SEVEN SAMURAI Akira Kurosawa (1954); DVD
Classic/Cult/Asian DVD, Used
Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece... The Japanese equivalent to Orson Welles' Citizen Kane. Not only Kurosawa's most well known film, but the most widely recognized Japanese film ever made. This movie will forever be known as a milestone in motion picture history. In 1954, Kurosawa made foreign film history with Seven Samurai. Everything about this film is absolutely terrific. The film lasts around 3 1/2 hours, and every minute of it is unbelievable filmmaking. Kurosawa's blend of stellar craft, captivating cinematography, ravishing art direction, and unforgettable characters makes this one of the most intelligent films ever made.A veteran samurai, who has fallen on hard times, answers a village's request for protection from bandits. He gathers 6 other samurai to help him, and they teach the townspeople how to defend themselves, and they supply the samurai with three small meals a day. The film culminates in a giant battle when 40 bandits attack the village.
THE NAKED BUNYIP (1970); DVD
Australian/Sleaze/Comedy/Cult DVD, New
A shy young man is hired by an ad agency to conduct a survey on sex in Australia. The somewhat clueless young man investigates homosexuality, transvestites, prostitution, and strip clubs along with every other variant on the "norm". While doing his interviews he meets celebrities, self proclaimed sex experts, prostitutes, female impersonators, pop stars, actors, and legislators as well as self appointed morals guardians. The first serious study of sex in Australia (in a funny sort of way).
TENEBRAE (Dario Argento) 1982; DVD
Giallo/Slasher/Thriller/Cult DVD Uncut - Uncensored Widescreen edition, New
With Argento's trademark visual style, linked with one of his more coherent plots, Tenebrae follows a writer who arrives to Rome only to find somebody is using his novels as the inspiration (and, occasionally, the means) of committing murder. As the death toll mounts the police are ever baffled, and the writer becomes more closely linked to the case than is comfortable. Another classic giallo by the master himself.
THE BOYS NEXT DOOR - Next Door (Live Bootleg 1979), CD
(1994) An ideal for living CD, New
Live bootleg recording, recorded between two live shows in Sydney 1979, and The London Tavern in Melbourne 1979.
THE DESPERATE GENERATION; DVD
Kustom/Hotrod/Documentary/Lowbrow DVD, New
THE DESPERATE GENERATION DVD WITH OVER AN HOUR'S WORTH OF BONUS FOOTAGE Desperate Generation is a documentary that encapsulates the 90's Rockabilly revival in Southern California. Each aspect of the subculture is candidly portrayed in short, music-filled vignettes highlighting vintage car clubs, tattoo artists, musicians, annual car & hot rod events, and much more! Featuring James Intveld, and the Shifters C.C.
Mad Fabricators Society, Vol. 3 (2007); 2 x DVD
Kustom/Hotrod/Documentary/Lowbrow 2 x DVD, New
The third installment of the best HOT ROD DVD is here with all the madness and mischeif that MAD FABRICATORS SOCIETY is known for. A look into the lives of some of the most influential people and stories from the Hot Rod and Custom Culture. This along with the other Mad Fabricator's dvd's are must haves for hot rod and custom fanatics. The information included is invaluable to builders, and the stories are loaded with useful information.
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'.
NEAT STUFF Peter Bagge (Fantagraphics) Issue 9; Comic
Used - $15.00
Neat Stuff is an American alternative comic book series created by Peter Bagge and published by Fantagraphics. It ran from 1985 to 1989 for fifteen issues. Each takes the form of a series of short stories featuring different sets of characters, although some issues feature full-length stories relating to just one set of characters. The series was Bagge’s first one-man comics anthology. Described by Dez Skinn in Comix: The Underground Revolution as the work which “threw Peter Bagge into the limelight”
NEAT STUFF Peter Bagge (Fantagraphics) Issue 2; Comic
Used - $15.00
Neat Stuff is an American alternative comic book series created by Peter Bagge and published by Fantagraphics. It ran from 1985 to 1989 for fifteen issues. Each takes the form of a series of short stories featuring different sets of characters, although some issues feature full-length stories relating to just one set of characters. The series was Bagge’s first one-man comics anthology. Described by Dez Skinn in Comix: The Underground Revolution as the work which “threw Peter Bagge into the limelight”
A MAMMALS NOTEBOOK: Collected Writings of Erik Satie (1997); Paperback
Atlas Arkhive 208 pages, Used (ex-library)
This is the largest selection (in any language) of Erik Satie's writings yet to appear, and includes previously unpublished texts, drawings and photographs.
Dismissed as a bizarre eccentric by many, Erik Satie has come to be seen as a key influence on twentieth century music. His compositions include, among other pieces, the ubiquitous Gymnopedies, the 3 Pieces in the Form of a Pear, and the Dada opera Relache. In later life he gathered round him Les Six and the cream of the new generation of French composers. His influence has continued to widen; John Cage and the New York School composers hailed him as "indispensable," and more recently certain of his pieces have been seen as prefiguring both Minimalist and Ambient music. His poignant, sly and witty writings embody all his contradictions. Included here are his "autobiographical" Memoirs of an Amnesic, and wryly comic musical commentaries; the gnomic annotations to his musical scores ("For the SHRIVELLED and the DIMWITS, I have written a suitably ponderous chorale ... a kind of austere, unfrivolous introduction ... I dedicate this chorale to those who do not like me."); the publications of his private church; his absurdist play Medusa's Snare; advertising copy for his local suburban newspaper, and the mysterious, elaborately calligraphed, "private advertisements" found stuffed behind his piano after his death.
EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC: Audio Explorations in Australia (2008); Paperback
Gail Priest 192 pages, Used
Experimental music has been mostly unrecognised in Australia, but it is in this ‘underground’ area that the major innovations and creative developments in music occur. Through testing perceived boundaries, breaking rules and creating new forms, the artists in this field force us to question what, in fact, music is. Written by artists who have been actively engaged in the musical niches they are covering, this book explores the major innovations and creative developments in Australian experimental music from the 1970s to the present. Through testing perceived boundaries, breaking rules, and creating new forms, the artists presented question preconceived notions of what music is. Rare find these days....
WELCOME TO FOREST ISLAND Bwana Spoons (2009); Hardcover
144 Full Colour pages, Art Book, Used
Top Shelf presents Welcome to Forest Island, the very first art book by Bwana Spoons, a painter, designer, silkscreener, and zinester whose work has been featured on shoes, skateboards, t-shirts, baby strollers, and in gallery shows throughout the US, Tokyo, and Paris. All 144 full-color pages — including paintings, maps, sketches, short comics, and more — are dedicated to Forest Island, the outrageously colorful land of Bwana’s imagination! Our motley cast includes whale-gators, super-cicadas, wild killers and tapirs, arrow-shooting, basket-weaving love tribes, an ex-hobo mushroom farmer, and one wacky bat who plays drums in a metal band and would do anything for a jelly-filled bagel.
