Rocker Issue #5, August 2024
No Rent Description (August 2024 Issue):
• Interview with The Rita
• Faster Details
- A portrait of Alex Chesney by Renée Mendoza Haran
• Interview with Agonal Breathing
• Red Light District
- The early days of NY's noise collective by Bryan Gilroy of Viodre
• Interview with Xiu Xiu
• 9 pages of reviews
• Printed in full color on #80 gloss paper. 76 pages, all content.
• First Run of 500
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House Of Psychotic Women by Kier-La Janisse (Signed by Author)
Hardcover: 10" x 8.5"
Paperback: 9" x 7.5"
448 pages
House of Psychotic Women is an autobiographical exploration of female neurosis in horror and exploitation films. Anecdotes and memories interweave with film history, criticism, trivia and confrontational imagery to create a reflective personal history and examination of female madness, both onscreen and off.
Cinema is full of neurotic personalities, but few things are more transfixing than a woman losing her mind onscreen. Horror as a genre provides the most welcoming platform for these histrionics: crippling paranoia, desperate loneliness, masochistic death-wishes, dangerous obsessiveness, apocalyptic hysteria. Unlike her male counterpart - 'the eccentric' - the female neurotic lives a shamed existence, making these films those rare places where her destructive emotions get to play.
Named after the U.S.-retitling of Carlos Aured's Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll, House Of Psychotic Women is an examination of these characters through a daringly personal autobiographical lens.
This sharply-designed book, including a 48-page full-colour section, is packed with 680 rare stills, posters, pressbooks and artwork throughout, that combine with family photos and artifacts to form a titillating sensory overload, with a filmography that traverses the acclaimed and the obscure in equal measure. Films covered include The Entity, The Corruption of Chris Miller, Singapore Sling, 3 Women, Toys Are Not for Children, Repulsion, Let's Scare Jessica to Death, The Haunting of Julia, Secret Ceremony, Cutting Moments, Out of the Blue, Mademoiselle, The Piano Teacher, Possession, Antichrist and hundreds more!
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Rocker Issue #4, June 2024
Rocker Issue #4, June 2024 (No Rent)
Since December 2023 No Rent has been on a bit of a roll with their new bi-monthly journal 'Rocker'.
No Rent's crystal ball revealed what everyone needed from a contemporary music journal; it needs to feel like a Reader's Digest but the content needs to be a 'lil different'.
Physical only; high gloss pages with design and printer heads turned up to 15.
Bravo; and godspeed.
(Anyone got a spare copy of Issue #1? Hit me up.)
No Rent Description (June 2024 Issue):
- Interview with Kyle Flanagan
- Know Thyself Part II
- A history of Hillbilly music, from Riley Puckett to Willie Nelson by Dan Timlin
- That Annoying Kid: Interview with Sean Beard, the world's #1 Beavis and Butt-Head collector
- Photospread: THE HATERS our first pin up centerfold and photo gallery courtesy of " G.X. Jupitter-Larson
- Article: $5000: series of live performance reviews and photo gallery by Door
- Interview with Karl Ekdahl
- Reviews
- 68 pages printed on full color #80 extreme gloss paper
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America's Greatest Noise by Frans de Waard
6 3/4" x 9 1/2"
144 pages
Paperback
B&W
‘America’s Greatest Noise’ tells the story of Ron Lessard, owner of RRRecords, a record store in Lowell, Massachusetts and, from 1986 to 2009, a record label, releasing the albums of Blackhouse, F/i, PGR, the first Merzbow LP outside Japan and many more, regional compilations, three widely acclaimed lock groove records and a series of anti-records, records with no music but a more conceptual and visual edge. RRRecords is also responsible for the RRRecycled Music series, which has over 300 releases on re-purposed cassettes.
Ron Lessard played music with his group Due Process and solo as Emil Beaulieau. Up until his retirement from the noise scene in 2006, he played many concerts and released a string of cassettes, LPs, and CDs. During his concerts, Lessard dressed up like a businessman and used a four-armed turntable, dubbed the Minutoli, and his performances were comical.
In this book, he tells for the first time his story in music about the highs and lows of running a label and a record store, weird projects, unfinished projects, encounters with other musicians, being on the road, and much more. Also included are two appendices: one with interviews from the past (fanzines and websites) and a chapter from Michael Tau’s ‘Extreme Music’ about the anti-records released by RRRecords.
Images used were sourced from flyers, invitations and fanzines. Introduction by Dominick Fernow (Prurient, Hospital Productions)
The first 1000 copies come with an anti-flexi, cutting up a conversation about anti-records between Ron Lessard and the author of the book, Frans de Waard. Cut up by Howard Stelzer. You may use this flexi as a bookmark.
