martinis, bikinis, and lamborghinis.

June 29, 2009

vonnegut

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June 19, 2009

I Have Fun Everywhere I Go: Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses, Dirty Blues, American Heroes, and the Most Notorious Magazines in the World (Hardcover)

Filed under: books — brentabousko @ 3:00 am

I Have Fun Everywhere I Go: Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses, Dirty Blues, American Heroes, and the Most Notorious Magazines in the World (Hardcover)

http://www.amazon.com/Have-Fun-Everywhere-Wrestling-Notorious/dp/086547964X/spindigi-20

May 21, 2009

going to the library

Filed under: books — brentabousko @ 11:34 pm

May 19, 2009

free dl: Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique audiobook

Filed under: books, movies — brentabousko @ 2:22 am

can sample there too

http://www.audible.com/adbl/entry/offers/productPromo2.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=Yes&productID=FR_ADBL_000417

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The initial success of the Beastie Boys at Def Jam with the rude, crude, and multiplatinum 1986 debut Licensed to Ill had been unlikely enough; a trio of white Jewish kids and their white Jewish producer became hip-hop’s biggest stars overnight by offering a primal fusion of metal, rap, and teenage rebellion. But Paul’s Boutique abandoned the producer, the label, and the formula, instead smashing apart hundreds of old records and pop-culture references, then Scotch-taping them back together in unexpected new combinations. With a trio of unknowns at the production controls, it was a suicidal way to follow up a number-one hit.Not only did Paul’s Boutique transform the Beastie Boys from frat-boy novelty to hip-hop giants, its groundbreaking collage of rhyme and recycled soundbites made it one of those rare releases that forever alters the course of popular music.

Through interviews with Mike D, the Dust Brothers, and legendarily reclusive producer Matt Dike, among others, Dan LeRoy uncovers the story of this outrageous era in Beastie history.

Dan LeRoy writes regularly about music and politics for The New York Times, Rolling Stone, National Review online, Alternative Press, and Vibe, and he is the co-author of 20 Years of Mountain Stage (2003), a history of NPR’s musical variety show. His book The Greatest Music Never Sold was published in 2006 by Backbeat.

33 1/3 is a new series of short books about critically acclaimed and much-loved albums of the last 40 years. Focusing on one album rather than an artist’s entire output, the books dispense with the standard biographical background that fans know already, and cut to the heart of the music on each album.

March 21, 2009

now reading

Filed under: books — brentabousko @ 2:30 am

cormac wrote no country for old men among others, this is captivating in a post apocalypse setting. and oprah loves it too, movie coming soon.

January 28, 2009

The Park (Hardcover)

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http://www.amazon.com/Park-Kohei-Yoshiyuki/dp/3775720855/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233082894&sr=8-4

The Park

Kohei Yoshiyuki’s night-time photographs, taken with infrared film and flash in Japan’s Shinjuku, Yoyogi and Aoyama Parks during the 1970s, capture the illicit sexual encounters, both heterosexual and homosexual, that frequently occurred there under the cloak of darkness. The Park’s images not only reveal hidden sexual exploits, but also uncover many spectators ardently lurking in the darkness, waiting to join in–and quickly raise issues of voyeurism and surveillance. In The Photobook: A History, Volume II, Martin Parr speaks to the societal relevance of this series, calling it, “A brilliant piece of social documentation, catching perfectly the loneliness, sadness and desperation that so often accompany sexual or human relationships in a big, hard metropolis like Tokyo.”
As exhibition organizer and editor Yossi Milo writes in his introduction, “With each viewing, I noticed something that had eluded me before: the photos’ rigorous compositions They are provocative photographs, and unsettling as well: one is both chilled and thrilled by Yoshiyuki’s boldness, by how close he crept to his unaware subjects, by the hours he spent late at night crouched in bushes and against trees, waiting for his perfect shot.” Originally published as Document Kouen in Japan in 1980 and long out of print, the austere and acclaimed first edition of this book now commands prices near $1000 per copy. This new, updated edition, featuring an interview of the artist by colleague Nobuyoshi Araki and an essay by the noted photo critic Vince Aletti, contains all 60 works from the infamous Park series, reproduced from new scans in deluxe duotones. This work has not been seen by the public since the 1970s, and has been known only to cult collectors until now. Exhibited at Yossi Milo Gallery in New York in September of 2007, it was one of the most talked-about offerings of the season.

January 27, 2009

armed america

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January 20, 2009

Sonic Youth: Sensational Fix (Hardcover)

Filed under: art, books — brentabousko @ 5:26 pm

http://www.amazon.com/Sonic-Youth-Sensational-Fix/dp/3865605397/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231914343&sr=8-1

http://www.sonicyouth.com/main/includes/sensationalpop.html

A catalog has been published in conjunction with the exhibit Sonic Youth Etc.: Sensational Fix. The exhibit focuses on SY’s multidisciplinary collaborations with visual artists, filmmakers, designers and musicians over the course of their highly influential 28 year history, including Richard Prince, Paul McCarthy, Harmony Korine, Christian Marclay, Raymond Pettibon, Cindy Sherman, Robert Smithson, and Jeff Wall. The 720 pg. book is limited to 600 copies and includes two 7″ records, each one recorded by a different member of the band. 

January 15, 2009

New Tom Waits biography coming in May

Filed under: books — brentabousko @ 9:03 pm

via mark austin

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2009/01/new-tom-waits-bio-coming-in-april.html

New Tom Waits biography coming in May

When Johnny Cash passed away, the title of Coolest Man Alive fell to a former Coast Guardsman/dishwasher/nightclub singer named Thomas Alan Waits. Notoriously enigmatic with journalists, the curtain of Waits’ vaudevillian persona has been pulled back ever so slightly lately with the publication Innocent When You Dream: The Tom Waits Reader a few years ago and distinct traces of sincerity in interviews like this one. Now veteran journalist (and occasional Paste writer) Barney Hoskyns has a new biography on the way. Low Side of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits is due out May 19 on Broadway Books.
Why now? “Only a lifelong love of the man’s work and schtick, and the belief that someone needed to know deeper and wider with his story than his previous biographers had,” Hoskyns tells Paste. “Given the amount written on Bob Dylan it seemed patently wrong that there wasn’t a big book on Tom that went to primary sources who’ve known and worked with him.”

Hoskyns first wrote a proposal for a Waits bio back in 1991, tentatively called Sucker On The Vine: Tom Waits in Tinseltown, but shelved the idea after working on his history of rock in Los Angeles, Waiting For the Sun. Waits and his wife, Kathleen Brennan, were less than cooperative, Hoskyns says, but the 640-page book still includes interviews with many of their collaborators over the years.

“My gut intuitions about the man were confirmed by stories of his complex psyche, his arrested self-destructiveness, his diligence and seriousness as an artist, and his essential honourableness,” says Hoskyns. “If I was surprised by anything it was just how low he got emotionally in the late ’70s.”

January 12, 2009

atomic ranch

Filed under: books — brentabousko @ 8:57 pm

http://www.amazon.com/Atomic-Ranch-Michelle-Gringeri-Brown/dp/1423600029

i know santa is still sleeping but i would like this book if i’m nice for this whole year. we’ve all seen those crazy modern architecture books, well this is one aimed for us little suburbanites who want to kick it kanye style. come over to my house in 1.5 years and i may have this thing going on.

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