Stop Smiling

[nickgutierrez]

Has anybody else here heard of this Chicago-based publication? I hadn't heard about it until my adventure Saturday to a few random record stores around the city. It's a very, very solid magazine, about the corporate media and not only how they're worthy of question and scorn, but what to do about the problem.

www.stopsmilingonline.com

[rog]

1. Thank you for this link!

Thanks for posting the link to this great 'zine. I just finished the wonderful interview with William Parker.

http://www.stopsmilingonline.com/archive_detail.html?id1=63

I almost forgot what it used to be like ... and how music is supposed to be.

.rog.

From the liner notes of "The Mayor Of Punkville," by William Parker and the Little Huey Creative Orchestra:

The Mayor Of Punkville gets its title from a short story I wrote with the same name. The
story is about a city named Crescentville. Like many urban cities it was overrun by
gangsters, politicians and businessmen. Things eventually got so bad they began to put
handcuffs on the flowers. People were shot for no reason except that they existed.
Crescentville soon got to be known as Punkville. A musician named Bob Jefferson traveling
to Chicago passes through during election time. He decides to campaign for Mayor. He
runs for office and is elected Mayor Of Punkville. He slowly begins to get an orchestra of
musicians who play cosmic music. They go on to rid the city of corruption. The old Mayor,
the ceos, gangsters, politicians, television talk show hosts, movie stars, models, pro
basketball, baseball, and football players are all put on a giant rocket ship and sent to
another planet. -William Parker, May 2000