"new SUN FOOT vim by Johanna Jackson! SUN FOOT LP coming in a week or so on Teenage Teardrops / Awesome Vistas. BOOYAAAAAAAAAA!"

Everybody Has a Life from lateral on Vimeo.


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http://zenmafia.tumblr.com/


CLICK HERE.

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MODERN AMERICAN OPINION



This looks like its going to be a great show!

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Kulchur - a literary magazine variously edited by Marc Schleifer and Gilbert Sorrentino (early-mid 60s)

You can view issue 1 in it's entirety HERE

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Cockfighter


Arrived! And it looks incredible!

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外道-香り


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Love Exposure




"Japan's eroto-theosophical answer to the allegorical journeys of Alejandro Jodorowsky" -- Film Four

"It’s too bad words like 'masterpiece' and 'epic' have been so overused by excitable film critics, because Sion Sono’s Love Exposure is an actual epic masterpiece that is going to dominate the filmscape for decades." - New York Asian Film Festival



Love Exposure opens for a week long run at the Cinefamily this friday. You will not be disappointed-this ones for life. Tickets and more info here.
Poster by Robert Beatty, whose art is here.
Poster by Robert Beatty, whose art is here.

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Debut Crazy Band video


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The Misfits


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Look out for the spectacular new western by Patrick Dewitt, The Sisters Brothers. In store when we re-open. Here's a little trailer with a nice Morricconesque soundtrack by little bro Nick Dewitt.



More about it at Dennis Cooper's BLOG

Then go to the top of the blog cos it's a really good blog in general.

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True story that Larry David dated Richard Yates' daughter and ruined his suede jacket upon a snowy meeting with the man...





story HERE

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Tindersticks x Claire Denis on Nowness.com.



not available at fam, but cool nonetheless.

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Robert Walser's 'Microscripts'









Look out for this collection when we reopen.

"Institutionalized for the last 27 years of his life, Swiss modernist Robert Walser achieved a literary rebirth when a vast collection of paper strips, covered with tiny, cryptic pencil markings, was discovered after his death in 1956. First thought to be in secret code, Walser's prose fragments turned out to be composed in Kurrent, a script style dating to the Middle Ages.

The 25 short pieces that make up "The Microscripts" (New Directions: 160 pp., $24.95) have been culled from a six-volume German collection of these writings. The book reproduces Walser's original microscripts — he wrote on, among other things, a detached novel cover, a letter, a calendar page — alongside Susan Bernofsky's translations."

Read more HERE

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bonnie prince billy sings like a drunk jew.


I dont endorse the shemspeed website. the whole thing over there is just fucking weird and dumb and makes me uncomfortable. but go there for the free download of bonnie prince billy doing a cover of the hasidic folk song darkecho (link right here). the version he is covering is based on the darkecho album my brother jonathan did with our crazy bud, david brook, a few years ago. their whole darkcho record is pretty nuts and was never widely released beyond copies to friends. all the songs are new versions of traditional hasidic folk songs. and bonnie, being a fan of that record, decided to perform the title song on the road while on tour with the cairo gang.
if you like that, here is the whole darkecho record to stream or download (click here), which will probably have hasidic melodies stuck in your head along with the ghosts of peasant ukranians, who sang these songs drunk at a shitty table after a wedding, or birth, or pogrom, or rape, or recent death. enjoy.

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Takeshi Murata: Get Your Ass to Mars



Holy shit.

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Australian Bookstore











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YOU'RE OFF FOR THE MONTH

We are doing store renovations, so FAMILY is closed till the beginning of June.

Yesterday Kramer and I went into the store:



12 hours later, BOOM:





We were all done, walking out two exhausted jews unfit for physical labor, when we spotted a box deep below in the back corner shelves. Whaaaaaat? An unopened box of comics? Hubba-Hubba.


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