JUNE GUNK is Ready For You and it’s 12 Pages.
Secret Riso Club made GUNK a 12 page zine for us and we feel like the luckiest guys in the world. We both wrote a piece for this month, we’ll even mail GUNK to you!
Nothing is Really at Stake
by Ceci Sturman
My girlfriend has a list of dog names on her phone that just keeps scrolling forever, GUNK came from that.
Last september we went to a small viewing of the film CATS (not CATS the musical but a film made by a group of friends obsessed with CATs the musical) and the film closed with the crew singing silly cat names that was probably 8 minutes long and way over extended the patience of the viewers, us, but we liked it the whole time.
The movie was sent as a submission through the gunk email.
I was thinking that it is cool that we have been doing this thing for almost a year and it barely feels like it at all, never once has it felt burdensome or unexciting, which feels lucky but
Is luck real? I don't know if it’s real or if it’s something we create for ourselves, of course enhanced by where we come from and what we have access to and how we let things pass by and around us, and me, I have always considered myself a very neurotic person.
When I started making music it didn’t feel like a choice at all. I was taking a class in a church basement, a church I went to at the time but felt shy about admitting to people. It was a class on creativity and spirituality and we were supposed to create something in a completely new medium, so I wanted to write a song on my guitar. I couldn’t sing it so I asked hannah to,
another thing, I like sharing more than anything else.
In every way being surrounded by music has challenged everything about myself and how I let things pass by and around me. And even as I write that I wonder if that is just me getting older.
For example, I don’t really make a lot of decisions other than to keep going and it’s not even hard to choose that, I would consider it lucky
and
my little sister and I always fight about sharing, she hides her toothpaste when I visit my family in Virginia, ridiculous, my mom and I laugh and shake our heads because we are both older sisters but Lucy wants something to herself and it never has to do with me, I know that.
it never takes anything away.
I know that too.
In October Hannah and I decided to live without each other for the first time in 9 years, they asked for that, I said okay
They asked me to start a showpaper with them, I said okay
I don’t know what pull runs deeper for me, to share (with you) or to create (with you), and why does that frame even matter when nothing is really at stake
The other day Alexa told me that when something is at stake we cling to What’s At Stake and I wrote it down in my notes app immediately notes app immediately. Sometimes I think I just want the choice.
I texted this piece to my girlfriend, GUNK is just like one big list too, she said.
Running GUNK is very easy because it is just choosing to share over and over, I don’t mean this in a self congratulatory way at all, more to show you that it is basically the easiest thing I’ve ever done.
JUNE GUNK x Secret Riso Club (by Gonzalo Guerrero and Tara Ridgedell)
Thanks for 10 months of GUNK.
We couldn’t be more stoked to share this issue with you. It’s 12 pages of shows, features (two from both of your editors being mushy about each-other, as usual), a full GUNK print in the middle (that I am immediately framing in my apartment), and a flyer for our launch party on June 14th. GUNK will be available at all the typical spots: honeymoon coffee shop (ridgewood) topos (ridgewood) normas (ridgewood) milk&pull (ridgewood), little roy (bed stuy), playground zine box (bed stuy) prima (clinton hill) the lot zine box (greenpoint). were going hard on distro, so hit us up if you want to help!
We’re excited to launch a new feature:
To secure a copy, we’ll now mail June GUNK to you (or do local delivery for NYC heads) for $10. You can become a subscriber on Substack, or if you’re a paid subscriber, up your monthly donation to get this guy. Please make sure to send us your mailing address, if you up the subscription. We know that you could also just wander around and hope to find GUNK, which you still can, but don’t you want to support your local diy showpaper! All $$$ will cover printing and ink costs. Other perks of $10/month membership will be announced next month including exclusive merch drops etc.
Show List Time
***Come to our June Launch Party from 8-10pm at
. We had so much fun at the May one, and took notes (Ceci and Hannah can’t talk for 4 hours straight) so we’re iterating baby! We’ll be hanging with Secret Riso Club and listening to DJ KP. And eating fish burritos, and maybe have some cool GUNK merch?***
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