Wednesday, December 19, 2012

MICRO BIONIC: Radical Electronic Music & Sound Art in the 21st Century

MICRO BIONIC: Radical Electronic Music & Sound Art in the 21st Century

By Thomas Bey William Bailey

MICRO BIONIC is an exciting survey of electronic music and sound art from cultural critic and mixed-media artist Thomas Bey William Bailey - first published in late 2009 - This new edition includes all of the original supplements refused by the publishers of the first edition, including a full index, bibliography, additional notes and  commentary with a large updated discography.

As the title suggests, the unifying theme of the book is that of musicians and sound artists taking bold leaps forward in spite of (or sometimes because of) their financial, technological, and social restrictions. Some symptoms of this condition include the gigantic discography amassed by the one-man project Merzbow, the drama of silence enacted by Onkyo and New Berlin Minimalism, the annihilating noise transmitted from the laptop computers of Russell Haswell and Peter Rehberg and much more.

Although the journey begins in the Industrial 1980s, in order to trace how the innovations of that period have gained greater currency in the present, it surveys a wide array of artists breaking ground in the 21st century with radical attitudes and techniques. A healthy amount of global travel and concentrated listening have combined to make this a sophisticated yet accessible document, unafraid to explore both the transgressive extremes of this culture and the more deftly concealed interstices thereof. Part historical document, part survival manual for the marginalized electronic musician, part sociological investigation, Micro Bionic is a number of different things, and as such will likely generate a variety of reactions from inspiration to offense...

Numerous exclusive interviews with leading lights in the field were conducted for this book: William Bennett (Whitehouse), Peter Christopherson (r.i.p., Throbbing Gristle / Coil), Peter Rehberg, John Duncan, Francisco López, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Bob Ostertag, Zbigniew Karkowski and many others weigh in with a diversity of thoughts and opinions that underscore the incredible diversity to be found within new electronic music.

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Belsona Books - 2012 Release - 400 Page Paperback - Revised and Expanded Second Edition - No Illustrations or Photos - Industrial Noise // Mash-Ups // Sampling // Glitch Core // Drone // Plunderphonics // Electronics - PRICE: $20.00 






 

Thursday, December 6, 2012

RITUAL AMERICA: Secret Brotherhoods and Their Influence on America - A Visual Guide

** Please see short Video Clip below **


RITUAL AMERICA: Secret Brotherhoods and Their Influence on American Society - A Visual Guide

By Adam Parfrey and Craig Heimbichner

America's biggest secret is hidden in plain sight !! - the vast, fundamental and ongoing influence of fraternal orders on our culture. Not long ago, one out of every three Americans belonged to a secret society, and more than six hundred such groups flourished throughout the country. Today they are still mighty, particularly in the military, police and government. The pomp and circumstance, the control, the patriarchy, the racism, the misogyny... it is all revealed in RITUAL AMERICA through hundreds of rare images and provocative text.
















Feral House Books - 2012 Edition - 337 Page Large Format Harcover Book - Hundreds of Photos and Illustrations (24 pages in color) - PRICE: $25.00

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Sunday, November 4, 2012

POISON: An Illustrated History - by Joel Levy


POISON: An Illustrated History - by Joel Levy

What is there that is not a poison ? --- Paracelsus

Discover the secret history of poisons from Cleopatra and Mary Ann Cotton, to arsenic belladonna, cocaine, thallium and Zyklon B. This lavishly illustrated book will take you on a fascinating journey through the mysterious world of potions, herbs and psychoactive preparations - substances both alluring and terrifying, captured here in all their complexity, outlining the many roles they have played throughout time, history, culture, science, religion, medicine and murder !

Chapter Titles:

Introduction
Poison in Science
Poison in Nature
Poison in History
Poison as Executioner
Poison as Assassin
Poison in Murder
Poison in Suicide
Poison as Savior

Lyons Press Books - 2011 Edition - 224 Page Paperback - Many illustrations in b&w and color - History/Science/Botany/Poison/Study - PRICE: $12.00

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Monday, October 22, 2012

LIPS HIPS TITS and POWER: The Films of RUSS MEYER - by Doyle Greene


LIPS HIPS TITS and POWER: The Films of RUSS MEYER
By Doyle Greene

Russ Meyer is the breast-fixated film maker who started as a nudie pin-up photographer and eventually became one of the best known sexplotation / B-film legends of all time. Meyer's 1960s films include: Mudhoney, Motorpsycho! and the legendary Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill, Kill !

This book examines Russ Meyer's entire oeuvre in detail with the serious analysis and critical commentary it deserves. Includes film index and many black and white photo movie stills of the 'buxom' women from his films - Tura Satana, Uschi Digard, Kitten Natividad, Haji, Erica Gavin and others. These books are out of print and scarce.

