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“Who does not like being awakened to the sweet song of a bird?”

— Jack Pendarvis, Musin’s and Thinkin’s


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Illustration by Tony Millionaire

TREY ANASTASIO

[MUSICIAN, PHISH]

interviewed by Ross Simonini
“I try to remember how insignificant my experience is, and how people’s experiences with music are their own thing.”
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BERJAYA

THE FICKLE NEEDLE OF FATE

WHO THE HELL PUTS A TURNTABLE
IN A CAR’S DASHBOARD?

by PAUL COLLINS

“Howdy, this is Steve Allen. No—wait a minute, don’t go looking in the glove compartment. I’m not there. I’m not really in the car at all. Not personally, that is. But you have to admit, that RCA Auto Victrola’s a fooler.”

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Also in this issue

FULL TEXT
The Only Unpunished Rapture on Earth
The 2011 Believer Music Issue CD
compiled by Ross Simonini


The Farting Bedpost by Eileen Reynolds

Ain’t I Worth A Dime by Hua Hsu

Mashup City by Marshall Brown

Sweethearts of the Occult by Rozalia Jovanovic

Korean Idol by Frances Cha

No Dickheads, Please by Ronnie Scott


Hello, Brother and Ashulia
new poems by Zubair Ahmed

My Apocalypse and Meant
new poems by Rae Armantrout


Brian Eno in conversation with David Mitchell

David Byrne in conversation with Tom Zé

Martha Wainwright interviewed by Davia Nelson

Julianna Barwick micro-interviewed by David Givens


What the Swedes Read by Daniel Handler

Musin’s and Thinkin’s by Jack Pendarvis

Sedaratives with guest columnist John Roderick

Real Life Rock Top Ten by Greil Marcus

Stuff I’ve Been Reading by Nick Hornby


“Comics”
edited by Alvin Buenaventura

... and more.


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From the archives


Illustration by Charles Burns

Harold Ramis

[WRITER/DIRECTOR]

interviewed by Eric Spitznagel

“I want people to say, ‘You mean that writer performed a tracheotomy?’ That’s right, I do everything.”

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