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Eyelid at Macondo, date unknown.

I (finally) found the 1993 set of my Macondo flyers. Here they go:




January 7, 1993
Unwound | Still Life | Diesel | Kerosene 454
(That's Josh Quagmire's QT Bunny dressed as Storm...)




January 14, 1993
Hell No! | Merel | Man Is The Bastard | Diesel | Honeywell
(...Felipe from Mafalda by Quino...)




January 15, 1993
Strife | Focused | Ice | Function | Consequence | Casperspook
(...and Calvin and Mom by Bill Watterson. This show was supposed to take place at Pasadena Ciy College but did not due to some mix-up. Oscar Macondo made this flyer if I recall correctly...)




January 22, 1993
Still Life | Driftwood | Missing Honey | Evergreen | Casperspook
(This one was part of our series organized at USC.)




January 29, 1993
Focused | Casperspook | Consequence | Remain | + more!
(Another one at USC. I recycled this Doraemon concept from an older flyer I made.)




February 7, 1993
The Mr. T Experience | Sensefield | Soulfire | Horace Pinker | Pocket
(That's Libertad from Mafalda by Quino...)




February 12, 1993 & February 28, 1993
Born Against | Heroin | Diesel | Brookhurst
+
Spitboy | J Church | Rain Like The Sound Of Trains | Beekeeper | Driftwood
(Two-show flyer made by Unfucked/West Coast Drag.)




February 26, 1993
Blackspot | Strife | Function | Remain
(Flyer by Heric Patchwork.)




February 28, 1993
Spitboy | J Church | Rain Like The Sound Of Trains | Beekeeper | Driftwood
(Made by me with some photo I found and Keroppi's friend snail.)




March 12, 1993
Sensefield | Gameface | Evergreen | Remain
(Show at USC. They made this flyer, I think...)




April 04, 1993
Jawbreaker | Still Life | Evergreen | Casperspook | Manumission | Lumps
(Pre-major label Jawbreaker was fun...)




April 10, 1993
Supertouch | Farside | Strife | Stagger
(I didn't make this flyer, but I dig the Kathe Köllwitz image.)




April 18, 1993
Down By Law | Holy Water | Distorted Pony | Bobsled
(Flyer by Patchwork Fanzine's Heric. On a related note, I was kinda bummed to find out yesterday that Down By Law's frontman Dave Smalley was a columnist for the Conservative Punk blog. Go figure...)




April 25, 1993
Bikini Kill | Not For The Lack Of Trying | Lather | Canopy
(Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna pulled an un-cool act of violence against one of Macondo's friends at this show. If you know the scoop, you know. If not, ask me, I won't say 'no', how could I...)




May 23, 1993
Avail | Campaign | Not For The Lack Of Trying | Antioch Arrow
(2-up flyer by me, photo lifted from who-knows-where...)




June 13, 1993
Worlds Collide | Strife | Downset | Consequence | Remain | FYP
(Macondo's one year of hardcore flyer by Oscar Macondo, featuring hardcore flyer mainstay Calvin by Bill Watterson.)



June 26, 1993
Into Another | Railhead | Ashes Dust | Smile
(I can't remember who made this flyer... Maybe someone from Jade Tree Records? In any case, the "Support Independent Music" statement is still relevant.)




July 16, 1993
Game Face | Casperspook | Saltlick
(Rini Templeton drawing on this flyer. I remember this show being exceedingly fun.)




July 20, 1993
Lifetime | Chorus Of Disapproval | Bouncing Souls | Neck Deep | Cereal
(Didn't make the flyer, but the show was epic! I guess you just had to be there...)




August 1, 1993
Sparkmarker | Undertow | Strife | Remain | Unbroken
(We were on a roll with the groundbreaking shows! I think Sparkmarker or Undertow flipped the image from the Jacob's Ladder movie poster...)




August 10, 1993
Blackspot | Drift Again | Ashes | Entity | Darkroom
(I have no idea who made this one, but I dig the no-graphics look.)