Creation Books 2004 Edition - 232 Page Paperback - Heavily Illustrated in b&w - **ADULT CONTENT** - Scarce Book - Price: $40.00

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EROS IN HELL: Sex, Blood and Madness in Japanese Cinema - by Jack Hunter



EROS IN HELL: Sex, Blood and Madness in Japanese Cinema

By Jack Hunter

SEX: The history of "pink" movies, from Daydream and Ai No Corrida to the pop avant-garde violence of Koji Wakamatsu and beyond: Violated Angels, The Embryo Hunts in Secret, Violent Virgin and many others. Bondage and S/M from Moju and Captured For Sex to Kinbiken rope torture. The New Wave pink films of Hisayasu Sato: The Bedroom, Naked Blood, Private Torture of Uniforms, Thrust It In! and tons more.

BLOOD: From Shogun Assassin and Psycho Junkie to the killing orgies of Guinea Pig and Atrocity: from the "pink horror" nightmare Entrails of a Virgin to the post-punk yakuza bloodbaths of Kei Fujiwara's Organ and Takashi Miike's Fudoh.

MADNESS: Homicidal psychosis, hallucination, mutation: Tetsuo, Death Powder, the films of Shozin Fukui: Pinocchio 964, Rubber's Love. Post-punk excess, nihilism, violence, suicide: Burst City, Labyrinth of Dreams, Squareworld, Tokyo Crash.

Eros in Hell examines all these movies and many more - it is heavily illustrated with rare and unusual photographs, and contains illuminating interviews - includes massive film index - very unique guide to the most prolific, fascinating and controversial underground cinema in the world.

Creation Books 2000 Edition - 221 Page Paperback - Many Black and White Illustrations - Extreme ADULT Material - Price: $20.00

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From the Film: Embryo Hunts in Secret

Friday, October 12, 2012

THE MAGICK OF ALEISTER CROWLEY: A Handbook of Rituals of Thelema


THE MAGICK OF ALEISTER CROWLEY: A Handbook of Rituals of Thelema

By Lon Milo DuQuette

Aleister Crowley was infamously known as 'The Great Beast 666' and 'The Wickedest Man in the World'... Unfortunately this infamy often eclipsed his teachings, as did his technical and opaque writing style, meant more for adepts contemporary to him than the average modern reader. In this book Lon Milo DuQuette deciphers and explains Crowley’s texts and his more important rituals.

'The Magick of Aleister Crowley' is a clear introduction to the works of Crowley by a modern master of the occult. DuQuette takes the mystery out of both the rituals themselves and Crowley’s writing in this modern grimoire. Step by step, he presents a course of study in plain English, with examples of rituals and explanations of their significance. DuQuette also includes a course of study for Crowley’s system of 'Scientific Illuminism' with an extensive bibliography and fastidious footnotes. This revised edition features extensive corrections, a new introduction, and a new chapter of rituals, "The Rites of Eleusis."

Samuel Weiser Books - 2003 Edition - 261 Page Paperback - B&W Illustrations - Esoteric/Occult/Thelema/Magick/Philosophy/Metaphysics/Ritual - PRICE: $15.00

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Wednesday, October 10, 2012

THE BLOODY COUNTESS: Atrocities of Erzsebet Bathory: By Valentine Penrose / Translation by Alexander Trocchi

THE BLOODY COUNTESS: Atrocities of Erzsebet Bathory
By Valentine Penrose - Translated by Alexander Trocchi

Descended from an ancient aristocratic European family, Erzsebet Bathory bore all the psychotic characteristics of centuries of inner family breeding. From early adolescence she indulged in sadistic lesbian fantasies - where only the spilling of others female blood could satisfy her urges.

By middle age, she had regressed into a mirror fixated state and was practicing necro-sadism, torture, cannibalism, vampirism, wholesale slaughter, blood bathing and witchcraft. These years, in the late 16th century, would witness a reign of cruelty unsurpassed in the history of mass murder, with over 600 deaths alone attributed to the 'Bloody Countess'.

Her many castles were all equipped with torture chambers where she would torture and mutilate her victims - virtual killing factories where hundreds of girls were killed and processed - the Countess would bath in their virgin blood - believing it would preserve her youth and beauty.

Solar Books 2012 Edition - 154 Page Paperback - One b&w Illustration of the Countess - History / Crime / Decadence / Torture - Price: $12.00

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Tuesday, October 9, 2012

PERDURABO: The Life of Aleister Crowley - by Richard Kaczynski

PERDURABO: The Life of Aleister Crowley - by Richard Kaczynski

The Definitive Biography of the Founder of Modern Magick - This book is being called by some the best biography of 'The Beast' Aleister Crowley yet written - It traces Aleister Crowley's remarkable journey from his birth as the only son of a wealthy preacher to his death in a boarding house as one of the most notorious men of his time.

