My 2007 Subby Wishlist

1. The Best American Series continues to offer a comics collection.

2. The store has a signing for one of Jeremy’s books (preorder now $20--no guarantees).

3. Glenn Danzig comes into the store when I’m actually here.

4. Our 7th Birthday Party has Dita von Teese and Marilyn Manson on the VIP list.

5. The store can afford the 300% pay raise I’ve asked for. They don’t call me J$$ for no reason. Right, Kelly? I mean Special K.

Moleskine

Apparently there is a whole subculture out there that likes to display the contents of their moleskine journals on the internet. My education never stops.




P.S. It has been suggested by certain unnamed persons that I have too much time on my hands.

Junky's Christmas

God bless YouTube for all that they make available, including this animation for a William S. Burroughs short story. See the whole thing: parts I, II, III. And have a Subterraneanly merry Christmas!

Beat Jazz

Let’s face it, jazz is Subterranean. Gene Krupa was a chronic cannabis user. Sonny Rollins made the Mohawk stylish. Sun Ra was from another planet. And our Miles Davis reinvented music at least three times in his life. (Why exactly doesn’t St. Louis have a museum for this legend or for all the jazz and blues greats from the region? Shame, shame.) Anyway, we just got in three large boxes of used jazz books, and they’re priced to go. On top of that and related, we’ve also unleashed a couple boxes worth of beat literature on the shelves. They’re worth the trip, I promise

Gift Ideas

For the hard to buy for:

New DIY Section Officially Awesome

Sure I’m a little biased about our new DIY loft. I work here and my mother-in-law has stuff in it, but I seriously think it looks great. Soaps, baskets, photos, magnets, blank books, brooches, purses, wrist bands, art boxes, and sock monkeys. Sock monkeys? Sock monkeys!!! Plus, there’s more stuff arriving every day. It’s knitastic!

Bunny Love

We probably all have a mixture of nostalgia and loathing for A Christmas Story, which must have been screened a million times by now. Luckily, there are always the cute and fuzzy Angry Alien bunnies to make the old new again. If you aren’t familiar with the bunny theater troupe, they put on 30-second reenactments of films (word on the street is that they are currently working on Borat). Some suggested watching (all free on the AA website): Alien, Caddyshack, The Exorcist, Jaws, and The Shining.

It's F-ing December Already???

November's Bestsellers

1. Maddox : The Alphabet of Manliness
2. Mario Garza : Stuff on My Cat
3. Dave Eggers (ed) : Best Nonrequired Reading 2006
4. Chuck Klosterman : Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
5. Chuck Klosterman : Killing Yourself to Live

6. Orhan Pamuk : Istanbul
7. Max Brooks : The Zombie Survival Guide
8. J.D. Salinger : Nine Stories
9. Amy Sedaris : I Like You
10.Schiffmacher & Riemschneider : 1000 Tattoos