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I mentioned this in a comment just now, but does anyone know about Wet Magazine? I came across it in a vintage magazine store in San Diego a few years ago and couldn't believe it. In the tradition of underground art magazine culture that had its heyday in the mid-70's-mid-90's. Wet is kinda like RE/Search, but probably appealed to a trendier, more cocaine-based segment of the population. It's bitchin' to think that there was at some point a large group of people willing to buy alternative culture. Totally worth seeking out...
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This begs the question: RE/Search--smack- or acid-based?
my gut reaction = smack, but, I mean, Genesis P. Orridge?
everything about that cover, especially the listed features, makes me grin, widely.
I read a Book called wabi sabi and it was written by the guy who made that magazine
was the only time I heard of it
oh also didn't Gary panter do stuff for it
"It's bitchin' to think that there was at some point a large group of people willing to buy alternative culture. Totally worth seeking out..."
really? i think that the importance of these things are kind of played up in hindsight. even more people nowadays are willing to look into alternative culture, i think, especially with the internet. even videogames have a kind of alternative culture.
That's totally true. I was just trying to find a way to incorporate "bitchin'" into a sentence. Really, though I like these leftover cultural artifacts that hint at an underground gestalt that actually never existed, I remember how difficult it was in the eighties and early nineties (i.e, before the Internet) to get a hold of any alternative culture. You'd have to drive across town to some weird shop that also sold exotic porn or something just to buy Yummy Fur. There's some romance in that, but the actual reality was dismal and desperate. Publications like Wet were made for folks who were clued in to this peculiar elite strand and not representative of any zeitgeist or anything.
i allways dig going to weirdo spots and sifting through a box of trash to find my new fix
i think it's probably got a lot to do with me being a collector of ephemera and not getting the fix i need from a lit screen
it's no doubt part of me being an american capitalist fuck'o too
but i feel i earn those discoverys
also i need to put up or shut up about weather or not i actually dig said "thing" by throwing my skrilla at it
Is that a Terumiko Yumura drawing?
Yessir!
Don't let the punk sheen fool you, RE/Search is too weird to be smack based.
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