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TITLE: ReSearch - #11: Pranks!
FORMAT: Book (paperback)
CONDITION: VG+
PRICE: $20.00 CAN
INFO: A prank is a trick, a mischievous act, and a ludicrous act. Although not regarded as poetic or artistic acts, pranks constitute an art form and genre. Here, pranksters such as Mark Pauline, Monte Cazazza, Jello Biafra, Joe Coleman, Karen Finley, Henry Rollins, John Waters and Henry Rollins challenge the sovereign authority of words, images and behavioral convention. Some tales are bizarre, as when Boyd Rice presented the First Lady with a skinned sheep's head on a platter. This iconoclastic compendium will dazzle and delight all lovers of humor, satire and irony. A great quotations section is also included.
TITLE: ReSearch - #14: Incredibly Strange Music - Volume 1
FORMAT: Book (paperback)
CONDITION: VG+
PRICE: $20.00 CAN
INFO: Music. Cultural Studies. In the new INCREDIBLY STRANGE MUSIC, VOL. 1, the editors push way beyond the cheesy TV-celebs-do-pop-faves LP's beloved by garden-variety music cultists. Less a practical guide than a treatise on the philosophical underpinnings of such ephemeria. Featuring articles on or by: Martin Deny, The Cramps, Norton Records, Exotica, religious ventriloquism, Moog, and much more!
TITLE: ReSearch - #15: Incredibly Strange Music - Volume 2
FORMAT: Book (paperback)
CONDITION: NM
PRICE: $20.00 CAN
INFO: "Incredibly Strange Music" is a comprehensive guide to little-known yet amazing vinyl recordings -- mostly from the 50s, 60s, and 70s -- like Muhammad Ali Fights Tooth Decay, Jayne Mansfield reading Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky and Me, Sebastion Cabot (yes, Mr. French of Family Affair) "singing" songs by Bob Dylan, and tons more. Also featured: Jello Biafra, Rusty Warren, Korla Pandit, Yma Sumac, Esquivel, Forbidden Planet…
TITLE: ReSearch, Bob Flanagan - Bob Flanagan: Supermasochist (People Series, Vol. #1)
FORMAT: Book (paperback)
CONDITION: VG+
PRICE: $20.00 CAN
INFO: Bob Flanagan grew up with cystic fibrosis (a congenital, nearly always–fatal disease). He died at the age of 43, one of the oldest people with the disease. The physical pain of his childhood suffering was principally alleviated by masturbation and sexual experimentation, where pain and pleasure became inextricably linked, resulting in his lifelong practice of extreme masochism. In deeply confessional interviews, Bob details his sexual practices and his extraordinary relationship with long-term partner and Mistress, photographer Sheree Rose. Through his insider's perspective on the Sado-Masochist community, we learn firsthand about branding, piercing, whipping, bondage, and endurance trials. These extreme narratives are infused with humour, honesty, and self-reflective irony.
TITLE: ReSearch - Pr0nnovation?: Pornography and Technological Innovation
FORMAT: Book (paperback)
CONDITION: NM
PRICE: $20.00 CAN
INFO: From the depiction of female genitalia in a cave painting to the latest Internet porn, technology, art, and sexuality have always been closely linked. So closely, in fact, that the development of emergent technologies — photography, motion pictures, and the Internet — has been largely fueled and funded by pornography. As J. G. Ballard once prophesied, “Sex times technology equals the future.” In the spirit of Ballard’s epiphany, an eclectic group of writers, theorists, artists, and philosophers gathered to speak at the 2007 Arse Elektronika, an annual conference hosted by the celebrated art-tech-philosophy collective monochrom. The talks are collected in Pr0nnovation? Lively and wide-ranging, they explore the porn-tech connection historically and in the present day, covering topics such as sexual privacy in the online world, DIY pornography, the impact of digital effects on adult films, sex toys of Granny’s day, and software interfaces for sexual interaction. Timothy Archibald, author and photographer of the acclaimed Sex Machines, contributes color photographs.
