Putting this together was my heart’s dream. Which came to my mind as many projects do. Some move forward and others dissolve. I did try group involvement and tried to pull in the many hands in how to present my heart’s dream.
An episode is a narrative unit within a larger dramatic work or documentary production, such as a series intended for radio, television, or on-line consumption. Episode derives from the Greek term (Ancient Greek: ἐπεισόδιον / epeisodion), meaning the material contained between two songs or odes in a Greek tragedy.
A little personal Los Angeles Flipside Fanzine information…
The reason I left Flipside Fanzine was for personal reasons. Al went on without me… we left each other. Like all break-ups, it was not easy for either of us. I came to Flipside with what I left it with … myself.
Even though I had a legal right to Flipside. Yet it was myself I was thinking about. My health and well-being. I was very burnt out. I also had two miscarriages. I escaped to the East coast to get away.
He had plenty of people to help out… as well. I am amazed how others know our story better than Al and I do.
Now as many have over the last 10 years or more have come back to affirm their life in the punk scene.
Mine is to protect and preserve the narrative 1977 to 1989. As a co- owner and editor of Flipside Fanzine.
Over the years I have found dissected Flipside material all over the place. No original source tagging. So, I pull it back into a narrative as best as one person can do. To make Los Angeles Flipside Fanzine whole again.
It has not been an easy journey.
Yet some people whom I really don’t know very well tell me how things were when they were not even there. Instead of understanding my mission, I am belittled, and Al is made out to be some sort of saint.
I would be happy to see you ‘90s Flipside People’ produce a book or narrative like I have to tell your story.
I have. It is honest and you cannot tell me mine by hearsay.
I have collaborated with many people helping them out with their stories. And some are nice, and others have taken advantage of my kindness.
If you want to address me in the future a private message would be nice. Yet cruel and insulting comments as you have been making will be deleted again.
I reached out for participation from fans, and I reached out to those who worked on Flipside Fanzine. And the sound of the desert was everywhere.
Fortunately, a few years ago, I went to a local synagogue for an art event. An artist was giving a lecture on creation stories and art. I was amazed at the insight and reflection in his presentation, but it was how he finished his talk with our own personal creation story. He said,
“We can all render our own creation story as a painting, a poem… there are endless ways to tell a narrative of your life.”
I thought about my tenure as publisher, owner, editor of Los Angeles Flipside Fanzine. I was vague on the actual creation story for this fanzine.
Then it hit me hard to tell this narrative. So, I gathered the original staff of Los Angeles Flipside Fanzine, as many as could address the issue. X-8 declined which was sad to me for he was the actual creator of this fanzine. Al is not interested and seems he has fallen off the edge of the world. Pooch and Pete gave me a run around.
Al and I produced a system that worked for us running a punk rock fanzine. You can ask someone once or twice to do something but never a third time…
“Just isn’t going to happen.”
We did it ourselves or someone else would jump in. That is how it was done.
This is how it is still done. Larry, Tory, and Adolescents singer Mr. Tony Reflex were there to do it. Even Mike Ness, from the band Social Distortion, was up for an interview. As we are old time friends. Yet he did not pass the test… so I had to move forward.
I am incredibly happy with what came forward with three honest great storytellers of the highest order in my mind. How grateful I am for a solid Los Angeles Flipside Creation Story.
I did a little research while in the process of achieving these interviews and how I presented them.
A little advice from my protagonist American film director maker Michael Moore, and even a tidbit from my nemesis, American singer, writer, spoken word artist, the Henry Rollins.
I read that Michael said you begin with what you have around you and Henry said, once in a documentary, that a lot of us did not keep or preserve our stuff and that upset him.
I started this narrative creation story with Michael’s advice, and I was happy to disappoint Henry with a positive to his negative. I have a lot of preserved stuff from my “youthful rebellion days” as a fanatical fanzine punk rock journalist.
Hallelujah.
The details are not as important, but I worked with Zoom, my iPhone, Adobe Premier Pro, and many other little ‘willy-nilly’ of D.I.Y. learning as you go. Created all during the end of the Southern California COVID-19 pandemic.
As I say it not the best or the worst, creation narrative or Epeisodions yet it does tell a story…. Flipside Fanzine is all in the voice of a punk, band member or artist or the old dame sitting at the edge of the pub surfing her stool, like me!
Mission complete.
Hudley Flipside,
Los Angeles Flipside Fanzine Narrative Documentary Film. “Epeisodion One, Two and Three
The Seminary of Praying Mantis Publishing
hudleyflipside.com
Wild Filmmaker February 2024
Click on my grinning mug to take you to all three Epeisodions for free viewing on my YouTube Channel.
