February 10th, 2009

04:42 pm - The Underground Publishers Convention in Phoenix! DCD is helping put this together: we are currently looking for tablers for this event! Check out our website for more info on tabling, volunteering, and events: www.myspace.com/upcphx Current Mood: working Current Music: Tapes N' Tapes

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03:35 pm - Desert City Death Distro's website is going down.... But no worries, a new one will be coming up soon. I was recently made aware that the original site (www.desertcitydeathdistro.150m.com) had a bunch of spyware and viruses on it from the shitty free web hosting site that I was using. And I got an offer from an awesome person to host the DCD site on their server for free! Yay! SO.....I am taking the orig DCD site down for now. I will post a blog of our catalog on this myspace page. If you want to order zines, you'll have to order them from the myspace for now (you can check out how to order zines from DCD on this blog, see below). I am currently working on putting up a new site with no crazy popups, viruses, or spyware. Yuck-o. The new site will be rad. I promise. Until then, keep updated on DCD goings on from our myspace page (http://www.myspace.com/desertcitydeathdistro) or from this Livejournal cheers! Current Location: Phoenix Current Mood: busy Current Music: Otis Redding

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October 23rd, 2008

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March 20th, 2008

10:50 am - Hooked on Phoenix Coming up next week is a another great show at Samurai Comics, put on by the venerable Brandon Huigens featuring Male Pattern Radness (comedy rock), a viewing of "Phoenix Rising" a feature film on local music and culture in Phoenix Arizona (the director Eli Kluger will be there as well for the viewing), more awesome comedy by Dangerville and music by Ray Reeves and the Phoenix Sonz (tee hee). Samurai will be selling their awesome collection of mainstream and underground comix and Desert City Death Distro will be selling our awesome collection of zines and independently published materials from around the world! wheeee! Come check it out and say hi! Saturaday night, March 29th, 9pm and it's only $3!!!!!!!!! Samurai Comics is located on 7th St. and Camelback Here's the flyer: Current Location: Phoenix! Current Mood: creative Current Music: Yeah Yeah Yeahs

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February 16th, 2008

02:49 pm - So this is the new year Another year and DCD is still going strong! Let's recap 2007: Received lots of submissions, still working on going through some of them. We picked up several new zines: Stolen Sharpie Revolution Battle Come DOwn Brainscan 21 How to Read in the Shower Modest Proposal Issue 6 Your Invisible City #7 We tabled at lots of events like Phoenix's First Friday Art Walk and Samurai Comics "Drawn Between the Lines Show" featuring Jeffrey Brown: it was fun! we sold lots of zines and now need more! I have sent money in for the following zines: No Rest for the Wicked Jesus the Non-denominational Robot and plan on sending money to the following zines: Celso's Monk in Ogreland Hanging Like a Hex Dyscrasia #1 Year of Kaet Public Occurances Lazy Boy Nom De Plume and more Please be patient with submissions, it takes me awhile!!!! sorry! You can find DCD zines in Phoenix at Stinkweeds, Ash Avenue Comics and The Trunk Space. Coming soon: Made, Changing Hands Rejected zines are still going to the Willowhouse coffeeshop which has moved from their 3rd ave and McDowell location to 722 W. Van Buren on the Northeast corner of 17th dr. and Van Buren. Information: (602) 252 - 0272 and I am currently updating the website's catalog page with the new zines we have and working on a page that will have photos of all the art on envelopes and crazy stuff that we receive with submissions (because some of them are really awesome). Desert City Death Distro 81 W. Lewis Ave. Phoenix, AZ 85003 email jackiogirl22@yahoo.com for more info! Current Location: Phoenix Current Music: Hall & Oates

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April 24th, 2007

09:09 pm - updated news for you Updated news and year end reviews: 2007 the website has finally been updated - new photos, zine listings updated, and new email address: jackiogirl22@yahoo.com dont send emails to the old address: desertcitydeathdistro@hotmail.com - i won't get them!! We are now currently up to date on all orders - sorry about the delays! If you have any complaints or problems email me at jackiogirl22@yahoo.com We are almost up to date on all submissions - you should be getting letters/emails shortly and hopefully money! 2006 We are still a distro!!!! keep the submissions coming - and we apologize for the lateness of sending out info on your submissions - it's been a little hectic. Year end review - DCD went to APE in San Francisco this year - we picked up some great new zines and comics and had a blast. Look for us next year...maybe? 2005 DCD is 1 year old!!! party time.... we had a party at the paper heart featuring Ron & Ryan - the comedy duo behind Modest Proposal Magazine! it was fun. Current Mood: awake

