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"Don't they know I'm an old man with a shattered mind of broken cannoli shells?" Zappa's blogging the Jooklo tour, and it's really quite special.
http://jooklo-zappa.blogspot.com
(photo: K. Molloy)
Stanley J. Zappa's new album, Sing-Song Songs, is available from New Texture.
Happy birthday to the Night Tripper...the good Doctor, Mac Rebennack.
Tell the Truth Until They Bleed by Josh Alan Friedman, now available in paperback, ebook, and hardcover: http://amzn.to/1BtbCf0
Happy Birthday, Sam Shepard.
All that glitters is 99¢.
Terror in the aisles.
Dollar Halloween by Wyatt Doyle; limited edition hardcover available now.
Preview the book: http://bit.ly/dollapreview Buy the book: http://bit.ly/dollahalloween
Dollar Halloween is a new book of photographs by Stop Requested author Wyatt Doyle, focusing on the glut of cheaply manufactured Halloween decorations, toys, and knick-knacks created for and sold in American dollar stores. Preview the limited edition hardcover in its entirety on NewTexture.com
Doyle's introductory essay to the book follows: Los Angeles is a dollar store town. With significant blocs of its population composed of recent immigrants, low-income laborers, and entertainment-industry cannon fodder—all working for peanuts—dollar stores help ensure the continued survival of the working poor by offering grocery essentials at a buck apiece. If you’ve got a dollar, you’ve got a dinner…or something, anyway, until a dinner comes along. The ubiquity of the 99 Cents Only chain makes the brand the Starbucks of their weight class (at least in Los Angeles), and their high-ceilinged, well-lit interiors provide familiar and reassuring echoes of their more expensive cousins (unlike most smaller, ethnic, or independently owned discount shops). When a medium-sized 99 Cents Only in my old neighborhood outgrew its location, the company opened a much larger store, barely a block south—only to retain the original location as well. Even with the roaring success of the new superstore, there was no discernable drop in business at the old location, just a few yards away. Both stores continue to thrive. * * * Halloween decorations are curious items to begin with. The trappings of the holiday are so deeply ingrained, so traditional, they’ve all but lost their meaning. A date or the time of year is enough to move us to festoon our homes with make-believe rotting corpse parts and an ever-growing variety of sparkly death totems. And where there’s a need, or even a mild desire, a dollar store stands ready to fill it, for whatever you’ve got in your pocket. Come autumn, their aisles swell with an onslaught of flimsy window decorations and off-brand Halloween tchotchkes. Most made in China, few sturdy enough to survive a single use. Plastic jack-o’-lanterns and fastener-hinged cardboard skeletons are familiar, but the uncontrollable compulsion to foist more and more stuff on each other leads to the introduction of dozens of ultimately disposable decorating ideas to the seasonal shelves each year. And if Walgreens wants to sell you their version for $9.95, you’d better believe there’s a factory in China crapping out something like it that’ll wholesale for pennies and still turn a profit. The haste, disinterest, and cynicism in the products’ manufacture are often reflected in the product. At times the low production standards and cheap molds add a layer of unintentional deformed menace to an expression, or lend an accidental resemblance to some obscure movie monster; other items, the process renders unrecognizable. Thin, plaster skulls crusted with cheap sequins, possibly topped by a bat- or spider-shaped glob…plastic severed limbs, heads, and masks, their spray-on painted details applied out of register…armies of gaudy Grim Reaper figurines, familiar year-round from the windows of the city’s many Santeria botanicas…and occasional malformed, misshapen rejects that appear to have collided with another product somewhere down the assembly line. Most of it dusted with glitter, all of it junk. When you handle one, it leaves paint on your fingers. Throw it away, and bits are left behind. copyright © 2015 Wyatt Doyle Purchase Dollar Halloween in limited edition hardcover here.
Men's Adventure Library editor Bob Deis's MensPulpMags.com is offering a free download of Battle Cry's historic first issue from December 1955.
Click here for Deis's essay and download link..
CRYPTOZOOLOGY ANTHOLOGY available NOW in paperback and limited edition hardcover (with additional content)! Edited by Robert Deis, David Coleman & Wyatt Doyle.
Paperback: http://amzn.to/1Eti2RJ Limited Hardcover: http://amzn.to/1Dr4h4u
The new, definitive edition of Tell the Truth Until They Bleed premieres this month in paperback, ebook, and as a limited edition hardcover. Truth's release coincides with Josh Alan's Wildcatter Exchange appearance at Landers Machine Shop (207 E Broadway Ave., Fort Worth 76104) on Saturday, March 28th at 4 p.m. For the full schedule of events, visit the Wildcatter Exchange's website, here.
Happy Birthday to the late Raúl Juliá.
Promo photos of Gloria Grahame, 1940s.
Night people, New Yorkers, elevator men, and all who still dream of Olde Times Square: Josh Alan Friedman returns to Ed Grant's Media Funhouse, taped at the Edison Cafe in Times Square in the Edison's final hours. Good talk, archival footage of Fun City and pastrami sandwiches. In NY, catch it on TV, everywhere else -- stream it live.
Predestination? In 2011, Josh Alan Friedman appeared at wonderful SideShow Books in West L.A., where he performed an acoustic set flanked by a piece of original men's adventure mag Bigfoot art by Samson Pollen. In 2015, we're preparing the release of the men's adventure collection CRYPTOZOOLOGY ANTHOLOGY, which will follow hot on the heels of Josh Alan's TELL THE TRUTH UNTIL THEY BLEED...
Further evidence here: http://joshalanfriedman.blogspot.com/2011/06/black-mountain-rag-live-at-sideshow.html
Q: If somebody has never heard your music before, how would you describe it to them in one sentence?
A: The music of throwing your homework on to the fire on the last day of school in the nude.
Stanley Zappa interview: http://www.festivalarchive.com/artist/stanley-zappa/
photo: Blaise Allysen Kearsley / www.bazima.com
The CRYPTOZOOLOGY ANTHOLOGY team is spread out across the US, so we use WeTransfer to share files. This morning, as I picked up what should be the last file needed before publication—an image of Bigfoot—I was greeted by this screen on the WeTransfer site. I'm calling it a good omen.
Whoa! Heads up, Cassavetes fans: John's longtime musical confederate Bo Harwood now has a website where he's selling downloads of his music from Cassavetes' films, as well as a short autobiography. I'm not sure when this site came to be, but this is music some of us have been waiting a very long time to hear!
http://boharwood.com/music.html
"Walking walking walking Like marching feet..."
Happy Birthday, Langston Hughes.