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Neumusik – The Complete Edition
6 3/4" x 9 1/2"
425 pages
Paperback
B&W
Book containing all six issues of the Neumusik fanzine which David Elliott edited between 1979-82 while at university. The ‘zine focussed on European, electronic and experimental music which had come out of krautrock, French progressive rock and the more esoteric side of British post-punk. David travelled extensively meeting musicians in Germany and France, and for a year was based in Strasbourg. Interviews and articles range from Conrad Schnitzler and Richard Pinhas to Florian Fricke and Chris Carter. Most issues were 60-80 pages long so, together with new text and photos, this compendium weighs in at a chunky 425 pages. It also touches on the parallel YHR label.
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Puke Pink Zine Issue no. 1 (May 2024)
''Sheila Woolchapel, 16 Ferndale Road. Thames Valley-on-Thames. Telephonic Code: 0 and 1 and 6 and 3 and 2 and 9 and 6 and 0 and 7 and 8 and 6 and stop."
A keeper. Rich, beautiful, inspiring, stimulating. Content so well curated it requires your full attention. Thank you Mr. Kindberg; keep em coming.
8.5" x 5.5"
44 pages
Folded and stapled
Pro printed (B&W)
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Puke Pink:
Volume 2, Issue 1
Very excited to share this first issue with you. Some of you might remember when I attempted to not do business online and strictly sold everything through a zine/catalog and cash in the mail. Well, that didn't work so it ended after three issues. I got the urge to make a zine again, this time minus the catalog, hence the "Volume 2". - Scott Kindberg (editor)
An in depth album review by Maggie Siebert
A round up of favorite samples by Thomas Boettner
A reflection on Crank Sturgeon after witnessing him perform recently by Scott Kindberg
A short story by Alex Osman
An article on avant-garde fashion by Richard Ramirez
A lengthy interview with Gen Ken Montgomery by Max Julian Eastman
And an obsessive film transcription by Sean Ramirez
Wrapped in gorgeous cover art by Anjilla Ulfhednar
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'The Psychotronic Video Guide' by Michael J. Weldon
8.5" x 11"
646 Pages
Paperback
ISBN: 0312131496
Published by St. Martin's Griffith (1996)
First Edition
(VG condition / cleaned / shrink-wrapped)
email: rosshunterwaitman@gmail.com for further information
How to know a Psychotronic Movie:
These films can commonly be identified by their use of exploitation elements and their interest in humanity's lower common demoninators.
They occur throughout the world, but are particuarly common at midnight movie festivals and in video stores' cult sections, they are especially frequent at that beloved and dying institution, the drive-in.
Their packaging is commonly deceptive. They almost always appear on videocassette.
Among their kind are biker films, sci-fi series, quickie biopics, gimmick films, teen sex comedies, blaxploitation films, stalkers, slashers, snoozers, shrudderers, and anything starring Lynda Blair, david Carradine, Shannon Tweed or Drew Barrymore.
And they're all here in the Psychotronic Video Guide.
From Abby to Zontar, this book covers more than nine thousand amazing movies from the turn of the century right up to today's golden age of video, all described with Michael Weldon's dry wit. More than 450 rare and wonderful illustrations round out the book, making it a treasure trove of cinematic lore and essential for every fan of filmdom's finest offerings.
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Joseph Beuys 'Die Multiples'
8.5" x 12"
581 pages
Hardcover (with dust jacket)
German Text
ISBN: 3888142326
Published by Edition Schellmann (1992)
First Edition
(Fine condition / cleaned)
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This is 'THE' Joseph Beuys book. - Ross W
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Henri Matisse 'The Cut-Outs'
9" X 11"
298 pages
Hardcover
Full Color
ISBN: 9780870709159
Published by Museum of Modern Art (2023)
Fifth Edition
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The Complete Jontar
7.5" x 10.5"
288 pages
ISBN: 9781942801412
Published by Power Comics / Floating World Comics
The “Citizen Kane” of ‘80 outsider small press comics, published in its entirety for the first-time ever.
'The Complete Jontar' features nearly 300 pages of the full story, all-new creator interviews and never-before-released alternate issues by entirely different artists!
Male stripper by night and street sanitation worker by even later-night, Jontar finds his mulleted and naïve existence is about to seriously change after the discovery of a disappearing elf in a trashcan. When a group of blackmailing mob heavies harass his best gym buddy, Jontar intervenes only to be tragically and fatally stabbed. Before permanent death takes hold, his soul is transported to the “dream dimension” of Master Elf-Keeper, who resurrects Jontar as his chosen earthly sword-bearing avenger to lead in some of the most delightfully WTF adventures comics has ever seen.