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October 15th, 2005

06:35 am - Fuck Yeah! You are cordially invited to OUR FIRST ANNUAL ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY featuring: - MOROSE music by Mishka SHUBALY (NYC singer/songerwriter) - and Page the VILLAGE IDIOT (Phoenix Anti-Legend) AGAINST - MORONIC comedy by valley favorites, RON & RYAN PLUS - THE RON & RYAN DOUBLEFISTER DRINK SPECIAL - 2 Highlife's for 3 bucks! - All Ages! - Only $5 at the door! - Plus BIRTHDAY cake! Current Mood: anxious Current Music: Male Pattern Radness

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September 21st, 2005

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June 25th, 2005

02:12 pm - uh hi haha ok so you'll never believe that for the past few months i totally forgot all about this!! oops oh well. SO i guess i will update more I've updated the website, I have many more zines out now through Desert City which is exciting!! I also am selling zines in Phoenix at the Trunk Space on Grand and at the Paper Heart (every third saturday of the month during the Modest Proposal comedy show - which you should check out anyways) I am in talks with some local phoenix establishments to sell zines through them as well. Here is some info on the newest zines added to DCD catalog: Brutally Morbid Axe of Satan - No. 4, 26pages, full size, FROM PHOENIX ahh what can I say about BMAOS that hasn’t been said a million times before. Strange? Bizarre? Surreal (all those words mean the same thing don’t they?).....dare I say entertaining? This issue was brought to you by your editor Fluffy P. Hamsterlicker, and contributors The Shit, the Cockmaster general, and Bob. Definitely check out the Gay Nazi Emo band New Blind Nationals'. Bizarrely entertaining as hell. Price: $2.00 CELSO - No. 3, 25 pages, 1/2 size Celso #3 is a beautifully drawn comic about Timmy, our mute protagonist. It’s his birthday and he sets out into the most rundown parts of town with his deaf, wheelchair bound, grandpa and an intoxicated, yet surprisingly poetic crow. Along the way they run into a sleeping giant capable of great evil yet “a gentle creature at its fundamental nature”. This is a really beautiful comic. Price: $1.00 Faux Kiss - 33pages, 1/2 size FROM PHOENIX It seems more and more really great zines are coming out of Phoenix. Faux Kiss is one of those. It’s a comic about a really simple kinda twisted but sweet story of two people. My only disappointment in this zine is that it doesn’t go on - it should be 700 pages. Really beautifully drawn. This is one of those zines that has made me really happy to be in Phoenix right now. I RECOMMEND THIS ZINE IF YOU LIIKE COMICS AND IF YOU DON'T!!! Price: $2.00 Gretchen - Issue No. 8, 23 pages, 1/4 size Putting a human touch to social services in the U.S. This is a touching and sad tale of a woman trying to help those who need it, those who refuse it, and those who are beyond it. Just like Gretchen No. 6, this issue leaves you thinking. Price: $1.00 Hooray for Brandon! - 22pages, 1/2 size FROM PHOENIX Brandon's neurotic drawings about everyday life are portrayed in his new comic Hooray For Brandon! His running comic of Ben the uninteresting tofu square, brand-name association, and his fake trip to Japan are all featured in this new zine. Hilarious! Price: $1.00 Your Invisible City - No. 3, 70 pages, 1/2 size FROM PHOENIX This issue is chock full of stuff. We've got interviews with Phoenix zine queen Chelsea Hodson, Abe from Treasure Mammal, some of the fellas from Avenue of the Arts, Drew from Ash Avenue comics, and Donald on the Shizz.org. Featuring photography by Sarah Kennard and writing by Kevin Patterson and Keith M. It's an interactive issue with Dan's Bad Day Coloring Book and why Cornado High School's art program is way better than your's ever was. A short review of a Fatigo show by Zach Vogt and don't forget to d.i.y yo-self fool - How to Stencil. Check it out!!! Price: $1.00 The Leading Brand - 61pages, 1/2 size FROM PHOENIX Our neurotic protagonist is back! From the creator of Hoorray for Brandon! comes The Leading Brand. This zine is chock full of Brandon's quirky little drawings and stories...such as the first time he had sex, things he is afraid of (mouth itching fruit), his ideas for star wars shirts (hint - he likes Woody Allen), things that were rejected from previous submissions to other mags, and more. Price: $2.00 The Lower Forty Eight, Issue No. 1, 70 pages, Full size - FROM PHOENIX This is one of the most interesting personal zines that I have read in a long time. It chronicles Jack's journey from Alaska to Arizona and all the states in between (hence the zine's title). It deals with the loss of his friends, gaining back his children, meeting his fiancé, bio-diesel, jack shacks, tattoo removal methods, and shitting into an old white racist's laundry basket. A very large zine with lots to read. Price: $1.00 Modest Proposal - No.5, 47 pages, full size FROM PHOENIX A comedy mag that doesn’t try too hard and is actually funny? Impossible you say? I say not. Let me