Major Malfunction

"What is your major malfunction, numbnuts? Didn't Mommy and Daddy show you enough attention when you were a child?" - Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (Full Metal Jacket)

Yup, those are Hartman's last few words before he got shot by Private Gomer Pyle in the 1987 Stanley Kubrick film, Full Metal Jacket. A Vietnam War movie that focuses on how recruits are being trained at the USMC boot-camp before being sent to Nam to deal with booby traps, cover-ups, late night patrols, and snipers. Epic. 

Around the first quarter of 2004, during a lazy Saturday morning...I decided to work on a hardcore-punk fanzine. Spent the whole day typing and cutting art papers, comic books and clippings for the layout. I already have artworks, band interviews, columns, and reviews, the last thing I need is a name for this zine. That's when I remember one of the most striking scene in Full Metal Jacket, and of course Hartman's harsh phrase. So I flipped through old newspapers and magazines to cut out different letters to form the following words:

Major 
Malfunction 
Fanzine

From 2004-2008, I was able to work work on 7 issues. Here are the details:

# 1 - Outbreak, Second Chance (NL), Fuktifino, Intruder, & Threat of Riot

# 2 – SBV, AFM, & Holier Than Thou?

# 3 – Icepick, Names for Graves, Gut Reaction, & Mental

# 4 - Countdown, xLooking Forwardx, & Play

# 5 - Struggle Against, Revelation Records, xLa Familiax, & Isvarah

# 6 - Slumlords & Woof

# 7 – Die Young (TX), Divided We Fall, Fumbles In Life, & Show No Mercy

Plus: columns, poems, reviews, artworks, and more...

I also started a CD/Vinyl/Zine distro under the same name, and soon it became a hardcore-punk label. I was able to release 6 titles namely: 

MMR 01 - New Names For Old Desires 4 - Way Split (CD)
Nuclear Punishment / Isvarah / Prayer of Endurance / Forgiveness Denied  

MMR 02 - Bystorm / Pulling Teeth Split (CD)

MMR 03 - FxPxOx - 2003 - 2007 Recordings (CD)

MMR 04 - Conquest For Death - Beyond Armageddon (CD)

MMR 05 - Second Combat / Motivation Split (CD)

MMR 06 - Half The Battle - What We Have (CD)

I will continue Major Malfunction Distro/Records/Fanzine through this blog. If you want your ads, artworks, columns, and reviews to be published in this blog, or if you want your music/fanzine to be reviewed, just send me an e-mail: xmajormalfunctionx@yahoo.com

"A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals." - Robert M. Hutchins

Thanks a lot for your interest and support.