One-Hundred Fingers of Death
by St. Paco (Paco D. Taylor )
7730 East Broadway #925
8 pages
$1 or 2 stamps / trade /letter
Quote from the promotional description that accompanied the
review copy: Originally written for Kung
Fu Grip! #5, One-Hundred Fingers of
Death is a tuff lil text that told its author it was bad enuff to make it
on its own (as an 8-page zine).
Bad enuff? (sp) Yeah, but not in the context the author is
hoping. One-Hundred Fingers of Death reads like a pissing contest (or as the
author puts in, a dick-measuring contest) between the author a friend (and/or
the zine reader) regarding how many martial arts movies someone has watched and
how to aspire to be a martial arts movie watching master. Hello? Is there
nothing else to aspire to in our society? Something that might make a
difference to others, or the community? 100 movies in any genre = 100+
hours of your life that you’ll never get back. The tone of the writing in
One-Hundred Fingers of Death is self referential and arrogant (ok, in all
fairness the same could sometimes be said of One Minute Zine Reviews). Two
pages of this zine is the actual list of movies Paco has watched. One page is a
commercial for Kung Fu Grip. My strong impression is: skip both the movies
& the zine. Get outdoors in the sunshine. Now, breathe.
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