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― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 16:23 (nineteen years ago) link

I just got a subscription to Seed magazine, and I'd like to get one for O'Reilly's Make magazine when it comes out.

― Dale the Panopticalist (cprek), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 16:49 (nineteen years ago) link

private eye innit

― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 17:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, I've got ARTFORUM, FILM COMMENT, JUXTAPOZ, DETAILS and ESQUIRE. Light reading.

I've dumped Film Comment and Juxtapoz since, how many stories about Fincher script attachments or hot rod art does one man really need? I've only added Found Magazine, but will be picking up the glorious New American Paintings soon. (!!!)

― dean? (deangulberry), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 17:08 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

TOO MANY MAGAZINES HELP!

― Little Lord Travolta (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 15:36 (nineteen years ago) link

I need to suscribe to some more.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Tape Op, The Wire but just stopped The New Yorker because I don't have enough time to read it + other magazines + books AND have a life. Though I love the New Yorker.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 20:59 (nineteen years ago) link

I HATE seeing magazines that I subscribe to on the newstand before I get them in the mail!!!! This happens all the time. it never used to. It happened in philly as well as this rock i live on now. the new yorker, gq, harpers, the star, all my mags. it takes the fun out of getting them. everyone is already talking about the new louis menand piece or paris' new haircut and i have to wait and wait and wait!

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 21:24 (nineteen years ago) link

scott seward,

At least w/the New Yorker you can read it online, which in a pinch (meaning while my gf has it), is what I have been forced to do.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 21:28 (nineteen years ago) link

New Yorker, Smithsonian, Wired, Film Comment

― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 21:31 (nineteen years ago) link

The New Yorker seems to get knocked from time to time for being too "upper crust" but survives those attacks because at it's best it's really fucking good.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 21:33 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't think it's uppercrusty as much as New Yorky - and there's a huge overlap, admittedly, but it's mostly at the service of its target demographic.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 21:39 (nineteen years ago) link

I have subscriptions to Time, Newsweek, Wire, ESPN the Magazine and SportsNews, but I don't know how. I've been getting them regularly for three years but have never paid a dime. No one I know owns up to buying the subscriptions for me.

Other than that, I pay for subscriptions to ReadyMade magazine (DIY design/furnishings/etc.) and Juxtapoz (outsider art?).

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I get the Believer too. And Rolling Stone. And Esquire. And Us Weekly. And Instyle. And Vanity Fair. As well as the ones I mentioned: Harpers, New Yorker, The Star, and GQ. And someone gave us The Nation as a gift, but I rarely read it. It's pretty bad. This month's Believer came with a reprint of the first issue of the legendary Army Man zine that the guy from the Simpsons started. Good interview with the Simpsons guy too. (George Meyer)

Oh, I also get the mag that is like Us & The Star, but I can't think of the name. In-something or other.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 22:01 (nineteen years ago) link

I want to get Discover again. I like Discover. And we would get New Scientist if it weren't so expensive. I go back and forth on whether or not I want to get the New York Review Of Books. I think I do, but when I see it on the stand I rarely want to read anything in it.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 22:05 (nineteen years ago) link

I used to get The Nation several years ago and thought it was good. Now it seems bad. I wonder if I just got older or if something happened.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 22:07 (nineteen years ago) link

It'a lot of ranting, not a whole lotta reporting. the ads don't do it any favors either. ani difranco looking quizzical doesn't do much for me. or trillin's pithy poems either. i do like greider though.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 22:14 (nineteen years ago) link

It's a lot like what people complain about on ILX. Bush is bad! In other news, Bush is REALLY bad! It's a rant zine. I understand the impulse, I enjoy a good rant, but to read it every week is a bit much.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 22:18 (nineteen years ago) link

I used to get a ton of magazines, haven't really in a couple years now.
At one time or another I subscribed to: Film Comment, Magnet, The Big Takeover, Die Hard Gamefan, EGM, Gamepro, Nintendo Power (my first ever subscription at age 8), Spin, Rolling Stone, Guitar World, Guitar For The Practicing Musician, Premeire, Entertainment Weekly, US....I'm sure there were more but you get the idea. There were also a bunch of magazines I collected but never subscribed to cuz they weren't any cheaper that way: Maximum Rock N Roll, Flipside, Punk Planet etc.

John Waters has over 100 magazine subscriptions. I had a list from Utne Reader at one point I could go look for later. It was fucking insane.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 22:31 (nineteen years ago) link

DO I NEED TO READ JUXTAPOZ?

― Little Lord Travolta (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 22:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Juxtapoz is cool.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 22:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Juxtapoz is worth reading, even the weak issues have something of merit. Their street-art special issue was k-lame, though. Mass Appeal-y graff artist meets art world/corporate sponsorship stuff.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 30 September 2004 00:00 (nineteen years ago) link

scott, this is why I don't want to subscribe to any knitting magazines, because I am always hearing how they arrive on the newstands before they get sent to subscribers! (Plus the discount is enough, haha)

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 30 September 2004 03:46 (nineteen years ago) link

I am also debating whether to get Martha Stewart Everyday Food because I am paranoid it will fold once I send a check for it.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 30 September 2004 03:49 (nineteen years ago) link

we get Spin, American Thunder, Tape Op, and Popular Mechanics here.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 30 September 2004 05:09 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

God, I love the New Yorker. I lay in bed this morning and read the whole article on baby products!

