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.
Mama’s Sunday-Best by James Bodden
James Bodden is a writer from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, whose short fiction has appeared in Cherry Bleeds, Zerozine and Literary Muse. He has worked as a crime beat reporter and hosted a paranormal radio show.
DEAD SUMMER 2K13: We killed it.
Summer's over, Dummies. And these 3 shows killed it. Check out the gallery below, featuring snaps from Echo Park Rising, Burger Records' end-of-the-summer extravaganza BURGER BASH featuring The Garden, Tashaki Miyaki, and Cherry Glazerr at the Warehouse in El Monte, and finally, Body/Head at The Echo.
OOZE by D.S. Chun
Yet another prose selection from DUM DUM Issue No. 3, PUNKS & Scholars, for your online eyes. You can still read, feel, touch, hear and taste the contents of Issue 3 by grabbing a copy from our DUM Store.
“I Am So Sorry About Your Crippling Addiction To Paste” by J. Bradley
J. Bradley is the author of Bodies Made of Smoke (HOUSEFIRE, 2012). He lives at iheartfailure.net.
Get WEIRD with theNewerYork this Saturday!
GET WEIRD with theNewerYork this Saturday, August 24th, 2013 at The Lyric Hyperion Theater and Cafe Los Angeles. Carnival time is at 7:45pm, and the show starts at 9pm.
BLOOD DRIVES, an ASMR Reading by Brian White
Autonomous sensory meridian response, or ASMR, is a fancy name for when you unwittingly get those pleasurable tingling sensations that run along your head, down your back and across your arms. Maybe you even feel it in your toes. You can’t explain what causes them—maybe it's the sound of someone’s voice, or the crescendo in...
Stoner in a Strange Land: LOLIPOP RECORDS Opening by Ian Dick Jones
It was 2:34 pm on Saturday, July 13th when I realized I was on the wrong side of Glendale Blvd. I stared at the crowd of hipsters gathering outside Lolipop Records' new storefront and recording studio in Echo Park and felt like I was about to compete in the Hipster Olympics.
BONAPARTE by AM Ringwalt
The first short story we're publishing online from DUM DUM Issue No. 3, PUNKS & Scholars. Tune in every week for a new piece of flash fiction, essay or poetry!
The Joy Division Tumblr shirt is back!
Rumor has it, Peter Saville himself ordered a bunch. You can order them here.
It's great to have Adam JK in our DUM family. You'll remember him from the lit matchbooks he created for PUNKS & Scholars.
FUTURE EYES Foto Show
L.A.'s purveyor of sight-altering kaleidoscopic fashion frames, Future Eyes, hosted its very first photo show at The L.A. Fort on Saturday night. All walks of our city's occult DIY community gathered to view crowd-sourced photographs taken through the very same crystals used inside their fashion frames
FREEWRITESHOP 2k13!
As you may have noticed, we've reinstated our yearly workshop series, Freewriteshop, as of this spring! Our first session took place this April at the site of The Old L.A. Zoo in Griffith Park. If you missed it, check out editor Liska Jacob's photo recap, and make sure to check back on the FWS...
I Saw The Real Daft Punk by Kristen Felicetti
One day I came home to find Daft Punk standing in front of my door. The two of them stood side-by-side, wearing matching metallic jumpsuits, and helmets that obscured their identity. They were nodding their heads, and bopping their knees, and blocking me from going inside.