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alex wrekk

It's true, my parents named me Sunshine

About Me


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I live in the beautiful craft beer filled city of Portland, Oregon and I like to ride my bike named Story to get to places. I like to make things and learn about making things that I never get the time to actually make. I cut up tiny pieces of paper and leave them on the floor of my room. Sometimes I use a typewriter to put letters on the paper before I cut them up and then I glue it to other pieces of paper and then I put it in a machine that that puts it onto another piece of paper for me, then i stick them together and call it brainscan zine. . One time, I wrote a book called "stolen sharpie revolution. it started as a zine about zines and then it became a book about zines. You can get most of my the stuff i make from Small World Buttons

i get paid to make 1 inch and 1.25 inch buttons You know, metal and plastic encased tiny pictures that people pin to their clothes. i also volunteer at the independent publishing resorce center ( IPRC ) where i sit around watching people use computers as i try to figure out better and more unusual ways to use a photocopier.


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My Interests

paper, postal lady skirts, bikes, thursdays, gardens, zines, typewriters, abandoned places, travel, pies on window ledges, hindsight, grid systems, tea, thinking too much, prophetic dreams, dictionaries, broken things, bridges, art, letters, handbound books, postal gifts, mental connections with people in distant places, lying to myself, irises, home repair, diy, paper cutters, stamps, sewing machines with quirks, pot lucks, patchwork perfect, beaterville cafe, the independent publishing resource center, portland, letterpress printing, autumn, gocco printing, screen printing, mimeograph printing, zine libraries, utah, coffee, marbling paper, book binding, veganism, sewing, learning elvish, writing in my notebook in public, hooded sweatshirts, romaticising my life in print, books, my computer, sleeping in and staying up late, postage meters, photocopier art, exploring, neat socks, coffee, liberty hall brunches, hooded sweatshirt weather, the animaniacs, house shows, mail order, portland bridges, inside jokes, happy endings

I'd like to meet:

Smart people who like good conversation, crossword puzzles, Scrabble, craft beer and the drunken view from rooftops. also, punx who wanna play dungeons and dragons.

Music:

joy division, soophie nun squad, discount, tilt, pulp, this bike is a pipebomb, ABBA, defiance ohio, new order, sarge, organic, the cure, fugazi, the kills, meatloaf, weston, tones on tail, late night sleep t.v., harum scarum, LFTR PLLR, bedford, green day, morrissey, sleater-kinney, lifter puller, pinhead gunpowder, strawberry switchblade, groovie ghoulies, homesick, bed religion, dag nasty, the old 97's,the blank fight, the reputation, gang of four, depeche mode, chrimpshrine, keith welsh, v vs.v, the kills, etc.

Movies:

heathers, basketball, office space, serenity

Television:

firefly, buffy, angel, the prisoner, doctor who, Torchwood, Battlestar Galactica

Books:

Boontling, Finding Serenity, Sacred Herbs and healing beers, Radical Brewing, The Art of Talk, Dungeons and Dragons Players handbook and Monster Manual, but most of all, zines.

My Blog

Zine Core Radio Show!

Hey, I was interviewed on the ZineCoreRadioShow last night. You should check it out! I totally forgot I was being interviewed and paul and I rode up to Vancouver, Washington (not Vancouver, Canada as ...
Posted by alex wrekk on Thu, 15 May 2008 12:08:00 PST

Stolen Sharpie Revbolution DOT COM

Thanks all of you for your input about Zine Libraries after the last bulletin! I know there has to be more so keep them coming! also, check out http://www.stolensharpierevolution.com for updates on th...
Posted by alex wrekk on Sat, 03 May 2008 12:49:00 PST

Brainscan Nominated for Utne Independent Press Award!

I just got a letter in the mail to let me know that Brainscan Zine was nominated for the Utne Independent Press Award for General Excellence:Zinesi'm not exactly sure what it all means but I think I'l...
Posted by alex wrekk on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:09:00 PST

Im really bad at my space and this feels more like a letter than a blog entry

I'm awake way too early...I'm really bad at this my space thing. I have been playing my cards close to my chest (or is it vest? I don't wear vests)...and by that I mean locked entries on live journal....
Posted by alex wrekk on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 07:39:00 PST

Check out my Etsy store!

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Posted by alex wrekk on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 04:11:00 PST

Brainscan Audion Zine

Brainscan:pre-existing conditions audio previewThis CD is over 30 minutes and is a preview to Brainscan: pre-existing conditions. It has over 15 minutes of Alex Wrekk reading from the zine for the Fal...
Posted by alex wrekk on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 12:52:00 PST

Stolen Sharpie Revolution! 5th Anniversary edition needs your help!

Stolen Sharpie Revolution! 5th Anniversary edition needs your help! PLEASE REPOST This is the 4th printing in 5 years of this little red book (not to be confused with the book by Chairman Mao Zedong, ...
Posted by alex wrekk on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 03:47:00 PST

Wanna help the Portland Zine Symposium?

Hello friends, Portland Zine symposium season is fast approaching! Do you have your travel together yet? Have you filled out your workshop application for that ideal workshop that has been kicking aro...
Posted by alex wrekk on Wed, 30 May 2007 07:10:00 PST

Brainscan #21 MRR Review

I want to start by saying what I would normally save for the last sentence of a review: I highly recommend this zine. That needs to be stated first because the description of this zine might lead read...
Posted by alex wrekk on Thu, 17 May 2007 11:42:00 PST

more problems with Microcosm

I was never asked by Microcosm if it was ok to reprint my writing in the Coffee Shop crushes reprint. When I made mention of that and the fact that they used my writing as a selling point I got no res...
Posted by alex wrekk on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:22:00 PST