Reviews by Jeff (JQD) and Nick (NSM) Brat #9 ($2 ppd) P.O. Box 4964 Louisville, KY 40204-0964 Fuck yeah!  This is great!  A crapload of kids writing political and social articles that at every chance prompt the reader to get involved with some cause.  This is just plain out good. I dig so many of the articles in here that have topics like: giving kids the vote, suburbia and it's psychological effects, hackers with a cause, junior ROTC, and using human poop as fertilizer.  On top of that, there is an interview with Jello Biafra. *5* (JQD) Brewster #3 ($1 ppd) c/o Charisma 3515 Chase Street Wheat Ridge, CO 80212 A personal zine from your friend and mine, Charisma Lee.  I like this quite a bit.  The travel journal was by far the best.  I enjoyed the other writings as far as I could read them (many times they'd get cut off along the edges).  My only recommendation would be to increase margin size so readers of this zine could read it all. *4* (JQD) Burnt #1 ($1 ppd) 400 Park Road Parsippany, NJ 07054-1737 This is a fairly decent cut n' paste photocopied zine.  There are some okay writing on various topics. Some are personal and others kinda political.  Nothing too cohesive though.  There are also a crap load of reviews here that almost make it worth it.  Many of the things reviewed I have never seen or heard of before. *2.75* (JQD) Dependent #3 (No mailing information) Vidiwell@aol.com First off, for those of you who don't know, this is not the same Dependent.  It's published by completely different people.  The introduction, which deals with the violence and the shutting down of the Legion, is obviously based on hearsay. How do I know it's based on hearsay?  I was standing with Charisma Lee three feet away when it happened. I also got the facts after the matter from Lorenzo, who happened to book shows at the Legion. The introduction, being based on hearsay, doesn't get the facts straight and oversimplifies the situation. It was not a simple matter of a "ruddie that tried to beat up a punk." There were also communication problems that night at the Legion between people that work there.  If the editor had taken the time to talk to Lorenzo, she would have found out about (besides the violence situation) that there were also other reasons why the Legion is no longer doing shows like inter-politics at the Legion.  One other thing that gets on my nerves about the introduction is the definition of punks shows offered up by the editor, "I realize that punk shows are all about aggression and hitting people. . ."  Excuse me, but I must have missed something somewhere these last few years. There is an aggression in punk, but punk is not "all about aggression."  And  "hitting people" has never been accepted behavior in the punk scene. I am flat-out dumbfounded  by the editor's acceptive tone. After reading the introduction, I regretted the help I gave the editor to get the zine started back up.  I was also weary of going on.  I did, however, to find a pretentious "10 Ways to Tell if You Are a Pop Punk." This, when what we need most is a more unified scene, not divided.  I don't care if it was supposed to be humorous, it isn't. Besides highly irritating articles at the beginning, there is a good article on the war on drugs, and decent interviews with 8 Bucks Experiment and File 4. *1* (JQD) Establishment #1 ($1 ppd) P.O. Box 33 Glen Haven, CO 80532 I hate this fucking artsy-fartsy, la dee-da, bullshit rag.  Fuck this.  Drivel. I'm gonna go get a lobotomy. *0* (JQD) Hectic World #3 ($1 ppd) P.O. Box 199 Clawson, MI 48017 Boring layout, little content.  The cover has Boy Sets Fire, Orangetree, At the Drive-In, and Burning Airlines. The problem is that there are no interviews for At the Drive-In or Burning Airlines.  So we're left with the Orangetree interview (which was good, especially since it was an email interview that went into depth) and the Boy Sets Fire interview was alright. Other than that there's some reviews and a few ads. *3* (JQD) The Instinct's Rhythm Vol. 1, Issue #6 ($1 ppd) c/o Scott Fountain A/52 ENGR Box #172 Ft. Carson, CO 80913 I've seen this zine around town and picked it up occasionally but never really bothered to hunker down and read it.  Now I feel obliged as I've been sent two issues.  There are some things I like about this zine, which is a collection of short fiction stories, and then there are some things I don't.   