Crowley was a tireless magician, prophet, poet, scholar and adventurer - he inspired generations of social and spiritual truth-seekers and shaped popular culture throughout the years with his philosophy of "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole of The Law."

Based on twenty years of research which includes previously unpublished details and photographs, this revised and expanded edition of this biography about one of the most fascinating characters of the twentieth century is destined to become the definitive work on the subject. Kaczynsky takes an accessible and even-handed approach to this controversial figure.

"Richard Kaczynski's PERDURABO: The Life of Aleister Crowley is the one biography that is absolutely necessary for anyone who wishes to know more about one of the most creative, seminal and misunderstood figures of the last hundred years." --- David Tibet, Founder of 'Current 93' (the band)

North Atlantic Books - 2010 Revised and Expanded Edition - 705 Page Hardcover Book - Many B&W Illustrations - PRICE: $25.00

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Thursday, October 4, 2012

LORDS OF THE LEFT-HAND PATH: From the Cult of Set to the Church of Satan - by Stephen E. Flowers


LORDS OF THE LEFT-HAND PATH: From the Cult of Set to the Church of Satan

By Stephen E. Flowers, Ph. D.

'Terminus Viae'

The Left-Hand Path is the way of the HERO....
The path of those who, having understood their own individual divinities, would dare to breach the gates of eternity and eat of the tree of life eternal - to stand against the inertia and ignorance of the whole universe, to strive against that which would thwart all intelligence and life and to prevail against it - THIS is the aim of the Sinister Path.....

From black magic and Satanism to Gnostic sects and Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way, the left-hand path has been linked to many practices, cults, and individuals across the ages. Stephen Flowers, Ph.D., examines the methods, teachings, and historical role of the left-hand path, from its origins in Indian tantric philosophy to its underlying influence in current world affairs, and reveals which philosophers, magicians, and occult figures throughout history can truly be called “Lords of the Left-Hand Path.”

Flowers explains that while the right-hand path seeks union with and thus dependence on God, the left-hand path seeks a “higher law” based on knowledge and power. It is the way of self-empowerment and true freedom. Beginning with ancient Hindu and Buddhist sects and moving Westward, he examines many alleged left-hand path groups, including the Cult of Set, the Yezidi Devil Worshippers, the Assassins, the Neoplatonists, the Hell-Fire Club, the Bolsheviks, the Occult Nazis, and several heretical Sufi, Zoroastrian, Christian, and Muslim sects. Following a carefully crafted definition of a true adherent of the left-hand path based on two main principles--self-deification and challenge to the conventions of “good” and “evil".

The author analyzes many famous and infamous personalities, including H. P. Blavatsky, Faust, the Marquis de Sade, Austin Osman Spare, Aleister Crowley, Gerald Gardner, Anton LaVey, and Michael Aquino, and reveals which occult masters were Lords of the Left-Hand Path. Flowers shows that the left-hand path is not inherently evil but part of our heritage and our deep-seated desire to be free, independent, and in control of our destinies.

Inner Tradition Books - 2012 Edition - 500 Page Paperback - Few B&W Illustrations - Occult/ Esoterica/ Metaphysics/Left Hand Path/ Philosophy/ Satanic - PRICE: $24.00

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Thursday, September 27, 2012

HUBERT'S FREAKS: The Rare Book Dealer, A Times Square Freakshow & The Lost Photos of Diane Arbus - by Gregory Gibson


HUBERT'S FREAKS: The Rare Book Dealer, A Times Square Freakshow and the Lost Photos of Diane Arbus
By Gregory Gibson

The stranger than fiction true story of how an odd-ball rare book dealer discovered a lost stash of Diane Arbus photographs - and what he did with the find of a lifetime.

Bob Langmuir is an obsessive dealer with an uncanny eye for treasure who makes the discovery of a lifetime when he chances upon a stash of never before seen photos taken by the legendary photographer Diane Arbus.

From the moment he sees some intriguing photos in a trunk he buys from a guy who claims to be a member of the Nigerian Royal family, he knows he's on to something - the trunk holds the archive of a Times Square mid-century freak show called Hubert's that Diane Arbus often frequented.

He begins to suspect that what he has found may add a pivotal chapter to what is now known about Diane Arbus and the "old weird America" that Hubert's Freak Show was a part of.

Bob's ensuing adventure, full of bizarre coincidences - turns into a roller coaster ride that takes him from the fringes of the memorabilia business to Sotheby's, and from the exhibits of a run-down Times Square freak show to the currator's office of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Will the photos be authenticated? How will the Arbus estate react? Most importantly, can Bob, who has seen more than a few promising deals head south, finally make his one big score?

