Grant Hart, Husker Du, Biography, Documentary, Music, Hardcore; DVD (2013)
Writing in City Pages, Reed Fischer said, "In spite of the myriad challenges of his personal and professional life -- the fire, the death of family members, his band's epic dissolution, drug addiction, and coming to terms with his sexual orientation -- Hart comes off as a wiser man for all of it. Hearing the way he describes his close emotional friendship with William S Burroughs is worth the price of admission on its own. Sure, there are numerous bits about Mr. Mould and Mr. Norton too, and they're mostly told with fondness for the fruit before it became poisoned. Hart's slow and deliberate retellings of his past convey an inner strength that hints at why Bechard wanted to spend so much time with him. Capping the tale with the beginnings of Hart's epic interpretation of John Milton's Paradise Lost, The Argument -- Chris Strouth has a lot more to say about the album here -- the story rests itself in the near-present at a high point in Hart's storied career. Not every stone was turned over in this tale, but they all at least got a firm jostling."
OZ Magazine, Hippie, Counterculture, Documentary, Biography, 60's, Drugs, Underground Culture; Paperback Book (376 pages) - VG Used Condition
He wanted to change the world, and all he had was a little magazine... As publisher of Oz, the hippies' handbook and monument to psychedelia, Richard Neville was at the center of the 1960s cyclone of idealists, rock musicians, radicals, artist hustlers and high society. In Hippie Hippie Shake Richard Neville demythologises the 1960s in a highly amusing, colorful and provocative memoir of the times. It was the dawning of the Age of Aquarius... and then the hash hit the fan.
Rare, Black Metal, VHS, Live, Documentary; VHS Tape and Booklet Insert
Cradle of Filth's first VHS tape, containing the 'From the Cradle to Enslave' promo video, a making-of documentary and concert footage of the band's June 5th 1998 gig at the London Astoria.
Super 8, 8mm, Reel To Reel, Documentary, Film, Collectable; Super8 Film Reel in Good Used Condition
Have a front row seat at one of the greatest human achievements as you relive the events of July 1969. This 8mm film records the entire event from the astronauts (Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins) making their way to the launch-pad, blast off, journey to the Moon and the landing on the surface to the return to Earth and welcome from President Nixon. The box remains strong, intact and in excellent condition. There is slight surface wear and remnants of the original adhesive tape but this is hardly noticeable. The design of the landing module and two astronauts on the Moon surface still retains the original unfaded colouring. The film on a grey plastic reel appears to be in good condition. Please be aware we have been unable to view the film so do not know if it is colour or with sound. A great item for anyone interested in NASA or space, a collector of home movies or as an item in a 1960's themed display. Date: c.1969 Maker: Walton Films Made in ? Dimensions (Box): 13cm x 13cm x 1.5cm
Documentary, Historic, Curiosity, Mondo; VHS Near MInt
You've never seen a video remotely like this one. It haunts you long after you've seen it. The result of an enormous amount of archival research and highly professional writing and editing, this video brings alive the history and culture of circus sideshow "freaks." Dwarfs, giants, pin-heads, Siamese twins, monkey women, dog-faced men, people without legs and/or arms and those with miniature "twins" protruding from various parts of the body. They are all here in a fast-paced, feature-length color film laced with humor, compassion, historical knowlege and provocative social commentary. The film includes interviews with some of the characters, including a bearded lady and the charismatic last surviving circus "half lady." While almost hypnotically entertaining, this is a serious work that will remain the definitive visual study for years to come. This film is about very special human beings, who lived before scientific "final solutions" were possible. Their life stories, the film's remarkable interviews and its engaging narrative, all challenge the accepted wisdom about deformed people, not only whether they have a right to live, but whether they can live happy lives. Most important, whether they have something invaluable to contribute to the human family. This film will draw you back time and time again and bend your mind every viewing.
Transgression, Sleaze, Underground, John Waters, Jorg Buttgereit, Nick Zedd, Jim Goad, Carla Bozulich, Chas Balun, LLoyd Kaufman, Abel Ferrara, Mike Diana, Jack Ketchum, Lydia Lunch, Pop Culture, Unpopular Culture.....Fucking Awesome!! 350 pages
The essential subterranean tract of 2005, Midnight Mavericks is a rollicking tour through the hearts and minds of today's most uncompromising artists from the lower depths of entertainment culture. Profiled are controversial underground icons, angry stand-up comedians, exploitation filmmakers, hardcore crime novelists and controversial cartoonists, including Abel Ferrara, John Waters, Andrew WK, Chris D, Mike Diana, Lydia Lunch and Jim Goad. Includes Sounds from the Underground, a bonus 70minute CD of interview excerpts and songs from the musicians featured in the book.
