Gus Mastrapa, Author at Unwinnable https://unwinnable.com/author/gus-mastrapa/ Stories about Culture Tue, 22 Apr 2025 21:15:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://unwinnable.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-icon-1-32x32.jpg Gus Mastrapa, Author at Unwinnable https://unwinnable.com/author/gus-mastrapa/ 32 32 Notes on a Relationship with Faith No More https://unwinnable.com/2015/05/11/notes-on-a-relationship-with-faith-no-more-issue-43/ Mon, 11 May 2015 17:54:26 +0000 https://unwinnable.com/?p=53218 Gus Mastrapa sees Faith No More live and talks about his long relationship with seminal, ever-metamorphosing metal band.

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]]> The End of Pretension https://unwinnable.com/2014/04/11/the-end-of-pretension/ Fri, 11 Apr 2014 05:53:58 +0000 https://unwinnable.com/?p=49797 Pretension +1 is ending, but Gus Mastrapa will return more powerful than you can possibly imagine.

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]]> Joy of a Toy https://unwinnable.com/2014/04/04/joy-of-a-toy/ Fri, 04 Apr 2014 07:37:35 +0000 https://unwinnable.com/?p=49718 I was a clumsy kid. I was such a klutz – a total failure at sports, P.E. and general moving around the place – that my mother sought professional help for me. We lived in North Carolina at the time – it was around ‘82 – so I was 10. I remember driving to an unfamiliar part of Charlotte. A university campus? Or maybe some collection of government buildings? We went into a small medical office where I was subjected to a barrage of physical tests. My mother got a binder full of results. And I got a new after-school

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