Just now I was looking at some old journal entries that I wrote five years ago on another site. For some reason I thought "Avant Pop? Avant NOT!" was hilarious and then I remembered that I had read the Avant Pop manifesto. I googled it and re-read it and saw this (bold my own).
"Without even knowing it, the Avant-Pop movement has been secretly generating interest and support for a few years now but has recently become more exposed with the successful breakthrough of the sub-pop alternative music scene, the publication of alternative trade paperbacks like Black Ice Books, and the release of low-budget alternative media projects like *Wax, Or The Discovery of Television Among the Bees*. The future of fiction is *now* as we, its most active practitioners, automatically unwrite it."
This is how I know I chose the right major in college. Little did I know it then, but a year ago I took a class where we actually watched "Wax, or the Discovery of Television Among Bees." Except I had forgotten all about the Avant Pop manifesto by then. Anyway, I don't even really know if Avant Pop is really a "thing" or not as I've never really heard it anypalce else. I think Mark Amerika was searching for the term "cyberpunk" but just couldn't come up with it.
