The Ghastly One: The Sex-Gore Netherworld of Filmmaker Andy Milligan
10 best books like The Ghastly One: The Sex-Gore Netherworld of Filmmaker Andy Milligan (Jimmy McDonough): Concrete Island, Junky, The Basketball Diaries, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto, And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, Midnight Movies, Hollywood Babylon, Crackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters, Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood, Sleazoid Express: A Mind-Twisting Tour Through the Grindhouse Cinema of Times Square
On a day in April, just after three o'clock in the afternoon, Robert Maitland's car crashes over the concrete parapet of a high-speed highway onto the island below, where he is injured and, finally, trapped. What begins as an almost ludicrous predicament in Concrete Island soon turns into horror as...
| Author | William S. Burroughs |
| ISBN | 0142003166 |
Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junky, his first novel. It is a candid eye-witness account of times and places that are now long gone, an unvarnished field report from the American post-war underground. Unafraid to portray himself in 1953 as a confirmed...
The urban classic coming-of-age story about sex, drugs, and basketball.
Jim Carroll grew up to become a renowned poet and punk rocker. But in this memoir of the mid-1960's, set during his coming-of-age from 12 to 15, he was a rebellious teenager making a place and a name for himself on the unforgiving...
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
| Author | Chuck Klosterman |
| ISBN | 0743236017 |
Countless writers and artists have spoken for a generation, but no one has done it quite like Chuck Klosterman. With an exhaustive knowledge of popular culture and an almost effortless ability to spin brilliant prose out of unlikely subject matter, Klosterman attacks the entire spectrum of postmodern...
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
| Author | William S. Burroughs |
| ISBN | 0802118763 |
On August 14, 1944, Lucien Carr, a friend of William S. Burroughs from St. Louis, stabbed a man named David Kammerer with a Boy Scout knife and threw his body in the Hudson River. For eight years, Kammerer had fawned over the younger Carr, but that night something happened: either Carr had had enough or...
| Author | J. Hoberman |
| ISBN | 0306804336 |
These are a few of the over 100 films discussed in Midnight Movies, a comprehensive and in-depth look at the subculture movies of the past three decades. Here is the complete history of cult films, their makers, and their audience; an examination of how films become "midnight movies," and what keeps...
| Author | Kenneth Anger |
| ISBN | 0517344084 |
Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon is a boiling cesspool of lies! Practically none of this shit happened. The ratio of truth to lies is like 10 to 1. I have it on the highest authority those girls looked thirty under the bad set lighting. My great-great-great aunt was there for that underage (by trickery!...
| Author | John Waters |
| ISBN | 0394755340 |
I'll forever love John Waters for the following reasons
1. He has subscriptions to Jet and Women's Wear Weekly magazines.
2. He hates MCI (remember them?)
3. He attended a matinee of the Carebears movie, it was for research.
4. I now know that Baltimore once had an angry lesbian...
| Author | Rudolph Grey |
| ISBN | 0922915245 |
This book was not what I was expecting. Which I probably should have expected given the subject.
Instead of a standard biography that follows chronologically through the live of Edward D. Wood, Jr, we are instead presented with a series of interviews from the people who knew him best. These...
| Author | Bill Landis |
| ISBN | 0743215834 |
Warning: Watch your wallets and stay out of the bathroom!
In a bygone era, when Times Square was crammed with porn shops, gun stores, and drug pushers, disenfranchised moviegoers flocked to the grindhouses along 42nd Street. If the gore epics, women-in-prison films, and shockumentaries showcased...
