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Mike White Reads From Impossibly Funky: A Cashiers du Cinemart Collection 12/4
Harangue for Hollywood! From the blighted urban squalor of Detroit—Paris of the Midwest—came enfant terrible Mike White and his mutant publication, Cashiers du Cinemart. For fourteen years and fifteen issues the writers of Cashiers du Cinemart provided a treasure trove of writing on film and popular culture.
This book collects the best articles from the fifteen year history of Cashiers du Cinemart magazine with sections dedicated to Quentin Tarantino, Star Wars, Black Shampoo, unproduced screenplays, celebrity interviews, and much more. Everything has been refreshed, polished, and improved for this volume of movie mayhem.
“Obsessive, indulgent, wildly erratic, yet Impossibly Funky still warms my hardened critic’s heart because of the burning passion for movie going of the writer. It’s manifested in the nutty, beyond-left-field takes on popular geeky movies, and, even better, the stretch beyond Lucas and Tarantino to Kenneth Fearing, Travis McGee, and the unheralded comic genius of Canadian cinema, John Paizs. I’ve got to get my butt to Black Shampoo!” – Gerald Peary, critic, The Boston Phoenix
For more info: http://www.impossiblefunky.com
Saturday, December 4th at 7PM
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Mountains of New Stuff!
We’ve been pretty busy as of late, but wanted to make sure you knew what new things we’ve been getting in lately, so here’s our list of 139 things you simply can not live without (that we conveniently have in our store):
(Funny (Not Funny))
Artsy Fartsy Books
Mythical Beasts of Japan From Evil Creatures to Sacred Beings (PIE Books) $35
You Are Forgiven by Matt Leines (Free New Projects) $45
Art of Bollywood by Rajesh Devraj (Taschen) $29.99Kid’s Stuff
Mama is it Summer Yet by Nikki McClure (Abrams) $17.95
DIY/How To
Old Man Drinks Recipes Advice and Barstool Wisdom By Robert Schnakenberg (Quirk Books) $14.95
Steampunkery Polymer Clay and Mixed Media Projects By Christi Friesen (CF Books) $14.95Drugs! (books about)
Altered State the Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House By Matthew Collin (Seprents Tail) $15.95
Erotic Comics
Hot Moms vol 1 TPB By Rebecca (Eros) $18.99
Fiction
Awful Possibilities By Christian TeBordo (Featherproof Press) $14.95
Going in Circles By Pamela Ribon (Simon & Schuster) $15
Little Brother By Cory Doctorow (Tor Tom Doherty) $9.99
People Who Watched Her Pass By By Scott Bradfield (Two Dollar Radio) $14.50
Perscription Errors By Charles Demers (Insomniac Press) $15.95
Sex Dungeon For Sale By Patrick Wensink $10
Stories of Ibis By Hiroshi Yamamoto (Haika Soru) $15.99Gewgaw
Absinthe Flavored Toothpicks (Accoutrements) $2.50
Absinthe Soap for Hand and Bath An Enchanted Absinthe Sented Soap Fashioned by Green Fairies (Accoutrements) $6.00
Boo Boo Kisses Adhesive Bandages (Accoutrements) $5.00
Cal Q Tek 2000 Calculator Watch (Accoutrements) $15.00
Curry Flavored Kali Mints (Accoutrements) $2.50
Gesundheit Tissues Uber Absorbent (Accoutrements) $1.00
High Rollers Exotic Dancers 4 Magnetic Coasters (Gamma Go) $7.50
Hobo Bubble Gum Cigarettes Campfire Coffee Flavored (Accoutrements) $1.25
Jackalope Tumbleweed Wine Stainless Steel Water Bottle (Accoutrements) $12.00
