{"id":1665,"date":"2007-08-14T23:42:54","date_gmt":"2007-08-14T23:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/14\/the_matter_of_a\/"},"modified":"2024-11-27T17:50:59","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T22:50:59","slug":"the_matter_of_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/14\/the_matter_of_a\/","title":{"rendered":"The Matter of Anti-Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Oh, and in my free time time this year<\/strong> I designed a book, too. It\u2019s also my first design project to get its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/antimatterbook\">own MySpace page<\/a>, since it\u2019s about indy music stuff and the music folks apparently use the MySpace once in a while. It&#8217;s by my good friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nervousacid.org\/\">Norm<\/a>, and you should buy it.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Anti-Matter Anthology\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/antimatterbook\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/antimatter_cover.jpg\" alt=\"Anti-Matter\" width=\"100%\" height=\"671\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seriously, though, it\u2019s a fantastic read, especially if you have any interest at all in hardcore and post-punk bands of the \u201990s. (If you do, you probably know who Norm is anyway.) <i>Anti-Matter<\/i> was a zine he published that featured these amazing, insightful, totally natural interviews with a bunch of great bands. Norm had (well, still has) an amazing ability to get past the party line and get people to really talk to him, and that honesty is what makes these collected interviews so engaging, even if \u2014 like me \u2014 you might only be familiar with a few of the bigger names included.<\/p>\n<p>And the photography! I haven\u2019t seen the book in print yet, but if they reproduced the photos well then this is even more of a must-have for anyone into that era&#8217;s scene. Seriously, just buy it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, and in my free time time this year I designed a book, too. It\u2019s also my first design project to get its own MySpace page, since it\u2019s about indy music stuff and the music folks apparently use the MySpace once in a while. It&#8217;s by my good friend Norm, and you should buy it. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/14\/the_matter_of_a\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Matter of Anti-Matter&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,16,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracultural","category-ultramedia","category-ultrapersonal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71377,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions\/71377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}