ONLY IN NEXT MONTH'S DiSCORDER: grx. Susy Webb tangles with Stereolab! Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo comes to the Ridge! Blonde Redhead dye our hair! plus •Comics! Deformed rabbits! Obscure electronica from the Czech Republic! READ IT OR WE SHOOT YOU WITH RADAR GUNS! Illustration by Luke James Ramsey, he is our new favourite. SPECTRA N6YH WEDNESDAYS mM M m: ir YCIRPN JUS m yivuvL FRFJDMIIfQDIiRIfl! BRIKE FREMHflllOrWS ROD MURRRY-TKCWBOIK 031 fflWE Mlfifl*) ^^^0m eiTMfIIHnlMnl awiBcwJw mm umrnm-m li-.GUIl'HR iliOl RKUf-aiXOfflOiG prQMS MCRTEMKHiie O FlfRUX MOT-BBS-; vO'mn. mimMM01 tmwsrm| |JjtO i W WORLD. FOLK WX wwtiMmmmmiwm CRDIHMBtwtatR TRIo ms ORUKSES-BB S PLUS PO — ilGRDINl fRfHKOB ttOflU-aflRWETH TRI WI HOH DE R -. SGORDaoil-dlB COHHRHl FRBK^Gi ttOuU-aHRWETT TRI MUM fl ODER BHfHmf—f flDRH DlUER-JfioR SOl/CLiillltr J.R (MElHRifftT ft?E BROOfrDHIM . 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Fax us at 822.9364, e-mail us at: citrmg^^plf.ams.ubc.ca;:vfit our web site at www.citr.ca or just pickup'sgoddamn pen and write #233-6138SfifiBlvd., Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1JEANADA. =n zm ^m FROM THE DESK OF.. KATSIDDLE When I went to Europe this winter, I took an 18- Duncan, for stepping in as interim editor, leading hour bus ride overnight from the Czech Republic the campaign for new computers, and introducing to the former Yugoslavia. "We'll get a nice bus," me to www.ratemyb9ner.com. Thanks to Graeme, my companion assured me. "It's an international Jason, and Dale for NOT fleeing like rats on a route." sinking ship. And thanks to Susy for her help during The moon rose and the lights in the production, and the cookie. little towns faded as we shuddered across the Speaking of that cookie... I guess I countryside in a Serbian scrapheap-on-wheels. should explain why this is not the women's issue. I buried myself in The Unbearable Lightness Of And as an ardent feminist, I wanted the women's Being and tried desperately to will away my need issue to bejaw-droppingly awesome. The best to pee. How could an international bus not have thing since getting fhe vote, dammit. But given bathrooms? Late into the night the bus stopped the sheer chaos generated by my meteoric rise at the Hungarian border, where my companion to power, it just wouldn't have worked. Perhaps was permanently traumatized by the hole in the later in the year. But hey, this month's Fucking floor that passed for a toilet. But it wasn't that bad. Bullshit easily makes up for the whole issue's lack of Really. Because I had secretly steeled myself for gynocentricity. something truly awful, something involving torture Girly sounds will reign supreme on my new and dysentery and lost passports. It was okay. At CiTR radio show, however. The Dim Sum Show, least until we reached the Serbian border, where the gig that I co-hosted with Claire, has met with my companion cast a surprised glance over the a sudden and swift demise. Like Courtney or Cyrillic lettering on the border guard's uniform. Beyonce, I'm now kickin' it solo with something "Huh," said the man who was supposed to be my called Mystery Girl (think the Kattish elements of sole guide to Eastern Europe. "I forgot that they Dim Sum crystallized into one hour of pop-rock use Cyrillic here." glory, nestled up to Chris-A-Riffc's Parts Unknown at My first month as editor was-a bit 12 noon). Claire will be around to slap me around like that bus experience (minus the alphabetic every once and a while, though, so all those of you adventures). I had considered the long hours, who only tuned in for her "good radio voice" and meagre pay, and ancient, unpredictable lust for weird Canadian esoterica should still listen. computers. I was prepared for the frustration of It call comes down to this, my friends: not knowing how to use Photoshop. InDesign, or DiSCORDER and CiTR are waaaaaaaay more fun www.nardwuar.com • www.mintrecs.com • www.alternativetentacles.com OS9. Hell, I was ready to fuck everything up and than a bus ride to Serbia. And they're tasty like a have my eyes put out by the entire CiTR staff as big feminist cookie. a consequence. And then nothing bad really happened... I can only assume that this is thanks to the people who helped me get through this first month. I know, I know, it's not the Oscars... but P»SMUGGLiBi I still have to express my gratitude. So thanks, JtnWliSTEREo ENHANCED CD OUT MARCH 9! THE SMUGGLERS! THE BUTTLESS CHAPS! THE GAY THE BUTTLESS CHAPS YOUNG AND SEXY YOUNG AND SEXY! ^DCfl^ RED CAT RECORDS ftj%|MT' u SCRATCH RECORDS f ffl^ j ZULU RECORDS -*LiS UVWHJJ 726RICHARDS IT' SJ I 1972 WEST 4TH Q»<>cord^r lov/ts t WMBIITONI-raONCTWNf fudwwwusf* MAR&BLM My mother is oriental. 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