NO-FI "MAGAZINE"
"STAFF MEMBERS & SPECIAL GUESTS"
Chris Beyond
No-Fi "Magazine" Editor & Creator; Interviews, Articles, Reviews, Illutrations, Photography / No-Fi "Radio" Creator & DJ
E-Mail: nofimag@hotmail.com
FRIENDSTER Profile, MYSPACE Profile
LOCATION: Los Angeles, CA
FAVORITE BANDS AT THE MOMENT:
Centimeters, Gravy Train, Creekbird, Mormons, Dios
FAVORITE MOVIES AT THE MOMENT:
Broad Daylight, Lost In Translation, The Ghastly Ones, Cabin Fever, Run Ronnie Run!
WEIRD TALENT: I can paint lots of detail on really tiny things.
LIFE STORY IN ONE SHORT PARAGRAPH: Shortly after graduating from South Torrance High School, Chris Beyond began production on a public access cable program called "Going Places With Chris & Tony" in which a lot of footage was shot, but Chris never made it to the editing bay to put the whole thing together. Soon after a short move to and from Colorado, Chris found himself in a couple of bands, one of which seemed like it may have gone somewhere which an infamous little song about a certain gal that Chris has since made up with. Putting together the flyers for this and other bands led him to start his own music "magazine" called No-Fi "Magazine" in order to promote his and many other friends' bands which were up-and-coming during the whole Silverlake explosion. After taking a year or so off, No-Fi returned in 2001 in its online form and brought along a new feature No-Fi "Radio" where people could hear the bands that we were writing about. During the day Chris works at a major magazine doing graphics and such, but at night he runs No-Fi "Magazine" and has been lucky enough to work with some of the coolest people in Los Angeles and all over the world.
FIRST HEARTBREAK: Ty Dittman in the 11th grade. Probably the first girl I fell in love with and she was kind enough to dump me on Christmas Eve.
WORST VALENTINES GIFT: I was dumped by a girlfriend on Valentines Day once. I think her new boyfriend was there too to share in the fun. Don't you love the holidays?

Quin
No-Fi "Radio" Program Director, DJ / Staffwriter; Interviews, Reviews, Articles
E-Mail: nofiradio@nofimagazine.com
FRIENDSTER Profile, MYSPACE Profile
LOCATION: CA, USA
FAVORITE BANDS AT THE MOMENT:
Grandaddy, Built Like Alaska, Dios, Young People, Pine Marten
FAVORITE MOVIES AT THE MOMENT:
Lost In Translation, Harold & Maude, Dawn Of The Dead, One Flew Over The Cukoo's Nest, The Lost Weekend
WEIRD TALENT: I really don't do anything wierd. i like to sing karaoke... but i'm not good.
LIFE STORY IN ONE SHORT PARAGRAPH: I was born a poor black child...oh that's the wrong story. I was born and raised in Redondo Beach, and oddly enough I never left that town. I went to school here. I got an associates degree in English, and I would like to go back to school eventually. But for now I'm just happy entertaining you kids on no-fi "radio".
FIRST HEARTBREAK: I can't say, because she's probably reading this. It's okay now, we're still friends.
WORST VALENTINES GIFT: I've managed to never have a girlfriend on or around valentine's day, so I've never really received a valentine's gift.

Ernesto A. Mejia
Staffwriter, Illustrator, stuff like that.
E-Mail: itsmenso@hotmail.com
LOCATION: Portland, Oregon U.S.A.
FAVORITE BANDS AT THE MOMENT:
Bad Religion (Epitaph), Fugazi, Longwave(but they have recently signed with RCA and they work them too hard), Pixies, Clash, Gaytonia, ThE NeGaTiVeS.
FAVORITE MOVIES AT THE MOMENT:
Pirates of the Carribean(!!!!), Josie And The Pussycats (ALWAYS good), Head Over Heels Vol. 6
WEIRD TALENT: I really don't do anything wierd. I can tell that somebody is a creep the very first time I meet them.
LIFE STORY IN ONE SHORT PARAGRAPH: I am the youngest of four sons given to both of my parents. They both stuck around for us, but worked a lot. I have liked to draw ever since I could remember, and some day I might get good at it. At schoolin' I studied animation and computer animation, and I discovered that working in a room for ten hours sucks and it makes you smoke a lot. I decided to quit playing in a great band (bass, thank you), and moved away from L.A. because there had to be something more exciting. So now I work in the great outdoors running a raingutter company in Portland. I like the rain. I also own a cat that lets me manhandle him. That's fun. I've been back to L.A. for a couple of visits. It's O.K., but it's not home anymore.
FIRST HEARTBREAK: I know you're out there. Heh heh heh. Oh wait. I wasn't heartbroken after all.
WORST VALENTINES GIFT: Rectal herpes. Just kidding. All gifts are nice. At least somebody likes me, right?