TITLE: Disinformation - Everything You Know About Sex is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to the Extremes of Human Sexuality (and Everything in Between)
FORMAT: Book (paperback)
CONDITION: NM
PRICE: $20.00 CAN
INFO: Orgasms, sexual inventions, spirituality, high-tech porn, gender-blending, hustling, masturbation, politics, airplane sex, disabilities, sex magick, biblical erotica, advertising, first times, sex in space, asexuality, group sex . . . are you ready for Disinformation's look at the world of sex?
Master anthologizer Russ Kick has immersed himself in the many and varied worlds of sex writing, producing a definitive collection exposing reality that's way, way stranger than XXX fiction. Profiled in The New York Times as an "information archaeologist," Russ digs where others would not think to look for delicious details on the present, past, and future of sex, including:
The first-ever look at the FBI's porn collection (the Obscene Reference File), complete with reproduced documentsFAA reports about people having sex on commercial flights--the so-called "mile-high club"A look at brilliant, kinky, and scarce sex-zines, such as Frighten the Horses, Taste of Latex, Future Sex, and Pucker Up, as well as Sexology, published by Hugo Gernsback, the father of science fictionThe forgotten sex books of Charles Atlas ("Hey, quit kicking sand in our faces, you bully!")This massive, oversized anthology features a panoply of sexperts, everyone from prostitutes to professors, legends to newcomers, sexual revolutionaries to sexologists and beyond, providing a varied and unexpected look at sex, challenging our notions of what is possible and in turn exciting, enervating, frightening, and freaking us out.
TITLE: Jim Keith (Editor) - Secret and Suppressed: Banned Ideas and Hidden History
FORMAT: Book (paperback)
CONDITION: NM
PRICE: $10.00 CAN
INFO: An underground sensation, Secret and Suppressed confronts the reader with disquieting revelations on mind control, secret societies, media disinformation, cults and elite cabals.
TITLE: Richard Fairfield, Timothy A. Miller - The Modern Utopian: Alternative Communities of the '60s and '70s
FORMAT: Book (paperback)
CONDITION: NM
PRICE: $10.00 CAN
INFO: Back to the Land. Urban communes. Sustainable cooperatives. Thirty years ago, alternative communities swept the nation. Today, with sustainability, peak oil and retirement concerns, people of all ages are reviving and expanding notions of cooperative living as new communities form and thrive.
The Modern Utopian is the definitive exploration of the alternative communities that fascinated a nation and redefined progressive culture in the ‘60s and ‘70s, documented by those who knew it and lived it. This photo-illustrated compilation of articles visits the fabled Drop City, Morningstar Ranch, Timothy Leary at Millbrook, Detroit’s Translove Energies, the still-thriving Twin Oaks and Stephen Gaskin’s Farm, and dozens of other across the nation.
An afterword by author Timothy Miller (Religious Movements in the United States) reveals how several hundred intentional communities now span the USA and more form every year.
Global warming . . . recession . . . peak oil . . . data smog . . . by necessity and by choice, thousands of people are once again being drawn toward collective living, this time empowered by the successes and failures of the past.
Contributions include writings by Alan Watts, Nick Tosches, and The Underground Press Syndicate.
TITLE: John Lydon, Keith Zimmerman, Kent Zimmerman - Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs
FORMAT: Book (paperback)
CONDITION: NM
PRICE: $10.00 CAN
INFO: "I have no time for lies and fantasy, and neither should you. Enjoy or die..." --John Lydon
Punk has been romanticized and embalmed in various media. An English class revolt that became a worldwide fashion statement, punk's idols were the Sex Pistols, and its sneering hero was Johnny Rotten.
