Rare, Elvis, Piss-take, Photography; Americana, Large-scale, Road-trip; Hardcover Book - Good Used condition (Cover has some crease marks)
''The King is Alive!''...The journey of the photographers Robert Huber and Stephan Vanfleteren began in New York somewhere along 42nd street. It ended three weeks and eleven states later in Death Valley. Everything the two artists did during their journey, they did dressed as Elvis Presley, the King of Rock'n'Roll. The artists photographed each other, with Presley (Vanfleteren) in black and white, and Elvis (Huber) in color. ''Elvis'' and ''Presley'' crossed the country riding Greyhound buses and subways, hitch-hiking, strolling through malls or ending up in small town bars where strange women embraced them. While as photojournalists they were accustomed to remaining behind the scenes, here Huber and Vanfleteren found themselves suddenly thrust into the spotlight of their own work. What emerges is a hyperreal road movie, a media-damaged update of Robert Frank's "The Americans ", in which two Europeans step into the boundless television screen that is America. Hardcover, 11 x 11 inches, 98 pages, 45 color and 45 b&w illustrations.
Frederico Fellini, Cult, Italian, Foreign, Classic, Comedy; VHS - Ex Used condition
Although this is a sell-through bootleg copy of Fellini's 1973 classic "Amacord". It has printed cover and spine sticker, and is still a very rare tape. THIS IS NOT CRITERION (AS SHOWN IN THE PICTURE)
Pinku, Violent, Erotic, Porn, Japanese, Pink, Taboo, French; DVD - Ex Used condition
Nami works in a department store. She is asked to stand in for a friend in a magazine photo-shoot, which turns out to be for an S&M magazine called "Red Porno". When the photos are published, she is sacked and her lover abandons her. Muraki, who is an unpopular otaku loner, tries to meet up with Nami but is shot by a woman who takes him for a rapist and dies. Fourth in the series and full of stylish sequences and almost non stop full bloodied (almost hardcore) SM orientated sex. Ikeda's film does not fit the basic rape, revenge/consequence pattern of the others and initially confuses because it does not conform to our expectations. Especially difficult for western audiences is the mixing of, very strong sexual needs of women, rape and romance. We get particularly frank, wet and slurping scenes of female masturbation, images/memories/fantasies of rape and the gradual development of a most unlikely romantic liaison. The film is at times so good to look at that the slight and occasional lapses are noticeable. One is thrown for instance when Nami runs from her department store after hearing that she is to be sacked for appearing in a porno mag. The music and the way she is shot leads one to suspect that she has had enough and will seek to avenge herself. This French release DVD is Japanese with French subtitles only unfortunately....
Robin Fox, Experimental, Electronic, Synaesthesia, Rare, Digital, Australia, Melbourne; DVD - Ex Used condition
"Digital culture is obsessed with synaesthesia, especially sound/image convergence. From club ‘visuals’ to automatic ‘visualiser’ plugins for mp3 applications, there’s an ideal of sensory fusion at work which draws on cyber/psychedelic rave culture, and utopian new media discourse.
Ideals aside, digital media forms do create new potential for varieties of ‘machine’ synaesthesia–automatic mappings between sound and image. Visualiser plugins offer specific and more-or-less arbitrary mappings of image to sound. While they can’t (promise to) induce a synaesthetic experience, they do offer a machine synaesthesia that might challenge, reorder, or at least reflect on, our own audiovisual perception. Yet most synaesthesia machines are little more than bolted-on nozzles that turn all your favourite tunes into generic visual sludge.
By contrast Robin Fox’s Backscatter disc presents a highly specific and refined synaesthesia machine. He has assembled a simple audiovisual synthesizer using simple digitally synthesised audio and an old analog oscilloscope. The oscilloscope is in ‘polar’ mode, so instead of scanning left to right, displaying the conventional ‘trace’ of the waveform, the trace orbits the screen. Waveforms create woven circles, loops, twisting spirals, filigreed knots.
Response is instantaneous, so the screen jumps and twitches in sync with Fox’s audio signature skitters and blips. The sound-vision mapping is supple, the images beautiful and sometimes surprising. The pieces feel quite controlled, even composed, the way they seem to literally reveal new twists and tricks. Overall, the results are staggering."
Mitchell Whitelaw
Earbash
Erotic, Violent, Gore, Boyd Rice, NON, Richard Wolstencroft, Rare, Special Edition, Cult; 2 x DVD set - Ex Used condition
Runtimes 82 mins & 96 mins. Special Features 'Pearls Before Swine': Trailer; Camera Test; Audio Commentary with Boyd Rice, Richard Wolstencroft, David Thrussell & Douglas P; 'Extremism Breaks My Balls' Short Film by Nicholas Debot. Special Features 'Bloodlust': Trailer; Camera Test; Deleted Scenes; Audio Commentary with Richard Wolstencroft & Jon Hewitt; Bloopers & Outtakes; Cast & Crew Interviews.
