Ack, with a last minute stop at Green
Apple, I bought myself more X-mas gifts:
- Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture:
The zine turned Ms. Magazine for the geeky girls. I had
to get it cuz the cover plug highlights Lynda Barry, bell hooks
and the Guerrilla Girls!
- The Making of Tank Girl: Back
when I rented videos from Leather Tongue on $.99 day, this movie
took me by pleasant surprise. Plus, it's got my hussler, Ice-T in
it!
- Radios: Short Takes on Life and Culture:
Two page ideas that paint pictures as vividly as a full half-hour
of The Wonder Years.
- We the Media: A Citizens' Guide to Fighting
for Media Democracy: A cute zine-type book I used to see
around the Stop AIDS office.
- Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication
Politics in Dubious Times: A recommendation by Herman Gray.
The main point is "the contradiction between a for-profit,
highly concentrated, advertising-saturated, corporate media system
and the communication requirements of a democratic society."
- No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies:
another Herman Gray recommendation, "hinged on a simple hypothesis:
that as more people discover the brand-name secrets of the global
logo web, their outrage will fuel the next big political movement,
a vast wave of opposition squarely targeting transnational corporations,
particulary those with very high name-brand recognition."
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