Harcourt Books - 2008 Edition - 274 Page Hardcover - b&w illustrations - Price: $20.00

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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

WEATHER WARFARE: The Military's Plan to Draft Mother Nature - by Jerry E. Smith - Chem-trails/Geo-engineering


WEATHER WARFARE: The Military's Plan to Draft Mother Nature - by Jerry E. Smith

Geo-engineering/ Chem-trails/ Global Warming/ Military and Government Corruption

*CHEM-TRAILS: This follow-up to Jerry E. Smith's book HAARP: THE ULTIMATE WEAPON covers the 130-year history of military, scientific and commercial efforts at controlling Mother Nature. The furor over cloud seeding above the Ho Chi Min Trail during the Viet Nam War lead to a 1978 UN treaty banning the use of all environmental processes (weather, earthquakes, tidal waves, etc.) as weapons of war. After signing that treaty US research allocations dropped from $140 million a year to zero - did Uncle Sam really abandon this research, or did the whole program go "black" / "underground" / "top secret" ?

A lengthy chapter on the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) contains the most up to date material now available in book form, including how it might have played a role in the destruction of the Space Shuttle Columbia.

Smith spends 100 pages on "chemtrails" focusing on "geo-engineering" - a scheme to use particles intentionally released into the upper atmosphere to mitigate global warming. All this and much more!

This represents our science community, military complex and 'transparent' government out of control !!

Adventures Unlimited Press - 2006 Edition - 382 Page Paperback - Few Illustrations - Chemtrails/ Global Warming/ Corrupt Government/ Corrupt Military - PRICE: $18.00 

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Wednesday, September 19, 2012

BURLESQUE PARAPHERNALIA CATALOG #439 - Strange Collection of pranks, jokes, costumes and all manner of the bizarre!!


Burlesque Paraphernalia Catalog Number #439

Intro by Charles Schneider - with an Appreciation by Magician David Copperfield


This book is a time machine - an obscure vintage re-issued catalog collection of pranks, jokes, costumes and all manner of strangeness!! This book is truly incredible and overflowing with unusual items that defy description - they just don't make stuff like this anymore -- Could you imagine, in today's world of lawyers and lawsuits, inviting someone to sit in a trick collapsing-exploding chair? The amazing De Moulin Brothers catalog of 'Burlesque and Side Degree Paraphernalia' is full of barely describable props and items - pranks, gags, tricks, costumes, exploding cigars, theater props, collapsing chairs, whoopee cushions, hand buzzers, skeletons, devil masks, spankers and all the equipment and costumes for elaborate old ritualistic, vaudeville, side-show, theater, stage and slapstick jokes of past days...

Many of these items were intended as to be used as initiation devices as part of various elaborate secret society rituals. Back in those days, fraternal organizations flourished by the hundreds - and these jokes and pranks were of a high order - the uses and plots were developed by the comically sadistic De Moulin Brothers company - the thought, design, skill and craft that went into each piece is astonishing - yes, this book truly is a time machine.

Fantagraphics Books - 2010 Release - Many Many Amazing B&W Illustrations with a few in Color - Ritual/ Vaudeville/ Stage/ Slapstick/ Pranks/ Jokes/ Vaudeville/ Initiation/ Catalog - PRICE: $20.00

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Saturday, August 18, 2012

THE SEVEN ADDICTIONS AND FIVE PROFESSIONS OF ANITA BERBER: Weimar Berlin's Preistess of Depravity

THE SEVEN ADDICTIONS AND FIVE PROFESSIONS OF ANITA BERBER: Weimar Berlin's Preistess of Depravity - By Mel Gordon


The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber is the first contemporary biography of the notorious actress/ dancer/ poet and playwright who scandalized sex-obsessed Weimar Berlin during the 1920s.

Even in an era where everything was permitted, Anita Berber’s celebrations of “Depravity, Horror and Ecstasy” were condemned and censored as too extreme. She often haunted Weimar Berlin’s hotel lobbies, nightclubs, and casinos, radiantly naked except for an elegant sable wrap, a pet monkey and a silver brooch packed with cocaine both hanging from her neck.

Multi-talented Anita saw no boundaries between her personal life and her taboo-shattering performances. She was one of Europe’s first postmodern women. After Berlin finally tired of Anita Berber’s outrageous antics, she became a “carrion soul that even the hyenas ignored,” dying in 1928 at the early age of only twenty-nine.
Classic Femme Fatale....

• Includes nearly two hundred photographs and illustrations, including some from Berber’s salacious and enduring performance “Repertoire of the Damned.”

