XISPAS Magazine, the journal of Xicano culture, art, and politics.

Off-kilter, sweet, and hopelessly romantic, a playfully melancholy coming of age story that plays on the themes of adolescence: teetering invincibility, ambition dogged by defeat, and the swoon of discovering yourself in un-guarded moments. Your host: Rev. Johnny.

Mark Sound: guitar, bass Nick: drums Tom: keys Pete: bari sax Jimmy: sax recorded at Tom's next to the train tracks

"President George W. Bush is taking powerful anti-depressant drugs to control his erratic behavior, depression and paranoia."

Artworks clockwise: German Expressionist Felix Nussbaum's 1940 "Self-Portrait with Jewish Pass"; Mark Vallen's 1982 anti-Nuke "There Goes My Career"; German Expressionist Gert Wollheim's 1919 "The Wounded Man"; Atom Bomb survivor Takakura Nobuko's vision of a civilian melting in atomic fire; Vallen's 2001 "I Am Not The Enemy"; Vallen's 2003 "Not Our Children, Not Their Children" (published in the book, Peace Signs).