Rare, 151 Skateboards, VHS, Skate Punk, Skateboarding, GG Allin,1998; VHS Video - Ex Used Condition
Skaters
Chris Swanson, Eric Dressen, Matt Dycke, Neil Heddings, Pigpen
Soundtrack
Motorhead Over The Top
The Rolling Stones Monkey Man
GG Allin Scars On My Body
Judas Priest Screaming For Vengance
Motley Crue Live Wire
Battalion Of Saints I Want To Make You Scream
Tom Wolfe, New Journalism, Cult, Social Commentary; Paperback Book 144 pages (1989 reprint) - Good Used condition
“What Tom Wolfe has done is create an appallingly funny, cool, small, deflative two-scene social drama about America's biggest, hottest, and most perplexing problem--the confrontation between Black Rage and White Guilt.” ―Time magazine
“Wolfe's genius is that he is fair; he puts the Bernstein part in perspective against the background of New York social history. Read it and weep with laughter.” ―Houston Post
“A sociological classic . . . At Wolfe's hands the socialites get a roasting they will long remember.” ―Saturday Review
“Tom Wolfe understands the human animal like no sociologist around. He tweaks his reader's every buried though and prejudice. He sees through everything. He is as original and outrageous as ever.” ―The New York Times
“Uproariously funny and socially perceptive . . . a penetrating dissection of the confusion among the classes and the search for status.” ―Women's Wear Daily
“Tom Wolfe at his most clever, amusing, and irreverent.” ―San Franciscio Chronicle
“Absolutely brilliant. One of the finest examples of reporting and social commentary I have read anywhere.” ―Gay Talese
Julian Cope, Underground, Obscure, Reviews, Doom, Jazz, Experimental, Metal, Psych, Krautrock; Large Paperback Book - New
Eschewing the usual criteria of chart success or acknowledged influence, the Copendium — a collection of album reviews and themed track samplers — takes energy, originality and heaviness as its bearings. The result is a feast of obscure and neglected masterworks that together form a surprising but entirely credible new tradition. Krautrock, motorik and post-punk, stoner and doom metal, occasionally even jazz, spoken word and hair metal: they are all represented in a wholly persuasive sequence. Cope is the perfect guide to this novel terrain: impeccably informed, passionate, insightful and deeply funny. Copendium is his re-imagining of a useful canon of popular music, and it is set to become required reading.
Features reviews including Henry Flynt, Chrome, Magma, Melvins, Monoshock, Psychick TV, Sleep, Boredoms, Harvey Milk, OM, Sunburned Hand of the Man etc...
Brisbane, Hardcore, Punk, Limited Edition, Numbered, Demo; Cassette - New
Brisbane hardcore punk outfit "Sick People" released this demo cassette on 'Delayed Response' in 2011. This is the second dub limited to 100 copies (number 45).
Germany, USA, Punk, Hardcore, Split, Live, Bootleg; Cassette Release (1998) - Ex Used condition
Rare German split Cassette featuring German Hardcore punk band Yacøpsæ, split with US hardcore legends DRI. DRI tracks from two separate live shows in 1983 and 1984, contains and Yacøpsæ's first demo as well as a live set recorded in Hamburg in 1998. This is a rare bootleg cassette from 1998. Includes Xeroxed A4 size fold out cover slip loaded with lyrics and info.
USA, Experimental, Electronic, Techno, Noise; Cassette (New Body Label) with download code - New
"...sounds like equal parts Ben Frost and Steve Reich, blended on an electric soundboard in hell. It is what I would expect to hear in the background if my life were a David Cronenberg film." --
TINY MIX TAPES
USA, Noise, Harsh, Experimental, Power Electronics, Power Violence; (Darker Days Ahead Label) Limited Edition (25 copies) Cassette - New sealed
Here’s a split tape with a side project of Andrew Quitter from Regosphere and Cory Shumacher. Schumacher is up first with heavy noise walls. The distortion is piled on thick as molasses here with a ton of delay in the mix. Not the spastic cut-up style delay but the heavy booming delay which envelopes the whole mix. Fade sticks out a little with some really interesting sound elements like being battered by an electric wind storm. An unrelenting wall of harsh noise spews forth. A swirling miasma of aggressive frequencies, uncontrolled screams, junk noise and plenty of distortion to bring it all to the next level. A heavy slab of uncompromising noise, almost bordering on wall noise yet more detailed and large shifts in sound over time. A very enjoyable split from start to finish with two artists who compliment each other well. They were able to get on the same page for this and the result is quite effective. Recommended dosage of 1 listen every other night for three weeks straight and that whole “being able to hear things” issue will be cleared up for any listener.
