Lend the Eye a Terrible Aspect: A Collection of Essays and Fiction

ISBN 10: 0963679406 / ISBN 13: 9780963679406

Published by Automatism Pr, 1994

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lend the Eye a Terrible Aspect: A Collection of Essays and Fiction
• Publisher: Automatism Pr
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0963679406
• ISBN 13: 9780963679406
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Lend the Eye a Terrible Aspect, the first book by Automatism Press, collects essays, short fiction, and artwork by Americans and Canadians. Contributors were a who's who of underground music and art, including Jello Biafra (of the Dead Kennedys), Don Bajema (author of Boy in the Air), Stephen Holman (creator of the Nickelodeon cartoon "Life with Loopy"), recording artist Deborah Jaffe (Master/Slave Relationship), performance artist blackhumour, and Mark Lo (publisher of the legendary zine File 13). Editors Mason Jones and Loren Rhoads confront North America at the end of the 20th century. Topics span bringing Christmas to a crack house, working as a transsexual prostitute, Hollywood's effect on drive-by shootings, facing homophobia from the police, finding one's own ethnic identity, surviving interracial rape, and the human need to form tribes.

About the Author

Mason Jones released a number of albums as Trance and Taxidermy before becoming a founding member of SubArachnoid Space. He owned and ran the record label Charnel House Productions. He also edited the Japanese underground music zine Ongaku Otaku.

Loren Rhoads has been published in Beyond, From Scratch, Browbeat, and File 13. In a previous life, she was editor of Sanity, Ltd. She went on to edit Morbid Curiosity magazine and Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues.