BLACK METAL SATANICA (2008); DVD "The most haunting and evil documentary ever made"
Black Metal/Music/Satan/Documentary DVD, New
BLACK METAL SATANICA is an in-depth documentary capturing the dark, mystical and evil history of the Black Metal genre. Based on Scandinavian Viking lore, Black Metal borrows from ancient Viking melodies, lyrics and mythology dating back to the 11th century.
DOGS IN SPACE (1986); 2 x DVD
Cult/Punk/Australian 2 x DVD set, w/- amazing special features, Used
The film is set in a house occupied by a collection of social misfits. The main storyline is that of a strange musician's relationship with a girl, their drug use and his band. These events are surrounded by a chaotic myriad of sub-plots. A homicidal chainsaw maniac's lust for his machine and a T.V station's offer of money in return for a piece of the Skylab satellite that has fallen to earth are just two. The film is composed of small fragments in the lives of its inhabitants, each following onto the next, sometimes overlapping and ending in tragedy.
Extra feature included "We're living on Dog Food" - Rowland S. Howard, the Primitive Calculators, Ollie Olsen, Phillip Brophy and many others proffer their recollections and air their animosities in a tribute to the Melbourne underground music scene of '77 - '81. The Crystal Ballroom, the 'Little Bands', the Boys Next Door, the drugs, the fashions, the influences, the philosophies, the venues and the legacy of the times, along with never before seen interviews with Michael Hutchence on the set of the feature film, 'Dogs In Space'.
MEREDITH MONK: Ellis Island: Book of days; DVD
Art/Arthouse (2007), DVD (RARE)
Ellis Island: "A film about the experiences of immigrants entering America at the turn of the century, 'Ellis Island' was one of the last films shot on location before Ellis Island was restored. Neither documentary nor fiction, Monk describes the non-verbal 'Ellis Island' as a 'ghost story told through the musicality of images'"--Container. Book of days: "'Book of days' takes place primarily in the Middle Ages, but the characters and their concerns are deeply familiar. Monk draws parallels between this age of war, plague and fear of the Apocalypse, with our modern times of racial and religious conflicts, AIDS, and the fear of nuclear annihilation. 'Book of days' has a mythic quality, a sense of displacement; it encourages the viewer to ponder the ultimate fragility of the human experience"--Container
Ellis Island (1981) (28 minutes)
Book of days (1988) (75 minutes)
Interview with filmmaker Meredith Monk (2006) (60 minutes).
Dry Lungs V (5) Various Artists; 2 x CD set
(1992) Packaged in a six-panel tall folder with liner notes, and housed inside a slip-case. Used
This is the US release of this amazing experimental V/A compilation from 1992 on Subterranean Records. Artists include: Controlled Bleeding, Etant Donnes, Fat Hacker, Masonna, Hijokaidan, Chris Moriarty, Cranioclast, Merzbow, Incapacitants, Violent Onsen Geisha, KK Null, and heaps more...28 tracks of pure experimental/industrial/noise royalty! So fucking awesome!
THE CRANIUM STOCKPILE (Art); Paperback
Paperback // 56 pages, New (Printed on 170gsm sealed paper with a 350gsm front cover.)
24 artists well known in their respective professions of illustration, graffiti and tattooing from across the UK, France, Singapore, Australia, China and the USA were sent the same medical illustration of a skull and invited by the books author, publisher and contributing artist Kev Grey to depict a skull loosely inspired by it using only black & white. The Cranium Stockpile proudly presents new and exclusive artwork by Ghost (RIS Crew), Mitch O'Connell, Phlegm Comics, Mark Riddick, French, KRSN, Rebecca Vincent, Poch, God Machine, Panda Mei, Liam Sparkes, Dom Morris, Gaser 142, Tom J Newell, Freak City, Speak Cryptic, Chrysa Koukoura, 45 RPM, Sketch Stance, Todd White, Craptical, Jimbob Isaac, Jay Croft & Kev Grey.
ARABESQUE 2: Graphic Design from the Arab World and Persia; Hardcover
Ben Wittner 208 pages (Large Scale) 2011, Used
Cutting-edge graphic work from the Arab world and Iran that is emblematic of the cultural emancipation of this entire area. The wave of protests that started this year in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Libya, and other countries have made it clear just how much the Middle East is searching for a new identity. Young designers in the region are playing a part in this movement by increasingly emancipating themselves creatively. In their work, they are charting their own compelling course between local visual convention and a modern international style. Arabesque 2 documents the potential of this current creative emancipation in the Arab world and Iran. The book features examples of recent innovative and groundbreaking design work that is inspired by the richness of the region’s visual culture. Given the important role of calligraphy in the Middle East, Arabesque 2 focuses on typography. The book presents a wide range of Arabic fonts and typefaces inspired by traditional calligraphy. These are accompanied by a rich selection of applications. Select examples of design and graffiti serve as powerful demonstrations of how text can be used illustratively. This work is particularly relevant to those creating street art and poster design. Arabesque 2 also features graphic design, logos, editorial design, and illustration by young designers and activists from Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Lebanon, and the United Arab Emirates. Regardless of the location and nationality of their creators, all of the examples included in the book combine modern design with the traditional, letter-based canon of Arab forms in striking ways. The book’s preface is written by John Martin, co-founder of Art Dubai. Additional texts and interviews describe the environments in which the featured designers and artists work. Editors Ben Wittner and Sascha Thoma round out Arabesque 2 with a CD-ROM that features four typefaces related to its themes.