Lil Devils Trick of the Day (Accoutrements) $10.00
Manly Mustache Mirror Clings (Accoutrements) $3
Rotting Zombie Mirror Clings (Accoutrements) $3
Sunrise in Meatopia 500 Piece Puzzle With Bonus 48 Piece Mystery Puzzle (Accoutrements) $10.00
Yeti BBQ Coffee Mug (Gamma Go) $12.00
Gama Go Stickers Like Peanut Butter Sandwich These Designs are Stickalicious By Tim Biskup (Gamma Go) $5.00Glossy Periodicals
Artforum Apr 10 $10.00
Dwell May 10 $5.99
Famous Mag #11 Desert and Plants $5.00
Hi Fructose #15 $6.95
Muddy $12
2600 Hacker Quarterly vol 27 #1 $6.25
Bizarre #161 $10.50
Make vol 22 $14.99
Tokion vol 3 #4 $6.99
High Times Jun 10 $5.99
Taps paraMagazine vol 6 #2 $5.95
BlackBook #75 Apr 10 $4.50
Hyphen #20 Spr 10 $4.95
Time Out Chicago Apr 08 10 $2.99
826 Quarterly vol 11 (826 Valencia) $15.00
Iowa Review vol 40 #1 $9.95
Packingtown Review vol 2 2010 $13
Fader #67 Apr May 10 $5.99
Mojo #198 May 10 $9.99
Uncut May 10 $9.99
Wire Apr 10 #314 $10.99
Adbusters #89 May Jun 10 vol 18 #3 Ecopsychology $8.95
Monocle vol 4 #32 Apr 10 $10.00
Pin Up Show $15.00
Skin Art #132 $6.99Graffiti and Street Art
Belio 030 Back to the Roots Experimental Art and Design (Belio Magazine) $35.00
Calligraffiti the Graphic Art of Niels Shoe Meulman (From Here to Fame) $29.95
DY005 Nicholas Di Genova (Belio Magazine) $29.95
DY008 Saner (Belio Magazine) $29.95
DY009 Gualicho (Belio Magazine) $29.95
Swoon HC (Abrams) $35.00Graphic Novels
Area 10 By Christos Gage (Vertigo) $19.99
Batman and Robin Batman Reborn Deluxe Edition HC By Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely (DC) $24.99
Beats a Graphic History SC By Harvey Pekar (Hill & Wang) $14.95
Body World HC By Dash Shaw (Pantheon) $27.95
Crossed vol 1 By Garth Ennis & Jacen Burrows (Avatar)$24.99
Emberley Galaxy A Tribute to Ed Emberley $12.00
Funny Not Funny Modest Selection of Comic Art Exhibiting Signs of Black Humor By Ryan Standfest $14.95
Market Day By James Sturm (Drawn & Quarterly)$21.95
Melvin Monster vol 2 John Stanley Library By John Stanley (Drawn & Quarterly) $24.95
Mome vol 18 Spr 10 (Fantagraphics) $14.99
Neptune By Aron Nels Steinke (Tugboat Press & Sparkplug Comic Books)$14.00
Other Lives HC By Peter Bagge (Vertigo) $24.99
Sparky The Life and Art of Charles Schulz By Beverly Gherman (Chronicle Books) $16.99
Teenaged Dope Slaves and Reform School Girls (Pure Imagination) $20.00
Whirlwind Wonderland By Rina Ayuyang (Tugboat Press & Sparkplug Comic Books) $15.00
Wonder Woman Amazon Hero Icon HC By Robert Greenberger (Universe) $35.00
Young Lions By Blaise Larmee $10
(Perversity Think Tank)Humor
99 Classic Movies For People In a Hurry By Nicotext (Nicotext) $9.95
PS I Hate It Here Kids Letters From Camp By Diane Falanga (Abrams) $12.95
Youre a Horrible Person But I Like You Believer Book of Advice By Sarah Silverman (Vintage) $13.95Low Brow Art
Another Science Fiction Advertising the Space Race 1957 to 1962 By Megan Prelinger (Blast Books) $29.95
Beautiful Decay Book 3 The Underdogs (Beautiful Decay) $20.00
Jime Litwalk Sketchbook vol 3 Monsters Misfits & Maidens By Jime Litwalk (Presto Art) $30.00
Nymphettes Erotic Elfin Art By Barry Blair (SQ Productions) $14.95
Sailor Jerry Tattoo Flash vol 3 By Jerry Collins Sailor (Hardy Marks Publications) $50.00Mayhem!
Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody Terrifyingly Real Ways the World Wants You By Robert Brockway (Three Rivers Press) $14.00
Zombie Combat Manual a Guide to Fightnig the Living Dead By Roger Ma (Berkeley Books) $14.00Minicomics
Clutch #21 Invincible Summer #16 Split By Clutch McBastard & Nicole Georges $2.00
Feedback #6 By John Isaacson $2.00
Phase 7 #014 By Alec Longstreth $4.00
Phase 7 #015 By Alec Longstreth $3.00
Pop Art Show By Trevor Wayne $8.00
Pyromania #5 By John Isaacson $3.00
Roots To Fruits By APAK $4.00Video Discs
Mellodrama The Mellotron Movie DVD (Bazillion Points Books) $24.95
Wholphin #10 (McSweeney’s) $19.95Muckraking, Memoirs & Miscellany
Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace By David Lipsky (Broadway) $16.99
Cardboard Gods An All American Tale Told Through Baseball Cards By Josh Wilker (Seven Footer Press) $24.95
City Kid A Writers Memoir of Ghetto Life and Post Soul Success By Nelson George (Plume) $14.00
Fix Is In Showbiz Manipulations of the NFL MLB NBA NHL and NASCAR By Brian Tuohy (Feral House) $16.95Music Books
Arcana IV Musicians on Music By John Zor (Hips Road) $34.95
How to Wreck a Nice Beach Vocoder from World War II to Hip Hop Machine Speaks By Dave Tompkins (Melville House Publishing) $35.00
Rock And Roll Will Save Your Life HC By Steve Almond (Random House) $23.00
Swedish Death Metal By Daniel Ekeroth (Bazillion Points Boks) $34.95Comic Books!
Blaster Al Ackermans Tales of the Ling Master Barnes $3.00
Hate Annual #8 Bagge Peter (Fantagraphics) $4.95
Rabid Rabbit #11 Tall Tales and Magnanimous Myths By C M Butzer and Ben Trinh $5.00Outer Limits
Great Airship of 1897 By J Allen Danelek (Adventures Unlimited Press) $16.95
Solomon Islands Mysteries Accounts of Giants and UFOs By Marius Boirayon (Adventures Unlimited Press) $16.95Poetry
Adulthoods By Bambi $10.00
Dodging Traffic By J Bradley $12.00Politics
Anarchism and Its Aspirations By Cindy Milstein (AK Press) $12.00
Capitalisms World Disorder Working Class Politics at the Millennium By Jack Barnes (Pathfinder) $25.00
Che Guevara a Revolutionary Life Revised Edition By Jon Lee Anderson (Grove Press) $20.00
Common Ground in a Liquid City Essays in Defense of an Urban Future By Hern (AK Press) $17.95
Crisis In The Global Economy Financial Markets Social Struggles By Andrea Fumagalli (Semiotext(e)) $17.95
Propaganda Inc Selling Americas Culture To The World By Nancy Snow (Seven Stories) $11.95
Thousand Machines By Gerald Raunig (Semiotext(e)) $12.95Sex Guides & Culture
Perversity Think Tank By Supervert $15.00
Pornapocalipse vol 1 By Rachel Gontijo Araujo $10.00
Worst Laid Plans When Bad Sex Happens to Good People By Alexandra Lydon (Abrams) $14.95Sexy Art Books
Shunga Japanese Erotic Art (PIE Books) $35.00
Vanessa Del Rio Fifty Years of Slightly Slutty Behavior (Taschen) $59.99Zines!
Aristocratic Hands #13 By Gregory Walker $2.00
Aristocratic Hands #14 By Gregory Walker $2.00
Blow Jobs In The Afterlife By David Moscovich $1.00
Box of Chocolates By Leslie Perrine $5.00
How To Stay Alive In the Metaphorical Woods $2.00
Lets All Find Awesome Jobs Actual Information By Kevin Fanning $3.00
No Better Than Apples #6 Piecemeal By Kate Larson $2.00
Or Let It Sink #3 $1.00
Reality Mom vol 7 #2 By Corbin Lewars $3.00
RIP by Steve Katz $1.00
This Is the End Journeys Toward Armageddon By Aaron Cynic $2.00
Tragic Genius of Dan Gleason By Dan Gleason $2.00
Volkerlchau By Melanie Bonajo $10.00
Welcome to Bend Population 80995 By Laura Walker $5.00
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Chunklet #20 Is Here!