― adam... (nordicskilla), Saturday, 13 November 2004 23:47 (nineteen years ago) link

in order to maintain my constant state of susceptability to alternative branding campaigns by brand's like Scion (HEY! I have one! FUCK : ( ) and Nike (hey, phil, those short films are awesome-- just come up with a couple of designs that i don't sound shitty when i'm not listening to the neptunes and i'm in!) i subscribe to RES, Wired, Dazed & Confused, Premiere, Film Comment, GQ, National Geographic, Ready Made, Creative Arts magazines, Tokion and The Believer... but i must stop as i rarely have time to read novels if i try to read all these. my girlfriend gets a bunch of fashion mags too.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Sunday, 14 November 2004 19:19 (nineteen years ago) link

look shitty, not sound shitty... but some of those designs do seem to have more of a sound than a fully realized visual aesthetic... bah, anyhow, whatever...

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Sunday, 14 November 2004 19:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Wire, Cook's Illustrated, Consumer Reports

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Sunday, 14 November 2004 19:30 (nineteen years ago) link

The Atlantic Monthly and Harper's. And in theory Cooks Illustrated, although the first issue hasn't come yet. And I never can remember whether I've finally subscribed to Stay Free! or not.

Adam, did you end up getting Travel + Leisure? My old roommate got it and it was like an airplane magazine. Nearly impossible to read, your eyes just slid off the page.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 14 November 2004 19:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I get bloody Spin. Which is worse than Wizard.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Sunday, 14 November 2004 20:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I've just subscribed to Mojo as one of the sweeteners is the the Elvis '68 Comeback 3DVD box set.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Sunday, 14 November 2004 20:57 (nineteen years ago) link

The New Yorker
New York Review of Books
Vanity Fair
Gourmet
Wired
Vogue
I follow my dad's rule of subscribing to magazines w/o feeling guilty about how much of 'em you actually read. Esp. w/The NY'er you can let 'em pile up with the noble intention of "getting around to that John McPhee piece about tugboats someday."

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Sunday, 14 November 2004 21:21 (nineteen years ago) link

They're still serializing that piece, eh?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 14 November 2004 21:42 (nineteen years ago) link

right now new york magazine is my favorite because it's pure fluff and I'm still a little queasy around hard news/politics (huge stack of economists waiting until I am well). Their delivery schedule out here in the midwest is wack though, I got two issues on wednesday and another on friday.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 15 November 2004 01:00 (nineteen years ago) link

"getting around to that John McPhee piece about tugboats someday."

a town only like 12 miles from me got mentioned in that piece, + i've been not-too-seriously thinking about working on a barge...so hopefully i'll get around to reading it someday

why do liberals like the economist so much?? cuz it has lots of numbers?

― John (jdahlem), Monday, 15 November 2004 03:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I got a free subscription to Giant from the internet and it's surprisingly good. I wouldn't pay for it or anything, but it's worth flipping through.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Monday, 15 November 2004 03:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Right now, I subscribe to three magazines, all of which begin with the word "New":

New York Review of Books - hands down the one subscription I wouldn't let lapse
New Republic - I don't always agree with it, but they come out with enough interesting and timely political analysis that I keep reading it
New Yorker - the least read of the bunch, in fact if it weren't for the listings section I probably would have let my subscription lapse by now

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 15 November 2004 18:32 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

The New Yorker piece about tugboats is great.

I have now added Artforum and a local photo 'zine called Hamburger Eyes.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 30 December 2004 18:48 (nineteen years ago) link

I looked at Juxtapoz but it left me kind of cold.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 30 December 2004 18:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Arthur.
I know it's free at stores, but I wanted one of those Bastet cd's that you can get with a subscription. I got that "Golden Apples of the Sun" comp, which is pretty damn good, but it has mysteriously disappeared from the jewel case. Plus, I wanted to support what it seriously the best new magazine getting published in America, even if the last two issues weren't all that mindblowing.

― Trip Maker (Sean Witzman), Thursday, 30 December 2004 19:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Juxtapoz always seems like it should be a gay magazine.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 30 December 2004 19:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Strike a poz, there's nothing to it.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 30 December 2004 19:26 (nineteen years ago) link

It would be better if it really was gay, I think. Maybe it should come out like Details did!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 30 December 2004 19:28 (nineteen years ago) link

I have a subscription to BLENDER now, which is kind of embarrassing but fun.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 30 December 2004 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Like all good things.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 30 December 2004 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link

SEED magazine has fucked up my subscription for the last 4 issues (i.e. not receiving them)

Despite these infuriating problems, it's a good read.

― Drake Beardoooo, Thursday, 30 December 2004 19:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Avoid Juxtapoz. It's better now than it has ever been but it is still pretty redundant. There's just not that much Tiki or Hot Rod related "art" content out there. Face it, guys.

― I'm serious ... Ti-i-i-i-im (deangulberry), Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:03 (nineteen years ago) link

How is New American Paintings?

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link

I should start getting National Geographic again, yes? It would be a good randomizer function. And probably the Atlantic Monthly and maybe New York Review of Books.

I get the New Yorker, but can't remember if I pay for it or not. I don't read it often.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link

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