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THE STREAKING BOOK
by Gerald Gardner (Bantam: 1974)
“Streaking is a big inspiration for my work.”
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SCREEN TESTS/A DIARY
by Gerard Malanga and Andy Warhol
(Kulchur Press: 1967)
“ This is the rarest Warhol book. I think it’s worth like $3,000. There are only 500 of them. The film stills are printed on transparent acetate so you can see it from both sides.”
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GOD WITH REVOLVER:
Poems 1979-82
by Rene Ricard (Hanuman Books: 1989)
“Rene Ricard is the guy who discovered Basquiat. It’s about love and betrayal in the downtown NYC art scene in the early 80s.”
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SUEDEHEAD
by Richard Allen (New English Library: 1971)
“The only reason I like Richard Allen books is for the covers. It’s more of an object than a novel. The covers of Skinhead and Boot Boys are pretty good, too.”
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SAMARAS ALBUM
by Lucas Samaras (Whitney Museum: 1971)
“Rare—edition of 2,000. I like that it’s mostly self-portraits and they’re manipulated all weird. And he’s naked a lot.”
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HOT TUBS: HOW TO BUILD, MAINTAIN & ENJOY YOUR OWN
by Leon Elder (Capra Press: 1973)
“I love this book. It’s all pictures of naked people in hot tubs. I would like to do an updated version of this because I love hot tubs and I really love naked people in hot tubs.”
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THE WARLOCK OF LOVE
by Marc Bolan (Latimer, Trend & Co.: 1969)
“It’s just a great book of poetry by Marc Bolan.
‘Chariots of Silk’ is my favorite Tyrannosaurus Rex song.” |
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FICTCRYPTOKRIMSOGRAPHS
by Les Krims (Humpy Press: 1975)
“Not many people know about Les Krims. He’s one of my favorite photographers. It’s all really perverted hand-manipulated Polaroids. He was so bizarre and ahead of his time.”
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JAMES DEAN IS NOT DEAD
by Morrissey (Babylon Books: 1983)
“Morrissey published this before he started the Smiths. He was obsessed with James Dean.”
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THE MEDIUM IS THE MASSAGE
by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore (Random House: 1967)
“Remember that scene in Annie Hall?”
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THE STORY OF OI:
A VIEW FROM THE DEAD-END OF THE STREET
by Garry Johnson (Babylon Books: 1981)
“Babylon Books published a lot of cool books about music in the early 80s. They did the Morrissey-James Dean one too.”
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1992
by Larry Clark
“This was a present from Larry. It’s his rarest book. It’s from an edition of 1,000 and it’s worth about $2,000.”
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IF...
by Lindsay Anderson and David Sherwin (Lorrimer Publishing: 1969)
“Screenplay and stills from a really weird movie starring the guy from A Clockwork Orange in a British boys’ prep school.” |
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