Flyering

OK. It's been a while since I updated this, and the Total Abuse show went to shit. I wasn't here for it, like I said so my apologies if you went to see any bands besides Legions of Hell (the only band that played apparently) LET'S MOVE ON.

I went flyering for the zine show tonight, from North Station through Gov't Center/Park Street/Newbury street and to Mass Ave in Central Sq.

I felt pretty good and ot as drained and tired like I was the day before when I missed the Road Rage/Dead Radical show in Somerville (i was real late anyhow and it took me a while to make flyers so I just didn't go. Weak, I know)

Got typically tired/lethargic (and I wasn't as entertained as a couple days before when the conductor kept insisting I KNOW YOU to some guy who got on in Chelsea for the majority of his ride since he didn't recognize the conductor or know how to get out of the awkward quasi shouted one sided conversation)

but anyhow I got my 2nd wind in North Station. Got a free slurpie at 7-11 due to the date (happy 80th birthday apparently. didnt realize convenient stores had been around that long hmmm) and cut through Gov't center where a huge (and I'm not making this up) BINGO game was going on, complete w/vendors, etc. on the city hall steps. i hung some flyers on lamp posts and was on my way through Fanuel Hall where all the punks gather, as you know. I wandered through anyhow, put a flyer on the inside of a pay phone and then saw 3 young stumbling drunk punk kids that I'd seen at shows. One was a 17 year old kid who was at the For the Worse baseball tavern mattinee a month or so ago who was giving me and my half a coke bottle some vodka in his bag right in front of the place after the show, much to the non-delight of the bar tender. i never did drink it though since me and mccarthy (well just him if you want to get technical) ran out of gas on the way home and i was too tired from pushing/laughing to drink more once we got to woonsocket.

i gave all three of them flyers. the last time i saw one of the kids (at above mentioned show) he was punching burger king signs and telephone poles. this time his friend was kicking empty duck tour stands or some shit and their friend they were with (who i don't remember seeing before) had a rat in her sweatshirt pocket.

The Newbury comics (w/the one crate vinyl selection that you'd miss if you didn't trip over it) had just closed and i couldn't get the disinterested employee's attention to let me hand him off a short stack of flyers.


On to the Park st. area. Past Staples. Didn't look like their copiers had the card system counters like the one on Harvard Ave in Allston has yet, but they too were closed as most financial district places close around 7pm.

Went to the Park St. 7-11, they didn't have the small 'free slurpee day' cups so i just took a small, filled it up and was on my merry way. I knew there was another 7-11 by Emerson but I ended up forgetting to go there, being too pre-occupied with crossing streets and putting a flyer on every walk signal post.

then i found three books by a trash can (and the jewel of the litter "the dyagnostics of star trek' (or some other big word) was in the trash, posing such profound questions like "IS ARTIFICiAL LIFE (DATA, ANDROIDS) real?" I put it in the bag I had my tape gun in (so as not to rip apart/get stuck to the bag I was carrying around) and kept going.

Eventually by the time I got to the end of my trip I walked past the Central Sq. salvation army and they had a donation basket on the door step so I put them in there along with an empty coke can some generous heart had given to them.

Lightened my load a bit, even if it was at the end of my trip. I realized that I would probably never read any of the three books and photocopying them to accompany this story wouldn't even be that entertaining. Although I was legitimately curious about "the militiarization of feminism"

I interupted someone in a municipal waste shirts sidekick conversation in front of the church by park st and gave her a flyer. she thanked me. no, thank you. if you show up. or if you didn't use it to put your gum in.

Blah blah blah down to swank newbury street. didn't hit up that many lamp posts with flyers so there would be less fur coats and cologne clouds at the show if you know what I mean.

I gave a flyer to a girl with tattoos and got another sincere thank you. What a great salesman I am. Maybe she'll make an origami ferret out of it. Is a broken heart with crossbones a bouncing souls tattoo?

I saw Circle Pat outside of newbury comics (maybe thats just where he parked his bike, but i think he was trying on hats and punk as fuckly designed belts) and shot the shit with him for a while, gave him a flyer and went inside to drop off a stack. Then I kept going until I realized that I should leave a lot more just in case and went back, but mostly to see if Beat Sheet (one page zine I do) got reviewed in the 25th anniversary issue. It did, two 'issues'. Pretty straightforward but it said #4.5 was like a myspace page or something. Fuck. I dunno. Maybe I should write a letter. hah. Or maybe I'll just print out my myspace page and submit it.

i knew that nuggets was closed so i bypassed kenmore sq entirely, figuring I can just make my way to allston (for a closet fairies/chinese telephones/dear landlord show and to flyer at a folk punk show at TJ's/anarchists discussion. I don't know if they'd be down to make a one page zine about the issues they're talking about to inform the rest of the people under the big umbrella of a geographical scene but I figure I'll put it out there. the more the merrier.

Walked over the bridge past a bunch of convenient stores that weren't 7-11 and put flyers on all but the last few lamp posts on the bridge. When I got home my roomate Allison mentioned that most people are jogging or biking over the bridge. D'oh. But I saw a decent amount of foot traffic on it for the eternity of time I spent there running across the street to get both sides.

You already know what happened with how I got rid of the books.

I hung up a big full page one by the middle east w/extra tape in case they want to get competitive and try to tear it down. I gave it to a very disinterested girl on a bike but she had a cool forearm tattoo. Maybe she got a paper cut.

I hung two more flyers on posts across the street before the end of the tape roll came. right across from the venue too, of course. oh well, i didn't have that many left anyhow.

