My (and the Monster's) Back Pages

Bedsit bricoleur Monster Bobby has a new website, based around the Polish motorway system, and presently the Baku Metro. It's well worth a root around, with the usual collection of interestingly arranged promotional information on tours, records and pub quizzes - but note at the top of the map, a link to an almost complete set of the unfortunately named publication Totally Bored. This was edited by myself and the Monster for five issues between 2003 and 2005. Thankfully, for the first two issues I used a pseudonym (prizes for guessing), but there's still enough to induce some embarrassment. Also some minor pride at making a zine which wasn't devoted entirely to third-rate indie acts, and that made some connections between music (whether Oxbow or Roll Deep) politics, art and literature, however clumsily. And the design of the things is far less awful than I remembered it - although the second issue was 'designed' mostly by myself with actual proper pritt stick, so all blame taken there. The second is also the best issue by some leagues, with a certain obsessive bunker mentality to it that is difficult to replicate in the intangible world wide web...