props to Cometbus
I don't think I've ever mentioned this.....but if there's one voice I (and many other bloggers, if not blogging in general) owe a lot to it would be:
Aaron Cometbus, author of the self-published zine Cometbus.
He's doing other things now, but for a while it seemed like wherever I was hanging out, (which often used to be in record shops), there'd be this black and white punk magazine, Cometbus, and I'd buy a copy. Heck, I even found one in French one time.
The writing was honest, raw, reflective. It captured a moment, the punk moment. And then kept capturing it. Every issue of Cometbus seemed to get at the core of something: friendship, heartache, music, independence, loss...without really being "about" that, at all. There's a great collection of his work reviewed at Rain Taxi...check it out, if your interest is piqued...it's a big book, an anthology, and sometimes I'll see cool kids reading a battered copy at the cafe and think:
Cometbus lives...and so does his description of how a lot of us saw the world in the 80's and 90's.
Aaron Cometbus, author of the self-published zine Cometbus.
He's doing other things now, but for a while it seemed like wherever I was hanging out, (which often used to be in record shops), there'd be this black and white punk magazine, Cometbus, and I'd buy a copy. Heck, I even found one in French one time.
The writing was honest, raw, reflective. It captured a moment, the punk moment. And then kept capturing it. Every issue of Cometbus seemed to get at the core of something: friendship, heartache, music, independence, loss...without really being "about" that, at all. There's a great collection of his work reviewed at Rain Taxi...check it out, if your interest is piqued...it's a big book, an anthology, and sometimes I'll see cool kids reading a battered copy at the cafe and think:
Cometbus lives...and so does his description of how a lot of us saw the world in the 80's and 90's.
Comments
peace, kid o.
Thanks, Jeffrey.....
I agree, there's things that you can only do in context of the "long beat"...building an idea up slowly...
And things that happen "quick beat" or in a "broad discussion" way that call out for immediate feedback of a large community blog...
nice work.