NO-FI "MAGAZINE"
Forward Into The Future!
So where have I been? Well, I've been here obviously, but lately I've been a little distant. It's like I'm here, but I'm not here. It's like you can't even talk to me anymore and when you do I snap at you and you just can't understand what is going on with me and I just won't let you in and you would love to help me, but I keep pushing you away. If I would just let you in, maybe you could understand what is going on with and...and...and you could help me somehow. (I also have a flair for the dramatic. End scene.)
Well in this issue, we are running things a little later than they should due to the snowballing caused by the last issue (and some very long interviews). In this issue we have an interview with a new band called New Bethel who are already causing a nice stir in the local scene. We also have an interview with Fred who is the DJ for the Demoliston show on KXLU (and is also up for "Best DJ" in the L.A. Times) which has finally brought their station online so now anyone around the world with a computer and modem can listen to all the goodness we in California have been keeping to ourselves. Finally, we have a mini-interview with the Giant Robot Store in West L.A. I think this is the first totally local issue we've done since we've become an online magaine, but I hope our new international audience can appreciate it as well. (And next month we have Ballboy from Scotland so keep checking in and we'll try to please ya'.)
So the inevitable question is...it's been a year since the big event happened, do I have any thoughts on the subject? Well, all I can say is that I LOVED it. The U.K. and its peoples were really cool. Camden Town was interesting and it was nice to be able to buy import albums before they became imports. I came home with a million new albms and singles. We went to some neat swap meets and it rained all the time (which is something I personally like since it usually rains down heat here in California instead of water. France was cool too, but everyone was speaking in some crazy language which I dubbed "Francetalk." It's like they don't WANT you to understand them or something. For some reason we had problems getting on planes and our 2 hour Chunnel ride became a four hour ride due to a bomb threat right before we got to the tunnel. Crazy, man, crazy! So that's what happened a year ago this month in 2001. Some other stuff happened, but you've heard enough about that from everywhere else.
So as the theme suggests, we are progressing nearer and nearer into the future. We've seemed to have hit it off with our internet audience and I want to thank you all for coming back each week. Hopefully with more writers and a seemingly endless supply of good bands coming around (believe me, there weren't as many really cool new innovative bands a couple years ago so I am very glad that "real" indie-bands are coming back and in a big way), we should have plenty to entertain your eyes (and ears with No-Fi "Radio"). And if you wanna write for us, take pictures for us, or draw dirty pictures of No-Fi "Radio"'s newly promoted program director Quin,...let us know! There's always room.
Yr. No-Fi "Pal",
Chris Beyond
(Chris Beyond is the editor of No-Fi "Magazine" and can not, will not sing the blues.)
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