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I'm sorry to have to be the one to break it to you but the reason that we don't have cool stuff like hover cars and self-drying clothes is because all that back-and-forth Marty traveled between 1885 and 2015 and alternate 1985s really set things off course in the development of technology.
My dear child, there are consequences to effing with the space-time continuum.
-bfh
Shakeytown Radio: Riverside DIY Print Fest 2014 (25 mins)
This is the way the podcast ends. This is the way the podcast ends. Not with a bang, but a gesundheit.
For what is probably the final episode of SHAKEYTOWN RADIO, we make our third annual visit to Riverside for the DIY Print Fest.
Shakeytown Radio: Claremont Zinefest 2014 (43 mins) Brodie returns to Claremont for the second annual Claremont Zinefest! Interviews with Tori Holder, xGRRRLx Zine, Yumi Sakugawa, Raymond Duran, Rusty Jordan, Jen and Aria from Skinned Knees, Suemi Guerra, and more!
L.A. Zine Fest is an awesome event that requires tons of setup, so naturally they’ve got some super talented volunteers to take on some of the work. DUM DUM got to ask one of these brave souls, Kenzo Martinez, LA Zinefest Organizer & Volunteer Coordinator, about his experience.
DUM DUM: Do you have a favorite zine?
KENZO MARTINEZ: Right now it’s “Your Illustrated Guide to Becoming One with the Universe” by Yumi Sakugawa, who is also hosting a Zine Week event on the 14th at Giant Robot 2, and tabling at Zine Fest.
DD: How did you get involved with volunteering for Zine Fest?
KM: I was tabling back in 2012 at the first L.A Zine Fest, and at the end of the day I started helping other people clean up. There was a cool installation with leaves and twigs that Walt Gorecki (Homeroom Gallery, Jewcocks) put together, so we cleaned that up for awhile, and that was that.
DD: How many volunteers do you have, and where did they all come from?
KM: We don’t have an exact number, some people can make it to meetings while others are otherwise engaged, but we have about 15 awesome people from Earth, L.A, others from nearby stars but they’re all mostly from our D.I.Y and D.I.T communities. Usually they spring fully formed with powers unimaginable from the womb of creation.
DD: What’s the volunteer party potluck like? What kinds of trouble do you guys get into?
KM: Well, it was a pretty snazzy affair with Maui BBQ chips, eggplant sammiches, quiche and stuff. The nicest people came, the sun stood golden in the sky and we dined al fresco. There was talk of art, poetry, music, logistics and time schedules. It was wonderful, until the fire…we put out the fire and filled out some Google docs.
DD: What’s something Fest goers should look out for?
KM: Each other! The beautiful thing is we’re building a community that already includes you, so look around and hang with the family you never knew you had. Oh, and you know our keynote speaker is Jamie Hernandez of “Love and Rockets” right? He’s one of my all time favorite creators, so you should check that out.
DD: How can we get involved in the awesomeness???
KM: Email me at [email protected], I’ll give you some options and then we make it happen. For this year’s Fest, get into a comfortable position, imagine something inspiring, close your eyes, take three slooow deep breaths and say to yourself, “I am already part of a community where I can openly express things I care about” and then show up! Bring a zine you made or some stickers in a backpack and say hello, talk and trade with yer awesome new buddies.
You can find Kenzo at L.A. Zine Fest! DUM DUM would like to add that no zines, pets, people or property were harmed during the volunteer potluck.
by Taylor Yates of DUM DUM Zine
A great Q&A that DUM DUM ZINE did with this week's guest, Kenzo!
L.A. Zine Fest & L.A. Zine Week preview w/ Kenzo Martinez (1 hr, 8 mins)
BFH and L.A. Zine Fest organizer Kenzo (J.U.i.C.E., Pentagram) tell you all about what's coming up for L.A. Zine Week and L.A. Zine Fest! Plus, Alyssa from Interrobang Books phones in to talk about her upcoming releases. Featuring music by Wreck of the Zephyr and Wulfen Rag.
As we ramp up to L.A. Zine Fest, here is an interview with one of the vendors!
Shakeytown Radio: Ashley Quach (1 hr, 17 mins)
Ashley Quach is a writer and illustrator who publishes at Sassquach.com.
