Meet the weirdos behind Sucker Magazine
Drawings By Kayla Gutierrez
Name: Madison Killian
Twitter: @maaaaaadiison
Instagram: @madisonkillian
Where do you live: Seattle, WA
Job/School: Graduated in 2015 with a BA in Communications
Zodiac Sign: Libra (October 2nd)
Likes: Loud music, power outages, kittens, the color black, red wine
Dislikes: Steak, capitalism, country music
Signature Drink: Patron & Soda
Favorite Bands: The Distillers, The Stooges, Speedy Ortiz, Best Coast, The Strokes, Tyler The Creator, The Damned, Skating Polly, Nirvana, Bikini Kill, White Lung, Elliott Smith, Sleater-Kinney, The Doors, Placebo, Cherry Glazerr, Wolf Alice, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Kills, Hole, Alvvays, The White Stripes, Sonic Youth
Favorite Movies: Napoleon Dynamite, School of Rock, Almost Famous, SLC Punk, Josie and the Pussycats, Pulp Fiction, 1991: The Year Punk Broke, This Is Spinal Tap, Beetlejuice, The Punk Singer, Singles
Favorite Books: There Goes Gravity by Lisa Robinson, Slaughterhouse Five, Just Kids by Patti Smith, Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Favorite Quotes
“I’d rather be the king of the kids, than the prince of the fools.” – Jack Black
“If the main reason we listen to music in the first place is to hear passion expressed- as i’ve believed all my life- then what good is this music going to prove to be? What does that say about us? What are we confirming in ourselves by doting on art that is emotionally neutral? And, simultaneously, what in ourselves might we be destroying or at least keeping down?” – Lester Bangs
Who are you/What do you do at Sucker?
Madison is the Editor in Chief & Founder of Sucker Magazine. She has written & edited for various magazines and newspapers including Creem Magazine. When she isn’t chugging red wine to relieve stress, she’s probably thinking about kittens and also chugging wine to relieve stress.
Name: Jess Petrylak
Twitter: @tuesday_moon
Instagram: @tuesday__moon
Society6: society6.com/jessicapetrylak
Where do you live: Upstate NY
Job/School: Part-Time Gallery Assistant & Projectionist, Painting and Drawing BFA student at SUNY Purchase College
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn (January 18th, 1995)
Likes: Black cats, feminine energy, unkempt hair, chamomile tea, spreading Communist propaganda in the powder room, anything involving the arts and history
Dislikes: Men and sweetened ice tea
Signature Drink: White Russian
Favorite Bands: The Strokes, Dum Dum Girls, Father John Misty, Beach House, Neutral Milk Hotel, Angel Olsen, Iron & Wine, Lou Reed
Favorite Movies: American Beauty, Empire Records, House of 1000 Corpses, Jawbreaker, Moonrise Kingdom, Pulp Fiction, The Crucible, Fargo, Lords of Salem, Almost Famous
Favorite Books: To Kill a Mockingbird, Great Expectations, I Wrote This for You, Gone Girl, anything by Virginia Woolf
Favorite Quote: “In my moon suit and funeral veil, I am no source of honey” – Sylvia Plath
Who are you/What do you do at Sucker?
Jess is currently a Painting and Drawing BFA major in her junior year at SUNY Purchase College. She serves as Sucker Magazine’s Art Editor. You can find more of her artwork on her Instagram or her Society6 online art catalog.
Name: Dylan Ann
Twitter/Instagram: @dylanceeee
Where do you live: San Diego to Aspen to Seattle and now I’m in good ol’ Corvallis, OR
Job/School: Some bumfuck community college
Zodiac Sign: Gemini (5/29)
Likes: Loud punk music, Sub Pop Records, my tattoos, self deprecating humor and horror movies, hip-hop, wasting hours at record stores, memes, messy hair, maroon lipstick, sweatpants, Lil B, my cat, ATMs with no surcharge.
Dislikes: Assholes, THE SUN AND HOT WEATHER, sugary coffee drinks, Maroon 5, my cat, ATMs with surcharges.
Signature Drink: Black coffee
Favorite Band: Brand New, Modest Mouse, FIDLAR, Title Fight, Audioslave, Earl Sweatshirt, Tame Impala, the Kills, Wu Tang Clan, Nirvana, Bad Brains, Kendrick Lamar, the Strokes, Flatbush ZOMBiES (honestly this question is stressing me out)
Favorite Movie: All of the Star Wars episodes, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, American Beauty, Almost Famous, Trainspotting, Dope, the Strangers, Requiem for a Dream, the Lovely Bones, SLC Punk, Lords of Dogtown, Pan’s Labyrinth
Favorite Book: Fear and Loathing (honestly anything by Hunter S. Thompson), Heavier than Heaven
Favorite Quote: “Once the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” –Hunter S. Thompson
Who are you/What do you do at Sucker?
