Disinformation: The Interviews Richard Metzger; Paperback
176 pages (2002), Used
The best and most revealing interviews from the prococative TV series/DVD of the same name.
Richard Metzger presents the most compelling interviews from the hit TV series Disinformation, revealing mindblowing thoughts from modern culture's most radical thinkers:
Paul Laffoley on how to build a working time machine and a house made of vegetables
Douglas Rushkoff explains "media viruses"
Lucifer Principle author Howard Bloom on the coming biological apocalypse
Genesis POrridge on what it's like to be the leader of your own cult
Joe Coleman's collection of weird stuff
Robert Anton Wilson on The Illuminati and Aleister Crowley
Kembra Pfahler on The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black
Duncan Laurie on the forbidden science of radionics
Comic book author Grant Morrison (The Invisibles, JLA, XMen) on sex magick
Hollywood's interest in underground culture and the best alien abduction story you'll ever hear!
Plus, many more modern revolutionaries (including philosopher Peter Russell, futurist Mark Pesce, and Apocalypse Culture's Adam Parfrey) expressing their thoughts, fears, enthusiasms, and predictions.
GIVE MY REGARDS TO EIGHTH STREET : Collected Writings of Morton Feldman; Paperback
(2004) 256 pages, Used
Composer Morton Feldman (1926-87) was a crucial figure in the post-war New York art world, using elements of chance composition to construct exquisite, quietly powerful scores that produce wonderfully varied interpretations. In Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings of Morton Feldman, Feldman reflects on his own work and ideas, as well as on those of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank O'Hara, John Cage and many others. If "Silence is my substitute for counterpoint," these occasional articulations give us a way into it.
"There are people who say, "If music's that easy to write, I could do it." Of course they could, but they don't. I find Feldman's own statement more affirmative. We were driving back from some place in New England where a concert had been given. He is a large man and falls asleep easily. Out of a sound sleep, he awoke to say, "Now that things are so simple, there's so much to do." And then he went back to sleep." - John Cage
GANGS AND THEIR TATTOOS: Identifying Gangbangers on the Street & in Prison; Paperback
(2000) 176 pages, Used
In this book, Bill Valentine, author of Gang Intelligence Manual, shares the latest intelligence on the predominant street and prison gangs and other disruptive groups, with particular emphasis on their identifying tattoos. Supplementing the text are scores of detailed illustrations by Correctional Officer Robert Schober that replicate some of the most common tattoos worn by members of each of the groups discussed. This groundbreaking work makes a substantial amount of previously classified information available to the general public for the first time. In addition to presenting the latest intel on white, black, Hispanic and Asian gangs, it also includes new information on groups such as the White Afrikaner Resistance Movement and the Russian Mafia, which add to the mounting challenge faced by those laboring to hold the line against the menace posed by gangs, hate groups and organized crime.
MUERTE!: Death in Mexican Popular Culture (2000); Paperback
Feral House 102 pages, Used
Luxuriously illustrated with scores of rare images and in lurid full color, this is one of the first books in the English language to examine the Mexican tabloid obsession with the dead. The art from the book will be shown in galleries in New York, Baltimore, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
A magnificent investigation into murder, mayhem and massacre within Mexican pop culture and its cultic worship of death. -- Dr. Anil Aggrawal, Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
FIGMENT (All those shapes - Melbourne Graffiti); Magazine
200 pages, Independent Magazine; Used
Figment is a Melbourne street art / graffiti / urban art book produced by Street Art collective all those shapes. 200 pages of adventures from around Melbourne; Fitzroy, Collingwood, Northcote, Brunswick East, Preston, Brunswick, Footscray, the inner suburbs of Melbourne, abandos and railway. While most of the art in this book no longer exists, the book itself is no more a figment of my imagination, but something real; if only for a while. From simple lines to intricate patterns, figment contains character and characters, words and metaphor, graffiti street-art paste-ups stickers, humour despair decay, colour & dark, stories, shapes, mystery with Leagues, Makatron, Merda, Nock, Rapoela, Vexta, Snotrag, Dvate, Bailer, Kid Zoom, Mymo, I & The Others, Nails, Reka, Be Free, Urban Cake Lady, Shida, Mio, Junky Projects, Philthy, Kyle Hughes-Odgers, Alice Pasquini, Kofie, Nelio, Lucy Lucy, Barek, Kaff-eine, Slicer, Itch, Drewfunk, Twoone, Ghostpatrol, Miso, Mishap, Simz, Stabs, Al Stark, Stormie Mills, Ears, Happy, Will Coles, Maumau, plus many more and many unknowns.....325 images many in full landscape A4. Get inspiration, ideas get syked. Piece together adventures as you would walking the streets, randomly.