• Berber loved Marlene Dietrich and was influenced and associated with Leni Riefenstahl, Lawrence Durrell, Klaus Mann, and the founder of modern sexology, Magnus Hirschfeld.

• An early movie star, Berber acted in Fritz Lang’s Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler and the silent epic Lucifer.

Feral House Books Release - 260 Page Paperback - Many Color and B&W Illustrations - PRICE: $22.00

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Friday, August 10, 2012

SECRET and SUPPRESSED II : Banned Ideas and Hidden History Into the 21st Century - The Tactics of Truth Suppression**

Secret and Suppressed II’s revelations include: Newspeak, The Illuminated, Parascience, and The Controllers — illuminating the paranoid and nightmarish post-9/11 planet.

Contributors: Robert Anton Wilson, Jim Hougan, Paul Krassner, Mae Brussell, Adam Weishaupt, Jim Marrs, Joseph P. Farrell, Mike Bara, Craig Heimbichner, Richard Sauder, Joan D’Arc, Al Hidell, Jay Weidner, Col. Fletcher Prouty, Adam Gorightly, Harry Helms, Mark Bruback, Douglas Hawes, William W. Flint, Jerry E. Smith, Robert Sterling, David Martin

This book blows the lid off of our so called 'transparent government'


SECRET and SUPPRESSED II: Tactics of Truth Suppression

Edited by Adam Parfery and Kenn Thomas

Banned Ideas and Hidden History Into the 21st Century

We are being overwhelmed with abject conspiratorial BS every moment of every day. Does this mean that every single investigation is in the domain of the tin-hatted?

Strong, credible allegations of high-level criminal activity can bring down a government. When the government lacks an effective, fact-based defense (like ours does), other techniques must be employed. The success of these techniques depends heavily upon a cooperative, compliant press and a mere token opposition party.

A favorite response to this issue was written by David Martin, and has been reprinted in this Feral House book 'Secret and Suppressed II' - Here it is again:

“The Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression”

1. Dummy up. If it’s not reported, if it’s not news, it didn’t happen.

2. Wax indignant. This is also known as the “how dare you?” gambit.

3. Characterize the charges as “rumors” or, better yet, “wild rumors.” If, in spite of the news blackout, the public is still able to learn about the suspicious facts, it can only be through “rumors.” (If they tend to believe the “rumors” it must be because they are simply “paranoid” or “hysterical.”)

4. Knock down straw men. Deal only with the weakest aspect of the weakest charges. Even better, create your own straw men. Make up wild rumors and give them lead play when you appear to debunk all the charges, real and fanciful alike.

5. Call the skeptics names like “conspiracy theorist,” “nut,” “ranter,” “kook,” “crackpot,” and of course, “rumor monger.” Be sure, too, to use heavily loaded verbs and adjectives when characterizing their charges and defending the “more reasonable” government and its defenders. You must then carefully avoid fair and open debate with any of the people you have thus maligned. For insurance, set up your own “skeptics” to shoot down.

6. Impugn motives. Attempt to marginalize the critics by suggesting strongly that they are not really interested in the truth but are simply pursuing a partisan political agenda or are out to make money (compared to over-compensated adherents to the government line who, presumably, are not).

7. Invoke authority. Here the controlled press and the sham opposition can be very useful.

8. Dismiss the charges as “old news.”

9. Come half-clean. This is also known as “confession and avoidance” or “taking the limited hangout route.” This way, you create the impression of candor and honesty while you admit only to relatively harmless, less-than-criminal “mistakes.” This stratagem often requires the embrace of a fall-back position quite different from the one originally taken. With effective damage control, the fall-back position need only be peddled by stooge skeptics to carefully limited markets.

10. Characterize the crimes as impossibly complex and the truth as ultimately unknowable.

11. Reason backward, using the deductive method with a vengeance. With thoroughly rigorous deduction, troublesome evidence is irrelevant. For example: We have a completely free press. If they know of evidence that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF) had prior knowledge of the Oklahoma City bombing they would have reported it. They haven’t reported it, so there was no prior knowledge by the BATF. Another variation on this theme involves the likelihood of a conspiracy leaker and a press that would report the leak.

12. Require the skeptics to solve the crime completely. For example: If Vince Foster was murdered, who did it and why?

13. Change the subject. This technique includes creating and/or publicizing distractions.

14. Scantly report incriminating facts, and then make nothing of them. This is sometimes referred to as “bump and run” reporting.

15. Baldly and brazenly lie. A favorite way of doing this is to attribute the “facts” furnished the public to a plausible-sounding, but anonymous, source.

16. Expanding further on numbers 4 and 5, have your own stooges “expose” scandals and champion popular causes. Their job is to pre-empt real opponents and to play 99-yard football. A variation is to pay rich people for the job who will pretend to spend their own money.

