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FILM GEEK Is No Advertising Exception F IL M G EEK CAUSE LIFE'S TOO SHORT FOR MAINSTREAM MOVIES Articles and reviews of plenty of strange flix with enough mindless drivel to drive you insane ISSUE 5 SPRING 2001 1 LOUSY BUCK The W hizzbanger Guide To Z ine Distributors The W orld’s M ost Ex tensiv e List Self-descriptions of 123 distributors from 26 countries. Also Includes zine stores, zine libraries, zine archives, dozens of zine-friendly web sites, a list of dependable reviewers, and many other valuable zine resources. $4.00 US Cash. Postage Paid for USA, M exico, and Canada only. Foreign orders, please add two dollars for postage. No Foreign Currency. No Trades. Prisoners Pay In Stamps. Shannon Colebank The Whizzbanger Guide POB 5591 Portland 0R 97228 USA 2 Publisher I know who you are and I know what you did... or didn't do. You didn't contact us after Alan Fare reading this fanzine! Fare-To-Say Publishing W e are alw ays looking for correspondence with you! Tell us w hat you think, or better Editor In Chief yet send us an article. If you w ant to Alan Fare advertise you'd be amazed at our cheap ra tes! Layout/dcsign W e put this rag out not to make money, but Alan Fare to share the word of bizarre cinema. In a Jason Christopher world of cold and sterile unoriginal movies we strive to explore the vast regions of cinematic creativity. W e are a group who long to for Art Dept. Jason Christopher the days of renegade film making and still Jason Franklin find solace in the efforts of the few who step out of line and do it their own way. W e hope Writers you will find something interesting within Alan Fare these pages, or better yet will find a piece of Robert Freese your past you had forgotten. David Raisman Everyone has a favorite movie from their past, and the staff at FILM GEEK is no Advertising exception. W e w ant to hear YOUR ideas! Alan Fare Tell us w hat you would like to see in this rag! William Worrell It's your input that keeps this thing going. To all you old timers, thank you for your Mascot support. To all you new comers, welcome Dorian T. Cat aboard! Now grab yourself some popcorn and a soda 'cause the show's about to begin! All contents © 2001 Fare- To-Say publishing The Editor The views expressed in this fanzine are those of their respective writer and not necessarily those of this publication... unless you agree, then yes they are. No part of this publication may be reproduced in whole or part without prior written consent (or you can keep us from finding out). Unsolicited submissions will be considered for publication, but you must supply return postage if you want your stuff back. Otherwise it will probably end up in my closet. This publication is not responsible for any monies lost to shady advertisements, but we try to deal only with advertisers we personally trade with or have not heard any complaints about. If you have any complaints about a company or individual advertising in FILM GEEK, tell us. We will do what we can to resolve the problem. 3 M indless Editorial D rivel Welcome to another late(!) great(?) its. I’ve begun the first stages of issue of FILM GEEK. I'll bid my writing my first book. If you couldn't apologies now to all I haven't already guess what it will be about, it's going for this issue being so late. I've set up to document... low budget movies! shop in my own house to do all the I'm not going public with the exact layout for this and future issues, so it genre just yet, but it's not that hard to should be more on schedule from figure out. If you need a hint, THE here on out. WHO summed it up in their song I really haven't had too much time "MY GENERATION". I've just got­ to seek out all the movies you all ten such an incredible influx of have suggested, but l'm still trying to people in my age range talking (or get caught up! Be patient and maybe asking) about these movies we all some day I'll get back to you and tell hold so dear. Hey, why not write a you what I thought. book about it! As you may notice, I now have I've always told myself "when I writers and artists on my staff! If you grow up I want to be like those would like to become a writer or an writers in all those books I read". artist for FILM GEEK, get ahold of Now, after years of writing nonsen- me! I'm really easy to deal with sical dreck for go-nowhere publica- unless you want to get paid, that tions, my dreams are finally being won't happen until I recoup all the realized! And the best part is I still money I've lost from this rag! So just haven't grown up! Many of the like the old joke- What do writers, people that were my mentors are now artists, and dead skin all have in my friends, and we are all just kids at common? They all come off as heart. We understand the importance flakes- the check is in the mail! At of simple pleasures and unbridled least you get to see your work pub- laughter because what a dreary life lished, isn't that enough? we would have without it. I must say I'm glad I started FILM I remember as a small child how the GEEK when I did because if I'd world and all of it's problems seemed waited until now I never would have to melt away as I would wrap myself gotten started. I've finally become in the stories I saw on the screen. I something I thought I never would- a could be anything, do anything, but productive member of society! Yes best of all I was there to witness the it's true, I seem to have become spectacle of cinematic achievement! "indispensable" at my job. At least I No matter how bad the critics said feel that way lately. I've only been at these films were, I saw hearts and my current job for five years, h alf as souls poured onto the silver screen! long as my last job. but now I have Sure, there were the money grubbers, more responsability at work than I but there were also fresh new ideas ever have before. Now don't think that we just don't see today! It's been that just 'cause I'm a slave to THE a long hard road, but it was my MAN I'm gonna give up this rag, it's chosen path. And yes, Mr. Clements, the only thing that keeps me sane(?). the old bastard learned a lot in those Just to let you know that my habit formative years!!! Now on with the of over-extending myself has no lim- show this is it! Alan Fare 4 WHO IS THIS FILM GEEK ANYWAY? This is an interview with Alan there who still make decent flicks, Fare, the editor of FILM GEEK. but they rarely ever reach a wide The interview was conducted by audience because the market is satu- the F.G. mascot, Dorian. rated with new "big budget" dreck. F.G. So what's the concept behind F.G. So you're saying that money has FILM GEEK, what are you trying to destroyed the movie industry? accomplish? A.F. Well not exactly, what I'm say- A.F. What do you think, I'm like ing is that all the money in the world Larry Flynt or something? I put out a can't save an unimaginative or over- crappy little fanzine about weird played story and all the lack of funds movies! There's no "concept", it's just and/or opportunity can't stop a truly my way of sharing my views with gifted "artist" from creating some­ others. thing great. F.G. O.K., what are your goals for I think the public-at-large is more FILM GEEK? responsible than anyone else because only they have the power to choose A.F. Man. Barbara Walters could do what they want to watch. Hell, I've a better job than you... My goals are shown die-hard "BIG BUDGET- to make people realize that there's ERS" super low budget flicks that more to life than what today's media have blown their minds! So many would have you believe. People are young people now have led such always waiting for the "next big spoon-fed insular lives that they have thing" in movies when there are tons no idea what lies beyond the scope of of flicks out there FAR better than main stream media. It's really kind of what they are making today that sad. most people haven't ever seen! F.G. So you're kind o f a disciple o f F.G. So you're saying that old mov­ B-movies? ies are better than new movies? A.F. I certainly hope not! I'm a fan A.F. Let me just say that writers and of original movies. Everything now directors have run out of fresh ideas is so predictable, when I watch new and have so many ways to to get releases I know what is going to around decent story lines with state- happen.
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