Now in stock for the awesomest price ever of $9.99 for 134 pages of the usual tiny font, the 20th issue of Chunklet (20 issues, 15 years!). Don’t miss Whirlyball with such bands as Arcade Fire, The Shins, Death Cab for Cutie and countless others. Laugh-out-loud funny Rock Sniglets, Music Journalist Application Form, Zine Fair Pick-Up Lines (That Failed Miserably) [“I’m not the do-it-yourself type…I’d rather do it with you.”] — This is rockin’. That’s why this mag only comes out once every 3 years, because of its high hilariousness quotient. Chunklet makes fun of pretty much everything the cool kids listen to, which is why I love it. More music mags should have this many opinions, instead of just being a conglomeration of press releases the publicity agents are sending out. I mean, really, does EVERY magazine need to have Cat Power on the cover with varying pictures from the same photo shoot?
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Louder Than Your Mom Karaoke Tournament Fundraiser
Our friends at Co-op Image Youth are holding a Karaoke Tournament Fundraiser at Ronny’s. If you’re in Chicago this Friday (June 27th) you should come, even if you’re not singing; karaoke singers need an audience! Here’s their details:
Be the Karaoke King/Queen you always knew you could be! Or just be mercilessly entertained! On Friday, June 27th Ronny’s (210. Suggested donation of $51 N. California Ave) will host Chicago’s first, one and only, Karaoke Tournament: LOUDER THAN YOUR MOM! at the door, contestants get in for free. Karaoke power-couple Joe and Liz Mason will MC the event as the First Round begins at 9 o’clock. There will be four rounds of competition. This event is held to benefit Cooperative Image Group.
Here’s how it will work: Karaoke contestants will compete in the contest, much like a marathon. They will be required to have a minimum of three sponsors who can donate up to four songs (depending on how far they expect their contestant to go) at $10 a song. A panel of audience judges will be rating the performances on a scale of 1- 10. Four finalists will receive a prize and trophy designed by Co-op Image Youth. The winner will receive a prize, trophy, and cash.
Incorporated in 2003, Cooperative Image Group is an interdisciplinary arts education and social entrepreneurship organization that facilitates programs with youth ages 6-21. Located in Humboldt Park, Co-op Image works with over 700 youth per year out of its Corner Art Center and approximately 400 additional community members through a number of outreach satellite projects. The programs Co-op Image creates include the production of a cooking show aired on CAN-TV, a screen-printing and design business, an audio/visual recording studio, mural painting, glass sculpting, documentary film-making and more. Co-op Image seeks funding through several channels, including a number of creative fundraisers and benefits, earned income, individual donors, and foundation and government grants. Benefits like LOUDER THAN YOUR MOM! account for approximately 30% of Co-op Image’s annual budget.
Check us out at: www.coopimage.org and to view our videos check us out at: http://www.youtube.com/user/coopimage.
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Chemical Salvation?
A full on Albert Hoffman LSD parody of Chick Tracts, found via the endlessly entertaining vaults of Erowid.
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Photo Funnies follow up!!!
A while back we hosted an awesome event with the Eye Rocket books guys to promote their crazy art/zine/grande school send up titled Works Cited. At the event they took people’s picture and then added their own twist to the images. The results were hilarious and
oftenalways spot on!Check how we faired after the jump!
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Just added: Jonathan Katz, Star and co-creator of Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist at Quimby's
Jonathan Katz is scheduled for this rare in-store appearance at Quimby’s on Tuesday, September 25th at 7:00pm, and he will be autographing copies of his new CD Caffeinated! We know it’s short notice but we just couldn’t say no to such an awesome event!
The co-creator and star of Comedy Central’s wildly popular “Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist” returns to his stand-up comedy roots with the long overdue release of his first ever CD. Fans of Dr. Katz will recognize the clever and quiet yet subversive voice of the world’s most famous animated shrink as he tailors comedy for the live stage. Caffeinated also includes outrageous phone-in segments Katz popularized on NPR’s The Next Big Thing along with original music never heard away from the concert stage. Katz fans have had to sample his comedy in small doses. Finally, Caffeinated delivers the many facets of this man’s remarkable comedy in an easy to swallow once-a-day treatment.
