This list spans the week 5/24/09 – 5/30/09
1. Trubble Club #3 by the Trubble Club $3.00 – See Trubble Club members Laura Park and Jeremy Tinder looking victorious above!
2. Unfinal Call CD by Bonnie Prince Billy (Drag City) $8.00
3. Butt #26 Fantastic Magazine for Homosexuals $9.90
4. Rusted Train Makeovers #1 Jan 07 $5.00
5. Juxtapoz #101 Jun 09 $5.99
7. Journalsong #6 by Steve $2.50
8. Contemporary Art Guide Chicago 2009 (Proximity Publication) $6.00
10. The Believer #62 $8.00
| Jun ’09 |
| 3 |
| 7:00 pm |
Quimby’s is excited to welcome Mike Edison, author of I Have Fun Everywhere I Go: Savage Tales of Pot Porn Punk Rock Pro Wrestling Talking Apes Evil Bosses Dirty Blues American Heroes and the Most Notorious Magazines in the World.
A rollicking, high-octane, always irreverent journey through the seamy side of the publishing industry. Mike Edison’s resume spans twenty years and a slew of notorious titles, including Screw, High Times, Penthouse, and Hustler. An Ivy League dropout who’s never looked back, Edison embarked on a career that’s landed him in the producer’s chair for one of the worst B movies of all time; on tour with the likes of the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, GG Allin, and the Ramones; undercover at a religious cult; on a bender with Evel Knievel; feuding with Hulk Hogan; smoking dope with Ozzy Osborne; and authoring some twenty novels you wouldn’t want your mother to catch you reading—let alone writing. I Have Fun Everywhere I Go combines the fear and loathing of Hunter Thompson’s journalistic thrill rides with the acerbic insider voice of Toby Young. It’s an eye-opening, gleeful view of life on the edge—and the outlaws and oddballs encountered there.
“If you have any interest in pot, pornography, punk rock, or professional wrestling, just buy this fucking thing.” —Nick Tosches
Mike Edison is a writer, editor, and musician. He lives in New York City. At his event here at Quimby’s, he will be accompanied by the Interstellar Groove Machine, a “Rube Goldberg contraption built out of an electric organ, a tape loop generator, and theremin.” Expect literary mayhem of the highest order.
Check out his video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE_0_gtMMdE
For more info: www.mikeedison.com
FREE EVENT
Just a quick reminder to let you know that Quimby’s will open 2 hours later than usual on Tuesday, June 9th. Instead of opening at noon, Quimby’s will open at 2pm. Thanks!
| Jun ’09 |
| 4 |
| 7:00 pm |
The Peep Diaries: How We’re Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors is the story of one man’s journey through a rapidly transforming culture of lying, spying, revealing, and confessing.
We have entered the age of “Peep Culture”: a tell-all, show-all, know-all digital phenomenon that is dramatically altering notions of privacy, individuality, security and even humanity. Peep culture is Reality TV, YouTube, Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, over-the-counter spy gear, blogs, chatrooms, amateur porn, surveillance technology, Dr. Phil, Borat, cellphone photos of your drunk friend making out with her ex-boyfriend, and more. In the age of Peep, core values and rights we once took for granted are rapidly being renegotiated, often without our even noticing.
With hilarious, exasperated acuity, social critic Hal Niedzviecki dives into Peep, starting his own video blog, joining every social network that will have him, monitoring the movements of his toddler, selling his secrets on Craigslist, hiring a private detective to investigate him, spying on his neighbors, trying out for reality TV, and stripping for the pleasure of a web audience he isn’t even sure exists. Part travelogue, part diary, part meditation and social history, The Peep Diaries explores a rapidly emerging digital phenomenon that is radically changing not just the entertainment landscape, but also the firmaments of our culture and society.
The Peep Diaries introduces the arrival of the peep culture age and explores its implications on entertainment, society, sex, politics, and everyday life. Mixing first-rate reporting with sociological observations culled from the latest research, this book captures the shift from pop to peep and the way technology is turning gossip into documentary and peeping toms into entertainment journalists. Packed with stranger-than-fiction true-life characters and scenarios, The Peep Diaries reflects the aspirations and confusions of the growing number of people willing to trade the details of their private lives for catharsis, attention, and notoriety.
