Photography book!

I'm hoping to put out a photography book later this year with photos from Columbus's DIY punk scene. It's going to be called Blow Up The South Campus Gateway. Here are some previews from the book:

The cutest song in the world...

Is easily "Guess What" by Gameface. I couldn't find it on Youtube or Google or iLike, so I just uploaded it singularly here. I'll probably upload more Gameface stuff at another point.

Download: http://www.zshare.net/download/7940935592f0a5a9/

No Friends

Tony Foresta from Municipal Waste sings, but they're very, very different than you'd imagine with that bit of information. No Friends is another band I'm not sure how I stumbled across. I think there might have been some murmurings and show where some band's drummer was wearing a shirt that said "NO FRIENDS" down it almost a dozen times. They're from Florida and on No Idea. Everyone has their shirt now, but they're still pretty good.


Download Traditional Failures: http://www.zshare.net/download/79381975902ef77a/


Download Self-Titled: http://www.zshare.net/download/79382081e4219cfa/

Mixtape #2

This one was made for my friend Leanne for her 27th birthday. Check it out:

1. Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy
2. Bisybackson - Throw His Head Into The Lake
3. Genia Tou Xaous - Koinwnika Ipoproionta
4. A Day In Black And White - There Are Objects And Objects
5. Arnakia - Olio Einai Fadasmata
6. Ambulars - Coasts
7. Front Royal - Here's To Your Antics
8. Bomb The Music Industry - (Shut) Up The Punx
9. Cop Hugger - Pick Me Apart
10. Knapsack - Cellophane
11. Free Yourself - Anyway
12. The Wonder Years - This Party Sucks! (Acoustic)
13. Get Bent - Ridgewood, Son
14. Boom Boom Kid - Automatic
15. Green Day - Geek Stink Breath
16. Autistic Youth - Fuck Yeah
17. Good Luck - Stars Were Exploding
18. Banner Pilot - Absentee
19. CIV - Boring Summer
20. Bridge And Tunnel - Wartime Souvenirs
21. God's Reflex - Why I Hate Texas
22. Crimpshrine - Fucked Up Kid
23. I Hate Myself - Destroy All Monsters
24. Boy's Life - A Quarter's Worth
25. Saves The Day - I Think I'll Quit
26. Screeching Weasel - Love
27. Leatherface - Cabbage Case
28. Fischer - Don't Those Pomegranates Growing...
29. Jawbreaker - For Esme.mp3
30. The Ergs! - Hey Jealousy

Download: http://www.zshare.net/download/79332057bfd42ea3/

More zines!

These ones are primarily indigenous stuff, one about queerness (and insurrection), one about insurrection (and how it is to be done, heh). These, along with the zines I posted a week ago, form the basis for what I've been reading now, which is mostly boring philosophy and more in-depths critiques of our relationships with our sexuality, society, capital, and the rest of the world. Those will also be posted soon.


"Some will read 'queer' as synonymous with 'gay and lesbian' or 'LGBT'. This reading falls short. While those who would fit within the constructions of 'L', 'G', 'B' or 'T' could fall within the discursive limits of queer, queer is not a stable area to inhabit. Queer is not merely another identity that can be tacked onto a list of neat social categories, nor the quantitative sum of our identities. Rather, it is the qualitative position of opposition to presentations of stability - an identity that problematizes the manageable limits of identity. Queer is a territory of tension, defined against the dominant narrative of white-hetero-monogamous-patriarchy, but also an affinity with all who are marginalized, otherized, and oppressed. Queer is the abnormal, the strange, the dangerous. Queer involves our sexuality and our gender, but so much more. It is our desire and fantasies and more still. Queer is the cohesion of everything in conflict with the heterosexual capitalist world. Queer is the total rejection of the regime of the Normal."
- The first page of Toward The Queerest Insurrection, written by a self-identified "criminal queer" in Milwaukee in 2008.

This zine was pretty popular with anarchist-activists who loved identity issues when it first came out a few years ago even though it was the first stab the infamous Midwest queers took at using the identity of "queer" as a negation of identity. People didn't get it, and even after reading it a dozen times, I think I'm still starting to pick up on stuff I missed the first eleven reads.

Download: http://www.zshare.net/download/790073276e4794f1/


How Is It To Be Done is a Tiqqun piece about... Well, how it is to be done, rather than what is to be done. I guess it's almost written as a poem, which I think is pretty cool.

Download: http://www.zshare.net/download/79007369937e2825/

And the indigenous zines, which I don't have the patience to explain everything about:


Download: http://www.zshare.net/download/790075951618eaf6/


Download: http://www.zshare.net/download/79007443379edf6b/



Download: http://www.zshare.net/download/79007457bec0bd57/

Dopamines "Public Domain" video

I thought this video was pretty cool for a few reasons:
1. I like the cinematography, it's beautiful and fits the band and song well.
2. The song is catchy.
3. It's filmed in my friend's practice space near Cincinnati.
4. They smash stuff.

Agios Dimitrios - Demo

Agios Dimitrios was a short-lived screamo band from Chicago in 2009. Made up of kids who were mostly 18 and younger, their singer, Zak Eveland, was 16 years old. This band was weird because it was a screamo band made up of members from brother/sister folk punk band Y Lime?, indie band Blueberry Fist, dance-y pop-y girl-y band Tony Hawk & The 900, and pop-punk band Arkansas?. I remember walking up to Zak before of one of the first Agios Dimitrios shows and being like "So... You're in a screamo band now?" It seemed like such a strange combination of people, but it worked. I think they were around for the entirety of the summer; played a few shows, recorded a demo, and then broke up when their drummer moved to Brazil and their singer got shipped off to boarding school by his parents.

They're named after a suburb of Athens, Greece that put out some pretty amazing communiques during the December 2008 riots following the death of 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropolous.

Download: http://www.zshare.net/download/79311159662c7cd0/