There is no intro this month, because this is not an issue... It's a (Non) issue... With more emphisis on reviews which were pretty spotty last month. Oh and a late interview too. The next issue will go up next month.
Well, and I guess I'll finally have that often broken promised "HISTORY" section up too. I scanned for it all night long and finally have something to show for it. The way it'll work is it'll be shown in gallery style like our former pictures of the week area (which we've been doing on a weekly basis over on nofiradio.com). Basically a bunch of pictures of things we've done in the past with some writing underneath describing what you are seeing.I'll also be put up "out of order" with all the parts falling into the proper place as time goes by. So basically it'll be a section that gets updated as I find old stuff to scan in and write about.
So I was a "little" upset as you can imagine about the Presidential Election going the way it did. What can I say? I did my part and tried my hardest. I'm pretty sure most of you voted against Bush, but it looks like we're stuck with him for another 4 years...... Ugh. But you know what? He won by suuuuch a small margin (the smallest in history in fact) that the message is out there. Unfortunately part of that message is "Hey World, look how gullable we are!!! Weeee!"
So this issue was suppossed to be a "real" issue until I realised that the photoshop work need for the cover would take more time than I had available to get it done in time. So I put had a contest via the MYSPACE.com bulletin boards telling everyone to enter their own ideas as to what they'd like to see on the cover and here are those ideas...
From Casie:
i would like to see chris beyond dressed as a thanksgiving turkey (with a very worried look on his face) while lovely scantily clad "indians" dance around him with bows and arrows...
From Somebody at elementQuattro radio:
how about some cute indian chicks sittin around teh thanksgiving dinner table with big honcho lookin chiefs smokin cigars and holdin up wine glasses while being served by pilgrim maids and butlers...
From Jessicah:
ME.
From Jewlie:
Someone (anyone, I'll do it) holding up a sign, apologizing to the world for Bush being re-elected.
From Kevin:
a drawing of santa clause eating a turkey with the elves. yesssssssssssss.
From Kitty:
I' d like to see Pilgrims and / or priests either A) being burned at the stake by Witches or B) by Indians
From Mike at Holy Cowboy Records:
I'd like to see rows and rows of sad people with the words post-election massacre blues written on them From Mike Naz:
I'd like to see a chimpanzee wearing a suit, at a podium with the presidential seal on it, appearing to be giving a victory speech. And people in the crowd doing the "Seige Heil!"
From Peppermint:
How about Chris in a turkey suit...with sexy Indians & Pilgrims plucking his feathers! LOL
From Sabrina:
i am seeing a girl dressed in red, something small and tight chained to a giant circle in the fashion of wheel of fortune, and it could have divisions like wheel of fortune that say the different topics and articles in the issue. plus, scantly clad ladies never hurt.
From Tim:
How about george w. bush wearing leather bondage gear and a leash which is being held by cheney. It'd take some very taltented photoshop maniupulation, but its possible. You could even have bush smoking a cigar wrapped in the US constitution.
From Tina:
A cute girl setting a pair of panties with the American flag on them on fire and stomping on them
Now, as I said in the "rules" of the contest, the main factor in all
of this is what I could pull together at the last minute. And because of this, JEWLIE had the advantage because her idea was frankly the easiest to do AND, I know this complicates things...well, not really, but JESSICAH who also entered actually SHOT the cover last week on Hollywood Blvd. Now, in a way, Jessicah is kinda No-Fi "Staff" and would have access to these same prizes anyway so in that JEWLIE is the winner of the No-Fi "Grab Bag" which has some of our new No-Fi 1-inch buttons, CDs, DVDs, stickers, and whatever else we can fit in there. Now you'll see that I didn't have exactly what she asked for on the cover, but the main reason for this was because of what you can already find a ton of on this website called SorryEverybody.com
2nd prize actually goes to SABRINA who came up with what I thought was the best cover over all. While I couldn't get something like that together at such short notice, I do like the idea of it being the cover for one of our actual issues next year...and she volunteered to star in it too so there you go. Sabrina gets some buttons and a couple CDs.Everyone else who entered gets a set of No-Fi "Magazine" and "Radio" 1 inch buttons which you can wear all over town, work, in your sleep, in your nose, ears, bellybutton...anywear almost. Just don't stick them into your eyes...no matter how much you see George Bush on TV...plus we're not responsible for you shoving button needles in places where they shouldn't go.
So anyone who wants to claim their prize needs to send me their address so I can get their prizes to them by late next week. See, THIS is one of many reasons why you should join Myspace...and it's free too!!!
Thank you to everyone who entered and congrats to the winners. You're ALL winners...and by "ALL" I mean the two people who actually won. ;)
Oh, I kid! I love ya!
Yr. No-Fi "Pal",
Chris Beyond