Currently studying digital communication arts and management at Linn Benton Community College, eventually at Oregon State. Seasonal intern at KEXP radio in Seattle, WA. I spend too much money on shows and festivals, and weed, but don’t tell my family that.
Dylan is Sucker Magazine’s Music Editor.
Name: Lucy F. R.
Social Media: Only people I know/trust/respect/like have access to my social media accounts, so start kissin’ my ass
Where Do You Live: Garbage Grove, Oregon
Job/School: A video rental store (yeah, they still exist!), and I volunteer with GrrrlzRock. I’m also a professional bus rider.
Zodiac Sign: Aries/Pisces cusp
Likes: The shower scene in Psycho, when I’m the only one awake in my apartment, when my tongue ISN’T burned.
Dislikes: When people double dip their chips, Taylor Swift, Gus Van Sant and Lars Von Trier, people who say PBR is gross.
Signature Drink: Screwdrivers & White Russians
Favorite Band: I don’t have favorite bands anymore, I have favorite albums- and they are Psychocandy, Oshin, I Feel Cream, Donker Mag, Aeroplane Over The Sea, Lullabies To Paralyze, the Eraserhead soundtrack, and Songs From The Mall.
Favorite Movie: E R A S E R H E A D
Favorite Book: Factotum by Bukowski
Favorite Quote: “Night time is my time.” -Laura Palmer
Who are you/What do you do at Sucker?
I’m a loser, I stay home and watch films, a chain smoker who thinks about aliens and doesn’t understand why everyone likes Mac DeMarco. I provide awful comics (Vomit Comics- if you’re easily offended, don’t read them) and film reviews.
Lucy edits the film section of Sucker.
Name: Alyssa Campbell
Twitter: @alyssafayec
Instagram: mgfonly
Where do you live: Corvallis, OR
Job/School: Poetry Editor for The Commuter at Linn-Benton Community College
Zodiac Sign: Pisces
Likes: My dog, poetry, literature, music, nature, my violin, Jim Morrison, films, anime, Nintendo, tea, black coffee, red wine, dark lipstick, cozy blankets, anything sci-fi and fantasy related, classic horror films, hummus, raw denim, art journaling, dark chocolate, strawberries, vegan pasta, french fries
Dislikes: Time
Signature Drink: Whisky ginger
Favorite Bands: The Doors, Black Sabbath, Nirvana, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Bauhaus, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Lolawolf, Purity Ring, No Doubt, N.E.R.D, OFWGKTA, Wu-Tang Clan, La Femme, Sublime, Fleetwood Mac, Bikini Kill, Babes in Toyland, In this Moment, Tame Impala, Led Zeppelin, Bloc Party
Favorite Movies: Interview With A Vampire, Fallen Angels, Almost Famous, High Fidelity, Barbarella, Scarface, Dracula’s Daughter, The Crow, Mad Max Fury Road, Lord of the Rings series , Twilight series, Harry Potter series, A Place Beyond the Pines, Gabriel, Fast and Furious series, Charlie Countryman, Comet, Breakfast At Tiffany’s, Big Fish, Ex Machina
Favorite Writers: Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Jean Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Sylvia Plath, Andre Breton, W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Amiri Baraka, Charles Bukowski, Jim Morrison, Walidah Imarisha, Emily Dickinson, Mary Oliver, Rumi, Tupac Shakur, Jim Morrison, Robert Frost
Favorite Quote: “I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.” – Jim Morrison
Who are you/ What do you do at Sucker?
Alyssa is currently studying Journalism at Linn-Benton Community College, soon to be at Oregon State University for English Literature and Digital Communication Arts. She is a writer/ contributor for Sucker.
Name: Jenn Endless
Twitter: @rebelle_statix
Where do you live: Chicago, IL
Job/School: Odd jobs at Reggie’s Rock Club, guitarist in alouette (@alouetterocks)
Zodiac Sign: Virgo ♍
Likes: Driving 80mph+, first hit of a cigarette, merlot and pasta, petrichor, cat purring on my lap while reading a book, on stage with amp buzzing behind me, smell of art store aisles, vellichor, rustle of silk flower petals
Dislikes: Deforestation, beer, peanut butter, meat, watered-down coffee, cold weather
Signature Drink: Bloody Mary with a lime
Favorite Albums: “Raw Power” by The Stooges, “Live Through This” by Hole, “The Dirt of Luck” by Helium, “Goo” by Sonic Youth, “White Blood Cells” by The White Stripes, “Major Arcana” by Speedy Ortiz
Movies: “Edward Scissorhands,” “Dark Passage,” “Gummo,” “Spirited Away,” “Le Fabuleux Destin D’Amélie Poulain,” “Princess Mononoke,” “Blade Runner”
Favorite Authors: Sylvia Plath, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Patti Smith, J.R.R. Tolkien, Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, Anaïs Nin, Anne Sexton, William Burroughs, Charles Bukowski
Favorite Quotes:
“I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably. I like them for they are double. they are here and elsewhere.” – Albert Camus
Who are you/What do you do at Sucker?
