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.
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...
Cult, Trash, Gore, Adult, Conspiracy, GG Allin, Bizarre, Rare; Magazine - Ex Used condition
The Nose was a cult magazine published from 1989-1995, 26 issues total, and was a combination of satirical news and weird-but-true stories culled from west of the Mississippi. This issue includes articles and interviews including LA riot comics, Tractor sex deaths, Bangkok body snatchers, Genitortures, GG Allin, Incredibly strange music and White Trash Videos. Awesome!
Experimental, Noise, Avant Garde, Melbourne, Australian, Sunn0))), Anticon, Melt Banana, v/vm; A2 size Book bound Zine - Ex Used condition
Somewhat legendary Melbourne experimental/noise zine put out by Mark Groves (Synesthesia Record Store) in early 2001. Issue 8 contains interviews/articles with Sole/Anticon, Antedeluvian Rockinghorse, The Berzerker, Cex, Chris Smith & Justin Fuller, Melt Banana, Pix, Speedranch^Jansky Noise and V/VM - also contains small extra booklet 'UJAKU 8.5' whith interviews withSunn0))), Atomsmasher, Bathtub Shitter and Fuck... I'm Dead.... If someone doesn't snap this up soon, I am keeping it for myself!! So fucking awesome....
Gumby, Childrens, Claymation, Vintage, 3D; Comic - VG + Used condition
Blackthorne Publishing presents another in its series of 3-D comics, this one featuring lovable claymation kids-TV star Gumby. Gumby, Pokey and Prickle have adventures in the Old West. Ricochet Pete; Hidden Valley. 32 pages, B&W with 3-D effects (1987)
Beat Writers, Allen Ginsberg, Willian S Burroughs, Interview; Hardcover Book (336 pages)
DON’T HIDE THE MADNESS: William S. Burroughs in Conversation with Allen Ginsberg (978-1-941110-70-6, Three Rooms Press, Hardcover, 336 pages, October 16, 2018; $26) has been hailed as a “must-have resource for beat aficianados” by Publishers Weekly and “a beautiful book” by renowned film director Gus Van Sant. The book offers a fly-on-the-wall experience with the driving forces behind two of the 20th century’s literary counterculture masters. The conversation is interspersed with 17 photographs taken by Ginsberg revealing Burroughs’s daily activities from his painting studio to the shooting range. Renowned artist Robert Crumb created a rare new original image for the cover.
In the course of their dialogue in DON’T HIDE THE MADNESS, Burroughs and Ginsberg discuss:
• the force that drives all creative endeavors
• Native American approaches to creativity and imagination
• shamanic ritual and the creative process
• Burroughs’ cut-up approach to literature
• the magical qualities of cats
• and much more, including drugs, guns, punk rock, and lit-world gossip
The conversation, which occurred in conjunction with the release of David Cronenberg’s film adaption of Burroughs’ groundbreaking “cut-up” novel Naked Lunch, reveals intimate personal history and guiding philosophical dialectic in a magnification allowed by the decades of friendship between these two literary giants. DON’T HIDE THE MADNESS presents an important, hitherto-unpublished primary document of the Beat Generation.
Shamanism, Altered consciousness, Magic, Witchcraft, Psychic, Occult; Paperback Book (160 pages) - Ex Used condition
Dr. Scott discloses the deepest secrets of Shamanism. Step by step, she recounts her personal experiences as her teachers take her into the further reaches of the timeless knowledge and techniques for manipulating subtle energies, transmitting intention, and creating gateways into alternate dimensions.
Post-modernism, Art, Culture, Contemporary; Paperback Book Richard Appignanesi - VG Used condition
What on earth is postmodernism? This is a guide to the maddeningly enigmatic concept which is supposed to define the human cultural condition at the end of the 20th century. Postmodernism claims that "modernity" has collapsed, that the historical process which began with the enlightenment, industrialism, Darwin, Marx, Freud and so on has exhausted itself and there is no more "future", just an endlessly "contemporary" world full of endlessly contested meanings. This uncertainty has led to a postmodern culture which embodies parody, pastiche and cultural cross-over and claims as its own such diverse phenomena as Andy Warhol, neo-classical architecture and Mickey Mouse! This book takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride through structuralism, deconstruction, cyberspace and semiotics in the company of the essential postmodern icons from Adorno and Lacan to Foucault and Umberto Eco.
Experimental, Noise, Industrial, Dark, Death, Doom, Abstract, Black, Metal; Paperback Magazine (A5 format) - New
Noise Receptor Journal continues its adventures into the physical world, where this print venture constitutes the physical manifestation of the Noise Receptor blog, but also contains interview and art content to differentiate it from the already published web-based reviews. CONTENT Long-form interviews with: Moral Order, Post Scriptvm & Total Black & Nordvargr (30+ year/career spanning interview). Detailed report / photos of the Dominion of Flesh: 5 Years of Cloister Recordings festival. Reviews: 50+ detailed reviews (ambient/ industrial/ experimental / power electronics etc.). Artwork: Original cover artwork + review section artwork by Nordvargr.
Illegal, Street Art, Graffiti, Tactical, Guerrilla, Graff; Paperback Book 144pages (2020) - New
The Street Art Manual is an illicit, tactical handbook to creating art in public and taking over urban space. Every type of street art is covered, from painting graffiti, to light projections, stenciling, wheat pasting and mural making, with each technique illustrated with step-by-step drawings.
Arm yourself with the tips and knowledge that no other guide will give you and go out and reclaim the streets in the name of urban creativity.