avant-garde culture, history, anthropology, linguistics, art, music, Surrealist culture, Pre-Surrealism including The Occult Tradition & Egyptology, Situationism, J.G. Ballard, William S. Burroughs, game theory, Fantastic Imaginative literature, Art Brut, Industrial Culture, Future Noir Theory
J.G. Ballard and William S. Burroughs fans; seekers; skeptics; visionaries; Surrealists...
Incredibly Strange Music: "garage sale" records (mostly from the '50s-'70s), spotlighting include: "easy listening," "exotica," and "celebrity" (massive categories in themselves) as well as more recordings by (singing) cops and (polka playing) priests, undertakers, religious ventriloquists, astronauts, opera-singing parrots, beatnik and hippie records, and gospel by blind teenage girls with bouffant hairdos. Virtually every musical/lyrical boundary in the history of recorded sound has been breached; every sacred cow upturned. Also: avant-garde music/non-music/noise music, Jihad Jerry,
Incredibly Strange Films of the past and future, homemade films, anything "Surrealist" or "Black Humor" - especially Luis Bunuel. Also Chris Marker, Nelly Kaplan, Hitchcock, Franju, Dario Argento, David Lynch, David Cronenberg, John Waters. Mad Max 2.
Pranks, Volumes 1 & 2 Incredibly Strange Music, Volumes 1 & 2 Modern Primitives J.G. Ballard Industrial Culture Handbook The Atrocity Exhibition Incredibly Strange Films Punk '77 Zines! Volumes 1 & 2 The Temple of Man And more!
William S. Burroughs, Jello Biafra, J.G. Ballard, Henry Rollins, Lydia Lunch, DJ Spooky, Charles Gatewood, Graeme Revell, Mark Pauline, Monte Cazazza, Jean Jacques Perrey, Timothy Leary, Jeffrey Vallance, John Waters, Diamanda Galas, R.A. & Isha Schwaller de Lubicz, Karen Finley, Heraclitus, Luis Bunuel, Gerald V. Casale, Bell Hooks, Kathy Acker, Genesis P-Orridge, the Surrealists, and all the great people we've met through our books!