WELCOME TO ANOTHER SPECIAL SPECIAL EDITION ZINE FROM CULTURE CRINGE, I HOPE YOU LIKE IT AS MUCH AS I LIKED MAKING ITII

and 1 hope it's cool

Preface: huge shout out to the artist responsible for the visuals of LOST IN SPACE, that l used your work In my zine :)

Bes INTRODUCTION.

kose nn in the late 90s / early 2000s during the olia came out | was movie for,

| became a huge fan of Aimee Ma Bachelor No. 2 and Magnolia era. | remember when Magn obsessed with the soundtrack as well as the movie. It became a comfort me. Strange, | know. | bought the DVD and stupid me bought the widescreen version, which didn’t look so great on my big bulky 4:3 CRT TV.! was a full frame guy, through and through.A lot of my movie loving friends were like,“nah man you gotta get the widescreen so you can see the whole picture” but it just wasn tmy f thing. I'd rather sacrifice a little of the image to have it take up the whole screen. ETT. What was | talking about again??!! PREZ MI OHYEAH so when | heard that Aimee was going to put out a new album in 20021 $ got super excited. | went to the official website and | must have signed up for the |i 17 street team there. | wanted to do anything and everything to help get the word out. & During that time, | worked as a maintenance painter at MTSU which was right next to my apartment. | would put my sony disc-man in my backpack and run the headphone cable out of it and listen to music all day while painting. I WORE my Aimee Mann CDs out. l had to be super careful because if | turned too fast or stepped too hard, the cd would skip a little. And to think, it advertised ON THE 7 PLAYER ITSELF that it had anti-skip technology! LIERS. Anywasy Anyways, | wore || — these great big over the ear headphones so | couldn't hear much of anything while working. One time, | was deep in thought and probably listening to the Magnolia soundtrack when a couple of wise guys decided it would be funny to spray me with Yo an old fire extinguisher that they had found in an old closet.They got me good. | was jU # covered in whatever that material is, except it was one from like 1985.The culprits “4 were a group of kids who were in a summer program where | taught them how to 73 paint and ya know, be responsible. How would | teach them their lesson.... No more headphones for me, | brought my boom box and made them listen to MY music /

with me. No compromises.They got a crash course in the music | loved that 14 summer, including a ton of Aimee Mann. By the end of their tenure there, one kid Ji SO begrudgingly mentioned to me that he “kinda dug that Red Vines song.”

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After I signed up for the Superego street team, materials I would get,

got had a ton of Lost I

I wasn't sure what promo but I was ready to do anything I could! The first box I n Space promo posters and (i think) postcards. Now let me say that the aesthetic of the art design wowed me beyond belief. | hadn't heard the music yet (maybe some online samples?) but I was STOKED. One day I came home from work on my bike and saw another box on the doorstep. It was much bigger.....what could it be? CD SAMPLERS?? WOWI Tons of them. I had never had a street team go this hard with awesome promo. Well i Immediately loaded up my backpack (no longer used for music listening purposes) with posters, cards, and samplers and went back on campus. This was back when you could freely put up flyers and posters to your hearts lu content, didn't need permission or anything. Every bulletin board got one that evening. The student center had a promo table where people put fiyers, zines, | business cards, whatev, so it received a stack of CDs. Next stop - the local coffee shop The Red Rose. If you went to the Red Rose that summer / fall, yo | got a CD sampler. I kept them in stock there vigilantiv. Every music store in 77 town was next on the list, including the long-lost Hastings. They hung posters up EVERYWHERE in the music section. One thing about Hastings: they would do a midnight release for nearly any album if you asked them to. So me and my friend Nick got them to do a few midnight releases here and there just so we could get an album we wanted a little early. When the street date arrived

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THE CAR

One funny thing about taking the promo stuff around the region: my car atthe time was a 1989 Toyota Corolla that had this wonky air conditioner that KINDA worked...that is, it would usually NOT work at all when you first started the car. You had to get up some speed, then preferably hit a pothole or bump — “then you'd hear this THUMP under the hood and it would start working. It was, a roulette, you never knew how long you had before it would kick off. Once it started working, the windows would get rolled up quickly to take advantage. IfI was on the interstate or smooth moving traffic, it would usually stay on until I came to a stop....then THUMP it would go off again. Sometimes if I put it in neutral and revved the engine, then popped the clutch upon starting it would kick it back on. It was sorta fun actually, kind of like a game. ANYWAYS I drove that car all over the region delivering the promo stuff to any and every record store I could find. It was incredibly fun and rewarding, as I got to meet a lot of the owners / workers at the stores. Made a few friends, stuff like that. I was a also in a band at the time and frequented a lot of the smaller clubs around Nashville so anytime we played a show I would make sure the club got some stuff. Now back to my Toyota Corolla. I couldn’t find an old picture of it, but I did find a similar one online so for your consideration, I present to youa pic of

my Lost In Space promo-mobile,

PREPARE YOURSELF.