Originally published at the height of the indie black-and-white comic boom of the ’80s, the 'Jontar' series was self-published by creator Bill W. Miller. He enlisted five separate artists over the course of nine issues to realize his wildly warped and singular vision which includes disappearing camels, petrified elves, lizard lords, Christian punk cults, and even a gritty ‘90s-style reboot rebranding the franchise with era-appropriate anti-heroes.
Foil and UV cover enhancements! Introduction by Evan Husney and Rémy Bennett of Power Comics.
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Perfect Lives: An Opera
Perfect Lives: An Opera (Burning Books, 1991)
‘What is a p’monkey?’
‘Perfect Lives: An Opera’ libretto; meticulously designed and published in 1991 by Burning Books in cooperation with Robert Ashley.
The book contains all 7 parts of the opera in addition to a preface written by book designer Melody Sumner and a 40 page section titled ‘Robert Ashley Talks About Perfect Lives’.
Through layout and typography the book offers further insight into Ashleys practice and inspirations. A companion that enhances and compliments the execution.
Revealing and eloquent; highest possible recommendation.
- Hardcover w/ dust jacket
- 8.5" x 7"
- 224 pages
- 1991 First Edition
- Factory sealed
- ISBN: 0962776777
Lovely Music Ltd. Description:
The definitive text of Perfect Lives is accompanied here by Ashley's plot synopsis and his own candid account of the making of the opera. This is the first publication of the complete narrative of this major work of twentieth century arts and letters.
Edited and with a preface by Melody Sumner Carnahan. 8 1/2 x 7 inches, 224 pages, clothbound, smythe-sewn. Published by Burning Books with Archer Fields Press, 1991.
"Ashley calls the libretto part of a great oral tradition, and, indeed, the text is a contemporary prose poem with many levels of meaning. At times, there is a compelling beauty to Ashley's combination of words which reflects the clarity of his vision. At other times, Ashley combines sounds to suggest the rich mixture of ordinary speech that the observer might hear in any park, store, or bank. The text is suggestive of the works of Gertrude Stein, T. S. Eliot . . . but it is unique and distinct in form. . . . As in the works of Woolf and Joyce, the time element of Perfect Lives is illusive; story lines are taken from the context of the plot, shattered, and scattered throughout the entire opera." — James Dillon, Nit
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Perfect Lives Blu-Ray
Robert Ashley ‘Perfect Lives’ 2-Disc Blu-Ray (LBR 4917)
’These are songs about the corn belt and some of the people in it… or on it.’
Comissioned by NYCs ‘The Kitchen’ in 1978, written for television in 1980, and presented in 1984. Robert Ashleys ‘Perfect Lives’ has received a tasteful face lift courtesy of Lovely Music Ltd. and the original post production editor Dean Winkler.
‘An opera for television’ told in seven parts / 3 hours total. For someone unfamiliar with Robert Ashley; this may be the most informative entry point to begin your journey.
This new NTSC to HD re-master beautifully preserves the original presentation; a 4:3 aspect ratio in addition to a complete surrender to ‘shot on video’.
The 2-disc set includes a 16 page booklet that includes an essay by Ashley’s biographer Kyle Gann, and a review by Charles Hagen.
Ambitious and life affirming. Highest possible recommendation.
UPC: 745295491781
Region 0 (Worldwide)
Lovely Music Ltd. Description:
Robert Ashley, solo voice; Jill Kroesen and David Van Tieghem, chorus; "Blue" Gene Tyranny, keyboards; David Van Tieghem, non-keyboard percussion; Peter Gordon, music producer; Paul Shorr, soundtrack producer; Dean Winkler, image processing and videotape editor.
Perfect Lives has been called "the most influential music/theater/literary work of the 1980s." At its center is the hypnotic voice of Robert Ashley. His continuous song narrates the events of the story and describes a 1980's update of the mythology of small town America. Perfect Lives is populated with myriad characters revolving around two musicians — "R", the singer of myth and legend, and his friend, Buddy, "The World's Greatest Piano Player". They have come to a small town in the Midwest to entertain at the Perfect Lives Lounge. As Robert Ashley describes in the opera synopsis, "they fall in with two locals to commit the perfect crime, a metaphor for something philosophical: in this case, to remove a sizable about of money from The Bank for one day (and one day only) and let the whole world know that it was missing."
The eloping couple, Ed and Gwyn, the old people at the home, the sheriff and his wife (Will and Ida) who finally unravel the mystery, and Isolde who watches the celebration of the changing of the light at sundown from the doorway of her mother's house are some of the characters who journey through the seven episodes of the opera.
