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DRY LOVE
#16
Jan-Feb 1979
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- Paul Bowles in the Desert
- Falling in Love with Bob & Bob
- last chapter from an unpublished, surrealistic
novel by Sharon Hennessey
- Hot-Dry Architecture
first oversized issue
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Daniel Arguelles
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FUTURE
#17
March-April 1979
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- Modular Neurotics, Cannned Goods, Mind Over Matter
- "We Have Seen the Future and It Is Now" by Victoria Hamburg and John Peaslee
- "Brian Eno Consults the Oracle" by Glenn O'Brien
- "The Future of Reality" by Gene Youngblood
[excerpt]
- "Insect Erotica" by Howard Rheingold
56 pages
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Margot Kidder
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FOOD
#18
May-June 1979
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- Death by Starvation
- Undernourished Relationships
- Gourmet Bubbles (aprés Perrier, le dèluge)
- Eat Me Architecture
- Iggy Pop talks turkey with Kristine McKenna
- WET Reader Questionaire
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Debbie Harry
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OUTLAWS
#19
July-Aug 1979
Workable Extremist Thinking
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- "Zero Gravity" by Jeff Johnson, photos by Wynn Miller -- skateboarders
- Boomtown Rats' Bob Geldof interviewed by Kristine McKenna
- Bob & Bob interview Real Cops
- "Vegitecture" by Michael Sorkin
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Ricky Martin
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RELIGION
#20
Sept-Oct 1979
Wickedly Excessive Tendencies
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- "My Life in Art" by Leonard Cohen
- Science Outlaw: Nikola Tesla
- Nico and Lena Lovich interviews by Kristine McKenna
- "Tax Exempt, Inc" by Hunter Drohojowska
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Sissy Spacek
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IS LANGUAGE A VIRUS?
#21
Nov-Dec 1979
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- Rolling (and Rolfing), artist Guy De Cointet, the Swastika
- architect Frederick Fisher; Howard Rheingold
- "Not To Smoke" (an excerpt from Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre) and the Metaphysical Nature of Cigarettes
- Kristine McKenna interviews Rick Derringer and James Brown
80 pages
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Richard Gere
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THE HUMAN BODY
#22
Jan-Feb 1980
Writhing Erotic Turmoil
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- Jim Carroll's Basketball Diaries
- Mondo Sumo
- "Longevity" by Rita Aero
- Business as Yoga (WET interviews John Robinson)
- David Byrne of Talking Heads
- Unique McPeak, professional high-wire artist
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INTERIOR SPACES
#23
March-April 1980
Weird Environments Talk
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- Kenneth Anger interview by Ann Bardach
- Dick Dale interview by Kristine McKenna
- Kobo Abe's "The Box Man"
- "No Deposit, No Return" by John Peasles and Victoria Hamburg
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Mick Jagger
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TRAVEL
#24
May-June 1980
Why Even Try?
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- "Psychic Surgery in the Philippines" by C. J. Llift (sidebar by
Lewis MacAdams: "Healing by Hand in the Philippines")
- Captain Beefheart interview by Kristine McKenna
- Non-Human Life-Forms: "The Mystery of the Mutes" by Adam MacLewis -- cattle mutilations in the southwest
- Astronaut Rusty Schweickart explains defecation in space
- Dennis and Diane Transcend Sex
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Whitey Stang
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WETROSPECTIVE
#25
July-Aug 1980
Weird Exotic Thrills
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- WET Looks Back at the last fifteen issues
- Kristine McKenna interviews Brian Eno
- Winners of the 1st Annual WET PLACES Competition
60 pages: last oversized issue
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POWER & GARBAGE
#26
Sept-Oct 1980
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- Tim Hardin's Last Interview
- Paul Morrissey, Tom Verlaine
- "Realms of the Unreal" by Henry Darger
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HEROES
#27
November 1980
We Eat Tuna
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- Dribble: Sartrek
- Robert Smithson Enters Art History
- JFK Jr, Jello Biafra, Ross Perot, Gregory Corso
- Bud Cort, Kooky Driver by Debba Kunk
72 pages
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FIRE
#28
December 1980
Words Elicit Terror
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- "Barbecuing White People in the Suburbs" by Lewis MacAdams
- Kristine McKenna interviews George Clinton
- "Playing With Matches" -- backyard explosives with Greg McGregor
- "Luncheon with the Sunshine Boy" -- Blair Sabol interviews David Hockney
last issue entirely on newsprint -- 72 pages
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Daphna
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TIME
#29
Jan-Feb 1981
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- Winston Tung, performance artist, acts out the life of a neutrino
- Merle Haggard remembers the Hard Times -- Kristine McKenna interview
- Meher Baba
- The Best Time of Their Lives: Q&A with LA teens on the future
64 pages printed on mix of newsprint and glossy paper
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#30
March-April 1981
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- Gallery of Noses
- Kristine McKenna interviews Mark Alan Stamaty, Helmut Newton, and Becker & Fagen of Steely Dan
- "Sex With the Dead" --Lewis MacAdams on John Duncan
- A Palazzo in Venice (California)
- Bob & Bob Sound the Alarm: Ronald Reagan Doesn't Need Art
68 pages printed on glossy paper (except insert by Bob Zoell)
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Elvis Costello
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#31
May-June 1981
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- Elvis Costello interview
- "the Serious Building Climber's Handbook" by Mel Edelman
- World Guide to Nude Beaches & Recreation
- "Thrown" architecture in East Hollywood
- fabulous Beverly Hills people
64 glossy pages
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Teri Garr
(by Penny Wolin)
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#32
July-Aug 1981
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- Japanese Buyer's Guide to Los Angeles Street Fashion
- Kristine McKenna interviews David Lynch
- "Artists in Real Estate" by Lewis MacAdams
- "5 Queens" -- rock'n'roll women by Kate Simon
(Patti Smith, Debbie Harry, Chrissie Hynde, Yoko Ono & Grace Jones)
- Why Italian toilets get better mileage
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JAPAN
#33 Sept-Oct 1981
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- Swimmer's Bodies
- Tokyo Now!
- Axel Erlandson's Tree Circus
- Squeeze and Laurie Anderson interviews by Kristine McKenna
- Green Blood (wheatgrass)
- Ecstasy: Everything Looks Wonderful when you're Young & on Drugs
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Priscilla Presley
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LOVE & KISSES
#34
Nov-Dec 1981
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- San Francisco Street Art
- Kristine McKenna interviews David Lee Roth and John Lydon
- Love Hotels
- Sex in the Park
- "Christmas in LA" by Rod Kierkegaard, Jr
78 pages
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