We chat about foot-measuring paraphernalia, goofy existentialist sci-fi, and stunt marriage proposals. Ashley also talks about growing up in North Carolina and attending a school of science and mathematics, how trying to practice Chinese with a pen pal became a great romance, and balancing her interests in screenwriting and filmmaking with comics and zines.
Featuring music by Stompin' Tom Connors.
Happy 2014, internets. A big cupcake box of thank you’s and eternal gratitudes to everyone who supported the book release of I THINK I AM IN FRIEND-LOVE WITH YOU ever since it hit bookstores last December.
Some interviews, nice things, and random mentions about I THINK I AM IN FRIEND-LOVE WITH YOU on the internet:
Angry Asian Man
Asia Pacific Arts
Bitch Magazine
BuzzFeed
Huffington Post
NPR
PopSugar
If you are living in or near San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Brooklyn, Baltimore, Washington D.C. or Los Angeles, I hope to see you in person at the FRIEND-LOVE Valentine’s Day book tour happening at the very end of January / early February. More details and book tour poster coming very soon.
If you missed out on buying I THINK I AM IN FRIEND-LOVE WITH YOU during the holiday season, just going to put it out there that I THINK I AM IN FRIEND-LOVE WITH YOU makes for a perfect platonic / maybe-not-so-platonic Valentine’s Day gift for all the special people in your life. JUST SAYIN JUST SAYIN. <3
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Yumi is my intergalactic BFF. (Yours, too!)
Yumi has been on THREE of our episodes!
IE Zine Quest
Yumi Sakugawa & Adam Bernales
Eastside Zine Market
This is a photo of me making a bad decision and looking pretty rough for it back in, I think, 2005.
On Wednesday January 8th at 9PM I’m going to be at The Redwood Bar in downtown LA telling a story about other bad decisions I’ve made.
You should come on down to see it because I like you and we can high five and stuff. There will be five other great storytellers there with me, you will love them all.
The Redwood is at 316 W. 2nd Street in downtown Los Angeles.
This is a thing our own Bob Schriner put together...
Join us at the Redwood to hear some amazing tales told by some very talented orators like Mike O'Connell, Sean Lambert, Sabrina Cognata, Christian Duguay, Will Stegeman and your dear old friend Bob Schriner. Oh did I mention the price? Well, it's free!
21 and up only please, it IS a bar, after all.
RSVP for it HERE!
Write Bloody, by Cheryl Klein
Check out this new RAZORCAKE column by Cheryl, who was just on the podcast and wrote a nice post about that, too!
Shakeytown Radio New Year's 2014 w/ Cheryl Klein, Lesley Perdomo, Amber Garza & Daisy Noemi - 1 hr., 39 mins
Cheryl Klein is an author (The Commuters - City Works Press, Lilac Mines - Manic D Press), new Razorcake columnist, and BFH's new favorite party buddy.
Lesley Perdomo is a tattoo artist, madonnara (a.k.a. street painter, chalk artist), and a dear friend of our own delightful and dreamy Daisy Noemi.
Cheryl sits with BFH and Daisy, who have agreed to get matching friendship tattoos ("ZINE LIFE") courtesy of Lesley, and Shakeytown's favorite hard femme, Amber Garza, joins in on their conversation about ink, killer golf balls, car wrecks, assisitive technology, growing up and moving around L.A., the alleged terribleness of Shia LaBeouf, resolutions, sports fans, and Pedro Infante.
Featuring music by the Old 97s.
(illustration by Jody Lindke)
The Shakeytown Radio Holiday Special (40:42)
What is the meaning of Hanukkah? What is the importance of Christmas? How does someone who doesn’t believe in anything handle the holidays? What do a reggae musician, a basketball veteran and restaurant owner, a dead dog, a pixie imp, and one of the greatest comedians of all time have in common? It’s part Charles Dickens, part Charlie Brown, and part Cult of Cthulhu, when BFH, Gene George, and Libby Ward celebrate the season on The Shakeytown Radio Holiday Special. With music from Yidcore, The Wailers, Galactic Pegasus, and Frank Black and the Catholics.
A (year) oldie but a goodie.
I have known Bob Schriner for 20 years.
Let that sit with you for a moment. TWENTY. That's a kid in college. That's a long-lasting marriage. That's a successful totalitarian dictatorship.