On a typical day, performing cellular respiration. On an atypical day I’m photosynthesizing. Here, I write about shit that pisses me off for your entertainment.
Name: Yvonne Villasenor
Twitter/Instagram: @yvonnereneev
Tumblr: -thelooksyougivearesocontagious.tumblr.com (been hoarding this URL since ‘09…)
Where do you live: Orange, CA
Job/School: Mentor at an elementary school; Fullerton College
Zodiac Sign: Virgo (September 18th, 1995)
Likes: Staying up until 4 a.m., serial killer documentaries, psychology, dark lipstick, fostering pups, the beach, baking, rollerblading, night drives, Lil Bub, 70s/80s punk, government conspiracies, cryptozoology, west coast hip-hop, meteor showers, kombucha, James Franco
Dislikes: Small talk, weather below 40 degrees, loud eaters, spelling of “colonel”, WWE bashers, allergies, entitled men, Nicolas Cage, L.A. traffic
Signature Drink: Dirty chai // angry orchard
Favorite Bands: The Maine, Best Coast, Washed Out, The Strokes, STRFKR, Beach House, Tama Impala, DIIV, Wild Nothing, Beach Fossils, No Age, Youth Lagoon, Pinback, Blouse, The Drums, Nirvana, Interpol, Death Cab for Cutie, The Rolling Stones, The Doors, Fleetwood Mac, Tom Petty, New Order, The Cure, Seahaven, Brand New, Title Fight, Balance & Composure
Favorite Movies: (500) Days of Summer, Fight Club, Pineapple Express, This Is The End, The Departed, Pulp Fiction, The Shining, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, A Clockwork Orange, 10 Things I Hate About You, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Favorite Authors: Lang Leav, Chuck Palahniuk, Charles Bukowski, Sylvia Plath, Edgar Allan Poe, Alan Watts, Aldous Huxley, John Green
Favorite Quotes:
“What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.” -Charles Bukowski
“I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.” -John Steinbeck
“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.” -Aldous Huxley
Who are you/What do you do at Sucker?
Yvonne is currently a junior in college and plans to earn bachelor’s degrees in journalism and advertising from Cal State Fullerton by spring of 2017. In her spare time, she reads, writes, goes to shows and is always on the lookout for music she has yet to discover. Yvonne will be contributing to Sucker by providing music recommendations, essays, poetry, show reviews, as well as interviews for everyone to read.
Name: Juliette Arnaud
Twitter: @matrikamantra_
Instagram: @matrikamantra_
Where do you live: Paris, FR
Job/School: Painter and art student
Zodiac Sign: Virgo (September 1st, 1999)
Likes: Art, classical music, hip hop, weed, beer, philosophy, calf’s ruffle,
summer, men
Dislikes: winter, modern “art”
Signature Drink: Red wine and coffee with milk
Favorite Bands: The Beatles, The Doors, Pink Floyd,
Django Reinhardt, Snoop Dogg, Beethoven, Ice Cube, Jack White, The Jesus
Lizard, King Crimson, Led Zeppelin, Magma, Miles Davis, Scratch Acid, The
Stooges
Favorite Movies: Edipo Re, Flandres, The Seventh Seal, Nosferatu, Satyricon, Twin Peaks,
Melancholia, Nymphomaniac, Antichrist, Ladykillers, Blade of Fury, any Gaspar
Noe movie (especially Love and Enter The Void), any Pasolini movie
Favorite Books: Thus Spoke Zarathustra by F. Nietzsche (basically all Nietzsche books), The
Erotism by G. Bataille, The 120 Days of Sodom by Sade, 1984 by George Orwell, greek tragedies
Favorite Quotes:
“Liebe ist Krieg” (Love is War) – Till Lindeman,
“Talent ist noting but a long patience. Work.” – Gustave Flaubert
Who are you/What do you do at Sucker?
Basically painting/drawing/reading/watching movies all day and all night long, interrupted by short coffee breaks and/or very small naps, I will provide to the magazine art pieces, music/movies/books recommendations and as much information on the shit that’s happening in France as you like.
Name: Tracie Marrose
Twitter: @spooky__dreams
Instagram: @traciemarie6
Tumblr: http://www.ratherbedeadthancool6.tumblr.com
Where I Live: Austin, TX
School: I am in my senior year as an Education major at Texas State University.
