Zine symposium
Apr 22 2006 23:05
anyone else check this today?
I hadn't planned to go but was going for a swim at ulu and then heading to meet a friend from home and happened to dander past the square, saw a class war poster in the windee and thought I'd have a look. stayed about 5 mins, bought conquest of bread then split, too many crusties 
seemed alright though
Apr 22 2006 23:10
#2
ah didn't see the other thread, feel free to delete mine if ye want
Apr 22 2006 23:11
#3
nah its cool will laeve this.
Apr 23 2006 00:44
#4
rkn wrote:
Yeah theres a little bit about it here:http://www.libcom.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=9378
I never really saw the point of zines... people seem to put a lot of effort into them tho.
Surely putting all that effort into them is the point though? Creating something for it's own sake, about something you feel passionate about 
Even the shit zines are kinda cool because somebody went to the trouble of making it.
Apr 23 2006 09:52
#5
I've never been a zine geek but I did used to enjoy reading them, kinda fell out of the loop last year or two though.
Apr 23 2006 11:32
#6
Thora wrote:
Surely putting all that effort into them is the point though? Creating something for it's own sake, about something you feel passionate about
I guess i have never seen one i like. They all seem to be about really odd stuff which i couldnt give two shits about. And abot crapy music
Like they appeal to only certain very specific groups of people. Which is fair enough, but im none of those groups 
Apr 23 2006 11:53
#7
Thora wrote:
rkn wrote:
Yeah theres a little bit about it here:http://www.libcom.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=9378
I never really saw the point of zines... people seem to put a lot of effort into them tho.
Surely putting all that effort into them is the point though? Creating something for it's own sake, about something you feel passionate about
well I wouldn't go that far, but you have to remember that tech geeks have a hopelessly materialistic utilitarianism to them. They can't understand anything that can't be justified with an efficiency piechart. 
I have to admit I bought Maximum Rock n Roll on Tuesday. Fuckin sue me. Punk zines can be pretty cool if they know what they're on about. Right now MRR has a huge chip on its shoulder about "punks using Murdoch's Myspace", which I'm assuming means noone at the MRR HQ has ever watched The Simpsons...
Murder Contest was the best British hardcore punk zine I ever read. Stayed well the fuck away from politics, which I dug.
Apr 23 2006 13:23
#8
I love Morgenmuffel 8)
Apr 23 2006 13:54
#9
I thought Morgenmuffel was a cartoon?
Apr 23 2006 14:04
#10
Alan wrote:
Murder Contest was the best British hardcore punk zine I ever read. Stayed well the fuck away from politics, which I dug.
great zine. really honest and they just wrote about what they wanted to.
hey and we know what the ukhc scene's politics is like!
Apr 23 2006 14:21
#11
rkn wrote:
I thought Morgenmuffel was a cartoon?
A cartoon zine innit.
Apr 23 2006 14:24
#12
See thats why i dont like the word zine! Its stupid, Morgenmuffel is blatantly a cartoon - theres no need to add a weird subculutre onto it
Apr 23 2006 14:32
#13
rkn wrote:
See thats why i dont like the word zine! Its stupid, Morgenmuffel is blatantly a cartoon - theres no need to add a weird subculutre onto it
The the term 'zine' just means "a small circulation, non-commercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images. More broadly, the term encompasses any self-published work of minority interest" (thanks wikipedia) - it covers a huge range of stuff, music, poetry, cartoons, politics, creative writing, photos etc etc. Morgenmuffel is just as much a zine as those ones about the kind of bad music Alan likes.
Apr 23 2006 17:28
#14
xConorx wrote:
we know what the ukhc scene's politics is like!
Don't we just.
I seem to remember Thora saying she liked Razorlight so she can fuck off away from trashing my tastes.
Apr 23 2006 17:31
#15
xConorx wrote:
we know what the ukhc scene's politics is like!
Don't we just.
I seem to remember Thora saying she liked Razorlight so she can fuck off away from trashing my tastes.
Apr 23 2006 17:38
#16
Alan wrote:
xConorx wrote:
we know what the ukhc scene's politics is like!Don't we just.
I seem to remember Thora saying she liked Razorlight so she can fuck off away from trashing my tastes. ;)
Er... Razorlight rock 
Anyway, I wasn't trashing your taste, I meant 'bad' as in ill, sick, wicked...
Apr 23 2006 20:52
#17
Yeah morgenmuffel's a zine. And its deadly. There are loads of zines that are mainly cartoons.
Apr 23 2006 20:53
#18
Oh and razorlight light are shite. Bob Geldof was bad enough the first time round.
Apr 23 2006 23:04
#19
I found tons of old zines, swappie literature, anarchist publications and papers in our cupboard belonging to 'barry', but they're mostly awful excpt for the black flags. Some of them were amusing though highlights being a free stonehenge poster and an entire page long article dedicated to the ''herstory'' conunudrum.
Alan wrote:
I have to admit I bought Maximum Rock n Roll on Tuesday.
you filth
Apr 23 2006 23:07
#20
Thora wrote:
Alan wrote:
xConorx wrote:
we know what the ukhc scene's politics is like!Don't we just.
I seem to remember Thora saying she liked Razorlight so she can fuck off away from trashing my tastes. ;)
Er... Razorlight rock
You spelled "are shit city" wrong.
Apr 23 2006 23:09
#21
cantdocartwheels wrote:
but they're mostly awful excpt for the black flags.
Could I borrow them to OCR any ones that fall outside the period martinh has for the library?
Apr 23 2006 23:13
#22
Probably at some point, i'm going through the cupboard again in a week to sort my stuff out so i will have a look and see whats here. You could ask barry aswell since i have no idea whether he even knows they're still here.
Apr 23 2006 23:14
#23
I'll email him tomorrow.
Yeah theres a little bit about it here:
http://www.libcom.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=9378
I never really saw the point of zines... people seem to put a lot of effort into them tho.