introduce you to Modest Proposal. The best thing to come out of phoenix since...well...er....Phoenix. You can't help but want to read a mag that has an article called "I fucking fucked Alec Baldwin in the Ass". There are interviews with New Maximum Donkey, Marc Maron, and Chris Fairbanks among others. Articles on the Christers (the bad boyz of Christian rock), and the first time Ryan, MP's editor, lied about getting laid. Hilarious. Price: $3.00 One Foot In the Grave Spring 05 - 45 pages, 1/2 size, FROM TUCSON One Foot in the Grave is one of those zines that leaves an impression on you because it has something to say. The zine focuses on aging and keeping the ideals and beliefs you had when you were young for the rest of your life. To illustrate this, the zine features interviews with people over 30 still humbly working at being better human beings and enlightening the world. Price: $1.00 Razorcake No. 23, 112 pages, full size From their website: We're a knowledgeable bunch of ruffians who've been listening to, involved with, and slogging it out in a music world that doesn't usually get a lot of coverage. Most of our staff have been inside the making of music for more than a decade -- from being in bands, to being DJs, to publishing their own works. You can't fake the knowledge of people who not only know what they're writing about, but have witnessed it firsthand. That all said, at Razorcake, we like lots of types of music and don't restrict our coverage to a specific scene. There is just way too much good stuff spread across the musical spectrum, and there's no compelling reason not to cover it just because it isn't punk, or whateverthefuck gets your undies in a twist. Issue No. 23 features: interviews with the Ergs Ken Dirtnap Loud PipesBalzac Modern Machines Wednesday Night Heroes Columns by Liz O., Art Fuentes, Nardwuar the Human Serviette, and Ben Snackepit. As always there are zine, video, book, and record reviews. Price: $4.00 Razorcake No. 24, 112 pages, Full size Interviews and features with Ultraman, Punks in Movies, Alice Bag, Baseball Furies, Van Iva, and Smalltown. Columns by the regulars Liz O., Art Fuentes, Rev. Norb, Nardwuar the Human Serviette, and the Rhythm Chicken. Zine, records, video, and book reviews are included. Price: $4.00 Suburban Blight - Issue No. 3, 30 pages, 1/2 size Suburban Blight is a magazine of sorts. Each issue focuses on different topics and offers up different viewpoints from different authors. Issue number 3 focuses on religion – notably Christianity. The articles are really good. I’m not writing that just because I am trying to sell the zine but this was one of the first zines that I really learned from Not that I am a scholar on religion or anything but I really learned a lot from this zine. I found myself talking to people about the articles and showing the zine to them. I have to say it was enlightening. Price: $1.00 Suburban Blight - Issue No. 4, 30 pages, 1/2 size While issue no.3 focused on religion issue no.4 of Suburban Blight doesn’t really have a clear theme, but never the less, the articles are once again top notch. I guess you could say that the underlying theme to this issue is examining the signs around you. Articles titled “The Power of Words”, The Facade of Debate”, and “The Logic of Withdrawal” are all really excellent. Plus there are lengthy features on Feminism and Alternative Religions and The Genocide in Rwanda. And for entertainment there are CD reviews, DVD reviews (of the white stripes and Cat Power DVDs) and a Sleater Kinney show review. Price: $1.00 The Way It Is - Issue No. 1, 18 pages, 1/2 size This zine opens up with the story of a birth. The author's birth of her son Killian was a profound experience. Even though it was at a birthing center she felt it was still not how she wanted her son to be born. Thus begins the zine which is about the authors experiences in dealing with raising her son the way she wants to raise him, not the way mainstream society deems. Why does a mother have to justify at every turn that she wants to raise her son vegan for his first year? This zine is journal of a first time mother....appropriate for anyone. Price: $1.00 All these zines can be purchased by sending the price money in a well-concealed envelope to Desert City Death P.O. Box 2325 Phoenix, AZ 85002 along with a note stating which zines you are purchasing (name and issue No.) The price listed is all you pay - no postage!! yay!! New updates on zines: Your Invisible City is releasing a split zine with Modest Proposal titled 5.5 on July 16th at the Paper Heart - come at 9pm for the MP show and zine release party and afterwards hang out and get shitty ..... Look for Desert City Death zines at galleries throughout First Friday's and at the Trunk Space on Grand ave. Also check out Stinkweeds for DCD zines. To submit zines: send your zines to DCD P.O. Box 2326 Phoenix AZ 85002. Book mark this blog!! For more info email DCD at: desertcitydeathdistro@hotmail.com I promise i won't slack on updates any more!!! Current Mood: excited Current Music: Twin Towaz

