Wicker Park Represent
Zines
Busting a Cap in Nina Gordons Ass: A Play in Three Acts, with Dialogue Courtesy of the Internet Commenting Community by Anne Elizabeth Moore $2.50
Zine World: A Readers Guide to the Underground #28 $4.00
Syndicate Product #15 by AV Michel $3.00
Imperfect Sutures by Sally Alatalo & Anne Wilson (Sara Ranchhoue Publishing) $15.00
Lady Fallopia win 09 10 $3.00 – Thank the goddess! This doula-duo dips into women’s health and takes it there. Where? You know, that magical, frank and down and dirty womyn’s health place where the zine actually has a color centerfold/recipe/how-to about cooking and preserving your placenta and an article about using your breast milk to help cure infections in your friends and loved ones. Don’t squirm, it’s just natural, baby!
Mayhem Books & Magazines
Lucha Loco: Free Wrestlers of Mexico by Venville Malcolm (Universe) $24.95 – I should liken this impressive and beautiful photo book of Mexican wrestlers to the that book Fruits about outrageous Japanese street clothes. Both books have the relevatory effect that not only have all the good ideas for fashions been taken, they’ve also been realized to their fullest. Back to the lab.
Sovereign #9 Mar 10 $3.95
Skeptic vol 15 #3 $6.95
Namaste vol 11 #3 $9.99
Skeptical Inquirer Mar Apr 10 vol 34 #2 $4.95
American Gun Culture Report #5 Win Spr 10 $6.00
The Poisoners Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine In the Jazz Age New York (Penguin) $25.95
Graphic Novels/Comics/Comix
Unlovable vol 2 HC by Esther Pearl Watson (Fantagraphics) $22.99
Between Here and Here by Brendan Monroe $5.00
Kind Aroo vol 1 HC by Jack Kent (IDW) $39.99
Bart Simpson Comics #52 $2.99
I’d Sure Like Some Fucking Pancakes by Lauren Barnett $2.00 – Lauren’s got some worries on her mind so the least you could do is make the gawddamned pancakes and let her concentrate on drawing her cute and funny comics. You make the best pancakes anyway.
World War 3 Illustrated #40 What We Want $5.00
Bebopman by Harvey Pekar, Tony Lavorgna and Lois Gilbery, art by Art by Gary Dumm $10.95
What Have You Been Up To by Kiana T & Paddy Puke $1.50 – A Snakepit-inspired diary mini-comic just stopped by Quimby’s and wants to know if it can crash on your coffee table tonight?
2 Books by Shaun Tan, both $19.99 each: Tales from Outer Suburbia and Arrival (both published by Scholastic) .
Secret Asian Man The Daily Days a Collection of Daily Comic Strips by Tak Toyoshima $20.00
Fiction, Poetry & Chap Books
Book of Badius: A New Beginning to an Old Endings by Nathanel Washup $12.25
War of The Crown #1: Demon King William Lockett $15.00
Watcher Poems by Agnes Eva Savich $14.95
I Like To Keep My Troubles On The Windy Side of Things by Buzz Pool $10.00
Toucan #5 Valentines Day by Liz Baudler and Laura Rynberg $3.00
Art books
Nazi Knife #6 $27.00 – What would possess you to call your fashion-forward art book “Nazi Knife”? Being French is really no excuse. Despite that title feeling really unconsidered and trite, this book is actually an interesting collage and drawing anthology of cover-to-cover attractive garbage and mind compost AND nowhere on or in it does it actually say “Nazi Knife” so you could just refer to it as “that book with the really stupid name.” Sheesh.
Here Are My Instructions by Redell Olsen & Johanknecht (Sara Ranchhoue Publishing) $15.00
Art Mags
Creative Review Feb 10 $14.99
Gup #23 $7.99
Rojo Ever Chaos Continuum $29.00
Black Flash vol 27 #2 win 10 $8.00
HotShoe Feb Mar 10 $9.50
Lifestyles and Culture Mags
Skateboarder Apr 10 vol 19 #8 $4.99
Skunk vol 5 #8 $5.99
Skateboard Mag #73 $3.99
Travel Naturally #74 $9.95
Politics and Reolution Books/Mags/Zines
GLQ vol 16 #1-2 Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 2010 $12.00
Bitch #46 $5.95
Show Me the Money #31 $2.50
Race & Class vol 51 #3 $18.00
In These Times Mar 10 $3.50
New International #12, the Magazine of Marxist Politics and Theory Capitalisms. This issue: The Long Hot Winter Has Begun $16.00
Class Struggle #65 Feb Mar 10 $3.00
Music zines /magazines and Books
Maximumrocknroll #322 Mar 10 $4.00
Brutarian #54 $4.95
Fader #66 Feb Mar 10 $5.99
DVD
Celestial Navigations Short Films of Al Jarnow by various (Numero Group) $30.00 – Wow! Understated might be a good word for the amazing experimental animated films of Al Jarnow. His work brought everyday objects to life in unexpected ways and is probably best recognized in his memorable interludes for Sesame Street and 3-2-1 Contact. Combining a whole bevy of animation techniques, these films are smart and poignant- you’re as likely to learn about counting to 9 as you are about the waxing and waning of civilization. Numero Group continues their tradition of excellence with this attractively packaged look through Jarnow’s ouvre and includes a book and documentary focused on his storyboarding and technique. *DVD includes 45 of Jarnow’s films and a 30 minute documentary and comes with a 60-page perfect bound booklet.
