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New in the Spiral House catalog at Portland Button works! March 7, 2024
Merry Old Soul #8
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Staring Contest: Essays about Eyes by Joshua James Amberson
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Basic Paper Airplane #14
Writing Exercises (And Various Approaches to Life on Earth)
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Title: Basic Paper Airplane: The Cassette Tape Issue
Author: Various
Edited by: Joshua James Amberson
Review:
I was hoping I’d get this one. I’ve been looking at the Basic Paper Airplane series for a while, wanting to read it but never quite getting around to actually ordering. Now I have one!
This zine is about cassettes: that technological innovation from the last century that still remains popular among collectors and DIY enthusiasts. My grandmother drove a car with a cassette player instead of a CD player. I think that mixtape she always listened to might still be in it, actually. Other than that, I don’t remember listening to music off of cassettes. Luckily for me, the contributors to this zine do. Each essay tells a little bit about cassettes, their role in different scenes, and the authors’ own memories of using them.
This is a zine for readers, for people who appreciate low-tech activities. I like the aesthetic here. I recommend this.
This review was written December 4, 2020.
New zine! The 15-year anniversary issue of Basic Paper Airplane, where 20 writers, musicians, DJs, label owners, publishers, and comic artists tell stories of how cassette tapes have affected their lives, for better or worse.
Within: the art of the mixtape, the importance of the boombox, the intimacy of the Walkman. Plus tales of recording with cassettes, performing with cassettes, releasing cassettes, falling in love with cassettes. Nostalgia, subversion, frustration, possibility.
Contributions from: Andrew Barton, Ariel Birks, Karleigh Frisbie Brogan, Aaron Burch, Laura Daegling, Tim Devin, Fukumup, Aaron Gilbreath, Cynthia Carmina Gómez, Jack Lewis, Chask'e Lindgren, Pat Maley, Jason Martin, Sara Renberg, Kevin Sampsell, Gina Sarti, Christopher Sutton, Tucker Theodore, and Alexis Wolf. Cover art by Rachel Lee-Carman. Risograph-printed throughout by Whatnow Press.
The new issue of Basic Paper Airplane is here!
This issue of the long-running series focuses on interviews—what it means to create that space and all the ways they can succeed or fail. Ten interviews with writers, artists, and musicians that delve into the creative process, identity, family, image, myth, and obsession.
Interviews with: musician Owen Ashworth (Advance Base/Casiotone for the Painfully Alone), essayist Elena Passarello (Animals Strike Curious Poses), poet Casey Fuller (A Fort Made of Doors), musician Erika M. Anderson (EMA), filmmaker/installation artist Vanessa Renwick, musician Karl Blau, children's book writer/illustrator Kate Berube (Hannah and Sugar), writer/multimedia artist Dao Strom (We Were Meant to be a Gentle People), writer A.M. O'Malley (Expecting Something Else), and writer/oral historian Audrey Petty (High Rise Stories).
Risograph covers by C. Stone and Anthony Michael at Montavilla Press.
Picking Stuff Apart (also known as Eaves of Ass #8 & Basic Paper Airplane #11) is a collection of reviews of life and art. An industrial music award ceremony, Meetup groups, books, films, and dated Christian television—all looked at deeply and discussed.
Within: "Life After an Impossible Book," "The Tyranny of the Weird Kid Table," "The Prevalence of Satanic Preschools," and much more.
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Basic Paper Airplane #10
The ten year anniversary issue of Basic Paper Airplane! Short essays about trying to make a living from writing words. Comic nightmares from the world of freelance writing, night school, weekly papers, and cities of books.
Portland friends: The 10 year anniversary party for Basic Paper Airplane zine is this Thursday! At Turn Turn Turn. Completely free.
"The privilege of having another option," I thought to myself. We got stoned under a bridge and I said it aloud, but Mateo didn't understand. I admit now that I didn't give him much context and we were stoned, but it was then that I realized there was a class difference between him and I. Between me and most of my friends. I'd never thought of it like that before, but I suddenly saw that a lot of the situations where I'd felt different in my life boiled down to that. Growing up, I'd seen a hundred versions of the kid we'd got a ride with, but to Mateo he was something out of a movie. And in that difference, I saw that, had a few small circumstances in my life been different, I could have easily been that kid, or the guy we left staring at the tracks. I had grown up in trailers with a single mom, but instead of being in the army, fighting for some idea of freedom I didn't believe in, I was riding trains and hitching rides. Which felt like some kind of freedom. And right then, it was one both Mateo and I believed in. Something that made it so we weren't defined by where we came from, made it so we were more than our origins. Somewhere inside, we knew life was just a series of circumstances that we couldn't do anything about, but we wanted to believe we had control and that life was a battle we could win.
Joshua James Amberson, from "Soldier" (from Basic Paper Airplane #6)
