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Frighten the Horses, a self-proclaimed "document of the sexual revolution," is celebrating this Valentine's Day with its first fullcolor glossy cover. Admitting that this step certainly "complicates things," copublishers Mark Pritchard and Cris Gutierrez nevertheless seek to scale up their high-spirited "zine" and its circulation of fiction "as dirty as we can find...
...their attention to its titillating content, haphazardly flipping through the pages, reading out snippets of sexual extremism with a spaced-out kind of disbelief, and were generally quite uncomfortable. "I don't know what to think," admitted one sophomore resident of Adams House, summing up the overwhelming ambivalence this "zine" elicits...
...which hit the newsstands yesterday, picks Heavenly for the "Cute Band Alert" box. Assuming you read FM the day it came out, it's safe to say you "read it here first." And (making the same assumption) you might remember that the word of the week this week is "zine," which is a contraction of "fanzine," which was coined sometime in the 70s from "fan" plus "magazine"; the missing "maga" (yes, I'm making this up) stands for "mega," since fanzines are by definition produced not by megacorporations intent on market shares, but by individuals (or small groups of people...
PTOLEMAIC TERRASCOPE Run out of London, by the Bevis Frond and his friends, who--both in the records they make and in the zine they write--are mostly concerned with 60s psychedelia and its 80s-90s direct descendants, of whom there are many more than you think. Graphics are elaborately medieval, etched, antiquated and well-crafted. The Loud Family, talented Australian songwriter and ex-punk Ed Kuepper, and the former bassist for the Jimi Hendrix Experience are featured items in the "latest" issue; the 7" record inside sounds good too. Look for it at In Your Ear, or send...
...accurate reviews share the pocket-sized spaces with graphics approrpriated from Victorian magazines and with offbeat autobiographical bits (like "Out of the Way First Names: A History of People"). Write to P O Box 649, Cambridge, MA 02138; you may be a slightly happier person after reading Tim's zine, which is more than I can say for my own work. See you next year...