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  <about><![CDATA[Japanese-American writer and publisher. He also played keyboards for the later famous power trio Blue Cheer.<br/><br/>In 1977 he started to publish the punk fanzine &quot;Search and destroy&quot; In 1980, he began publication of RE/Search, a tabloid format zine focusing on various counterculture and underground topics.<br/><br/>RE/Search later became always a format for books, of which Vale is a regular contributor. ]]></about>
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  <id type="integer">23945</id>
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    <![CDATA[RE/Search 4/5: William S. Burroughs, Throbbing Gristle, Brion Gysin]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;In an inspired touch, RE/Search publisher V. Vale brought together the work of groundbreaking novelist William Burroughs and avant-garde painter Brion Gysin (already linked by their collaborations in the &#8220;cut-up&#8221; method of artistic creation) with the founders of industrial music, Throbbing Gristle, for this seminal document of &#8216;80s underground culture. Originally published in 1982, the book combined &#8220;primary source interviews,&#8221; in which subjects discuss advanced ideas involving the social control process, creativity, and the future; scarce essays; rare fiction excerpts; bibliographies; discographies; and biographies. The book quickly became a celebrated addition to RE/Search&#8217;s notorious list and to the canon of &#8216;80s subculture. This expanded edition contains previously unpublished interviews with Burroughs, Gysin, and Throbbing Gristle by V. Vale; a new article on Throbbing Gristle with photographs; unseen photographs of Burroughs; and much more to satisfy both the Burroughs, Gysin, and Gristle completist and anyone who wants to make sense of the kinds of cultural assaults they embodied.&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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  </authors>  <published>1982</published>
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    <![CDATA[Pranks! (Re-Search # 11)]]>
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    <![CDATA[A prank is a trick, a mischievous act, and a ludicrous act. Although not regarded as poetic or artistic acts, pranks constitute an art form and genre. Here, pranksters such as Mark Pauline, Monte Cazazza, Jello Biafra, Joe Coleman, Karen Finley, Henry Rollins, John Waters and Henry Rollins challenge the sovereign authority of words, images and behavioral convention. Some tales are bizarre, as when Boyd Rice presented the First Lady with a skinned sheep's head on a platter. This iconoclastic compendium will dazzle and delight all lovers of humor, satire and irony. A great quotations section is also included.]]>
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  </authors>  <published>1987</published>
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    <![CDATA[Modern Primitives]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;<em>Modern Primitives</em> is the Bible of Body Modification, including tattoo, piercing, and scarification. An amazing 30-page interview with Fakir Musafar, as well as in-depth interviews with Ed Hardy, Lyle Tuttle, Leo Zulueta, Bill Salmon, Vyvyn Lazonga and other tattoo giants is featured. This book describes non-tribal people who felt and responded to strong &quot;primitive&quot; urges. A classic; this is the first book to chart out all the basic ways to creatively express one's individuality using the body as a canvas, especially emphasizing the need to find something rooted in one's own personal experiences and mythology. Inspiring and wide-ranging, <em>Modern Primitives</em> provides a vast anthropological context for implementing a truly unique body-decoration expression. An illuminating section of quotations rounds out this volume.&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <ratings_count>1286</ratings_count>
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  </authors>  <published>1989</published>
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        <book>
  <id type="integer">516060</id>
  <isbn>1889307017</isbn>
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    <![CDATA[Re/Search #10: Incredibly Strange Films (Re-Search # 10)]]>
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  <average_rating>4.17</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>125</ratings_count>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;This classic guide to little-known films neglected by the film-criticism establishment features interviews with Herschell Gordon Lewis, Russ Meyer, Ray Dennis Steckler, Ted V. Mikels, Larry Cohen, and others who dared to make independent feature films their way, without bowing to a committee or focus group. This is an oblique how-to manual, covering everything from financing, distribution, lighting, camerawork and acting, to publicity, marketing and screenwriting. Would-be filmmakers as well as scholars will find much inspiration and enlightenment in this volume, which has been used in college film classes. In-depth interviews focus on philosophy, while anecdotes entertain as well as illuminate theory. Lists of recommended films, an A-Z directory, and quotations are also included.&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <average_rating>4.12</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>1286</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>75</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>1986</published>
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        <book>
  <id type="integer">424610</id>
  <isbn>0940642220</isbn>
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    <![CDATA[Re/Search #14: Incredibly Strange Music, Volume I (Re/Search ; 14)]]>
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  <average_rating>4.05</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>125</ratings_count>
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    <![CDATA[<em>Incredibly Strange Music</em> can be your guide to discover recordings that specialize in border-crossing—eluding scholars and historians who mainly have dedicated themselves to specific &quot;genres&quot; such as blues, rock, jazz, classical, and other forms. This book takes the listener on a tour of topsy-turvy, genre bending sound experience. Martin Denny, Perrey and Kingsley, Eartha Kitt and others tell how they created their unique recordings. The 12 inch LP covers spotlighted here are themselves &quot;frameable&quot; works of art, yet can still be found for trifling sums at thrift stores and garage sales. This is a record collectors' guide to the last remaining &quot;bargains,&quot; and remix-culture DJs looking for something new can find a treasure trove of inspiration in these pages. On another level, this book will satisfy the itinerant reader simply in search of non-conformist thinking and passions.]]>
