May Distro Update


Here are some things for this month: 

*This weekend we'll be tabling at Amazine Day, a small press and zine fair that we're also helping organize and leading workshops at. If you're in Portland, come by and say hi! 

*It's the third month of our Fan Club and it's going incredibly well. We're having fun with it. 

*Thanks to the advice of our dear pal Bob Schwenkler (and thanks to our fierce dedication to always being five years behind the times), we're now on Twitter

*Our buddies at the Olympia Timberland Library and the Pierce County Library just picked up a lot of MVPD titles, so all you South Sound library patrons should go check out your library shelves sometime soon. 

*And we're also working on updating our Links page, so please check out all our awesome friends.
This wonderfully unique collection features essays from game show winners, losers, writers, producers, and fans. This interesting assortment of unlikely zinesters spans a huge range of ages and backgrounds.
A short story about starting a short-lived bookstore. A lifelong relationship with books told in the span of a few pages. 
Designed and Screenprinted by Kyle Rollins in Olympia, WA. Available in Medium and Large. (Two other designs also available here!)
From one of the most intellectual, nerdy, and low budget cult television shows every made, Tyler Hauck chronicles some pretty sincere life lessons.
I Know You Know My Heart #1-Kneeotini McNett (Zine) ($3.50)
Setting fire to the page, Kneeotni makes sure you feel life. Even when it hurts. These memoir pieces look back years into her past and bring to life hard stories of family and friends, love and loss, travel and adventure.
A black screenprinted dinosaur patch from Olympia queer punks, J.O.C.K.

A superb compilation CD from the folks at Quickest Flipest Magazine, with a song for every month of the year. With contributions from the likes of Ruby Pins, Karl Blau & more!

Restock
Basic Paper Airplane #4 -Joshua Amberson (Zine) ($3)
***Our dear friend Sarah Geo Walton was profiled on SCRAP's blog.
***Corespondent's excellent Land of the Low People album was written up on Burning World and the Seattle Weekly.
***Portland's Perfect Day Publishing is on an east coast tour
***In other Perfect Day news: Love is Not Constantly Wondering if You're Making the Biggest Mistake of Your Life was reviewed on Slate and Martha Grover recently appeared on The Writer's Block radio show. 
***Our good buddies at Calliope Farm in Olympia, Wa. have their CSA going strong as usual. Sign up!
***The awesome A.M. O'Malley was just guest blogger for the week on The Detail Collector.
***Blindfolder's Artifact Effect album (one of the releases on our Antiquated Future label) was reviewed on Cassette Tape Gods.
***The Brooklyn Zine Fest (and zines in general) were written up in the New York Times recently.
***Conceptual artist Lenae Day has a new art show/performance piece coming up.
***Olympia friends Hot Fruit went viral recently for their bizarre and amazing video.
***Chicago's Laboratory Dancers are working on a performance piece that utilizes Tapestry's Lassen album (another Antiquated Future release) and they have been sending us the rehearsal videos.
***Seattle writer Charlie Zaillian (and guitarist for Chung Antique) has been getting a ton of great music journalism articles published of late.
***Eleanor Murray and Ben Kamen's collaborative project AANTARTICAA recently put out their debut album.
***Olympia friend Kim Langston is doing a tiny house fundraiser and benefit album, which you can now donate to.
***Ruby Pins has a new video and a new album coming out on M'Lady's Records.
***Our buddy Chris Estey's talk from the 2013 EMP Pop Conference is now up on YouTube.
***KDVS' annual Operation: Restore Maximum Freedom festival is almost here.
***Olympia's Arrington de Dionyso was interviewed by Impose Magazine.
***Jordan O' Jordan was interviewed on Sad Mag about music, performance, and queer spaces.
***Congratulations to Portland's long-running Reading Frenzy store for making their relocation fundraising goal!
***And mark your calendars to come celebrate the Independent Publishing Resource Center's 15th anniversary with us on June 15th in Portland, Or.!

Rumbletowne Records! We're all ears...

"Belly" by Erica Freas
Starting in 2007 in Olympia, WA, Rumbletowne Records has been cranking out some of the best punk rock the Northwest (and beyond) has to offer. Bands like RVIVR (long time Olympia staples) and Dogjaw are the humble mast heads for this indie label, sounds extend through punk and pop's borders without a second glance.
Working along side with them has been an honor, and an inspiration! Please check out there site at rumbletowne.com

and feel free to peruse our selection as well.

Photography Post #2

We're proud to have Incandescent issue #3 now available for order! 
It features stunning images from the world over, all working under the theme of "Other(s) Memories," make up the third issue of Incandescent. A color film zine based right here in Portland, Or. 
65 pages, full color, solid wax ink, 6.5" x 8", perfect bound, 
part the first pressing of 100 copies.
-M.V.P.D 

go to our...
NEW WEBSITE!
(this site is now the Ms Valerie Park Distro blog and not a place to order)

Hot Fruit

Our dear friends (and longtime nextdoor neighbors) Hot Fruit have had their video blow-up on Reddit. Which means two things:

1. More people know about these truly interesting, exciting, and fun female performance artists. Some people are praising the shit out of it. This is good.

2. A ton of people are making awful misogynist comments about our buddies (see Reddit link above). This is fucked.

While awful comments on YouTube and Reddit is sadly to be expected, the fact that the comments are almost entirely based on cultural norms of female beauty is, at the very least, annoying. And when they turn into violent threats, scary and disgusting.

Hot Fruit is not for everybody, sure, but they are important. They are female artists crossing lines and pushing buttons, confusing the status quo. Watch the video and, if you want to talk some shit on misogyny and support our friends, we highly encourage you to do so.
 

...What the electric eye saw.

Photography books/zines featured on Ms.Valerie Park Distro:
Sans Titre et Sans Reproche
Issues 1 & 2
A French photography zine of the interesting and the weird. Perfect for fans of Hamburger Eyes,
The wacky, the weird, the absurd, and everything in between. Photos from all around Europe.



The Cartography of Farmers' Wives: Photography from 1915-1976
In The Cartography of Farmers' Wives, Colleen Weber Borst explores the westward immigration of her family through photographs taken by her grandmother and great-grandmother, Grace Shaw Weber and Emma Heckner Shaw. From Salt Lake City, Utah, to Alberta, Canada, to Eastern Washington State, these photographs are a haunting meditation on place and history. Black & white and color photos.
 

Without Words & Without Kneeling: The Final Six Issues


Just Added!
The final six installments of Tomas Moniz (editor of Rad Dad) 's
serialized novella about “five characters who are all part of an anarchist study group that meets once a month, and how their lives intertwine with each other and the books they read.”
The final six installments of Tomas Moniz (editor of
Believable characters, unveiled through their separate first person perspectives, all joined together by the books they read. A great storyline that’s at once funny, thought-provoking, and a great examination of the personal-as-political. Trade paperback, 96 pages.
The first six issues are collected in zine form!

 Also, recently Restocked!
Without Words & Without Kneeling: The First Six Issues:
 

Honey is Golden, It comes from the Bees. Birds go Tweet, And so do We!

Go ahead follow us on Twitter, & send us lovely spring poems.
 https://twitter.com/msvaleriepark
Ms.Valerie Park's own Joshua Amberson reading w/Orson. (Art by Chask'e Lindgren).