Zinester

First off, sorry this is just getting up today. For some reason my computer just did not want to open blogger (it said it wasn't safe, but we're all friends here, I trust you all, and now apparently so does my computer once again).

Secondly, I love reading articles like this because they just get you pumped to go out and do something. Noelle was touching on this in her post, but I'll say it again, the ending of Moore's piece just gives such a great sort of indirect explanation for why zines are important. And, I have to admit, after searching through Quimby's stacks and stacks of zines the other week, I was thinking to myself, "God, why do they carry all this thrown together in 2 minutes photocopied junk." But after reading Moore, now I'm feeling, man, that's really the point, isn't it?

It's getting everybody's stuff out there. EVERYBODY's. Even the people that can't really draw or can't really write. Because somewhere in at least one of the worst, most half-assed zines, there's some nugget, some piece of awesomeness. And it's really great that someone's going to read that or see that and appreciate it, get into that author's or artist's head just a little bit. And that might spark something new creatively for that person who picked up that zine. Or just encourage them to do their own thing, be it a zine or whatever, but to feel that their voice is worth getting out to the public. This sounds kinda flowery I guess or overly cosmic, new-agey--everyone's unique voice is important, your thoughts can cause a chain reaction of other people bringing their thoughts to the people. But I don't really care. I like this idea. The more history, however minute a moment or scene, the more individual perspectives we have archieved and available, the more we can learn. And you can always skip over the stuff that doesn't resonate with you.