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Love Manifesto Issue 1 Nov 2009 by Crystal Folz


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Evansville Zine

I'm pulling together a zine at the beginning of the year for the Evansville area.I want poetry, prose, flash (under 500), art, and photography.I'd like this to be a collected effort, with me pulling together the layout and editing.Is anyone interested in setting up a meeting to work on this with me?See More
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Thanks girl! Hope you are doing well. I don't get to see you much. I do have a website, if you would like to link us. :) Have a great day! This is so cool! Hugs, Heidi
Nov 12, 2009
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Hey there! Post your events and whatnot.
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Sharpies!!

http://www.sharpieuncapped.com/gallery.aspxCheck out the gallery for cool Sharpie art and clothing.See More
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Shoots and Vines Literary Fertilizer

I started S&V back in late 2008. Since then, I've published three quarterly prints, one short fiction collection - Into the Well, and one women's collab - I Can't Be Your Virgin and Your Mother.Michael Solender recently wrote a review of Into the Well. I also have an online site where new…See More
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DIY Collective



Share tips and projects, announce upcoming gigs, swap your stash of DIY and recycled stuff, reminisce about the old music scene and discuss plans to revive the Evansville underground.

Whether it's zines, music, clothing, or crafts, we want to know about it.

Members must be approved.

Where are you going? Where have you been?

Maybe I hit the tail end of the Evansville Underground scene, but I clearly remember holding heads while girls puked in the potties at Stevenson Station, and skinheads pepperspraying little girls at Mesker, and Mama Zot playing at the amphitheater.

Cory and I left Evansville back in 2002 and found a new home in Poseyville. He continued to play music for several years, but I lost touch with many of my old friends. I became a Poseyville recluse, but I needed to get away from the drugs that had been holding me back for so many years.

Refreshed and ready to do my part to keep the underground alive, I started this site in the hopes I would meet up with some old friends, gain some new friends, and come together with like-minded folks who understand how important it is for us to keep our scene alive.

Years ago, a gig by a local band playing original music would have drawn a mass of kids. Today, most of the bands playing around the scene are performing cover songs and occasionally throw in an original. Is it really that we have lost that connection to our roots?

When we were too young to attend bars, we rented shelter houses.

And now, we patronize bars that don't support original bands.

Although an avid beer drinker, I could do with a night without beer if it meant supporting a band that plays original music.

I can pass on the mall and make my own clothes or shop at AbyssCo.

I can pass on Starbucks and get my coffee from Penny Lane.

I can pass on iTunes and buy my music from Joe. (who sold me the first cassette tape I ever bought)

I miss you guys. I miss sitting on the tops of cars and jamming out. I miss coming together every Friday night. I miss knowing that there is some place in there where I'm not expected to be anyone other than me.

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Crystal

Evansville Zine

I'm pulling together a zine at the beginning of the year for the Evansville area.I want poetry, prose, flash (under 500), art, and photography.I'd like this to be a collected effort, with me pulling…Continue

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Started by Crystal in Zines Nov 16, 2009.

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Sharpies!!

http://www.sharpieuncapped.com/gallery.aspxCheck out the gallery for cool Sharpie art and clothing.Continue

Started by Crystal in Zines Oct 15, 2009.

Crystal

Shoots and Vines Literary Fertilizer

I started S&V back in late 2008. Since then, I've published three quarterly prints, one short fiction collection - Into the Well, and one women's collab -…Continue

Started by Crystal in Zines Oct 10, 2009.

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Mirrors

Within the first hour of coming back to him, I knew it was only for the night. He didn’t hand me the single helmet hanging on the handlebars of his motorcycle. Instead he pulled back his red hair and secured the strap behind his goatee.



I unfolded the last dollars from my back pocket and wrote my name in the motel registry while he sat outside flipping his keys in the air. Stepping back into the night, I noticed the stars were prettier than I had been in a long time; I wished for tar… Continue

Posted by Crystal on November 16, 2009 at 6:06am

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Voices

It’s easy to take another’s voice as your own when you feel your own words aren’t good enough, or when your feet can’t find the world’s rhythm, or when everyone around you speaks in rhymes.



I had this idea once that if I listened Whitman’s voice inside my head, I’d be able to say what I mean; it is so easy for me to slide into his head. Maybe he was doing the same thing when he wrote though, and together, we were just dancing the same old dance everyone else danced, and writing the… Continue

Posted by Crystal on November 16, 2009 at 6:06am

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Breaking Routine

It comes on so slowly, this change in routine. Yet every season I find myself fighting to hang onto habitual tasks. I need another summer morning to pin clothes to the line while still in my nightgown. I need another autumn afternoon to sit on the porch and listen to dry leaves skitter down the road. I need another winter morning with shoes overturned and toasting on the heat vents.



When it’s a couple of weeks into spring before I notice they’re gone, I know something has happened to… Continue

Posted by Crystal on November 16, 2009 at 6:05am

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Personal Ritual

Long before she bought her first pair of fishnets and rolled down the waistband on her skirts to raise the hemline, there was a nakedness in her eyes like swollen blackberries on a leaf-barren vine.



She looked for it in other people, touching strangers’ arms in passing to lure a glance and thumbing the brows over young eyes, soggy with whiskey, until one night there was a wicked dance between the conversationalists in her head that lasted well into morning.



Her ugliness… Continue

Posted by Crystal on November 16, 2009 at 6:05am

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