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Welcome to the Superego Records =. Skeet Team web page! VIN

A note from Aimee! Dear Beloved Street Team,

"Lost In Space“ Is finally finished, and I've heard rumors that you guys

are already gearing up for the big campaign. You did an amazing job on the jast one iim constantly impressed at now hard you guys work. So I'm thanking you in advance for your effort and support on my behaif...we truly couldn edo without you. You've been a Godsend.

Tifisee you out there soon, and I hope you all like the new record!

Loven Alee (July 2002)

SCREENSHOT FROM 2002 OF THE SUP RECORDS STREET TEAM PAGE!!!

THE CD SAMPLE

f I think it’s awesome that the sampler h. gen w e longue Songs on it besides the ee t fa miiie new album! Super super cool.

One of the perks of being on the street team was a guest list spot to see the tour when it came to town. Unfortunately, Nashville wasn't very hip at all back then and most acts skipped the city altogether, which made sense because of the lack of versatile venues. We had small clubs and an arena, ġġ: basically. However the following year she was at one of those riverfront ati | festivals - I can't remember what it was called....Riverstages maybe? I got an email saying l was on the list — HOW COOL! One problem. I had just started a job at a cafe and as one of the new guys, I had to work on Saturdays. That's when the show was. UGH. Maybe I can get off. Nope. Turns out they had f: A booked a huge wedding party that day and it was all-hands on deck. Well, 1 |= may have missed the show but I did prove mv worth in the kitchen that dav bv belting out pan after pan of squash casserole. FUN FACT about the kitchen job. We had this deal where we took turns controlling the stereo in the €717 kitchen, so each person had their dav where thev could plav what thev kò wanted. Lost In Space got a lot of playtime. My co-workers were cool, they | included Joey from the Americana band Glossary. He was like an (77: on I| encyclopedia of music. I remember he wore out the Lucinda Williams aibum} Car Wheels on a Gravel Road. I grew to like it quite a bit. We also had a 4 tradition of at closing, we alwavs plaved this live album bv ALABAMA. We knew every word to every song....but not only that, we knew every yeli, every | “oh yeah", every scream that Randy Owen did. And we did it every time. That CD created a war between the kitchen staff and the servers, who would get | SOOOO mad every time we put it on. One time the CD came up missing and it Ma. made the owner call a staff meeting because we were so upset and couldn't ind another copv anvwhere in town (before streaming, folks).....it got prettv A heated and people threatened the quit on both sides. The CD was found in the Stock room soon after, but that was only after one of us made a trip to @ Nashville to find a new copy. It was a pretty intense time but I do really still like to listen to that Alabama live album. It’s called “Alabama Live.”

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It would be hard to find another album that defined life for me in my early 208 than Lost In Space. I'm sure, like a lot of people, it became a soundtrack to the season in the fall of 2002. I sure as hell wore it out. Listening now, it reminds me of that year after I graduated college and didn't want to commit to anything at any time. I oould seriously live on like $50 a week. Just kinda pin balling through life and Jeaking looking forward to the next party or rock show. I know it’s cliche but I DO miss the old world, the slower internet and the VHS rental stores of course. I enjoyed not knowing what every single person was thinking at every moment. Actually, I find solace now in only watching movies where technology hasn’t progressed any further than flip-phones. Something about that seems comforting to me.

MUSIC

ere when l listen to most music, I rarely even listen I thought that was how everyone listened to. I have never understood how people sing car. So yeah, i finally realized that it's to what the words are saying most of the time....BUT | feel iike I can definitely get the message and the mood. Like, I know when it's a happy song ora sad song, even when the music itself is the opposite of that. i mean, l don't know the words to Just Like Heaven by The Cure, even though Pve heard it 5000 times. But I know exactly what he's SS

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1 will admit that one important excep is the ALABAMA LIVE album that I mentioned earlier. | think I learned most of the lyrics because of f the setting in the kitchen and hearing the other guys sing along. Or maybe U in order to piss off the servers.

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