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Great. It’s three in the AM and I just got my flow to write my first ever Guest Editor’s note. But it’s all worth it, being in the Junk office in the wee hours of the morning–with howls and wails, because this issue is just nuclear, I tells ya!
This Hijacked! Issue features minds from different parts of the creative industry. Ahmad Saiful–or adorably known as Cipoi–photographs two of Malaysia’s premiere rock acts by pitting SevenCollar T-Shirt against Love Me Butch in “The Great Battle”. It has been a battle indeed for a lot of acts in the year 2009 as well as for massive events. Even the cancelled ones.
This issue is not just a farewell to what we have experienced, but also a handshake to 2010. They Will Kill Us All reveals its new line up (photographed by Hijacker Fid Fathir), all geared up to kill us all for the next year. (What pun?) And Azlan & The Typewriter, featured in this issue, is a sneak peak of good acts to look out for in the coming year.
While the Junk team wasn’t working and instead making paper cranes, I overheard that next year will bring big things for Junk itself. Being called in as Guest Editor was the last thing on my mind, but when they did, nothing to it but to do it.
Big ups to April and the crew for an amazing year in covering the region and all it’s awesomest combined, and risking the year end issue of Junk being hijacked. But it’s all good, I hope.
And what’s a year end issue without free gifts? It’s like Christmas with no fruitcakes. Get gear from Asics and MOOKS, and the list doesn’t stop there.
May you read with pleasure, and here’s to a year of every good and positive word you can think of.
Check it!
Smek
p/s The howls and wails were from the pub downstairs. Not that I’m scared of ghosts or anything like that.
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