MACHINE GUN ETIQUETTE
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MACHINE GUN ETIQUETTE
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WeLcOmE tO ThE UnDeRgRoUnD.......
Machine Gun Etiquette is a nearly 8yr old fanzine dealing with underground, punk, rockabilly, goth and new wave music, as well as political, social and just plain angry views & issues about the state of music (& society) today. Plus lots of poetry & pix of our faves. It's an educational 'zine with superior writing.
IT IS NECESSARY COMMENTARY.
MGE reserves the right to cut you down to size...
HEY... MGE HAS A WEBSITE *UNDER CONSTRUCTION* CHECK IT OUT AT: http://angelfire.com/ma2/mgeunderground/index.html
(please note: the excerpts below will change periodically as will MGE's approved Links)
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ThE MaChInE gUn EtIqUeTtE cAsT: #13 summer 1999
Chri$tiAnA- The Formulator
Chaz Halo- Principal Scenarist
Favorable Offerings from: Josh Rutledge, Jimmy Reject, Stephanie Crandell, Dimitri Monroe, Angelique Mystique
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except from "The Kingdom.. If We Only Could".. By Dimitri Monroe: "...everything seems so insincere & like a hopeless competition for an ember of spotlight/camera time, a futile, scripted play repeated over & over again for the attentions of lame chicks & fleeting ego gratification. I wish I knew how to cross over & straddle the line between being committed to your own flag, values, ethics, traditions, etc., & finding enough acceptance from the straight world to "earn the right" to exist....."
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except from "Why Most Bands Should Kill Themselves" by Chaz Halo "...FANS-stop endorsing & enabling mediocrity to clog up your record collection! ... Explore the roots of your chosen genre'-then only buy the new bands that live up the past legends, or even surpass them. A great band both epitomizes & adds something unique & personal to their chosen style. If you guys were more discerning, maybe the unique & brilliant bands wouldn't be so outnumbered by the sound-alike CRAP that makes everyone's playlists. Just because a band buys you a drink or sends you a free CD doesn't mean they're a great band, for Christ's sake! In fact, the best rock n roll bands tend to be anti-social, fucked-up bastards in my extensive experience. The best bands are truly WEIRD people..."
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Wisdom from Josh Rutledge: ..." You want to talk about an "alternative"? The "alternative" is to turn your fucking radio off..."
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MORE EXCERPTS.. from MGE #13 summer 1999:
from the "ANTI Editorial"- by Chri$tiAnA "...music, especially misfit music is not supposed to be accepted by Hollywood superficiality, it's not supposed to have "fun", it's not supposed to like champagne, it's not supposed to love everyone or pretend to. ....And with that, I doubt MGE will ever truly be centered on the 'popular' music of today. Mainstream should be re-christened MUNDANE. MGE, musically, does seem to embrace those by-gone days.. and we will always keep that jaded, passionate tradition alive.. with HONESTY. Refusing to give lip-service to some multi-faced, talentless, anorexia victim that blew the A&R guy or some boring, inadequate record co creation that gave the producer free drugs... Machine Gun Etiquette is back & primed to put you in your place..."
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except from "Ass Kissers & Scene Suckers" by Chaz Halo "...first & foremost, it's supposed to be about MUSIC. Rock N Roll. NOT conformist frat-boy show-biz shit like "making connections", "hanging out" & schmoozing. Fuck that. "He's not a real punk rocker, he doesn't hang out". WHAT? A "real" punk rocker DOESN'T hang out. He/she doesn't buy drinks for people for return favors... that, my pus-filled boils, is hollywood schmoozing, shallow bullshit... a "real" punk...is "outside"; a true punk sits alone.. in a bar losing him/herself in the neon & rock n roll... Safe to say that if you're found sniffing coke in the boys' room at Coney Island High with all your "rock star friends"; you're a scenester, not a punk......"
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excerpt from "Hanoi Rocks.. Legends on the Boulevard of Broken Dreams.." by Chri$tiAnA "..these days Hanoi Rocks are known only because Guns N Roses re-released Hanoi's back catalog on the Uzi Suicide label. Nice of them, sure, but it's almost a rather pitiful way for a band who influenced so many & seemingly everything in the newer, better bands of today (music, clothes, stage antics etc.) to only be known by the DUMBER generation as "that band on the GnR label"..utterly pathetic..."
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"...POETRY..THAT'S A JOB FOR ANARCHS. POETRY IS MADE BY REBELS & EXILES & OUTSIDERS..."
-Anthony Burgess
by Stephanie Crandell- .."it's so horrifying how much you can hate yourself for being low & weak..."
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excerpt from "Cold Kamikaze Blues" By Chri$tiAnA
"..my bad days are just a reaction to petty, overbearing pious slobs that buy their ass-backward, exaggerated version of degradation on sale at K-mart... my bad days are inspirational, my bad days are hazardous to my health & anyone elses...my bad days are creative & torturous..my bad days regurge all over your freshly painted faces..my bad days are pure, depressed monologues filled with glitter, soul, tears, blood, gun powder, hard looks & dirty knox...my bad days eat your bad days for lunch...my bad days give me insight...."
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excerpt from "I'm A Dropout" by Dimitri Monroe "..I didn't even know about the CLASH tribute show all the scenster groups are playing 'til me & my girl were record shopping in the burbs & saw a flyer for it. Most of the bands on the bill don't even like Rock n Roll......."
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BiRtHdAy GrEeTiNgS tO:
Sean Brennan of London After Midnight (17th July)
Sean Moore of Manic Street Preachers (30th July)
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E-Mail Chri$tiAnA @ MGE for more info or write:
Machine Gun Etiquette/Chri$tiAnA
PO Box 391785, Boston, MA 02139-0018
THE RULES OF ETIQUETTE VARY.......
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