Issue No. 7: QUAR + TIME Now available online!
Our first digital issue is designed to print-at-home so that you may display the zine in tiles, unbound, on your stay-at-home wall.
SHHH… Zach Plague
A skeletal series of grave comics by Zach Plague of Featherproof; a new one posted each week of October.
Hechos Violentos David Scheier
Hechos Violentos, a video poem: Mal que termina en Juarez City, Chihuahua Mexico, August 19th 2010.
Postcard Interview with Dayve Hawk of MEMORY TAPES by Taleen Kali
Dayve Hawk is a recluse living in the hinterlands of New Jersey. He owns no car, cell phone or landline (which recently changed, as you’ll read). And in all 16 entries that come up after a Google search for “dayve hawk” + “memory tapes” + “interview,” you learn just that. For DUM DUM’s very first...
A Conversation Between A Man and Woman at Peet’s Coffee and Tea Liska Jacobs
“I got divorced eight months ago — such a wonderful woman, my best friend. She just didn’t know what she wanted to do. It was this, it was that. Now it’s a nurse.” “It’s a pattern, that’s what it is.” “Yep.” “How old is she?” “Forty-two.” “No, she’s done. There’s nothing she can do.” “You...
Notes Suzanne Oshinsky
Notes are a collection of fragments. Each note its own logic. For some, letters slip out of place to make poems. For others, it’s the difference in seeing versus hearing.
PUNKS AT DAWN, OR AN ODE TO VIVIENNE Gabrielle Scott
Shot entirely at dawn with Super 8, “Punks at Dawn” ruminates on the No Wave aesthetics of Vivienne Dick. Mimicking the baby-faced badass Lydia Lunch, the black robed “school girl” lazily beats around Pilsen, aimless and bored. An often forgotten island unto itself, Pilsen is a nostalgic limbo land between Downtown and the South Side...
EYE EYE Yanina Spizzirri
“EYE EYE,” a graphic shorthand: Mechanisms of Vision and Spatial Thresholds The eye facing the eye, in between the visual field–a path of presence, optically experienced. One eye blinks while the other clicks, both capturing space and motion and projecting its emanations onto a thin temporal membrane, onto a screen surface of now time, of...
The Sleaze and Found Material David Scheier
She takes my picture in red lit dusk. She’s a memory collector—A Kodak wizard in a blue tie-dye sarong. Dirty Martian martinis drank on pool-side decks. The boys and I imitate darts with olive spears. Red Texas sun melts between glittered clouds and indigo mountains. We become digital in her hand- held archive: hands...
Text Message Interview with SPIDER PROBLEM (#1) Bryxan Amsterdam
Welcome to ZINETERVIEWS, an ongoing feature where DUM DUM contributor Bryxan Amsterdam conducts an interview with a band via text message. For our first installment, Bryxan speaks to Shayne Easton, singer of L.A.’s Spider Problem. The conversation originally appeared as part of Funkadelic Forever, a zine Bryxan created for Olympia’s 24 Hour Zine...
HOW TO LEAVE CITIES Taleen Kali
First things first, be: (a) homesick, (b) dissatisfied, (c) desperate, (d) unemployed, (e) all of the above. Decide, whether or not this is actually true, that your set of friends, family, peers, and opportunities in a shiny new city will fix this ugly assortment of problems/state of being/identity crisis. But mainly, believe that your current...