Saturday 17 January 2015

Hiroshima Yeah! # 118 (December 2014) (zine)



One of my all time favorites 8.5 by 11 inches cut and paste, black and white, monthly six pager zine. The cover star of this issue is Seasick Steve an old, 73 years old, old school bluesman. I thought I knew a lot of old bluesmen but then Mark Ritchie puts me to shame. The more you learn and the more you realize you don`t know shit. Mark if you like old blues, you should definitely check out some: Blind Lemon Jefferson, Memphis Jug Band, Jimmy Reed, Leadbelly, Hound Dog Taylor, Lightnin`Hopkins and Memphis Minnie. Let`s start things off with some poetry `more cloudy than carefree. Favorite poems this time around are:
Beneath cool
Beneath your cool jacket
And your cool shoes
And your jeans which were
Deliberately ripped
On a production line
I would hazard a guess that
You are a fucking cunt.
But I cannot know that
For certain, of course.
And
Certain things subtly
You start to notice
Certain things subtly
And then
They are all you can see.
Pretty cool isn`t it? We`re treated with some music, concerts (The Wave Picture 28-10-2014 and Bob Mould 15-11-2014), book and DVD reviews. There`s our monthly episode of `the great rock`n`roll tolchock`. Gary Simmons talks about what it feels like to be in jail. Nobody wants to end up there, that`s a fact Jack. There is a lot of stuff in this issue: poems (by Jason Rodgers, Gary Simmons and François Marceau), some texting nonsense (Gary Simmons), another monthly seria l `Doctor Thornaby`(A Willshaw), and a weird ass drawing from François Marceau. Mark Ritchie ends this zine with `the next`a short story about inner turmoil, staring at your reflection in the mirror while contemplating loneliness. Thanks for publishing all my stuff mon ami! Contact: 
Mark Ritchie
94 Main Street
Forth
Lanark
ML11 8AB
UK
Email:  donbirnam@hotmail.com




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