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Art. Literature. Music. Experiments. Ideas.

MungBeing

the cantaloupe pie of cyberzines, magalogs and webrags.
the "mungiest magazine on the internets."


::: read it with a "person of interest" over a "cup of coffee" :::

every bimonth from now 'til Eschaton.

MungBeing Index
direct links to every issue

1: The Premier Issue

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/20/2006
Band Website: http://www.mungbeing.com
Band Members: MungBeing was co-founded, and is co-published and co-edited by jody franklin and Mark Givens. Mark is also the magazine designer. David "Starchy" Grant is a Contributing Editor.
Influences: We are influenced by the people who contribute to MungBeing.

Writers
jody franklin, Mark Givens, David "Starchy" Grant, The Misfit Library, Rik Albatros, Ben Muggin, Brad, Cash Nexus, Cavendish, Cranky, John Darnielle, Robert Dayton, RS Deese, Howard Drucker, Jeb Ebben, Roger Gee, Tim Hatch, Amy Maloof, Mark Teppo, Kevin Ausmus, Otis Fodder, Dave Carpenter, Joel Huschle, Dob Ogum, Kevin Grams, Jim Bumgardner, Andrew Hessel, Mike Kingston, Leonore Wilson, Nicholas Gurewitch, Roger Manning, Richard K. Lee, Kirk Packwood, Christine Hamm, Amy Frushour Kelly, John Gamber Jr., Don Vasa, Leslie Powell, Alan Taylor, Marnie Thorp, Buzzsaw, Heidi Morgan, Rachel Haywire, Suzanne LaFetra, Franklin Bruno, Krista S. Givens, Spacemummy, Alexis O'Hara, SJ Chambers, Rebecca Quartieri, Kelly Moore, ethora, Danielle Hagel, David Greenberger, TL Byers, Euphoria, Ryan Hughes, Virginia M. Mohlere, Lyle Neff, Sarah Lynch-Walker, McKenzie Ditter, Eric Willey, Miss Elucid, Catling, Cyndi Yuska, Donna Piazza, AJ Rollo, John M Velez, Susan Gardner, Ian Donnell Arbuckle, John Helmer, Christopher P. Reilly, Bjorn Snowballs, Simon Yuill, Tim Miller, KD Bryan, Tim Kirk, r. a. gillespie, Liz Clayton, Tala Bar, Claudio Parantela, Piltdown Man, Gina Ranalli, Michael S. Begnal, Matt Bray, Michael Dickinson, Matt Novak, Jennifer Chesler, Frances Mai-Ling, Alex Minoff, Zay Thompson, Gwen Fisher, Muayad Muhsin, Brianne Fung, Nicole Caputo, Augustinos Touloupis, Mermaid, Alobar Greywalker, Jenna Humphrey, J. Bradley, Allegra C. Chesnut, J. Edgar Hoover, Nadya Bondoreff, Lawrence Kriese, Don Beck, Ravi Shankar, Pablo Vision, A.R.Yngve, Adam Bray, Kenneth Brown, Suzanne Bruce, Peter Cherches

