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August 20th, 2010 |

Poem for New York as seen through a bus window on the side of Jersey?

city of the city there lie across the beckoning flagrant sad distance beacons of light from the moon in a hazy sky. Their tunnels python slithering across the river and stream wait to start sucking All lemming the Lost Souls back to the womb of its decline.

I like what you've done – I like the immediacy of the city that I felt. But I want it to be longer I would like to see a contrast of beauty in this first part of cynicism, then a third party might reconcile the two. I do not want much, does it? And I can not even write!

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B-More Gutter Music

$24.45

New Baltimore Club mix from Aaron LaCrate (Milkcrate) and Low Budget (Hollertronix), hosted by Spank Rock and his often-present stage foil Amanda Blank. Aaron and Low B each mix their own half of the CD, with Aaron dropping the aggressive sex-nasty style and Low Budget mixing classics and those b-more/oldies tracks. They also have four exclusive vocal tracks from Spank Rock and Amanda Blank who b…

Hip-Hop Crunk & Gutter

$9.49

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Blood in Blood Out

$17.27

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Delicatessen [NTSC/REGION 1,3 & 4. Import-Latin America]

$12.99

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Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

$12.98

A comic book about comic books. McCloud, in an incredibly accessible style, explains the details of how comics work: how they’re composed, read and understood. More than just a book about comics, this gets to the heart of how we deal with visual languages in general. “The potential of comics is limitless and exciting!” writes McCloud. This should be required reading for every school teacher….

Paris: The Secret History

$6.15

If Adam Gopnik’s Paris to the Moon described daily life in contemporary Paris, this book describes daily life in Paris throughout its history: a history of the city from the point of view of the Parisians themselves. Paris captures everyone’s imaginations: It’s a backdrop for Proust’s fictional pederast, Robert Doisneau’s photographic kiss, and Edith Piaf’s serenaded soldier-lovers; a home as much…

Long Firm

$6.22

London. The 1960s. The capital is swinging, but underneath the boomtown there’s a dark underbelly. Meet Harry Starks: club owner, racketeer, porn king, sociology graduate and keen Judy Garland fan. Harry’s business is fronting violence with rough charm and cheap glamour; putting the frighteners on, performing menace while desperately trying to jump the counter into legitimacy. Five characters tel…

Beat Down: Fists of Vengeance

$4.00

In an area brimming with cartels battling for power and influence no one comes close to Zanetti’s group the strongest force in Las Sombras. When Zanetti learns of a rival clan’s drug deal he dispatches five of his top mercenaries from his inner circle to intervene. When they arrive on the scene they find their targets have already been executed and to their surprise they are ambushed by members of…

Gutter

$9.99

The explosive sequel to GANGSTA has finally arrived!   Blood answers for blood on the streets of Harlem. It’s been months since Lou-loc was brutally murdered on his way to freedom and the pain is still fresh. Gutter, Lou-loc’s best friend, finds himself on a path to self destruction, vowing to eradicate the entire Blood faction in New York City in the name of his fallen comrade. Sharell urges him to abandon the suicide mission, but his oath won’t allow it. Not even for the child they are expecting. But as Gutter slips further into madness, a shocking revelation brings Satin out. In the middle of all this is a man named Major Blood. He has been flown in from Cali with two very simple instructions. Shut down Harlem Crip, and execute El Diablo’s murderer. Walk back into the mouth of madness in the not-to-missed sequel to GANGSTA.

In The Gutter

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In The Gutter

Glitter in the Gutter

$11.18

It took three albums, but Jesse Malin’s finally made it. What does that mean? It means that he’s finally assembled the record he’s been trying to put together since his debut (which was a good record). Glitter in the Gutter is a fully realized collection of solidly crafted pop/rock songs that are as lyrically substantive and poetic as the music that goes with them. Produced by Rob Caggiano and Eddie Wohl for Adeline Records, Malin is the epitome of the street rocker with a poet’s heart. Rolling in California, for the first time on a record — and for the first time above 14th Street in New York City — Malin recruited old pal Ryan Adams to play guitar on a couple of cuts, Jakob Dylan to sing a backing vocal, and some guy named Bruce Springsteen to help him sing a duet on killer little ballad called “Broken Radio” complete with strings. This cut is the proof, though the record is filled with it, that Malin has become one of those fine rock & roll storytellers who has equal parts melodrama, hedonism, poetry, swagger and timing. The story of a former lover, someone hidden from the view of the protagonist, as Adams’ guitars entwine with a piano and strings and ambient sounds, the tempo is slow and Malin’s croon sounds like a man on the fire escape reminiscing to the night sky: “She used to talk about astrology/She was born in June/She danced with strangers and celebrities/Empty stars and full moon/I was thinking about the universe/For what it’s worth/Or the one about the phoenix bird/That died and then returned.” He jumps right back with the wild rocker “Prisoners of Paradise” and evokes all the desperation of the bleary-eyed romantics in the young Springsteen with the soul of Willy DeVille and the savvy wisdom of Elliott Murphy and is louder and prouder than all three. “Black Haired Girl” is another city story, it’s all blazing guitars and sweet melodies. There’s a wild vulnerability in the singer though he’s trying hard to be in control. “Lucinda,” well, we know who that one’s about. There are a few songs on her album West about Malin, too.But Malin doesn’t have to wait until the middle of the record to shine. He does it from the first cut, when he leaves the country-ish tinge present on his earlier records for good. The ringing guitars on “Don’t Let Them Take You Down” become a lone acoustic that gives way to a cracking snare and big ringing electrics courtesy of Lizzy Lee Vincent and Justin Lomery: “We were born in flames, maiden names/Suburban homes, make your bones/Bite your lip, take the fifth…And it’s my generation and the whole world is breakin my heart.” He goes out of it roaring with all the romance rock & roll can promise when it splits reality in two: “Don’t let them take you down/It’s a beautiful day/Don’t let them mess you around.” Coming up in the ’80s through the hardcore punk scene, Malin’s proving that he’s matured but that he believes, though he’s got no illusions about what’s happening all around him. Speaking of the ’80s, Mali