Bob and I have both told our story numerous times... we met in a record store. He turned me onto Minor Threat, Hunter S. Thompson, other good works. He introduced me to Jason Molina and Magnolia Electric Co. - I mean, literally, we all hung out till four in the morning, barbecuing and drinking. I'm weeks away from leaving my hometown, standing on a high-rise looking over the city, just me and Molina playing with a shortwave radio... one of the most amazing experiences of my life. Because of Bob.
He was there when I lost my virginity - okay, not in the room, but you know, he was there a few days later getting me lunch at the famous Ted's Hot Dogs in Tempe, Arizona to ask how I was doing. (It wasn't a high-fivin' bro-dawg thing, it was a big brother kinda thing - I was a very late bloomer, the situation with the girl was very peculiar, and there were a lot of emotions wrapped up in the whole thing.)
Bob was with me when I got married - both times. (He talked me down from hyperventilating the first time.) He was with me when the first marriage ended. He was with me at my going-away party in Phoenix, and gave the final roast. Then, he ended up moving to Los Angeles, too. He helped the missus and I move into our first real house together in L.A..
He was a frequent guest on the podcast, and then became a member of the team. He tabled with me at my first L.A. Zine Fest as a vendor.
He once had two dozen strangers call me on my birthday to wish me well. For eff's sake, who does something so nice? Bob, is who.
He is a storyteller's storyteller, a bullshitter's bullshitter, the foremost prankster and con man** of our generation. (**I say that with the due respect and reverence it deserves - his powers are utilized only for the most benevolent of circumstances... or, at least, the most hilarious.)
Happy birthday, Bob. I love you and I am lucky to have had you in my life all these years.
-BFH
(photo c/o MariNaomi)
Shakeytown at Eastside Zine Market! - 46 mins
Daisy Noemi and BFH visit the Hazard Park Armory for Eastside Zine Market, which we previewed with Adam Bernales and Yumi Sakugawa in our previous episode. The adventure that ensues is not unlike that old Choose Your Own Adventure book where our heroes find themselves in Ultima. With Yumi at their side and with the help of trusted Bianca Barragan, they talk with old friends and new - Red Velvet ("Catherinette" zine), Marie ("Things and Such"), MariNaomi (previously), Carrie McNinch ("You Don't Get There From Here"), Jen Venegas ("She's Not A Morning Person," SkinnedKnees.net), Brittany and Taylor from Cardio Arts, Sara from Freeways Collide, Jared Sams ("SPACEMANDead"), Robert and Amanda from Two Flints, and Sam, Hannah, and Cat from Buttonwillow Comics. Also, featuring the music of Ms. Shapen Figures.
How do you start a podcast with Ian MacKaye and end with Ke$ha? Will Daisy sew her heart out in time? How many names and words will BFH mispronounce and transpose? We answer these questions and more, plus Bianca reveals the secret of the universe. (DO NOT GIVE AWAY THE ENDING OF THIS SHAKEYTOWN RADIO!)
Read BFH's writeup and see more photos at LAZineFest.com!
Shakeytown Radio: Yumi Sakugawa! Adam Bernales (Seite Books)!- 1 hr, 4 mins
Yumi Sakugawa is a comic book artist and illustrator, launching her book “I Think I Am In Friend-Love With You” at Skylight Books in Los Feliz on Thursday, December 6th. Adam Bernales is a photographer, owner of Seite Books (a bookstore in East L.A.), and organizer of the Eastside Zine Market, which takes place at Hazard Park Armory on Sunday, December 8th. Yumi and Adam join BFH to discuss zines, childhood reading adventures, the bookstore industry, cooperative subcultures, deep platonic love, and nerding out over printing supplies.
We may have plugged this episode, like, a zillion times before already, but so what? It's a good one. And EZM is this weekend! BFH is going to be emceeing the readings, he's tabling with princess superstar and action hero Daisy Noemi, their table will be right next to Yumi and our pal MariNaomi, and our L.A. Zine Fest friends Rhea (also heard here!) and Bianca (also heard here!) will be tabling, too! So, go up to say hey, and tell 'em Shakeytown sent ya. (You can bug Adam, too, but be gentle, it's hard to be an event organizer on the day of!)
You are all invited.
Come support our recent guest and your intergalactic BFF, Yumi Sakugawa, this Thursday at Skylight Books.