Visual Artists
Mark Givens, jody franklin, Mark Connery, Jason McLean, Julian Lawrence, Michael O'Briant, Amanda Woodward, Suzanne Baumann, Liz Parkinson, Gus Fink, Ian Pyper, Ella Guru, Mark DeLong, Dexter Persimmon, Godfrey Blow, Jeffrey Scott Holland, Kelly Moore, Charles Thomson, Billy Childish, mckenzee, Harold Penis, Kim Richardson, Beth Cornell, SP Howarth, Joe Machine, Fishberryjam, Peter Klint, Chuck Wadey, Buzzsaw, Claudio Parantela, Ken B. Miller, Michael Dickinson, Thomas Hangelbroek, Jane Martin, Mun Mun Mittelbach, David Ostrowski, Patrick Turk, peg leg, SJ Chambers, Robert Zailo, Matt Bray, Simon Dion Redekop, Milos Vujasinovic, Bruce New, Don Swartzentruber, Mike Kingston, Michael Furious, Owen Plummer, Albert Schweitzer, Callie Danae Hirsch, Luke Ramsey, Erin Emerson, Darron Laessig, Muayad Muhsin, Jesse Reno, James Whitman, Joel Huschle, Chad McCail, James Howard Kunstler, Michael Uhlenkott, Ashley Montague, Food Fortunata, Joel Barber, Natalie Oswald, John Zachary, Terry Givens, Genaro Cordova, Ed Hume, Andy Rementer, Sune Ehlers, Joanna Price, Danielle MacDonald, saffron b, Edmund Barr, Joey Haley, Angie Mason, Boyd Nyberg, Mark Planisek, Lyla Emery Reno, Alan Smart, Andrew Taggart, Marc Bell, Andrew Dick, SP Ehman, Daniel AIU Higgs, Jessica Hobdell, James Jajac, Tommy Lacroix, Travis Lawrence, Peter Thompson, David Trulli, Crystal Bretschger, Skinny Gaviar, Ira Joel Haber, Rachel Haywire, Jessica Hill, Maura Holden, Songmi Huff, Adonis Massad, Jim Stoten, Chloe Lewis, Dave Ortega, Nelly Sanchez, James Hill, Salam Omar, Kris Chau, M.C. Kinnon, Josh Taylor, William Serapa, Lyosha Kuznetsov, Krzysztof Wlodarski, Elsa Dax, Michael Hafftka, Jacqueline Jones, Jayson Musson, Chris von Szombathy, RS Deese, Travis Lawrence, Simon Peplow, Jeff Davis, David Ruhlman, Richard Reynolds, Allison Barkley, Scott Gray, Matt Sesow, Anne van der Linden, Erik Von Ploennies, Seb Cazes, Jax Chachitz, Jay Davis, Aya Kakeda, Janet Manalo, Craig Medeiros, Kathleen Pingleton

MungBeat! Musicians and Audio Artists
The Congress, Naomi Hall, Joe Meek, Justin, The Cheese Band, Grandpa Norm, The Space Lady aka Suzy Soundz, R. Stevie Moore, Geoff Goddard, Mar-tie, Alexis O'Hara, Mancat, Kitchen Cynics, Steve Folta, Spacemummy, Cash Nexus, SinDex Industries, Brent Hetherwick, Freedom's Child, David Greenberger & Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, Mystified, Heidi Morgan, Meatyard, Mickel Mass, Josh Stevenson - Magneticring, bibble, Sockeye, Erin Emerson, July Fourth Toilet, Star Alpha Five, Food Fortunata, James Rhodes, Harold Schellinx, Ronald Heiloo, Libraz, Amy Maloof, Allen Callaci, Experiment Haywire, Nevyn Nowhere, Matt Love, Ashley Reaks, Kathleen Yearwood, Joe Newman - The Rudy Schwartz Project, Daniel AIU Higgs, Furniture Huschle, The Henry Clay People, SubAtomic, The Chandler Travis Philharmonic, Real Live Tigers, Parade Parade, Secret Owl Society, Tinyfolk, James Eric, Dustin and the Furniture, Existential Hero, A Drum and an Open Window, A Wonderful, Evacuee, Frances Mai-Ling, The Last Days Of Russell, Rubaboo, Allison Barkley, jody franklin, Dave Girtsman, Brody and the Booger Brigade, Uncle Neptune, Kazoo Funk Orchestra, A Smile for Timbuctu, El Zoologico, Rufus Hofbagger, The Bran Flakes, Lee and Sheep, Mister Jan and His Singing Little Spiders, Pastor McPurvis, The Tryg Identity, Mister Jan

