mondo 2000

Finding my old bookmark files has made me nostalgic for the early computing days when everything was new and exciting and full of possibilities. One of my favourite magazines back in the early 90s was Mondo 2000. It was hard to get - only a few places in Brisbane stocked it, actually only two that I recall and even then it was occasional. By the time I got round to subscribing to the magazine it had finished being published and I lost my subscription renewal to the cause so to speak. At the time, it was cutting edge and the full gloss images and interviews with leading thinkers made it a great read. R.U. Sirius who was the editor of the mag has a podcast these days and can be found around mondoglobo.net. Here's a collection of links to mondo 2000 stuff:

mondo articles from the well (link updated : original link broken 25/09/2008 : http://www.well.com:70/1/Publications/MONDO )
interviews :
William Vollmann interview INTERVIEW BY LARRY MCCAFFERY
Glenn Branca and Elliott Sharp:
"We are the Reality of this Cyberpunk Fantasy" IN CONVERSATION WITH MARK DERY
Two Heads Talking David Byrne in conversation with Timothy Leary
UnCoiled!JOHN BALANCE AND PETER CHRISTOPHERSON IN CONVERSATION WITH JAS. MORGAN AND DIANA TRIMBLE
DAVID CRONENBERG
Daniel Johnston INTERVIEW BY ANDREW HULTKRANS
Diamanda GalasINTERVIEW BY GRACIE & ZARKOV
Dr. Fiorella Terenzi IN CONVERSATION WITH JAS. MORGAN & BART NAGEL
Brenda Laurel In Conversation with Jas. Morgan - Intro by Sally Rosenthal
Lush Life My Bloody Valentine's Pink Elephants - INTERVIEW BY GINA HARP
Mark Leyner INTERVIEW BY LARRY MCCAFFERY
MEET THE RESIDENTS? THOSE CRYPTIC GUYS AT THE CORPORATION by Stephen Ronan with St. Jude
Painless Regurgitation of Hysteria - A Chat with Robyn Hitchcock - INTERVIEW BY RICHARD WHITE
ALLUCQUERE ROSANNE STONE INTERVIEW (Final edit 6/12/93)
Constance Penley and Andrew Ross
Editors of Technoculture - INTERVIEWS BY ROBIN MOORE
Terence McKenna INTERVIEW BY GRACIE & ZARKOV
Three Men and a Baby (Universe) The Heart of Tin Machine - INTERVIEW BY RICHARD WHITE
U2's The Edge Meets Negativland INTERVIEW BY MARK HOSLER, DON JOYCE AND R. U. SIRIUS
William Vollmann INTERVIEW BY LARRY MCCAFFERY

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Cyberevolution Montage from issue #7

wikipedia mondo 2000 entry

SF Weekly - history of mondo 2000 article

covers from http://net.info.nl/leary/mondo.htm

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St Jude from MONDO 2000 passed away in 2003 - there's a great memorial of her @ the well

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prior to mondo 2000 there was the "High Frontiers" zine and "Reality Hackers" - I don't have any of these - YET!!

High Frontiers articles (found on the net so far..)

The Psychedelic Shakespeare Solution presents : I UNDERSTAND PHILIP K. DICK by Terence Mckenna (1991)

Basking Robbins: An interview with Tom Robbins (November 1985) by Lawrence Gerald