Happy Birthday, Gene George!
(photo by Liezl Estipona)
I grew up with three sisters - never had a brother. In Phoenix, I had a good group of friends, not only folks I went to school with or worked with, but the people I met through the music, comedy, and art scenes. I got to form relationships with people who toured through Arizona. When I moved to California, I was arriving to a number of wonderful individuals, but the sum of which I could count on one hand. I was lucky that my first working experiences were with good people that I still keep in touch with, despite how our careers have moved us in different directions.
I started posting on a comedy scene board, which I also referred to when I was looking for things to do, having just arrived to Los Angeles. My free time and energy is pretty devoted now to producing the podcast, my writing, and my involvement in the zine community, but I used to frequent the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Hollywood quite often. On many occasions, I snagged highly sought tickets for a show called Comedy Death Ray, a weekly showcase where you could see the best comedians doing new work for all of $5 (it eventually morphed into what you might know as "Comedy Bang Bang," which started as a podcast spinoff of the standup night, and then became an IFC television show.
One night, I had obtained tickets to CDR, but I had other obligations which prevented me from attending. I logged into the comedy message board and offered the tickets up. That led to me meeting Gene George for the first time outside UCB. I had got to know him and his sense of humor through the board, so it was neat to finally meet him in person. It led to us starting to attend some UCB shows together.
If you listen to our podcast, you've probably heard that story a few times, and you know how these hangouts led to our creative collaboration, and how that has resulted in the chat show you have hopefully loved and enjoyed for the last three and a half years. With all our talk about creative works and surviving in L.A., our riffs on whatever obsession I'm fixated on or annoyance that has Gene grumbling, and enthusiasm for the artists we love and bring onto the show, there's very little room in any given episode for sentiment or sincere personal statements - we are not Oprah Winfrey (we would like her money, though, if anyone is looking to invest in "Shakeytown TV"). And it's no secret that as Gene's family has expanded and his career away from the podcast has progressed, his appearances on the show have become more rare, to the point I think he's going to demand special Sir Alec Guinness cameo billing status. Shakeytown Radio has become more of a DIY "California's Gold," with me as your punk rock Huell Howser (am I flattering myself? or not giving Huell enough credit for having been pretty punk rock himself?), live on the scene of all the great events that L.A. has to offer.
So what I haven't got to share on mic, I'd like to write here now...
It's harder making new friends when you're an adult. It can be really hard when you move to a new place to get comfortable and find your new group of friends. When it comes to Gene, I didn't only get a creative partner, a buddy to pal around with, but I finally got a brother. When you tune into the podcast, you hear us laughing, you hear us asking our guests questions. You don't hear the late nights where I've poured my heart out to Gene, all my fears and insecurities, and he's put things into perspective for me. You've heard our schtick, with Gene venting or me making dumb puns for him to sigh at. You haven't heard all the ways he has encouraged me for the good things I want to do, or the understanding and nonjudgmental insight he has given when I feel like I'm faltering.
Gene is a great dad and a great husband (with those awesome kids and wife, he better be, right?), a booster for the creative community in Los Angeles, a sharp dude who can teach you all sorts of things about a wild variety of topics, and a kind soul with a lot of love in his heart.
I am grateful for everything that has happened in the last few years, how this city has become my home. If Gene and I hadn't met, I don't know where I would be right now. We took a chance on this enterprise, and it has yielded so many rewards. But aside from all that, I am just happy that Gene is somebody in my life.
Happy 44th, Gene... here is to 88 years more! (Assuming that some "Mad Max" scenario doesn't disrupt things at some point between now and 2091.)
-BFH
Shakeytown Radio: Yumi Sakugawa! Adam Bernales (Seite Books)!- 1 hr, 4 mins
Yumi Sakugawa is a comic book artist and illustrator, launching her book "I Think I Am In Friend-Love With You" at Skylight Books in Los Feliz on Thursday, December 6th. Adam Bernales is a photographer, owner of Seite Books (a bookstore in East L.A.), and organizer of the Eastside Zine Market, which takes place at Hazard Park Armory on Sunday, December 8th. Yumi and Adam join BFH to discuss zines, childhood reading adventures, the bookstore industry, cooperative subcultures, deep platonic love, and nerding out over printing supplies.