17. Flood the Internet with agents. This is the answer to the question, “What could possibly motivate a person to spend hour upon hour on Internet news groups defending the government and/or the press and harassing genuine critics?” Don’t the authorities have defenders enough in all the newspapers, magazines, radio, and television? One would think refusing to print critical letters and screening out serious callers or dumping them from radio talk shows would be control enough, but, obviously, it is not.

Feral House Books - 277 Page Paperback - PRICE: $15.00

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Wednesday, August 8, 2012

SIN-A-RAMA: Sleaze Sex Paperbacks of the Sixties - Cover Art Collection




SIN-A-RAMA: Sleaze Sex Paperbacks of the Sixties - Cover Art Collection

From the Feral House Site: Sin-A-Rama celebrates the forgotten world of erotic paperbacks from the 1960s, when sex acts were described with code words, writers used pseudonyms, and publishers hid behind mail drop addresses.

Sleaze paperbacks sold by the million throughout the decade. Their unorthodox content and inroads into the marketplace provoked new laws, FBI investigations, high-pitched court battles, and prison sentences for the crime of obscenity. Earl Kemp, the notorious Greenleaf Books editor, provides an insider’s perspective, profiling famous and little-known co-workers. “My Life as a Pornographer,” written by science fiction legend Robert Silverberg - divulges how he and other famous authors learned their craft and earned their keep pounding out softcore sin.

The bizarre artworks of cover artists Robert Bonfils, Gene Bilbrew, Eric Stanton, Paul Rader, Ed Smith, Bill Ward, and Doug Weaver and others are seen throughout in lurid color.

Sin-A-Rama is the first book-length exploration into a shadowy but revolutionary industry. A useful appendix reveals the actual names behind the pseudonyms, and catalogues both established and fly-by-night sleaze operators.

Page after page of full color sleazy sex pulp paperback cover art.

Feral House Books - 268 Page Large Hardcover - Hundreds of Color Illustrations - PRICE: $25.00

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Thursday, July 26, 2012

HAARP: The Ultimate Weapon - by Jerry E. Smith



HAARP: The Ultimate Weapon - by Jerry E. Smith

The HAARP project in Alaska is one of the most controversial projects ever undertaken by the U.S. Government. This futuristic technology is everything from a super-beam weapon to a world-wide mind control and weather control device. HAARP has many possible scientific and militaristic applications - Smith explains it's history and exposes covert military conspiracies with solid evidence that lead to ever deeper and scarier conspiracy theories - Smith is convincing in representing this project as the ultimate in science, military and government OUT OF CONTROL !! It could be the most dangerous device ever created...

Adventures Unlimited Press - 1998 Release - 250 Page Paperback - B&W Illustrations - PRICE: $15.00

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Sunday, July 15, 2012

Trillion Dollar Conspiracy: by Jim Marrs & The Secret Symbols of the Dollar Bill: by David Ovason



'THE TRILLION DOLLAR CONSPIRACY' - How the New World Order, Man Made Diseases, and Zombie Banks Are Destroying America


By Jim Marrs (Author of 'Rule by Secrecy' and many other important books)



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'THE SECRET SYMBOLS OF THE DOLLAR BILL' - A Close Look at the Hidden Magic & Meaning of Money

By David Ovason (Author of 'Secret Architecture of Our Nation's Capitol')



PRICE: $12.00





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Sunday, July 1, 2012

GALACTIC OCTOPI C.D. - By HELIOS CREED of 'CHROME'



GALACTIC OCTOPI C.D. - By HELIOS CREED (of 'CHROME')

Amazing Cover Art by: Christina Bishop w/fold out lyric sheet

Helios Creed's latest acid-drenched guitar offerings - absolutely heavy, thundering and voice effected alien sounds. This recording is destined to become an instant underground classic. I cannot stop playing this CD !! TOTALLY SONIC !!

Band Line-Up:
Helios Creed - Guitars & Voice
Lux Vibratus - Bass & Synthesizer
Aleph Kali - Drums & Percussion

Track Listing:
1) Galactic Center
2) XCIII
3) Warp Slip
4) Star Streaker
5) Terra Firma Thurma
6) We're Flying.Com
7) Red Chopper
8) Observation Outpost
9) Psylent Encounters
10) Stranger in the Manger
11) Terrestrial Manifestations
12) Clarification
13) Galactic Octopi

2011 Transparency C.D. Release - 1000 Copies - PRICE: $15.00

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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

GALACTIC OCTOPI Double L.P. - By HELIOS CREED of 'CHROME' - 2 x Black Vinyl Discs



GALACTIC OCTOPI Double L.P. - By HELIOS CREED (of 'CHROME')

Amazing Cover Art by: Christina Bishop w/ fold-out cover art including lyrics

Helios Creed's latest acid-drenched guitar offerings - absolutely thundering, heavy and voice effected alien sounds. This recording is destined to become an underground classic. I cannot stop playing this album !! With only a few tracks on each side, the grooves are phat and the sound is superior. TOTALLY SONIC !!

