Austin Fanzine Project

Fanzine Shopping List

You know how I am about reviews Here are some publications I've recently enjoyed. Get 'em.

Beer Frame (#5) 160 St. John's Place Brooklyn, NY 11217 krazykat@pipeline.com $2 cash, check mo (payable to Paul Lukas)

The Geek Cookbook (#2) Wendy Bryan 581 Pasco Miramar PP, CA 90272 send her $2 or $3- it's worth it

Duplex Planet (#134) PO Box 1230 Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 Subs-$12/6issues, $25/15issues (US) $12/5issues, $25/12issues (Canada) $12/4issues, $25/10issues (overseas)

Superior Catholic Finger Digest (#1) 5403-B Brompton Circle Austin, TX 78745 $3 (color cover, dude) + age statement

Highball Magazine (#1) 1614 Chestnut Street PO Box 43629 Philadelphia, PA 19106 $3.50 (slick) + age statement? it's racy

Crank (#3) PO Box 1646 Philadelphia, PA 19105-1646 crack@aol.com $2(Jeff Koyen)

Good Rockin' Tonight: Sun Records and the Birth of Rock'n'Roll by Colin Escott with Martin Hawkins Foreward by Peter Guralnick

[Photo: promotional photo for the John Michael McCarthy film The Sore Losers] Promotional photo for The Sore Losers (Mike, Korine, Kim, and Susan)

Kimbrough play. It was kind of funny — nobody in his band could drive, so they had to send a driver down to Holly Springs, MS to bring everyone up so they could play the show. And it didn't really last that long, only about 45 minutes, which is about two songs for Junior.

This Dixie Fried was in a wickedly unsuitable venue, the Center for Southern Folklore in Beale Street. As a center for southern folklore, it's great. As a bar, it sucks mud. Venues being what they are in Memphis, it could easily have been worse, and at least you didn't slip in puddles of sweat like at the downtown Barrister's version of Dixie Fried, mark II. It's just that the place is a museum/information center/coffee shop, and as such isn't real conducive to the laid back, uninhibited feel necessary to listen to a lot of nasty music for hours on end. So while it was all right to watch old Sun sidemen Frank Frost and Sam Carr play in there, since a certain amount of reverence is due to them, it was a pisspoor place to watch the Oblivians, who played a pretty stitled set.