SUSPIRIA (Dario Argento) 1977; DVD
Giallo/Cult/Slasher/Horror DVD, New
"Suspiria" has been acclaimed as director Dario Argento's masterpiece. Suzy Bannion travels to Germany to perfect her ballet skills. She arrives at the Tanz dance academy in the pouring rain and is refused admission after another woman is seen fleeing the school. She returns the next morning and this time is let in. She learns that the young woman she saw fleeing the previous evening, Pat Hingle, has been found dead. Strange things soon begin to occur. Suzy becomes ill and is put on a special diet; the school becomes infested with maggots; odd sounds abound; and Daniel, the pianist, is killed by his own dog. A bit of research indicates that the ballet school was once a witches' coven - and as Suzy learns, still is. Filmed in bright, lurid Technicolor, and accompanied by a thundering soundtrack by Goblin, Suspiria is a nightmare-come-to-life, and ranks as one of the best Italian-made horror films of all time.
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 NIGHT PORTER (1974); DVD
Arthouse/Controvercial/Cult DVD, New
A controversial and shocking movie? Definitely, and the way some people today profess to be jaded about "The Night Porter" says more about our current culture than about the movie itself. Other persons who experienced the Holocaust first-hand have reacted negatively towards it for its portrayal of a destructive but loving relationship born amidst the Holocaust. Their objections are certainly understandable. There has also been, though, an awful lot of politically-correct garbage and pretentious nonsense written about "The Night Porter," much of which has missed or misinterpreted some of the strongest elements of the movie. The film is shocking because it describes an insane situation, led by two insane people. These are the disturbing elements of the film, because spectators don't feel well in seeing that. The atmosphere has something very icy and miserable. After 45 years "Night porter" remains a gem. An intelligent movie, full of provocation. Charlotte Rampling and Dirk Bogarde are extraordinary.
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....
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!