Band Line-Up:
Helios Creed - Guitars & Voice
Lux Vibratus - Bass & Synthesizer
Aleph Kali - Drums & Percussion

Track Listing:

SIDE 1
1) Galactic Center
2) XCIII
3) Warp Slip

SIDE 2
4) Star Streaker
5) Terra Firma Thurma
6) We're Flying.Com
7) Red Chopper

SIDE 3
8) Observation Outpost
9) Psylent Encounters
10) Stranger in the Manger

SIDE 4
11) Terrestrial Manifestations
12) Clarification
13) Galactic Octopi

2011 Transparency/Cobraside Double L.P. Release - 2x Black Vinyl Discs - Limited Edition of 1000 Copies - PRICE: $25.00

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Monday, May 21, 2012

THE CARNIVALS OF LIFE & DEATH: My Profane Youth 1913-1935 - By James Shelby Downard

THE CARNIVALS OF LIFE and DEATH

My Profane Youth 1913-1935

By James Shelby Downard

“The most absurd, the most incredible, the most ridiculous Illuminati theory of them all.”
— Robert Anton Wilson, author of The Illuminatus! Trilogy

James Shelby Downard is without doubt one of the most controversial conspiracy theorists of the 20th century -- In his essay “ King-Kill 33° ” Downard has notoriously laid out the involvement of Freemasonry in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy -- 'The Carnivals of Life and Death' is Downard’s autobiographical account of his early years in the deep South, when Ku Klux Klansmen and Freemasons, pulled him into many strange and violent affairs.

Downard does furious battle with both factions and many others. 'Hoodwinked' and set up time and time again, he narrowly escapes numerous attempts on his life. All the while the continuous message of importance seems to be 'nothing is as it seems'.

Adam Parfrey, who introduced Downard to readers in his Apocalypse Culture book compilations, provides the Foreword, based on his personal experiences with the reclusive and now-deceased conspiracy theorist. A real roller-coaster ride of a read !

Contents:

Masonry and the Downardian Nightmare: Foreword by Adam Parfrey

Long Introduction by James Shelby Downard:

Sorcerers and Specters Of Cowans and Coffins
The Elus and Their Sub-Contractors
Of Sheep and Goats
The Sorcery of Computerized Mind Control
Seeing Past and Future Through a Teardrop
Mesmeric and Magnetic Masonry
 The City of the Dreadful Night
Corpus Mysticum of the Past

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CHAPTER Titles:

Chapter 1: The Littlest Bootlegger - 1918
Chapter 2: My Little Alice Blue Gown and Golems - 1918
Chapter 3: The Magical Mystery Tour - 1919
Chapter 4: The Land of Enchantment - 1920
Chapter 5: Little Dixie - 1921-1922
Chapter 6: The Blue Front Cafe on Bloody Elm - 1922
Chapter 7: The Snake Charmer and the Three Assassins - 1923
Chapter 8: My First Gun - 1924
Chapter 9: Cagliostro's Treasure House - 1925
Chapter 10: Re-Tramatization and Radiesthesia - 1925
Chapter 11: Monster Manby and the Switcheroo - 1925
Chapter 12: The Quarry - 1926
Chapter 13: Pipelines and Tunnels - 1926
Chapter 14: Military Complicity in Conspiracies of Silence - 1929
Chapter 15: 'Deja Vu' - 1930
Chapter 16: Into the Tomb - 1931
Chapter 17: Dayton Witch and the State Dept's Black Chamber - 1931
Chapter 18: FDR and the Million Dollar Check - 1931
Chapter 19: Procter Takes A Gamble - 1931
Chapter 20: 'Uncle Brad' - 1931
Chapter 21:  Graduation - 1932
Chapter 22: Mr. Zangara - 1933
Chapter 23: The Hanged Man - 1933
Chapter 24: The Military Vendetta - 1933
Chapter 25: Immortals and Illuminati - 1933
Chapter 26: Immortals and Familia - 1933
Chapter 27: Mind Molestation - 1933
Chapter 28: Masonic Sex Circuses - 1934
Chapter 29: Soul Money and Treasure Troves - 1934
Chapter 30: The Eastern Temple - 1934
Chapter 31: Colonel Bunker the Handler -1934
Chapter 32: 'Wild Bill' Donovan's OSS Baker Street Irregulars - 1934
Chapter 33: Of Prophecy and Highbrow Deceit - 1934
Chapter 34: The Chicken Caper - 1934-1935