Derived from a colloquial idiom, Perfect Lives transforms familiar material into an elaborate metaphor for the rebirth of the human soul. It has been called a comic opera about reincarnation.
The 1983 video was upgraded to 1080 HD and remasterd in 2022-23. A 16 page booklet inside includes Robert Ashey's synopsis plus articles on the music by Kyle Gann, and on the video by Charles Hagen
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Robert Ashley: Outside of Time
9 3/8" x 6 3/4"
Softcover
ISBN: 9783981331905
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Amaya Productions
Paul Verhoeven Interviews
6" x 9"
Paperback and Hardcover
256 pages
ISBN: 9781496818287 (Paperback)
ISBN: 9781496810151 (Hardcover)
Published by University Press of MIssissippi (2016)
After a robust career in the Netherlands as the country's most successful director, Paul Verhoeven (b. 1938) built an impressive career in the United States with such controversial blockbusters as RoboCop, Total Recall, Basic Instinct, Starship Troopers, and Showgirls before returning home to direct 2006's Black Book. After a recent stint as a reality television judge in the Netherlands, Verhoeven returned to the big screen with his first feature film in a decade, a highly anticipated French-language production, Elle, starring Isabelle Huppert.
Verhoeven, who holds an advanced degree in mathematics and physics, boasts a fascinating background. Traversing Hollywood, the Dutch film industry, and now French filmmaking, the interviews in this volume reveal a complex, often ambiguous figure, as well as a director of immense talent.
Paul Verhoeven: Interviews covers every phase of the director's career, beginning with six newly translated Dutch newspaper interviews dating back to 1968 and ending with a set of previously unpublished interviews dedicated to his most recent work. He experimented with crowd-sourced filmmaking for the television show The Entertainment Experience, which resulted in the film Tricked, as well as his latest feature Elle. Editor Margaret Barton-Fumo includes "Sex, Cinema and Showgirls," a long out-of-print essay by Verhoeven on his most controversial film, accompanied by pages of original storyboards from this and some of Verhoeven's other films. Finally, Barton-Fumo allots due attention to the director's little-known lifelong fascination with the historical Jesus Christ. Verhoeven is the only non-theologian member of the exclusive Westar Institute and author of the book Jesus of Nazareth.
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Amaya Productions
Michael Haneke Interviews
6" x 9"
Paperback
218 pages
ISBN: 9781496828408
Published by University Press of MIssissippi (2020)
Spanning five decades and twenty-four films, director Michael Haneke’s career is one of the most significant in the history of European art cinema. However, critical reception has long lagged behind his output. By the time Haneke (b. 1942) emerged into the international spotlight as a cinematic visionary with the 1989 Cannes premiere of The Seventh Continent, he had worked in filmmaking for two decades, producing seven feature-length films.
As many of his films aired solely on Austrian and German television, they remained unknown to audiences outside the German-speaking world until 2007, when the first comprehensive Haneke retrospective took place in the United States.
Michael Haneke: Interviews presents some of Haneke’s most profound interviews to English speakers. The volume features seventeen articles, fourteen of which have been translated into English for the first time, and all of which provide a detailed, eloquent commentary on his films and worldview. This book represents the most extensive collection to date of interviews with the filmmaker, spanning his entire oeuvre—from his earliest television films to his so-called “Glaciation Trilogy” of the 1990s, from the notorious dark satire Funny Games to its similarly notorious 2007 Hollywood remake, and from his French films of the 2000s to his Oscar-winning drama, Amour, and his most recent feature, Happy End.
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Amaya Productions
William Friedkin Interviews
Paperback
194 pages
ISBN: 9781496827081
Published by University Press of MIssissippi (2020)
Academy Award–winning director William Friedkin (b. 1935) is best known for his critically and commercially successful films The French Connection and The Exorcist. Unlike other film school–educated filmmakers of the directors’ era, Friedkin got his start as a mailroom clerk at a local TV station and worked his way up to becoming a full-blown Hollywood filmmaker by his thirties. His rapid rise behind the camera from television director to Oscar winner came with self-confidence and unorthodox methods. Known for his gritty and auteurist style, Friedkin’s films tell the story of a changing America upended by crime, hypocrisy, the occult, and amorality. Although his subsequent films achieved varying levels of success, his cultural impact is undeniable.
