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Geek Weekly #9

Austin's Only Fanzine

cover by Chuck Death

FEATURING: The Brent Grulke interview, the Russian Cat Circus, Bloodshot Records, Brian Berger, Spoon's Britt Daniel interviews Gerard Cosloy and more

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Zamboni Rodeo

by Jason Cohen

Coming This Fall

Greystone Books, Canada

www.zambonirodeo.com

Geek Weekly #9

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Content Guide

The Geek Weekly Interview: Brent Gruike Susan Lalnferioria....6 The Ike Turner Advocate Walter Daniels..................................21 Drop Trou band profile Helen Wheels......................................22 Gerald Cosloy Interview Britt Daniel........................................25 The Transmigration of Blind Joe Death Brian Berger.................28 Mistress Strangeluva Georgia Rue.............................................32 Bloodshot Records Ian Tennant................................................33 The Kouklachev Cat Circus Steve Decon.....................................40 Still Life With Actor's Ass Jackie Belvin......................................44 Reviews....................................................................................49 God Guy Bill Jeffery and Daniel Johnston.................................54

Jennifer LaSuprema lasuprema@hotmail.com

Susan LaInferioria colettecall@earthlink.com

Check out current and past articles, lots of photos, web-only exclusives as well as links to some of our favorite sites at the Geek Weekly website: http://home-earthlink.net/~colettecall/geekweeklyfanzine.html

We wish to that all of our contributors for their fine work and our subjects for allowing themselves to be interviewed. We would also like to express our excitement over the publication of the work of Brian Berger in these pages.

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From: "Britt Daniel" To: "Raoul Hernandez" Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 12:56 PM Subject: Re: interview

I want to interview YOU, chumpy. Geek Weekly has asked me to conduct an interview with you for their readers. Are you agreeable? If so when could we get together for a half hour or so?

thanks Britt

From: "Raoul Hernandez" To: "Britt Daniel" Sent: Tuesday, Janary 09 2001 12:56 PM Subject: Re: interview

I'm flattered. Let me think about it. I'm inclined to say no, but the prospect of YOU doing the interview has me intrigued. Let me sleep on a day or two. Coolio?

R

From: "Raoul Hernandez" To: "Britt Daniel" Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 12:08 PM Subject: Re: interview

Britt-

Thought about it, slept on it, and have decided to respectfully decline on the interview for "Geek Weekly." It woulda been funcool that they asked you to do it- but the fact of the matter is I just never considered myself a geek. Others might disagree.

thanks,raoul

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From LaSuprema:

What a year I've had! I started grad school in January of 2000 with an eye to becoming a librarian, but soon changed my mind and settled on a future in Archival Enterprise. Yep, that's right, I'm gonna be an archivist. You're jealous aren't ya. Don't lie.

Just when I had started kicking myself for going back to school, I received an acceptance letter from The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History's Archives Center/Lemelson Center internship program. I got to go to DC for the summer and learn to be an archivist from some of the coolest geeks in the biz.

On the way east, I stopped off in Fayetteville, AR to give a paper at the Society of Southwest Archivists annual meeting. Next, I met Susan in Memphis for a week of the three Gs: good times, Graceland, and the Grifters (see our website for photos). We saw the Grifters' fantastic reunion show (they are back together, don't you know)--they were incredible as ever!

DC as a city kinda sucks. It has some good points, like tons of American cultural heritage on display. It's population is incredibly diverse, but there's an eerie vibe due to the fact that you're at, like, nuclear war ground zero and surrounded by the evil federal government. Plus, as my Aunt Sally (the hippest paleontologist I've ever met) ominously declares, "Every student council president in America moves here." Despite the obvious benefits of living in the capital of the free world, I was glad to have the opportunity to get the hell out of there after three short months. This had nothing to do with my living arrangement, or the internship, which was both fantastic and paid. (I'll tell you a little story some time...)

When my servitude was through, my mother met me for the return roadtrip. On the way home to Texas, we stopped off at several of the premier roadside attractions including the burial place of Stonewall Jackson's arm (read the hilarious and chilling Confederates in the Attic for a full account), and The Museum of Beverage Containers and Advertising just north of Nashville. We give them both five stars. We also stopped in--you guessed it--Memphis.

I'll spare you the agony of Fall 2000 (aka: How School Continues to Ruin My Life) and skip right ot my third Memphis visit of the year. Am I obsessed? Your guess is as good as mine, but I've found Memphis to be a lovely vacation spot and it is closer than Chicago or New York and much cheaper.

Susan and I went to Memphis in December. This time we drove up on Friday and saw comedian-extraordinaire Dave "Deuces" Dunlap open for the Grifters that night. We had the best gut-bomb breakfast in the South at Brother Juniper's on Saturday and wasted the rest of the day lying around our hotel room as if we weren't on holiday at all. We roused ourselves in the evening and went to Graceland to see it as it was when Elvis decorated for Christmas. Need I tell you it was lovely? It was.

This spring has been pretty dull. I'm basically just holding my breath until I graduate and can have a real life without the constant threat of impending doom. (I really don't know how I made it this far in the academic world with my attitude.)

So why the dear diary article? I guess I just wanted to prove I really was doing something while Susan was keeping GW alive. That's right--this is Susan's issue. See what beautiful things can happen when I just get the fuck out of her way. The girl's a firecracker, I tell ya. (She got me into the 'zine business in the first place, you know.) I did some leg work on this issue, but really this is the superior product of LaInferioria. So here's to Geek Weekly's seventh anniversary! And here's to teamwork!

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