gimmebrainsdistro:
Hey there! Welcome to Gimme Brains!!! Distro. The navigation is in the “about” section so feel free to scope around. I opened this distro to share my taste and love of zines and other D.I.Y. that deserve some attention. I am a distro owner that runs this with labor of love because of how much I want this medium to be kept alive. This is all non-profit, all your orders cycle back to the distro. Receiving all your letters, zines, art, ideas, runs the veins of this distro and it is what makes me continue to keep this open.
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The distro has flat rate shipping!
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last updated: January 3rd, 2011
gimmebrainsdistro:
Hey there! Welcome to Gimme Brains!!! Distro. The navigation is in the “about” section so feel free to scope around. I opened this distro to share my taste and love of zines and other D.I.Y. that deserve some attention. I am a distro owner that runs this with labor of love because of how much I want this medium to be kept alive. This is all non-profit, all your orders cycle back to the distro. Receiving all your letters, zines, art, ideas, runs the veins of this distro and it is what makes me continue to keep this open.
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The distro has flat rate shipping!
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last updated: December 27th, 2010
I only accept US Funds for now.
Tracking is here
To order through snail mail
1. When looking through the site, you should list what zines you want and the price. (Be specific on what you want, please! I carry more than one issue of the zine.)
2. After you’re finished, add up the prices of the zines. This will be your subtotal
3. Zine World made this handy guide for the current U.S. postage rates. Just add up the ounces from your order and then find the corresponding amount and add it to subtotal for the grand total.
3a. If you’re sending a money order, make it out to Lisa Mae. NOT MAE UNDEAD.
3b. Also, if you want to send change, go ahead. Tape it down though! You don’t want your money getting lost. If you’d like to donate a bit for shipping, just round your total to the dollar (example: If my total came out to be 5.33, I would send 6.00) You’d totally help me out!
If you’re ordering through Pay Pal (and from US)
For PayPal, there is a flat rate shipping on the amount of money you spend. The table is below:
For U.S., Canada and Mexico
The following orders are going to be sent by First-Class
Orders $0.01 to $5.00 - $2.00
Orders $5.01 to $10.00 - $3.00
These orders will be sent by Priority Mail
Orders $10.01 to $20.00 - $5.00
Orders $20.01 and up - $6.00
For international orders
Orders $0.01 to $5.00 - $4.00
Orders $5.01 to $10.00 - $6.00
Orders $10.01 to $20.00 - $8.00
Sent by Priority-Mail international
Orders $20.00 and up - $11.00
♥ Or to make it easier for you, you can just email the list of zines you want and I can calculate it all for you. Email me at youreinsanehoney@gmail.com
♥ A note about refunds, the only times I will refund you is when you don’t pay for shipping or if the zines are currently out of stock. If your package gets lost in the mail, I am not responsible for it. Email me though if you feel like I haven’t mailed it, I keep records of what I send and receive. If you want to add tracking, let me know because I don’t add tracking to my packages.
Send all orders to:
Email me for the address. I am working on getting a PO Box. Thanks!
What is a zine?
(Pronouced “zeen”) Zines are mainly D.I.Y. and the content may vary from person to person. I’ve read a zine about travels, zombie journal, just filled with photography, bringing up social change, passing information through this form. Zines are usually printed through photocopy machine and either distributed through distros or trading with other writers/zinesters. Zine history dates all the way back to the 1700s from people distributing social change and much more. Independent publishing has definitely evolved and in no way is going to stop circulating throughout other people’s hands! more history on zines or check out Stolen Sharpie Revolution here. I know there are a lot more resources, I will put more up once I get a hold of more!
What is a distro?
A distro is an independent distributor for zines and other D.I.Y. projects. There are online and mailorder distros. If you search online, you can find a ton of online ones.
Who runs this?
Hello there, my name is Mae. This distro has moved from San Jose to San Francisco and now back to San Jose. Woohoo! I have written several zines over the years. You’re Insane Honey, Cerveauxxx, i know you’re out there, My Mystery Girl, everyone has a summer and can you spot the pattern? are the big chunk of it. I got into zines in 2001 by my friend Joyous who ran Frenzy Distro. The first zine I read was by this couple who were both in different bands that toured together and talked about how much they loved each other and stuff. Even though I touch a lot of the relationship subject in my zines, I’ve found zines that really expanded my mind and had the amazing relating factor put into my heart and brain. I’m passionate for the zine world and try to support those who feel, well, unsupported. I started this distro in hopes to share of some of the other zines that are hardly put into the spotlight that are absolutely amazing. I still feel the same and hope it doesn’t change. I like creating art, watching horror films, and dancing with my cousins and sister. Sometimes I get overzealous with other people’s and my own projects but I don’t find that necessarily bad. You’re probably much more indie, punk, metal, beautiful and have more scene points than me and I have no problem with that. Get in touch so we can write letters!
Here’s ways to get a hold of me:
Email: youreinsanehoney@gmail.com
Livejournal: yourinsanehoney
Myspace: gimmebrainsdistro
AIM: Mae the Undead
SNAIL MAIL: Email me for the address. I am working on getting a PO Box. Thanks!