William Friedkin: Interviews collects fifteen articles, interviews, and seminars spanning Friedkin’s career. He discusses early influences, early successes, awards, and current projects. The volume provides coverage of his directorial process, beliefs, and anecdotes from his time serving as the creative force of some of the biggest films of the 1970s and beyond—from his early days in Chicago to his run-ins with Alfred Hitchcock to firing guns on set and witnessing an actual exorcism in Italy. Through previously unpublished and obscure interviews and seminars, the story of William Friedkin’s work and life is woven together into a candid and concise impression for cinephiles, horror junkies, and aspiring filmmakers alike. Readers will gain insight into Friedkin’s genius from his own perspectives and discover the thoughts and processes of a true maverick of American cinema.
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Peter Greenaway Interviews
6" x 9"
Paperback
240 pages
ISBN: 9781578062553
Published by University Press of MIssissippi (2000)
In these twenty-one interviews, filmmaker Peter Greenaway expresses his film aesthetic and discusses his combat with the dominant Hollywood style of filmmaking. His films have run unmistakably against the main current of present cinematic practice, from the short film Windows in the mid-seventies, to his more popular but nonetheless challenging films such as A Zed and Two Noughts and The Pillow Book in the nineties.
In this collection the ever-controversial Greenaway discusses his philosophies of film, art, aesthetics, literature, and reality, criticizing and even condemning the standard fare of what he calls Hollywood cinema. For him, such films tell stories or they translate literature with its linear narrative onto a medium that he feels should be preeminently visual. He finds that, instead of foregrounding the image and the composition of visual elements as in the long history of painting, Hollywood-style directors seem mesmerized by the “and then and then” narrative.
In these provocative interviews, Greenaway tells of his ambition to make cinema a medium based more on image than on narrative. He explains his painterly approach in such films as Prospero's Books and The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover, defends his use of total nudity of both sexes, and declares that traditional literary-based cinema is dead. He believes that the most creative imaginations, the most innovative technologies, and the greatest financial resources are being devoted to television and the Internet and that Hollywood moviemaking is no longer in the vanguard.
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David Lynch Interviews
6" x 9"
Paperback
224 pages
ISBN: 9781604732375
Published by University Press of MIssissippi (2009)
Few directors in the past three decades have produced movies more compelling, controversial, or confounding than David Lynch (b. 1946). And fewer still have been so reluctant to talk about what they do. In this collection, editor Richard A. Barney has chosen the rare interviews in which Lynch opens up to questions rather than deflecting them. Whether Lynch is talking about his earliest film shorts such as The Grandmother or the breakout surrealist feature Eraserhead, the hit TV series Twin Peaks or his Oscar-nominated The Elephant Man or Blue Velvet or his experimental tours de force, Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire, he stresses the power of image and sound to communicate his vision.
David Lynch: Interviews is the first survey of conversations with the director covering the broad spectrum of his artistic activities throughout his career, including filmmaking, painting, music production, and furniture design. It documents the evolution of Lynch's role in discussing his movies, from his self-described “pre-verbal stage” in the early years to his increasingly elaborate, though persistently elusive, articulations. It also registers the intense international interest in Lynch's work, with interviews from French and Spanish sources translated here for the first time.
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Morton Feldman: Words on Music
906 pages
9 3/8" x 6 3/4"
Softcover
ISBN: 3980315185
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Music with Roots in the Aether
‘We certainly have a bird’s eye view of our surroundings now, Bob’
The perfect companion piece to the SOV interview series ‘Music with Roots in the Aether’. Revealing interviews with incredibly influential musicians / artists. Essential.
9 3/8" x 6 3/4"
244 page
Softcover
ISBN: 3980315169
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MusikText:
Foreword
Landscape with David Behrman
"Extending our nervous systems"
Drifting Harmonies (Paul DeMarinis)
Landscape with Philip Glass
"I'm making the rules"
Music of the Moment (Peter Gordon)
Landscape with Alvin Lucier
"Anybody can make the music"
Stretching Out Imagination (Jill Kroesen)
Landscape with Gordon Mumma
"I'm using the by-product of my culture"
The System Is the Composition Itself (Maggi Payne)
Landscape with Pauline Oliveros
"I can feel myself changing"
Shedding Another Skin (Margaret Ahrens)
Landscape with Roger Reynolds
"I'm always interested in new experience"
Extending Instrumental Techniques (Paul Robinson)
Landscape with Terry Riley
"Music is my spiritual path"
Terry Is a Solo Act (Craig Hazen)
Landscape with Robert Ashley
Sound Changing Its Own Behavior (Robert Sheff)
Epilogue
Robert Ashley Documents the Aether (Tom Johnson)
Essayists' Biographies
Composers' Selected Discographies
Index of Names
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Alvin Lucier: Reflections
9 3/8" x 6 3/4"
Softcover
ISBN: 3980315126
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