On to Hi Fi Pizza where I buy a huge piece of dough for 1.50, a change of pace from the steady stream of young pimply faced x'd hands kids at the middle east show, whatever it was. i didn't give a flyer to the oldish guy w/the sex pistols shirt because it was kind of awkward to get to him and he was in a conversation with a couple other people.

10 minutes until harvest co-op closes. I go in and stock up on some vegan cheese for the pizza i would make myself as a pat on the back for my arts and crafts cardiovascular work out. the line was long since everyone was in there 5 minutes before closing like me, but after i went home and made it (with access to a cheese grater AND pizza cutter, not to mention) it was well worth it.

and i hung a flyer on the 'events' section of the bulletin board. we'll see how long it lasts.

if you got a flyer from part of this journey I described above, thanks. come to the show. it's gonna be fun.

SHOW UP EARLY though. don't miss panty stains. and chances are most people that made zines won't have over 100 copies i bet. and i've got some of my favorite zine people to do one pagers, or they've done one pagers before and there will be a lot of re-prints.

thanks especially to CLENCH and phllip knowles and matt rolland and MINDLESS MUTANT for the inspiration to make a zine and to do an event like this. i'm pretty excited.

attn bands: bring drums.

a better flyer for this Saturday's show

Total Abuse needed a show in boston and asked for my help.

i wasn't able to really set it up myself since i will be out of town but my good buddy craig is hooking it up and one of boston's most underrated bands DOWNHILL FAST will be playing as well as the mighty metal of Legions of Hell and Colin and the Cancer is opening.

so go check it out!

and booleg the zine show flyer and hand it out at this show why dontcha

i will be at no way fest trying not to develop a southern accent.

flaming trash cans

Today I was walking to the post office past Bank of America and the trash can outside of it was on fire and looked like it had been on fire for a little while by the 75% melted inner barrel. There was just a crowd around it kind of looking at it and smiling stupidly as terrible smelling gas filled the air around them.

i'm sure that bank of america had a fire extinguisher, but i guess they were waiting around for someone else to do something about it.

if i wasn't still bitter and hateful towards that evil bank after overdrawing my bank account several times the day before i would have maybe put down my bin of mail and done that because

a.) it would be kind of badass

b.) who wants to smell that shit?

c.) i could say "fuck you assholes for just standing there."

but i think my mind set the fire to get back at them for causing me to not have enough money to go to the pisschrist/out cold show yesterday.

although if that were the case it would have been inside the bank. oh well.

i'm a fuck up. i have no money. wahhhhhhhhhhhhh

but yeah. I would have liked to seen the show and flyered for the zine show.

if you would like to help flyer print it out and make copies. or i could do it for you. get in touch.

htmLOL

okay whatever. i'm not making this blog very slick looking or easy to use. sorry.

mostly it's just a way to get some info out about things I'm currently working on.

here is the finished flyer for the July 21st ONE PAGE ZINE show.

Please make one. It will be fun. Even if you don't live around here and can't make it out, send it to me and I will get copies made of it to have at the show.

I'm trying to recruit people who do zines I like to do that as well as making copies of the one pagers that have inspired me to do one on my own.



ALSO: I will be selling a small "distro" of zines at shows in the future because some of them are hard to find on a consistent basis around and at shows there are a lot of suburban kids who don't live near a cool news stand or record shop, so there you go.

I may fall on my face and lose a bunch of money, but we'll see.

I have SHORT.FAST.LOUD #17 (w/rad CD comp) and #16 on the way

as well as GIVE ME BACK #(5)1 (from the ashes of HeartAttack but made by the people who didn't give up on it. Only .50 give it a shot!

Mindless Mutant #2 (Huuuuge zine out of Chicago. Good shit. Lots of interesting stories, road trip chronicles and interviews)

and I'll be getting Razorcake and MRR as well as some one pagers that are free (if you buy something else. sorry pal!)

if you do a zine and want me to carry it send me an email radiobeat at gmail dot com to get my address so i can check it out (if i'm not familiar with it)

OK.

MAD AT THE WORLD

This is a recent score from In Your Ear Records on Comm Ave

A quick google search brought up this review of the Cambridge store. I like the Comm Ave one better, and it's bigger but both are cool. http://www.yelp.com/biz/LzOIvExEZCe8QxSZ72SOUQ


I just got some reading material there, a zine called Mad At The World and a big tour promo photo book about Black Sabbath's "Born Again" tour with the guy from Deep Purple singing.

Anyhow, Mad At the World was a great zine overall and you can read up a little about it's brief history over here...I'm gonna see if he has any back issues kicking around. It's primarily a record label of the same name (hence the 'matwrecords' link)
http://www.matwrecords.com/index.html

One page zine show SAT July 21st

SATURDAY JULY 21st 2007

one page zine hc/punk show. $2 off door price with a home made zine and a stack of copies of it.

so get fuckin' started!

best layout

get someone w/an office job to make them for you or just "forget" you made as many as you did at some chain xerox place (without a counter duh)

Venue finalization and other details TBA
check back here for updates
or email radiobeat at gmail dotcom

D.I.Y.B.O.T.H.E.R.

Founded on 3/8/07 instead of being productive not in front of a computer.
Sort of started a while ago but never given the official name in person (or on internet)

so here it is. it may appear on records, tapes, cds and zines but it's not a label so to speak.
it's just punk rock and hardcore and trying to make the most of it and keep up to date with other people who are also into those things.