YOUR PRETTY FACE IS GOING STRAIGHT TO HELL #3
when i finished issue 2, i thought i was going to start writing issue 3 right away with all my free time and freedom, but somehow that didn't happen. apart from a few pages, most of this issue was written five or six months (and more) later.
this issue is about being a proper grown up. or something. there are bits about moving in to my little flat, work (& being very frustrated by it), worrying about pennies and bills, the exhibition i had in london with some of my old college friends in november '07, feeling like a failure in 'artist' sense, wanting to escape medway, being crap at being social, plans of carl moving in, going to ikea and other things. obviously there's some recipies too. 1/4 size, 46 pages. |
THIS IS A RE PRINT!
KERSA X #3
i was going through some old photocopies the other day and i came across an unassembled copy of my old zine KERSA X #3, and i thought a re-print was in order. i originally printed this zine few weeks/days before i left finland to come to england to study, but i wrote it and re wrote it a while earlier.. this 82 page zine was the third version of it, i kept being unhappy with it and rewriting and adding pages until it became this monster.
the zine is simultaniously very text and image heavy (yes that is possible!) and it's mostly prose disguised as fiction but some of it is based on truth, some of it is just adolescent rocknroll fantasies. i don't seem to write in the same semi poetic manner anymore, i don't know what has happened, but i miss being that way. i haven't made too many copies, and i'm not sure if i'm going to make any more copies because they are bloody annoying to staple. 1 / 6 size, 82 pages. |
YOUR PRETTY FACE IS GOING STRAIGHT TO HELL #2
this issue had actually been in the making for almost a year already when i did #1. this issue is much more personal and 'serious' with a lot more writing, mostly relating to my then situation of living with my boyfriends parents (being semi homeless, you know, "its not my home, it's their home" kind of way) trying to find a job so i could afford to get my own place, feeling useless and missing and going home / to finland. there's also recipies & some lists and.. none of it has really been edited, it's pretty much what i first wrote it down and i guess it reads a bit like a journal. unplanned and a bit rambly. some people call it a sense of immediacy.
i hadn't written a proper zine with lots of words since i left home and finland (four years ago) and even then it was more fiction and a lot less personal and much vaguer.. i guess in a way it's my first 'proper' zine.
comes in 1/4 size, 50 pages. |
YOUR PRETTY FACE IS GOING STRAIGHT TO HELL #1
(OUT OF PRINT)
i made this one on my own mostly during last weekend instead of going to a birthday party. it's for the most part collages with a bit of text. it's completely unedited (except for one page that i left out because it was a bit shit) and it comes with fancy i really enjoyed making this. just sitting there, bot being able to stop cutting and pasting and using up all the black tape (oops) it's a nice change because i've been working on a more text heavy perzine and it's taking forever. and this one was just so instant. 1/4 size, 36 pages. |
LOUIS XIV A VERSAILLES BY CARL ♥
in real life "louis xiv a versailles" is a book carl found in a "free!" box outside the library that he then filled up with collages whenever bored or sad. and this zine is a black and white xerox copy of some of its context.
i myself think it's gorgeous, i love that book even though reading it always makes me sad because of certain pages (that are not in because carl's much more private than i am) 1/4 size, 38 pages. email him: carl at wastinmytime.co.uk www.wastinmytime.co.uk |
YES DARLING BUT IS IT ART... OR ARSE? #2
previous to this issue me and carl had made 1/2 size effort called "fragile" named so because of the fragile tape we covered it in, but it appeared someone else had a zine by that name so we changed it. so there isn't really yes darling issue 1 at all.
anyway, "yes darling, but is it art?" is an art zine by me and carl, a collection of collages, some very short stories, some of which are written in a normal way and some rearranged together from words in trashy novels to make them sound even dirtier. 1/4 size, 62 pages. |