Scribble Faster #2: The Mix Tape
Issue #26
by Megan Garrity
By Liz Mason
Published: December 1st, 2005 | 4:52pm
I always hear people talk about mix cassette tapes being retro and therefore better than CD mixes. I like both, but in the end, doesn’t it really come down to whether the music you’ve put on your mix is good or sucky? The mix tape is certainly back in fashion, as evidenced in Thurston Moore’s book, Mix Tape: The Art of Cassette Culture, and Chicago’s mix-tape stenciling and hiding project, but Megan Garrity might say it never went away.
Her zine, Scribble Faster, explores one woman’s focus on the mix-tape “phenomenon” and its relationship to her personal “how I got into punk rock” history. Nick Hornby comparisons are inevitable, but Garrity’s got a softer touch. As many stories of relationships can turn out, Scribble Faster is wistful, though there are also maxims that make it interesting and not too self-centered. In addition, cool appropriated and mussed-up graphics give it an appealingly crafty touch.
“I have seen too much male posturing, too few guys crediting girls for what they know,” she writes. Indeed, women have always had the mix tape/CD bug too. It’s just that female mix tapers and their zines, like SF, just don’t always get the credit or recognition they deserve.
Scribble Faster #2: The Mix Tape
By Megan Garrity
4"x5.5"; 64 pages; $2
scribblefaster.com
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