HAL NIEDZVIECKI’s writings on culture have appeared in newspapers
and magazines across North America. He is the founder of Broken Pencil magazine and has published numerous works of social commentary and fiction, including Hello I’m Special: How Individuality Became the New Conformity and We Want Some Too: Underground Desire and the Reinvention of Mass Culture.
FREE
Lots of metal and noise folks in today for a big fest in town, giving the store a ditch gym to go smoke in the alley vibe. A perfect saturday at Quimby’s!
And a quick reminder: we will open 2 hours later than usual on Tues., June 9th at 2pm instead of noon.
New Stuff:
Whole Death Catalog: Lively Guide to the Bitter End by Harold Schechter (Ballantine) $18.00 – Because you’ll definitely need a guide book where you’re going.
McSweeneys vol 31 $24.00
Greetings From The Oceans Sweaty Face 100 McSweeneys Postcards (Chronicle) $19.95 – Comes in a cool recipe box-type recepticle. With such artists as Charles Burns, Marcel Dzama and more!
Convalescent by Jessica Anthony (McSweeneys) $22.00
White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day by Day by Richie Unterberger (Jawbone) $29.95
A whole mess o’ Moleskinne 2010 planners $10.95-$15.95
Bldg Blog Book by Geoff Manaugh (Chronicle) $29.95
1000 New Eco Designs And Where To Find Them by Rebecca Proctor (Laurence King) $35.00
The Ocean TPB by Warren Ellis and Chris Sprouse (Wildstorm) $19.99
Side B: Music Lovers Comic Anthology (Poseur Ink) $22.99 – From the editors of the successful Side A: Music Lovers Comic Anthology!
Uptight #3 by Jordan Crane (Fantagraphics) $2.75
Venus Zine #40 Sum 2009 $4.50
Grid Index by Carston Nicolai (DGV) $60.00
Love Sex Fear Death: Inside Story of the Process Church of the Final Judgment by Timothy Wyllie and Adam Parfrey (Akashic) $24.95
Fugue State by Brian Evenson and Zak Sally (Akashic) $14.95
Will Work For Drugs by Lydia Lunch (Akashic) $15.95
Show That Smells by Derek McCormack (Akashic) $15.95
Action Painting: Bringing Art to the Trains/Introduction To the Phenomenon of Painting On Trains (Gingko Press) $39.95
Part of Rebellion #2 Dave the Chimp ed. by C100 (Publikat) $19.95 – Follow up in the Part of Rebellion graffiti series.
Big Book of Legs edited by Dian Hanson (Taschen) $29.99 – She (Dian Hanson, specifically) has got legs and she knows how to use them.
Extraordinary Records edited by Giorgio Moroder (Taschen) $39.99 – Yes, you read that right. Giorgio Moroder
Life Inc.: How The World Became A Corporation and How To Take It Back by Douglas Rushkoff (Melville) $26.00 – By the author of Media Virus and contributor to Arthur Magazine.
Blindfold Test by Barry Schechter (Melville) $16.00
Watch the Closing Doors #47 $2.50
Nobrow #1 $25.00 – You won’t find this thing just anywhere! This is a wonderful debut issue of an imported British design periodical. It has lots of beautiful blue ink and is almost graphic novel-esque. You have to see it to believe it.
Plus, these exciting restocks are in!:
Rocket Science #1 Multi Limbed Anthology $4.00 – mini comix!
Girls Will Be Boys Will Be Girls Will Be Coloring Book by Jacinta Bunnell and Irit Reinheimer (Soft Skull) $11.95
Alchemy & Mysticism: The Hermetic Cabinet ICONS Edition by Alexander Roob (Taschen) $9.99
The Zinn Reader by Howard Zinn (Seven Stories Press) $19.95
Vampire Vultures by John Fahey (Drag City) $17.98
Tape Op vol 2: The Book About Creative Music Recording (Tape Op) $24.99
Making Deals #1 and #2 $5.00 each
Lots of cute mini comix from Missy Kulik, such as Super Paws, Personal Charm, Where’s a Cookie and more! $.75 – $2.00
Merit Badges $4.00 – By a local individual who prefers to remain anonymous to the public but nonetheless impresses us with die-cut amazingness, with such hilarious sayings as “Born Again Atheist.” Only available in store! And they go fast!
