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Spoon-Unit / Dollyhead Books

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About Me

Dollyhead Books Explorers, Visionaries, Outlaws.

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Travel, Radical Politics, Avant Garde & Underground, Chap Books & Pamphlets, Fanzines, Beatniks, Psychedelia, Punk Rock, Outsider Art, Occult, Pop Culture, Cults, Billy Childish/Hangman Books, 20th Century Art Movements, Hippies, Counter Culture, Political Posters, Early Film, Industrial Culture, Ethnography, Esoterica.

"Cool is not cool, it is shit. Bring back the horse."
Billy Childish

My Interests

Barry Leighton Jones urchin.

"There is nothing more to be feared than to be obliged to accept the slavery of some dreary job and become a domestic animal” - Henri de Monfried
"Man perishes not of unrequited love, but because he has ceased loving." - Mayakovsky

"Most music is shit except for DJ Wildlife of East Anglia's choice - that is fiercely good." Orlando & The Show Machine

If you produce small press publications, fanzines, magazines, books or anything else that fits the Dollyhead bill, drop us line and we can talk about distribution.
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Music:

"Not a lot of people make rock'n'roll records today.
They make weird marching music, or Hitler Youth rally music"
David Johansen (New York Dolls)

Cro-Magnon, Lightning Bolt, Psychic TV, Sun Ra, Acid Mothers, Mainliner, Vashti Bunyan, Six Organs Of Admittance, Current 93, Townes Van Zandt, Thee Milkshakes, Throbbing Gristle, Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Sun City Girls, Ya Ho Wha 13, Painkiller, Mighty Diamonds, Gavin Bryars, Sun O))), Leadbelly, Boredoms, Master Musicians of Bukkakke, Sexton Ming, Raymond Scott, Twenty Million Good Reasons, Shellac, Pretty Things, Vivian Stanshall, Earth, Nick Cave, Fela Kuti, Shockabilly, Robin Hitchcock, Charalambides, Shitmat, Legendary Stardust Cowboy, Tape Salad, Eddie & The Hotrods, Sandy Denny, Chuck Berry, Espers, Albert Ayler, Zoviet France, Nocturnal Emissions, Sparklehorse, Crass, Alice Coltrane, Stars Of The Lid, Country Teasers, Muslimgauze, Venetian Snares, Konono No 1, John Zorn, Comets On Fire, Jimmy Smith, Slint, Edward Elgar, Terminal Cheesecake, The Saints, Project Dark, Aphex Twin, Mount Vernon Arts Lab, Conlon Nacarrow, Cassetteboy, Temple Of Bon Matin, Epic Soundtracks, Motorhead, Sonny Sharrock, Coil, Transistor Six, Faust, Slipperwig, Hasil Adkins, Dirty Three, Armitage Shanks, No Neck Blues Band, Olivia Tremor Control, Swans, MC5, King Missile, Wooden Wand, Wolf Eyes, A-Lines, Thee Mighty Caesars, Karlheinz Stockhausen, The Residents, Duane Eddy, Tiger Lillies, Slaughter And The Dogs, Robert Wyatt, Vince Guaraldi, Frank Zappa, Big Star, Ramones, Godz, Comus, Negativland, Gories, John Fahey, Jack Rose, Rod McKuen, Birchville Cat Motel, Roky Erikson, Th' Rainbow Goblins...

Movies:

the Retour De Flamme series
Partie De Campagne (Jean Renoir - 1936)
Divine Horsemen - The Living Gods of Haiti (Maya Deren - ?)
Mouchette (Robert Bresson -1967)
Even Dwarves Started Small (Werner Herzog - 1970) indeed most of Herzog's films are excellent with the notable exception of the bizzarely execrable Invincible (2001)

Come And See (Elem Klimov - 1985)
Wild Zero (Tetsuro Takeuchi - 2000)
The Weather Underground (Sam Green, Bill Siegel 2003)
I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth. Banks are going bust. Shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's no one anywhere that seems to know what to do with us. Now into it. We know the air is unfit to breathe, our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had 15 homicides and 63 violent crimes as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad. Worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy so we don't go out anymore. We sit in a house as slowly the world we're living in is getting smaller and all we say is, "Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster, and TV, and my steel belted radials and I won't say anything." Well I'm not going to leave you alone. I want you to get mad. I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot. I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crying in the streets. All I know is first you've got to get mad. You've got to say, "I'm a human being. God Dammit, my life has value." So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out, and yell, "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" I want you to get up right now. Get up. Go to your windows, open your windows, and stick your head out, and yell, "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!" Things have got to change my friends. You've got to get mad. You've got to say, "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!" Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open your window, stick your head out and yell, "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!"
Network - Paddy Chayefsky

