#Zone One

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Pain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time.

Colson Whitehead, Zone One

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Zone One – Colson Whitehead

6.5.2023

I’ve been looking for this for a long time after seeing it on a list of post-apocalypse novels worth reading. I was trepidatious after being disappointed by The Intuitionist, but it proved to be excellent – quite possibly the only worthy successor to Romero’s original Dead trilogy, and reading post COVID, the idea of Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder is very prescient. 

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Title: Zone One | Author: Colson Whitehead | Publisher: Anchor Books (2012)

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SPRINTS and Slow Fiction at Zone One at Elsewhere

On Friday, March 22, 2024, Dublin, Ireland’s SPRINTS headlined their second show at Zone One at Elsewhere in Brooklyn, NY and were joined by local act, Slow Fiction.

SPRINTS’ debut album, Letter to Self was released by City Slang Records back in January and I have been listening to it often since then. The press release for their first single, “Heavy,” mentioned guitarist/vocalist Karla Chubb being inspired by Bauhaus and PJ Harvey’s Is This Desire? and as a fan of both of these things, I stopped reading the rest of the email and immediately went to check out the video, which I loved. In addition to their music, SPRINTS were one of the Irish bands to withdraw from their SXSW showcases recently, so suffice to say, I was very excited to attend their live show in Brooklyn last night.

For the final three shows of their US tour, SPRINTS were joined by Brooklyn’s Slow Fiction, an indie rock quintet that gave a lovely, moody contrast to SPRINTS highly energetic post punk set that came afterwards. During SPRINTS’ set part of me wished Death by Audio (RIP) still existed here as it would have been a perfect place for them.

Photos of both acts now appear in a gallery on my website here, and may thanks to the members of SPRINTS for being game to have me create portraits of them before the show, and to Lucy, Jeanette and Bianca for their help in making it happen. SPRINTS’ US tour concludes tonight in Washington, DC.

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FYI every purchase of any of The Adventure Zone music on Griffin McElroy's Bandcamp will be entirely donated to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund for the rest of 2023. His music is set at 'name your price', and the McElroys are also going to match the donations.

If you've listened to even a bit of any TAZ campaign, you surely know what a fantastic musician Griffin is, and there is no better time to purchase his music than now.

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From Zone One by Colson Whitehead

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always good to keep a screamhole handy

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Hey it's that time of the year again :D

HAPPY 413! 🎂

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The Ten Best Zombie Novels: From Undying Classics to Fresh Flesh

Zombies have been shambling, lumbering, and occasionally sprinting through the horror and post-apocalyptic genres for decades. While zombie movies often get the spotlight, zombie novels offer a deeper dive into the apocalyptic world where the undead are more than just target practice. Here’s a list of the top ten zombie novels that will satiate your hunger for more cerebral (pun intended)…

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Best to let the broken glass be broken glass, let it splinter into smaller pieces and dust and scatter. Let the cracks between things widen until they are no longer cracks but the new places for things. That was where they were now. The world wasn't ending: it had ended and now they were in the new place. They could not recognize it because they had never seen it before.

Colson Whitehead, Zone One

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figuring out how to draw KISSES

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cleaned up an old dream goji sketch

original

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Drew a bunch of Marinettes in a bunch of different artists styles it was a lot of fun!!

Artists who's styles I mimicked: @buggachat @hamsternamedmarinette @ladybeug @sabertoothwalrus and @anna-scribbles all epic artists 🤟😎

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Open Mike Eagle, Mega Ran, and Pink Navel at Zone One at Elsewhere

Touring in support of his 2023 record, Another Triumph of Ghetto Engineering, Los Angeles rapper Open Mike Eagle headlined Zone One at Elsewhere on Sunday, December 10, 2023. On this tour of the east coast, he is joined by Massachusetts rapper Pink Navel and Mega Ran was a special addition to the bill (OME and MR performed together at same venue in 2018).

Pink Navel kicked off the show at 8PM and spoke lovingly about the other rappers on the bill and seemed to be having fun on stage. They performed a song and told the audience if they were able to figure out who the song was about, they should give money to someone, and shortly adding afterward that we should tip the bartender when we knew who the song was about (it was Mario of Super Mario Bros.) Their energy was a good match for the following act, Mega Ran, who resides in AZ and wore a holiday sweater and Santa hat for his performance. Mega Ran spoke about his past as a teacher, becoming a father, writing and performing an affirmation song for kids, and being asked to write a song about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles but having a request for the song to be a little like Vanilla Ice. For a couple songs of his set, he brought out Christoph Jesus of Crazy and the Brains for assistance.

Open Mike Eagle took the stage at 10PM and began his set with “Very Much Money” from his 2014 album, Dark Comedy. Since this was a tour in support of his newest album, I was a little surprised to have an older song of his be the first song of his set, a record that I love and attended the record release show at Spike Hill (RIP) when it came out. Another older song, “(How Could Anyone) Feel At Home,” was performed with Mike revealing that it was written in New York. The first time I heard Another Triumph, I loved “we should have made otherground a thing,” since it shouted out a lot of independent rappers and producers so I was pretty thrilled this song was a part of his set too. Throughout the night, Mike told the audience he was performing rap songs on purpose but he also threw in a couple of freestyles during “WFLD 32” and “95 Radios.” He also jokingly told the audience he figured out that he makes “trauma bops” before launching into “Death Parade” from his 2020 album Anime, Trauma, and Divorce.

Full gallery is available on my website here.