Sexy Stuff
Obedient One Shitagariya by Yutakamaru Kagura $19.95
| Mar ’10 |
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What happens when an ex-stripper in her mid-thirties, married with children, awakens one day questioning what brought her to a current life of complicated domesticity? Compelled to return to Omaha after seventeen years, the narrator we only know as Natalie begins a quest into her past, an adventure that takes the reader from childhood beauty pageants to the sex and glamour industries. Natalie’s search becomes an intrepid journey through her own sexuality, a woman not only claiming herself but also accepting her contradictions. With inquisitive perception and agile use of perspective, Searching for Suzi (Monkey Puzzle Press) is an investigation into the tragic shadows of a past preferred to be forgotten.
“Sexy, gutsy, raw and mature. A literary strip tease, Nancy Stohlman lures us through the layers of her dark world with the promise of exposing the ultimate sparkle…and ends up revealing something profound.” -Raymond Federman, Author of Double or Nothing
For more info: http://www.monkeypuzzleonline.com and http://www.nancystohlman.net
| Mar ’10 |
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| 7:00 pm |
When asked about her influences, Penny Arcade points to three enduring sources: growing up Southern Italian, immigrant, peasant ,working class in New Britain, Connecticut, the New England factory town that was a center of working class intellectualism, her debut at 17 with the glitter, glam, rock and roll, political, seminal queer, NY theatre, The Playhouse of the Ridiculous which influenced everyone from Bob Fosse and Fellini to Iggy Pop and David Bowie, while a teenage superstar for Andy Warhol’s Factory. No mean feat, they were the two opposing artistic camps that fueled the late 60’s downtown NY art scene and her innate and rampant curiosity, which she claims as her most prominent personality trait. A trait that led the reform school graduate to maintain her oppositional outsiderness without losing her humanity or stunting her intellectual growth.
Arcade will be reading from her new hard cover book BAD REPUTATION, Semiotext(e) a partial collection of her work, replete with essays on her large body of writing that has earned her the title Queen of Performance around the world. Don’t be surprised you have never heard of her. Arcade is widely thought of as America’s best-kept secret, a unique and stellar voice you won’t soon forget. Long considered the queen of the New York Underground, Arcade is one a handful of 1980’s artists who invented Performance Art (for which she apologizes profusely to everyone) and has performed in venues that don’t normally host underground or performance artists, from Royal Festival Hall to Sydney Opera House to Casa Ruiy in Rio de Janerio. A highly acclaimed writer, poet and performer. “The silver tongued Penny Arcade is a writer of scorching comedic candor with a mind like a steel trap”” raved critic Michael Billington of UK’s Guardian, usually a tough man to please. Her writing is for everyone; direct, poetic with a honed, unique, philosophical point of view, filled with hard won wisdom. You can dine out for a month on her one liner’s alone. Did we mention that Arcade “is a wonder to behold, and manages to entertain, absorb, and broaden the audience simultaneously” and that she is “Provocative, intellectually stimulating, perceptive and hilariously funny and combines the anarchy of Lenny Bruce with the pathos of Judy Garland.” Or as The Scotsman wrote “If Penny Arcade was a cult, I would join!”
Penny Arcade may well be the most prolific, intelligent performance artist you’ve never seen. Penny Arcade (born Susanna Ventura) is clearly a force to be reckoned with. Her tough, street-wise persona was crafted by junkies, whores, criminals, and “deviants,” and infused with the discipline of the Italian-American working class. Arcade incorporates all of it in her work, and does so with amazing intelligence and a sense of humor. Penny Arcade has never sought the agreement of anyone, nor has she toned down the hard edge of her performances to facilitate mass consumption. Yet she may still have the last laugh. –Bay Area Reporter January 2010
For more info: http://www.pennyarcade.tv/
1. Tattooed Lady A History by Amelia Klem Osterud (Speck) $27.00
2. Puzzled Panther FOAD (Fuck Off And Die Chick Tract) $1.00
3. East Village Inky #42 by Ayun Halliday $3.00
4. Proximity #6 An Other Art World $12.00
5. The Point #2 Win10 $12.00
6. The Concisely Magazine of Short Prose #1 by Daniel & Benjamin Copulsky $3.00
7. Crestfallen #1 by Sandra Sierra $3.00
8. Todds Favorite Adult Actors and Their Favorite Flowers by Matt Kessler & Zach Huesling (Eye Rocket) $10.00
9. Pinatas by Yasmin $2.00
10.The Baffler vol 2 #1 $12.00
