Very cool. (Two-parter)

Part 1)
I recently attended the Crack! comics festival in Rome. It was very cool. Fantastic. It has, both years that I have attended, been largely on the life-changing side of things. I will post up some photos of the festival soon. From both years. I'll also soon take some photos of my new 'zine and post those up. The 'zine is on sale in three bookstores in Berlin. Motto, Neurotitan and Bongout. These three stores are notable for being ludicrously hip. Rumours have it that Motto is so hip that copies of my booklet there are already sold out.

On a side note - 'Zine is the term I encountered most often in Europe when hustling my little book. I'm not sure why the term 'zine is used as a catch-all for lo-fi publications. The term is short for 'fanzine', which is what fans make when they make magazines about the comics/tv-shows/movies they go bonkers about. I might well be completely mistaken. I refuse to look this up. I'm not sure why.

I find the use of this term for my booklets quite fun, because as my fanzines don't have a specific object of fanaticism, they are forced into being fanatical about far more general targets, such as genres, or entire mediums. It's quite a silly idea when taken too seriously, but if you're playful enough when applying it, it has quite nice results.

* 'The Man is Disappearing' is also for sale at the Book Lounge in Cape Town. If you would like to buy or sell my stuff, my email address is the @gmail.com version of my blogspot address.

Part 2)
I'm quite fanatical about music, specifically listening to the stuff. I've recently made two compilations of some of the songs I've enjoyed over the last few years. You can listen to them here:


The Dream -  http://www.mediafire.com/?b0jf6hk7d60mdtb
Part II - http://www.mediafire.com/?i6yl3c6ivocfp6c


The reason I mention it is that I'm quite excited about a third that I'm making at the moment.