Interview/Article Subjects
Robert Anton Wilson, Billy Childish, Charles Thomson, Irwin Chusid, Gus Fink, Naomi Hall, Hasil Adkins, Mark Givens, Joe Meek, Susan Blackmore, David Greenberger, Godfrey Blow, CP McDill, Lisa Crystal Carver, Caveh Zahedi, Jeffrey Scott Holland, Alex Grey, Michael Dickinson, Christopher P. Reilly, Gary Wilson, James Howard Kunstler, Frank Warren, Riane Eisler, Angie Mason, Robin Hardy, Marc Bell, Owen Plummer, David Trulli, Joe Matt, Maura Holden, Extra Golden, The Henry Clay People, Ray Larabie, Kris Chau, Josh Taylor, William Serapa, Jayson Musson, Jim Bumgardner, Kim Richardson, Simon Peplow, Olaf Ladousse, Anne van der Linden, Aya Kakeda, Matt Bray

Revolting Literature! Authors Reviewed
Gina Ranalli, Kristopher Young, Peter Bagge, Lisa Crystal Carver, Robert Crumb, Marjane Satrapi, Joe Sacco, Chester Brown, Gilbert Hernandez, David B., Chris Ware, Robin Hardy, Riane Eisler, Paco Ahlgren, Joe Matt, Daniel Quinn, Barbara Kingsolver, Nina Planck, Che Elias, Dwight L. MacPherson, Thomas Boatwright
Sounds Like: ...the birth of a new internationalist movement in art, literature and music! Our contributors hail from the USA, Canada, the UK (including England, Wales and Scotland), the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Iraq, Japan, Turkey, Serbia, Israel, Ireland, Denmark, France, Poland, Russia, Lebanon, Greece, Sweden and Australia. Twenty nations united under one MungBanner, a force for world unity, peace and luvvvvvv.
Record Label: Pencil Tenet, Inc. / Eschaton Media
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

MungBeing 18: Intuition

The eighteenth issue of MungBeing Magazine... feels right somehow, you know?www.mungbeing.com=== Features ===* "Innerviews" with regular MungBeing contributors - intuitive artistKim Richardson and our...
Posted by on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 23:51:00 GMT

MungBeing 17: Home

The seventeenth issue of MungBeing Magazine brings home some delightfully creative art and literature for your year-end enjoyment.www.mungbeing.com=== Features ===* Iraqi artist Muayad Muhsin speaks ...
Posted by on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:47:00 GMT

MungBeing 16: Design

This issue of MungBeing Magazine notices how design influences the artwe create, how the art is designed, how artists perceive design, and howwe perceive other things that are designed well.www.mungbe...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 14:30:00 GMT

Support Michael Dickinson - Artist May Go To Jail

Michael Dickinson, a Stuckist artist in Turkey and a frequentcontributor to MungBeing, may be jailed for displaying art depictingTurkey's Prime Min...
Posted by on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 15:04:00 GMT

MungBeat! - New Music Label By MungBeing

What is MungBeat!? Why, MungBeat! is the forthcoming music label brought to you by the fine folks at MungBeing magazine!  We've featured a handful of select musicians and audio artists in every i...
Posted by on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:03:00 GMT

MungBeing 16: Design - Call For Submissions

Our next issue will be taking a good hard look at Design. We've already got some great features lined up. Some surprises with the site, too. We MIGHT even have an interview with one of the greatest l...
Posted by on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:39:00 GMT

MungBeing 15: Authenticity

This issue of MungBeing Magazine finds us gazing deep into the eyes of authenticity to decide whether truthfulness is a necessary quality, goodness a component at all, and how far back one must count ...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:47:00 GMT

MungBeing 15: Authenticity - call for submissions

Our next issue will be examining Authenticity, "the quality or condition of being authentic, trustworthy, or genuine." The deadline is July 14th, 2007 for an August 6, 2007 release. Please send your...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:49:00 GMT

MungBeing In Wired

MungBeing continues to draw attention to the works of ourcontributors.  Matt Novak's essay "The Postmodern Paleo-Future" inMungBeing 14: The Future was linked from the Wired blog Table ofMalconte...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:50:00 GMT

MungBeing 14: The Future

MungBeing Magazine rockets into the future with issue 14. And what a blast!www.mungbeing.com=== Features ===* Prehistoric Canadian Psychedooolia! - the future primitive - an interview with Nog A Dod'...
Posted by on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 02:14:00 GMT