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floating around in this universe. talking about the beach and that one day you spent at the mall. everything is so deep about being human and so mundane everyday. we talk, gamble and once thought think. the scraps from your plate, the way that water…

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Offstage

  Alexandra Hemrick is a graduate of Georgia Tech in Atlanta, GA and completed two years with Teach for America teaching Visual Art in the Mississippi Delta May 2012. Her work has appeared in Fanzine and Delta Bohemian.  She’s currently working on a novel.

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Meat Cart Rally: Part II

In the rear-view mirror, I catch Schaffer squinting toward the green digital clock on the dashboard. I check my watch against the glowing digital readout behind the dashboard crystal. “Fifteen minutes.” His shoulders slump and I hear him go back to rooting around, triple- and…

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Exclusive Interview: Bullet Tooth Founder/CEO Josh Grabelle

There’s no question about it; the music industry is in a state of transition these days. Piracy continues to be an issue and digital downloading is being replaced with streaming services like Spotify and Pandora. Constant advances in technology are allowing musicians to cut a…

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In Your Ears: Japandroids

Japandroids kick you in the ears with attitude. They play music that make you wanna run to the nearest basement genie and wish for a crowd, a keg, a drum kit, and the opportunity to spit in your shitty boss’s face (A MOMENT OF VICTORY)….

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In the Mirror

I am not the man in the mirror I am not the face looking back I am not the PBR can in my hand I am not the fleeing cocks when the pigs sniff out the barn I am not the bro equalizing my face…

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The Single Girl’s Guide to the Holidays: How to Enjoy a Time You Should Loathe

Ah, the holidays. That magical time of the year when Jack Frost nips at your nose, hot chocolate is always readily available, and you can practically smell that mistletoe that you won’t be getting kissed under. If you relate to the latter, you are not…

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Meat Cart Rally: Part I

Starting on Oscar Night 1960, Swifty Lazar, Hollywood super-agent and hyper-degenerate, started throwing these banger movie star orgies at his place just off of Mulholland Drive. All the greats would be there, depending on who was nominated that year—Jimmy Stewart, Charlton Heston, Jack Lemmon, Doris…

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Music Monday: Saves The Day

I first listened to Through Being Cool in 2001, my freshman year of high school, and two years after it had been released. It was cool then, and it was cool five years after that, it was cool ten years after that, and it’s still cool…

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Interview: The Beer Burglars

On October 4, 2012, I sat down with Steel English aka Tommy Weeks, lead singer of The Beer Burglars—at our respective keyboards—for an e-interview. My goal—to get to the heart of this beer loving, bike riding band, who’s music screams fun (sometimes literally). Have a…