I SIGHED AT THE SEA & THE SEA SIGHED BACK AT ME

    This is a collection of my notebook entries dating from 1998 to 2003. I started my notebook in 1998 as part of a diaries class taught by John Wilson at UC Santa Barbara, and this volume includes the orginal entries that started the 'notebook.'

Review from Xerography Debt #16 (March 2005):

    Gawd damn, I loved this zine—essentially a thick book. It’s a diary, stab bound with a French fold, with a block print of an umbrella on the cover. ISWTSATSSBAM is an enormous, expansive, dense, artsy, poetic, dancey, epic wonder to behold. I’ve been working my way through it for months now, underlining lines, weaving images into my dreams, wishing I could understand more of the person who made it (in the best way possible) and the zine itself. It’s like a broken key into this other world that’s ripe for exploring. Or some fanciful secret language or something. I’m sorry, I don’t even know how to really explain this zine. I just know that I dig it a ton.

        Let me just quote a bit instead of trying to babble.

November 8, 1998
don’t listen, don’t listen to me, listen. she is so contagious. her contagious lips in synthesis. her lips the mosquitoes kisssss. kiss off! i want to steal & swallow kisses innocently, immaculately.
life’s much more fun when you can roll away.
i keep my rollerskates in my car, just in case.

    It’s a lot of that, but better and more. I realize that $10 is a lot to pay for a zine. I really do. But if you’re looking for something different, something that is deeper than most zines, that leaves room for interpretation and fluidity, then get this zine. Highly recommended.

        - Julie Dorn