"Because the dead and deadening scenery of the American city of dreadful night is so utterly devoid of mystery, so thoroughly flat-footed, sterile and infantile, so burdened with the illusory gloss of  'baseball-hot dogs-apple pie and Chevrolet'  that it is somehow outside the psycho-sexual domain. The eternal pagan psychodrama is escalated under these 'modern' conditions precisely because sorcery is not what twentieth century man can accept as real."  --- James Shelby Downard from his essay: " King Kill 33* "

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Tuesday, May 1, 2012

UNOFFICIAL RELEASE: Self Released and Handmade Audio in Post-Industrial Society


UNOFFICIAL RELEASE: Self Released and Handmade Audio in Post-Industrial Society

By Thomas Bey William Bailey

Featuring Material on: Mail Art, Cassette Culture, Industrial Music, Handmade Packaging, Releasing Addiction, Extremist Metal, Digital File Sharing, Outsider Art, etc..

From the web-site:

The culture of self-released music and sound art is one of the most vital, yet most overlooked, phenomena resulting from the 20th century revolution in communications technology. In this volume, Thomas Bailey surveys a fascinating realm of creative activity and identifies the key individuals and developments responsible for its continued relevance in the present age.

From the networked “mail art” of the 1970s, to the home-taping boom, to the establishment of music labels dealing solely in digital sound files, this culture provides valuable insight into the evolution of the “official” art market and the artists who bypass it.

Along the way, we are introduced to a world where networks are artworks in themselves, where blank tapes and recordable CDs are fashioned into elaborate art objects, and where relative freedom from creative supervision leads to both colorful innovations and violent aesthetic extremes.

Exclusive long-form interviews are also included with artists such as: Frans de Waard, Vittore Baroni, Rod Summers, GX Jupitter-Larsen and others, along with new insights from theorists and artists as varied as 'Gen' Ken Montgomery, The Tapeworm, Alexei Monroe, Oren Ambarchi, and David Tibet. Also includes front and back cover photography courtesy of Scott Konzelmann / Chop Shop.

Belsona Books LTD. - 2012 Edition - 382 Page Paperback - No Illustrations - Media/ Sociology/ Music/ Art/ Culture/ D.I.Y. - PRICE: $15.00

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Monday, March 19, 2012

TRUE VAMPIRES: Past and Present - by Sondra London


TRUE VAMPIRES: Past and Present - by Sondra London

Illustrated by Nicolas Claux, 'The Vampire of Paris"

Some vampires are not fictional creatures. This book examines the real vampires and cannibals whose crimes have contributed to the fearsome mythos. TRUE VAMPIRES takes you into the minds of real blood-sucking and flesh eating killers from Romania and Russia, France and Wales, Brazil and South Africa, to the hills of Kentucky and the streets of Los Angeles. This book is a collection of the most extreme cases of vampirism and cannibalism known to mankind - Killers portraits throughout the book were painted by Nicolas Claux, 'The Vampire of Paris.'

Included in this deeply disturbing study of vampirism and cannibalism are:

Armin Meiwes, Manuela & Daniel Ruda, Peter Kurten, Rod Ferrell, Issei Sagawa, Natasha Cornett, Fritz Haarmann, Kyle Hulbert, Matthew Hardman, Ed Gein, Nathaniel Bar-Jonah, Henry Lee Lucas, Albert Fish, Big Lurch, Arthur Shawcross, Ottis Toole, Andrei Chikatilo, Richard Trenton Chase, Nicolas Claux, Vlad the Imapaler and many others.

"Sondra London knows her vampires - not the fictional ones that spring full-blown from the heads of novelists but the genuine articles, the real vampires who kill and suck blood and leave a scarlet trail of terror in the night. This book is her best." ----Jack Olsen, author of, Son: A Psychopath and His Victims

"Vampires exist! They've been among us for centuries, and they're hiding in plain sight today. Sondra London proves it beyond a reasonable doubt in this incredible work of investigative reporting, historical sleuthing and forensic interpretation. This is a frightening, fascinating page-turner that drives a stake into the heart of disbelievers, turns true crime into literature and somehow even humanizes the hideous criminals who are driven by a bloodlust they can't control." ---- Burt Kearns, author of, Tabloid Baby

"Covering every aspect of a darkly fascinating subject from myth and folklore to history and psychology, TRUE VAMPIRES is at its unnerving best in revealing the existence of the monsters among us; those real-life beings possessed by an unslakable thirst for human gore. Sondra London has produced a classic of the genre." ----Harold Schechter, author of, A to Z of Serial Killers

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