The Things That Are & The Things That Will Be by mae and cheo
This is the first zine I’ve done in about two years and it’s a split zine. It is seperated in two parts, my story first and then Cheo’s. I write about my own existence and my conflicts with it. The writing isn’t very definitive, everything is open ended and reaches to a conclusion of trying to be more capable and carry out existence.
excerpt: “I want a change to happen within the minute. Why do I lack this patience? Is that immense amount of technology booming? People are constantly on their cell phones, checking status messages, portable screens, media, and there is a lack of heart-to-heart conversations that isn’t about being plastered to the floor by your drug of choice. The more I critique this, it seems that I’m guilty of this too. I’m guilty for blurring the lines of technology and reality for enjoying drugs to enhance my thoughts and actions, for wanting a quick fix.”
The second part is called, “Moving Forward through Time and Space (Or How I got from point A to point B in only 34 Steps)” and Cheo seperated it into three parts, past, present and future, which describes his state of being during those times. Cheo manages to give you a taste of what his life means, how random everything seems to be and how he’s viewed it in a few pages.
excerpt: “I am out here out of pure chance, in this life, on this planet. It’s the tiniest rock. On this rock, I am alive and so are all of us, floating in space, taking life far too seriously because we can think. All this surrounding us in our consciousness, accepting information through our eyes and ears. It’s an unusual thought but we are all just here taking the burden of life, being held down by gravity, inhaling all these toxins, staring at clouds, hoping there’s a god that cares, slowly dying every day and then not existing. We will all die. It’s all just one big random mess that we’ve been forced to deal with. If it’s all I see and all that is, then why take it so seriously?”
The zine is illustrated by Cheo and inspired by conversations, space and existence.
$1.00 1/4 sized 22pgs 1 oz.
She’s so Very #12 by Melissa Ann
Melissa fills you in on her life between the months of June and December 2008. She takes us through her travels throughout the east coast, playing shows with Jerk Alert and its break up, periods and pregnancy, IUDs, an extensive list of what she would like to do in her life, current obsessions and so much more! Her writing is diary style and extremely text heavy!
$1.00 half sized 38pgs 1 oz.
Number of copies: 3
She’s so Very #11 by Melissa Ann
This issue is totally awesome. Melissa expresses how she wants 2008 to be full of new experiences and she writes about those experiences for this issue. She documents her trip to California, recording the first studio album with Jerk Alert!, booking her first show with the Old Haunts, being interviewed at the Zine Core Radio Show, even interview Krysten Ritter of Gilmore Girls about her band, music, acting and feminism. Melissa continues to explore her sexuality, relationships and in general, her life! The cover is in full color and it’s gorgeous!
$3.00 half sized 38pgs 1 oz.
Number of copies: 2
Pearls Before Swine Flu / This Plague City by Dave and Sarah
This is a split zine between Dave and Sarah. The underlying tone I got from this zine is loneliness and sickness- both of which can be very bleak together especially while living in a city. Dave’s story is about being lonely in a city while being sick or intoxicated and dealing with people in those states. The tone of these stories often have a very alienating feel, especially how sickness is viewed by others in recent times.
excerpt: “Today the sun is halogen and the air is reused. I am on the subway, on my way home from work early. Health issues. I stand while everyone is sitting, like a tree in a very narrow field. I stand while everyone is sitting reading papers, dreaming of their stop arriving. Meanwhile I wait and sweat and choke on the sharp little pain in my chest that’s a little worse than yesterday. Deep breaths are hard and the people around, they start staring and leering, leaning away from me. They’re ruffling their papers, not really reading, watching me closely with narrowing eyes.”
Sarah story has the same tone but has less to do with sickness and more with the people and spaces that Sarah interacts with or goes to. It reminds me of being lonely in a big city, trying to find spaces that you enjoy but end up feeling more alienated then when you started.
excerpt: “It was a summer on film. A friend who was moving gave me some expired rolls, told me to go play. I met her halfway through. I never knew how the colour would look, if the pictures would be strangely saturated or not turn out at all, I just took a lot of them. I’d balance the pawnshop camera in my hands, squinting through my glasses to the tiny viewfinder and slowly adjusting the focus and light meter. She’d smile so calculated at the outset, her cheeks pearled with sweat, then lose patience and sigh that I needed to just take the picture already. I wanted the sharp relief of her features but was sure I got twenty-four different blurred takes on her faces; quick to return to motion, quick to laugh and seize my shoulders, push me back.”
$2.00 1/4th sized 24pgs 1 oz.
Number of copies: 2
My Own Make Believe #3 by Malice Dee
Each issue of Alice’s zines gets progressively longer and you can really see her grow as a person through the issues. The look of this zine is really goes hand-in-hand with the words shown on the pages. She writes about a variety topics such as problems with friends, family, memories that she holds dear to (in a positive and negative light). She switches from a first person tone to a third person tone simultaneously and smoothly.
An excerpt: “Talking about the old days does suck sometimes, because we know those days are never going to come back. Talking about those times can also be good though. I like to hold on to the happy moments of my life. I’d like to remember that I did have a few good days in my life. Who wouldn’t? I know the good times won’t be the same anymore. I don’t care though. They never were the same to begin with. Things change. Life changes. Change is constant. That’s what makes likfe even more interesting. Without change, where would we be?”
$1.00 1/2 sized 36pgs 1 oz
Number of copies: 16
My Own Make Believe #2 by Malice Dee
In this particular issue, Malice shares a a high school adventure between two friends, ramblings about how a person looks and equating that into personality, pain & frustration, and what makes her happy. There is also contributed poetry and a vampire story.
$1.00 1/2 sized 22pgs 1 oz
Number of copies: 12
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