From its inception in 1981, until its end in 1992, MaLLife published 22 numbers, 3 of which were audio cassettes. It evolved from a wry focus on the shopping center as metaphor for the greed inherent in an object-oriented society, to just about anything that would float on a xeroxed page, changing in form and content as its own organic matter demanded, following the lunatic acceleration towards 21st century Amerika. Rather than focusing on the specific, MaLLife prefered the wide-angle and the macro simultaneously, the growth AND decay of the document, the new construction AND the familiar. Its pages (and magnetic tape) have showcased some the strangest and most original voices in the marginal and underground mail network, jammed together in a not-so-easy to read, mix and match, casserole. Our aim was to entertain, of course, and to present a document of the collective scream at any given moment. There were never guidelines, we were partial toward new ways of seeing, works that p ushed the boundaries established in the author's own mind, both in form and content. We hope that much of that content is as vital today as it was then.

mallife #2 (1982)