October 11, 1993
Phleg Camp | Casperspook
(Once again, I appropriated a Josh Quagmire character and Keroppi's snail homie...)




October 16, 1993
Spitboy | Still Life | Manumission
(I didn't make a flyer for this show 'cuz I dug this Raging Bull one...)




November 13, 1993
Game Face | Bouncing Souls | Remain | New Day
(I made this flyer during a ditching mission from school and no computer access.)




December 11, 1993
Sensefield | Kerosene 454 | Shroom Union | Clikatat Ikatowi
(Another legendary show, photo "borrowed" from Sebastião Salgado...)

Typical scene at Macondo, circa 1996.

I finally found a bunch of old Macondo hardcore flyers I thought I had lost when my old blog expired. I'll be organizing them by year, annotating them as much as possible, and reposting them here.




May 31, 1992
Social Justice | Strife | Bottom Line | Knowledge Threat
(If I recall correctly, this show actually got cancelled.)




June 13, 1992
Social Justice | Strife | Interlocked | Outright
(This the first hardcore show at Macondo.)




July 12, 1992
Downcast | One Step Ahead | Strife | Diesel | Interlocked
(We raised the price from $3 to the less-punk $5 as of this show.)




July 26, 1992
Ressurection | Lifetime | Strife | Unbroken
(Fucked up and spelled Ressurection's name incorrectly on this one.)




August 15, 1992
One Step Ahead | Social Justice | Gameface | Ice | Knowledge Threat
(I jacked this image of Mafalda from a book I had as a kid.)




August 23, 1992
Outspoken | Face Value | Pitbull | Unbroken | Interlocked
(If my memory serves me well, Face Value's singer began their set by declaring that the mayhem was about to be brung a year before the Wu brought the ruckus... )




September 13, 1992
Still Life | Diesel | Honeywell | Evergeen | Driftwood | Casperspook
(I dig Doraemon the robot cat so much I recycled this idea later on!)




October 4, 1992
Sparkmarker | Diesel | Honeywell | Interlocked | Bikini Kill
(Bikini Kill ranked it on this one and didn't show up.)






October 11, 1992
Samiam | Sensefield | Still Life | One Step Ahead
(Three different flyers for the same show!)




October 18, 1992
Green Day | Beekeeper | Canopy | Driftwood | Rugburn
(Green Day's drummer broke his foot that weekend and they cancelled. They coincidentally signed to the big leagues that same weekend.)




November 1, 1992
Chorus of Disapproval | Strife | Social Justice | Mean Season | Ice
(It had become de rigeur to feature Calvin on hardcore flyers; Oscar Macondo flipped it and used Calvin's nemesis on this flyer.)




November 18, 1992
Sensefield | Evergreen | Driftwood
(The first flyer I designed using a computer. Im not proud of that fact...)




December 4, 1992
Consequence
(This was the first in a series of shows we put together at USC. Flyer not by me.)



A BIT OF BACKGROUND

What was Macondo Espacio Cultural, you ask? Here's a brief introduction from an archived page on Work is a Four-letter Word webzine:

"Macondo Espacio Cultural was a non-profit, volunteer-run, community-based cultural organization dedicated to providing a space for art forms that are often overlooked and ignored [by mainstream institutions and media.]

Over the course of Macondo's existence, it presented a kaleidoscope of events such as performances by musicians from the Latin American new song movement; traditional and experimental musicians from diverse cultures; independent films; hardcore, punk, and rock shows; arts and crafts workshops; readings; photography and painting exhibitions; graffiti exhibitions and workshops; political and social conferences; and open discussions.

In 1992, Macondo expanded its activities to include hardcore music, as it was an independent and positive force in the lives of those involved."

(And yes, we were located in the now-renown neighborhood known as Hel-Mel or the Bike District in East Hollywood slash Los Angeles. I'll post flicks from the walls I've painted there in the post-cool years soon. Go figure...)