Mary Bond
Staffwriter; Interviews, Reviews, Articles, Photography, & More!
E-Mail: marybond@nofimagazine.com
Website: Angel Wished Designs
FRIENDSTER Profile
LOCATION: HelL.A, California, USA
FAVORITE BANDS AT THE MOMENT:
DCFC, Dios, Gliss, The Red House Painters, Belle &Sebastian
FAVORITE MOVIES AT THE MOMENT:
Amelie, A Streetcar Named Desire, All About Eve,
Harold And Maude, anything by David Lynch
WEIRD TALENT: Everything I do is weird and talented!
LIFE STORY IN ONE SHORT PARAGRAPH: My life has yet to really begin
FIRST HEARTBREAK: His name was Stuart Young and it was an off and on heartbreak from 6th-8th grade.
WORST VALENTINES GIFT: I had a boyfriend once who hated Valentines Day. That was really sad, because it is my second favorite holiday, after Halloween.

Ryan Lies
Staffwriter; Interviews, Reviews, Articles
E-Mail: zombieryan@hotmail.com
Website: Familiar Studios
LOCATION: Grand Rapids, Michigan
FAVORITE BANDS AT THE MOMENT:
Dead Voices on Air, Pigface, Nocturne, Legendary Pink Dots, Bozo Porno Circus
FAVORITE MOVIES AT THE MOMENT:
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Ed Wood, Naked Lunch, Fiend Without a Face, Petey Wheatstraw: the Devil's Son in Law, Rats: Night of Terror.
WEIRD TALENT: Isn't ALL talent weird, when you really get down to it? I mean ...where does it come from? God? Tiny molecules? ...Sorry Chris, I got nothing. I'm just a writer, I'm not that interesting. Although there's this one thing I do my girlfriend likes, but...
LIFE STORY IN ONE SHORT PARAGRAPH: Fell in love at an early age with movies and books and music. Still am, although now I make my own. I also like girls and Oreo cookies. Oh, and steak.
FIRST HEARTBREAK: Camas Breen (are we allowed last names?) My junior Year of high school. Of course, many unrequited crushes before that SEEMED devastating, but this one opened my eyes to a whole new world of frustration and pitiful agony. I was only 16, yet it seemed like I had one foot in the grave. I started to REALLY like Nine Inch Nails and The Cure that year. Worst part: she broke up with me cuz I didn't try putting the moves on her fast enough. Then she moved away.
WORST VALENTINES GIFT: I've never had a girlfriend at Valentines day in thirty years of living ä except this year. So let's see how 2004 goes, and maybe I'll get back to you next year.

Jeff Roe
No-Fi "Magazine" Advice Columnist,
E-Mail: askjeffroe@hotmail.com
FRIENDSTER Profile
LOCATION: Silverlake, CA
FAVORITE INDEPENDENT BANDS AT THE MOMENT:
Kaito, Willpower, P2: Pixies reUnited, Gravy Train, Nora Keyes
FAVORITE MOVIES AT THE MOMENT:
Donnie Darko, Wet Hot American Summer, Dead Ringers, The Third Man, The Invisible Man, Juwanna Man
WEIRD TALENT: Moving from one house to another with no forethought or preperation.
LIFE STORY IN ONE SHORT PARAGRAPH: Long story short: I'm a lover not a fighter, and I'm not much of a lover.
FIRST HEARTBREAK: Daria Tessler, the one that got away.
WORST VALENTINES GIFT: Chalky candy hearts from my MOM! EWW!

Darcey Leonard
Coverstar, Co-Conspirator
E-Mail: sabertooth5@yahoo.com
LOCATION: Silverlake, CA
FAVORITE INDEPENDENT BANDS AT THE MOMENT:
The Vanishing, Mr. Airplane Man Thalia Zedek, Milo Jones, Laytun, Secret Society Of The Sonic Six
FAVORITE MOVIES AT THE MOMENT:
Tarnation, Naploeon Dynamite, Triplets of Belleville, Kurasowa's Throne of Blood, Ed Wood.
WEIRD TALENT: Yes
LIFE STORY IN ONE SHORT PARAGRAPH: I've always been a tornado, you've always been a pond. I storm across your ocean and tear up your front lawn.
FIRST HEARTBREAK: When the boy next next door moved away, we were five.
WORST VALENTINES GIFT: A pair of tube sox silkscreened to look like sneakers, hated them then, love them now.