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    <average_rating>4.12</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>1286</ratings_count>
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  </authors>  <published>1993</published>
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    <![CDATA[Re/Search #15: Incredibly Strange Music, Volume II]]>
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    <![CDATA[Surveys the territory of neglected &quot;garage sale&quot; records (mostly from the '50s-'70s). Genres examined include: &quot;easy listening,&quot; &quot;exotica,&quot; &quot;celebrity.&quot; Also recordings by (singing) cops, (polka-playing) priests, undertakers, religious ventriloquists, astronauts, opera-singing parrots, beatnik &amp; hippie records, and gospel by blind teenagers with bouffant hairdos.]]>
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    <average_rating>4.12</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>1286</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>75</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>1994</published>
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        <book>
  <id type="integer">52452</id>
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    <![CDATA[Bob Flanagan: Supermasochist (People Series)]]>
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  <average_rating>4.16</average_rating>
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    <![CDATA[Bob Flanagan (1952-1997) grew up with Cystic Fibrosis (a genetically inherited, nearly-always fatal disease) and lived longer than any other person with CF. The physical pain of his childhood was alleviated by masturbation and sexual experimentation, resulting in his life-long practice of extreme masochism. In Bob Flanagan: Supermasochist, the only book in existence on this amazing individual, Flanagan reveals, in deeply confessional interviews, his life story and sexual practices, and his extraordinary relationship with his long-term partner and mistress, photographer Sheree Rose. He tells how frequent near-death encounters modified his concepts of gratification and abstinence, reward and punishment, and intensified his masochistic drive. Through his insider's perspective on the various S/M communities, we learn firsthand about branding, piercing, whipping, bondage, and endurance trials. Surprisingly, the most extreme narratives are infused with humor, honesty, and self-reflective irony. Bob's sharp intelligence and lack of pretense belie a deep commitment to deciphering philosophical issues regarding body, power, sex, life, and death.]]>
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    <ratings_count>1286</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>75</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>2000</published>
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        <book>
  <id type="integer">842152</id>
  <isbn>0965046907</isbn>
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  <title>
    <![CDATA[ZINES! Volume One: Incendiary Interviews with Independent Publishers]]>
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  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/842152.ZINES_Volume_One_Incendiary_Interviews_with_Independent_Publishers</link>
  <average_rating>3.95</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>44</ratings_count>
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    <![CDATA[One of the most expressive areas of the comics publishing world belongs to minicomics: self-published, usually photocopied, very personal works. Minicomics often get grouped along with zines: small-press, very individualistic, magazines. V. Vale, one of the driving visionaries behind RE/Search Publications, brought together this collection of &quot;incendiary interviews with independent publishers,&quot; which captures the excitement and raw energy of counter-culture zine publishing.]]>
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    <average_rating>4.12</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>1286</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>75</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>1999</published>
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        <book>
  <id type="integer">516058</id>
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  <text_reviews_count type="integer">2</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Search &amp; Destroy, 7-11, the Complete Reprint: The Authoratative Guide to Punk Culture]]>
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  <average_rating>4.47</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>38</ratings_count>
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    <![CDATA[Amazing graphic design, layout, photos, artwork proving that the first generation '70s punk rock cultural revolution was bursting at the seams with original creativity! Now in museums and art galleries, which shows the capitalist machine can co-opt ANYTHING and EVERYTHING! Or not?!]]>
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    <average_rating>4.12</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>1286</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>75</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>1997</published>
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        <book>
  <id type="integer">842157</id>
  <isbn>0965046923</isbn>
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  <title>
    <![CDATA[Zines! Volume Two]]>
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  <average_rating>3.68</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>34</ratings_count>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;<em>Zines, Vol. Two</em> includes a fantastic, in-depth interview with Dishwasher Pete, whose goal was to wash dishes in every state of America. Keffo of Temp Slave talks about very funny pranks on the job, and advocates restoring the I.W.W. (International Workers of the World). McJob continues the analysis of the workplace and its perils. John Marr discusses his favorite bizarre murders in <em>Murder Can Be Fun.</em> A history of proletarian novels is featured, plus reviews of many independent publications. This book has been used as a textbook in university classes for cultural studies, journalism, and media criticism.&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <average_rating>4.12</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>1286</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>75</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>1997</published>
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