RUBBING MIRRORS Brigitte Lewis (Melbourne); Paperback
Queer/Gay interest/Lesbian, Used
Welcome to a brave new world where cunt is a beautiful word and social critique is the cutting norm. Let Alexis take you by her short nailed hand and thrust you fingers first into the dark corners of Melbourne's lesbian scene. The divide between sex and love has always been a tightrope line. She'll make you swoon make you laugh most of all she'll etch herself into your mind long after the last page is turned. Trust us you'll never look back she doesn't. Independent Melbourne paperback....
GRAFFITI JAPAN (2011); Hardcover
Remo Camerota 144 pages, New
Japan has long been a breeding ground for innovative appropriation of Western traditions, as with cinema and baseball. But the fanatical embrace with which Japanese artists have welcomed graffiti has made for a street-art scene wholly apart from its Western origins. As the first English-language book dedicated to Japanese graffiti, Graffiti Japan is an obvious choice for a hardcover edition, featuring all the same great photographs and artist interviews with KRESS, BELX2, FATE, TENGA, EMAR, SUIKO, QP, and many more. The graffiti featured in Graffiti Japan replicates the calligraphic intricacies of the Japanese language with spray paint, depicting how anime and manga characters, national pride, as well as foreign influences, are integral parts of the country's scene. From sprawling, legally sanctioned murals to illegal throw-ups hidden in alleyways, this work could not exist in any other country.
TIM BURTON: A Child's Garden of Nightmares (2007); Paperback
Paul A Woods 192 pages, Used
This definitive study charts the career of Tim Burton from his days as a malcontent animator at Walt Disney Productions to his current place as one of America’s most remarkable directors. It examines Burton's “monster culture” influences — from the films of Ed Wood, Jr. to Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine — that imbue his films with rich visual imagery and emotional depth. For each film, the book provides a detailed analysis, articles and interviews, and a vivid selection of stills.
FATAL VISIONS - THE WONDER YEARS (2015); Paperback
The LedaTape Organisation, 250 pages, Used (Rare)
A collection of FATAL VISIONS, Melbourne's own infamous trash film zine, has congealed into perfect bound format. Proving that dead tree technology has not entirely slipped into a coma this compilation covers the earliest and rarest entries in FVs decade-long publication history. Devoted to sleaze, violence and sexploitation in the Cinema and wherever it appears on video, TV & in print, FATAL VISIONS went to places where few other Australian publications even knew existed: bottom of the package video titles, late late night TV movies, films that played announced as drive-in supports and in hard tops where they were lucky to play for one week only. Profusely illustrated - with index! Includes: Film in Fiji - Jack Ferguson Banned Toys - MH Divine Obit - Fred Burger Wes Craven interview - Paul Harris Film Censorship in Australia 1988 - Joey Inferno Posthumous Bruce Lee films - Spike Des Mangan Interview - MH Mark Savage Interview - MH Confessions of a Porn Novelist - Kris Gilpin Deep Inside Melbourne Porn Venues - Jack Ferguson Candida Royalle Interview - MH David Nolte Interview - MH Zlatko Kasumovic Interview - MH Porn on Film manifesto - Jack Stevenson Plus hundreds of sleazy film, tv and book reviews and much much more!
SAVAGE CINEMA (Hardcover) Rick Trader Witcombe (1975); Book
Books of this quality are like a drug for cinema fetishists of a certain disposition... of course it is'dated'... there are even a few morsels of arcane trivia/inaccuracies (the days when rumour held a firmer sway over the imagination) that might raise an eyebrow ... You only want it for the cover anyway, and that's fine. All the film books in this series (Ape: The Kingdom of Kong, Cut - The Unseen Cinema) are extremely sought after by the cool people, and that's all who need to know...... Rare.
ANSWER ME! The First Three; (Jim Goad) Paperback Book
Paperback Book, Used
First press compilation of the first three issues of Jim and Debbie Goads socially pathological and controversial magazine, published between 1991 and 1993. This first edition was released through 'AK Press' in 1995. This has become a very sought after and collectible item and is the last copy we have left in stock.
