MORE INTERVIEWS: this time it's ME in MRR!

So! A few months ago my friend Aaron interviewed me for MRR and they published it! This was a real deal realization of many childhood dreams on many levels. For one thing, I grew up reading MRR and always daydreamed about doing something worth being featured in the pages. I kind of lost touch with the magazine for a few years in my 20s, but in the past couple, mostly due to the editorial decisions of the recent coordinators, MRR really speaks to me again and I am doubly proud to be worthy of inclusion in this particular iteration. Anyway, I'll save the mushy gushy talk for later. You can buy the actual issue here. It also features a great interview with my friends Neon Piss. Their drummer Greg Harvester is the guy who's zine this whole website is named after so there's something weirdly appropriate about us both being included in the same issue.

Slice Harvester 

Interview by Aaron Cometbus

You can tell this is the East Coast and not Berkeley because you can have a tape recorder out in a public place without everybody freaking out on you.

COINTELPRO?

Yeah, totally. Let’s start with where we are and who we are.

I’m Colin “the Slice Harvester” Hagendorf. We’re at Ben’s Best Delicatessen, in Rego Park Queens, my favorite delicatessen in all of New York City, eating some knishes and pastrami sandwiches, drinking some coffee, and talking about a zine about pizza.

First of all, where are you from?

I’m from New Rochelle, NY, a suburb of New York City five or ten miles north of the Bronx. Or to quote the semi-famous conscious rap group, Brand Nubian, “straight outta Now Rule.” I grew up in the New York punk scene, I guess. I came to the city every weekend...

Which New York punk scene? 

Oh! The New York street punk scene of the late 90s and the New York peace punk scene of the late 90s. There was a nice juxtaposition of going to see Blanks 77 at Coney Island High on a Saturday night, having just seen Anti-Product at ABC No Rio that afternoon.

I grew up in the suburbs. My parents are both from the boroughs, Brooklyn and Queens. Neither one of them would say they were from New York City because to them, growing up in the outer boroughs in the 60s and 70s, “The City” was just Manhattan. My grandmother was still living in Queens until she passed away a few years ago, which is why we’re at Ben’s Best. My mother and I used to take her out to eat here all the time.

Pizza talk with SUPREME HEEMS.

Famous local rapper SUPREME HEEMS pointing at a framed picture of me in the pizzeria.

Himanshu Suri AKA Supreme Heems is one third of local awesome rap trio Das Racist and works with local awesome nonprofit SEVA NY. He is a nice guy and very smart and a fan of Slice Harvester so obviously he has good taste. We met at Carmine's Original on Norman Ave in Greenpoint to talk bullshit for a little while.

You wanna talk pizza?

I like that when you’re sick and you’re sweating and you don’t even have an appetite you can still eat pizza. Ginger ale and pizza. No matter how sick I am, if I need to eat just for sustenance, there’s pizza. Sometimes eating become just chewing and swallowing like breathing and sleeping. But pizza is somehow still enjoyable even when you’re just masticating to live.

You do the cheese slices, right? I used to get a chicken slice from this one place, and I’d walk in and the guy would make fun of me like, “waddayoo want, you wanna SUPREME, big man? You want a SUPREME?” which was like their big meat lovers slice. So then my friends started calling me Supreme for a while, but it never caught on. Now I wish it did.

I feel like Thrasher Magazine right now.

First ever FAN ART! Huzzah! At the Brooklyn Zine Fest last weekend, this really nice dude came up to my table and we chatted a bit and made small talk that I don't remember and he bought a zine or two from me. A few hours later I was walking back into the fest with a box of extra zines I had forgotten to bring in and walked passed him, so I handed him a copy of the new one and he thanked me and told me he would "draw me some stained glass" which seemed rather inscrutable at the time. Anyway, I totally forgot about that and now there's this!

For real! Teenage Mutant Ninja Angels! This dude twitters @TomGambinoArt and has a tumblr.

Speaking of tumbalers and art, my friend Fryd set up a website for my friend Yusuke who makes crazy, often beautiful, and often very upsetting paintings. Look at it.

Very soon I am finally going to post that Heems interview I was gonna post like two weeks ago. I'm a slowpoke. Sue me!

SLICE HARVESTER #6 out this Sunday!

Hi! I have spent the past two days at the photocopy store making Slice Harvester back issues and also making a brand new NEW ISSUE! It is three dollars and will be available for the first time ever at the BROOKLYN ZINE FEST, where I will be tabling at a table next to my best friend Caroline's awesome publishing venture Pegacorn Press.

The Zine Fest is going on at Public Assembly in Williamsburg which is at 70 N 6th St, which is where Galapagos used to be. It is from 11am to 6pm. I will be there for probably almost all of that time just chilling the fuck out and being weird and awkward to you because I do not do well in Social Situations! It will be awesome. You can buy a zine from me in person for Real American Dollars (or I guess you could paypal me money on your smart phone right while I am standing there if you are weird and want to buy zines on a credit card) and then I can hand it to you and make stilted small talk and then you can remark to your companion as you walk away, "boy, he is a lot more charming in print."

Oh, also there will be a raffle at the zine fest and I contributed a raffle prize to it which is: every issue of Slice Harvester so far plus the promise that I will mail you the final issue when it comes out this summer, as well as a gift certificate awarding the bearer a Pizza Dinner for Two at my favorite pizza place, Pizza Suprema on 31st St and 8th Ave.

OK BYE SEE YOU SUNDAY!

I been in Miami again.

Look at this cat eating pizza.

There is an interview with me in the new MRR!

This is very exciting! Teenage dreams do come true. Buy it here (for $4.20, no less!) or just buy it at your local record store like a regular person. I haven't seen it yet, but it looks like this issue also has a Neon Piss interview, which is funny because the drummer from Neon Piss is a guy named Greg Harvester who writes a zine called Rice Harvester which I named my zine after as a joke when I thought that only punks would ever read it. Greg also does an awesome punk demos blog called Remote Outposts, where I recently had a sort of guest post talking about an old band of mine. Check all these things out! Right now! DO IT!

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Sorry for the radio silence. I've been working on a lot of stuff and I needed to go on sabbatical from thinking about pizza for a bit. but I figured I should drop into the old internet and give my MILLIONS OF LOYAL FAN some news about what the future holds for Slice Harvester.

1. I've got some interviews planned, about pizza and New York City history, that I'll be posting on the blog pretty soon.

2. I'm gonna start doing the Street By Street Block By Block Pizza Storm To Purify in which I return to all the decent pizzerias in each neightborhood and find out if they are still decent and decide definitively which is the best. If you feel like your favorite slice in your neighborhood didn't get a fair shake, now is the time to let me know that I absolutely NEED to check it out again. Comment on this post or send me an email.

3. The penultimate issue of Slice Harvester Quarterly Magazine is almost done and will be officially released on April 15th at the Brooklyn Zine Fest. The folks over there also recently posted a pretty fun interview with me, so maybe read that if you feel like it. And come to the zine fest, hopefully I will be tabling right next to Pegacorn Press, so you can also pick up all of Caroline's awesome new forthcoming releases.

That's all for now, but that's also a lot. Starting in the next week or two I'll probably begin updating again with some frequency. I post weird links and short stuff on my facebook page and on twitter, so if you use those things and you feel like there's not enough Slice Harvester in your life, there's an easy fix.

Fuck you, Dan.

I love you.