PIGMY SPY MUSIC (Overkill Edition) 2008; DVD Renegade/Independent/Experimental  DVD, Used Pigmy Spy Music is presented in an all-new Overkill Edition packed with over 1-1/2 hours of extra material. Shot over a one month period by a group of renegade Orange County guerrilla filmmakers.  Pigmy Spy Music is the allegorical tale of Mister X, who may, or may not, be pursued by evil pig creatures as he searches for the mysterious Professor Richmann. Shot in and around Orange County & Long Beach, CA.

CRUMB (Documentary) 2006; DVD Art/Comics/Underground/Documentary/Crumb DVD, Used - Rare Crumb is a look into the dysfunctional world of the Crumb family, with an emphasis on Robert. As the two sisters declined to be interviwed for the documentary we only get to meet brothers Max, Charles and Robert. Who have extraordinary artistic talents. As if to balance this out, they each also have disturbing tendancies and a very dark view of the modern world.  Charles, who rarely leaves the house, and lives with his mother, sadly committed suicide after this film was completed, but spoke of two previous attempts on his own life during his interview. He concentrated on pencil and crayon artwork in his younger years, but lacked self-motivation to get back into artwork.  Max, a self-confessed woman molestor(!!!) had many phsychiatric issues of his own.  Robert, the most famous of the three brothers is a prolific pen-and-ink artist capable of truly outstanding work, underpinned by deep feelings of suppression and sexual hangups, which manifest themselves within his artwork.  It's a well made film, which makes for dark viewing at times and left me feeling somewhat 'grubby' for watching it.  Crumb fans will appreciate the artwork, together with Robert's unbending will to not 'sell-out' to commercialism, by giving out autographs or allowing more of his work to be animated. The thought of a 'Mr Natural' movie disgusted him.  If you are looking for no-nonsense honest look at a comic book artist at his best, I can think of no finer work.

FRUIT OF THE VINE (Skate Documentary) 2002; DVD Skate/Documentary/Skateboard DVD, Used Long after most Hollywood films have faded into obscurity, Fruit of the Vine will stand as a vital, independent document of a thriving American subculture. We're talking skateboarding here--specifically, the maverick bicoastal pursuit of empty swimming pools to be ridden and mastered by expert skateboarders, some of whom have been perfecting their sport for 25 years or more. Codirectors Coan Nichols and Rick Charnosky have perfectly matched their subject with the grainy aesthetic of Super-8mm film, resulting in a no-frills work of art that captures, with time-capsule longevity, the obsessive mindset of those who pool skate despite numerous physical and legal obstacles. Fueled by a driving punk soundtrack, this is a loving portrait of outcast rebellion, embodied by such featured skaters as Tony Alva, Pat "Q-Man" Quirk, Mark Hubbard, and others who've turned skateboarding into a working-class religion. Simultaneously, Fruit of the Vine surveys a depressed American landscape, rotting and ripe for the infusion of energy that pool skating provides.

NOMADS AND NO-ZONES Documentary; DVD Documentary/Underground/Culture/Outsider/Punk DVD Rare Drawn from the raw material of their drifts and detours, here's an album of radical diaries and personal documentaries from two of the West's bravest makers. Gritty glimpses of edgy experience in marginalized cultures, their authentic film stories afford rare access and insight into the lived poetry of a dozen-plus autonomous zones. A road-savvy Snider freight-hops her way up and down the Coast, tracking from Frisco punk rockers to apocalyptic messengers of the Sonoran desert, gambling and engaging with the losers and visionaries that she meets along the way. Criss-crossing her paths are the barefoot pilgrimages of Portand-based Renwick, whose wise eye and wild heart celebrate the secret meanings of animals and humble things, the agonies and ecstasies of outsider life.