What the fuck are you glowering about? If that sexball let me put my freckly hands all over her person I'd be doing dances with her that make Skeritt Boy look like a tree-sloth who hates sex, not getting into staring problems with every other guy in the room. I guess heavy hangs the face that wears the tits.Comments/Enlarge |
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Meanwhile, the direct marketers of the world still look like they made their mom drop them off around the corner.Comments/Enlarge |
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SKINHEADS
by C. Ryan (1981) “The Nick Knight book is usually considered the classic skinhead book. This one is less well-known, but I like it better because it’s more of a handmade zine.”
CRACKERS
by Ed Ruscha (Heavy Industry: 1969)
Ryan: “This is a rare Ed Ruscha book. It’s almost like a photo flipbook. Two men go into a hotel room and make this woman lie down on a bed covered with lettuce. Then they pour a huge thing of oil and vinegar on her and then they leave. Kind of misogynistic, actually.”
TANAPAEVA SAUN
by E. Leito (Valgus: 1977) “Beautiful photos of all different kinds of saunas in Estonia and lots of nude Estonians enjoying them.”
THE STREAKING BOOK
by Gerald Gardner (Bantam: 1974)
“Streaking is a big inspiration for my work.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
JAMES DEAN IS NOT DEAD
by Morrissey (Babylon Books: 1983) “Morrissey published this before he started the Smiths. He was obsessed with James Dean.”
THE MEDIUM IS THE MASSAGE
by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore (Random House: 1967)
“Remember that scene in Annie Hall?”
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.”
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.”
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.”