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius (January 21st – Right on the cusp of Capricorn)
Likes: black coffee, LOUD music, drummers, my vinyl collection, driving, Mexican food, the Cards Against Humanity card that says “Stephen Hawking talking dirty.”, the Food Network
Dislikes: dub step, when my hair is wet, rollercoasters, heights, the sound of heavy breathing/loud chewing
Signature Beverage: Craft Beer
Favorite Bands: Nirvana, Foo Fighters, The Orwells, Sonic Youth, Tame Impala, Kanye West, Hole, St. Vincent, The Distillers, Ben Howard, Iggy Pop, Electric Light Orchestra, David Bowie, Pixies
Favorite Movies: Lord of the Rings series and Almost Famous
Favorite Book: In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Favorite Quote: “Trust nothing but your own experience.” – David Bowie
Who are you/What do you do at Sucker?
I am a senior at Texas State University with plans to move to the Pacific Northwest within the next year. At Sucker, I will be writing book talks about what I currently have my nose buried, playlists of what I am listening to, and gushing about the women we should all be crushing on.
Name: Kayla Gutierrez
Twitter: @suicidegummo
Instagram: @lilac_kayla
Where do you live: New York City
Job/School: Bronx Latin High
Zodiac: Leo (August 18, 1998)
Likes: Cats, dogs, anything art related, red wine, indie films, polite dickheads, unicorns, the moon, coffee, books, sitcoms and series binging, vintage shops, and the word rad
Dislikes: My own weird awkward babyish voice, racists, homophobes, meat and infidelity. Basically the majority of the human race
Signature Drink: Red Wine
Favorite Bands: L7, Sonic Youth, The Pretty Reckless, The Doors, Dexys Midnight Runners, Bad Suns, The Muffs, Neutral Milk, Iron & Wine, Gin Wigmore, Transvision Vamp, Joyce Manor, Queen, Honey Cocaine, Jimi Hendrix, The Strokes, Tyler the Creator, Lady Gaga, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Oasis, Pixies, Grimes, and Lydia Lunch
Favorite Movies: The Rocky Horror Picture Show, A ClockWork Orange, American Beauty, JawBreaker, The Doom Generation, Moonrise Kingdom, Cape Fear, To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar, Beloved, Ghost World, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, BeetleJuice, Gummo, Buffalo 66, Larry Kramer in Love and Anger, I Am Divine, House of 1000 Corpses, The Ninth Gate, Blue Valentine, The Big Lebowski, Nymphomaniac I & II, Schindler’s List, anything by Quentin Tarantino
Favorite Books: A Clockwork Orange, Glass House, Elvis & Me, Ghost World, The Ghost and The Goth, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Neon Angel: The Cherie Currie Story, Breakfast At Tiffany’s, The Bell Jar, Gone Girl/ David Foster Wallace/ Charles Bukowski/Sylvia Plath
Favorite Quote: “God, how I ricochet between certainties and doubts” – Sylvia Plath
Who are you/What do you do at Sucker?
Kayla is in her senior year at Bronx Latin High. Her function at Sucker Magazine is handling advice, abstract & philosophical think pieces and comic art pieces. Kayla is an activist focusing on topics pertaining to racial issues, feminism, and art. She usually stays home watching films, making art, and writing. If she isn’t doing that, she’s probably eating cereal & wearing her Bratz socks while watching band interviews. You can find Kayla’s artwork on her Instagram and Twitter.
Name: Nick Perry
Twitter: @itsnickperry
Instagram: @therealnickperry
Lives in: San Francisco, California
From: San Fernando Valley, California
Job/School: Philz Coffee/ SFSU
Zodiac: Killer (10/15)
Likes: Burritos, Coffee, Beer, films, Ryan Gosling, Podcasts, and Provolone Cheese.
Dislikes: Your favorite Drake song, bees, cucumbers, pickles, Kevin Hart, and most of all Wall-E.
Signature Drink: Belching Beaver Peanut Butter Stout.
Favorite Bands: Led Zeppelin, Kanye West, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Kendrick Lamar, Radiohead, Foo Fighters, and early 2000s emo bands.
Favorite Movie: Almost Famous, The Godfather, Shaun of the Dead and The Goofy Movie.
Favorite Book: Rant by Chuck Palahniuk, The Outsiders, 1984, and Perks of Being a Wallflower.
Favorite Quote: “…And my Axe” -Gimli
Who are you/ what I do at Sucker:
I am a film student, trying to be your favorite director. One day I’ll be cool.
I write about music and films mostly. I talk about everything ranging from how I would make a film way better, to how films need to show more dong. I am a wildcard.