Skateboard, Cult, VHS, 90's, Classic, Skate, Culture; VHS Tapes - we have a bunch of different copies for sale in good used condition - email for list.....
411 was the equivalent of the internet for three quarters of the ’90s. That’s a big deal. Who didn’t like how random the 60/40 commercials were, or fast forward some spot check on a clunky park in Germany, or losing it anytime Sal Barbier addressed us via “The Grapevine”? For real, when he announced that Goodtimes Intelligence Agency was giving away a trip to Hawaii, he was genuinely puzzled–you can’t script that. By the way, who won that trip and what did it entail? Did you get to hang out with Carl Carpenter?
Having a steady stream of video showing up at your local shop made you feel connected and let more scenes shine, instead of exclusively seeing more footage of “some guy with a backwards fitted” somewhere in California. Being able to see what was going on in Love, Pulaski, or New York, in what felt like realtime completely changed the world’s view of the East Coast, inspiring people from everywhere to check out the spots. Ultimately that was a good look for everyone.
Louis Malle, Rare, Controversial, War, Classic, Powerful, Taboo; DVD - Ex Used condition
Having been rejected by the Resistance for being too young, teenager Lucien Lacombe joins the Gestapo in a show of defiance. But upon falling for the daughter of a Jewish tailor, Lucien begins to view his actions in a very different light. Louis Malle was never a director to worry about public opinion, having ruffled feathers with his intellectual study of incest in 1971s, Soufflé au coeur, Le, he practically ostracised himself with this simmering collaboration piece. Tho it has to be said that the sheer weight of the fall out in his home country would surely have taken him by surprise, however, what remains to this day is a highly accomplished character piece that engrosses from the get go. It's now something of common knowledge that Malle drew from his own upbringing by way of motivation in some of his work, how much of this particular story affected him is not entirely clear, but what isn't in doubt is that the directors time during the occupation of France lends this piece an aura of honesty, it feels personal, and the result is very special indeed. Each individual viewer can interpret the sequence of events as they may, but just maybe Lacombe Lucien is a simple portrayal of a missed opportunity, and this missed opportunity coupled with naivety bred the wickedness that is viewed in the film. The theme of betrayal hangs heavy in the story, and the mere fact that Malle refused to take sides with his outlaying of the story, only furthers the sense of intrigue that covers the viewer come the stunning ending, an ending that creeps up on you and begs you for another thought process.
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.
Frederico Fellini, Cult, Italian, Foreign, Classic, Comedy; VHS - Ex Used condition
Although this is a sell-through bootleg copy of Fellini's 1973 classic "Amacord". It has printed cover and spine sticker, and is still a very rare tape. THIS IS NOT CRITERION (AS SHOWN IN THE PICTURE)
Pinku, Violent, Erotic, Porn, Japanese, Pink, Taboo, French; DVD - Ex Used condition
Nami works in a department store. She is asked to stand in for a friend in a magazine photo-shoot, which turns out to be for an S&M magazine called "Red Porno". When the photos are published, she is sacked and her lover abandons her. Muraki, who is an unpopular otaku loner, tries to meet up with Nami but is shot by a woman who takes him for a rapist and dies. Fourth in the series and full of stylish sequences and almost non stop full bloodied (almost hardcore) SM orientated sex. Ikeda's film does not fit the basic rape, revenge/consequence pattern of the others and initially confuses because it does not conform to our expectations. Especially difficult for western audiences is the mixing of, very strong sexual needs of women, rape and romance. We get particularly frank, wet and slurping scenes of female masturbation, images/memories/fantasies of rape and the gradual development of a most unlikely romantic liaison. The film is at times so good to look at that the slight and occasional lapses are noticeable. One is thrown for instance when Nami runs from her department store after hearing that she is to be sacked for appearing in a porno mag. The music and the way she is shot leads one to suspect that she has had enough and will seek to avenge herself. This French release DVD is Japanese with French subtitles only unfortunately....
Robin Fox, Experimental, Electronic, Synaesthesia, Rare, Digital, Australia, Melbourne; DVD - Ex Used condition
"Digital culture is obsessed with synaesthesia, especially sound/image convergence. From club ‘visuals’ to automatic ‘visualiser’ plugins for mp3 applications, there’s an ideal of sensory fusion at work which draws on cyber/psychedelic rave culture, and utopian new media discourse.
Ideals aside, digital media forms do create new potential for varieties of ‘machine’ synaesthesia–automatic mappings between sound and image. Visualiser plugins offer specific and more-or-less arbitrary mappings of image to sound. While they can’t (promise to) induce a synaesthetic experience, they do offer a machine synaesthesia that might challenge, reorder, or at least reflect on, our own audiovisual perception. Yet most synaesthesia machines are little more than bolted-on nozzles that turn all your favourite tunes into generic visual sludge.
By contrast Robin Fox’s Backscatter disc presents a highly specific and refined synaesthesia machine. He has assembled a simple audiovisual synthesizer using simple digitally synthesised audio and an old analog oscilloscope. The oscilloscope is in ‘polar’ mode, so instead of scanning left to right, displaying the conventional ‘trace’ of the waveform, the trace orbits the screen. Waveforms create woven circles, loops, twisting spirals, filigreed knots.
Response is instantaneous, so the screen jumps and twitches in sync with Fox’s audio signature skitters and blips. The sound-vision mapping is supple, the images beautiful and sometimes surprising. The pieces feel quite controlled, even composed, the way they seem to literally reveal new twists and tricks. Overall, the results are staggering."