When I first began, I read "Message In a Bottle," which I dug as it is a tale of being shipwrecked and stranded on a tropical island.  Like I said it was eery and was a cross between a pirate/buried treasure story with a fantasy or sci-fi story.  Then I began reading "Stairway to Heaven," a serial sci-fi/fantasy story that takes up the majority of the zine, and which had a really great set-up for telling the story from different points of view (though it could use some refinement meshing the different points of view into an understandable form).  My big turn-off with "Stairway. . ." was that it was too hokey, and seemed like it just had words or phrases thrown in to make it sci-fi or fantasy like.  There wasn't much else except a pamphlet on mind control (which I don't if it was fiction or not) and an unamusing fictional dialogue about jury duty. *2* (JQD) The Instinct's Rhythm Vol. 2, Issue #7 ($1 ppd.) This is more of the same short fiction stories compiled into a half-size zine, only better. *3.5* (JQD) Intox #4 ($2 ppd) P.O. Box 4173 Estes Park, CO 80517 I don't know how long I've been waiting for this issue to show up in the P.O. Box, but it finally has.  This, it's finale, is by far the most "emo" of the previous issues along with being the biggest (104 pages).  Offered up are interviews with Tanger, Get Up Kids, Jets to Brazil, and At The Drive-In.  There is so much here I don't even think I got through it all. There's also fiction and columns and the like.  The highlight for me is the thought-provoking article on Women's Lib and its side effect of parents being away from the home more (and no, it's not some sexist Rush Limbaugh article).  If you get this, expect to have de ja vu when you get A Smaller Footprint as both zines are formatted by Robin. *4* (JQD) Jaded In Chicago #8 ($1, ppd) c/o Bill Denker 4031 Forest Ave. Western Springs, IL 60558 This is good fanzine outta Chicago featuring interviews with The Get Up Kids, Anti-Flag, Apocalypse Hoboken, and Small Brown Bike.  There are also some reviews of Chicago area shows including one of the Lillingtons where Ben Weasel made a guest appearance on the microphone.  There are also more Chicago features highlighting the local band The Story So Far (ex-88 Fingers Louie) and a local record store.  There are only three articles in here, only one of which I thought had both good subject matter and good execution and was about drifting away from your punk roots and finding yourself working for a corporation. I also like the massive quantities of good to decent photos offered up in this zine.  I especially recommend it if you want to brush up on what's going on in the highly happening scene of Chicago. *4* (JQD) Rhetoric 101 #2 ($1 ppd) 149 James Dr. Gulfport, MS   39503 This zine comes to us from Mississhowever you fucking spell it. Its real rough, edgy type zine. No interviews. But it has cool collages, and two short stories. *3* A Smaller Footprint #1 ($2 ppd) P.O. Box 2337 Boulder, CO 80306 Combining the talents of Robin from Intox and Stuart from Midget Breakdancing Digest this is one hell of a zine.  Of the interviews the only band I really know of and dig is Atom and His Package so I dug it greatly.  The others, with Indecision, Braid, and Shogun, were good and got me planning to check them out.  I really liked the lengthy articles on the WTO and band ethics. The fiction was kinda hit and miss with me, as is the case always.  Definitely worth your time to pick this one up.(NSM) Standard Issue #1 ($1 ppd.) 12650 W. 64th Ave. #E117 Arvada, CO   80004 Another emo/hardcore zine. Usually i dread these types of zines because they are SO whiny and shitty. But this is pretty good. It has tips on how to get free pop from machines FSU style. Some funny stories. Good interviews with THE CASKET LOTTERY, GRADE, JOAN OF ARC, THOMAS KOVAC, RED ANIMAL WAR. Decent. 1$ by mail *4* (NSM) Tail Spins #33 ($4, ppd) POB 1860 Evanston, IL 60204 The thing I notice most whenever I pick up a copy of Tail Spins is the unbelievable amount of reviews.  Many albums are reviewed more than once, which is nice having multiple views on the same release.  Other than that, the biggest and best highlight in here is the article on traveling by Greyhound bus.  If you have ever ridden the bus cross-country, you gotta get this just to read the article. *4* (JQD)