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January 21st, 2005

07:27 pm - he gave away his heart like it was his to give away some zines i have been reading lately: DIY Guide II from Crimethinc. Sobstory? No. 5 a way - seeking mind #1 Make Something! an anthology of Portland zinesters 2003 Modest Proposal No. 5 Death of a Psyche #16 Suburban Blight #3 Razorcake #23 Current Mood: bouncy Current Music: The Black Keys

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January 14th, 2005

01:34 pm - updates updates updates ok its official....i am back to work on the distro. i had to take a break between the holidays, the new issue of YIC coming out, work, friends, travel, i just couldnt do it all. I am not diana prince. So anyways now that i am back first order: get print catalog done (heehee....yes its taken me this long - its almost done but not completely....) also i got the ok from chelsea and kimber at modified to start a zine table in front durning shows!!! yay!!! i am going to use chelsea's xerox attack table cloth, put up some flyers from around town and whatever people have sent me, get some buttons made, screenprint some shirts, and sell some zines!!! I am also putting into effect the selling of zines on consignment to Stinkweeds...i am losing my contact at Hoodlums who never really sold my zines anyways - he just gave them away...so i guess its Stinkweeds only this time. Modest Proposal #5 just came out and i am picking me up 20 copies tonight at the paper heart and I need to order some more copies of Life in the Bike Lane and possibly some other stuff....not to be mentioned here just right now..because i am lazy and dont want to type it all up. so to do list for me: print catalog update website t-shirts buttons stickers write backs orders sell to stinkweeds update livejournal more and thats it!! back on the tracks to distro-in' it. (i dont know what that means...i am at work and bored) Current Mood: busy Current Music: Sleepy Jackson

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December 20th, 2004

12:50 pm hey, so i have been busy. a few things: 1) YIC #2 is out!!! yay!! since this is my zine - thats what has taken most of my time as of recent. I am trying to devise a schedule for how to produce and distribute this bi-monthly zine better...because right now i find myself scrambling to get everthing together at the last minute....so that is that. but it is out and done!!! yay!! it is $1 for out of state (non-AZ) orders and free in AZ!!! yay again! 2) exciting news: i am in talks with Chelsea who runs Xerox Attack in Phoneix about setting up a xerox attack/dcd zine table in front of modified arts during shows!! this would be great if i can get it together because then i could get more zines out to those phoenix hipsters......anyways its a good deal if it can be worked out. 3) I am still working on the catalog but i have been recieveing some submissions (not that much anymore - i need to advertise more) but it is stil in the works - i ran out of glue sticks and have been too cheap to buy more (they are on my x-mas present) ---finally --- i am holding off on doing any work on DCD until the new year (and my hangover subsides) so then i will start replying to submissions and emails and such. that way i will start off fresh with a new print catalog, new advertising, a new links page on the website, new buttons and t-shirts, new zines, and a new tabling project going down, downtown. the goal to bring zines back to Phoenix is in preparation!!! !!!!!!!!!!beware!!!!!! Current Mood: artistic Current Music: Indian radio

