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The Greatest Fucking Moment In Sports 4 reviews
Kevin L. Donihe
Eraserhead Press, 2006
Greatest Moment in Bizarro Sports...
+ One insane bike ride. Great intro to the bizarro.
+ Bicycles, Spurting blood, and a Ninja.
+ Another Winner in the Bizarro Genre
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Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon ... 36 reviews
Richard Brautigan
Mariner Books, 1989
He heard the sound of his own drummer
+ Hallucinatory, and Great
+ Brautigan's Style is 5 star for me.
The man is no longer here so its necessary to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Brautigan was in the long tradition of American originals. Thoreau defined it as the person who can't walk in step with the others because he 'hears the sound of his own drummer'.
Brautigan put a number of things ...
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The Bizarro Starter Kit (Orange) 14 reviews
Carlton Mellick III, Jeremy Robert Johnson, ...
Eraserhead Press, 2006
Introducing Bizarro!
+ Great "Starter Kit"
+ Beware all who enter ....
+ Some Books are Too damned weird
+ Weird stuff!
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The Tunnel: Selected Poems of Russell Edson6 reviews
Russell Edson
Oberlin College Press, 1994
Broadly accessible prose poems, rewarding, and unique.
+ My Bible
+ An accomplished master of prose poetry
+ Suicide Prevention Poetry
+ Great fun, and sometimes profound
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War Slut (Avant Punk Book Club)11 reviews
Carlton Mellick III
Eraserhead Press, 2006
Arctic Sci-Fi Bizarro....
+ The Futility of War, Freedom, and Love
+ Mechanization of a Still-Life Soul
+ Fast paced action thriller
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Side Effects22 reviews
Woody Allen
Ballantine Books, 1986
Loved It
+ Side Effects: Sore side from laughing
+ A pleased Allen fan
+ nothing like it
+ "The most important question is, . . .
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Moonchild7 reviews
John Zorn
Tzadik, 2006
Zorn's Triumphant Return to Loud Music
+ Breaking new ground
John Zorn, previous to this release, and his Masada days, was quite keen on the whole "noise" thing. Back in the eighties, he lead a band called "Naked City" which released five dynamic, explosive albums, most of which contained songs under a minute long. These cuts were made up of high-pitched ...
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Only Theatre of Pain24 reviews
Christian Death
Frontier Records, 2001
Dark Slab of Ghoulish Mysticism with Driving Riffs - A MUST HAVE FOR ANY COLLECTION
+ More than Just Music
+ Classic!
+ Not Just For the Shy/Skinny DR kids!
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Collected Poems 1947-198018 reviews
Allen Ginsberg
Harper Perennial, 1988
Ginsy's Big Red Book
+ A vast and great compendium of Ginsberg's writing
+ this is actualy a review of the book, not ginsberg
+ An Electric Wave In An Ocean Of Complacency.
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Angel Dust Apocalypse36 reviews
Jeremy Robert Johnson
Eraserhead Press, 2005
This collection defines unbridled insanity
+ This dude is destined for great things.
+ The best things come in small packages.
+ Strange, Different, Weird and Horrific.
+ the things we do for love
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Bare Bone #10
Cody Goodfellow
Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2007
With a surgeon's skill, editor Kevin L. Donihe stitches a diverse collection of fiction and poetry together to bring Bare Bone to life. Another Dr. Frankenstein, he assembles the pieces of others, birthing one complete monster to send lurching towards the darkness. Stories from past issues have received Honorable Mentions in several editions of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror and another ...
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Aoxomoxoa28 reviews
Grateful Dead
Rhino / Wea, 2003
The Dead's best studio album
+ My fav Grateful Dead Studio CD
+ Love it
+ Studio Dead Plus
+ The End Of An Era
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Punk Land14 reviews
Carlton Mellick III
Eraserhead Press, 2005
Even better than Satan Burger
+ Punk Land
+ Are you REALLY punk enough to get in?
Satan Burger is one of my favorite books, but Punk Land is even better than that. It has the characters Nan and Mortician from Satan Burger. It takes place soon after the events that took place in the first book. I recommend reading Satan Burger first but Punk Land is such a better book and is ...
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?212 reviews
Philip K. Dick
Del Rey, 1996
Wonderful book
+ perfect
+ Dreaming in Binary: you'll either love it or hate it
+ Valuing Fake Animals Above Fake Humans
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Bumper Crop11 reviews
Joe R. Lansdale
Golden Gryphon Press, 2005
Nice Companion Piece to High Cotton
+ Glimpses at greatness.
+ Joe Gets Weird
While I haven't read "High Cotton" yet, I have read most of the stories in it. As had I read most of the stories in this anthology. "Bestsellers Guaranteed" and "By Bizarre Hands" collected the majority of Lansdale's fiction back in the day, and it is from these two books where the majority of ...
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1000 Journals Project31 reviews
Someguy
Chronicle Books, 2007
excellent documentation on wonderful project!
+ essential journal reading
+ Great Table Top Book
After seeing the film doc I was excited to order the book to see many other entries that were made in the many journals.
A simple little image book...lovely, I was surprised by the added feature of stitching on many pages...really made it feel like more of a homemade piece.
If you're in to ...
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Interstellar Space39 reviews
John Coltrane
Polygram Records, 2000
coltrane's first and only duet
+ Not for the faint of heart
+ Coltrane's Experimental Peak
+ Even for Trane this is out there
+ Trane in space...
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream417 reviews
Hunter S. Thompson
Vintage, 1998
A classic
+ Great book, unfortunatell i've seen the movie
+ Great Book
+ A book about the savage journey to the heart of the American Dream!
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When the Kite String Pops79 reviews
Acid Bath
Rotten Records, 1994
Debut of the South's finest metal band
+ Good!
+ Awesome album, very influential band
+ perfection
+ The beginnings of Metalcore
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Amputechture95 reviews
The Mars Volta
Umvd Labels, 2006
The Mars Volta's finest moment thus far
+ RESPECT and ADMIRATION
+ caleidoscope of epic, strange proportions.
+ Amputechture
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