Author, producer, actor, comedian and musician, Jonathan Katz is one of the entertainment industry’s most original and versatile creative personalities. He co-created and starred in the hit animated series, “Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist,” which, during its six seasons on Comedy Central, was credited with branding that network as the home for sophisticated, smartly stupid humor. As an actor, Katz has won praise for roles in the films Daddy Day Care with Eddie Murphy (“excruciatingly funny”), the David Mamet films State and Main, Things Change, and The Spanish Prisoner, and with Janeane Garofalo in The Independent. He co-wrote Mamet’s critically acclaimed House of Games. In the last several years, Katz has created and produced innovative programming across different media platforms, including “Raising Dad” for the WB, and the animated television pilot, “Say Uncle” in which he co-starred with Lisa Kudrow for Disney and Fox. Originally a musician and songwriter, Katz fronted a rhythm and blues group called Katz and Jammers before serving as the musical director for Robin Williams’ 1979 stand-up tour. In 1981 he started working solo, doing a cabaret act that was mostly musical, and in between songs he began to lay the groundwork for his stand-up act. A native New Yorker, Jonathan moved to Boston twenty years ago and currently resides in Newton, Massachusetts with his wife and two daughters. In 1997 Jonathan was diagnosed with MS. Weeks later he found out what those two letters represent (multiple sclerosis). For the last few years he has talked publicly about how this illness has impacted his life, and finds sharing his situation with others very enriching. “Life goes on with the disease. I use comedy to cope. In fact I teach a course called “Coping with Comedians who use Comedy to Cope.”
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Jonathan Katz, star and co-creator of "Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist" at Quimby's!
Jonathan Katz is scheduled for this rare in-store appearance at Quimby’s Tuesday, September 25th at 7:00pm, and he will be autographing copies of his new CD “Caffeinated”! We know it’s short notice but we just couldn’t say no to such an awesome event!
The co-creator and star of Comedy Central’s wildly popular Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist returns to his stand-up comedy roots with the long overdue release of his first ever CD. Fans of Dr. Katz will recognize the clever and quiet yet subversive voice of the world’s most famous animated shrink as he tailors comedy for the live stage. Caffeinated also includes outrageous phone-in segments Katz popularized on NPR’s The Next Big Thing along with original music never heard away from the concert stage. Katz fans have had to sample his comedy in small doses. Finally, Caffeinated delivers the many facets of this man’s remarkable comedy in an easy to swallow once-a-day treatment.
Author, producer, actor, comedian and musician, Jonathan Katz is one of the entertainment industry’s most original and versatile creative personalities. He co-created and starred in the hit animated series, “Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist,” which, during its six seasons on Comedy Central, was credited with branding that network as the home for sophisticated, smartly stupid humor. As an actor, Katz has won praise for roles in the films Daddy Day Care with Eddie Murphy(“excruciatingly funny”), the David Mametfilms State and Main, Things Change, and The Spanish Prisoner, and with Janeane Garofaloin The Independent. He co-wrote Mamet’s critically acclaimed House of Games. In the last several years, Katz has created and produced innovative programming across different media platforms, including “Raising Dad” for the WB, and the animated television pilot, “Say Uncle” in which he co-starred with Lisa Kudrowfor Disneyand Fox. Originally a musician and songwriter, Katz fronted a rhythm and blues group called Katz and Jammersbefore serving as the musical director for Robin Williams’1979 stand-up tour. In 1981 he started working solo, doing a cabaret act that was mostly musical, and in between songs he began to lay the groundwork for his stand-up act. A native New Yorker, Jonathan moved to Boston twenty years ago and currently resides in Newton, Massachusetts with his wife and two daughters. In 1997 Jonathan was diagnosed with MS. Weeks later he found out what those two letters represent (multiple sclerosis). For the last few years he has talked publicly about how this illness has impacted his life, and finds sharing his situation with others very enriching. “Life goes on with the disease. I use comedy to cope. In fact I teach a course called “Coping with Comedians who use Comedy to Cope.”
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