After much deliberation, and see-sawing: NOT CRAP. I can appreciate the amount of work that goes into every issue (even when a good percentage seems like page-filler) and occasionally they'll hit one out of the park (Don Cab tour diary, Asshole list, Mad Magazine parody, how to be annoying at Monopoly). Non-glossy pages means easier to read, too!

The only talent I see in Chunklet is decent design skills and networking.
There's very little humor for me. I guess if you find stand up comedy funny there's some things in there that might produce a guffaw.

Henry is the last of a breed of zine nerds(Mike McGonigal was the first) like Dave McGurgan of Yakuza & Erik of Gourmandizer whose publication was less about music than drawing attention to their not very interesting lives and what cool people with whom they networked.

Nowadays, most Chunklet issues are about stuff that sucks. It doesn't take much to run things down when the only music coverage is about Mission of Burma.(I haven't seen the new issue)

He's also hitched his star to David Cross who is just another stand up to me.

Some how Henry seems to have a franchise on all the Billions/Southern bands when they play in Atlanta. I went to the shows.

NOT CRAP for the Tickle Me Emo article in issue fifteen alone.

cal wrote:I agree that the negativity is a little over the top. The writing can be funny at times, even downright hilarious. The magazine seems to hate every band that wasn't involved in that early 90s indie-math rock-with-horn-rimmed-glasses-crowd and isn't Van Halen. The guy that makes that magazine gets a little annoying with the whole "Yeah, I got in that Breadwinner show for free and then Tar crashed at my house and then I got up and had breakfast with Don Caballero and then went to the David Cross taping that night with the guitar player from Hurl" thing.
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I haven't seen an issue in a while, but doesn't he kind of make fun of that attitude with the Jaded Robot record reviews? We love the Jaded Robot! Jaded Robot is NOT CRAP!

sakes wrote:This is a bit off the subject, but I read in the fine print at the bottom of the table of contents in the last issue, that the issue was dedicated to the singer of the Jack-O-Nuts. I'm afraid to ask why. Did she die?

you got me wondering now..did she? Someone has to answer this...

Laura Carter? The femme David Yow? Is she dead, or do they just like her?
Someone get the scoop.

She died in St. Croix VI of asphyxiation. She had lived in St. Croix for many years. I cannot tell you what "asphyxiation" means in the context of her death. She was 37.

Her bands (i.e., The Bar-B-Q Killers and Jackonuts) were bands that I did not directly experience. Some folks speak highly of these bands, but I did not directly experience these bands.

Since she was from Athens GA, I'm certain that there is someone on this forum who is a phone call away from finding out what happened.

fire. it was a fire, i believe.

Fire my ass. It was the CIA!

Thanks. That is really sad news. I had a feeling that she had died. Those 2 bands of hers were really great. I was lucky enough to see Jack-O-Nuts at the Euclid Tavern in Cleveland and hang with her and throw back a few beers.