I have to agree with Trev's above statement about this shit being really fucking petty. Hidey, if you don't like it and think it could be better, then go and make your own fucking magazine and stop busting chops to try to prove that you're more superior. We're all very glad that you are a prolific writer, not a single mother and not blatantly promiscuous. Its great that you have a well rounded college education, but when it comes right down to it, you're acting like a real bitch and for lack of better words, you're just not that cool and that's one thing that Bella has one-upped you on. Fuck it.
I have to agree with Trev's above statement about this shit being really fucking petty. Hidey, if you don't like it and think it could be better, then go and make your own fucking magazine and stop busting chops to try to prove that you're more superior. We're all very glad that you are a prolific writer, not a single mother and not blatantly promiscuous. Its great that you have a well rounded college education, but when it comes right down to it, you're acting like a real bitch and for lack of better words, you're just not that cool and that's one thing that Bella has one-upped you on. Fuck it.
i'll take the bait...how is she burning it to the ground, hidey? was this compliment thread just a ruse to talk shit? or are you just so lacking in drama here that you needed to create some?
The whole bit about giving Bazooka away at a Rocky Horror was an honest-to-God compliment. I'm storing away that idea to use the first opportunity that presents itself.
It’s the usual action of the MC at the Rocky Horror to insult and abuse everything, just like the movie, including the publication being used for the rain scene.
The bit involving prop introduction with the newspaper usually goes something like Ok, during the rain scene, put the newspaper over your head because it’s the only good thing [publication] is good for! Doing that on Friday would’ve been the real compliment but she's too much of a Rocky Horror Virgin that wouldn’t have gotten the joke - imagine that, Bella still a virgin at something.
and so on and so on, too long, i DID read it, but didn't feel the need to quote the whole damn thing.
very thoughtful and truthful, hidey. way to go. give yourself a high five. i would respond to some blatant errors in your argument (one of the main ones being the last sentence in the above quote), but it's really not worth my time. you hate bella, nothing i can say will change your mind about that. whatevs. you're entitled to your opinion.
she just happens to be my best friend and i am so proud of her for making her dream happen, and i will stand by her, faults and all.
it's just, for some reason, this descendents song keeps running through my head in relation to you vs. bella/bazooka...and it makes me smile
so, all the best, hidey. keep doing what you wanna do. and if you bring a zine of your own back, i would absolutely love to see it.
so, all the best, hidey. keep doing what you wanna do. and if you bring a zine of your own back, i would absolutely love to see it.
Funny that you should make a mention of something like that. The mag I work for now runs 10K copies a month and is full color and on glossy paper. The November issue came out today and I have called everyone important in my life already to let them know.
http://www.ventmagowb.com - the .pdf isn't up yet, so if you send me your mailing address I'll be more than happy to send you a copy. I've already got one article lined up for December and I'm trying to talk my editor into letting me have two - I'll be happy to send you one of those when they get on the stands.
As for running something myself again, it's when I get to it. I've got too much other shit going on right now to worry about starting up a magazine.
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...and no, I don't hate Ol' Bella - that's an awfully strong word to use about a person I've never actually had a conversation with in person. All she can usually do when I pass by is scowl, which I don't understand either. Is it really that unplesant for her to see me in public?
It is healthy to hear dissent every once in a while and I am dissenting like hell 'cause no one else is. I'm irritated 'cause Ol' Bella has a Golden Ticket and acting like Veruca Salt about it.
And FINE, if you fucks are going to keep calling me out on my goddam degree, you can look at it like this: Memory isn't concrete from the moment an event happens - as soon as the mind captures the moment, it twists and turns what actually happened to suit its captor. Even 'what actually happened' is debatable because an event is based on the perception of its participant(s) - what is pleasureable for the serial killer is certainly not pleasurable for the dead.
There are all these 'events' going on in Paducah, yet only one series of events is being captured by one person writing to the events participant(s). As a magazine, wouldn't you want to cover as broad a spectrum of events as possible?
It's quite possible that Ol' Bella is in the right place, at the right time, but not covering enough people and it's going to hurt her in the long run. No matter how cool TUS is, the audience will eventually get bored reading about them.
Back to the fluid memory - over time these events will blur through retellings, tall retellings, or stories that have parts deleted from them. Someone, somewhere, will have paper copies of Bazooka a million years from now and Bazooka will have only covered one thin sliver of what it was to exist in this place, this time, and this area. That, for the fucks who keep calling me out on my degree, is why I get fuckin' at Ol' Bella 'cause she's totally missing the point of what she could - not should - be doing.
A magazine about local music is a pom-pom cheerleader for a kid with a guitar twenty, thirty years from now. Imagine giving that kid a broader spectrum of what's going on in Paducah so that they'll expand the spectrum of what they perform in their own work.
It is entirely possible to be lowbrow and higher purpose at the same time.
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Heh. What she should do is put a little box on the Editor's Page with The Union Suit and their MySpace address in it and say nothing about them for the rest of the issue. They'd still get their plug and there'd be something else to read about finally.
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Re: A Public Compliment for Ol' Bella: « Reply #52 on Nov 7, 2009, 1:22pm »
I'm going to let the pseudo-intellectualism of Hidey's post stand, but I've got to call bullshit on the continued Union Suit bashing. There have been something like 6 (7?) issues of Bazooka, and to my recollection there's only been one story about TUS. They were mentioned in stories about the Summer Festival and Porkstock, but that's because THE WERE FUCKING PLAYING THERE.
Some of the criticisms you've made of Bazooka are actually valid, but the ones you seem the most hung-up on are the ones with the least merit, and the "she covers TUS too much" complaint is the most inane of all.
I'm going to let the pseudo-intellectualism of Hidey's post stand, but I've got to call bullshit on the continued Union Suit bashing. There have been something like 6 (7?) issues of Bazooka, and to my recollection there's only been one story about TUS. They were mentioned in stories about the Summer Festival and Porkstock, but that's because THE WERE FUCKING PLAYING THERE.
Some of the criticisms you've made of Bazooka are actually valid, but the ones you seem the most hung-up on are the ones with the least merit, and the "she covers TUS too much" complaint is the most inane of all.
1. I'm just giving Union Suit shit. Chill. But that also begs the question: Is she covering Porkstock/Summer Festival because they're the thing to do, or is she covering Pork/SF because all of her friends are there? 2. You try to sound completely coherent, let alone intellectual after pulling a ten hour shift waitressing. Do it. I dare you.
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Re: A Public Compliment for Ol' Bella: « Reply #54 on Nov 7, 2009, 3:55pm »
1. Ok. It was starting to sound like you had some kind of problem with Union Suit. I only know one of them well, but from my interactions with them I honestly couldn't figure out what any of them could have done to piss someone off so much. As for your question, I think she would have covered both no matter who was there. There's really not that much happening in this part of the world, so just about anything that goes on is interesting enough to cover. 2. After 10 years driving a cab, I have absolutely no plans to re-enter the service industry, so I can't take you up on that challenge.
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Re: A Public Compliment for Ol' Bella: « Reply #56 on Nov 9, 2009, 11:26am »
Yep - just one story about TUS. Except for mentioning us when we're playing shows she covers. We've been in the Paducah Sun (Three times if memory serves) more than in Bazooka. I guess we can call Adam Shull and ask him to stop sucking up to us too.
Sorry - but I can't make myself feel bad for getting a shit ton of exposure from the local media.
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