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Pick Three – the Family Values tour albums
Let’s get this out of the way up front: I enjoyed the 1998 and 1999 Family Values tour albums at the time, and still have an okay time with them today. What can I say, I got big fast in high school. I wore a wallet chain. I got tripped up in gym class, then…
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“But once the world numbs you, you’ll feel like it’s only one you”
Last Friday I went down to the Power to the People demonstration outside the Scottish Power building in Glasgow. Turnout was decent, with trade unionists, political activists and radge punters all withstanding the hair-melting heat to show a bit of opposition to the impossible conditions we are being told are inevitable. Fair play to the…
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Sad Train Station Sandwich
(Sarah Broadhurst, self published, 2022) “A traditional redemption arc in zine form” according to its creator, who as one half of the much missed One Beat collective should know what she’s talking about, much as I’m usually up for distrusting an artist’s interpretation of their own work. Still, one read of Sad Train Station Sandwich…
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Casino
CW: one extremely violent gif, some plot details from a big film from the ’90s (Martin Scorcese, 1995) Watched this at the GFT with some pals last night, having never seen it before. What can I say, I was a dumb Scorcese contrarian before it was popular, though I always had time for After Hours…
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Angles and Demons
“We have to recognize these demons when they arise and utilize the formulas to dispatch them, which is what magic does. Magic has a time-honored, thousands-of-years old methods for dealing with the type of demonic energies that arose at Altamont, for instance. A bunch of highly-trained warrior magicians at Altamont would have defused the situation;…
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Tie Me Up, I’m Yours
CW: Hot Filth! (Jules Scheele, self-published, 2022) The cover to this zine promises is that the content will be “18+ explicit”, and Tie Me Up, I’m Yours makes good on this promise again and again, with a series of erotic images depicting a crew of lush queers in what someone only slightly more emotionally repressed…
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