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About Me

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This is the MySpace page for the fanzine Some Hope and Some Despair. This is a place for announcements for things even peripherally related to the zine. For more info: www.honeybearrecords.net/otherspace/SomeHopeindex.htm

My Interests

We're looking for other likeminded fanzines, bands, etc...

I'd like to meet:

Some Hope and Some Despair is a fanzine started several years ago in between duties in the band J Church and running Honey Bear Records. In the past, I've interviewed bands such as Avocado Baby, Bikini Kill, Kicking Giant, Milky Wimpshakes, Nails of Hawaiian, No Empathy, Phantom Pregnancies, Red Aunts, Refrigerator, Superchunk, Vomit Launch, Bis, Cigaretteman, Little Princess, Propagandhi, SPK, Action Time, Coagula fanzine, The Cravats, Flowers In The Dustbin, Jon Moritsugu, Kronstadt Uprising, Lack of Knowledge, The Mob, Semiautomatic, Susie Ibarra, Metro Youth, Zounds, Annie Anxiety, David Kerekes, Minority Blues Band, Flux Of Pink Indians, I Excuse, Cathy Wilkerson, Sinyx, DIRT, The Because, The Husbands, Liberty, Radio 4, Rudimentary Peni, Antisect, BMX Bandits, Bury The Living, Drift Age, Hagar The Womb, Amebix, Faction, Modesty Blaise, The Pedestrians, and Toxic Waste.

Music:

ANARCHO PUNK: Zounds, The Mob, Flux of Pink Indians, Crass, The Subhumans...
INDIE POP: The Flatmates, Talulah Gosh, The Primitives...
POST/PRE-RIOT GRRRL: Bikini Kill, Huggy Bear, Blood Sausage, Bratmobile...
INDUSTRIAL: SPK, Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire...
DC HARDCORE: The Faith, Marginal Man, Rites of Spring, Scream...
AVANT-GARDE: Albert Ayler, Bill Dixon, Eric Dolphy, Cecil Taylor...
PUNK ROCK: Television, Patti Smith Group, Richard Hell, The Damned, The Adverts, The Clash, The Buzzcocks...
POST-PUNK: The Slits, The Pop Group, Gang of Four...
POWER POP: The Records, The Raspberries, The Tours...
etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc...

Movies:

Terminal USA, Scum Rock (Jon Moritsugu)
Blood Story, Hardcore Home Movie (Greta Snyder)
Chan Is Missing, Dim Sum (Wayne Wang)
Peppermint Soda, Cocktail Molotov (Diane Kurys)
Cruel Story of Youth, The Man Who Left His Will On Film (Nagisa Oshima)
L'Avventura, Blow-Up (Antonioni)
Accatone, Salo (Pasolini)
Viva La Muerte, I Will Go Like Crazy Horse (Arrabal)
New Rose Hotel, Dangerous Game (Ferrara)
Profundo Rosso, Suspiria (Argento)
Romance, Fat Girl (Breillat)

Books:

"Les Fleurs Du Mal" Baudelaire
"Bad Behaviour" Mary Gaitskill
"What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" Raymond Carver
"City of Quartz" Mike Davis
"White Jazz" James Ellroy
"Revolution of Everyday Life" Vaneigem
"Society of the Spectacle" Debord

Heroes:

Vague
Cometbus
Sniffing Glue
Leading Edge

My Blog

Out Now! Issue 11

The eleventh issue of Some Hope and Some Despair is done! It features interviews with the Instigators, Jesus Couldn't Drum, the Sears and This Is My Fist. There is a ton of other writing. It also come...
Posted by Some Hope on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 02:29:00 PST

Issue 11

I just finished putting together issue 11. It features interviews with Instigators, Jesus Couldn't Drum, the Sears and This Is My Fist. Lots of writing too. This issue will also come with a J Church 7...
Posted by Some Hope on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:04:00 PST

Milestones: Berman, Antonioni, Snyder

Everybody is checking out... Death is all around... July 30th was death day. It's too depressing to write much. Michelangelo Antonioni (Sept 29, 1912 - July 30th, 2007) One of my all-time favorite ...
Posted by Some Hope on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 08:27:00 PST

Record Reviews: Friends of Distinction, Mecht Mensch, Finally Punk, Hard Skin, The Mental, etc.

FRIENDS OF DISTINCTION "Best Of&" CD Man, I love that late '60s and '70s soul. Friends of Distinction get written off at times as a lame pop group. But I love them. Their take on Hugh Masakela's "Gra...
Posted by Some Hope on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 08:26:00 PST

Film Reviews: Decline III, Red Doors, Glamoruous Life of Sanchiko Hanai

DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION PART III (Dir. Penelope Spheeris) I finally got around to watching the third Decline. I expected to hate it. I didn't even bother to see it in the theater when it came...
Posted by Some Hope on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 08:24:00 PST

Record Review: Desecration, Thee Midniters

DESECRATION "Who's In Control" 12" DESECRATION/SUBVERSE split LP DESECRATION "Who's In Control" 7" I had never even heard of Mesa until Desecration came along. I remember there one page in Maximum ...
Posted by Some Hope on Mon, 28 May 2007 09:15:00 PST

Record Review: Be Your Own Pet, Beatles, This Is My Fist

BE YOUR OWN PET "s/t" LP So, I dig this record against my better judgment. You know, you hear about bands like this and you just think "ugh". Then they wound up on Ecstatic Peace and you're like "ugh...
Posted by Some Hope on Mon, 28 May 2007 09:12:00 PST

Record Review: Defiance, OH / The Primitives

DEFIANCE, OH "Share What Ya Got" LP DEFIANCE, OH/GHOST MICE split CD DEFIANCE, OH "The Great Depression" LP I'm not crazy about this group, but it's all about me. I dunno. I don't really trust g...
Posted by Some Hope on Mon, 28 May 2007 09:09:00 PST

Record Review: Death Angel

DEATH ANGEL "The Ultra-Violence" LP Growing up in Hawaii, there was a brief period of time when being into metal was really fun. It got lame again really quick, but there was a time when a bunch of u...
Posted by Some Hope on Mon, 28 May 2007 09:06:00 PST

Record Review: The Sea Urchins

SEA URCHINS "Pristine Christine" 7" SEA URCHINS "Solace" 7" SEA URCHINS "A Morning Odyssey" 7" SEA URCHINS "Stardust" LP I know they had other records. But I only ever really followed their releas...
Posted by Some Hope on Mon, 28 May 2007 09:04:00 PST