Seventeen years later, John Lydon looks back at himself, the Sex Pistols, and the "no future" disaffection of the time. Much more than just a music book, Rotten is an oral history of punk: angry, witty, honest, poignant, crackling with energy. Malcolm McLaren, Sid Vicious, Chrissie Hynde, Billy Idol, London and England in the late 1970s, the Pistols' creation and collapse...all are here, in perhaps the best book ever written about music and youth culture, by one of its most notorious figures.
TITLE: Jah Wobble - Memoirs Of A Geezer: Music, Mayhem, Life
FORMAT: Book (paperback)
CONDITION: NM
PRICE: $10.00 CAN
INFO: "Like his bass, the lows are low and the style upfront."--"Financial Times"
"An exhilarating journey."--"Mojo"
A frank and fascinating account of a geezer's life in the music business. Jah Wobble begins by offering the most authentic insider's account of the beginning of punk rock yet. He covers the celebrated ups of his career along with the downs, both personally and professionally. Throughout the book Wobble tells it like he sees it.
Jah Wobble is one of the founding members of Public Image Limited (PiL) along with John Lydon. He is a bassist, singer, composer, poet, and music journalist.
TITLE: Dave Thomas - SCTV: Behind the Scenes
FORMAT: Book (paperback)
CONDITION: VG+
PRICE: $5.00 CAN
INFO: The ultimate book for the millions of fans of "SCTV", the most innovative and consistently funny late-night comedy program on television, "SCTV: Behind the Scenes" features interviews with virtually every member of The Second City troupe--including John Candy, John Belushi, Dan Ackroyd, Dave Thomas, and Rick Moranis. 120 photos, 60 in color.
TITLE: Jeremy Novick, Mick Middles - Wham Bam Thank You Glam: A Celebration of the 70s
FORMAT: Book (hardcover)
CONDITION: VG+
PRICE: $5.00 CAN
INFO: The Glam years, between 1969 and 1976, were a riot of colour, humour, funny clothes, flash cars, weird sweeties and bizarre telly. This book, designed in the spirit of the seventies, celebrates the power and appeal of the age of Glam.
TITLE: Stephen King - Nightmares in the Sky: Gargoyles and Grotesques
FORMAT: Book (hardcover)
CONDITION: VG+
PRICE: $5.00 CAN
INFO: Photographer f-stop Fitzgerald and Stephen King introduce readers to the gargoyles, the faces we rarely see but are always watching us. The masterful blending of text and photos sweeps readers into a maelstrom of monsters watching from above--a nightmare in the sky. 24 full-color photos, 100 duotones.
TITLE: Dave Kusek – The Future of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution
FORMAT: Book
CONDITION: NM
PRICE: $5.00 CAN
INFO: For the next generation of players and downloaders, a provocative scenario from a music industry think tank. From the Music Research Institute at Berklee College of Music comes a manifesto for the ongoing music revolution. Today, the record companies may be hurting but the music-making business is booming, using non-traditional digital methods and distribution models. This book explains why we got where we are and where we are heading. For the iPod, downloading market, this book will explain new ways of discovering music, new ways of acquiring it and how technology trends will make music "flow like water," benefiting the people who love music and make music.
TITLE: Eric Beall – Making Music Make Money: An Insider's Guide to Becoming Your Own Music Publisher
FORMAT: Book
CONDITION: NM
PRICE: $5.00 CAN
INFO: Making Music Make Money will educate songwriters, as well as aspiring music business entrepreneurs in the basics of becoming an effective independent music publisher. Topics include a discussion of the various roles a publisher plays in the music business: collection, administration, protection, exploitation and evaluation. A major emphasis is placed on the exploitation process, and the importance of creating a sound business model for a new publishing venture. Eric Beall is a Creative Director for Zomba Music Publishing, as well as a former songwriter and record producer. In his role at Zomba, Eric has signed and developed top writers including Steve Diamond, KNS Productions, and Riprock & Alex G. and has coordinated and directed Zomba writers in the development of material for Jive Records pop superstars like Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC, Britney Spears and Aaron Carter. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Berklee College of Music.