Television:

One of the joys of reaching 40, one that almost outweighs the getting fatter and balder, is that not only does TV appear to get crapper (and fatter and balder... wider screen, less content) with each passing year, but one cares less and less about it at the same time.

Books:

Dollyhead Books - The best bookshop in the whole godamn virtual world. Bar none.
Blackheath Books

THE IDOCY OF IDEARS Billy Childish original manuscript (For Sale - Price On Application - contact me for details)

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Heroes:

René Crevel, Harry Crosby, Sergei Esenin, Sadegh Hedayat, Arthur Cravan
It's interesting how young poets think of death while old fogies think of girls"
Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997)
"Well... you do your best, and you look after your family and the people you love, and you end up in this situation, and it makes you think. And what it makes you think is: "What the fuck was that all about?"" - Frank Zappa.

My Blog

rench writer Robbe-Grillet dies

..>Alain Robbe-Grillet, the French writer who pioneered the so-called "new novel" genre, has died at the age of 85. He was best-known for his unorthodox narratives, but enjoyed success, with novels s...
Posted by Spoon-Unit / Dollyhead Books on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:19:00 PST

More unnecessary consumption

Today I snapped up a couple of new games; "Tension" by Peter Pan Playthings, 1971 and "Mediterranean - A Game of Strategy" by Parker Games (Palitoy)Other classics from Peter Pan Playthings include the...
Posted by Spoon-Unit / Dollyhead Books on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 03:56:00 PST

Estimated Amount Of Executions In China since January 1st, 2007

A repost from Urban FoxEstimated Amount Of Executions In China since January 1st, 2007(based on data supplied by Amnesty International). As of October 18th6402Check the news section on our websit...
Posted by Spoon-Unit / Dollyhead Books on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:03:00 PST

Paris By Night

"Contented, busy people have enough to do in the labours of the day. At night they sleep. A peasant doesn't mind spending his nights in bed. Only persons with a grievance or a sense of inadequacy, who...
Posted by Spoon-Unit / Dollyhead Books on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:16:00 PST

Bunch of C*ck

The surreal world of eBay has thrown up yet another bizarre ruling. A US first edition of Will Self's "Cock & Bull" was removed from sale, and my fees were refunded because it constituted an "inap...
Posted by Spoon-Unit / Dollyhead Books on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:03:00 PST

Chartbuster

I have recently discovered what seems to be a regular supply of 'vintage' games  which I have been buying with gay abandon. (The prefix 'vintage...'  should in most instances be read as 'cra...
Posted by Spoon-Unit / Dollyhead Books on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 02:21:00 PST

5124 De Longpre Ave

Dollyhead Books are happy to endorse this repost:Charles Bukowski lived at 5124 De Longpre from 1963 to 1974. It was during this time that many pivotal events occured in his writing career, namely; th...
Posted by Spoon-Unit / Dollyhead Books on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 04:09:00 PST

try telling this to Chris Martin

In my usual esprit de l'escalier this is no longer immediately relevant to the hot topics of the day - but it's a good quote for this morning nonetheless. I have certainly done my bit to make my perso...
Posted by Spoon-Unit / Dollyhead Books on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 01:52:00 PST

Eye magazine 6 - Wanted

If anyone has a copy of the 1992 graphic design magazine Eye, featuring an article about Barney Bubbles, I have a customer who would like to buy a copy, so get in touch. Thanks. ...
Posted by Spoon-Unit / Dollyhead Books on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:14:00 PST

Demolish Serious Culture

On a recent, reluctant, visit to London I managed to lose my favourite Demolish Serious Culture badge (by Mark Pawson). I liked particularly the way the rust was showing through the white background b...
Posted by Spoon-Unit / Dollyhead Books on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:41:00 PST