weird mail #00001

i received this bizarre home-made notepad in the mail a couple of days ago. Cutely enough, i'd just come back from Brisvegas, which had depressed me greatly. I normally don't get into the whole "Our city has such a unique personality" elitist bullshit, because i want everywhere to be fucking cool, i want to find a thriving alternative arts/music scene everywhere i go, it is so fucking important for the people who shun the petrifyingly moronic faux-art that we're attacked with, by almost every single commericial communications entity..radio/tv/print, to be fucking *loud* in their opposition. I think it is mandatory that anyone walking through any major city should be confronted by street-art, firetwirling, political activism, alternative music - if only just to remind them that the conservative 50's style "culture" that we're bred on is not the whole fucking story.

Rocking Horse, Voodoo Lulu and Happy High Herbs aside, i was appalled by the lack of music venues, interesting galleries, alternative shops of any kind in sunny Brisvegas. And i think i was a bit overwhelmed by the unexpected amount of XXXX and racism i saw there during my brief trip.

But in any case, i received this and it made me smile. I have a sneaking suspicion the person responsible might be one Jodie Christ, of Rantolotl fame. You can't see it too clearly, but the author fashioned a "string" out of paper, which was threaded through the pages to keep the booklet together. I hope you enjoy it as much as i did!