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November 12th, 2004

10:33 am - updates updates updates hullo so i finally updated the online catalog. Smoothie Queen Ella Guru Chocoholic Revolver Dauphin Yay! I need to finish my print catalog - bleh its taken me awhile due to the fact that my grandfather died : ( and I have been trying to deal with all the problems involving the death of a loved one (who left no will for that matter). sucks man but its kinda given me an renewed sense of purpose - to get shit done and be with my family and friends more. but anyways - new zines coming soon: Toxic Flyer Gretchen No. 6 Modest Proposal #5 - out in december (it will feature my art too!!!) SO i went to the microcosm zine tour this past wed. it was pretty cool - but at the end i got all scared and couldnt talk to the people there....i dont know why - it was stupid especially since we had just watched a movie on zines in the northwest and it talked about how zine kids are very talkative through letters and the internet but when they meet each other in person - they get really shy..which is what happened to me. cuz im dumb. but anyways..... Current Mood: contemplative Current Music: Le Tigre - This Island

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October 26th, 2004

11:05 pm - updates updates updates yay!!!!! its been awhile......but i have been busy (excuses excuses i know) so here is whats new: Chocoholic Smoothie Queen Kanker fit Life in the Bike Lane SCALP #1, 2, 3 Your Invisible City Ella Guru have all been added to the catalog as of yesterday - though the online catalog isnt updated as of yet - all thats missing from it are Chocoholic, ella guru, and Smoothie Queen..... one of the reason i have been so busy is that I have been working on getting Your Invisible City out and done ....and i finally did!!....yay!! it was hard but its done and now i am focusing on getting it out to phoenix......which isnt so easy. i am also working on getting content for the next issue... whew!! i have two more zines i have to order - toxic flyer and Gretchen No. 6 - i have to wait until i have some more money to order zines - i just spent $245 on printing copies of YIC so $$$ is alittle tight right now...... BUT i am getting things done which is good.... i just need to finish the catalog......(we got buttons now too!!!! wheee!!!) order some more zines and start getting them out there!!!!! since my other distro-ing half is putting Xerox Attack on a short hiatus (she got a job at kinko's - how great is that?) i am thinking about tabling for first friday- maybe not this coming month - but next month for sure.... (for those not from Phoenix - First Friday is the massive artwalk event held on the first friday of each month......its quite amazing) so that would do good i sent a bunch of stuff to Sheena from myspace she was going to a convention in CO and wanted to distribute some stuff ---- great!!!! Bitches Brew #3 is supposed to come out next week (or so I've heard) so i hope that happens because i keep getting requests for it..... i am thinking about adding music to my distro - it says we accept it already on the website = but meeting lots of bands through YIC i have begun to see how cool the Phoenix music scene is and am really considering distro-ing music too it would be a cool thing to do......i have to think about it more and start getting the zines out more before i move on.....one thing at a time....baby steps...... ; ) as always i am still accepting new zines for distroing and we are added to the zinestreet.com website of distros!!!! yay!!!!! and i didnt have to do anything.....he just added me!!!!! ahh how i love the internet Current Mood: awake Current Music: the black keys - rubber factory

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October 6th, 2004

01:38 pm - Whew!! Glad September is Over! yay!!! September is over and I got alot done. I have recieved alot of zine submissions last month and thats great!!....... also gotten lots of orders as well...just cant seem to hold on to these zines..... so right now i am focusing on getting a print catalog together, updating the website, and getting stuff out to people going to zine conventions out of state - so that lots of stuff will get sold that way too!!! Your Invisible City comes out next week as well!!!! i am excited! Current Mood: accomplished Current Music: Built to Spill

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September 20th, 2004

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September 9th, 2004

02:24 pm - work work work so ive been doing a lot of work lately. Posting alot on any kind of site - looking for zines. i have been working with Chelsea of Xerox Attack fame - she is selling zines like hotcakes - i swear!!! so submit your zines cuz they are going fast!!!! if you want to get your zines out to the phoenix community send em my way.... Current Mood: busy

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September 2nd, 2004

06:05 pm - what i did at work today endless self promotion of distro... i feel like a whore... but i really want zine submissions!!!!!!!!! Desert City death Distro P.O. Box 2326 Phoenix, AZ 85002 ps i like to use exclamation marks.....i know. Current Mood: productive

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August 20th, 2004

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