Wired Up!

This book is awesome and you need a copy so you can spend the rest of your life doing something worthwhile. Like, hunting for these obscuro 70s European picture sleeves!

I know what you're thinking "Who's Alvin Stardust?"; "Why did France need its own pressing of Zenda Jacks "Rub My Tummy"; "Is Pantherman really my friend?", "Did Orange know about Grapefruit?" The answer to all these questions is simple, "Who the fuck cares!" Dig those crazy mutton-chops! Check out that freakin' cheetah! What a nice cape!!! 

Millicent Souris book signing/reading this Sunday!

A busy day for us, at least as far as book signings are concerned! Not only are we hawking wares at Dave Hill's UP show, but our dear friend Millicent Souris is coming to saki to read from and sign copies of her gorgeous new book How to Build a Better Pie: Sweet and Savory Recipes for Flaky Crusts, Toppers, and the Things in Between.

Millicent is a former CTD employee. Having seen The Warriors several times in our youth, when she told us of her intent to move to NYC, we of course did our best to dissuade from our clear vision of her new hardscrabble life on the streets–a life eking out a living in Washington Square Park, waxing rhapsodic on the virtues of Tolstoy, Karpov, Kasparov and playing tourists at chess, while yet again pitching her screen treatment on the hidden but obvious connections between Harry Smith, Spiro Agnew, Andreas Papandreou, and Dave Mustaine.

Boy were we wrong. Since she left, she helped open and run the lauded Queen's Hideway where her pies were a highlight, learned how to butcher and render animals up to the size of a giant blue ox, cooked up a storm at the Roebling Tea Room, catered crazy events for people I'm not at liberty to reveal without personal serious consequences, built houses for Habitat for Humanity, somehow went even more metal and beautiful at the same time, and has now written a goddamned book.

We couldn't be more proud of Millicent and her book! She will be here at 3pm on Sunday, June 17th. And hey, if you've got nothing going on after, come on over to UP to see Dave Hill. He'll ALSO be signing his new book and we'll be there selling copies!

The Wettest County In The World by Matt Bondurant

For fans of The Proposition, Assassination of Jesse James..., The Road, or, well, Nick Cave, Warren Ellis & John Hillcoat - they've teamed up again! The Wettest County is an upcoming film directed by Hillcoat with original music from Cave & Ellis, & screenplay by Cave. The screenplay is based on a historical novel by Matt Bondurant called The Wettest County In The World. It is an account of 3 brothers (Bondurant's actual grandfather & great uncles) who ran a bootlegging operation in rural Virginia.

It's pretty much a done deal that this movie will be great, but we highly recommend checking out Bondurant's novel before seeing the film. You can read the New York Times review of the book here and pick up the book at saki for $9.50 now $5.00 (paperback)!

I made a book!

Two years after returning from a semester in Italy, I have finally finished my first photography book, entitled "Postcards From Italy."




The book includes 18 photos from my adventures in Italy, as well as text from my travel journal. It is now available for full preview and purchase through Blurb.




Let me know what you think!