Mondo 2000 Would Be Cover Girl Makes Good
The Great Lost Last Issue of MONDO 2000 was designed in 1997. It got as far as the film stage (publishers understand) but was never printed. It was a great great issue which I can say because I had pretty much nothing to do with it… it was edited by “Queen Mu” and designed by her and Heide Foley, with some help from Robert Phoenix and a few other stout members of a pick up crew. Anyway it featured a performance artist, Miranda July, on the cover.
Now Miranda July has a film out called “Me and You and Everybody We Know” which is fucking brilliant, beautiful, funny, humane…
OK, it’s in many ways your archetypal indie film: quirky characters, sexual taboo buttons pressed (relatively gently actually, but that may actually make it more powerful), the second lead character (played by Miranda herself) is even a performance artist who makes films of her feet with the words “me” and “you” written on her shoe-tops. But if you’re cringing, you’re cringing WITH her… she’s a very cringy, self-aware character.
Anyway, just take my word for it. This film totally works.
Now, does anybody want to print that lost issue of Mondo 2000?
I’m sure you’ve already heard from a few longing cybernauts already but… what’s involved in getting it printed?
Comment by sean9 — July 6, 2005 @ 7:58 am
Possibly a bit of cutting up so that ancient advertisements don’t have to be included and maybe about 40k for a relatively small run…
Comment by RU Sirius — July 6, 2005 @ 11:00 am
i’d prefer keeping the ads in! maybe 1997 isn’t quite long enough ago for products to be amusingly obsolete, although it was the height of the online gold rush.
Comment by bonobo — July 6, 2005 @ 6:28 pm
May I just say I’d be interested in buying it if it was printed and I’m sure many others would also – even if it was done without the lush production.
Jason…
Comment by jmwalsh — August 14, 2005 @ 8:48 am