Don Spiro
Photographer
E-Mail: DMSNAC@aol.com
FRIENDSTER PROFILE
LOCATION: California by way of Pennsylvania, USA
FAVORITE INDEPENDENT BANDS AT THE MOMENT:
Throwrag, The Buxotics, Uncertain, Kennedy, Janet Klein and her Parlor Boys
FAVORITE MOVIES AT THE MOMENT:
King Kong(1933), Pandora's Box, A Clockwork Orange, Chinatown, Blade Runner
WEIRD TALENT: I can talk about how I used to juggle, fence, sculpt, sketch and fly single engine aircraft.
LIFE STORY IN ONE SHORT PARAGRAPH: Don got BA in film and moved from Philadelphia to LA with his girlfriend Augusta to work in the industry. He's a freelance cinematographer experienced in a wide range of formats and styles with several short films and videos to his credit. His passion for stillÝ photography also requires he spend a lot of time with comedians, burlesque dancers and sideshow performers.
FIRST HEARTBREAK: Dream't I fell in love once a very long time ago, still haven't woken.
WORST VALENTINES GIFT: Never happened.

Pamela "Pixie" Lay
Writer; Articles
E-Mail: pixielay@nofimagazine.com
MYSPACE PROFILE
LOCATION: Canadian eh?
FAVORITE BANDS AT THE MOMENT:
Color Theory, The Beautiful South, The Violent Femmes, The Cure, The Smiths
FAVORITE MOVIES AT THE MOMENT:
Amelie, The Shining , Reality Bites, Boondock Saints , Hi Fidelity
WEIRD TALENT: I can read minds....(dirty boy Chris).
LIFE STORY IN ONE SHORT PARAGRAPH: I was born. I grew up. I lived. I continue living. I got older. I keep on trucking. I was raised as a Jehovah's Witness, but was kicked out of the religion when i was 17. I do not speak with my parents. When I was 19 years old, I had a daughter and we named her Destiny. I keep on living. I live in a mall. On the third floor. I have a patio on the roof. I get older each day. I am happy most of the time...
FIRST HEARTBREAK: When I was 12 years old, his name was Chris Whiffen.
WORST VALENTINES GIFT: It was a ceramic rabbit, wearing a floral housecoat and talking on a red phone..So friggin ugly. I was 14 years old.

Claire Donner
Writer; Reviews, Articles
E-Mail: donnerpartyofone@hotmail.com
FRIENDSTER PROFILE
LOCATION: Nilbog
FAVORITE INDEPENDENT BANDS AT THE MOMENT:
Thee Headcoats, Melt-banana, Mindless Self Indulgence, Tindersticks, Hawksley Workman and the Delicious Wolves
FAVORITE MOVIES AT THE MOMENT:
Ravenous, Parents, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Trouble Every Day, Jill's Story
WEIRD TALENT: Field-dressing you with my eyes.
LIFE STORY IN ONE SHORT PARAGRAPH: Born. Died. Lots of padding in between.
FIRST HEARTBREAK: Lyle Lovett marrying Julia Roberts.
WORST VALENTINES GIFT:My double-anal virginity.

Amy Voorhees
Writer/Artist; Reviews, Articles
E-Mail: amyofdarkness@hotmail.com
LOCATION: Elsewhere
FAVORITE INDEPENDENT BANDS AT THE MOMENT:
OK GO, Mike Viola And The Candy Butchers, Mindless Self Indulgence, Fugazi, Foetus
FAVORITE MOVIES AT THE MOMENT:
HORROR MOVIES! (especially those directed by Frank Henenlotter or Jose Mojica Marins, at the moment), beach-blanket, Elvis, Terry Gilliam, David Cronenberg, and Werner Herzog movies...and so many more.
WEIRD TALENT: Is capable of living with Jeff Roe.
LIFE STORY IN ONE SHORT PARAGRAPH: "Als Amy of Darkness eines Morgens aus unruhigen Traeumen erwachte, fand sie sich in ihrem Bett zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwandelt. Sie lag auf ihrem panzerartig harten Ruecken und sah, wenn sie den Kopf ein wenig hob, ihren gewoelbten, braunen, von bogenfoermigen Versteifungen geteilten Bauch, auf dessen Hoehe sich die Bettdecke, zum gaenzlichen Niedergleiten bereit, kaum noch erhalten konnte. Ihre vielen, im Vergleich zu ihrem sonstigen Umfang klaeflich duennen Beine flimmerten ihr hilflos vor den Augen."
FIRST HEARTBREAK: Edwin Earl Wheeler III.Ý He wouldn't stop being a Jehovah's Witness and I wouldn't start.Ý Boo Hoo.
WORST VALENTINES GIFT: Anything in candy or heart form.

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1316 El Paso Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90065

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1209 Ynez Avenue
Redondo Beach, CA 90277

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