Rattlesnakes ........................ Interview by Kat Jetson ................. pg. 38 East LA Family Tree ..................... Article by Jimmy Alvarado ................ pg. 42 Dillinger Four, Part 2 ................. Interview by ReTodd ............................ pg. 48 The Arrivals ............. Interview by Megan Pants and ReTodd ......... pg. 58 The Skulls ..... Interview by Pettite Paquet, Designated Dale, and ReTodd ....... pg. 64 The Spits ................................ Interview by Money .......................... pg. 70 ***** Dan Monick ........................................ Free Hugs ................................... pg. 73 Record Reviews ................. Mayor of Clackamas Representing .......................... pg. 74 Zine Reviews ............................ Stupid Shit Rules ................... pg. 96 Video Reviews ................. Barbecued Gluten Globs ............................ pg. 99 Book Reviews ......... Boy, Did AK Press Send a Big Package ................... pg. 100 Razorcake is bi-monthly. Issues are $3.00 ppd. in the U.S. Yearly subscriptions (six issues) are $15.00. Plus you get some free shit. 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