Grindhouse, Sleaze, Cult, Exploitation, Film, Trash, Cinema; Paperback Book (2002) 315 pages VG used condition
Warning: Watch your wallets and stay out of the bathroom!
In a bygone era, when Times Square was crammed with porn shops, gun stores, and drug pushers, disenfranchised moviegoers flocked to the grindhouses along 42nd Street. If the gore epics, women-in-prison films, and shockumentaries showcased within their mildewed walls didn't live up to their outrageous billing, the audience shouted, threw food, and even vandalized the theaters. For dedicated lovers of extreme cinema, buying a movie ticket on the Deuce meant putting your life on the line.
Authors Bill Landis and Michelle Clifford came to know those grindhouses better than anyone else, and although the theaters were gone by the mid-1980s, the films remained. In Sleazoid Express, Landis and Clifford reproduce what no home video can -- the experience of watching an exploitation film in its original fight-for-your-life Deuce setting. Both a travelogue of the infamous grindhouses of yore and a comprehensive overview of the sleaze canon, Sleazoid Express offers detailed reviews of landmark exploitation classics and paints intimate portraits of directors whose notorious creations played the back end of triple bills for years on end. With wit, intelligence, and an unflinching eye, Landis and Clifford offer the definitive document of cinema's most intense and shocking moments as they came to life at a legendary place.
Night of the living dead, George Romero, Cult, Collectable; 120 page Paperback Book - VG used condition with small damage to spine (1985)
If you like the movie "Night of the Living Dead" you owe it to yourself to buy this book. It's worth every penny.
Cult, Trash, Horror, Smut, Sleaze, Gore; Paperback Book (322 pages) Headpress
Two glorious decades of low-budget monster movies, horror comic books, glow-in-the-dark model kits, sci-fi trading cards, television horror show hosts, 8mm film reels and more! From low-budget horror films to grisly comic art, from lurid movie magazines to late-night creature features, from campy monster toys to exploitive poster art, Trashfiend takes a loving look at "disposable" horror culture from the 1960s and 1970s. Packed with reviews, trivia, rare illustrations, exhaustive technical information, and written with a humorous but insightful flair that is sure to engage both hardcore fans and the curious alike, author Scott Stine picks up where his self-published Trashfiend magazine left off for a fun, albeit critical look at an often overlooked genre that is considered trash! Includes over a hundred reproductions of rare ad art, as well as vintage books, toys and magazines from the era, with eight pages of glorious, garish color.
Mondo, Shockumentary, Death, Real Footage, Documentary; Paperback Book (160 pages) Headpress publishing
Mondo Cane in 1962 was the blueprint for a shocking, controversial and influential documentary film cycle. Known collectively as "mondo films" or "shockumentaries," this enduring series of films is a precursor of the reality TV show. A box-office draw for three decades and later becoming a staple of the video rental market, these explosive exposes would often pass fabricated scenes as fact in order to give the public a sensationalist, highly emotive view of the world. Sweet & Savage is the first-ever English-language book devoted exclusively to the mondo documentary film. A study of mondo as a global film phenomenon, it includes a detailed examination of the key films and includes exclusive interviews with the godfathers of this cult genre.
Undergorund Film, Abel Ferrara, Harmony Korinne, Cult, Exploitation, Warhol; Paperback Book - 235 pages
Whether defined by the carnivalesque excesses of Troma studios (The Toxic Avenger), the arthouse erotica of Radley Metzger and Doris Wishman, or the narrative experimentations of Abel Ferrara, Melvin Van Peebles, Jack Smith, or Harmony Korine, underground cinema has achieved an important position within American film culture. Often defined as "cult" and "exploitation" or "alternative" and "independent," the American underground retains separate strategies of production and exhibition from the cinematic mainstream, while its sexual and cinematic representations differ from the traditionally conservative structures of the Hollywood system. Underground U.S.A. offers a fascinating overview of this area of maverick moviemaking by considering the links between the experimental and exploitative traditions of the American underground.
Experimental Cinema, The Film Reader brings together key writings on American avant-garde cinema to explore the long tradition of underground filmmaking from its origins in the 1920s to the work of contemporary film and video artists. The Reader traces the development of major movements such as the New American Cinema of the 1960s and the Structuralist films of the 1970s, examining the work of key practitioners and recovering neglected filmmakers. Contributors focus on the ways in which underground films have explored issues of gender, sexuality and race, and foreground important technical innovations such as the use of Super 8mm and video. Includes essays by: Sydney P. Adams, Stan Brakhage, Wheeler Winston Dixon, David Ehrenstein, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Surajan Ganguly, Gloria Gibson, Peter Gidal, Kate Haugh, Chris Holmlund and more.