Mitchell Whitelaw
Earbash
Rare, 151 Skateboards, VHS, Skate Punk, Skateboarding, GG Allin,1998; VHS Video - Ex Used Condition
Skaters
Chris Swanson, Eric Dressen, Matt Dycke, Neil Heddings, Pigpen
Soundtrack
Motorhead Over The Top
The Rolling Stones Monkey Man
GG Allin Scars On My Body
Judas Priest Screaming For Vengance
Motley Crue Live Wire
Battalion Of Saints I Want To Make You Scream
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...
Psych, Experimental, Noise, Rare, Avant Garde, Argentina, Rock; 2xCD set - Ex Used condition (Jewell case damaged)
The Argentinian band Reynols wasn’t widely known even before they disappeared for some 17 years. They just don’t do the kind of music that gets a band known. Reynols represent everything rock pretends to be. The band has been around since 1993, although if you ask singer and frontman Miguel Tomasin, he might tell you that the band has been around since 1967 when, at age 3, he started banging on pots and pans in his mother’s kitchen. He might say something else, too, but he’s said that in the past. Tomasin is, by any definition, the visionary of Reynols. Without him, Reynols wouldn’t be the most important band in the history of rock. Rock has certain conventions—rhythm, instrumentation—that generally don’t vary all that much. But something more important that rock has, or should have, or at least pretends to have, is attitude. Rock is about the rise of the outsider. Rock is about breaking down power structures. Rock is about believing in yourself. And in that respect, Tomasin is a veritable rock hero. The fact that Tomasin has Down’s syndrome may or may not matter; We’d have to know what kind of band he’d have if he didn’t have Down’s syndrome to say for sure, and we don’t know that. But Tomasin is a visionary and in Roberto Conlazo, Pacu Conlazo and Anla Courtis, he has a devout ensemble ready, willing and able to do his bidding. And that’s what makes Reynols the most important band in the history of rock. Tomasin’s bidding hasn’t always brought home the bacon. Past releases have included recordings of chickens and an album of dematerialized music, housed in an empty jewel case. The band has also worked with Acid Mother’s Temple, the Nihilist Spasm Band and Pauline Oliveros, and has always stayed true to his wishes. That dedication is what gives the band its strength.
Anal Cunt, Grindcore, Noise, Rare, Early, Live, Collected recordings; CD - Ex Used condition
Old Stuff, Part Two is a compilation of early material. The 1st track is actually one side of a split with the Meat Shits. The tracks are completely blur noise, with sparse riffs and a cover of a ‘Siege’ song that you may recognize from later albums by AC. If you don’t care for Anal Cunt even when they have funny song titles, then you will hate this album for sure. This is pure noise, everything sounds similar, everything is too fast for consideration, but I love everything about this album. The real treat on this album though is the live tracks, from the early days when AC would still do live acoustic performances. They actually play their material with an acoustic guitar while Tim Morse plays his typical style of blast/stop/blast/stop, for a small crowd who gives big cheers after each song. It’s funny as hell and I wish I had been there.
The Wire Magazine, V/A comp,
The Wire 20 Years 1982–2002 is a various artists compilation album. The 3-CD box set was released on Mute Records for the 20th anniversary of British music magazine The Wire The tracks were selected by the magazine's publisher and former editor, Tony Herrington. It is now out of print. Andy Gill at The Independent named it one of the ten best box sets of the year.
CD 1
The Wire - Steve Lacy
Seguita - Ennio Morricone (with Gruppo Di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza)
Wrong Eye - Coil
Egress (excerpt) - Hands To
Buried Dreams - David Toop and Max Eastley
Tubby's Vengeance - Vivian Jackson & King Tubby
Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder) - Fennesz
M 5 - Derek Bailey
Cockfight - Trance In Paksabali And Kesiman - Gamelan Beleganjur - Traditional Musicians, Bali
Pygmaäen - Einsturzende Neubauten
After Rapidly Circling The Plaza (excerpt) - AMM
11,000 Volts - Mars
Breathe Deep - Cabaret Voltaire
The Death Of The Composer Was In 1962 - Tony Conrad with Faust
Vandal - Designer
Soaking Bodies In Dub - Torture
Shenshema - Fela Kuti
CD 2
Illistrum - The Art Ensemble Of Chicago
Expressway To Yr Skull - Sonic Youth
Salt - Spring Heel Jack / The Blue Series Continuum
Paper Hats - This Heat
Simple Headphone Mind - Stereolab / Nurse With Wound
Rock 'N' Roll Station - Jacques Berrocal
Ancient Ethiopia - Sun Ra & His Solar-Myth Arkestra
Jukebox Capriccio - Christian Marclay
Williams Mix - John Cage
Cathode #4: Soundcheck Version - Yoshihide Otomo
Headphones - Bjork
I (excerpt) - Pauline Oliveros
CD 3
Satan Side - Keith Hudson
Music For The Gift Part 1 - Terry Riley
Silver Smoke Of Dreams - William Burroughs (with Ian Sommerville)
Rocket USA - Suicide
4.2 - Supersilent
Vaihe (Fön)
Kebabträume - Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft
Khalid Of Space Part 2 - Welcome - Larry Young
Players With Circuits - David Behrman (with Gordon Mumma)