“ Ten years ago this month, New York City writer Matthew Perpetua launched Fluxblog, a combination of music criticism and personal writing that’s provided a template for thousands of mp3 blogs created since. By the end of 2002 it had settled into daily song reviews and downloads, an elegant formula that’s been a defining influence on music criticism written for the Internet. Perpetua, now an associate editor at Rolling Stone, went on to contribute to publications like SPIN, New York magazine, Pitchfork, and many others, but still writes daily for the site that got him started. ”
Interview: Fluxblog Turns 10 | The Measure
Can I just be a fag for a moment and saw how great it is that I met Matthew in 2002, within a month or two of Fluxblog starting, and that ten years later, this is his bio? No matter what Morrissey says, we love it when our friends become successful.
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Do you remember The Adventures of Pete & Pete? We do.
It was the best show ever: the precise distillation of all the strangeness and wonder of childhood. The sublime ache of that perfect summer you know will never come again, or a song you can’t quite capture.
Anyway, we love Pete & Pete, and we know some of you, do, too. So, we’re making a tribute zine, and we want you to be part of it.
Write or draw your favorite memories of Pete & Pete—stories, art, songs, comics, or anything else you dream up. Send ‘em to us by May 1, 2012. We’ll collect our favorites and print ‘em in a zine.
Contributors get a comp copy, plus a print-res PDF so they can print and sell their own. We’re not looking to make money from this. We just want it to exist.
THE FINE PRINT:
E-mail submissions to peteandpetezine@gmail.com by May 1, 2012.
Written submissions—essays, interviews, memoirs, poetry, whatever—should be .doc or .rtf files. No length limit, but bear in mind that it’ll be easier for us to place shorter pieces. We’re not really looking for straight-up fanfiction, but we’ll definitely consider any and all submissions.
Comics, illustrations, and other visual media should be .tif or .jpg files, black-and-white or greyscale (maybe if this thing takes waaaaay off, we’ll do a limited color run, but we’re not counting on that), formatted to fit a 4.25” x 5.5” page at 300-600 DPI. Again, no length limit, but bear in mind that shorter pieces will be easier for us to place. If you need a spread, please indicate that somewhere in your submission.
Keep it reasonably clean: if it wouldn’t fly on the show, we probably won’t print it.
By submitting work to Waiting for October via peteandpetezine@gmail.com, you give us the right to use it in the Waiting for October print zine and tumblr. Anywhere we use your work, it’ll be credited to you. If your work appears in the print zine, you’ll get a contributor copy and a print-res PDF. The whole deal will be under a Creative Commons license, and contributors are free to print ‘n sell copies.
We are in no way affiliated with The Adventures of Pete & Pete, Nickelodeon, Polaris, or anyone but our own bad selves.Stay pipe!
-Miles & Rachel
P.S. Special thanks to Kory Bing, who took all the pictures. You can read Kory’s comics here.
WELL HEY. I went to high school with Miles & Rachel. They are great people, and I *know* this hits a sweet spot for some of you out there.
(via twentypercentcooler)
The Comics Reporter Holiday Interview: Secret Acres
Great interview with one of the best people I know, Leon Avelino, and his business partner Barry Matthews, about their terrific small-press comics company, Secret Acres.
The Girl With The Most Cake
- Matthew Perpetua: Yesterday I went to this 90s themed music critic party.
- Chris Conroy: Oh my God. That is basically the equivalent of those masked coke orgies you always assume politicians are having, but for media people.
- Matthew Perpetua: Someone made Daphne and Amy a cake shaped like Courtney Love in the "Miss World" video, and instead of singing "Happy Birthday," we all sang "Doll Parts."
- Chris Conroy:
- DYING
- DYING
- DYING
Tallahassle - The Morning News
Erik on his hometown. FLORIDA REPRESENT.
Remember last month when I said my friend Mark was the best? Well, MY FRIEND MARK IS THE BEST.
The Daily Shim Sham: My Most Epic-est Post to Date! (because I owe you)
God, I miss Mark. This is his UK Christmas travel odyssey told in text-and-comics form. It’s amazing. Click through for the story of our public-art attack on unsuspecting Sarasota, FL at Christmas of ‘09. (Yes, that might be my shoe and butt seen fleeing the scene, but just try to prove it, coppers.)
Backpacker Tees
My friends Shane and Catlan have started a travel-themed t-shirt website, and it’s pretty great. If you are in the market for some seriously weapons-grade travel puns silkscreened onto clothing, then they have got the website for you. I am pretty sure the “Kremlins” shirt is my favorite… it’s elephantastic.
Can We Date?
Erik Bryan and Jennifer Daniel’s flowchart-to-end-all-flowcharts on whether or not it is appropriate to date someone. Click through to embiggen.
Make it happen, captain. Awesome.
For the record, I am currently dating the Internet, which is not pictured on this flowchart, but applying the logic used for dating one’s XBox / Wii / Playstation seems fair.
Fugazi
“Merchandise”
Live in Philadelphia, 4/6/1992
Last night I got to sing “Merchandise” with Ted Leo and the Pharmacists with Brendan Canty of Fugazi sitting in on drums. I’m still kinda amazed that it happened. I got up there and Ted was like “Hey Matthew, hold on a second. It’s somebody’s birthday,” and Brendan came up a got behind the drum kit. I had this feeling of “whoa, I am in way over my head” but I think I did okay. I couldn’t hear myself at all, though, so who knows. It was ridiculously fun, and as a Fugazi fan since my teens, it was kinda mind-blowing.
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No worries, dude, you killed it. It sounded great. This, I don’t have to tell you, was a fucking awesome thing to have seen. Big shout-out to Nick for ripping it up on “Ballad Of The Sin Eater,” too. Dude’s got cojones mas grandes tackling that one.
The band didn’t manage to work out “Pony” for the show, so I did not get my moment of stardom, but the abovementioned awesome totally makes up for it.
Whirlwind 23-hour trip to Boston nearly complete, my friends still manage to look hella sharp.
Kylie Minogue - “Sweet Music” - Body Language
Happy birthday, Matthew! (I’d have uploaded Bloc Party’s “Helicopter,” for obvious reasons, but I don’t have it on this computer.)
A still from last night’s inaugural round of Cards Against Humanity, the hilariously filthy Apples To Apples rip-off that is clearly our new favorite game.
Please help support Matthew and his Fluxblog by buying one of his limited-edition FluxTees (via catbird).
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I bought the insanely charming “Comic” version by John Cei Douglas.