CBGB: Decades of Graffiti (2006); Paperback
64 pages - Introduction by Richard Hell, New
CBGB (the initials stand for Country Blue Grass Blues) is the officially designated birthplace of Punk Rock. It is a bar located in the Bowery of New York City described by author Christopher D. Salyers as 'No better place to drink in the wonderful nothingness of the 1970s Bowery and Lower East Side than at this bar. On the streets outside, crime soared, cracked-out bodies imitated corpses as anxious junkies scurrying like alley cats scratched around for their next fix'....'Cheap rent, cheap beer, cheap sex.' And inside CBGB the likes of Talking Heads, Ramones, Richard Hell (who writes a colorful Forward for this terrific little book), the Voidoids, and the Dead Boys introduced punk rock to the patrons. What this superb little book celebrates is the atmosphere in which all of this history took place, a club notoriously filthy, whose owners invited the patrons to graffiti the walls, the floors, and especially the bathrooms. Photographer John Putnam has supplied designer/writer Salyers with gritty photos of the stage and the seats, the green rooms (where artists prepared before performing), the bathrooms with some of the most wonderfully vile language and demonstrations of man's ability to deface public property are at a peak, and the bar. The colors are rich and ludicrously dirty and the words left behind are scribblings by minds toked on drugs and loud music.
MODERN ENGLISH: A Trendy Slang Dictionary (Signed); Paperback
J. Blowdryer 93 pages (1986), Used
Reading Modern English can be a life-changing event. Jennifer Blowdryer is a sharp tongued anthropologist in a secondhand dress--and this was back before shopping at the Salvation Army was something you saw on the Style Channel. Cholo, Goth, Drug, D/s, Hardcore, Art Wreck, and Punk are just a few of the subcultures examined in this essential language & cultural guide. Her riffs on lounge lizards ("they've given up, but then again, they haven't") and mindless jerks who pick on the ultra hip ("they should be taking a closer look at the clothes they'll be wearing in two years") are funny and smart. As a record of true punk rock of its time, "Modern English", by Jennifer Blowdryer really is something fun to read. The photos of REAL punks, in their home-made outfits make today's Hot Topic-buying kids look like fools with no creative spark whatsoever. Cult book, as rare as shit....Signed by J. Blowdryer!
THE BLACK LEATHER JACKET (2007); Paperback
Mick Farren 128 pages, Used
Ever since a leather-jacketed Marlon Brando slouched across the screen in The Wild One, the jacket’s mixture of animal magnetism, brooding menace, and sexual provocation has made it a must-have for hipsters, rebels, and fashionistas. This entertaining book chronicles the leather jacket from its roots among World War I flying aces to its present incarnation in high fashion. Along the way, it shows how every generation and subculture — including the Hell’s Angels, beats, punks, movie stars, counterculturists, and fetishists — has made the leather jacket its own.
BROOKLYN KINGS New York City's Black Bikers (2000); Hardcover
Martin Dixon 144 pages (Large Format), New
As an avid biker for over nine years, photographer Martin Dixon gained unprecedented access to the predominantly African-American motorcycle clubs in Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Manhattan. Comprising a huge subculture of urban road warriors totally unknown to most New Yorkers and bike club enthusiasts, these black "biker gangs"—with names like the Jaguars, the Black Falcons, the Pythons, the Transit Wheelers, the Imperials, the Corpians, the Harlem Riders, the United Roadrunners, and the Uptown Riders—are really high-octane social clubs, whose members ride flashy ninja sport bikes. Through Dixon's spectacular insider perspective, we enter a world straddling the customs and trappings of traditional biker culture (the heavily embroidered leather jackets, the thick male camaraderie, the bike as manifestation of the ego), and the rituals and pastimes of the urban biker (the springtime bike blessings, the trophy parties, and the clubhouse socials). More importantly, thanks to Dixon, we witness, even participate in, a set of rituals the likes of which no outsider has ever documented: the block parades (complete with monster trucks!), the barbeque parties (replete with a southern club specialty, the "Mississippi Mud Slide"), the bikini bike wash, the Myrtle and Virginia Beach bike runs, the drag races, the raunchy fundraising parties, and, of course, the "biker chicks", urban flavor.
